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Kaitlyn Ekstrom and Sharee Samuels show off their incredible weight loss on PEOPLE's Half Their Size cover
It's that time of year again! PEOPLE celebrates the incredible weight-loss transformations of real people who went from heavy to healthy in our 12th annual Half Their Size issue.
On this year's cover, Sharee Samuels shows off her new 135-lb. figure, which she earned by walking two miles daily and weekly runs. A former junk-food addict who wore a size 24 as a teen, Samuels admits she would sneak chips and cookies when her family wasn't looking.
"If I was around my parents, I'd eat healthy meals," Samuels says. "But with my friends it was different. I remember a road trip where we ate fast food five times a day."
Now Samuels, 24, follows a vegan diet and loves trying new workouts. "I'd do Zumba with my roommates two times a week in our apartment," says the graduate student.
At her heaviest, Kaitlyn Ekstrom, 31, weighed 263 lbs. But after college, Ekstrom returned home to care for her mother, who was battling cancer. In an effort to make their household healthier, "I did my best to learn how to cook for her," she says.
Ekstrom turned her life around as well. Now 136 lbs. lighter, she is the director of fitness and aquatics at a retirement community in Massachusetts and credits her mom's strength as "a huge motivator."
"When you see someone you love face the fact they might not live much longer with grace, then you realize, 'I can skip dessert,' " she says. "That's such a small thing in comparison."
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Nokia is betting its smartphone future on Windows Phone 8, Microsoft's mobile operating system that's set to launch in the next month. Of all of Microsoft's partners, Nokia is the most dependent on Windows Phone's success. The once dominant phone maker isn't producing smartphones for any other major mobile operating systems, and the company is facing significant quarterly losses and a declining stock price.
But amidst all the bad news, the Nokia is pushing forward with an optimistic outlook. The Finnish company has a strong location-based services platform, a profitable business making low-end phones for emerging markets, a sizable patent portfolio, and of course, the Windows Phone Lumia line to work with.
Wired sat down with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop to discuss the company's business strategy and get some insight on how Nokia plans to compete in the mobile market.
Wired: Let's start with Nokia strategy, especially with your Windows Phone Lumia devices.
Stephen Elop: It's a really exciting time when we think about the strategy we set out 18 months ago. We basically said there were three pillars to the strategy. The first is the partnership with Microsoft with smartphones. On Sept. 5 we introduced the Lumia 920 and 820. Both you and others have been writing the stories about how differentiated these devices are for the photographers amongst us and the capabilities of these devices with optical image stabilization. So we're pleased with that and entering into an exciting time where Windows Phone 8, new Lumia devices, Windows 8 for PCs and tablets, all with the same user experience, are coming into the market.
The second pillar of our strategy speaks to the delivery of what we call mobile phones, essentially lower-priced devices, most often for emerging markets. Just in the last couple of weeks we've introduced a series of new products in the Asha family. And even though people think about our lower tier devices as feature phones, the authorities on the subject, the people who keep score of the mobile industry, say these are smartphones. We're very proud to be introducing at less than $100 devices that are smartphones.
The third pillar of our strategy is something called "future disruptions." It's about what's the next step in things like materials, photography, battery technology – the things that we're working on in order to drive the next disruptions.
Wired: Who exactly are you targeting Windows Phone to now? There's a sense out there that consumers aren't aware of Windows Phone. What is Nokia doing to change that?
Elop: We're doing a number of things. First of all, we believe that one of the primary places, if not the primary place, to focus is in the retail environment. When someone walks into a store and says "I'm looking for my first smartphone" or "I'm looking for my next smartphone," we have to work really hard to ensure – with how the devices are presented on the wall and how the sales people talk about things – that we're in that consideration set. Because all of the work we've done says that if someone takes one of these devices and uses it and has that experience, then we're very successful with that consumer.... But we have to break through in that way. We have got to get that message to them.
You will also see an advertising campaign supporting this. You will see a lot of emphasis on reviewers, on tech blogs, on everything to make sure there's a lot of understanding on what sets these devices apart from the others. What's why, if you look across the Internet right now, across the blogosphere, there are so many examples of the photography and location-based services where people are saying, "Here's the iPhone 5. How does the 920 do? Oh, it beats it? Great!"
In terms of targeted consumers, you have to think very carefully about the demographics on a country-by country-basis. In countries like the United States, there are certain age ranges, for example, people in their late teens, early twenties, who are very much trendsetters. They may also be telling their friends, "Hey this is the product to get." So we focus quite a bit there.
To give you an opposite extreme, I was just in Jakarta two weeks ago, and in Jakarta people are just getting 3G data networks. They are just beginning to have data access. They are just beginning to afford their first smartphone. In a market like that, it may be an Asha product focused on someone quite young. The next billion people who are going to connect to the Internet tend to be people who are 17, 18, 20 years old who are just beginning to get to the point where they can afford it.
Wired: In the U.S., somebody can walk into an Apple store and have an amazing retail experience. But since Nokia's Lumia line...
Elop: They aren't in the Apple store. [laughs]
Wired: Right, they are going to be at carriers where customers aren't necessarily having the best experiences. How do you make sure that the customer is still having a good experience with Nokia even though it's through these carriers?
Elop: It takes a lot of investment. So when we think about where we spend our dollars, money set aside to launch a product, there is a disproportionate share dedicated to training the retail sales associates in the stores. We have to make sure the presentation of devices is well done, to make sure that we set things up so that, if you want to demonstrate low-light photography, you have some sort of special enclosure. And of course we'll create experiences like that in stores to help people experience this. It's an area that gets a lot of investment.
It's also the case that some of the senior executives from some of the U.S. operators are saying that there is a need for a third ecosystem. You've got Apple. You've got Android. We need this third one, which means there's some special emphasis and support given so that we have access to the sales people, so we can put devices in their hands so that they can experience it. And all of that helps quite a bit. My experience is that as we've made more and more investments in training of retail people working with the operators, and the experience has improved quite a bit. We are going to keep doing that.
Wired: In terms of timing, you announced the Lumia line prior to the iPhone announcement. But now the iPhone is available and the Lumia line isn't. Do you think that puts Windows Phone at a disadvantage?
Elop: The most important thing we wanted to accomplish with the timing of when we first introduced these devices is we wanted to establish in the eyes of the consumer, in the tech press, and so forth that as we go into the Christmas season, there's a range of devices that should be considered together. The iPhone is clearly one of those. Samsung has the Galaxy S III.
What makes me feel very good is that, as I look at how people are looking at the Christmas season of devices, the Lumia 920 is side-by-side with those devices and being compared very favorably to them. Of course I always want a device to be available sooner, but they're available when they're ready to be available, so that's a constraint we live with. Nonetheless, the timing of the announcement was very deliberate to make sure, as all of you wrote stories [about the] ones to watch, that we were in that conversation.
Wired: You've said in the past that Nokia wants to push the whole Windows Phone ecosystem forward. Where do you see Nokia standing in that Ecosystem, which includes competitors like HTC and Samsung? You have been a lead partner with Microsoft, but Microsoft recently called HTC's new phones "signature" Windows Phones?
Elop: I think it's ambiguous, because, of course, any one of us could have called our phones Windows Phones. The Windows Phone promise is a certain experience in terms of the operating system it carries. The reason that we continue with the name Lumia is that Lumia stands for something more. It's based on Windows Phone, but whether it's wireless charging, photography, location-based services, unique applications, there's a whole collection of capabilities that are beyond the standard Windows Phone product that you see from the other vendors. We very deliberately have made more investments than anyone else. We have worked more closely with Microsoft to even accomplish these things, and that's the point. Yes, we could have called our devices Windows Phone 920 or whatever, but we felt it was important to say that we stand for something a step above. And that the Nokia brand stands for something quite unique, so we're proud to do that.
Wired: Apple clearly had a blunder with its Maps app. Is there any opportunity for Nokia there?
Elop: I think that the most important thing is to deliver great experiences to consumers. On the Lumia devices the mapping and navigation experience is fantastic. At the same time, one of the recommendations from Apple was to take advantage of the Nokia mapping capability that is already available on an iPhone through the Safari browser. There's a nice little tutorial on Apple.com about how to capture that and make a Nokia icon and everything. I think that's good.
But our strategy here on location-based services is, in fact, to be a horizontal provider – whether it is someone wanting to use it on iOS or Amazon or a Kindle Fire product, or whether it's Oracle wanting to use it in the context of business applications ... The more people use a platforms, the better it gets. So we're very encouraging of people using our platform wherever we can help out.
Wired: Did you know that Microsoft was going to prohibit previous Lumia devices like the 900 and 800 from upgrading to Windows Phone 8? How does Windows Phone move forward with upgrades? Is it going to be as fragmented as it appears to be now?
Elop: The challenge in the technology world is as specific new hardware is invented and made available, there are certain things that you just can't carry forward. That is always the case from a technology perspective. We understood that. We knew all along that it was to everyone's advantage to advance the Windows Phone platform ... What we've deliberately done with Microsoft is to say that, at the same time that you have to make big steps forward with the platform, you have to continue to provide great support and innovation to existing products. So while we're talking about Windows Phone 8, we're also talking about how we can bring key Windows Phone 8 experiences to the Windows Phone 7 environment, like the Start Screen experience. We've introduced a number of new features and capabilities to these devices.
Nokia has a long history of advancing platforms, just as Microsoft does. But it's important that we continue to invest in the older platforms. Our promise to consumers is to continue to do the very best we can to invest in devices.
Wired: So Windows Phone will not be as fragmented as Android.
Elop: No. I think that's safe to say. While there are many open aspects to the APIs and SDKs, and you can build all sort of applications on it, we are deliberately, with Microsoft, maintaining some degree of control over what happens. If you think about the three ecosystems, with Apple being the most tightly controlled and Android being fragmented heavily and going all sorts of different directions, what we're doing with Microsoft is somewhere in the middle. There's quite a bit more control but also quite a bit of flexibility with multiple hardware providers involved.
Wired: The tagline of the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 announcement was "Switch to Lumia." Why somebody would actually make the switch from, say, an iPhone to a Windows Phone. Features? Pricing?
Elop: I think you don't start at all in these markets with a pricing proposition. Starting with "because it's cheaper" is not a good approach. You have to lead with how it's better or differentiated or is going to allow you to do certain things that you haven't been able to do before. So I use the example a lot of low-light photography. Go to that rock concert or go to your kid's band performance and try to take a great picture. I can tell you on your iPhone in your bag, there are hundreds of pictures that are a bit blurry or a bit crappy. That's been a problem for all of us in the smartphone industry, but it's a problem we've solved with the 920.
Location-based services, navigation, so forth – that's become even more topical because of the challenges with iOS 6. But Nokia has had a long history, whether it's in public transport, walking, by car, to find the things that you want around you. And getting there is easier with our devices.
And of course the user experience of the Window Phone 8 environment. Just looking at this screen – whether it's what's going on with my family, work colleagues, other people I know, or what people are saying about me – all of this is coming alive on my device. If you look at the other devices and ask, "How do I feel about this?" OK there's a static grid of application icons that's good for a while, but all of a sudden I can do so much more. Those are the messages that we have to get in front of people. If they see that, then it will be time to switch.
Wired: How much of a role does the Asha line play in overall business goals?
Elop: As a company we think of ourselves as having five distinct businesses. Smartphones are very topical, but there are four other businesses at Nokia.
Mobile phones [like the Asha line] are really important because we have 30 percent market share. It's profitable; it generates cash and helps us to invest in other areas.
Second business is location-based services, where companies like Oracle and Amazon pay us money to take advantage of our location based services. Nine out of ten cars, if they location based services, are somehow paying Nokia.
The third is Nokia Siemens network, this is our joint partnership with Siemens. The telecommunications equipment business is a tough market, and it's been very problematic over the years. But it went profitable for the first time last quarter and has generated cash for the last three quarters. And we've provided guidance that says it gets better from here, so that's good.
And the fourth is patents and intellectual property. And more so today even than a year ago or two years ago the importance of having one of the strongest patent portfolios in the market is very, very, very clear. And that's something that we monetize in various ways. We use it to protect our inventions. We use them on an offensive basis if people are using our innovations without paying for them.
When you look at Nokia overall, there's five businesses, four of which are improving or generating cash or doing the right thing, while one of them [smartphones] is an area of very deliberate, very specific investments to show off our best work and break into markets like the U.S., where we've been less than present for some time.
Wired: You spoke a little bit about future technologies. Where do you see Nokia in five years?
Elop: I would say that the unifying thing is [holds up Lumia 920], "What is this thing?" We're used to calling them phones, but the amount of time that I spend using it as a phone is just a fraction of the total amount of time that I use it. It's really a collection of sensors. It's got two cameras, a microphone, a compass, an accelerometer. The future of this technology, we think, is about great products that sense what you're doing and what's going on in the world around you, and thereby allow you to have a new or different experience, because what you're seeing in the real world is connecting with the virtual world.
That may mean something we call a phone, it may be something entirely different. But that concept of mobility and connecting those worlds together all through great sensor technology is going to be really important. There's a lot of opportunity there.
Wired: Do you see Nokia going into other product lines, like tablets or TVs? You're talking about these sensors and obviously they can be applied to many different types of devices. Is that something in Nokia's future?
Elop: We haven't announced anything specifically, but what I will say is that people in their digital experience expect to be able to move seamlessly between form factors like a phone, a tablet, a television, an automobile, on and on and on. So we'll participate in different elements of that to a greater or lesser extent. But the ecosystem in which we're involved, we've got to be a part of a world where people are experiencing all of those things. Everything's got to hang together. So yes, there's a lot of opportunity there.
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Ok, so she's hardly Yoko Ono, but Zooey Deschanel might have ruined Death Cab For Cutie. Well, that's not fair. They're not ruined, as such, but they're certainly bruised, a little bloodied perhaps. One eye doesn't work so good. They walk with a hobble.
The last album we heard from them, 2008's Narrow Stairs, was a deceptively melancholic affair, its sound an understated snarl taking in obsession, death, loneliness and falling apart. Hardly untouched themes, admittedly, but vocalist Ben Gibbard had a knack for rendering even the most worn sentiments into something that could resonate, his lyrics a barbed rejoinder to the happily-ever-after myths mushed throughout our culture.
So what went wrong? Deschanel. She snared the singer, sapping him, like Delilah, of his bitterness and rage. Made him – spits – happy. And as everyone knows, artists should never be happy.
Happiness is what leads to 'Stay Young, Go Dancing', Codes and Keys' closing track. It is, presumably, the reason for choruses that profess "when she sings I hear a symphony", for the line "with her song in your heart it can never bring you down." There's a game to be played here, cross-fading quickly between this song and its Narrow Stairs equivalent, from "life is sweet" back to the latter's "we buried our love in a wintery grave". Try it: see how long you can last, swinging wildly between emotional extremes before the blood starts trickling from an ear.
Certainly that would make for a more memorable experience than the majority of this album. No lie: Codes and Keys was on loop from Brighton to Cardiff and back again and, bar two tracks, it barely formed a memory, the empty, lifeless landscape between Reading and Bristol a perfect complement for an album so doggedly middling that it barely even strives to make an impression.
No, again that's not right. It's very clearly striving, and that's part of the issue. The production is immaculate throughout, the musicianship sterling, new sounds ranging from the electronic patter underpinning opener 'Home Is A Fire' to the pitch-bending strings on the title track and the hints of brass near the close of 'Under The Sycamore'. And yet for all the effort it all sounds too antiseptic, like the product of a focus group for anodyne indie. Little wonder the band provided the key track to the second Twilight movie, that twenty-first century yardstick for mediocrity. But even 'Meet Me On the Equinox' had, if not quite a heart, then at least an edge of darkness, a hint of something deeper nesting beneath its chiming guitars and production sheen. Despite an abundance of textures Codes and Keys seems somehow sparse, empty calories around a hollow centre. Perhaps it's the emphasis upon the synths, the move away from Chris Walla's guitar towards a more programmed sound, calculated and controlled and shorn of the rather less fettered bursts that lent 'Bixby Canyon Bridge' its bite.
There are exceptions. On the understated, gradual build of 'Unobstructed Views', its throbbing bass and minimalist piano is actually afforded the space to grow, to transcend its mawkish vocals to feel like something of substance, emotion lurking in its recesses. And the penultimate 'St Peter's Cathedral' is outstanding: a single tolling note rising to a colossal swell, sheets of metallic noise clashing beneath Gibbard's echoed assertions on a fictitious afterlife that almost, almost justifies the album price alone. "There's nothing past this", he sings, again and again, until it seems as though he's right and it doesn't matter: that the swell should keep on rising, suffusing and suffocating and filling every space.
But then it ends and the track changes and Gibbard's back singing a matinee jaunt about the sweetness of life, and blood's leaking from the ear at how jarring it all is, how sad that a band that can etch out shadows so skillfully have lurched into the light, losing their definition in the haze.


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Don't you love when packages arrive in the mail? I do. So you can all understand my excitement when a package arrived today… with new shoes!
I'm a size 14, and buying shoes can be a pain in the ass. A lot of retailers don't stock shoes above Men's size 13. Some do, but their inventory is spotty. The whole affair is rather hit-or-miss, so I end up buying a lot of my shoes online. Sure, I could go to a Big & Tall store, but their selection always sucks, is never very youthful, and, oh yeah, I refuse to step foot in another Big & Tall store again.
Here are the shoes that arrived today – I love 'em!
They're the Breakr 2, made by Warrior. Warrior is a Michigan-based subsidiary of New Balance that primarily sells lacrosse equipment and gear. Now, I don't know the first thing about lacrosse – I've never played, never seen it played, and if you put a lacrosse stick in my hand, I'd probably go try to catch a butterfly or something. But they recently started branching out and selling training shoes, and last year, when I was looking around at a bunch of companies and websites looking for gym shoes, I ended up buying a pair of Warriors. They were comfortable and provided good support, so I thought of them again when those shoes wore out.
Here they are on my feet:
Here's their online store, so you can look around at Warrior's selection. I recommend them, and a lot of their shoes are on sale right now!
Moving on…
Time to catch up with my exercise regimen. It's been about a week and a half since the last time I ran down what I've been doing to work out, so I've got some catching up to do. Normally I work backwards, chronologically, but this time I'll switch it up and start where I left off.
Saturday, 2/26: Normally I'd take Richard's class at Slimmons on Saturday morning, but I had an appointment, so I couldn't. Instead, first thing in the morning, I hopped on the bike in the little gym in my building and rode for 50 minutes.
Sunday, 2/27: I met up with my friend Amy, and went for a lovely, long run – 5 miles in 60 minutes – which is fully documented here.
Monday, 2/28: Elliptical, 60 minutes, at the gym.
Tuesday, 3/1: Took a class with Sherri at Slimmons. She was subbing for Richard, who was in New Zealand for the week.
Wednesday, 3/2: Went to the pool. In total, I swam 2,750 yards in 65 minutes. You can see how the yardage breaks down here (scroll down a little bit).
Thursday, 3/3: My most successful run to date! In a cemetery! 5.4 miles in 57 minutes. Lots of details and pics here.
Friday, 3/4: Worked out in the little gym in my building: 15 min of free weights, 45 min on exercise bike, 15 min of abs/push-ups. Then, I did the photo shoot with Mike, which ended up involving about an hour of hiking to and from the burned-out bridge location, so that ended up being a nice bonus workout.
Saturday, 3/5: My birthday! Went to Slimmons, where Anne was subbing for Richard, who was still in New Zealand. More on Anne's challenging class here.
Sunday, 3/6: REST DAY. My first in 11 days.
Monday, 3/7: REST DAY. Didn't plan on this being a rest day – I wanted to go to the gym, but I just never made it.
Tuesday, 3/8: Boot Camp class with Craig Ramsay. Tough. Lots of lunges, push-ups, Romanian deadlifts (first time doing these, ever), and bicep curls while in lunge positions. Ugh, my muscles ache just thinking about it! Craig kicks my ass every time, and it's pretty fantastic.
Wednesday, 3/9: Craig recommended I stick to just cardio today, and I followed his suggestion. He asked in class what type of cardio was hardest for me, and I said StairMaster, so he suggested (naturally) that I do 20 minutes on StairMaster, level 5, and then 20 minutes on the treadmill, with a 15% incline. I decided to really push myself today, so I used Craig's suggestions as a starting off point.
On the StairMaster, I started at level 5, and then 3 minutes in, I switched to doing double steps instead of single steps. At 9 minutes in, I upped it to level 6, and at 14 minutes in, I upped it to 7, and for the final 3 minutes, I upped it to level 8, while doing double steps the whole time. In total, 275 calories burned.
On the treadmill, Craig suggested 15% incline, and a speed at 3.2, which I did for the first 5 minutes. Then, every 5 minutes, I bumped it up .1 mph, so by the end of the 20 minutes, I was up to 3.5 mph. In total, 75 calories burned.
Then, just because I was feeling good, I jumped on the arc trainer, and put in 20 minutes, slowly upping the resistance and incline the whole time. In total, 410 calories burned, which makes for a grand total for the day of 760 calories.
OH – and I nearly forgot: those 20 minutes on the StairMaster equaled 75 flights, which is the same as the JPMorgan Chase Tower in Houston. This skyscraper holds a couple records: It's the tallest building in Texas, and the tallest 5-sided building in the world:
Yep, I climbed the equivalent of that today!
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Gwyneth Paltrow and J.Lo were seen riding in a subway car across from each other either by accident or on purpose on the subway between Wainscott and East Hampton Tuesday. Justin Bieber was seen between East Hampton and Montauk on Saturday night at 11 p.m. heading east. Someone who looked a lot like Leonardo DiCaprio was seen leaning against the platform newsstand at the Hampton Bays station on Thursday. Tony Walton was seen heading to East Hampton from Bridgehampton on Friday. Three Vladimirs were seen on the subway this past week. They were Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, Vladimir Nabokov, the novelist and Wladimir Klitschko, the famous Ukrainian prize fighter.
We're having a subway car naming contest! Submit your proposed name for one of the 38 cars we have on the system. Drop your suggestion in the suggestion box on the wall by the turnstiles at any platform, and indicate which car should bear the name you are suggesting. The cars are numbered 5 through 29, then 31 to 44. We don't know why. We asked Commissioner Aspinall what he would suggest, and he asked his kids for suggestions. His 5- year-old daughter Angela suggested "The Little Engine that Could." His 11-year-old son Bart suggested "The Terminator." This is no fooling. When you get on a commercial airliner, it has a name. It's there right under the pilot's window. "Cloud Jumper." Or "Duchess of the Skies." Or "Soaring American Eagle." But none are suitable for a subway car.
As a special treat for subway riders, Mr. Aspinall has arranged for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to come to the platform at the Southampton stop on Thursday at noon to perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's famous 1812 Overture. The orchestra will take up the entire platform so those wishing to hear it must stay up on the street where the music will be piped up by loudspeaker. The performance ends with the earsplitting sound of a cannon being fired. No trains will be stopping at the Southampton station between 11:45 a.m. and 1 p.m. so as to allow the performers to take their instruments, music stands and folding chairs up the escalator to the waiting busses afterwards.
The Bridgehampton Council is considering asking that the entrance to the Bridgehampton subway stop be moved from the sidewalk in front of the Candy Kitchen to the parking lot in the back. It's too tempting for the children to resist going in for an ice cream after the frightening bumpy ride from wherever, which we're currently working on fixing.
Hampton Subway's annual report was issued to the stockholders last week. If you are a stockholder but didn't get one, call our office. If you are not a stockholder but did get one, please return it to our office unopened.
Hampton Subway wants to know what YOU think. If you have any suggestions, just get up on the bench in any subway car and shout it into the surveillance camera just below the ceiling in every car. This will save a lot of work and energy, as we will not have to unlock the suggestion boxes on all the platforms every day, remove what's in them, take them to headquarters, sort them out, make up a report and file them.


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Andesa Services, Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive, integrated policy administration, plan administration and support solutions for life insurance and annuity carriers and producers, is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2013.
Formed in 1983 as The Andesa Companies, the firm was a pioneer in the COLI/BOLI industry. Andesa TPA became an independent company in 1989, and merged with plan administration leader ADASTAR ™, LLC, in 2003. Andesa TPA formally became Andesa Services, Inc., in 2004.
Since its inception, Andesa Services has combined its focus on unparalleled customer service with unwavering core principles set forth by its founder John E. Walker.
"From the very beginning, we at Andesa have understood that high ethical standards are critical to the creation of a great firm. In fact, I think of Andesa as a firm which has a soul. To say that a firm has a soul, is to say that it has incorporated into its operating procedures strong core values, which, for us includes honesty, respect, integrity, responsibility, courage and initiative. I believe that Andesa's success in our first 30 years is borne from these values and will continue to be the driving force into our future."
Today, Andesa Services provides comprehensive, integrated policy administration, plan administration and support solutions for the life insurance and annuity marketplace. The company's software as a solution (SaaS) offerings include cloud-based administration services for any type of product or block, all fully integrated with illustration and reporting tools and backed by three decades of proven, practical industry experience.
"Andesa began 30 years ago as a small company focused on providing solutions in the COLI/BOLI space," company President and CEO Ron Scheese said. "We've since grown into a leader in the industry. I'm proud to be a part of an organization that has such a storied history and value structure – one that has stood the test of time. I'm confident that our commitment to attracting and developing our staff, solving problems for our clients and continuously innovating and improving our technology will allow us to continue to grow over the next 30 years – and beyond."
About Andesa Services
Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2013, Andesa Services has been a consistent leader in quality, highly efficient, integrated marketing and administrative solutions for life insurance and annuity companies and their distributors. Seven of the top 13 U.S. life insurance companies – as well as a number of the largest brokerage firms in the country – use Andesa's suite of services to deliver superior policy administration, plan administration, reporting and illustration solutions. Andesa's client-centric solutions combine a unique ASP/TPA business model with a modern technology blueprint and exceptionally knowledgeable insurance professionals in support of open and closed blocks of individual and group insurance. To learn more about Andesa, visit https://andesaservices.com/.


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Or one of her jobs, at least. The founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies sold her famous baking business to investors in 1993, but she's still the spokesperson for the company and one of the most recognizable women entrepreneurs in the world. Fields' story of how she took her personal recipe and turned it into a multibillion-dollar business is nearly as irresistible as her cookies. As a result, she is in high demand as a motivational speaker for business groups and philanthropies.
Fields has said that she recalled her company's motto, "Good Enough Never Is," when it came to starting her career in public speaking. "The idea of getting in front of a group, not as Mrs. Fields but really as Debbi, made my knees shake, and I'd get all dry-mouthed," she said. She joined Toastmasters International to help her feel more comfortable about speaking in front of large audiences, and received its prestigious Golden Gavel award in 2003.
This 2008 talk for the Council of Smaller Enterprises is Fields' signature motivational speech, in which she pairs scenes from her life with lessons learned for her business. It's a particularly good approach for this audience of small business owners, who understand how the personal and professional inevitably blend. "When I go to people's homes I'm still always toting my cookies that I made from scratch because it makes me happy," Fields says toward the end of the speech. "And so, for me, I'm just a believer that every day is grand opening day."
Just like the counter at a Mrs. Fields shop, we'll offer a few free samples here to whet your appetite for more.
- Step away from the stove. Fields breezes right past the lectern after her introduction, and remains pacing the stage during her entire talk. She gestures constantly and generally has a high energy style of speaking that probably wouldn't fare as well if she had to stand in one spot. Not everyone likes or benefits from this sort of speaking style, but it's something to experiment with if you think it might work for you. And if this is your speaking style, be sure to check out your venues ahead of time and speak with organizers to see if they will have the space and equipment to accommodate this type of talk.
- Don't be afraid to throw out a bad batch. For a speech about being an entrepreneur superstar, Fields sure does share a lot of her failures, often in painful and funny detail. I winced when she recalled how her husband's client tossed a dictionary at her after she said "orientated." But it's the kind of detail that makes the story of her success that much sweeter when it happens. And as a motivational technique, it provides a clear path--from days of aspiration to days of accomplishment--that her listeners can recognize.
- Nutritious bites aren't a bad idea. A motivational speech doesn't have to be all about platitudes and slogans about passion and belief. Yes, there's plenty of those things in this speech, but Fields also offers practical advice for entrepreneurs on how to implement day-to-day financial goals and evaluate the return on foot traffic. (The company's pioneering use of software to streamline ordering, hiring and store operations is the subject of a Harvard Business Review case study.) Most motivational speakers can deliver the sweet nothings, but these specific insights make her a uniquely memorable and useful speaker for her audience.
(Editor's note: Regular contributor and freelance writer Becky Ham penned this entry in our Famous Speech Friday series.)


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I had the pleasure to be one of the guest speakers at the International Woman's Day breakfast organised by "The Federation of Finnish Technology Industries".
As I was speaking on that special day, I chose this topic "Woman, networking and the social technology". I started my presentation by making a confession: about five years ago I was pretty close to becoming a software business professional who enjoys a good flow, best practices and nice control, meaning I was stuck in my comfort zone.
I had a great team, processes in place, supporting tools implemented, and lots of ideas. I lived in a lovely illusion of control. Indeed it was working well at the time, but now afterwards it's easy to say that for a little bit too long I overlooked one thing: huge, disruptive changes that were already in sight.
Luckily I was curious enough and started to follow some of the trends, mostly via research articles and blogosphere: cloud computing, social media and mobility. It soon started my personal transformation process: I realised that I needed urgently to both unlearn and learn.
The topics I briefly covered in my speech were Social Business, Networking 2.0, the power balance between the organisational units, and the triangle of "People, Process, Technology." And finally, the role women have in the social business context.
Here's a short summary of the key topics of my speech.
Networking 2.0
Inspired by my friend Harri Lakkala's dichotomy Leader 1.0 & 2.0, I composed a simple comparison of Networker 1.0 & 2.0. Here we go:
Networker 1.0
- Internally networked, sharing knowledge carefully thinking what can/cannot be shared, choices often led by the process and strict professional roles
- Externally networked via traditional ways, as e.g. participating in conferences home and abroad
- The verb to describe interaction is 'to exchange' knowledge, meaning "if I give you this piece of information, you'll give me that information"
- Heavy carbon footprint (lots of flying and red wine included in the network building)
Networker 2.0
- Internally and externally networked, via a combination of the traditional, digital and social channels and means
- Active sharing inside firewall, over the organisation silos. More holistic view on the value creation. Externally embracing serendipity by being active and open in various communities.
- The verbs to describe interaction is 'to share and give', sharing knowledge in an altruistic manner, receiving and finding information and knowledge from unexpected directions. Genuine collaboration.
- Instead of heavy carbon footprint, Networking 2.0 creates a heavy digital footprint which further enhances the possibilities
My message for the audience was this:
For a knowledge worker, it is no longer enough to be a good team player, you have to be a good network player.
Collaboration is the new black and as professionals we need to have both new kinds of skills and more open attitude. "Knowledge alone does no longer give you the power, sharing of knowledge does", as my friend Teemu Arina says.
Social technology and Innovation
Social technology is an essential enabler for the comprehensive, almost limitless networking and collaboration. Serendipity boosted, open networking is a must for a vivid idea flow and further for innovation. I just cannot believe that the traditional way of having brainstorming sessions with the same people, in the same meeting room, using the same methods, leads to shiny ideas and sparkling innovations.
On the personal level we need better muscles for curiosity, listening, openness, and 'go over the borders and outside of your comfort zone' attitude. The edges are fruitful places for the innovation and also for supporting a better common understanding. The "Power of Pull" thinking (by John Hagel, Lang Davison & John Seely Brown) is one of my favorites.
Additionally, to cope with this change, we need higher tolerance for ambiguity. The networked business environment is increasingly complex, sometimes even a bit chaotic. Some of us have a high need to structure information in order to minimize ambiguity, while others can process many ideas and thoughts simultaneously. I believe we need more of the latter. I have earlier blogged about this topic, "Systems Intelligence, Serendipity and Listening for the Better Decisions".
What does the new kind of networking and social technology has to do with women?
That was the final question I chose cover in my speech. Out of the support functions in organizations, women are usually well represented in the Human Resources (actually I'd like to call it for Human Capital), Corporate Communications and Marketing. Unluckily these three functions are often in competition about who 'owns' social media initiatives and projects. And if you add the IT department to this palette, misunderstandings and inefficiencies are easy to create.
One reason for the poor situation is the unequal power balance between departments when it comes to decision-making in the social business initiatives. This must be changed. The HR department is too often a "Careful Out There Department", meaning they are too insecure and scared to take the lead in the social technology initiatives. Also way too many times I have seen that the so-called 'power departments' as Legal and IT, stop or slow down the social initiatives started by Communications and Marketing.
The reasons are often related to the data security. Of course security is an important issue, but too often that is used as a bad excuse. The real reasons are confusion and lack of knowledge, hesitance to learn what social business is about, narrow silo perspective meaning not seeing the big picture, and strong professional roles that restrict your thinking.
What I wish to see is more healthy approach to risks and control. We need to have a better balance between risk-taking and the possibilities. If you aim at zero risks, you narrow down your possibilities as well.
My wish is that women would embrace the social technology in the sense of opening wider possibilities and developing new skills. Understanding the technology, networking and people skills have a central role in the social business design thinking. If the organizational and social change is led by the technologists alone, the results will be formed accordingly.
We should focus more on possibilities and opportunities, rather than worry about the loss of 100% control.
My message is especially targeted for all the talented HR women. You have the notion 'human' in everything you do now, and that is desperately needed in the on-going change. You should take one of the leading positions now: don't stand by, take the lead.
Time for de-centralised and humanised IT
New technology, the cloud-enabled new platforms for serendipitous encounters, lead not only to new kind of innovation and leadership, but also to new kind of organisational structures. Away from the silos, forward to co-creation and building of trust-based relationships, both internally and externally.
Dion Hinchcliffe of Dachis Group speaks for decentralized IT support and says:
"It now seems more likely that the transformation to social business is going to significantly rewire the org chart. […] the urgency and tech-centricity of digital engagement is creating an irresistible need for strong technical and implementation leadership under not just within marketing, but other key business functions as well. Just not in the faraway centralized support group represented by traditional IT."
Quite an interesting vision. Dion Hinchcliffe further explains:
"So, to my mind, this is the coming decentralization of IT that I've been predicted will be the inevitable consequence of 1) nearly everything becoming digital, social, mobile, etc. and 2) much savvier workers that can and will feel more comfortable locally enabling new IT that works best for their part of the business."
I had the pleasure of meeting one of Dion's colleagues Lee Bryant while he was recently visiting Finland. He gave us an excellent speech about Social Business with many great insights on organisational change. He also described the "one-size fits all, top-down, command & control, no choice" type of corporate IT services, and he said something that stuck in to my mind:
Corporate IT is ripe for re-invention and humanisation.
Humanisation, what a big lovely word.
But here's a word of comfort for IT professionals. I do know that there are lots of IT people who are awake and understand that the social change must be on the top of the minds of IT leaders. There has been a discussion about "People, Process, Tools" triangle for a long time, where the people part is getting a lot of attention.
The next discussion topic will be more social IT. Already seeing signs of it. And I am sure more social IT will result in less hated IT as well.
Naturally, we need humanisation of all business units, not only IT, in order to cope with the disruptive technological and social change.
Social Business, Trust and Social Capital
Dachis Group describe Social Business Design as follows:
The intentional creation of dynamic and socially calibrated systems, process, and culture.
They further state that "technology, society, and work are all changing at breakneck speeds, but businesses are not keeping pace. When these emerging trends work together, they call for a new kind of business – one that is distributed, collaborative, agile, and better positioned to succeed."
Well put. They know what they are speaking about.
I'd like to add a short discussion of my favorite aspect of social business: trust.
I do believe that successful social business must be built on trust. Social Business is about collaboration, engagement, sharing knowledge and experiences, capturing tacit knowledge, creating value, and with all this enhancing creativity, productivity, and innovation. Therefore I often use the notion of trust-based collaboration (with some inspiration from John Hagel). The fruitful network of relationships can be based on acknowledging, helping, and appreciation of the people you meet and work with which in turn create trust between individuals.
Trust is a powerful fuel for the relationships between employees, leaders, organisations, departments, and of all social interactions. And social technology is a key enabler in this.
A recent Fast Company article "Community Revival: How Technology Is Reconstructing Our Shared Lives" said:
"Modern day social capital is increasingly associated with technology-facilitated trust."
Such a brilliant crystallisation. Social technology enabled social communities are the true leverage points of the cultural transformation, both inside and outside of the organisation, between the organisations, individuals, and even nations.
Success, growth of social capital and trust can be built on this.
Thank you all of you who attended the Woman's Day event with me and our lovely hosts, Jukka Viitasaari, Teemu Arina, and Sam Inkinen!
Related reading:
Dion Hinchcliffe: The architecture of Social Business
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Taking the basic idea of learning a list of words using standard look, cover, write, check, these playful spelling apps build confidence and capability without pressure.
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
Customer ratings: (1 ratings)
Category: Education, Entertainment
Languages: English
Rated: 4+
A great way to improve your spelling – carefully matched to the National Curriculum word lists.
Looking for a really thorough and easy way to improve your child's spelling and help them prepare for the SATs tests in school?
The Andrew Brodie Let's Do Spelling App features the tried and tested 'learn, write, check' approach plus hundreds of sentences for practising spelling in context. Carefully matched to the National Curriculum word lists and with three levels of difficulty, this app will help your child consolidate their spelling skills and gear them up for the weekly spelling tests in school. You can even devise your own test based on words your child frequently gets wrong. Or why not get them to record their own test and try it on friends and family?
With clear audio and lots of opportunities to practise words in context, this app should help your child improve their spelling before your eyes. You can check progress at every stage and find out how many tests have been taken, how well your child has got on and discover the hardest words they are learning to spell.
'The App is child friendly, engaging and supports the teaching of national curriculum spelling rules. A must have app for primary school teachers and children.'
Year 6 Teacher, Computing Manager
Activities include:
- Quick quizzes of 10 quick fire sentences with words in context
- Devise your own quiz to test friends and family
- Practise spellings using learn, write, check
- Progress tests to see if there are any gaps in your knowledge
For Teachers
Find the technique that works for the children in your class and watch their spelling improve day by day. Carefully matched to the National Curriculum and with three levels of difficulty, this app is ideal preparation for the SPAG tests in May.
Look out for other great Apps in the Andrew Brodie Basics series!
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- Various bug fixes
- Updated for recent devices
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I just started reading Lambek and Scott's book "Introduction to higher-order categorical logic".
Right now I am reading Part I, section 5 (Polynomial categories). They explain two ways of adjoining an inderterminate arrow $x : A_0 \to A$ to a category $\mathcal{A}$ (called $\mathcal{A}[x]$):
- Take the underlying graph of $\mathcal{A}$ adjoin $x : A_0 \to A$ to it, and then form the cartesian closed category freely generated by the new graph.
- "Equivalently"; form a deductive system (some kind of graph) with objects as the objects of $\mathcal{A}$ and arrows freely generated from the arrows of $\mathcal{A}$ and the new arrow $x : A_0 \to A$, using the application, "initial arrow", pairing, projections, eval and currying, and then they impose the appropiate equations of a CCC and those of $\mathcal{A}$.
I don't see these constructions are infact equivalent. For example, suppose I have two objects $A$ and $B$ in $\mathcal{A}$. Using the construction 1, you end up with two forms of $A^B$ in $\mathcal{A}[x]$: the original one (already avaiable in $\mathcal{A}$) and the one generated freely. Using construction 2, I think you end up with only one form of $A^B$: the original one.
Why do they mean by equivalently? That those categories are equivalent? What's the standard way of constructing this category theory?


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In this article we will take you through the basics of using HTML to markup the content within the body of your document.
We will look at general structural elements such as headings and paragraphs and embedding quotes and code. After that we will look at inline content, such as short quotes and emphasis, and finish with a quick examination of old-fashioned presentational content.
Note: You can view all the examples in this article running live.
Space—the final frontier
An important point to cover before I start discussing text, though, is that of space, specifically the space between words. When writing HTML, the source document will contain what is termed "white space" — the characters in the file that serve to separate text. An actual space character, as you would get when you hit the Spacebar on the keyboard is the most common, but there are others such as the Tab character and the marker between two separate lines in a document (called a carriage return or new line).
In HTML, multiple occurrences of these characters are (almost) always treated as a single space character. For example:

In the
would be interpreted by a web browser to be equivalent to:

In the beginning

The only place where this is not the case is in the
 element, which is discussed in detail later in this article.
This can be a source of confusion for first-time authors of an HTML document, who may try to pad out text with extra spaces to achieve a desired indentation, to get more spacing after the period between sentences or to introduce more vertical space between paragraphs. Influencing the visual layout of your documents is not something to be done in the HTML source, and is instead achieved via CSS, discussed later in the series.
Block level elements
In this section I'll go through the syntax and usage of the common block level elements used to format text.
Page section headings
Each part of your web content, whether you are talking about a web site, a single content block or an article, should be introduced by an appropriate heading.
HTML defines six levels of heading,
,
,
,
,
, and
 (from the highest importance to the lowest). Generally speaking, the
 would be the main heading of the entire page and introduce everything.
 is then used to break the page up into sections,
 the sub-sections, and so on.
It is important to use the heading levels to describe the document in terms of section, sub-section, sub-sub-section as this makes the document more understandable to screen readers and to automated processes (like Google's indexing bots).
A good example of a header structure, using this article as a template, would look like this:

Marking up textual content in HTML

Space — the final frontier

Block level elements

Page section headings

Generic paragraphs

Quoting other sources

Preformatted text

Inline elements

[…and so on…]
Generic paragraphs
The paragraph is the building block of most documents. In HTML a paragraph is represented by the
 element, which takes no special attributes. For example:

This is a very short paragraph. It only has two sentences.

A paragraph can contain just one sentence, but taking the literary meaning, further, you can't really call two words a paragraph. There is however no more suitable semantic element for marking up just two words of prose, so stick to the humble
 element even in these cases, unless it is in fact a list item, heading, link or similar, in which case there will be a more suitable element available.
Quoting other sources
Very often articles, blog posts, and reference documents will quote another document in whole or in part. In HTML, this is marked up using the
 element for lengthy quotations, such as entire sentences, paragraphs, lists, etc.
A
 element cannot contain text, but must instead have another block level element inside it. You should use the same block level element as was used in the original source you are quoting. If you are quoting a paragraph of text, use a paragraph; when quoting a list of items, use the elements for lists; and so on.
If the quote comes from another web page, you can indicate this using the cite attribute, like so:

HTML 4.01 is the only version of HTML that you should use
when creating a new web page, as, according to the

This document obsoletes previous versions of HTML 4.0,
although W3C will continue to make those specifications and
their DTDs available at the W3C Web site.

The cite attribute doesn't really do anything on its own, although it is useful to keep a record of where the quotes are taken from. You could just JavaScript to extract this information from the cite attribute and do something meaningful with it, like open a new tab with that page loaded in it, for example.
Preformatted text
Any case in which the formatting and white space (see earlier) needs to be preserved should be marked up using the
 element. In this example, you can see a snippet of code written in the Perl programming language:
# read in the named file in its entirety
sub slurp {
my $filename = shift;
my $file = new FileHandle $filename;
if ( defined $file ) {
local $/;
return <$file>;
return undef;
In most web browsers, text marked as preformatted will be displayed to the user as it appears in the source, sometimes using a fixed-width (monospaced) font, giving the text a feeling of having come from a typewriter. This is an artifact of programmers using fixed width fonts for early uses of preformatted text.
Note: The use of the  element above will be explained in the Lesser – known semantic elements article later on in the course.
Inline elements
In this section I'll go through the syntax and usage of the common inline elements used to format text.
Short quotations
Short quotes used within a normal sentence or paragraph are contained within the <q> element. Like the
 element, this can contain a cite attribute, which indicates the page on the internet where the quote can be found.
A short quote should normally be rendered with quotation marks around it. According to the HTML specification, these should be inserted by the user-agent so that they can be correctly nested and made aware of the language being used in the document.
An example of <q> in action:

This did not end well for me. Oh well,
<q lang="fr">c'est la vie</q> as the French say.

HTML contains four elements for indicating emphasis of some kind, such as important text like warnings, or subtle differences in meaning. For visual browsers this normally means applying a different colour, font or making the text bolder or italicised. For users of screen readers this can result in a different voice or other auditory effect.
For emphasis that subtly changes the meaning of a sentence, you use the  element, like so:

Please remember to unplug the kettle at night.

The  element used to mean italic in HTML4, and this was considered a bit naughty, as it was more of a presentational element than a semantic one (it just described what the element looked like, rather than what its meaning was – see below for more on these kinds of elements). HTML5 however redefines the meaning of , saying that it "represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, a thought, a ship name, or some other prose whose typical typographic presentation is italicised."
This does sound rather confusing, so here are some examples of where  would be appropriate:

As we sailed into port, we spied the Black Pearl moored at the dock.

Book: Living with a Diminutive Stature, Bruce Lawson, Peachpit Press,
published <time pubdate="2011-08-01″>1st August 2011</time>,
ISBN 999-0-388-99999-6

She really does add that little bit of je ne sais quoi.

The  element indicates strong importance for its contents: that they are more important than surrounding content. For example:

There are a total of twenty different species living inside this enclosure. Warning: Do not feed them: they will eat your shoes.

The  element again used to be frowned upon because it described the look of the content, not its meaning. HTML5 has therefore redefined this element too: it is now meant to markup content that is stylistically offset from the rest of the text, but no more important in terms of its meaning. So for example, consider the most significant words in a product review or document abstract. An example follows:

In this article, Chris Mills will show you how to combine HTML5, CSS3, coloured card
and string to create an attractive mobile for your child's bedroom.

Combining emphasis elements
You can combine and nest these different types of emphasis. For example, if an entire sentence was to be emphasised, but there was also a point within that sentence that was more important, you could use the  and elements together to indicate stronger emphasis than normal, like so:

Please note: the kettle must be unplugged every evening, otherwise it will explode –
killing us all.

Small print
Another element that was presentational and therefore naughty in HTML4, but that has been redefined in HTML5 is . It used to be a presentational element for making text appear smaller, but in HTML5 it is now used to mark up small print, such as legal restrictions, disclaimers, copyright notices, attribution statements, or licensing information. For example:

This content is released under a
Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license.

Telling the time
New to HTML5, the <time> element gives you a way to unambiguously markup any times and dates you include in your text, allowing you to display them however you want to your readers, whilst including a consistent ISO-formatted date that machines can read. Here's an example:

I was born on the <time datetime="1978-06-27″>27th June 1978</time>.

Because you can put whatever you want inbetween the opening and closing tags, you could write this any number of ways, while still keeping the date precise and machine readable:

<time datetime="1978-06-27″>June 27 1978 – my birthday</time>.

You can also add a time on to the date, appended to the end of the ISO-formatted string after a capital T, in 24 hour clock format:

<time datetime="1978-06-27T21:00″>9pm on my birthday</time>.

You can just specify the time if you want

<time datetime="21:00″>9pm</time>.

Although note that you can't currently specify a non-specific date, such as "August 2011" or "2011" – this is a bit limiting for say, museum web sites.
You can also add a number of seconds (after another colon), milliseconds (after a period) and a time zone offset (after a dash) after the time value. Check out the following:

<time datetime="1978-06-27T21:00:00.006-08:00″>9pm and 6 milliseconds
on my birthday, in Pacific standard time</time>.

Finally, you can also add a pubdate attribute to a <time> element, to specify that this datetime is the date and time that the particular piece of content was published:

Published on <time datetime="2011-07-20″ pubdate>July 27th 2011</time>.

Presentational elements — never use these
The HTML 4 specification includes several elements that are widely described as "presentational" because they only specify what the content within them should look like, and not what it means. Most of these have been removed in the HTML5 specification.
We will describe them briefly here, but note that this is mostly of historic interest — these elements should never be used in any modern web page, although they are still used in HTML e-mails, which follow a non-standard set of rules. The effect of all of these elements should be achieved in another way, such as using CSS.

The text within should be rendered by the browser using a font different from the default — instead, fonts should be set using CSS.
The text within has been struck-through with a line — if this is merely a presentational effect, this should be achieved with CSS. Alternatively, if the text is actually being marked as having been deleted or unwanted it should be marked up with the  element, described in Lesser – known semantic elements.
The text within has been underlined — this is almost always a visual effect, and so should be achieved with CSS.
The text within is presented in a "teletype" or monospaced font — this should be achieved with CSS or a more appropriate semantic element such as
 (a block level element), shown above, or , an inline element.
This makes the size of the text inside bigger — this should be achieved with CSS.
In this article, we have talked about some of the most common elements used when marking up textual content. In the next article, HTML lists, you will progress to another type of content: lists of items.


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On Wednesday, President Obama assured a Univision reporter that Ray Kelly, New York City's police commissioner, would make a fine leader for the Department of Homeland Security.
"Well, Ray Kelly has obviously done an extraordinary job in New York and the federal government partners a lot with New York, because obviously our concerns about terrorism oftentimes are focused on big city targets," he said. "And I think Ray Kelly is one of the best there is. So he's been an outstanding leader in New York. We've had an outstanding leader in Janet Napolitano at the Department of Homeland Security. It's a tough job. It's one of the toughest jobs in Washington. She's done an extraordinary job. We're sorry to see her go. But you know, we're going to have a bunch of strong candidates. Mr. Kelly might be very happy where he is. But if he's not I'd want to know about it. 'Cause you know, obviously he'd be very well qualified for the job."
Senator Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, has been lobbying on the NYPD commissioner's behalf. "Ray Kelly has extensive experience with anti-terrorism, with homeland security and he's run a very large organization, the NYPD, extremely well for over a decade," he said in a video release. "And so Ray Kelly would be a great choice for Secretary of Homeland Security." And John Avlon, the centrist executive editor of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, argued that Kelly should be appointed, and ought to have gotten this DHS job last time around.
This is extremely worrisome -- especially if you're a Muslim American.
Under Ray Kelly, the NYPD infiltrated Muslim communities and spied on hundreds or perhaps thousands of totally innocent Americans at mosques, colleges, and elsewhere. Officers "put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity," AP reported, citing NYPD documents. Informants were paid to bait Muslims into making inflammatory statements. The NYPD even conducted surveillance on Muslim Americans outside its jurisdiction, drawing a rebuke from an FBI field office, where a top official charged that "the department's surveillance of Muslims in the state has hindered investigations and created 'additional risks' in counterterrorism."
Moreover, "In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques," the Associated Press reported, "the New York Police Department's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation." The horrifying effects on innocent Americans are documented here. But despite the high costs and lack of counterterrorism benefits, Kelly stands behind the surveillance on Muslims.
To their discredit, many conservatives have suggested, going back to the September 11 attacks, that the government ought to ethnically profile Muslim Americans in the name of counterterrorism. Some even believe race-based profiling should be used in regular police work. A judge found that Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a right-wing populist, actively profiled Latinos in Arizona, but his actions in Maricopa County haven't come close to destroying his core of Republican support.
Democrats have historically vilified not just Joe Arpaio, but all proponents of racial and ethnic profiling. Then-Senator Barack Obama advocated on behalf of Russ Feingold's End Racial Profiling Act of 2007. On being elected president, an agenda promised, "Obama and Biden will ban racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies and provide federal incentives to state and local police departments to prohibit the practice." * Attorney General Eric Holder, another longtime critic of racial profiling, has worked to put the Department of Justice in a position to monitor Stop and Frisk, the controversial policing tactic that has a disparate impact on blacks and Latinos.
Yet here we are in 2013 watching the first black president and a prominent senator, both Democrats, along with centrist and center-left journalists, enthusiastically avow that a man who needlessly ethnically profiled and harassed the most vulnerable minority group in the United States would be an excellent choice to lead a sprawling national-security bureaucracy that has as big a capacity for violations of civil rights and civil liberties as any part of the government. If you were a Muslim American, would you want Kelly heading up homeland security?
Too bad for you, I guess.
Racial and ethnic profiling isn't a dealbreaker for Democratic elites anymore. A few Democratic congressmen are speaking up. But the Democratic establishment is largely fine with Kelly, just like they're mostly willing to extol the leadership of his boss, Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Of course, Democrats aren't about to praise, let alone elevate, someone like Arpaio, or to stop deeming his supporters racially unenlightened bigots. But don't let them tell you it's because Arpaio is guilty of racial profiling. So long as you have the right persona, come from the northeast, and refrain from attacking prominent Democrats, racial and ethnic profiling is tolerated.
Even rewarded.
On its own, Kelly's treatment of Muslims ought to disqualify him from the position, and even from being praised by the president of the United States. On its own, his treatment of blacks and Hispanics ought to disqualify him from being promoted, too. But his tenure has also been characterized by a dearth of transparency that has exacerbated his abuses. As Murray Weiss explains, "The lack of transparency during the Kelly administration played a pivotal role in keeping the public -- and by extension the NYPD -- from recognizing years earlier that the number of stop-and-frisks in New York was escalating to troubling levels. Kelly failed to disclose the stop-and-frisk numbers for seven years despite being required by law to do so. When he was finally forced to release them, the numbers were stunning, and caused critics to ask why stop-and-frisks escalated from 100,000 during Bloomberg's first year in office to 500,000 seven years later."
Although there's no reason to think Obama would be bothered by the quality, contempt for transparency obligations would be problematic in a DHS director -- as would Kelly's alarming treatment of an NYPD whistleblower. This American Life and the Village Voice both have exceptional accounts of the documented police misconduct that occurred during Kelly's tenure, and the intimidation tactics used on the whistleblower, including an attempt at involuntary commitment in a mental ward. If Kelly takes over DHS, can whistleblowers beneath him expect the same treatment?
The last couple of days, the press has been filled with denunciations of George Zimmerman for allegedly profiling Trayvon Martin; and denunciations of Washington Post columnists Richard Cohen and Kathleen Parker for their qualified defenses of that alleged profiling. I happen to agree that Zimmerman acted indefensibly, regardless of whether he was guilty of murder or profiling. I also disagree with both the Cohen and Parker columns, and I have no objection to seeing them criticized. But I grow increasingly frustrated by the media's approach to this issue. As my colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates observes, "You should not be deluded into thinking Richard Cohen an outlier. The most prominent advocate of profiling our current pariah classes -- black people and Muslim Americans -- is now being mentioned in conversations to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Those mentions received an endorsement from our president."
Chris Hayes is another lonely voice drawing this vital connection:
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But the prevailing coverage in the "mainstream media" suggests extreme comfort with ridiculing and shaming America's Zimmermans, Arpaios, and Cohens, as if racial profiling, or defending someone who does it, discredits a person -- but then deference when American's Bloombergs, Kellys, Schumers, and Obamas enable, implement, or excuse profiling, though the NYPD and DHS affect vulnerable minorities on a far bigger scale. Joseph Stalin supposedly said that one man's death is a tragedy, while a million deaths are a statistic, and so it goes here. Profiling one black man is treated as a travesty -- as it ought to be -- while profiling many thousands of Muslims, blacks, and Latinos is a statistic that in no way disqualifies a man from being put up for promotion and praised by the president of the United States.
Unless that changes -- until Kelly is as much an object of shaming as Zimmerman, and Obama as strongly criticized as Cohen -- racial and ethnic profiling will continue in America on an industrial scale. Stopping it requires criticizing the actual people who wield power in this country, not a media class that treads most lightly around the racial injustices that are the most serious.
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Remember scrunch socks? Parachute pants? Tons of hair spray? So 80's! As Coco Chanel once said, "Fashion is made to become unfashionable." And unfortunately, we are slowly seeing cupcakes becoming démodé. But not to worry! The latest fad on the street is doughnuts.
Doughnut can be a fried ring or a balloon of sweet dough that is either yeast leavened or chemically leavened. The dough is mixed and shaped, dropped into hot oil and fried; next, it is either glazed or filled with jam.
Chemically-raised doughnuts are made with baking powder and are generally rather dense and cake-like. These are the typical kind we eat at a franchise doughnut shop. They are easy and quick to make.
Yeast-raised doughnuts, on the other hand, need a bit more work. But the end result is worth it. They are leavened by the creation of carbon dioxide resulting from fermentation of yeast. Their texture is lighter than chemically-raised doughnuts; however, they require several hours to produce.
The preferred method of preparation is entirely up to you.
So let us get rid of our cargo pants, Doc Martens, fanny packs, and our cupcakes … Doughnuts seem to be here to stay at least until something else comes to take its place. . So until then, enjoy the sweet high a warm doughnut offers you, and remember, if nothing else, doughnuts are comforting for the soul.
Yeast Doughnuts
For the sponge:
4.2 ounces all-purpose flour
0.5 teaspoons instant yeast
3.5 ounces lukewarm water
1 large egg
For the doughnuts:
5.8 ounces all-purpose flour
2.5 teaspoons instant yeast
0.6 ounces dry milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
0.5 ounces sugar
1 large egg, cold
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 ounces butter at room temperature
Canola oil for frying
Extra fine sugar for rolling
The Procedure
Combine the sponge ingredients in a small bowl and stir them with a fork until smooth. Let the sponge ferment for half an hour at room temperature, then refrigerate overnight.
The next day, put the sponge in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook. Add all the remaining ingredients except the butter. Knead it for 10 minutes on medium speed, scraping down as needed. After 10 minutes, start adding the butter a tablespoon at a time, kneading until each is well incorporated.
Put the dough into a lightly oiled bowl, cover it with plastic wrap, and leave it in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 hour. Remove the dough to a lightly floured surface and shape it into a rough rectangle. Put it on a towel-lined baking sheet and refrigerate until chilled, about 30 minutes.
On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out to a thickness of 3/8 inches. Using a 3 1/2-inch circular cookie cutter, cut out the doughnuts, re-rolling the scraps until the dough is completely used. If making jelly doughnuts, leave the dough circles intact. Otherwise, use a small 3/4" circular cutter to punch out holes in the center. Return the doughnuts to the towel-lined baking sheet, covered with a sheet of lightly oiled plastic wrap. Let them rise until puffy, about an hour.
Fry in 375-degree oil for roughly 45 seconds per side. Drain on a wire rack. Ice and decorate as desired.
For jelly doughnuts, roll the fried rounds in superfine sugar while the doughnuts are still warm. Attach a pastry tip, (just about any good-size tip will do) to the corner of quart-sized zip-lock bag and fill with about a cup of jam. Using a cake tester, gently poke a hole in the side (or bottom) of each doughnut. Fill with about 1 1/2 tablespoons of jam. Eat!
Makes 12-14 doughnuts.


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If you ever watched Saturday Night Live when Mike Meyers was on, he had this on-going skit called "Coffee Talk'' and got `verklempt'' at the mere mention of Barbra Streisand. I'm really not Yiddish, but I've studied German and Hebrew, and I think this is the best word at the moment.
Flattered but overwhelmed.
Saturday I was installed as the president of the Utah Genealogical Association.
I would be scared spitless, but Luana Darby has done a wonderful job the last two years getting UGA into a place where someone in their right mind would be willing to take on this responsibility. During Luana's presidency, the organization has completed a new website and new social networking communication avenues including a stronger newsletter system, facebook, twitter, blog (Thanks A.C. Ivory). This last year we've put together a better organization including a renewed committee structure and books for each committee chair to begin passing down the institutional knowledge that will sustain UGA in the future. And Barry Ewell has orchestrated the purchase of a new virtual meeting system that will not only make the organization run more smoothly, but also has facilitated the development of our new Virtual Chapter, and the UGA Online Training and Tutorial Library. While Luana was in office, our journal Crossroads (yea David Ouimette and Christy Fillerup) has been revamped and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (go Adele Marcum) has remained one of the premiere sources of genealogy training in the country. And probably the biggest accomplishment of Luana's presidency was the immensely successful hosting of the National Genealogical Society Conference in 2010 which showed off Utah's assets to the genealogy community at large, strengthened UGA's status in the genealogy community and set UGA on a strong footing for future development.
So we are in good shape. We have a great new board. I have two fantastic Vice Presidents, Sue Maxwell and Christy Fillerup. And we are excited to take UGA into a new year. It is the 40th anniversary year and there is lots to get going on, lots still to do. Let me know where you want to help.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Posted by Janet Hovorka at 5:38 PM
Labels: UGA
4 comments:
- Randy Seaver said...
Congratulations, you will very well i n this assignment. The best part is that you can leave to hosannas when your term is over.
I learned when in engineering that the best thing to do in a volunteer organization was "up and out" then pick what you really want to do as a "past President" and support the later presidents.
You have two excellent VPs and I'm sure your orher officers will make your term successful.
Enjoy -- randy :)
- December 12, 2010 at 11:21 PM
- Polly F. Kimmitt said...
Congratulations, Janet! You'll do a great job!
- December 13, 2010 at 6:56 AM
- Elizabeth O'Neal said...
That sound you hear is me applauding!
- December 17, 2010 at 5:02 PM
- footnoteMaven said...
Congratulations! They could not have chosen a more accomplished woman.
I love everything you do, and now, so will the entire state of Utah.
You go girl!
- December 19, 2010 at 6:51 PM
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"Chart Your Course by It," New Era, Sept. 1990, 4
The Message:
Chart Your Course by It
Your patriarchal blessing can guide you throughout your entire life.
I was just a young child when my father died of pneumonia. My 14-year-old brother died just a few days later from an unrelated illness. It was the early 1930s, the middle of the Great Depression in the United States. Jobs were scarce and so was money. My mother, a nurse, struggled to provide a living for the five remaining children. It wasn't an easy life for any of us, and I often wondered how it would all work out.
But one thing happened during those tough times that I remember as well as if it had happened yesterday, something that made me look forward with courage and hope.
About a year after my father's passing, his cousin came to visit our home. Israel Bennion came, not just on a social call, but as the stake patriarch. Each of us children, scrubbed clean and dressed like we were going to church, waited in turn to have this dignified man place his hands on our heads and give us our patriarchal blessings.
I was only seven, not old enough to understand the significance of all that was going on. (Today, the Church advises you to wait until you're older to get your patriarchal blessing.) But I felt a great reverence, the same sort of feeling I felt during fast and testimony meetings. I remembered his instructions, although they were brief, that my blessing should be a guide to me, something I could use to chart my course through life.
Although I was young, I was impressed by the statements Brother Bennion made as he gave me my blessing. He told me that the Spirit of the Lord would be with me as I was growing up, that the gospel would be in my heart, that I would love the work of the Lord, and that the Lord would bless me.
He spoke of the future, that I would someday be a judge in Israel, that I would have children, that I would have a strong body and a sound mind.
But most of all, he stirred something in me. He helped me to begin to realize how literally I was a son of God. The Lord knew who I was and what I was doing. If I lived the right way, the Lord would help me.
My patriarchal blessing is only 263 words long. But it has always made a deep impression on me. As I have read and reflected upon it through the years, that impression has never diminished.
To a child of seven, the phrase "a judge in Israel" seemed much too profound a term to understand. In my teenage years, however, I learned that this was a phrase used to describe a bishop. I couldn't imagine myself being a bishop, but I knew that if I was going to be one, I'd better live worthily. I charted a course that included honesty, high standards, and living a moral life. (And eventually, I was called to be a bishop, by men who did not know of that patriarchal promise.)
I carried my patriarchal blessing with me during service in the Navy in World War II. I had grown up in Taylorsville, Utah, sheltered and shy, the product of a tranquil pioneer community. I now entered a harsher life, where oaths and profanity were common, where some men made bragging about sexual exploits part of their daily ritual. But again, my patriarchal blessing served as a beacon. Its promises gave me hope that I could stay clean, that I could survive the conflict and live to serve in our Heavenly Father's kingdom.
Throughout my mission in Europe, a phrase in my patriarchal blessing about preaching the gospel in power reminded me I was on the Lord's errand and therefore I should speak with authority. When I returned home and began searching for a wife, I knew I must find someone who would help me be worthy. After all, my patriarchal blessing made reference to the joys of a righteous posterity. Today, I am thrilled to go to the temple with my six children and their companions, and I do find joy and rejoicing in my posterity.
There is one sentence in my patriarchal blessing that has always intrigued me. It says, "You shall see great progress in the work of the Lord; for Zion shall be the head and not the heel." This phrase has repeatedly come to my mind in recent times as we all have observed the growth and progress of the Lord's Church throughout the entire world. I can truly say that my patriarchal blessing, though short, has been a guide to me during my entire life. Your patriarchal blessing can do the same for you, if you read it often and chart your course by it. In these challenging times, when you are faced with temptations and pressures to compromise your beliefs, a patriarchal blessing can be the source of great strength that will instill faith in a loving, personal Heavenly Father.
[Patriarchal Blessing Guidelines]
A patriarchal blessing is not having your fortune told. It is a source of guidance as you grow in maturity and spirituality.
As with all blessings, the fulfillment of your patriarchal blessing depends on worthiness and staying close to the Spirit.
Your blessing is sacred and personal. Don't read it in Church meetings or public gatherings.
Receive your blessing in an attitude of humility and prayer. You might also choose to fast.
The blessing is given to you, but a few family members may be present.
Read your blessing often. Pray for understanding, and it will help you chart your course through life.
Blessings within Blessings
Patriarchal blessings are not just for the future. The experience of receiving one is a blessing itself, an experience of learning first-hand how important and wonderful you are in the Lord's sight. Just the same, you may have some concerns.
I'm not sure if I'm old enough or ready enough for a patriarchal blessing.
Why not talk it over with your parents or your bishop? Ask them if they think you are old enough and if you're ready.
Can my parents tell me about their own patriarchal blessings?
If your parents have received their blessings, ask if there are portions they would feel comfortable sharing with you. You will probably find you are one of the blessings they were promised. For example, if they were promised righteous posterity, you are an important link in that chain.
What if my parents aren't members of the Church or don't support me in Church activities?
Check with your bishop or patriarch—they may have suggestions about how to appropriately include them.
I don't feel worthy to receive a patriarchal blessing.
If you feel unworthy, become worthy. Put your life in order. Talk to your parents and to your bishop if necessary. But also remember that we're all learning and growing. One of the important reasons for obtaining your patriarchal blessing is to receive guidance and strength.
I'm afraid the Lord will reveal what he expects of me, and then I'll be obligated.
Actually, the Lord has already revealed many things he expects of you: righteousness, obedience, compassion, honesty. You've been taught about them all your life. And you've already made commitments—at baptism, each time you take the sacrament, when you receive the priesthood. Remember a patriarchal blessing is an expression of the Lord's love for you personally. More than anything else, it will help you understand through the Spirit your own marvelous potential and some of the great blessings the Lord has in store for you as you keep his commandments.