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Apilco Tuileries Porcelain Dinner Plates, Set of 4
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- Summary
This timeless white dinnerware reflects the stylish simplicity typical of fine Parisian dining establishments. They're made in France by Apilco, suppliers of fine porcelain to culinary professionals since 1906.
- Made of high-fired porcelain.
- Microwavable; freezer, oven and dishwasher safe.
- Set of four.
- Made in France.
- Dimensions & More Info
- 11 3/4" diam.
- Made in France.
- Use & Care
- Oven and freezer safe; microwavable.
- Dishwasher safe.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by LONETREERUNNER from Gorgeous plates Beautiful and elegant plates! We love that they are lightweight compared to our Pottery Barn plates. We have owned Apilco bakeware for over 20 years, phenomenal products. Our plates now complement our other Apilco items. Impeccable finish and color. Highly recommended.Date published: 2018-01-08Rated 3 out of 5 by cantrunbut from dinner plates - noticeably thicker We ordered set of these dishes and they are .. sufficient, if you don't mind things not matching. It is disappointing that the dinner plates noticeably do not match (in thickness) the feel of all the other dishes in the set. They're noticeably heavier. If you compare to the dinner plates in the hemstich (the correct thickness), you'll see that at some point Apilco must have decided to switch out the nice thin dinner plates in their tuileries line with the thicker one. Disappointing.Date published: 2016-04-12Rated 2 out of 5 by FNudelman from Thickness of plates has changed I ordered these plates in December and loved the plates, I decided I needed a couple more of the plates to go along with the ones I ordered earlier in the year. I ordered the exact same plates as I did in December this past week in July but when I received the plates they were noticeably thicker so instead of having the same set of plates I now have some plates that are thicker than the others. I am incredibly disappointed as I would have loved to have matching plates. I think the quality control of these plates has really slipped and would only recommend these plates if you are purchasing them all together for the first time.Date published: 2015-08-07Rated 5 out of 5 by justmarried1 from Attractive sturdy plates We got these for our wedding. These plates are great! Very nice and attractive, these will dress up for formal dining or dress down for casual use. My only complaint is that they don't fit into our (rather small) dishwasher.Date published: 2013-07-06


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Aliases for MIR320A Gene
Subcategory (RNA class) for MIR320A Gene
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Aliases for MIR320A Gene
External Ids for MIR320A Gene
- Entrez Gene: 407037
- Ensembl: ENSG00000208037
- miRBase: hsa-mir-320a
ORGUL Members for MIR320A Gene
Previous HGNC Symbols for MIR320A Gene
Previous GeneCards Identifiers for MIR320A Gene
Summaries for MIR320A Gene
microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in multicellular organisms by affecting both the stability and translation of mRNAs. miRNAs are transcribed by RNA polymerase II as part of capped and polyadenylated primary transcripts (pri-miRNAs) that can be either protein-coding or non-coding. The primary transcript is cleaved by the Drosha ribonuclease III enzyme to produce an approximately 70-nt stem-loop precursor miRNA (pre-miRNA), which is further cleaved by the cytoplasmic Dicer ribonuclease to generate the mature miRNA and antisense miRNA star (miRNA*) products. The mature miRNA is incorporated into a RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), which recognizes target mRNAs through imperfect base pairing with the miRNA and most commonly results in translational inhibition or destabilization of the target mRNA. The RefSeq represents the predicted microRNA stem-loop. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2009]
GeneCards Summary for MIR320A Gene
MIR320A (MicroRNA 320a) is an RNA Gene, and is affiliated with the miRNA class. Diseases associated with MIR320A include Heart Disease and Cholangiocarcinoma.
fRNAdb sequence ontologies for MIR320A Gene - the ORGUL cluster for this gene includes several descriptions:
nc_conserved_region: Non-coding region of sequence similarity by descent from a common ancestor.
miRNA: Small, ~22-nt, RNA molecule that is the endogenous transcript of a miRNA gene. Micro RNAs are produced from precursor molecules (SO:0000647) that can form local hairpin structures, which ordinarily are processed (via the Dicer pathway) such that a single miRNA molecule accumulates from one arm of a hairpin precursor molecule. Micro RNAs may trigger the cleavage of their target molecules or act as translational repressors.
pre_miRNA: The 60-70 nucleotide region remain after Drosha processing of the primary transcript, that folds back upon itself to form a hairpin sructure.
Additional gene information for MIR320A Gene
- Search for MIR320A at DataMed
- Search for MIR320A at HumanCyc

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Welcoming former RSA Security and VMware leader Chris Young to Cisco as our New Security Group Leader
As our customers and partners well know, security has been front-of-mind for Cisco this year. As far back as February, our CEO John Chambers announced that security was to become a top engineering priority for the company. The pace of innovation and development has been rapid ever since.
During the year, we unveiled our context-aware distributed security solution, Secure X, introduced the Cisco Identity Services Engine to simplify management of organization-wide security policies, and we brought new security to branch offices by adding Cisco ISR Cloud Web Security to the Cisco ISR G2 branch router.
We also elevated the role of our amazing Cisco Threat Operations Centers in helping customers chart the escalation and sophistication of security threats designed to exploit new business models that emphasize mobility, social collaboration and cloud computing.
Even with all of this momentum in security, we still saw opportunities to do more; to move faster; and to address our customers' security challenges more completely.
It's with those goals in mind, that I am delighted to announce today a senior executive appointment to further strengthen Cisco's security business. For the first time, the security engineering team will be led by an SVP, reporting directly to me. We are pleased to share that Chris Young will be joining Cisco in on November 14th to fill this new leadership role.
Chris is an outstanding technology, business and security industry leader. He joins us from VMware, where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager, responsible for strategy, products, engineering and delivery across all of VMware's end user computing solutions.
Prior to joining VMware, Chris served as Senior Vice President, products at RSA, the Security Division of EMC, where he was responsible for strategy, product management, product marketing, engineering and delivery of products across all of RSA's Identity and Access Assurance, Security Information and Event Management, Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), and Data Security solutions.
While at RSA, he built the company's highly successful Identity Protection and Verification business, which includes products such as RSA Adaptive Authentication that today protects more than 200 million online bank accounts globally. Chris' role grew to include responsibility for all products in the RSA portfolio and during his tenure he led several successful acquisitions, including Cyota Inc., Passmark and Archer Technologies among others.
Chris will assume responsibility for a new integrated security engineering team and for Cisco's overall security vision. His new team combines our security technologies group and our global government security solutions into a single entity.
As we welcome Chris, we say goodbye to Tom Gillis, VP of our security technologies business unit. Tom joined Cisco through our acquisition of Ironport and has been instrumental in driving our overall security business thus far. Tom is keen to pursue his entrepreneurial passion outside Cisco. We thank Tom for his leadership and wish him well in his future endeavors.
We said during our Q2 earnings call that we would continue to take further actions that allow us to address market transitions with greater speed, agility and consistency. Today's news is a good example of that commitment: we are evolving our operating model and investing in and strengthening our team with new talent in the process. We look forward to welcoming you to Cisco, Chris!
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Pan fried chicken stuffed with cheese and pistachio nutsAugust 24th, 2011
This crazy, ramshackle, friendly city of Istanbul, is a city that lives to eat. The Take-Aways, the street vendors, the restaurants all provide exquisite, tasty interesting food.
- Beaten chicken breast (like thin escallop)
- Pistachio nuts
- Cashew nuts
- Orange segments
- Orange juice
- Yellow cheese (any cheese that will melt nicely)
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A cousin-in-law on Facebook (I know, I know) put up something that a friend of hers said about the tragedy happening because everyone does not put wonderful, loving 'god' first in their lives, blah, blah, blah. I, of course, couldn't keep my mouth shut and said it had nothing to do with religion, moral people are moral people, and this guy was obviously insane. Then the cousin-in-law said she believes 'god' has something to do with EVERYTHING.
WHAT THE FUCK do you say to that? REALLY? Her 'god' had something to do with that? And WHY would you worship something that had the power, but didn't do anything to save those babies?????
I know, we talk about this all the time. I really just want to be a hermit. I hate dumb people, and there are WAY too many of them.
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I should give full disclosure, I am a male elementary school teacher, in a building where, out of 4 teachers per grade pre-k through 5th grade, I am the only male classroom teacher, and there are only 2 other male teachers (music and computer)...and I have no idea what the author of that piece is talking about as far as a "feminized setting", nor do I know a single teacher that would allow or encourage their 12 year old students to "converge" on a guy with an assault rifle.
Not god, but the belief (true or not), some people have of god often has something to do with their interpretation of EVERYTHING. Can we get any more vague than that?
I understand the argument you're making though, trying to shake the faith of the faithful. Unfortunately, I think we (you and I) speak a different language than they. When awful things happen in this world the religious process it through the filter they've been trained to use. Cause and effect are linked to any number of supernatural agents; god, angels, the devil...
It has been some time since I began questioning that worldview. As the years have gone by its stain has slowly faded from my mind. I don't know if it will ever go away entirely but I'm glad it isn't anywhere near dominant. When bad things happen in the world I look first for natural, then manmade causes.
I think it is a mistake to underestimate the hold the religious filter puts on the mind of a believer. Many of our arguments aren't even recognizable to them. Those that are will instinctively be rejected, as they must, for the filter to function correctly. I'm impatient to dissolve the filter. I know it will not disappear in my life so my interest can be only so those who follow will not continue to be led astray by illusions and hucksters.
As I see it, we have only two possible avenues. First, we must continue to demonstrate laws that govern natural phenomena and the role they play in each of our lives. Secondly, we must constantly and consistently redirect the discussion back towards epistemology. It teaches critical thinking and more correctly categorizes the foundation of our beliefs in terms of what can and can't be supported by evidence or logic. Only then can we defend what we've made of ourselves.
The friend and cousin-in-law are probably surrounded by many others who think the same way. Frustration on your part will only create separation. If you truly want to make change, you must engage in a pleasant fashion. Be patient in the knowledge that in time these kind of beliefs will be abandoned. I suppose I'd ask questions such as "does god control every atom at all times or does he just intervene when he wants?" and as a follow up "how do you know that?" They say the devil is in the details but I think that's just an excuse to allow them to believe anything they want.
Seems like god has a lack or power, because individual schools get to decide if they want to let him in.
Agreed Damien - their god has no power.
Great discussion booklover!!
Yes, booklover the news has been so horrible lately. My mom said she couldn't sleep and was so upset over those children losing their lives. It's been so horrible and sad.
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I ran into Cathy Spence (@cw_spence) at the Intel IT Leader's Summit in San Jose. She mentioned she had just found out she was promoted to Professional Engineer. I realized I didn't know much about the process or what that really means, so I interviewed her recently after everything was announced. Here's our conversation.
Tell me about what you do at Intel.
I have two jobs. First, I'm the Hosting Portfolio enterprise architect and my domain expertise is in Cloud Computing. One area where I go deep is in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) where I am the technical domain owner and have overseen the path to production. In short, I provide direction on how Intel IT can use the cloud to better run Intel's business. Continue reading


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Last year I went to the Big Fat Flea in NYC for research, fat community, and, of course, shopping. I mentioned the Flea in my post on fat clothing swaps, but I wanted to make a separate post about the Big Fat Flea to remind anyone in the NYC area to GO! GO! GO! It's such an amazing experience and is so affordable and there is so much great stuff. Nothing is over $10, and admission is also only $10. Located at NYU Law School (40 Washington Sq South), the event begins at 10:30 and goes til 6 pm.
I attended the flea last year, and after everything was over I escaped to a cafe in Chelsea with my friend and Flea volunteer Jenn Leyva, where I interviewed her about her experience volunteering and shopping at the Big Fat Flea for her first time.
Over lattes and croissants we spent the first several minutes of conversation going over the pre-Flea volunteer coordination details, and Jenn's specific experience being in charge of the masculine clothing area (heads up, fatties: BFF aims to cater to all, with both masculine clothing and clothing 5x+). We talked about the importance of staying gender-neutral and queer-friendly and body-positive, and how adept the organizers of the Flea are at these things because they are enmeshed in their community and take great pains to make sure politics turn to practice.
Near the end of Jenn's summary of her experience, I think we got into some really important things that are potentially useful to others who are interested in going to the Flea (which I highly suggest you do if you can!) and that relate to politics of fat fashion, accessibility, and fat community building and resource sharing: Continue reading


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WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration is poised to select six locations to test drone technology, and state leaders across the country are lobbying for the chance to open their skies to new unmanned vehicles — and maybe become the Silicon Valley of drone technology.
The competition is fierce because state officials expect the sites to create thousands of jobs as drone manufacturers come to test their aircraft.
At the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International's conference last week in Washington, Ohio gave away cookies shaped like the state. Utah had a large inflatable yeti holding a model of a drone.
North Dakota is taking a more academic approach: It touts the Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research, Education and Training at the University of North Dakota, which state officials say has the country's first four-year unmanned aircraft systems degree.
The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 requires the agency to study the safety of unmanned aerial vehicles so it can begin to certify commercial drones to fly in domestic airspace.
The FAA is expected to make a decision on the test-site locations in December. The agency has said that once it unveils the regulatory framework, the air will be filled with 7,500 small drones within five years.
Maryland's effort is being led by the University System of Maryland, which already researches drone technology with NASA and the Navy. Moving into commercial unmanned-vehicle space is a natural extension of that work, said Matthew Scassero, the University of Maryland's test site director. Some of the system's researchers have been working on unmanned-vehicle issues for nearly two decades, he said.
At the conference in Washington last week, Rep. Michael R. Turner, R-Ohio, touted his state's credentials, including an Air Force research lab. "This is an emerging technology, and it's going to have a number of economic impacts," he said.
The commercial drone market is growing rapidly, raising important public policy issues, including privacy concerns, said North Dakota Lt. Gov. Drew Wrigley (R).
North Dakota has already moved aggressively into the commercial drone market, he said, including evaluating aircraft to be used for agricultural projects, search-and-rescue missions, and inspections of infrastructure such as power lines and pipelines for oil, gas and water.
The state has established a privacy compliance committee that vets drone testing for legal, moral, ethical and constitutional issues, said Wrigley, who leads the group.
"We have a pretty strong libertarian streak up here," he said, adding that just because something is constitutional "doesn't mean it's something you want to have going on in your state all the time."
Those privacy discussions are important but should be kept in perspective, said Stephen McKeever, Oklahoma's secretary for science and technology. "We are supportive of an informed discussion about this whole business, not simply a little paranoid on the privacy issue nor getting carried away on the societal benefits of the applications, but to have the middle ground — that's where this discussion should be taking place," he said.
In some cases, gaining an FAA test site could give a rural area a technological edge. Kris Cahoon Noble, a county planner and economic developer from Hyde County, N.C., said the drone sites provide an opportunity to promote an underutilized airport, as well as bring new precision agriculture techniques to the attention of local farmers.
Wyoming officials noted that drone technology could help farmers count livestock and law enforcement search for people lost in the wilderness — both important in a state with vast expanses of land and more animals than people.
Even if their states are not selected for FAA test sites, many officials said they plan to develop their drone economies independently. This is "the next significant growth in aerospace," said Alan Palmer, director of the Center for UAS Research, Education and Training at the University of North Dakota. "We think we have a strong proposal — if we're designated, that's great; if not, that's okay, too, because we're going to continue doing what we're doing."


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Rick Wright, Wish You Were Here
By: Legacy Staff
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Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard "Rick" Wright wasn't the band's best-known member – his name recognition lagged far behind that of Syd Barrett, Roger Waters or David Gilmour.
But Wright, who died five years ago today at the age of 65, was one of the band's most important contributors. One of Pink Floyd's founders, "his spacious, somber, enveloping keyboards, backing vocals and eerie effects were an essential part of (the band's) musical identity," The New York Times noted in his obituary.
"He was an integral part of the band, but often underrated," music critic and editor Mark Blake said in an interview with Legacy.com. "He was the only formally trained musician in the group. I think this was a great strength, especially in the band's early years with vocalist/guitarist Syd Barrett. Wright brought a lot of melody and structure to their sound."
Wright formed Pink Floyd in 1965 with drummer Nick Mason, bassist Waters, and Barrett on vocals. In those early days, "Wright was seen as second only to Barrett as the musical force in the group," according to the British newspaper The Telegraph. Rolling Stone magazine noted that "Wright's organ work (was) one of the trademarks of the band's 1967 debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn."
By 1968 the troubled Barrett was out of the band, and David Gilmour was in. Wright could have stepped into the spotlight. He didn't.
"He was overshadowed by Waters and Gilmour because he had a less forceful personality than those two," said Blake, whose books on Pink Floyd include Pigs Might Fly and Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd. "They were very much the alpha males in Pink Floyd. That wasn't Wright's character."
Pink Floyd's late-1960s and early-1970s albums "mingled pop songs with extended pieces," the Times noted, "like the 23-minute 'Echoes,' which begins with single notes from Mr. Wright's keyboard, on 1971's Meddle."
In 1973 the band released The Dark Side of the Moon. One in four British households is said to own a copy of the album, which sold more than 23 million copies in the United States. Wright co-wrote much of the album, including "Us and Them" and "The Great Gig in the Sky." On the group's next highly successful album, Wish You Were Here, Wright co-wrote "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," a tribute to Barrett.
"Without 'Us and Them' and 'The Great Gig In The Sky,' what would The Dark Side Of The Moon have been?" Gilmour told The Telegraph after Wright's death. "Without his quiet touch the album Wish You Were Here would not quite have worked."
And then came The Wall. As The Telegraph wrote, "Wright's relationship with Waters had never been an easy one, and as Waters consolidated his hold over the group's musical direction tensions rose to the surface. In 1979 Waters fired Wright and allowed him to play only as a sideman during live concerts for the album."
"He'd never had an easy relationship with Waters," Blake said. "I think that because he wasn't as forceful a personality, he gave in – and resigned."
Wright made three solo albums, none of which were big sellers. When Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985, Wright rejoined Gilmour and Mason, first as a studio musician and later as a full-fledged band member.
After a 24-year-break, the line-up of Waters, Wright, Gilmour and Mason performed one last time together during the Live 8 concert on 2 July 2005 in London.
But when talk of a full reunion surfaced, Wright quashed it.
"Everyone who loves Pink Floyd wants it to happen. But I don't feel I need it, not musically and not personally," he said. "Maybe if Roger comes back as a different person – charming and nice, with really good ideas."
Wright stayed close with Gilmour, however. In 2006, he played keyboards and sang background on Gilmour's solo album On an Island, then joined Gilmour's band on the U.S. and European tours.
"I think this reminded fans of how important he was to Pink Floyd's sound," Blake said. "His voice worked very well with Gilmour's, and his keyboard playing was very subtle and understated, but absolutely integral to the sound of albums such as Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle and Wish You Were Here."
Gilmour's blog archives still contain the post he wrote the day he learned Wright had died. It's titled, "Richard" and reads in part, "I really don't know what to say other than that he was such a lovely, gentle, genuine man and will be missed terribly by so many who loved him. And that's a lot of people. Did he not get the loudest, longest round of applause at the end of every show in 2006?"
Natalie Pompilio is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. Her lifelong love of obituaries raised eyebrows when she was younger, but she's now able to explain that this interest goes beyond morbid curiosity. Says Pompilio, "Obituaries are mini life stories, allowing a glimpse into someone's world that we're often denied. I just wish we could share them with each other when we're alive."


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Functions from $\mathbb{C} \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ are hard to visualize because of their 4-dimensional nature. One nice way of looking at them is by what's called domain coloring. An example from the wiki article is shown below.
When we look at the graph of a real function ($\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$), we can get a feel for some of the function's properties: where its zeros are, if it's continuous, if it's differentiable, etc.
My question is what kinds of properties of complex functions can we "see" by looking at a domain coloring? In the example below, we can obviously see where the zeros are and where it blows up. I'm wondering, can we tell if a function is analytic? A rational function? Can we estimate an integral like we could by looking at a real graph?
$f(z) = \frac{(z^2 − 1)(z − 2 − i)^2}{(z^2 + 2 + 2i)}$


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Monitoring antitumorigenic effects of differentiation on brain tumor stem cells in vivo using intravital microscopy
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Objective: Brain Tumor Stem Cells (BTSCs) are held responsible for tumor initiation and therapy resistance in several brain tumors. Recently, differentiation of BTSCs has been discussed as a possible approach to eradicate this tumor-driving cell population disrooting the actively proliferating tumor bulk. However, the promising effects of such a differentiation therapy on BTSCs need to be tested in a preclinical animal system. For this purpose we aimed to develop an intravital microscopy analysis model to study the direct effect of differentiation on BTSCs in vivo.
Methods: NOD/SCID mice were subjected to partial craniotomy with removal of the underlying dura and replacement of the skull with a thin transparent plastic lid. BTSCs were stably transfected with green fluorescent protein (GFP) and grown as spheres comprising approximately 10000 cells. Two BTSC spheres were then implanted into the cranial window preparation over the right and left hemisphere, respectively. Animals received either 0,2mg differentiation-inducing retinoic acid (RA) in DMSO intraperitoneally (n=4) or solvent alone (n=4). Cell growth and migration as well as spheroid vascularisation were analyzed using multi-fluorescent intravital microscopy.
Results: Shortly after implantation BTSCs started to migrate on the brain surface. Animals treated with RA ,however, showed a significantly decreased invasiveness by up to 48% (p<0.05) after 6 days. Furthermore untreated BTSCs markedly influenced the surrounding blood vessels inducing elongation and dilatation of capillaries as well as recruitment of new vessel sprouts. This process was notably reduced in animals treated with RA however.
Conclusions: In our present work we tested intravital microscopy using GFP-transfected BTSCs as a model to study potential therapeutic approaches such as differentiation therapy in a preclinical animal setting. Not only could we show the efficacy of RA-induced differentiation to exert anti-invasive and anti-angiogenic effects on BTSCs in vivo but we were also able to establish a suitable in vivo system to test new therapeutic approaches to eradicate this tumor-driving cell population.


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Mogilny found superstar status with 76 goals in '92-93by Tal Pinchevsky
Alexander Mogilny may have been only 23 years old entering the 1992-93 NHL season with the Buffalo Sabres, but he was at a career crossroads.
With his controversial defection to the United States three years earlier, Mogilny was forced to adopt a new language and culture. That difficult transition was further complicated when the young Russian was forced to confront a profound fear of flying as well as an FBI investigation that resulted in the arrest and subsequent deportation of a colleague who helped him defect to Buffalo.
By the fall of 1992, Sabres general manager Gerry Meehan had surrounded his star winger with All-Star forwards Pat LaFontaine and Dale Hawerchuk, two world-class players who could keep up with Mogilny's breakneck pace. It resulted in a historic 76-goal season for Mogilny, a campaign that almost didn't happen.
Mogilny's issues with air travel and his former comrade inspired countless trade rumors. But despite numerous offers, Meehan refused to deal a potential superstar entering his prime.
LaFontaine's line was something specialBy Tal Pinchevsky - NHL.com Staff Writer
During the 1992-93 season, Pat LaFontaine set a single-season record for American-born players with 148 points while teaming with Alexander Mogilny and Dave Andreychuk to form a lethal unit. READ MORE ›
"There were plenty of people who wanted to take him off our hands. I just said to all my colleagues, 'We're playing this out. There really isn't any deal you could offer that would allow us to trade a player with that promise,'" Meehan said. "Some guys would call offering draft picks or a first-line player and a backup. But we were not interested in any discussion of trading Alex Mogilny."
When Meehan started negotiating with the New York Islanders to acquire LaFontaine early in the 1991-92 season, Mogilny's name came up one more time.
"[Islanders GM] Bill Torrey said, 'This deal can't happen without one of two young players; either Pierre Turgeon or Mogilny.' Alex was the guy we were acquiring LaFontaine to play with," said Meehan, who ultimately dealt Turgeon in the six-player trade. "We had Pierre Turgeon, who is a great player, but he was a different style of player. He played a more deliberate game. Mogilny was a breakaway artist. Speed was his essence. Until LaFontaine came into the picture, we didn't have a player that could complement Alex's great speed and skills."
Their first season together in 1991-92, Mogilny and LaFontaine missed a combined 44 games due to injury. Yet Mogilny scored a career-high 39 goals and LaFontaine registered 93 points in 57 games. Entering the following season, the Sabres were expecting big things from their dynamic duo. And by the beginning of training camp, there was already a buzz about what the pair could do in a full, injury-free season.
"There was a Sabres practice early in the season. I remember talking to [LaFontaine] and Patty said, 'He's going to score 70 goals,'" said Ken Martin, the NHL's vice president of community and diversity programming, who at the time was in the Sabres public relations department. "Patty predicted the 70 goals. The chemistry they had was great."
Mogilny didn't disappoint.
In the season opener, he scored a hat trick in a 5-4 loss to the Quebec Nordiques, with LaFontaine setting up all three goals and scoring one of his own. But before the Sabres could build on their high-scoring start, their superstar winger hit a speed bump.
One game into the 1992-93 season, an injury forced Mogilny to miss three weeks of action. In his absence, Bob Sweeney was elevated to the top line alongside LaFontaine and Dave Andreychuk and collected 11 points in seven games. After the Sabres went 5-2-0 without Mogilny, he returned to score two goals in a 4-4 tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
From that moment on, he refused to look back.
"The way he was scoring, it was pretty incredible to watch," Sweeney said. "He had such a quick release for his wrist shot. He would go from backhand to forehand and then snap it top shelf. I think the goalie probably knew where it was going but it was tough to stop. You felt bad sometimes for the goalies."
Despite missing seven games, Mogilny scored six goals in October, which he followed with 10 in November. Most NHL players would have considered 10 goals in one month a career milestone. But Mogilny was just getting started.
"He had a shot. I told him, 'Alex you have a hell of a shot, start shooting the puck,'" LaFontaine said. "I told him, 'Between the blue lines give me the puck, just use your speed and I'll find you.'"
After opening December with one goal in a three-game span that saw the Sabres go 0-2-1, Mogilny rebounded with a hat trick against the Boston Bruins. From there, Mogilny went on a scoring surge the likes of which the NHL has rarely seen. It was during the holiday season that he notched 24 goals in 14 games, fitting in a scorching five-game stretch in which he scored 13 times. In February, Mogilny registered two four-goal games two weeks apart.
On the tail end of a bittersweet run that saw their NFL Bills lose four consecutive Super Bowls, the city of Buffalo had by now embraced its newest star.
"He was a superstar who lived a real superstar life," Martin said. "He built this unbelievable $500,000 house in Buffalo at a time when people weren't building those kinds of homes. He had a Rolls Royce -- just your superstar, bachelor life."
The speed and talent on the Buffalo roster helped Mogilny put the puck in the net. But the sudden scoring surge was also precipitated by a small tweak coach John Muckler made to the Sabres power play. In an effort to find a way to play Mogilny, LaFontaine and Hawerchuk together, Muckler moved Hawerchuk to the point. With the scoring center – who had seven 40-goal seasons before coming to Buffalo – quarterbacking the man advantage, the Sabres' power play became one of the League's best. Mogilny served as the finisher in that unit, scoring 27 power-play goals, which ranked third in the NHL behind Brett Hull and Andreychuk, who was traded to Toronto in a midseason deal that brought Grant Fuhr to Buffalo.
"We improvised as good as anybody. To me that's the key on the power play," Hawerchuk told NHL.com. "When you have that kind of talent on the ice, you let the instincts take over. It didn't take me long to figure out to get the puck to Mogilny or LaFontaine.
"The way he was scoring, it was pretty incredible to watch. He had such a quick release for his wrist shot. He would go from backhand to forehand and then snap it top shelf. I think the goalie probably knew where it was going but it was tough to stop. You felt bad sometimes for the goalies."
-- Bob Sweeney on former Sabres' teammate Alexander Mogilny
"I remember we played in Hartford one night and Pierre McGuire was coaching. We scored five or six power-play goals against him and he got fired the next day. Years later when I ran into him, he said, 'You guys cost me my job.'"
Mogilny finished the season with a slight slump (two goals in seven games) to fall short of 80, but he continued his output in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, registering six goals in the Sabres' dramatic four-game sweep of the heavily favored Bruins. But both he and LaFontaine sustained serious injuries that forced them to miss much of the second round and Buffalo's season ended with a sweep at the hands of the eventual Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens.
Twenty-five years later, Mogilny's 76 goals remain the fifth-highest single-season total in NHL history. The feat was matched that same season by Winnipeg Jets rookie Teemu Selanne, who did it in seven more games with 27 more shots. Injuries limited LaFontaine to 16 games the following season, and Mogilny never regained that incredible scoring touch before being traded to the Vancouver Canucks in 1995.
"He was such a pure talent," Martin said. "On a superstar level, it's hard to duplicate that every night. I think that was some of the frustration with some of the fans, they would expect him to have 76 goals every season. It didn't happen and when his production tailed off, I think there was frustration because of whom he was.
"I remember he enjoyed Buffalo, and when he was traded to Vancouver, it was mixed emotions for him. I don't think he was a guy who had his heart on his sleeve, but I know it bothered him."
In the end, Mogilny's landmark season wasn't just about his goal total. He also proved remarkably clutch, tying for the League lead with 11 game-winning goals, which accounted for 29 percent of Buffalo's 38 wins.
And for the man who set up so many of those goals, it was a unique capsule that will always be a big part of NHL history.
"If Dave Andreychuk wasn't traded for Grant Fuhr, it would have been the only line in the history of hockey where every person on the line scored 50 goals. We traded him when he had 45 goals," said LaFontaine, who finished that season with 95 assists and 148 points. "When things are in synch and there is really good chemistry, you can do special things."


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By Lord DonalBane of Blakmers
Battlefield Reporter
After 13 War Points:
East Tygers 9, Midrealm Dragons 4
Allied Champions Battle
With the rapier champions battle being won by the Midrealm on the last bout Wednesday, the Allied Champions battle turned out to be a similarly tight fight.
After some words of encouragement from HRM Edward of the East and HRM Radagaisus of the Midrealm, 120 champions and allied champions lined up on each side for an SCA-style game of capture the flag. Each side had to run the opposing side's flag back to their own banner to earn a point. The first team to seven points (or the side with the most points after an hour) would claim the war point. Resurrections occurred at two-minute intervals throughout the battle.
As usual, the fight was one of the most intense at Pennsic. The Eastern allies claimed the first two banners; only to see the Midrealm allies rally.
At the end of the hour, the marshals determined the score was tied at 2-2. Thus, the fighters were lined up once more, this time for a last-man-standing fight to determine the War Point.
The ensuing brawl eliminated nearly every fighter on the field. However, a small group of Atlantians was able to stick together and drive off the final Midrealm Allies, giving the War Point to the East.
Unbelted Champions Battle
This year's unbelted champions tournament was a best-of-three fights affair pitting teams of 15 vs. 15 against each other.
A large number of the populace from both sides ended up watching this brawl.
The first fight pitted an East team comprised mostly of Northern Army warriors against a team of Dragons, mostly from Constellation. The Midrealm's force was able to reform quickly and claimed the first fight.
The second fight was huge brawl between an East squad anchored by House Bloodguard and Midrealm team led by Oaken army members. It was quite a smashing affair with a high attrition rate, but the Dragon forces won out.
Although the Midrealm forces had already claimed the War Point, the Dragon sent out its third team anchored by Pentamere and Midlands to face and East squad led by VDK. The fight went the same way as the first two, as the Midrealm forces rolled over the field.
Belted Champions Battle
The East's 20-man team of knights and masters sought to avenge its unbelted team's defeat as it met a force of 20 Midrealm chivalry shortly after the unbelted battle. The fight was a whirling dervish for a good while, but the East's forces were able to maintain their cohesion better and swept the field to claim the War Point.
Thursday's Big Battle: The Bridge Battle
The bridges are back at Pennsic as the two Great Armies renew their fight Thursday at 10 a.m. This year, there will be three battles over five bridges with victory in each battle being worth one War Point. An army must control the majority of bridges or sweep the field to earn victory. There will be no resurrections. Be aware combat archery and siege weapons are allowed in the third fight.


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Just a couple of weeks ago, I was unexpectedly distracted by finding a list of 1987 restaurants. That led to a column. And now ...
This must be my month to get nostalgic about Springfield restaurants. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was unexpectedly distracted by finding a list of 1987 restaurants. That led to a column. And now ...
Another historic Springfield restaurant, The Dew Chilli Parlor, is about to be reborn at 1216 S. Fifth St. Owner Mark Roberts says the new sign is going up Friday. He is on track for a mid-April opening.
Knowing that, I was in the newspaper's morgue (some people insist on calling it the "library." No. It's the morgue.) and found a couple of hand-written notes on The Dew written by its founder, Joe Bockelmann. They are written on Dew letterhead paper, one of them from the 1920s. (Images of the letterhead are attached this article.) They appear to be written in response to a 1969 newspaper article about his restaurant. Joe died in 1975.
Reading about Joe's Dew restaurant in his own words is like finding a note from Lincoln explaining how he wrote the Gettysburg Address. We have previously reported on how the place was named. Joe walked to the restaurant at 5 a.m. one morning and noticed the heavy dew on the grass and that did it.
Joe, a former typewriter salesman, explains that he originally had a partner named Thomas McNerney, who worked as a boilermaker. They bought Fred Crowder's restaurant where they used to eat chili. Crowder was ill and wanted to sell.
Joe writes that he and Thomas knew "Bockelmanns and McNerneys" was too long a name for the place, which is why they needed a new name in the first place. "The Dew" fit on a sign. "Bockelmanns and McNerneys" would have taken up half a block.
Joe also explains in his note how he began spelling chili with two Ls. He looked it up in a dictionary in the public library when he started in 1909. And he says "chilli" was the preferred spelling. He also says that library dictionary was 8 inches thick.
We still have a substantial dictionary at the newspaper. I looked up the word. Ours says "chili" is preferred and "chilli" is only a variation. But it has been a long time since 1909 and language changes. Anyway, our dictionary is only 4 inches thick.
Joe wanted a sign made so he, "Called James Sheehan the sign painter," he wrote, "who was a friend and then working for the Horn Sign Co. which was located at 9th and Adams. ... When Sheehan came out to see me I gave him my copy which said 'The Dew Chilli Parlor and Lunchroom' and 'The American Way.'
"Right off the reel, he began telling me about how wrong I was, putting two Ls in the word 'chilli.' "
Joe set Sheehan straight by telling him about the library dictionary definition, so Sheehan made the sign the way Joe wanted it. "Man! Oh man!," Joe wrote, "that upset the sign painters around town."
Their first day in business lasted from 5 a.m. until 1 a.m. the next morning. But that kind of hard work helped make The Dew successful. And Joe was proud of that.
See, he wrote, though Springfield restaurants had been offering chili for 70 or 80 years before The Dew opened, it was usually served from an alley or in a bad part of town. The Dew, he wrote, gave Springfield's chili respectability.
"You name any of the old-timers or old families and I can say they were my customers," he wrote. "I am now feeding the 5th generation of the Lanphiers, also 5th generation of the Bunns, Gov. and Mrs. Yates, Gov. Tanner's wife and Mrs. Baum, all the senior Myers brothers, in fact every business and professional man in town was my customer at that time."
He wrote his history early in 1969. On March 24 of that year, he celebrated his 60th year in the chili business. Five years later, he would be gone, but not before one more governor, Dan Walker, came to The Dew. Joe left his restaurant to longtime employee Rita Ann Maurer, who ran it for many years after Joe's death.
Joe's is one of the iconic success stories in Springfield business history. So it's nice to see the story in his own writing. He ended his note to the newspaper like this: "Thanks for listening to this 82-and-a-half year old man. Ha!" Happy to do it, Joe.
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Weary Chiefs too strong for Highlanders
March 22, 2013
Chiefs backrower Liam Messam celebrated his 101st Super Rugby with victory over the Highlanders
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A weary Chiefs outfit did just enough to overcome the desperate Highlanders 19-7 in an underwhelming affair at Waikato Stadium on Friday night.
It was always going to be a tough ask for Dave Rennie's men, who were noticeably flat coming off a two-week safari in South Africa. But the gap in class became apparent as Tim Nanai-Williams made the visitors pay for an early mistake with his third try of the season.
Not for the first time this season, the boot of Gareth Anscombe proved the difference for the defending champions.
His 14-point haul negated a first-half try to Aaron Smith and ensured there was enough on the scoreboard to hold on for a tough win and climb six points clear atop the New Zealand conference.
It was a sobering moment for the southern men, who slumped to their fourth consecutive loss and remain firmly at last place in the overall standings.
They showed enormous enthusiasm but ruined what would have been a feel good story with a number of costly errors. Even with the return of Ma'a Nonu their attack lacked any real sting.
Looking to exploit the jet-lagged Chiefs, Jamie Joseph's men came out with all guns blazing, playing with high intensity and speed.
But with so much risk involved in their swooping passing plays, it only took one basic error from Josh Bekhuis for the Chiefs to get their first sniff of an opportunity to strike.
The Chiefs showed tenacity and respect for their tryline to defeat the Highlanders (vision available only in Australia)%]
And strike they did. Tim Nanai-Williams scooped up the bouncing ball then sprinted 60 metres to the score to the right of the posts. Anscombe added to his earlier penalty with the difficult conversion for a 10-0 lead.
Surprisingly, after 20 minutes it was the visitors who had made all the running (87 percent possession). To make matters worse they had a number of chances to hit back but could not convert them into points.
Twice the Highlanders were held up in goal, while a perfect overlap was not capitalised on when Asaeli Tikoirotuma was allowed to disrupt the pass.
However, the Chiefs did eventually crack under the pressure, which they continuously invited by deciding not to kick from within their own 22.
Working from a scrum five metres out, a cleverly devised run down the blindside saw Smith sneak over the chalk for a converted try.
Before the break Anscombe landed another blow with his second penalty of the night.
His 100 percent kicking record would have been marvelled at by Colin Slade, who started his third game back from a lengthy injury break with a pair of failed penalty shots at goal.
Early in the second half, Slade was in position to put his team in front when he cleverly intercepted a pass on the halfway line. But it was not to be as referee Jonathan White stopped play for an earlier infringement.
The 10-Test All Black was in the thick of it once again when he sprinted back to field a kick that would have otherwise produced certain try to Liam Messam, who was officially celebrating his 100th Super Rugby match at home after reaching the milestone last week.
Pinned on their line, the Highlanders then dodged another bullet when Andrew Horrell's attempt to score fell inches short of the line.
That's as close as the 14,823 Waikato Stadium faithful came to celebrating another try as Anscombe added two further penalties to close out the match.
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The United States has always prided itself as one of the most innovative countries in the world. In fact, patenting in a wide range of scientific fields has been on the rise in the U.S., according to a recent study by the Brookings Institution. Even better for the economy, these patents are more valuable and are originating in more areas than ever before.
While patents are coming out of more areas, only a handful of cities create most of patents in the U.S. According tothe study, more than half of patents are developed in just 20 metropolitan areas. Based on the data provided by Brookings, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 10 metropolitan areas with the most average patents per million residents between 2007 and 2011.
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According to Jonathan Rothwell, associate fellow at Brookings Institution who co-authored the study, the most important criterion in determining whether a metro area produces many patents is whether the area is home to major research institutions, especially those with highly regarded programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Rothwell pointed out that the metro areas where patents are granted tend to have high levels of attainment in STEM fields.
While the proximity of STEM programs appears to be critical, Rothwell noted that only 2% of patents are actually granted to people who work in university settings. Meanwhile nine out of 10 patents come from U.S. corporations. Instead of generating patents, these universities create workforces with the necessary skills to find employment or even start companies in the area.
Companies that file patents regularly such as International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) dominate employment in many of these innovative metro areas. The top 100 patent owners account for one-third of all patent holders. Recently, patent growth has taken place in smaller companies focusing on fields such as software engineering, Rothwell said.
The effect that patenting has had on these metropolitan areas is evident. Economic growth in these areas occurred at faster rate than the national average between 1980 and 2010, according to the study. For instance, productivity, measured by gross domestic product per worker, grew 3.3% annually in San Jose, one of the most innovative cities, during those years, compared to 1.4% nationwide.
In addition, these areas generally have higher median household incomes, compared to the country as a whole. 24/7 Wall St. also found that likely is due to higher educational attainment and the availability of higher-wage jobs.
Rothwell explained that the success of cities that have a focus on innovation should send a message to planners. "It is maybe a warning to cities that have focused their public spending efforts and development efforts on things like stadiums and convention centers that are really about increasing consumption in the metropolitan areas but don't really contribute to the fundamental capacity to create new technologies, inventions or industries," Rothwell said.
Based on the data provided by the Brookings Institution, 24/7 Wall St. identified the 10 metro areas with the highest number of patents filed per million people between 2007 and 2011. For each of those metro areas, we reviewed the average number of patents granted annually during that period and the fields where these patents were produced. We also looked at the higher-education institutions in the metro areas with top-ranked science programs at universities, according to the National Research Council. The top employers in the region were noted to reflect what organizations were likely filing the patents.
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iPhone X A1865 Lightning Connector
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iPhone X Lightning Connector Assembly
Fix a damaged or corroded lightning connector or malfunctioning microphone on your iPhone X with this lightning connector assembly. Includes the flex cable, logic board c...
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The iPhone X (as well as the 8 and 8 Plus) was formally announced by Apple on September 12, 2017. New features include a new, almost bezel-less display, a new hexa-core system-on-chip with improved system and graphics performance, a glass back, and wireless charging using the Qi Standard. Additional features include a True Tone display and upgraded cameras.
Model A1865 is for carriers Verizon and Sprint in the U.S. and for carriers in China.


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Kentavius Jones
Luther Vandross, Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin … and Washington College's own Kentavius Jones?
All are talented musicians who've worked with acclaimed producer Rex Rideout and engineer Ray Bardini.
Kentavius, a singer-songwriter from Maryland's Eastern Shore, signed with Wyman Records, an independent label in Burbank, California, where he's recording an album of original songs.
"I take much pride and care in the crafting of my songs. Each chord and every single word are composed and coupled with sincere attention to detail and quality," Kentavius says.
A political science major and varsity lacrosse player at the College, Kentavius is a relative newcomer to the music industry.
"It's funny, I didn't start singing or playing any instrument until I was 18, in my senior year of high school, when I joined choir because my lacrosse buddies were in it," he remembers.
It wasn't long before he picked up a guitar and began writing his own music.
"I probably started writing my own stuff within the first year," Kentavius recalls. "A lot of the musical content came through listening and playing with other guys, but it was all me as far as the lyrics. I'm fortunate that for not having any training in writing songs, I've become pretty good at it."
Kentavius honed his musical skills at Washington College, where he started his first rock band. "Hot Rock and the Heat Strokes" played on campus and at local watering holes O'Connor's and Andy's. KJ also joined the vocal consort under the direction of Garry Clarke.
"I've listened to music my whole life, but my roots in organized music come from the classical direction of Garry Clarke and [guitar instructor] Tom Anthony, working on my instruments—my voice and my guitar," he says. "Tom Anthony really set me up, teaching the basics and giving me some more advanced classical training."
Kentavius is working to translate those skills into a major recording or publishing contract. He records in L.A., but he regularly plays shows at Crash Mansion in New York and at the Rams Head clubs in Baltimore and Annapolis.
"To support the upcoming album there will be a huge push for radio play and media exposure. Hopefully, my project will catch the ears and eyes of the larger music labels," he said. One of the toughest parts of the process includes landing one-on-one meetings and listening parties with major label executives or performing live in showcases for the labels.
"It's a tough industry to crack," he continues. "It's not going to happen overnight and it's not going to be something anyone gives me. You have to really put yourself into it, but I've always loved being able to improve and come up with new ideas."


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I am always tempted to complain, because it is hard to admit that you have it almost perfect, but my work/life balance is almost perfect. I work short days, with fairly interesting projects at my day job, and hours with my wife and kids and time to write at night. Oh, and I get paid enough not to worry about repo men and foreclosure.
Thank you Sweden. Now if only you would learn how to smile …
The medium chill: This is a story from Grist last year, and I love it. It goes into all the difficulties humans have with stepping off the fast track, eliminating possibilities and walking away from prestige and money. And it praises relationships and time with family, while being realistic about the annoyances of being a little short of cash. Even here in Sweden, E and I reach for the medium chill – small apartment, summer cottage with no water, no car, old stroller, not working 100 percent. And we gain so much. A quote:
That's what consumer culture forever tells us: more money/stuff/status means fewer constraints, more freedom, more choices, thus more happiness. The entire economy runs on spending and debt, and for that to work everyone needs to think they're not happy but could be happy if they just had more sh*t or a better job or a better house. Every "consumer" needs to be running on the treadmill, working toward the next thing.
But social psychologists tell a different story. They point out that there's very little evidence that, once a certain base level of material security is achieved, more money and stuff make us happier. Gilbert offers one explanation: having fewer choices is often more conducive to synthetic happiness.
Her Key to Efficiency, Arrive Late, Leave Early: This story tells an expat tale from Paris of a woman who discovered that she was more efficient with shorter work days. Yes! Having only six hours to get my job done means I leave very little time for screwing around. Of course, it puts the pressure on too, but I'll take that if I can unwind in the sun with my kids every afternoon. Plus, there was this interesting tidbit about Dads. Once again, I find I am not unique:
More interestingly, she found a third category of men, who were successful in terms of performance evaluations and compensation, but who actually worked fewer hours and were unavailable for the office on evenings, weekends and vacations. These men subtly and skillfully chose the projects and clients that would allow more flexibility – and surrounded themselves with kindred spirits who would cover for one another. But they had also learned that it was better for their careers to remain discreet about their strategy, and so they weren't role models for the rest.
Bring Back the 40-Hour Workweek: From Alternet, via Salon, this is a look at why we had the 40-hour workweek to begin with. And guess what? It was not just labor being lazy. It was business figuring out that workers work best when they have shorter days. In the short run, we only get a little more done in hours 40-60, and over the long run, it's a disaster. :
American workers don't realize that for most of the 20th century, the broad consensus among American business leaders was that working people more than 40 hours a week was stupid, wasteful, dangerous and expensive — and the most telling sign of dangerously incompetent management to boot.
Money Is the Root of All Parenting: But don't get poor! Which seems obvious, but is perhaps a good message in the face of all these earthy work less links. Lisa Belkin at the Huffington Post talks about reports that show that parents lose it more when they are stressed and angry (of course). And how to avoid that? Don't lose sleep about the car repair bill. Don't get frantic about bank overdraft fees.
Hard to pull that off if you are poor. So how to help the poor, or more specifically, their children?
What, then, is the alternative? They start with a few suggestions: "stabilize incomes, provide low-income credit alternatives to deal with the ups and downs of life, or ensure stable housing. These may not be "parenting" programs in the conventional sense of the term. But by freeing up psychic resources they allow people to be the parents they want to be, they allow more traditional parental skills programs to be more successful."


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Email Is DEAD. So What's Next? (#SWChat)
It won't come as a surprise to you that talking about the death of email is my favourite subject. When we talk about workplace productivity, email is the biggest blocker to being efficient with most of us spending between 3-6 hours a day purely reading and sending email.
Back in September 2008 I made a prediction, that email as we know it today will no longer exist in 10 years time (see The Death Of Email by 2018 ) and when I did I was literally laughed at by most people.
Time Remaining of my prediction:
Today no one seems to be laughing.
In fact quite the opposite. Companies like Atos have already stated that they will ban internal email by 2014 and other comapnies are following suit. There are even social products on the market today that are integrating email into them. Is this the beginning of the end of email?
On today's live panel debate it was the general consensus that email is not dead today, however we do need to start addressing the behaviours in how we use email. Stopping cc, bcc, and reply all were some of the key messages (see full playback below).
One thing is clear, the next generation coming through are not brought up on email but instead on social applications like Facebook and Twitter. These behaviours they are bringing into business and is why today we are beginning to see a communication gap between traditional and social which needs to be addressed.
There are still 6 years to go on my prediction of the death of email as we know it, a prediction that people are now debating rather ridiculing.
So before you send your next email STOP, and THINK, is there a better way - a more SOCIAL way of communicating your message.
Event Questions
Q1) Email is dead. Agree / disagree?
Q2) A week without email. What would be the real impact?
Q3) Is integrating email with social tools into a single platform the next big thing in comms?
Q4) What email etiquette would you advise others when communicating with you?
Q5) If starting a new company with 1000 employees, what comms tool(s) would you use internally today?
(watch video panel playback below of these questions being debated)
Related Articles
- The Death Of Email By 2018 - via @davidchris
- Time To Kill Email [video playback] - via @HuffPostLive
- I Banned All Internal Emails At My Company for A Week - via Forbes
- Ten Top Tips: Why Ditching Emails Is The Way To Go - via Management Today
- What To Do When...You Are Caught In An Email War - via Karen Adamedes
- Why Atos' Zero Email Policy Does Not Make Sense - via Grexit
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Participants: Greg Lowe (from car); Jenn Emerson; Luis Suarez; Richard Rashty
Producer: @LizCpher
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How does Commonwealth Properties Rewards work?
You earn points every time you dine with us, stay with us and celebrate with us – you even earn points when you use a personal trainer or get a massage! Each dollar you spend with Commonwealth Properties earns one point. For every 250 points earned you will receive a $10 reward, which you can use towards dining, celebrating or hotel stays.
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Q: If I'm a tenant or a member of the University Club of Saint Paul or the Saint Paul Athletic Club, can I use rewards towards my monthly dues?
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Q: Can an employee become a member?
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Transactions and Account Access:
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A: There are two easy ways.
1. Go online to your Rewards Login and sign into your account. You will be able to see transaction history, point total and account information
2. Download the Commonwealth Properties Rewards mobile app. This app will give you a quick, easy way to access your Account information.
Q: Can I add past transactions that I did not receive points for?
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1) scanning your receipt and emailing it to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include your name, member number and phone number to ensure accuracy.
2) completing online form HERE
Gift Card Purchases and Redemption:
Q: Can I purchase a Commonwealth Properties gift card with my rewards?
A: Yes.
Q: Do I earn points for purchasing a gift card?
A: Yes.
Q: If a property is offering double points and I purchase a gift card there, do I get double points?
A: Yes.
Q: Can I earn points by paying with a Commonwealth Properties gift card?
A: No.
Lost or Stolen Membership Cards:
Q: What do I do if my card is lost or stolen?
A: Contact us as soon as possible at, email@example.com.
Q: If my card is lost or stolen and someone redeems my points, can I retain those rewards?
A: Unfortunately, no. We are not responsible for lost or stolen cards, so please make sure to contact us as soon as possible if your card is lost or stolen, email@example.com.


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During this year's political campaign, Republicans accused the Democrats of having no ideas other than opposition to whatever President Bush is for. To counter that perception, Nancy Pelosi announced a legislative program the centerpieces of which were raising the minimium wage (how's that for an original idea?) and freeing the government to negotiate lower drug prices in connection with Medicare's new prescription-drug benefit. To say that this agenda was no "Contract with America" would be to understate its banality. Implementing these agenda items and the one or two others that went with it would take perhaps two weeks. But that was one of its virtues, since the Dems would then be free to move on to the happy business of issuing subpoenas and hauling administration officials to Capitol Hill for grilling.
But it turns out that the Democrats face what the Washington Post calls a "challenge" when it comes to reforming President Bush's prescription drug benefit plan — the plan is too successful as it is. According to the Post, the plan has enrolled 22.5 seniors more than 80 percent of whom are satisfied with it. This is true even though though many selected plans that contain a "doughnut hole" — there is no coverage when a senior's drug costs are between $2,250 and $3,600 in a year. The Dems want to close that hole and they intend to pay for this by having the government use its buying power to force drug companies to offer lower prices.
But the Post reports that the Bush program is already costing less than projected and that it's far from clear that the "negotiations" the Democrats contemplate ("price-control lite," it seems to me) would lead to lower prices. Moreover, there's a significant risk that, if they did, the result would be less medical innovation for the benefit of aging baby-boomers.
I was no fan of the prescription drug benefit, and I have no idea whether it's the smashing success the Post depicts. But I find it interesting that the Post waited until after the election to extol the virtues of a program the criticism of which was an important element in the Dems' campaign.
The Post blames the Republicans for not getting the message out. It quotes one Republican as saying "Black voters, poor voters — people who generally vote Democrataic — they got the biggest benefit in 40 years, and nobody told them that." But these voters wouldn't have believed Republicans. And why would the Post cover this issue when more pressing matters like "maccaca" and George Allen's Jewish grandfather demanded its attention?
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Girl under forty, regardless of exactly how clever they are,
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Under a moonlit skies with memories of love,
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Will I locate a fully grown promiscuous female if I look for one today?
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What is indiscrimination however a love of sex and also video games?
This is only a love of life as well as ne'er a little bit of embarassment.
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a lady needs to be old adequate to have a background.
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