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CONNECTIV CEO SUMMIT 2018: May 9-11, 2018
CONNECTIV CEO SUMMIT May 9-11, 2018
Who should attend? CEO'S, Presidents, your C-Suite team and Senior Executives will all benefit from this executive retreat and networking opportunity in a terrific city and cool new venue.
The Connectiv CEO Summit brings together top leaders in the B2B media and information world. In 2018, we're introducing a new interactive format designed to give information industry executives exposure to the big ideas, case studies and peer-to-peer network that can help them address the two biggest challenges to the evolution of their companies: creating the tech-driven infrastructure to position them for success and developing the internal culture to accept and capitalize on that infrastructure.
The 2018 Leadership Summit will bring together an unparalleled community of business information executives, software and technology companies, entrepreneurs and thought leaders with the mission of raising the business information industry to the next level.
The Summit features:
Rich Malloch President, Hearst Business Media
Richard P. Malloch is the president of Hearst Business Media. He joined Hearst in 1991 as deputy group head of Hearst's Consumer Book Publishing and Trade Magazine Group. In the late 1990s, Hearst sold the consumer book business (William Morrow and Avon Books) to HarperCollins. Malloch looked to reinvest the proceeds from the sale and build a fifth large operating group for Hearst. Traditionally, Hearst's trade publishing was based on print products with significant revenue generated from advertising. Malloch changed the strategy and business model, moving the Group toward revenue generated from subscriptions and licensing fees. In consideration of this new strategy, the Group was renamed Hearst Business Media. Today, the business is nearly 100 percent digital. In addition to his role as president of Hearst Business Media, Malloch is a senior vice president of Hearst and a member of the Board of Directors.
Byron Matthews President and CEO, Miller Heiman Group
Byron Matthews, President and CEO, leads Miller Heiman Group's commitment to providing organizations worldwide with an expanded, holistic approach for developing and managing, and sustaining, long-term customer relationships. With more than twenty-two years of experience, Byron has consulted for and led sales organizations for several Fortune 500 companies. He has collaborated with industry leaders throughout the world at companies like Microsoft, AT&T, Samsung, and Coca-Cola on the development of pipeline and revenue management solutions, implementation of sales methodologies, optimization of sales management processes and compensation plans, and competency models linked to assessment and recruiting. Byron's depth and breadth of prior experiences include serving as Chief Sales Officer at Aflac, where he led over 30,000 sales professionals across multiple channels, and over five years at Mercer as Global Sales Leader and Global Head of the Sales Performance Practice.
Janine Bavoso Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Northstar Travel Group
Janine Bavoso joined Northstar Travel Group in 2006. Janine oversees strategic employment planning, corporate culture development, organizational structure, recruitment, employee relations, benefits administration, training and development, performance management and facilities operations. As part of the executive management team Janine strives to help shape a workplace that is unique, dynamic and rewarding – one that encourages people to excel in their careers. Janine has taken a leadership role in over fifteen acquisitions both within the U.S. and China and Asia, focusing on organizational alignment, talent management and cultural integration. She has a broad background in all HR disciplines in both the profit and not-for-profit sectors.
Steve Bookbinder CEO, DMTraining
Steve Bookbinder has delivered more than 5,000 workshops and speeches to clients all over the world. He has trained, coached, and managed more than 50,000 salespeople and managers, and adds to those numbers every week. Steve continuously refreshes his training content to reflect the latest first-hand observations. Through Steve, participants learn the best practices of today's most successful sellers and managers across industries. Steve is an entrepreneur and an active salesperson. His clients appreciate his real-world understanding of the sales challenges they face. His background in advertising and consulting give him a broad understanding of business across many industries. And, his stories about starting a successful business in the middle of a recession by using the processes he teaches inspires experienced pros and new-hires alike.
Alex Butler VP and General Manager, Bloomberg Law
Alexander R. Butler is a vice president and general manager at Bloomberg BNA for the Bloomberg Law platform – the trusted legal and regulatory platform and source of professional grade information for practitioners, finance professionals and business executives. At Bloomberg BNA, Mr. Butler serves on the legal division's executive team supporting Bloomberg Law and the Bloomberg terminal, all-in-one technology platforms that help professionals and their firms grow their top line revenue, provide world-class counsel by getting the right answer quickly and efficiently, and maintain and increase their profitability. Mr. Butler's Corporate, Tech & IP business unit includes a team of highly-experienced journalists, legal editors and data scientists who focus upon multiple areas of practice that drive the economy, including capital markets, securities, corporate governance and compliance, emerging technologies, corporate transactions, and privacy amongst others. Mr. Butler's experience includes senior executive positions in early and growth-stage businesses with responsibilities for operations, sales, marketing and strategy in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia at firms such as Information Holdings and Thomson Reuters. He is a passionate strategist and operator, recognized for his ability to synthesize complex legal, financial and technical perspectives into actionable insights and programs. He has also been recognized as one of the world's top 300 intellectual property strategists by IAM Magazine and peer-review for many years.
David Chun Founder & CEO, Equilar
David has led Equilar since its inception to become one of the most respected and trusted names in the executive compensation industry and has been recognized as one of the "100 Most Influential Players in Corporate Governance" by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). David often speaks publicly on issues facing the executive compensation industry, including events hosted by The Conference Board, Directorship, The HR Policy Association, NACD, NASDAQ OMX, National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP), NYSE Euronext, RiskMetrics, Stanford's Directors' College, and WorldatWork. Prior to founding Equilar, David was a Vice President in the Investment Banking Division of Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, a global investment bank that has since merged with Credit Suisse. Prior to DLJ, David was a management consultant with Bain & Company and also Kenan Systems, a telecom billing software developer that was subsequently acquired by Lucent Technologies. David is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), a Charter Member of the Asian-American Multi-Technology Association (AAMA), a director of the Asian Pacific Fund Community Foundation, and a co-founder of the Korean American Society of Entrepreneurs (KASE). David earned his M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors of Science with Honors in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.
Slade Cutter Partner, Wittliff Cutter Austin
Slade Cutter is an experienced technology attorney who has dedicated his practice to supporting innovation and growth in the digital media and e-commerce spaces. He represents large online advertising networks and frequently negotiates and drafts network advertising agreements, software licensing agreements (including SaaS agreements), and content distribution agreements. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and speaks frequently on privacy, advertising, and digital media topics. Slade's prior experience includes serving as the general counsel for Smiley Media, Inc., an online advertising network that was twice recognized on the Inc.500 list of fastest growing companies.
Karen Danziger Managing Partner, Koller Search Partners
Karen directs the firm's creative search practices, which include editorial/content, video, creative direction, data visualization, thought leadership, branding, social media and communications, as well as digital strategy leaders. She and her team typically search for Chief Content Officers, Chief Creative Officers, Chief Digital Officers, Chief Marketing Officers and Heads of Video, among other titles. Karen also leads the firm's Human Resource practice and plays an integral role in searches for CEOs and Heads of Product. Since joining Koller Search Partners, Karen has expanded the client base to include nonprofit organizations, consulting and professional service firms and content marketing agencies. She works closely with Ed and Eddie on setting the firm's operational guidelines and best practices. Prior to search, Karen spent 12 years in editorial leadership, including Editor in Chief of Software Business at CMP Media (now UBM) and Editorial Director at the American Bar Association in Chicago. In addition to her first-hand knowledge of the creative business, Karen is respected by clients and candidates for providing hands-on client service, building relationships based on trust and insight, and ensuring that creative hires are strategically aligned with a company's business goals.
Nikesh Desai CEO, InvestingChannel
Nikesh Desai is CEO of InvestingChannel, an exclusive publisher group and scalable financial marketing platform reaching more than 25M readers each month. Through its portfolio of 200+ financial publishers, InvestingChannel connects brands like OppenheimerFunds, BlackRock and Vanguard, with the right people in the ecosystem: investors, traders and financial professionals. Prior, Nikesh co-founded consultancy Giant Step Strategies, served as VP of Business Development at TheStreet.com, and helped drive PeoplePC's startup and acquisition by EarthLink. He began his career as an investment banker at Robertson Stephens, involved in public offerings and M&A.
Alex Ford CEO, Praetorian Group
Alex Ford is CEO of The Praetorian Group, the leading digital media company in the public safety and local government market. Alex has successfully built the company from the ground up, co-founding Praetorian in 1999 and becoming its CEO in 2001. He has led the company through two economic downturns to a clear market leadership position, driving eight years of continuous profitability and 15% annual growth. Under his direction, Praetorian has launched more than 25 websites, including PoliceOne.com, FireRescue1.com, CorrectionsOne.com and EMS1.com - all either the #1 or #2 online media properties in their markets. Prior to Praetorian, Alex served as a business strategy consultant and assisted multiple Fortune 100 companies in evaluating online opportunities, including GM, IBM and Harley-Davidson. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a major in Economics and French. One of the founders of San Francisco Wine Week, Alex lives in San Francisco and an active angel investor.
David Fortino SVP Audience and Product, NetLine
David Fortino is SVP of Audience & Product at NetLine Corporation where he is responsible for the strategic direction and management of NetLine's audience, publisher, and client facing technologies, operations, platform and product development. He brings more than 15 years' experience managing the development of content distribution, audience monetization, and digital marketing/targeting platforms. Prior to NetLine, Fortino served as Director of Strategic Alliances and Audience Development for VerticalNet. Fortino holds a B.A. in Media Studies with a Corporate Communications focus from Pennsylvania State University.
Joshua Fruhlinger Publisher, Thinknum Media
Joshua Fruhlinger has been covering technology and business news since before being a nerd was cool. One of the original editors for tech supersite Engadget and former editorial director for AOL Tech, he's also a regular contributor about tech and lifestyle for Wall Street Journal. He is now Publisher at Thinknum Media, where he and a team of data scientists are scrubbing the entire internet for fascinating facts, trends, and statistics, turning alternative data into daily journalism.
Bill Furlong Founder and CEO, Squarestack
Bill founded SquareStack in late 2014. He has since been at the forefront of b2b digital media and marketing. Outside of leading the SquareStack team, Bill continues to work with early stage and small business owners in a variety of roles. Recently Bill was on the founding team of Bizo which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2014. He also worked for ten years at Crain Communications where he was Publisher of B2B Magazine and held various sales management roles with the Ad Age Group.
Dennis Hecht Director, Business Intelligence, Farm Journal Media
Dennis is the Director of Business Intelligence for Farm Journal Media, agriculture's leading and most trusted B2B multi-media company reaching agribusiness professionals through 44+ million monthly engagements. He focuses on identifying and analyzing patterns and behaviors of the agribusiness audience, and uses those insights to create value along the food production value chain.
Wilma Jordan Founder and CEO, Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI)
As leader of the most successful independent investment bank for the media, information, marketing, software and tech-enabled services sectors since 1987, Ms. Jordan has been instrumental in completing more than 600 M&A transactions for global corporations, private companies, entrepreneurs, and private equity and venture capital firms. Ms. Jordan's Best Practices approach to M&A advisory services has been influential in forging the firm's reputation for overall excellence, integrity and the ability to maximize value for its clients. Her experience includes having founded, owned, managed, advised and served on the Boards of Directors of media, marketing, interactive and technology businesses. Ms. Jordan was one of the founders and initial shareholders of the 13-30 Corporation. She also participated as shareholder, chief operating officer and principal negotiator in the revitalization and 1986 sale of the Esquire Magazine Group. Ms. Jordan has served on the Boards of Directors of four public companies – Lin Broadcasting (NYSE), Lin Television (NASDAQ), Clayton Homes (NYSE) and Lin TV (NYSE). She recently joined the Board of Directors of Fenimore Asset Management, a preeminent wealth management group. In addition, Ms. Jordan is a Trustee of Guideposts, Inc.
Trevor Kaufman CEO, Piano
Trevor is the CEO of Piano, a global software company that provides content monetization tools to digital publishers. Piano's suite of SaaS tools includes analytics, subscription commerce, and experience management. The company serves thousands of sites, including many of the world's top media businesses such as The Economist, Gatehouse, Conde Nast, Bloomberg, Bonnier, AOL, and NBC Universal.
Jay Kirsch President of Media, ALM
Jay Kirsch is President of ALM Media where is responsible for sales, marketing, content, and product development strategy for ALM's media business including brands such Law.com, The National Law Journal and National Underwriter. Jay was previously a Managing Director with Empirical Media where he helped companies such as The Dallas Morning News, Philadelphia Media News, and QVC as they transitioned their businesses to digital. From 2010 until 2014, Jay was part of the team to successfully bring AOL back to growth and profitability. As President of AOL's Business, Automotive & Technology Group he managed go-to-market monetization strategy, product development, editorial and audience development for market-leading brands including TechCrunch, Engadget, Autoblog and DailyFinance among others. In 2008 Jay became CEO of Imaginova, a venture-backed digital media and e-commerce company where he led the company to profitability. Prior to that, he spent 9 years executing middle market M&A transactions for AdMediaPartners. Jay has a Bachelor's Degree in American Studies from Fordham University and an MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business. He lives in Riverside, CT with his wife and two daughters.
Todd Krizelman CEO, MediaRadar
MediaRadar's co-founder and CEO is Todd Krizelman. Mr. Krizelman is an expert in Internet and magazine publishing. From 1994 to 2001, he was CEO of theglobe.com, leading the company from inception and taking it public on NASDAQ. The company hosted an Internet community 20 million monthly users and published a collection of video game magazine and websites. From 2003 through 2006, he worked for Bertelsmann in publishing, working in Barcelona and New York City. Mr. Krizelman, a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Business School, co-founded MediaRadar in 2006 to address the need for deep competitive intelligence to drive a more effective ad sales process for publishers.
Frank Luby CEO and Co-founder, Present Tense LLC
Frank Luby is CEO and co-founder of Present Tense LLC, a communications firm which provides content development and training services to executives, consultants, and academics. Prior to that, he spent 15 years as a management consultant, including eight years as a partner at Simon-Kucher & Partners. He has recommended pricing strategies and marketing strategies for some of the world's most iconic brands in media, consumer products, and durable goods. He has worked in 20 countries in North America, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Frank has published numerous op-eds on pricing in The Wall Street Journal, Billboard, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, the Financial Times, and Traffic. He has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning and CNN, as well as NPR. He is co-author of the book Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share (Harvard Business School Publishing, 2006). Many years ago, he worked a music reviewer (rock and blues) for weekly and daily newspapers in Chicago, Cleveland, and Boston. He published Blues Flashbacks, a collection of his favorite interviews and reviews, as an e-book in 2016.
Christopher Mohr General Counsel, Vice President of Intellectual Property , SIIA
Chris Mohr is Vice President for Intellectual Property and General Counsel for the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal association representing software and digital content industries. Mohr spearheads public advocacy on intellectual property issues and works closely with technology industries. Previously, in private practice, Mohr provided strategic advice to technology, software, entertainment, and other clients on issues involving copyright, privacy, the First Amendment, licensing, public records access, and unfair competition. He has also appeared before legislative, judicial, and administrative bodies on matters of intellectual property and constitutional law and has been involved in several U.S. Supreme Court cases.
Scott Mozarsky President, Bloomberg Law
Scott Mozarsky joined Bloomberg BNA in March 2014 as President, Cross Platform Businesses. In 2016 he was named president of Bloomberg Law. Previously, Scott held a number of leadership roles during a13-year tenure in the UBM plc Group. As President – Media & Marketing Services for UBM Tech, Scott was responsible for building the marketing services business and driving the evolution of leading websites Information Week.com, EE Times, Dr. Dobbs Journal and Light Reading to an online community model tied to UBM Tech's live events. As EVP, Chief Commercial Officer of UBM subsidiary PR Newswire, Mozarsky oversaw commercial activities worldwide. Mozarsky also served as EVP and Chief Operating Officer of CMP Media. From 2002-2009, he served as General Counsel and headed up M&A and corporate development globally for UBM's subsidiaries in North America and Latin America. Prior to joining the UBM Group, he spent eight years at two multinational law firms representing media, technology, telecommunications, insurance and manufacturing companies. Mozarsky, who speaks Japanese and lived in Japan, has advised numerous companies on business, financial, and legal issues arising out of cross border transactions.
Jonathan Murray EVP & CTO, Digital Prism Advisors
Jonathan Murray, EVP/ CTO. Jonathan has a demonstrated track record of successfully helping clients understand and address the complex factors at play in an accelerating global digital transformation. Jonathan was most recently engaged as interim CTO and Head of Technology at The New York Times. Prior to this he was Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Warner Music Group. He is a published author and associate researcher with the University of California Berkeley's Roundtable on the International Economy where he focuses on the impact of emerging technologies on social and economic development.
Andy Reid President , Metrostudy
Andrew Reid is the Chief Data Officer of Hanley Wood and President of Metrostudy, a Hanley Wood company. As Chief Data Officer, Reid leads the development of Hanley Wood and Metrostudy's most important digital and database products and initiatives. His vision for the development and implementation of innovative data and digital-media products is a key component of the company's growth. As President of Metrostudy, Reid is responsible for the business strategy, product planning, and business development for Metrostudy's data practice, including the company's leading proprietary data sets for housing-related activity. Reid and his team are leading the development, build-out and delivery of innovative data and information-focused products and service solutions for Metrostudy's customers. Before joining Hanley Wood, Reid was senior vice president and global head of the Investment Banking and Corporate markets at Reuters Group PLC, where he was responsible for the group's growth, strategy, and ongoing product development. Reid also sat on the boards of directors at Intralinks Inc., a provider of secure online data rooms and workspaces, and the Independent Research Network LLC, which provides research services to current and prospective NASDAQ issuers.
Adam Reinebach CEO and President, BridgeTower Media
Adam joined GateHouse Media in February 2016 to lead the company's business-to-business media division. The group's 44 print and digital publications, web sites and affiliated events cover the legal, financial, real estate and government affairs sectors in more than 20 different U.S. markets. Prior to GateHouse, Adam served as as EVP & Managing Director at SourceMedia, running the Professional Services Group, which focuses on three industry verticals – investment advisors, accountants and healthcare – and includes brands such as Financial Planning, Employee Benefits News, Accounting Today and Health Data Management. He also manages SourceMedia's paid subscriptions effort, which is anchored by American Banker, Bond Buyer and Payments Source, and oversees the Marketing Solutions group, which handles over 500 projects a year for an elite group of financial services clients, ranging from research and lead generation to custom content and digital solutions. Based on his prior positions managing sales, marketing, editorial and technology, Adam brings a unique skill set to his current position. Adam's career at SourceMedia began in 2006 as the Group Publisher for the Capital Markets Group, where he launched several M&A products and transitioned a number of print products online, among other accomplishments. Prior to SourceMedia, Adam was a Vice President at Thomson Financial, where he was publisher of the private equity group and ran the research and data group at Venture Economics. Adam started his financial services career in editorial, as a reporter for Investment Dealers' Digest, where he covered capital markets and helped launch the Deals of the Year program. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and lives in New Jersey with his wife and three children.
Cathilea Robinett President, e.Republic
Cathilea is president of e.Republic, where she oversees operations for the company's award-winning media platforms: Governing, Government Technology, Public CIO, and Emergency Management. Cathilea also oversees e.Republic's websites, conferences and events, and its national research and advisory groups: the Center for Digital Government, the Center for Digital Education and the Governing Institute. In 2014 Cathilea directed the launch of the Governing Institute's Women in Government Leadership Program, an innovative initiative that encourages future generations of women to participate in public service. Cathilea is a frequent speaker for government and education organizations worldwide, including the United Nations, Harvard University, the State Legislative Leaders' Foundation, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments, and the World Congress on Information Technology. She has been quoted frequently in publications including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Forbes and others. Cathilea is a recipient of NASCIO's National Technology Champion Award for her outstanding contributions to advance public sector information technology innovation. She is also the winner of an Outstanding Women Leadership Award from the Sacramento Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners and is a Greater Sacramento Business Hall of Fame Laureate.
Carl Schonander Senior Director for International Public Policy, SIIA
Carl Schonander is the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) Senior Director for International Public Policy. He advocates for SIIA's international policy interests. Those interests include the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the Digital Single Market, China, cross-border data flows, intellectual property, trade, privacy, and Internet governance. Schonander was part of a coalition of industry groups that worked successfully to develop consensus industry support for the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, as well as congressional support for legislation needed to obtain EU support for the Shield. Schonander was a member of the Atlantic Council's Task Force on Advancing a Transatlantic Digital Agenda, which released the report: "Building a Transatlantic Digital Marketplace: Twenty Steps Toward 2020." He participated in an international group charged with providing recommendations for enhancing the accountability of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Schonander is a former U.S. diplomat. He has a Master of Law degree in Intellectual Property Rights from George Washington University, Masters Degree in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and a JD from the University of Stockholm.
Prescott Shibles Senior Vice President of Data, Randall-Reilly
Prescott Shibles joined Randall-Reilly in 2014. As Vice President of Audience Data, Shibles manages our team responsible for EDA and RigDig Business Intelligence, while overseeing Randall-Reilly's corporate audience intelligence assets. He and his team are tasked with on-boarding offline audience data and developing predictive profiling, audience targeting, and magazine circulation. Prior, Shibles served as Chief Digital and Marketing Officer for Advantage Media and as CEO of Vital Business Media. He was recognized by Min on their Best of the Web and Digital Innovators lists.
Jack Simms Partner, Wittliff|Cutter|Austin PLCC
Jack Simms is a partner at Wittliff | Cutter | Austin, PLLC where his practice focuses on complex commercial disputes, including business torts and trade secret litigation. Prior to joining WCA, Jack was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Boies Schiller Flexner and a Corporate Counsel at DuPont. Jack has litigated, arbitrated and mediated complex disputes in a wide range of industries, including biotechnology, solar, manufacturing and distribution, software and financial services.
Kevin Skaggs General Manager, Digital, Ad Age
Kevin is the General Manager of Product & Technology at Ad Age, where he leads digital product strategy and drives the product roadmap for the brand. In this role, he's implemented a new membership-based paywall strategy, has led partner integration and content distribution efforts across platforms, and drove the relaunch of the Ad Age rebrand (originally Advertising Age), with a bold new look across its digital properties. Before joining Ad Age, Kevin oversaw the content strategy and partner relationships as the Chief Content Officer for Ongo, a news aggregator backed by the New York Times, The Washington Post, and Gannett. Before this, Kevin was the Executive Producer at SFGate.com, the online home of the San Francisco Chronicle, where he oversaw the content, product management, design, and daily production of the site.
Marcus Witte VP, Integrated Marketing, SourceMedia
A digital media executive with 15+ years of experience working with some of the largest consumer and B2B publishers online. With a career built on digital and data driven strategies, he has worked extensively with clients, sales and technology to build compelling solutions including native, video and targeted demand products – most recently Account-Based Marketing. He currently oversees Integrated Marketing, Ad Product Strategy and Demand Generation for SourceMedia, a digital business information and marketing services platform serving dynamic communities.
Matthew Yorke CMO, SourceMedia
Matthew Yorke is SourceMedia's Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for marketing and marketing services product innovation. Matt is charged with advancing SourceMedia's portfolio of digital marketing capabilities and products, and enabling profitable revenue growth across all aspects of the business. Prior to joining SourceMedia, he was Managing Director for Business Development and Marketing with the global media and marketing solutions agency OMD. Matt also spent 15 years at IDG where he held numerous senior positions, including CEO of IDG Global Solutions and CEO of IDG Enterprise, tasked with transforming IDG into a modern digital first media company. With more than 20 years' experience in media, marketing and technology, Yorke is recognized for his leadership, customer-focused approach and keen sense of how technology trends impact customer habits, and in turn, marketers. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Folio: 40 as a C-level visionary in 2011, BtoB's Media Business 2010 Business Publishing Executive Innovator and Min's Social Media Superstar Award in 2009. Yorke also received the IDG Chairman's Award for Entrepreneur of The Year in 2011.


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A – It's for Annette, of course! (Though Avalon is a fine choice, too.)
Candy Johnson. |
D – Dick Dale, the "King of the Surf Guitar," who appeared in Beach Party and Muscle Beach Party with his band The Del-Tones. Quentin Tarantino used Dale's "Misirlou" as the theme to Pulp Fiction.
E – Eva Six, the Hungarian bombshell who tries to lure Frankie from Annette in Beach Party.
F – "The Finger," a self-defensive maneuver, also known as the Himalayan Time Suspension Technique, employed originally by Professor Sutwell (Robert Cummings) in Beach Party. Sutwell would place his index finger on a "complex pressure point" on his opponent's temple. The victim's body would then go into a state of "time suspension" for several hours. The most frequent victim was Eric Von Zipper.
G – Go Go (Tommy Kirk), a Martian teen who falls in love with Connie (Annette) instead of preparing for the Mars invasion of Earth in Pajama Party.
H – Dwayne Hickman, TV's Dobie Gillis, who wooed Annette in How to Stuff a Wild Bikini. Or, it could be Susan Hart, the beauty who starred as The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini after an earlier appearance in Pajama Party.
Harvey Lembeck as Eric Von Zipper. |
J – Jack Fanny, the bodybuilding trainer played by Don Rickles in Muscle Beach Party.
K – Sugar Kane, a singer played by Linda Evans in Beach Blanket Bingo (the song vocals are by Jackie Ward). Or, it can be for Buster Keaton, who appeared in Beach Blanket Bingo, Pajama Party, and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.
L – Lorelei (Marta Kristen), Bonehead's mermaid girlfriend in Beach Blanket Bingo. It could also be for Donna Loren, who sings some of the best songs in the series, including "It Only Hurts When I Cry" (from Bingo).
M – Flex Martian, the bodybuilder played by Mission: Impossible's Peter Lupus (shown on right) in Muscle Beach Party. Or, it could be Dorothy Malone, the only Oscar winner in a BP movie (Beach Party).
N – The Nooney Rickett Four, an L.A. rock band that appeared in Pajama Party.
O – "O Dio Mio" a pre-Beach Party hit song for Annette.
P – The Potato Bug, a British rock singer played by Frankie Avalon in Bikini Beach (in addition to his regular role of Frankie).
Q – Quinn O'Hara, Scottish redhead who played Basil Rathbone's homicidal daughter in The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini.
R – The Ratz, the name of Eric Von Zipper's motorcycle gang. (The female members were known as the Mice.)
South Dakota Slim. |
T – Toni Basil, one of the singer-dancers in Pajama Party. In 1982, she had a No. 1 hit song with "Mickey."
U – Gary Usher, the influential 1960s composer, who wrote tunes for four Beach Party movies when not collaborating with Brian Wilson, The Byrds, and others.
V – Vivian Clements, a teacher played by Martha Hyer in Bikini Beach.
Dick Dale and Stevie Wonder. |
X - Francis X. Bushman, famous silent film actor and the first star labeled "King of the Movies." He had a supporting role in The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini.
Y – "Yoots," which is how Eric Von Zipper pronounces "youths" as in the Ratz being a bunch of "good clean American yoots."
Z – Eric Von Zipper (a bit of cheat to make it to "Z"). Eric's most famous quote: "I like you. And when Eric Von Zipper likes someone, they stay liked."

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Today we continue our reviews of the Outsound Music Summit with Thwack! Bome! Chime!, an evening of modern percussion performances. There was quite a bit of Thwack! and more than a couple of Chimes. But I am not quite sure about the Bome! part.
The concert opened with a solo set by David Douglas performing with acoustic percussion, MIDI controllers and a laptop running Max/MSP. His approach, visually, physically and musically, is to integrate the traditional drums, cymbals and acoustic noisemakers with the electronics in a single unit.
[David Douglas. Photo: PeterBKaars.com.]
I had last seen Douglas perform at the Luggage Store Gallery before Reconnaissance Fly. I recalled that performance being richly textured, but his setup and musical performance on this night was more varied and sophisticated. He began with short taps on a drum with granular and pitch effects cascading out of the percussion sounds. These gradually evolved into more complex rhythms and drum rolls augmented with tonal pitches. The acoustic sources expanded from the drum to percussive hits with sticks and other implements, with more pitched elements and eventually faster more rhythmic playing. As the set unfolded, there more complex polyrhythms as well as very subtle quiet sections, and sounds that were further afield from traditional percussion, with long electrical drones. There was an abrupt shift the cymbals with gliding pitch shifts and long tones. He also used lights and a mobile device to control electronic elements. At one point during the set, the music became more like techno/electronica, with repeated rhythmic patterns and in-time delays and hits. His performance continued as a single, continuously changing improvisation for the duration of the set.
The next set featured Falkortet, a local percussion ensemble that composes pieces for itself in a variety of styles. Members of the ensemble include Lydia Martin, Ed Garcia, Timothy Black and Josh Mellinger.
[Falkortet. Photo: PeterBKaars.com.]
The ensemble entered from the rear in the hall in a slow procession, with metal percussion and led by Martin on a conch shell. The scene and sound reminded me of a wedding or celebration band that one might find in South Asia or the Middle East. The performers took their seats at various points of the stage and the rhythm steadied into a syncopated pattern with a bit of a swing. It grew louder and more complex over time and then all at once soft.
The remainder of Falkortet's set featured a series of short compositions in a variety of idioms and was quite a contrast to Douglas' single abstract improvisation. There was a piece with three standard drum sets and a piano that included both loud drumming and a section that was jazz or tango-like. Another piece featured a marimba, a large hand drum and bells that reminded me of gamelan instruments, especially as the music unfolded first a single unison phrase that splinted into more complex polyrhythms and variations. After the piece, they explained that the bell instruments were in fact prototypes for an "American gamelan.", and that many of their instruments were made from found objects or recycled materials.
[Falkortet. Photo: PeterBKaars.com.]
A couple of other pieces that particularly caught my attention was a marimba quartet with soft chords and subtle changes at different rates. It was quite meditative. The last couple of pieces with vibraphone, marimba and drums had a more jazzy feel, with familiar minor chords, blues scales and even a bit of a funky vibe at times. It was a fun way to close the set.
The final set featured the premier of Seems Like An Eternity, a new composition by Benjamin Ethan Tinker for percussion and electronics. Tinker, who performed in the piece on Arp 2600 and an Echoplex, was joined by Lydia Martin and Tim Black from the Falkortet, as well as Shani Aviram on kalimba, and April-Jeanie Tang and Daniel Steffey from Touch-the-Gear night.
[Benjamin Ethan Tinker and ensemble members. Photo: PeterBKaars.com.]
I was quite interested in hearing this piece after learning about it during the Composers' Forum earlier in the week, and was glad to see that most of the audience stayed to support the performance as well even though it was already 11PM. It had a very elemental theme "evoking the desert night sky". On a more technical level, it subverted the usual character of percussion by avoiding discrete sounds and instead using the instruments to generate drones. It unfolded with long tones with pitch variations, some of which reminded me of whale songs. A cymbal roll added both grown and higher-frequency content, while rubbing on timpani drums and rubber mallets on a wood surface added a thick middle-frequency drone. It was not purely drone, however, as bits of crackly sound came and went,. There were also empty spaces in the sound. I did find myself listening for the Arp within the soundscape, and identified some very noisy sounds and wobbly arpeggios from the instrument. At one point there was a very elemental loud metal shake evocative of a thunderstorm. Again, the overall drone was broken up by the sounds of small metal pitched percussion. The sound grew softer and lower in frequency, with the electronics moving into a subsonic realm where the waveform became a chain of discrete percussive sounds. After an electronic solo, the other instruments returned in, converging on a single tone. The sound became crunchier and more varied in timbre, with granular elements and then grew into a series of loud swells towards the end of the piece.
This was a long concert, and some ways a bit of endurance test. But it was rewarding to fully experience all three sets their entirety, as it is not that often one gets to hear an entire concert dedicated to percussion like this.


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Your care needs will change over time and eventually you may need the type of extensive, 24-hour care and support provided in long-term care. Where you live, what you pay and what type of programs and services will be available to you will depend on the province in which you live and the personal choices you make.
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This is the time of year that employers and employees deal with the reporting of Benefits in kind. Taxing times…
The provision and use of company cars features in many of these returns, both the use of the car, and if provided, the cost of any fuel provided by the employer for private mileage. What may not be appreciated is that there is such an item as an exempt use of a car.
To be exempt, an employee must use the car in one of the following ways:
1. Privately owned cars – You don't have to pay anything on cars that directors or employees own privately.
2. Cars available for business journeys only – Business journeys are either: journeys that are part of your employee's duties, e.g. a service engineer travelling to an appointment or journeys an employee must make to get to a temporary workplace. To be exempt, you must tell your employee not to use the vehicle for private journeys and check that they don't.
3. Cars adapted for an employee with a disability – This includes cars with automatic transmission if the employee's disability means they need this. These cars are exempt if the only private use is for: journeys between home and work or travel to work-related training
4. Fuel that employees pay for – You don't have to pay or report on fuel, including for private journeys, if either: employees buy the fuel for their own use or you buy it and they pay you back during the tax year, and their payment is equal to or more than the amount you paid.
5. 'Pool' cars – You don't have to pay or report on 'pool' cars. These are cars that are shared by employees for business purposes, and normally kept on your premises. You'll have to pay if a pool car is driven for private use, or if a car is shared by employees and doesn't qualify as a pool car.
Additionally, if you provide a car to a close relative you won't have to pay anything if both the following apply:
you're an employer who's an individual, e.g. a sole trader
you're providing the car to someone who works in your business, but only because they're a close relative and not because they work for you (e.g. you give your child a car as a birthday present)
A close relative includes:
your spouse or civil partner
your son or daughter, and their spouse or civil partners
your parents
any other dependants or guests of your household
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It was warm and windy today. Midway on our walk to the East Parkway playground, Rosa and I stopped to admire a kite soaring over the Greensward:
Little sister just remember,Back beyond that nylon kite, about a dozen Mississippi kites swirled above Rainbow Lake, chowing down on bugs:
As you wander through the blue,
The little kite that you sent flying
On a sunny afternoon,
Made of something light as nothing,
Made of joy that matters too,
How the little dreams we dream
Are all we can really do.
-Patti Griffin
Here's a grainy zoom view of the bird on the upper left:
Once you learn that outline, you won't forget it. It means that summer has arrived in Memphis.


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The Cairns of Clava
You may have heard of the lake called Loch Ness, where people think they've seen the Loch Ness monster. Near Loch Ness there are three giant stone tombs you may not have heard of...they are called the Balnuaran of Clava.Lots of stones surround the inside chamber where people were buried long ago. So, you can't see the burial chamber in the picture, just a big mound of stones. Balnuaran of Clava is similar to the Newgrange tomb of Ireland. Can you see how they are similar from looking at the pictures?
Each of these giant tombs is surrounded by a set of standing stones. You can see those in the picture too.


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10 Signs You're Not Cut Out to Be an Entrepreneur Many people dream of starting their own business, but you have to have the right chops. Here are the 10 warnings signs that it might not be for you.
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
About half of Americans dream of opening their own businesses, according to a recent survey by the UPS Store, but with 50% of small businesses failing within the first five years, how do you know if you're an entrepreneur ... or a "wanna-preneur"?
"When we go through recessions and people lose their jobs or are offered buyouts, many decide it's their impetus to launch their own company," says entrepreneur and business coach Daniel C. Steenerson. "But just because you can start a business doesn't mean you should."
Before you take the leap, Steenerson suggests taking an honest inventory of your skill set. He offers these ten clues that you're not cut out to launch a business:
1. You can't stand the heat.
Before you jump into self-employment, Steenerson says you need to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
"Every day you'll need to try something new for the first time," he says. "Growth happens at edge of comfort zone. If you're unwilling to go there, you may not be cut out for being an entrepreneur."
Related: Want Huge Startup Profits? Here's Why You Need to Be Patient
2. You're on the quest for quick cash.
While profit is the result of successful business, it shouldn't be why you are in business, says Steenerson, who in 1997 launched Disability Insurance Services, a provider of disability insurance products, to fill a gap in the marketplace.
"You start a business to solve problems and serve others," he says. "If you do that the cash will follow, but it can take time."
3. You have professional ADD.
Starting a business isn't about chasing the latest shiny thing; it's about picking a dream and staying with it even when times get tough.
"Being an entrepreneur requires unwavering laser focus," says Steenerson. "If you don't have patience and are unwilling to push through the tough times, launching a business might not be for you."
4. You get stage fright.
As an entrepreneur you wear many hats, and spokesperson is one. If you shy away from public speaking, overcome this issue by joining a group like Toastmasters or by hiring a spokesperson for your company.
"Opportunities don't always come to us in a scheduled manner, however. And entrepreneurs will need to be the front man from time to time," says Steenerson. "If you're uncomfortable with self promotion, it can be problematic."
5. You hate roller coasters.
When you're an entrepreneur, there are no flat surfaces. "One day you're tackling a steep hill and the next you're on a gut-wrenching free fall," says Steenerson. "You need to be prepared to hang on and enjoy the ride."
In other words, entrepreneurship isn't for those with a weak stomach.
Related: 10 Best States for Starting a Business
6. You think complexity is cool.
Winston Churchill said, "Complexity is not a virtue." Steenerson agrees and says simple, straightforward businesses are often more successful.
"If your product or service is complicated, it will be hard to communicate that to your customers and your employees," he says. "A confused mind always says no."
7. You don't believe in marketing.
No matter what the economy looks like, you've got to keep marketing; it makes the business world go 'round, says Steenerson.
"When the economy declines, it's time to double your efforts because your competitors are pulling back, too," he says. "You must be willing to continue to throw revenue at marketing - no matter what."
8. You're easily winded.
Launching a business is like running a marathon. At the start, adrenalin keeps you going, but 15 miles in, you can hit the wall. Entrepreneurs are willing to push through the portion of the journey called the "middle mile" - the place where challenge and drudgery happen.
"Your feet will hurt and your breathing will be labored," says Steenerson. "Despite these inconveniences, you must place one foot in front of the other and press on. A lack of stamina is a recipe for burnout and overload."
9. You can't explain the steps of shoe tying.
Tying a shoe is complicated - and so is running a business, says Steenerson. Entrepreneurs need to be able to delegate tasks and to direct others. This means you need the ability to take a task and break it down into easy, actionable steps for implementation.
"Big ideas are a dime a dozen," he says. "Knowing how to implement them is the game changer."
10. You're a problem passer.
As an entrepreneur, the buck stops with you. You must be willing to upset the apple cart and make decisions
"Sometimes your customers will be unhappy with your decisions and you've got to be comfortable with that if it's in the best interest of your company," says Steenerson.
You must also be able to resolve problems. "Understand that if you're unwilling to handle something immediately, it will not go away," he says. "It will grow bigger."


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"Eccentric, lush + musical… An atmospheric wicked beauty… Uncommonly smooth, yet strange and curious… Enjoy the Roy" —Tom Waits, musician
Phil's Biographical Top Ten
1. I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Feb. 28, 1959.
2. I attended Berklee College of Music as a guitar major and took aninterest in songwriting.
3. I moved to Los Angles in 1981 and within 3 months got signed to Warner Brothers records with my band Carrera by Ted Templeman. A second album with the same band members was released by EMI-Manhatten in 1985. For the most part, no one owns or has ever heard of these recordings.
4. In 1987 I signed my first of 5 publishing deals to write songs as a staff songwriter in Los Angeles.
5. I have had the honor of writing songs for some of the greatest Soul/R+B singers of the modern recording era. (Ray Charles, Pop's Staples, Aaron Neville, Joe Cocker, Mavis Staples). Two Academy Award-winning films include my songs. (Leaving Las Vegas + As Good As It Gets)
6. I got "burnt out" trying to write "hits" for my publishers. In 2000 I self released "grouchyfriendly". NPR stations across the country started playing the album. Won an award, "Independent Album of the Year". Tom Waits, Wim Wenders, Leonard Cohen and assorted radio stations all said nice things about the recording. Met a girl, after 25 years moved back to Philadelphia , got married.
7. Recorded "Issues + Options", my second solo album. Got signed by Or Music who released the CD in 2004. Other artist on the label included Los Lonely Boys and Matisyahu. Highlights include strong reviews in The New York Times, and a sold out debut performance at Lincoln Center. Got dropped by record label and divorced from wife.
8. My dog (Travis) and I walk around the park for 6 months thinking about ambition and it's usefulness and uselessness "The I'm Not Leaving The House Tour" is conceived where people come to my home, I cook and perform a concert.
9. After more then 2 years, I finally finish "The Great Longing". Another year is spent trying to figure out how I could get people to hear my new music. I get introduced to the people at Decca/Universal. On May 20th 2008, finally, after almost 4 years from starting the initial recording sessions, the album is released.
10. My latest musical recording, "In The Weird Small Hours is released and wins "Concept Album of the Year" by the Independent Music Awards. This album is out of print and actually I am re-conceptualizing this piece of work. (what a concept) Stay tuned. I continue to perform shows sporadically and am always cooking a lot. You can still find me combining music and culinary worlds at events through out the year. I currently live in Boise, Idaho with my wife Katarina, son Enzo (5), our daughter Indira (Indi) and dog the Teo. Hopefully if your reading this we will someday meet along the way. Until then… Phil Roy.
"Eccentric, lush + musical… An atmospheric wicked beauty… Uncommonly smooth, yet strange and curious… Enjoy the Roy" — Tom Waits, musician
"A highly accomplished work" — Leonard Cohen (Poet/Novelist/ Musician)
"We're surrounded by junk and noise… This is a record like an oasis. .. Like a friendly smile out of nowhere, at the end of a hectic day." — Wim Wenders (Director)
.. "Phil's one of the greatest writers I know… — Mavis Staples (Singer/Soul Legend)
.. I cannot get the new CD off of my player… The music is so good I practically started crying while I listened and went over what you've been through to get to this point. Making important art that impacts people's lives is impossible without living, surviving and having the gift to pass it on. — Stephen Hannock (Painter), In the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art/ NYC
"Issues + Options," one of the year's two or three most satisfying albums by an American singer/songwriter." — Stephen Holden, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"An uncorrupted sense of artistic control" — Phil Gallo, Variety
"A soulful singer-songwriter" — Casey Dolan, Los Angeles Times
"From-the-heart epiphanies" Rating "A" — JONATHAN TAKIFF, Philadelphia Daily News
As a songwriter, Phil Roy specializes in what you might call a kind of "bleak optimism". — Steve Inskeep (Host), All Things Considered NPR Radio
"An undercurrent of raw melancholy runs through his songs making him a kindred sprit to brooding types like Leonard Cohen, John Martyn, and Peter Gabriel. — Jon Pareles, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Phil Roy accomplishes a delicate emotional surgery that countless troubadours have tried but few have been able to carry off." — Steven Holden, New York Times
"Melt": "Song of the Year" — Rita Houston, WFUV (NYC)
"Melt" is simply one of the most gorgeous love songs ever. — Kim Curtis, Associated Press
Phil Roy's single "Undeniably Human" is one of the year's bright spots. — Steve Morse, Boston Globe
"The Phil Roy album has affected me like no other record in the past decade. — Mike Marrone/PD The Loft XM 50 / XM Satellite Radio
Like Dylan and Springsteen, Phil Roy is a storyteller. — Paul Ducey, amazon.com
"Roy's definitely got a strong knack for slinging emotional arrows pretty deep and true". — Michael Bertin, The Austin Chronicle
"As a whole, "Issues + Options" is a smorgasbord of delectable sounds, friendly melodies and grown-up moods and topics, a classic in it's genre" — TRIPLEARADIO.COM


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Revisiting Linux GPUs: Playing the Driver Game
by Kristopher Kubicki on December 17, 2004 12:49 AM EST- Posted in
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Most Windows gamers felt the height of the driver wars between NVIDIA and ATI about 18 months ago - driver "optimizations", rushed releases and performance fluctuation. Linux remained relatively untouched during this process, getting an update once every 4 or 5 months with only the minimum enhancements. It looks, however, that things are about to change - and very soon. When NVIDIA and ATI both released their newest Linux drivers within a couple of days of each other, we started to get the feeling that there was some healthy competition brewing. However, memories of rushed-to-release drivers haunt us - and we hope that trend hasn't spilled over into Linux.NVIDIA still reigns as the undisputed Linux champ right now. Most of the reports across the web have dubbed this a phenomenal NVIDIA driver release - which would only stake their claim stronger. In almost every instance of our previous GPU roundup, the meager GeForceFX 5700 Ultra had no problems stomping all over the ATI's Radeon X800 Pro. The lack of ATI's commitment to high performance Linux drivers has cost them dearly in the Linux segment and it is no surprise that the Linux crowd tends to brew an "NVIDIA only" mentality. However, ATI's newest drivers seem to pack quite a bit of punch in our preliminary testing, and we will finally have the opportunity to provide some ATI benchmarks on Doom3 as id reports the newest drivers work correctly.
The scope of today's analysis is to run the older driver sets and compare them to the newer ones released last month. While we don't expect miraculous gains in performance, we would like to see if some of the deficiencies that we have noted in past reviews are being corrected. We also will take a slightly revisited look at some 64-bit benchmark numbers from Unreal Tournament. Obviously, NVIDIA's newest driver release doesn't mean much if it only offers improvements on the 32-bit kernel.
Unfortunately today, we are not testing OSS drivers for these graphics cards. The OSS driver development is an excellent project, but the performance of these drivers in gaming situations is so poor - we even had difficulty getting Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory to run.
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DarkTrooper - Tuesday, December 6, 2005 - link
First the good part, I am glad that ATI has finally managed to get a good working installer. Now the bad part for me: since I switcht to an x850 (R481 Core) I cant use the Driver, since it seems that the specifiy PCI-ID is not in this driver, which results in an "no matching pci ID found" after running fglrxconfig (which would be nice to have in a GUI version, or at least a menue based text version). Hope they manage to add this product soon... gets kind of anoying always having to wait month over month until they manage to fix things like this. Also the missing 64bit driver is some what disapointing (even though I only own 32Bit maschines). -
mpineiro - Thursday, May 5, 2005 - link
While I will admit that I only skimmed through the article, I think you failed to mention that it is nearly impossible to install the ATI drivers, especially with 3d Acceleration on most distributions. -
momenman - Friday, December 31, 2004 - link
Though the statements here regarding NVIDIA is generically true - I am personally unhappy with the "mouse moves but screen frozen" bug - due to which I can't use the 3D acceleration on FX-5700 ( though the problem is not there with GeForce2 MX cards, for example. ) . Its been almost a year and half since this bug surfaced on the nvidia linux board but the problem persists - thanks to the closed nature of the nvidia drivers.
Let's just wait and see .....
svartalf - Sunday, December 19, 2004 - link
In regards to the DRI project drivers "not being there", I will offer that you've been trying the official released drivers that are typically included with the distributions. (By the way, you can _almost_ play UT 2k4 with the drivers- I know, I recently tried it on a Centrino based laptop and an r200 based GPU.) Recent improvements include 3D accel across Xinerama screens and TCL support- these are betas in the version control system and should be showing shortly in the distributions as they're wrung out. -
SLIM - Saturday, December 18, 2004 - link
You can add one more dissenting opinion to the growing list in regard to the comment about 64/64 being a meager boost compared to 32/32 UT2004. A 15% boost in performance is better than a processor upgrade, some vid card upgrades and certainly better than anything expensive ram can do compared to value ram (2-2-2 vs 3-3-3 @400). I just hope 64bit windows will be able to show the same level of performance gains. -
Saist - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link
I'm just going to say this to the author:
try to install ATi drivers into Debian.
if you get that to succeed. Please do an article on how you did it. -
Rand - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link
I'm inclined to agree with the opinions of thoe others, I felt the relative gains from going to 64bitwas quite appreciable.
At this point I'm not sure I would even have expected the ~10% gain seen, so it's quite decent from my perspctive.
ATI's performance under Linux still remains wholly unimpressive at best. Seeing the less then impressive 5700U beating the X800 Pro in a number of cases only serves to underline how poorly ATI's drivers perform.
It doesn't impact me personally as I rarely use Linux and not at all for gaming, but for those that do nVidia is still clearly the manufacturer of choice. -
mlittl3 - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link
Oh and one other thing.
Intel said that going from 32 to 64 bits will just allow one to add (address) more than 4 GBs of RAM to a system and that's all.
AMD always said that the added registers would allow for improvements no matter how much RAM you have.
I guess AMD was right.
PS. How much improvement is necessary to go from meager to the next level? The way I see if from the article it's something like this.
0-10% Abysmal
10-20% Meager
20-30% Poor
30-40% Average
40-50% Good
50%> Excellent
I don't think we will ever see a greater than 30% increase going from 32 to 64 bit in order to get a positive rating, but hey, some people are harder to please than others.
mlittl3 - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link
I have to agree also with #5,8,10. I must not know what the definition of "meager" is. Any improvement over 10% is totally significant by any measurement.
Just looking back at an old Anandtech article comparing Unreal 32 to 64 bit performance in SuSe 9.1 shows 32bit performance at 26 fps and 64bit at 25 fps. Now a 1fps difference is meager and shows 32bit winning over 64bit.
I know this was a very different system but the absolute frame rate is not what's important. Its the difference between 64bit vs. 32bit. Driver development has come a long way and now we are seeing a 13 to 15% increase in fps going from 32 to 64bit.
And you can't say that its just the drivers because the same drivers are being used in 32 and 64 bit modes in this new comparison and we are still seeing a "huge" (not meager) gain in performance going from 32 to 64bit.
Framing articles in reference to old data is a good way to measure improvements. I think that is how we know if an older video card is outperformed by a newer one, a new operating system works better than an older, etc. -
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Pro-Life Leaders: Obama Still Misleading Americans on Abortion Funding
Pro-life leaders across the nation made it clear Thursday that President Obama's claim that "no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions" is misleading and flat out not true.
"President Obama continued to mislead the American people by casually dismissing the concerns of millions of Americans who have deep moral objections to their tax dollars paying for abortions," noted Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, referring to Obama's speech at the joint session of Congress Wednesday.
"It's surprising the President continues to claim that 'no federal dollars' will fund abortion particularly after this assertion was widely disputed weeks ago by FactCheck.org along with reporters and columnists at the Associated Press, Time Magazine, and The Washington Post. Even supporters of the President such as Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak, Rev. Jim Wallis, and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren agree that the current health care plans include abortion coverage with federal dollars," Perkins added.
On Wednesday, Obama said he wanted to clear up some of the "bogus claims" that have increased American concern over current health care plans, saying they were "spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost."
But pro-life leaders such as Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life argue that any misunderstanding or "bogus claim" there may be over the federal funding of abortion via health care reform legislation have come from the White House, not pro-lifers.
"The reality is that federal funds will indeed go to pay for abortions and to subsidize private insurers that pay for abortions. There are absolutely no safeguards to prevent this funding of abortion," insists Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
"It is shameful and disturbing that Obama would stand before Congress and all of the nation, look into the camera, and lie about a matter that is of great concern to the vast majority of the American people who oppose using their hard-earned money to bail out a failing abortion industry. Obama has denigrated the office of the Presidency and played the American people for fools," he said.
According to Factcheck.org, a project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, the current House bill would allow abortions to be covered by a federal plan and by federally subsidized private plans though it does not require federal funds to be used to support abortion coverage.
"As for the House bill as it stands now, it's a matter of fact that it would allow both a 'public plan' and newly subsidized private plans to cover all abortions," reported Brooks Jackson, director of Factcheck.org, which takes no position on whether the health care bill should or should not allow coverage for abortions.
"Therefore, we judge that the president goes too far when he calls the statements that government would be funding abortions 'fabrications,'" Jackson had concluded.
According to a new nationwide poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, six in 10 (58 percent) of Americans do not believe the government has an obligation to provide abortion services under its public health care plan. Furthermore, 55 percent say that it's wrong for the government to pay for abortions.
And though only four-in-ten voters (43 percent) say they would be less likely to support the president's proposed health plan if the government pays for abortions, just 8 percent say it would make them more likely to support the plan. The remaining 46 percent of Americans, meanwhile, say it makes no difference to them whether or not health care reform legislation allows for government funding of abortion.


text: Just because you graduate from college doesn't mean your education has been completed. There's a lot of business acumen that college graduates lack as they are entering the workforce that isn't taught in a classroom. Andy Teach, author of "From Graduation to Corporation: The Practical Guide to Climbing the Corporate Ladder One Rung at a Time" joins the show to share his crash course on Corporate America.


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Tim Harford | The Undercover Economist
368 pages
Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty years, go from the world's worst famine to one of the greatest economic revolutions of all time, lifting a million people out of poverty a month?
Looking at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways, THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST is a fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from the streets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai to the sleepy canals of Bruges. Leaving behind textbook jargon and equations, Tim Harford will reveal the games of signals and negotiations, contests of strength and battles of wit that drive not only the economy at large but the everyday choices we make.


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The CPSC National Injury Information Clearinghouse (Clearinghouse) provides incident data involving consumer products from various data sources and publishes incident reports involving consumer products that meet eligibility criteria on www.saferproducts.gov. The Clearinghouse provides updates on the status of reports and works with those reporting consumer product related incidents to meet publication eligibility. In addition, the Clearinghouse also disseminates information relating to the prevention of death and injury associated with consumer products.
Contact Information for Clearinghouse
Phone: 301-504-7921
Email: email@example.com
Postal mail to:
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Attn: Clearinghouse
4330 East West Highway
Bethesda, MD 20814
Clearinghouse Data Sources
The Clearinghouse Online Query Tool includes data that is collected several ways. The data is collected online via the CPSC website www.saferproducts.gov. Via Telephone, reports are collected through the Toll Free Consumer Hotline at 1-800-638-2772 (8am to 5:30pm ET) . Reports can also be mailed to CPSC at the postal address listed above. CPSC also collects data from reports from other federal, state and local consumer advocacy and public health and safety entities, new reports of incidents involving consumer products and health care professionals.
The different data sources provided by the Clearinghouse Online Query Tool are as follows:
- Death certificates (DTHS)
- Death Certificates involving consumer products are provided to CPSC through state health departments. The Clearinghouse provides summaries of these, with victim identifying information removed.
- Medical Examiner and Coroner reports (MECAPS)
- Medical Examiner reports involving consumer products are provided to CPSC through state health departments. The Clearinghouse provides summaries of these, with victim identifying information removed.
- Injury/Potential Injury Incident Files (IPII).
- Reports from Consumers and SaferProducts.gov submitters, provided they have given permission to publish their report.
- Additional reports (i.e. not submitted through SaferProducts.gov) from other Federal agencies, Health Care Professionals, and Public Safety entities.
- Online News Sources/Clipping Services.
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- Reports directly reported or collected from various online sources regarding incidents involving consumer products.
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The incident descriptions used are subsequently redacted to be suitable for public release. Prior to redaction, the narratives may include information that might be used to identify an individual or manufacturer.
The CPSC generally does not disclose to the public the following types of information:
- Documents prohibited from disclosure by the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) (15 U.S.C. §§ 2055 (a) and (b)), which prohibits the release of: trade secrets and confidential commercial or financial information; and information that identifies manufacturers of consumer products, unless the CPSC has taken reasonable steps to assure it is accurate, its release would be fair under the circumstances, and its release is reasonably related to effectuating the purposes of the acts the Commission administers.
- Information that identifies injured persons and the persons who treated them, without their consent.
- Certain inter-agency and intra-agency memoranda containing opinions and recommendations prepared to assist in decision-making.
- Personnel, medical and similar files, the disclosure of which would be a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
- Investigatory records compiled for law enforcement purposes when disclosure could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement procedures or would disclose techniques, guidelines and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions -- for example, records from CPSC's compliance and enforcement files pertaining to active investigations.
Ways to Access Clearinghouse Data
Clearinghouse data from the most recent ten years are available online. Clearinghouse data for the most recent calendar year of received dates generally become available in Spring of the following year.
Annual Clearinghouse Datasets
Each Clearinghouse dataset contains a complete year of data, spanning treatment dates January 1 - December 31. The datasets are the easiest way to get a comprehensive look at the product-related incidents for a given year.
Each dataset contains 37 columns including brief narratives describing the incident scenarios. These narratives can be used to extract data that are not captured by specific product codes within the Clearinghouse dataset. For example, within the Clearinghouse there are product codes for "bicycles", but there is no code for "eating". In order to search for people who were injured on their bicycle while eating, you would need to download a dataset and search bicycle incident narratives for instances of "eating".
Clearinghouse Query Builder
Use the Clearinghouse Query Builder to view and download product-related incidents based on customized search criteria.
Read: Instructions for using the Clearinghouse Query Builder


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Carrie Underwood Shares Sweet Birthday Post for 'Amazing' Husband Mike Fisher [Picture]
Carrie Underwood turned to social media on her husband Mike Fisher's birthday to express how grateful she is to have him in her life.
Fisher turned 41 on Saturday (June 5), and Underwood posted a photo to Instagram, capturing him smiling as he prepares to blow out the single candle on a luscious-looking dessert.
"Celebrating this amazing human and his 41 trips around the sun! I love you @mfisher1212 and I thank God for blessing us so. Here's to whatever comes next!" the country superstar writes to accompany the picture, adding a long string of heart emojis.
Underwood married Fisher, a retired NHL hockey player, in 2010. The couple have two sons; 6-year-old Isaiah Michael and Jacob Bryan, who is 2.
They have spent quite a bit of downtime at their home outside of Nashville over the course of the last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic has kept her off the road. But Underwood has staged a few performances and appearances virtually, and she also recorded a pair of back-to-back faith-based projects that she says helped her get through a challenging year.
Underwood released her first-ever full-length Christmas album, My Gift, in September of 2020, and she followed it up with a full-length gospel album, My Savior, in March of 2021.
Underwood will return to the stage in 2021. She has announced a 12-date residency at the Theatre at Resorts World Las Vegas. Reflection: The Las Vegas Residency is slated to begin on Dec. 1 and include shows on Dec. 3, 4, 8, 10 and 11, 2021, and ticket demand was so high that Underwood has also added shows on March 23, 25, 26 and 30, and on April 1 and 2.


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Baseball has been called our national pastime for decades. It's a lot of fun to play. But players are at risk for injuries from things like wild pitches, batted balls, and collisions in the field.
These safety tips can help protect kids and teens from injuries while playing baseball.
Wearing and using the right gear can help prevent injuries. Safety rules for most leagues include:
Some leagues have rules about not using aluminum bats, which hit the ball harder than other bats.
Some players also like to wear:
To prevent injuries during training, players should:
Too much pitching can lead to serious injuries. These guidelines can help prevent pitching injuries:
All coaches should emphasize safe, fair play. This includes knowing the rules and:
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, "Signaling Events Downstream of AHR Activation That Contribute to Toxic Responses: The Functional Role of an AHR-Dependent Long Noncoding RNA () Using the Zebrafish Model.", Environ Health Perspect, vol. 126, no. 11, p. 117002, 2018.
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Some years ago at a meeting of the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities a controversial suggestion by one of the council members resulted in startled murmurs from the audience. Annoyed by this unsolicited feedback the council member blurted out "No comments from the Peanut Gallery."
For those younger than the baby boom generation it should probably be mentioned that the "Peanut Gallery" was what the audience of preschoolers was called on the 1950s Howdy Doody TV show. This was a disrespectful and demeaning comment by a public official and no doubt the perpetrator quickly regretted his honesty because it confirmed what anyone who has spent time around government insiders know: This is precisely how most bureaucrats and elected officials regard the public. Citizens are like children and thus "should be seen and not heard."
This attitude of superiority and disdain for the public helps explain politicians' extreme hostility to the initiative process. As I have written before government insiders find it annoying that average citizens have the option to place measures on the ballot which can run counter to their plans.
It also explains why the Legislature just passed Assembly Bill 857 currently sitting on the Governor's desk that is the most direct assault on direct democracy in California in the last 100 years. This attack makes it more difficult for most citizen groups to qualify measures for the ballot. The bill is sponsored by two of the biggest labor organizations in Sacramento the Labor Federation and the California Professional Firefighters entities that have long viewed the ballot box as a threat to their interests especially as it relates to pension reform. One of its key provisions is to impose a requirement that ten percent of the signatures for a statewide measure be collected by non-paid signature gatherers. However the measure would exempt non-profits including public employee unions.
In any event this requirement is facially arbitrary. The bill does not articulate the policy justification for the restriction let alone the cutoff of ten percent. The requirement is also very likely to be stricken as unconstitutional.
If that wasn't bad enough this bill is nothing short of a lawyer's dream. A section of the bill allows any elector to file a civil action invalidating signatures if the circulator intentionally misrepresents the legal effect of the petition. But this new right to sue is replete with ambiguities. What is an "intentional misrepresentation" as opposed to normal political discourse? The First Amendment is designed to permit a free exchange of ideas especially in the political arena. Are those who collect signatures now going to have their free speech rights chilled for fear of saying something that is not technically accurate about a measure?
Moreover this provision would make it way too easy for an interest group like a labor organization to intentionally sabotage an initiative by claiming that they were told something inaccurate about a proposed ballot measure. If AB 857 passes the California judicial branch had best brace itself for a flurry of new "he said she said" lawsuits.
Other provisions of AB 857 are just downright confusing and will do nothing to inform voters such the requirement for different colored paper with different content depending on who is gathering the signature.
AB 857 passed out of the Legislature last week and is now before Governor Brown. We hope he sees this for what it is a blatant union power play that allows special interests to play politics at the ballot box to the detriment of all Californians who overwhelmingly support direct democracy. AB 857 with its arbitrary thresholds and unfair special interest exemptions deserves a quick veto.
Jon Coupal is president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association — California's largest grass-roots taxpayer organization dedicated to the protection of Proposition 13 and the advancement of taxpayers' rights.


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Global Planning with Single Screen, Single Click Technology
By Rahul Mital, project and supply chain management specialist
Single screen technology is still a relatively new concept, which is surprising to advocates and those who have seen its benefits in action. It is cost effective, has an impressive documented ROI and is an online digital tool that fosters better lines of communication between geographically disperse decision-making departments. It is ideally suited to environments where effective supply chain management is essential to delivering products and services profitably and on schedule for vendors and end-user customers.
Planning at a global level
For companies where supply chain management is critical to the flow of goods and services—large or small, multi-national or local—getting key supply chain departments spread across different locations around the globe on the same page can be a challenge. Avoiding duplication of material or part requisitions, the piling up of excess inventory, reacting in a timely fashion to issues that crop up as a customer orders make their way from raw material to delivery (quality, delayed shipments of vital parts etc.) are just a few of the issues. What's more, tracking that progress is especially taxing in a global economy, where the players involved may be on opposite sides of the country or the world for that matter. This is where, how and why one screen planning on a digital platform will enable all the key stakeholders to have access and the ability to make a profound difference when it comes to supply chain management.
In this context, here are some key features of single screen technology for global supply chain planners:
- A global planner can access all of the planning information (demand, supply, quality, costs) from various geographical locations and different plan outputs into one screen and make key decisions and place orders from that single screen. Often, what may take days or weeks now can occur in minutes with single screen technology.
- Single screen applications can also become a teaching tool, helping to foster better inter-department communication and planning efficiency.
- Planners and buyers can look for resources and materials from hundreds of organizations if necessary, providing they are accessible via the single screen system. In addition, it's easier to compare material cost quotes and shipping times promised with this technology.
- Analysis of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) including cost, quality and transit times for material shipments is easier and more timely with single screen technology. For a company with operations spread out over hundreds or thousands of miles or with suppliers halfway around the world, communication is more efficient for those employing the single screen concept. In one instance where single screen is being used in the oil and gas production industry off the Texas coast, requisitions, purchase orders, quality documents and bookings that once took weeks to coordinate happened in a matter of minutes.
- Assembling the budget for a project, analyzing its progress as it reaches certain milestones and preparing reports to be shared on that progress are streamlined and less time consuming when that information can be culled from an integrated digital platform. Compare this to the traditional hours spent pulling up various, isolated reports from unconnected databases and trying to determine what information is essential for budgeting or reporting purposes.
In addition to these key features, single screen provides an added benefit. It facilitates a collaborative working environment.
Challenges to implementing single screen technology
While there are many benefits to implementing single screen technology, there are obstacles as well. Programs that do not normally interface with each other on the same platform require a software solution so they can communicate in the single screen environment. Currently, there is no single screen turnkey software on the market. Until that changes, the solution involves custom software development.
A second challenge is overcoming the silo mentality within an organization where multiple buyers or planners may feel their part of a project should get top priority. Showing a buyer that the parts needed are available and in stock—albeit in another division and perhaps under a different nomenclature—means a bottom line savings for the company.
Third, change of any kind is often hard for some people to accept and incorporate. It's human nature to resist the unknown. And with new systems and processes, there is always a learning curve.
Fourth, getting buy in for investing in this technology at the highest management levels is another obstacle. One factor that can help is a comprehensive cost analysis. In most cases, the cost to implement a single screen technology, to write the programs that tie different platforms together, for software licensing and to train who that will use it is relatively small. Case in point: a major international oil and gas production company that spent less than a million dollars to implement single screen technology realized a return of 30 times in cost savings during the first year. Smaller companies will spend less to make the changes needed but should also see a return on their investment within months, if not weeks. Those savings came from factors like avoiding parts order duplication (cross referencing various part numbers for the same item is one example) and wasted man-hours.
In spite of these challenges, in companies where effective supply chain management is critical, it is in the best interest to employ single screen, and eventually single click, technology.
Single click technology
As single screen technology continues to evolve, the next step is single click technology. When the relevant inventory ordering systems are tied together, single click technology will help in executing supply chain processes automatically within seconds. The use of this evolving technology will do more to automate the decision-making process in planning at the global level.
Because core planning in the supply management chain is still happening frequently within silos, automated single click technology often is not feasible. Planning, sourcing, purchasing, accounting, inventory, finance and shipping would all benefit and save precious man hours from improved levels of communication with a single screen/single click approach.
When global cross-pegging (a single planning tool realized on a global level for inventory purposes), then single screen technology will become more than just a communication tool. By not using a single planning tool methodology, businesses have incurred million dollars in losses (for example, buying the same materials where the supply already exists in another geographical location, but is not visible to planners while executing supply orders.)
Take the next step
The relatively new concept of employing global and integrated planning using single screen technology in supply chain management is a reality in today's digital online world. Revamping reporting and ordering systems on various software platforms so they all "talk" to each other requires an initial monetary outlay and perhaps an annual software licensing fee. The track record for companies that have taken the plunge and invested in single screen technology shows that payback comes in a relatively short period of time versus upfront investment costs that pale in comparison.
The next step after single screen is "single click." This is where decisions can be made routinely (and even automatically) based on preset parameters. Simply put, that means having the right inventory at the right location at the right time.Take the first steps now towards this digital reality.
About the Author:
Rahul Mital has more than 16 years' experience in project management and as a solution architect in supply chain management with Oracle Applications expertise. Currently, he is a project manager and supply chain management specialist. For additional information, please send email to: email@example.com.


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