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A Mountain Home couple mourns the loss of their beloved pit bull-terrier mix, shot in the chest by a unidentified rifleman.
MOUNTAIN HOME - Kay Burnett shook her head with dismay as she clutched her Yorkshire terrier, Meme, to her chest Sunday and looked down on the fresh grave in her backyard on Josiah Lane.
"I just can't believe anyone could be so cruel," Burnett said, staring down at the makeshift grave with its wooden cross and pot of purple flowers.
Her husband, Sammie, pointed up in the woods behind the couple's home where he suspects the rifle shot came from that killed their 11-year-old pit bull-terrier mix, Bubbie, as he stood tethered in their yard Friday night or early Saturday morning.
"There's people that target practice around Salisbury Road," said Sammie Burnett, a Vietnam veteran who retired after 32 years at Borg Warner. "We heard shots that night. They're always shooting back there. After a while, you kind of block it out."
That's exactly what the Burnetts did Friday as they settled in for the evening. Sammie had fed Bubbie his normal meal of mixed kibble and table scraps around 5:30 p.m. The next morning, Kay Burnett stepped out on their back porch and saw Bubbie's lifeless body sprawled out on some straw near his dog house.
Sammie Burnett said there's no way the single shot Bubbie took to the chest was an accident, and investigators with the Henderson County Sheriff's Office agree. They're looking for whoever killed the family pet. The culprit faces felony charges, according to authorities.
"The investigation is still ongoing," said Chief Deputy Frank Stout. "We will be in consultation with the District Attorney's Office. If anyone heard gunshots or knows anything about the case at 140 Josiah Lane, please contact animal enforcement at the Henderson County Sheriff's Office."
About a dozen years ago, the Burnetts picked Bubbie from a litter of puppies their terrier had given birth to because "he was the cutest one," said Sammie. "He was brindled and he had a broken tail. He was real gentle. When he cocked his head to the side, he looked like the RCA Victor dog."
Always a sensitive creature, Bubbie hated spiders, fireworks and the target shooting that began about five years ago behind the Burnett's home in the Clear Creek Meadows subdivision, his owners said.
"He didn't like loud noises," said Kay Burnett. "We never put him on a chain because he hated the metal sound it made."
But the couple tried every other kind of containment for their pet, who was prone to wandering. They invested in a chain-link kennel, but Bubbie busted through it. They trenched around their property's border and installed an invisible fence, but the dog fought through the electric shock and fled.
"He was an escape artist," said Sammie Burnett. "I ran a cable between two trees to let him run. We've watched him pull to the end of his line and just start yanking his head until he'd unclip the clip. Most of the time, he'd break the collar."
Through trial-and-error, the Burnetts eventually found a stout collar that Bubbie couldn't shake and put him on a staked 30-foot cable that allowed him the freedom to move around their shaded, mossy backyard. He was tethered to it when he was killed.
"I don't know what got into somebody," said Sammie Burnett wistfully. "I don't understand it. It might have been a dare, or they might've been drinking and partying and someone said, 'Let's shoot that dog down there.'"
Whatever their motivation, the shooter took the life of a good dog, Sammie Burnett said.
"He's like a member of the family," he said. "He had a personality. When you'd bring him his food, he'd spin around and do a flip, he was so excited."
To report any information about the shooting, cal the Sheriff's Office at 828-697-4911.
Reach Axtell at 828-694-7860 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Many midlife women I talk to tell me that they're "not sure who they are anymore." It makes sense; at midlife so many things change that our old identities don't really fit anymore.
When their kids leave home, when their parents and/or spouses depart, when they're hit by a layoff and unemployed for long periods of time, when their money is scarce, when their bodies change unpredictably, midlife women ask: "Who am I now?" I can't blame them.
With each midlife change we become less of who we used to be, and more of someone new. Mostly these midlife changes are ones that feel like they were "done to us," rather than ones we chose. And because we didn't choose them, that makes our identity changes harder. We're just not who we used to be in the same way that we used to be. Some of us even catch ourselves wishing we could go back to being that person we used to be.
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Thursday, June 5, 2008
Please Excuse The Mess
[Update: think I might have just fixed it. If so, I just keeled over and lived.]
13 comments:
- Clumbsy Cookie said...
I see it fine Ann! Well done on getting it fixed. I think Blooger might have some issues, yesterday when I was trying to get to my blog it sayed "Blog deleted"... I paniqued for a while but when I tryed again 1 minute later it was all there... Anyway, even if you fixed it can i still have a cocktail?
- June 5, 2008 at 3:45 PM
- grace said...
it looks totally fixed now. and i was just looking around on your blog, and i love all the pretty food pictures :D
- June 5, 2008 at 4:02 PM
- Ann said...
Clumbsy - OH MY! You must have freaked out! Come on over for a cocktail...or ten...
Grace - Oh, thank you! I think it might be fixed - quelle drama! :)
- June 5, 2008 at 4:26 PM
- NV said...
Looks good to me, too. Glad it's OK.
In fact I would love to have some of those cookies about now.
Probably ought to eat some dinner instead though. :-)
- June 5, 2008 at 5:32 PM
- Jennifer H said...
You have a neighbor who has spare valium in the house? I'm going to need your address (and the neighbor's) now. ;-)
- June 5, 2008 at 7:25 PM
- Ann said...
NV - it was a near melt down. Thank god I made brownies today.
Jennifer - Address on its way!!! :)
- June 5, 2008 at 8:44 PM
- Jenn @ Juggling Life said...
TypePad removed the titles to a week's worth of posts last weeks while they were doing "upgrade." Grrrrr.
- June 5, 2008 at 9:25 PM
I'm so glad I wasn't home posting this afternoon. It would have been too early for tequila.
Obviously they fixed it. Whew.
- June 5, 2008 at 10:05 PM
OMG, I'm so glad it was them and not me, because I seriously thought I was losing it. I can see why you lay down and died for a while. How traumatic! Think about it, we entrust so much of our lives to strangers (and technology), it's a miracle that things work as well as they do!
- June 6, 2008 at 5:29 AM
- Ann said...
Jenn - isn't it just frustrating? I mean, how does that happen?
Standing Still - Omg, so lucky you didn't see it, that bottle woulda been empty, I swear it.
Firefly - It was THEM, not YOU. :)
- June 6, 2008 at 3:42 PM
All looks good! Glad you were able to fix it, how stressful.
- June 7, 2008 at 6:52 AM
- Manager Mom said...
I live in terror of changing my blog layout for fear that will happened to me...
- June 15, 2008 at 4:29 AM
Rather amusing idea
- December 29, 2009 at 5:03 AM


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Jonathan Schanzer of the Jewish Policy Institute addressed the Center for Security Policy's National Security Group on Capitol Hill. He is the author of Hamas vs. Fatah.
Obama's Abandonment of America
Posted by Caroline Glick on May 20th, 2011 and filed under Daily Mailer, FrontPage.
Reprinted from carolineglick.com.
I was out sick yesterday so I was unable to write today's column for theJerusalem Post. I did manage to watch President Obama's speech on the Middle East yesterday evening. And I didn't want to wait until next week to discuss it. After all, who knows what he'll do by Tuesday?
Before we get into what the speech means for Israel, it is important to consider what it means for America.
Quite simply, Obama's speech represents the effective renunciation of the US's right to have and to pursue national interests. Consequently, his speech imperils the real interests that the US has in the region – first and foremost, the US's interest in securing its national security.
Obama's renunciation of the US national interests unfolded as follows:
First, Obama mentioned a number of core US interests in the region. In his view these are: "Countering terrorism and stopping the spread of nuclear weapons; securing the free flow of commerce, and safe-guarding the security of the region; standing up for Israel's security and pursuing Arab-Israeli peace."
Then he said, "Yet we must acknowledge that a strategy based solely upon the narrow pursuit of these interests will not fill an empty stomach or allow someone to speak their mind."
While this is true enough, Obama went on to say that the Arabs have good reason to hate the US and that it is up to the US to put its national interests aside in the interest of making them like America. As he put it, "a failure to change our approach threatens a deepening spiral of division between the United States and Muslim communities."
And you know what that means. If the US doesn't end the "spiral of division," (sounds sort of like "spiral of violence" doesn't it?), then the Muslims will come after America. So the US better straighten up and fly right.
And how does it do that? Well, by courting the Muslim Brotherhood which spawned Al Qaeda, Hamas, Jamma Islamiya and a number of other terror groups and is allies with Hezbollah.
How do we know this is Obama's plan? Because right after he said that the US needs to end the "spiral of division," he recalled his speech in Egypt in June 2009 when he spoke at the Brotherhood controlled Al Azhar University and made sure that Brotherhood members were in the audience in a direct diplomatic assault on US ally Hosni Mubarak.
And of course, intimations of Obama's plan to woo and appease the jihadists appear throughout the speech. For instance:
"There will be times when our short term interests do not align perfectly with our long term vision of the region."
So US short term interests, like for instance preventing terrorist attacks against itself or its interests, will have to be sacrificed for the greater good of bringing the Muslim Brotherhood to power in democratic elections.
And he also said that the US will "support the governments that will be elected later this year" in Egypt and Tunisia. But why would the US support governments controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood? They are poised to control the elected government in Egypt and are the ticket to beat in Tunisia as well.
Then there is the way Obama abandoned US allies Yemen and Bahrain in order to show the US's lack of hypocrisy. As he presented it, the US will not demand from its enemies Syria and Iran that which it doesn't demand from its friends.
While this sounds fair, it is anything but fair. The fact is that if you don't distinguish between your allies and your enemies then you betray your allies and side with your enemies. Bahrain and Yemen need US support to survive. Iran and Syria do not. So when he removes US support from the former, his action redounds to the direct benefit of the latter.
Beyond his abandonment of Bahrain and Yemen, in claiming that the US mustn't distinguish between its allies and its foes, Obama made clear that he has renounced the US's right to have and pursue national interests. If you can't favor your allies against your enemies then you cannot defend your national interests. And if you cannot defend your national interests then you renounce your right to have them.
As for Iran, in his speech, Obama effectively abandoned the pursuit of the US's core interest of preventing nuclear proliferation. All he had to say about Iran's openly genocidal nuclear program is, "Our opposition to Iran's intolerance – as well as its illicit nuclear program, and its sponsorship of terror – is well known."
Well so is my opposition to all of that, and so is yours. But unlike us, Obama is supposed to do something about it. And by putting the gravest threat the US presently faces from the Middle East in the passive voice, he made clear that actually, the US isn't going to do anything about it.
May 11, 2011
Palestinian State in September? Hamas Says No Way
Gaza rulers say September most likely too soon to declare Palestinian independence, as too many questions pertaining to state's viability remain unanswered
Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar said Wednesday that the Islamist movement was somewhat skeptical as to the viability of Fatah's September-bound bid for statehood.
Speaking with the Palestinian Ma'an News Agency, al-Zahar said that "all the talk of a Palestinian state is… an attempt to pacify us."
He further wondered as to the nature of the Palestinian state, should it be declared in several months' time: "Where is the land for this state? Are those living in the West Bank and Gaza to be its citizens? What will be the fate of the five million Palestinians in the diaspora? Are we to give up the right of return?"
He also said that anyone who thinks that a Palestinian state would be accepted by the international community without it recognizing Israel first, "does not understand the (political) landscape."
Hamas, he said, is willing to accept a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, but will maintain its refusal to recognize Israel, since a formal recognition of Israel would "cancel the right of the next generations to liberate the lands."
Read more at YNet.
Palestinians never miss an opportunity.
In short, every American who is concerned about the security of the United States should be livid. The US President just abandoned his responsibility to defend the country and its interests in the interest of coddling the US's worst enemies.
AS FOR ISRAEL, in a way, Obama did Israel a favor by giving this speech. By abandoning even a semblance of friendliness, he has told us that we have nothing whatsoever to gain by trying to make him like us. Obama didn't even say that he would oppose the Palestinians' plan to get the UN Security Council to pass a resolution in support for Palestinian independence. All he said was that it is a dumb idea.
Obama sided with Hamas against Israel by acting as though its partnership with Fatah is just a little problem that has to be sorted out to reassure the paranoid Jews. Or as he put it, "the recent announcement of an agreement between Fatah and Hamas raises profound and legitimate questions for Israel."
Hamas is a jihadist movement dedicated to the annihilation of the Jewish people, and the establishment of a global caliphate. It's in their charter. And all Obama said of the movement that has now taken over the Palestinian Authority was, "Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection."
Irrelevant and untrue.
It is irrelevant because obviously the Palestinians don't want peace. That's why they just formed a government dedicated to Israel's destruction.
As for being untrue, Obama's speech makes clear that they have no reason to fear a loss of prosperity. After all, by failing to mention that US law bars the US government from funding an entity which includes Hamas, he made clear that the US will continue to bankroll the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority. So too, the EU will continue to join the US in giving them billions for bombs and patronage jobs. The Palestinians have nothing to worry about. They will continue to be rewarded regardless of what they do.
Then of course there are all the hostile, hateful details of the speech:
He said Israel has to concede its right to defensible borders as a precondition for negotiations;
He didn't say he opposes the Palestinian demand for open immigration of millions of foreign Arabs into Israel;
He again ignored Bush's 2004 letter to Sharon opposing a return to the 1949 armistice lines, supporting the large settlements, defensible borders and opposing mass Arab immigration into Israel;
He said he was leaving Jerusalem out but actually brought it in by calling for an Israeli retreat to the 1949 lines;
He called for Israel to be cut in two when he called for the Palestinians state to be contiguous;
He called for Israel to withdraw from the Jordan Valley – without which it is powerless against invasion – by saying that the Palestinian State will have an international border with Jordan.
Conceptually and substantively, Obama abandoned the US alliance with Israel. The rest of his words – security arrangements, demilitarized Palestinian state and the rest of it – were nothing more than filler to please empty-headed liberal Jews in America so they can feel comfortable signing checks for him again.
Indeed, even his seemingly pro-Israel call for security arrangements in a final peace deal involved sticking it to Israel. Obama said, "The full and phased withdrawal of Israeli military forces should be coordinated with the assumption of Palestinian security responsibility in a sovereign, non-militarized state."
What does that mean "with the assumption of Palestinian security responsibility?"
It means we have to assume everything will be terrific.
All of this means is that if Prime Minister Netanyahu was planning to be nice to Obama, and pretend that everything is terrific with the administration, he should just forget about it. He needn't attack Obama. Let the Republicans do that.
But both in his speech to AIPAC and his address to Congress, he should very forthrightly tell the truth about the nature of the populist movements in the Middle East, the danger of a nuclear Iran, the Palestinians' commitment to Israel's destruction; the lie of the so-called peace process; the importance of standing by allies; and the critical importance of a strong Israel to US national security.
He has nothing to gain and everything to lose by playing by the rules that Obama is trying to set for him.


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Never was a term "final release" more misleading than when applied to software. Microsoft Office 2010 is no exception, and updates are constantly being released through Windows Update for those who opt to receive them.
Every so often, these updates get rolled up with others into an all-encompassing package released as a Service Pack. Service Packs often include new updates too, and SP1 for Office 2010 is no exception. It contains all updates released prior to June 29th 2011, plus throws in some performance, stability and security fixes exclusive to the Service Pack too.
Platform-specific changes include changing the default view in "Use Presenter view" in PowerPoint, which now displays the slideshow on the secondary monitor while displaying notes on the primary display. Outlook 2010 SP1 now gains Office 365 support, while OneNote 2010 SP1 adds a new "Open from web" option to the File menu to allow you to open notes directly from your Windows Live SkyDrive account, while other tools have been tweaked to make working with web-based notes easier. A full list of SP1-specific changes and fixes can be found at the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
If you keep Office 2010 updated through Windows Update, you can update to SP1 through that – open Windows Update to select the update manually. Note it'll be a smaller download due to the fact previous updates have already been applied to your system.
This standalone installer is recommended for those who don't keep Office 2010 updated through Windows Update, or for those who intend reinstalling Windows. This is the 32-bit version, for 32-bit versions of Microsoft Office. A separate 64-bit build is available for those running the 64-bit version of Microsoft Office.
An essential update if you're a Microsoft Office 2010 user.


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Graf theory
The brass tub in Solomon's temple was a thick-sided vessel, and the measurement
of ten cubits referred to the outer diameter, while the measurement of thirty cubits referred to the inner circumference. The thickness of the annulus was recorded as a hand-breadth. If one considers a hand breadth to be 4 inches, and uses a figure of 17.75 for a cubit, the value of p in the equation:
(10 - 30/p)/2 × 17.75 = 4is p = 355/113 .
I don't think the Hebrews calculated the values recorded, merely observed them. The true value of π would give slightly different values for a hand-breadth and a cubit. I think this fact is more interesting than the improper imputation of 3 as the 'Biblical' value of π.
We note that the value 355/113 as an approximation for π was first noted by Tsu Ch'ung Chi (429-501 AD)
JOC/EFR October 1996
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See the history of military aviation come alive as the Selfridge Air Museum is now open to the public for 2013.
The museum, located inside the Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, was established in 1979 to recover the history of Selfridge, one of the oldest continuously running military airfields in the United States. It currently houses historic aircraft from all military branches, both active and reserve units.
New this year are the F-89C Scorpion, a C-130E 'Hercules' and an A-10A 'Thunderbolt II' in the outdoor air park. A three-quarter scale historically accurate model of the original 'Wright Flyer' will soon be on display in the SPAD WWI hangar.
The museum is designed to take visitors through a chronological history of military aviation, starting with World War I, World II, and Vietnam and other noted conflicts through the modern day. One of the most popular sections of the museum, especially for kids, houses three airplane cockpits, including a World War II link instrument trainer, a Vietnam A-7 jet fighter and a modern era F-16. Visitors can actually get in the cockpit, put on a helmet and imagine themselves in a battle for sky supremacy. Two of the 32 aircraft in the air park can actually be accessed as well, including the C-130 Hercules transport and the P-3 Orion sub hunter.
The F-89C Scorpion, believed to be the only one of its kind still in existence, will require a new paint job and should be fully restored and ready to go by early summer.
'The F-89 was designed as an interceptor flown by the Air Force and then the Michigan Air National Guard, and it had nuclear capability,' said museum Executive Director Lt. Col. (Ret.) Lewis Nigro.
The museum is staffed completely by volunteers, receives no federal or state funding, and stands as one of the few remaining historical venues of its kind.
'I think this museum is critically important, especially for the people that live in this area,' Nigro said. 'This base has been around since 1917. We're almost 100 years old. And now that the Air Force and the Air National Guard have eliminated the historian position, we're all that's left to track the history of this base and the Michigan Air Guard.'
The museum is accessible by vehicle only through the main Selfridge gate at the intersection of M-59 and Jefferson Avenue. For security reasons, guests arriving in a private vehicle that is being driven by someone without a valid government identification card must register for a visitor's pass at the gate. A current and valid driver's license, vehicle registration, and proof of vehicular insurance will be required to obtain a visitor's pass.
Admission is $4 per guest over the age of 12 and $3 for children between 4 and 12 years of age. There is a minimum admission of $25 for all by-appointment tours. General public hours of operation for the museum is noon to 4:30 pm on Saturdays, Sundays, Independence Day and Memorial Day, from now through Oct. 27. The museum can also be opened by appointment at other times throughout the year by calling 586-239-5035.
Further information on the Selfridge Military Air Museum and Air Park can be found on its website (www.selfridgeairmuseum.org), by mail (Selfridge Military Air Museum, 27333 C St, Bldg 1011, Selfridge ANGB MI 48045), or by phone (586-239-5035).


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Pearl Collar
Inspired by the mysteries of the galaxy, the Astral Collection is made for the daydreamers; two stars linked by a golden thread reminds us that are all connected.
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Inspired by the mysteries of the galaxy, the Astral Collection is made for the daydreamers; two stars linked by a golden thread reminds us that are all connected.
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Set your timer for 5 minutes. Take the old magazine and rip through it. Tear out pages that speak to you, working intuitively for about a minute and make a nice pile - 12-15 sheets. Now winnow down the 12-15 torn out pages. Look quickly at each page: what speaks to you? Glue 'em down. The idea is to work quickly to outpace the critic. Don't think. Tear and glue. Badaboom. Done.
Since I'll be in beautiful Washington State and computer-FREE next week, I'll give you nudge #7 right now, if you are game! You'll need gesso or white paint and a pencil. Paint loosely over your 5 minute collage with the paint and draw or write into the wet paint with your pencil.
I'll be back with loads of pics around Nov 7.


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05-15-2011 04:46 AM - last edited on 07-15-2011 08:45 AM by Mark_Lenovo
There are two items being discussed in this thread:
1) A backlight bleed issue as described by SR45 - we are investigating this, but have seen only a couple users noting this so far.
2) "Ghosting" or persistence of an after-image phenomena after a static image is maintained on the display for 15 or more. This comprises the bulk of the discussion on this thread.
Not all customers have observed this, nor view it as an "issue". See related thread with counter point.
I've already posted on the notebookreview forum and thought I would also leave a message here as well to cover all forums to get some more feed back.
I have tested this out a few times now, and I get a faint burn in (ghosting) when using a dark background and even a light blue backgrounds when rebooting the system immediately after downloading and installing some software. When this was first noticed, I just booted up to IE 9 and the google page with my favorite sites on the extreme left side for about a minute, than I rebooted the system. During the boot up, I could see the faint outline of the task bar at the bottom, the favorites vertical line that seperates the favorites from the main google page.
One or more members with the X220 on the notebookreview forum have noticed the same thing, and wonder if anyone else has seen this as well. Trying to figure out if this is wide spreed or just a few bad panels.
Thank you
One picture of the vertical line is posted on the link below.
05-15-2011 05:14 AM - edited 05-15-2011 05:16 AM
Here is a better picture of what I'm seeing....
1. Two white arrows show the faint ghosting
2. Red arrows show light bleed
Yep, as much as I love my new X220, this is a definite issue with the screen. Is there any idea on A) whether or not this could degrade the quality of the panel moving forward and B) if anything can be done to correct it?
05-15-2011 01:35 PM - edited 05-15-2011 01:36 PM
No, the effect is not burn-in, but is an artifact of what is known as "Response time compensation" RTC, or otherwise known as LCD "Overdrive." The effect should be called "Ghosting", not Burn in.
It is usally done with TN and VA screens, but I guess they used a similar technique on these screens, in order to increase the response times.
Just got my X220 yesterday and I already noticed this issue. This is very apparent and a real problem. I also have the aforementioned backlight bleed in the attached pictures, but the LCD ghosting is a bigger concern, as I'm worried this will get worse with age. Can someone from Lenovo comment on this?
Modoc - welcome to the forum!
i believe SR45 stated somewhere on the notebookreview.com forum that the ghosting artifact is tied to the intel control panel's power-saving feature and isn't a flaw in the display itself. my X220 doesn't ghost and i have that feature turned off.
perhaps SR45 will update this thread with his findings. it would certainly be appreciated.
ThinkStation P700 ThinkPad X1C7
OK, i went into the Intel Control Panel, the "power saving feature" is only an option on battery, and I haven't had the machine unplugged at all yet, so it's not that. I did change the default power plan in the Intel Control Panel from Balanced to Maximum Performance, and I also noticed that the refresh rate on the panel was set to 50Hz rather than 60, so I bumped it up to 60.
I'll update in a few hours on whether or not this has any effect on the image burn-in / ghosting issue.
Well that didn't take long, it is still showing the burn-in regardless of the settings change. Dealing with tech support will be a pain on something like this, and even if they agree to replace the LCD there's the possibility of getting a new panel with dead pixels, or other issues.
Unless someone has any bright ideas this thing is probably going back, charging a premium for an upgraded panel that has burn-in issues is pretty lousy.
I have the exact same problem. I noticed that I was getting this pseudo burn-in (and also quite a lot of backlight bleed). I returned my x220 and ordered a new one, same configuration. The new one just came, and it has the same ghosting problem as the first. Note that the ghosting does not take hours to occur: all I need to do is leave my web browser open for about fifteen minutes and then switch to another screen with dark background, and the UI elements will appear faintly burned into the screen, all over whatever text I'm processing (I use a text editor with a dark background, for programming). This is totally unacceptable, and I'm very disappointed. At this point, I don't know what to do: I've tired both linux and windows, and returning the laptop for a new one. It seems like I am going to have to return this second one too, and I don't think I am going to try and get a third laptop. This is very disappointing, because the rest of the compter is very nice.
Has anyone NOT had this problem with the IPS displays on the x220? Has anyone had this problem and fixed it? Can someone from lenovo please comment? More than anything, I want to be able to own this laptop and like it, but I can't when I've been convinced that the "premium" display has consistent defects.
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What can you do with an IC English degree? Become a chef, of course. What if your degree is in theater arts management? You can start an organic food business. If you majored in television-radio? Find work as a cook on a National Science Foundation research ship.
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State of the World 2012 Launch and Symposium
The Worldwatch Institute invites you to the official launch of State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity on April 11th. We will celebrate the release of this important Rio+20 edition of State of the World by inviting some of the book's key contributors to discuss their ideas on how we can achieve "sustainable development." Speakers will include Worldwatch President Robert Engelman; Project Co-Directors Michael Renner and Erik Assadourian; report authors Joe Foti of the World Resources Institute, Mia MacDonald of Brighter Green, Michael Replogle and Colin Hughes of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Diana Lind of Next American City; and Bo Normander of Worldwatch Europe. Also joining via satellite will be Severn Suzuki, who first shook the global community as a young girl making a strong declaration at the first Rio Summit and has acted as an environmental champion ever since.
The event will take place at the Whittemore House (Woman's National Democratic Club). If you cannot attend in person, you can participate via webcast. We will follow these presentations with a reception where food and beverages will be provided. The symposium will take place from 1:30pm to 5pm and will be followed by a reception providing food and refreshment.
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Jordan Freemeyer is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Big Sky conferences.
Predicted Order of Finish:
- Portland State (20-9, 13-3)
- Northern Colorado (21-10, 11-5)
- Idaho State (15-14, 10-6)
- Montana (18-11, 10-6)
- Weber State (13-16, 8-8)
- Northern Arizona (12-15, 7-9)
- Montana State (11-17, 6-10)
- Eastern Washington (10-19, 5-11)
- Sacramento State (6-23, 2-14)
What You Need to Know (WYN2K). The Big Sky is a nine-team conference stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the southern Rocky Mountains. The Big Sky has historically been an eight-team conference, but added Northern Colorado as its ninth member in 2006. Unlike most conferences that feature a balanced eight or twelve team tournament, only the top six Big Sky teams get the chance to go dancing. The conference is generally a power in FCS (formerly I-AA) football, but does not have a rich men's basketball tradition. However, Weber State in particular has been noted for big upsets in the NCAA Tournament. In 1995, a #14 seed Weber State team beat #3 seed Michigan State 79-72, and in 1999 the Wildcats repeated the feat, taking down another #3 seed, North Carolina, 76-74. More recently, Montana made a run to the second round in 2006 with a wins over #5 Nevada.
Predicted Champion. Portland State (#14 NCAA). This is a relatively safe pick, as the Vikings won both the regular season and tournament championships last season. Portland State returns three starters, including 2007-08 Big Sky Newcomer of the Year and Player of the Year Jeremiah Dominguez (pictured below). The 5'6" Dominguez scored 14.4 points per game last season, while averaging 4 assists per game and leading the conference with 1.9 steals per game. Also returning for the Vikings is junior Kyle Coston. The 6'8" forward averaged 7.4 points per game last season and made over 40 percent of his three-point attempts. PSU lost leading rebounders Scott Morrison and Deonte Huff, but return enough firepower offensively to make them the favorites in the Big Sky.
Others Considered. Behind the Vikings is a pack of about four teams that can challenge them. Northern Colorado is my pick to finish second in the league. The Bears return nine letterwinners from last season, the most in the conference, and are led by all-conference center Jabril Banks. Banks led UNC last season with 13.2 points and 5.2 rebounds per game. Idaho State should also contend for the conference title; the Bengals are led by guards Matt Stucki and Amorrow Morgan, who combined to average just under 22 points per game last season. Perrenial favorites Montana and Weber State should also be in the mix, led by forward Jordan Hasquet and guard Kellen McCoy, respectively.
Important Conference games.
- Northern Arizona @ Montana State (1/10/09) – This game could go a long way toward determining the final berth in the Big Sky Tournament.
- Portland State @ Northern Colorado (1/19/09) – This is just Northern Colorado's third year in the conference, but Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion is already proving to be one of the toughest places to play. The Bears were 9-4 there last season.
- Idaho State @ Weber State (1/31/09) – Dee Events Center should be rocking for this matchup between rivals that will have a big impact on what the top of the conference standings look like.
- Montana at Montana State (2/7/09) – It's Montana against Montana State, when is it ever not important?
- Big Sky Championship Game (3/11/09)
RPI Boosters.
- Northern Colorado @ Colorado State (11/18/08) – This is perhaps the biggest college basketball rivalry in the state of Colorado. The Bears beat the Rams, 72-59, last year.
- North Dakota State @ Northern Arizona (11/25/07) – This is the first of two meetings between the two teams this season, and catches the Bison in the midst of a very tough three-game road trip.
- BYU @ Weber State (12/3/08) – This is yet another chance for the Big Sky to prove itself against an in-state rival. You can bet the biggest venue in the Big Sky will be nearly full for this one.
- Portland State @ Washington (12/14/08) – This game presents a good chance for the Vikings to make a statement against a quality Pac-10 opponent.
- Idaho @ Idaho State (12/29/08) – The Bengals host their former conference-mate and in-state rival at Holt Arena with a chance to prove basketball supremacy in the state of Idaho.
Neat-O Stat. Sacramento State hired a new head coach for the 2008-09 season, Brian Katz. This is Katz's first NCAA head coaching job, but he is not the only coach in the league that is in a relatively new place. Only one coach in the Big Sky, Northern Arizona's Mike Adras, has been at his school for more than four years. Portland State's Ken Bone is entering his fourth season with the Vikings, and is the second-longest tenured coach in the conference. Idaho State's Joe O'Brien, Montana's Wayne Tinkle, Montana State's Brian Huse, Northern Colorado's Tad Boyle and Weber State's Randy Rahe are all in their third season with their respective teams. Last year, Eastern Washington brought coach Kirk Earlywine into the mix.
65 Team Era. The Big Sky is only 3-24 (.111) over the era, but as stated above, it has some quality upsets on its resume, with #14 Weber St. in both 1995 and 1999, and #12 Montana breaking into the second round in 2006. Its champion typically receives a #14 or #15 seed in the NCAAs, but generally avoids the dreaded #16. Here's an amusing YouTube clip of some of Portland State's practice and media session before playing #1 Kansas in last year's first round below.
Final Thoughts. The Big Sky should be a very interesting conference to watch this season. There are about five or six teams that could win the regular season title, and the conference tournament should amount to a crap shoot. Whoever wins the league, I wouldn't be all that surprised to see them upset a big conference team in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.


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Fantastic Fest Day 1
The annual Fantastic Fest film festival gets underway in Austin this week. It's the largest genre-based film festival in the United States and was founded in 2005 by Tim League of Alamo Drafthouse and Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News. We sent special correspondent Brennan Foster on a quest to hunt down the weirdest films, the coolest parties and the biggest star sightings he could find. Here's his first festival report. Be sure and check back throughout the week for more updates.
Shaking off the smoke from Texas wildfires and roadside rib shacks, I pulled into the South Lamar Alamo Drafthouse parking lot on a hot Thursday for bearded men in black shirts. But meat and heat was the day's overriding theme.
This is because the festival's premiere event was Dutch director Tom Six's Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence.
For anybody who does not yet know what a Human Centipede refers to, stay happy, click away and whistle a merry tune, for even a brief description will rape your mind.
Fans of the first film are free to appreciate it and argue for its worth. Of course, fans of the first film are also likely to volunteer for a "Poop-Sausage Eating Contest."
While I did not entertain seeing the sequel, I admit that the build-up for it was a blast; undoubtedly, Mr. Six has created an historic meme with a knowingly humorous and sadistic sensibility.
Sadly, the audience reaction to HC2 was not positive. It currently holds the lowest audience rating on the festival site, an equally appropriate 2 stars. This will not stop anyone who enjoyed the first film from seeing the sequel, which drops into select theaters on October 7.
And, hey, maybe it will inspire more barbecue feats like the after party's three roasted pigs sewn ass to mouth on a banquet table. That's good eatin'.


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Gartner 2012: Your IT Infrastructure Will Become Obsolete
Above: Gartner SVP Peter Sondergaard
At this week's annual Gartner Symposium, the company hit on how the "nexus of forces"—cloud, mobile, social, and information—are coming together. In this new world, Gartner Senior Vice President and head of research Peter Sondergaard said our IT infrastructure will become "obsolete" and organizations will be building a "new information economy."
Overall, Gartner predicted that worldwide IT spending will grow from $3.6 trillion this year to $3.7 trillion in 2013 and to $4 trillion in 2016, with the big growth coming in big data. By 2015, Sondergaard said that 4.4 million jobs will be created worldwide, including 1.9 million in the United States to deal with big data, but only one-third will be filled because of a lack of skills.
None of the four big trends in the "nexus" is surprising; Gartner and the rest of the industry have been talking about these trends for years. Still, Sondergaard went through each of them, discussing how each is changing and, in turn, how that is changing IT.
On the cloud, he said we're just beginning to realize the cost benefits of cloud, as most services are still subscriptions, not "pay as you go." But, the cloud is enabling things like scalability, massive parallelism, and paying for service levels. Eighty percent of businesses use some SaaS services, but 80 percent of IT use is in "private cloud." Sondergaard said there are two versions of the cloud computing future developing: the kind used by most individuals and the kind being pushed by enterprise IT. This will eventually have to come together, he said.
Of the top 100 IT service providers, Sondergaard said 20 will be displaced by 2014, even as the market for business services in the cloud will more than double by 2016. While there has been a lot of discussion about the cloud for the last few years, he quoted Winston Churchill: "We are at the end of the beginning."
On mobile, Sondergaard predicted that by 2016, more than 1.6 billion smart mobile devices will be sold, two-thirds of the workforce will own a smartphone, and 40 percent of the workforce will be mobile. Mobile will change applications and how they are delivered. Users will expect personalized and context-award experiences and Gartner expects more than 300 billion apps will be downloaded each year.
The platforms are changing as well. "In less than two years, iPads will be more common than BlackBerrys," Sondergaard said, with 20 percent of sales forces using iPads as the primary delivery platform. By 2017, tablets or hybrid devices will dominate, and by the end of the decade, he predicted more than half of the devices used by employees will be purchased by the employee. Therefore, you need to deliver apps to devices you don't own and you must "design for openness."
Similarly, "The Internet of Everything" will put smart devices at the center of data collection, he said. By the end of the decade, Gartner expects that more than 30 billion devices will be permanently connected and 150 billion will be occasionally connected. It will soon cost more not to monitor devices than to monitor them, he said.
The third force is social computing, which Sondergaard said is transitioning from being on the outside of business to being the core of business management, changing organizations from hierarchical structures and defined teams to more communities of interest. In three years, at least ten organizations will spend $1 billion or more on social media, he predicted, but many posts will be paid posts or automated posts. Still, social data is important for understanding and reaching customers, and even employees. He asked, "Will LinkedIn be more accurate than your most current HR data?"
The final force, he said, is information or "big data." Eighty percent of senior executives can name a critical piece of business information that they need from IT but don't get yet, and this will drive new applications. Organizations don't know how to deal with this, so 85 percent of marketing organizations will outsource the analysis of big data.
In the longer term, he said the issues about data will not be managing it, but valuing it as an important corporate asset. Organizations are trying to get value from all the data they generate, and the leading organizations of the future will be judged by the quality of their predictive algorithms. Information-centric companies will be using the data to turn products into services.
As a result, he said there will be an increasing need for data scientists and experts in non-relational database management.
The increasing consumer use of technology results in lower prices for business applications, Sondergaard said, noting that consumer spending on technology has gone from 0.8 percent in 1980 to three percent in 2011, and will hit 3.5 percent in 2015. But if the consumer is the accelerator, he said, "security concerns are the break," causing companies to worry about adopting the new technologies.
The biggest IT vendors, or "mega-vendors," are all being challenged by at least one of the forces, Sondergaard said, citing recent stumbles by HP, Microsoft, and Cisco. Disruptive vendors are changing things; Nokia, Motorola, and RIM have stumbled in the mobile market, where Apple and Google have surged. In particular, Microsoft has issues, Sondergaard said, and while it may be successful in tablets or niches, there are no compelling business reasons to go to Windows 8, so 90 percent of enterprises will bypass broad adoption of the new operating system.
Overall, he predicted IT spending will continue to grow, reaching $4 trillion by 2016. Much of the growth in technology spending, however, is happening outside the IT department. In 2000, technology spending outside of IT was only 20 percent, he said, but now in industries such as manufacturing, 90 percent of the technology spending will be outside of IT by the end of the decade. Similarly, in industries such as media, technology spending is mostly outside traditional IT.
Organizations are increasingly digitizing more of their budgets, such as moving marketing from analog to digital and reworking how companies interact with their clients. As a result, "every budget is an IT budget," he said. Organizations will need a "chief digital officer," and Sondergaard predicted that by 2015, 25 percent of organizations will have such positions, changing how IT interacts with the business units.
The process of turning data or information into revenue will accelerate the growth of the global economy, according to Gartner. By 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs will be created to support big data, including 1.9 million in the United States. Every one of these domestic jobs will create three jobs outside of IT, so that means six million new jobs created by the information economy in the next few years. The lack of skills available in the market, however, means only one-third of the jobs will be filled.
To demonstrate these trends, Chris Howard, managing vice president at Gartner, showed an example of using a "personal cloud" to manage his work and business life. He used this "cloud" on a tablet to monitor a fictional company's reputation, check on the status of a gamification project, check what time his teenage daughter really got home, check in on his mother's medical condition, and crowdsource his ordering of clothing.
Above: Gartner Managing Vice President Chris Howard
Analyst David Willis said this exemplifies a future where there are fewer command and control structures, and where IT doesn't define the rules but enables technology using dynamic portals, real-time information feeds, social networks, and mobile devices. All this can put work and personal life "into harmony," he said. As an example, he talked about how the United Nations Global Pulse project uses technology to detect early warning signals to avert calamities.
But then he talked about the problems such as hackers, malware, and people who want to hurt the company. "There is serious work to be done on the security side," he said.
Companies should "design for openness but expect to continue to invest in security all the time," Willis said. They need to anticipate new attacks, including social media and reputation attacks. They also need to look at new technology like containerization, virtualization, and mobile device management. "Security is an arms race," he said, and security investments will get bigger, growing by more than 50 percent in the next five years. Health care companies are already doubling their security spending because of regulatory concerns. Critical IT products and services will be subject to government regulation by 2015, but a complete "lockdown" is not possible, he said.
Mary Mesaglio, research vice president at Gartner, talked about the need to "unleash the capabilities of information in your organization," allowing for new revenue streams, new missions, and new opportunities.
Above: Gartner Research Vice President Mary Mesaglio
You can't just make digital copies of the analog world, however. As examples, Mesaglio started with Tesco Home Plus in Korea. The firm put full-size replicas of retail stores on subway cars, allowing customers to order products digitally by scanning bar codes. Cemex, a Mexican building materials company, created a platform called Shift that allows collaboration with people inside and outside of the company. International Speedway Corp created a number of social, mobile applications to better connect fans with the races.
Every product in your discretionary budget needs to engage your customer or citizen, she said. It is important for IT leaders to help drive growth and business processors, not just handle back office automation.
Sondergaard returned to tell the audience of IT executives that they need to embrace the new technologies, be more customer-focused, and adapt to changes in the business. They need to treat every budget as an IT budget and invest in security.
"This is an extraordinary time in human history," he said. "IT is at the center of every business, every government agency, from the back-end all the way out to the customer."


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C7.R Debuts at NAIAS
Chevrolet kicked of the 2014 racing season by revealing the new Corvette C7.R at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on January 13. At press time, the car was scheduled to make its racing debut at the Rolex 24 At Daytona less than two weeks later.
Chevy clearly hopes this latest racing Corvette will build upon the success of its predecessor, the C6.R, which racked up a formidable list of accolades during its eight-year run in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS).
In addition to radical new bodywork based on the C7 Z06, the car will wear an updated version of the "Jake" skull logo that first appeared on Corvette ALMS cars in the early 2000s. The revised Jake sports a more modern and aggressive look intended to mirror the appearance of the C7.R itself.
"The best thing about Jake is that the logo transcends age and gender, uniting the Corvette Racing team and enthusiasts alike," said Tom Peters, Director of Design, Performance Vehicles. "The new Jake logo reinforces the brand's success on the track and signals the transition from the C6.R to the C7.R."
"Corvette Stingray: The Legend Lives" on Sale Now
For the second year in a row, VETTE has teamed up with sister title Motor Trend to produce a special-edition publication focused exclusively on America's Favorite Sports Car. On sale now, Corvette Stingray: The Legend Lives is packed with historical, technical, and lifestyle articles on both the all-new 'ray and its legendary predecessors. Look for it on newsstands wherever MT and VETTE are found.
Funfest '14 to Honor Vets
In recognition of Military Family Appreciation Month, Mid America Motorworks will honor "Vets with Vettes" at its 21st annual Corvette Funfest event, scheduled for September 18-21.
"Every year at Corvette Funfest, we see more and more Corvettes with patriotic paint jobs and designs," said company president and "Chief Cheerleader" Mike Yager. "With some of my own brothers who served, members of the Mid America Motorworks family with military backgrounds, and all of the service men and women in our extended Corvette family, it is a privilege to show them how much their commitment and sacrifice means."
Veterans and Corvette owners with patriotically customized Corvettes will receive special parking in a place of honor on the Corvette Funfest grounds. The weekend will also include special attractions and presentations honoring members of the military, past and present.
Visit www.corvettefunfest.com for more information or to register.
Split-Window Earns Top-10 Price at Mecum KC
A '63 L76 coupe sold for $76,000 at Mecum's Kansas City Auction in December, landing it in the top 10 for prices paid at that event. The Ermine White four-speed car featured a numbers-matching powertrain and had been "highly detailed to NCRS specifications," according to the seller.
The next Mecum event will take place April 10-12 in Houston. Visit www.mecum.com for more details.


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The Farm at Pony Gulch: Michael and Anna Sophia (Witt) Baier Come to America and Homestead in North Dakota 1883-1926
Book review by Marie (Tandeski) Delizonna, San Jose, California
Knalson, Eddie. The Farm at Pony Gulch: Michael and Anna Sophia (Witt) Baier Come to America and Homestead in North Dakota 1883-1926. Fargo, North Dakota: Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, North Dakota State University Libraries, 2012.
The Farm at Pony Gulch is a fascinating account of the life of Michael and Anna Sophia Baier from 1882-1926.
The author, Eddie Kralson, tells the family story thru personal memories, a family diary, and an oral interview.
The story begins with the Baier family leaving Bessarabia, Russia-their journey to South Dakota and eventually homesteading at Poly Gulch Township near Harvey, North Dakota.
If you were born German-Russian on the prairies; this story feels like your family story: the ardous task of building their first home by cutting bricks of virgin sod, breaking the sod for farming, having numerous children and the pain of burying a few; butchering using everything but the squeal and bawl, gardening and canning. In addition to these jobs, coping with capricious weather, loneliness and homesickness for family and friends left behind in Russia.
As time goes on the Bairs, like many immigrants, chose different paths, professions and become contributing citizens of their new country.
At the end of the book is a bibliography, genealogy, and as a bonus special German-Russian recipes for the reader to try.
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The Film Independent Spirit Awards are the penultimate stop before the Oscars -- but with just one day to go before the Academy Awards, 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis had reached her red carpet threshold.
As her publicist told her she had a few more interviews to do before heading into the telecast -- held in a beachside tent in Santa Monica -- the "Beasts of the Southern Wild" star pouted.
"I don't want to," she said, one of her trademark puppy dog purses swinging from her wrist.
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Wallis wasn't the only Oscar nominee who seemed eager for award season to come to a close. Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Helen Hunt all rushed down the fuchsia carpet, barely acknowledging many members of the press.
Though his "Silver Linings Playbook" co-stars may be tired of the promotional circuit, Chris Tucker still appeared to be basking in the spotlight. The actor, who was presenting at the Spirit Awards, said his return to acting after a five-year hiatus has been exciting. Not only has his role in the movie helped his comedy tour ticket sales, but it's also made him some unlikely new friends in Hollywood.
"I ran into Tom Cruise and he put me in a headlock and asked me when we're doing a movie together," the actor recalled. "I was like 'Damn! Tom's got me in a headlock.'"
Despite the day's focus on achievements in the independent film world, many of the attendees said they were consumed with thoughts of tomorrow's Oscars ceremony. Even indie veteran Mark Duplass, on hand to support the Sundance favorite "Safety Not Guaranteed," said he was anxious about tomorrow's best picture showdown.
"I … hope that we beat 'Argo' tomorrow. 'Argo' is a safer version of an interesting political thriller," Duplass said, not pulling any punches when it came to his feelings about Ben Affleck's frontrunner.
Even Spirit Awards host Andy Samberg used his opening monologue to poke fun at the fact that many of today's nominees often crossover into the world of Hollywood's most lucrative films (he noted that both "Silverlings" stars Lawrence and Cooper appear in the massive franchises "The Hunger Games" and "The Hangover").
Play-at-home ballot: Have you made your picks yet?
But Daniel Radcliffe, who is currently transitioning from the "Harry Potter" franchise into the indie world, insisted that the differences between big- and low-budget productions are minimal.
"It only relates to how many resources you have and for how long. Other than that, it's the same chaotic process of filmmaking," said Radcliffe.
Many on the carpet said they were most looking forward to watching Samberg host; however, several of his comedian friends, including "New Girl" star Jake Johnson and his former Saturday Night Live castmate Fred Armisen, used today as an opportunity to roast Samberg.
"He's not good at things. He's odd looking. He belongs in regional theater," Armisen said.
His unsolicited advice for the host?
"Find some friends who can make your personality better. Do something with your hair."
Samberg did not take kindly to the tips.
"You know what? Shout-out to all those regional theater people doing God's work," he said. "Plus, I don't take tips. I think it's tacky. Gratuity is included and I'm paid in full."
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Su Teatro, Mizel Museum, Curious Theatre Company and a handful of Denver-area arts advocacy nonprofits were among the nine organizations getting Colorado's $2.5 million share of the National Endowment for the Arts' recent round of grants.
The grants — 928 in all totalling $77.17 million nationally — will go toward everything from arts education and dance programs to supporting literature, opera and visual arts. Specifically, they covered the NEA's grant categories of Art Works, Arts in Media and Partnerships.
"The arts should be a part of everyday life," NEA chairman Rocco Landesman said in a press release. "Whether it's seeing a performance, visiting a gallery, participating in an art class, or simply taking a walk around a neighborhood enhanced by public art, these grants are ensuring that across the nation, the public is able to experience how art works."
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My undergraduate degree is in electrical engineering and my masters is in electrical and computer engineering. So working for a financial firm like Goldman Sachs was definitely not what I had in my mind. Even though I came from an electrical engineering background, I was always more inclined towards computer science.
When I started looking for a summer internship while in my graduate program, I had two options in mind, either to go with a product based technology company or with a financial firm. At first I thought the decision would be a tough one, but I had some friends working at Goldman Sachs and I talked to them. After discussing the nature of their work and the overall prospects for a software engineer, I decided to enter the finance industry. Goldman was the first firm that came for campus interviews and luckily, it worked out for me.
I enjoyed my internship with the Client Reference Data team a lot, and got to experience the good things my friends already working at Goldman Sachs had told me about. When I was offered a chance to come back as a full time employee, I accepted the offer right away. Looking back at last few years, I am so glad I did that.
The recruiting process, my summer internship, the training program I entered when I joined as a full time employee and every single project I have worked on has been an amazing learning experience. I am still thankful to my first manager for helping me switch my tracks from academics to the professional world. When I first joined, I was impressed with the fact that every discussion begins and ends with how a particular change would be beneficial to the firm. I soon realized this was an integral part of the Goldman Sachs culture.
I work as an application developer in the Client Reference Data team, which is a part of Operations Engineering. Our current focus is the design and build of the proprietary Common Reference Data Framework, which will make the client data maintenance more efficient. In addition, our team is engaged in the development of technology to support the Client Onboarding Initiative, which will reengineer our approach to on board new clients, as well as expand the scope of business they can engage in.
As a part of the initiative to put better controls and procedures around maintenance of the client reference data, we are building a workflow based intelligent system that will handle any request to change this data. Our goals are to reduce the workload of our data governance team and to make sure that this data is accurate and it meets the required standards before it is stored in the data repositories . I am very excited about the project as I am working on a business process management system for the first time.
The most rewarding part of my job is seeing the solutions we developed in use and improving efficiency of the business processes. During the 2008 financial crisis, I was instrumental in developing an application that generates reports for our firm's exposure to any company. It gives me immense satisfaction to see that application still being used in our team. We developed the application in a very short amount of time and under extremely high pressure, yet it has turned out to be not just a tactical solution but a strong foundation for a strategic solution.
We are a global team with presence in New York, Salt Lake City, London and Bengaluru. The best part of my job is the interaction with team members across the globe on varied projects.
As a global team, we work on most of the projects with team members from Bengaluru or London. Short-term assignments in other geographic locations are also encouraged. I was in Bengaluru for two weeks early this year and it was a great experience.
At Goldman Sachs, everyone is encouraged to take on more responsibility and stretch themselves. People are very professional and are always there to help you if you get stuck. This makes it a fun place to work even though the nature of work is very challenging.
If you are a technologist who has the same dilemma that I had in the beginning of my career, here is some advice that might help you in making a decision:
The Finance industry is a fast-paced and challenging industry which provides you ample growth opportunities. Working in the technology division of a big finance firm is not very different from working in a technology firm. The finance industry has its own unique challenges that you could enjoy solving. You will get many opportunities to design and develop software solutions using the latest technologies. You will also get to know how they are used to solve real world business problems. Talking to the people who work in the industry will definitely answer a lot of questions and would assist you in making the right decision for your career.


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A winner was selected from 41 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
SIGEO is a company providing aerial survey services, creating digital maps, GIS services, cartography
we need a clean logo, use a map or something that descibe the services. better if it used light blue as color..
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The University team saw their cup run cut short after suffering a 3-0 defeat at home to St George's this Wednesday.
Hastings Campus Cup Run Continues
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The University of Brighton's Hastings campus booked their place in the last 16 of the South Eastern Conference Plate after a comprehensive 4-2 victory over Royal Holloway.
Fencing event on point as Parklife program expands
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University of Brighton, Hastings Campus, plays host to a fencing event to encourage students to try different sports.
Nigel Kane Returning To Hastings United
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After Hastings United's miserable loss to Burgess Hill on Monday, rumours are circulating that club legend Nigel Kane could return.
Benefit freeze to come to an end.
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ATLANTA PHILADELPHIA BALTIMORE HASKINS & SELLS PITTSBURGH BIRMINGHAM BOSTON PORTLAND PROVIDENCE BROOKLYN SAINT LOUIS BUFFALO CHARLOTTE CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS SALT LAKE CITY SAN DIEGO CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO CINCINNATI SEATTLE CLEVELAND BULLETIN TULSA DALLAS WATERTOWN DENVER DETROIT BERLIN JACKSONVILLE LONDON KANSAS CITY PARIS LOS ANGELES SHANGHAI MINNEAPOLIS NEWARK E X E C U T I V E O F F I C ES HAVANA NEW ORLEANS 30 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK MEXICO CITY NEW YORK MONTREAL VOL. IX NEW Y O R K , J U L Y , 1926 No. 7 THE advent into the firm of three such worthy members as were admitted June 1, 1926, is just cause for elation on the part of other partners. There is also a side to the event which should be the cause of greater satisfaction. The three men in question began at the bottom and worked their way up. They have been unfailing in their confidence that in this organization advancement is a matter of ability and application; not ancestry, fraternalism, religion, political adherence, or favoritism. In the course of the firm's existence many men have passed in and out of the organization. Doubtless many have entered who by reason of lack of education, experience, stamina, right temperament or other qualities were not suited to accountancy and therefore had no hope of succeeding in an organization the chief purpose of which is to practice accountancy. Others have succeeded in accordance with Nietzsche's theory that only the fittest survive. Probably some have passed out of the firm's employ because of discouragement at not making progress with sufficient rapidity to satisfy their pride, ambition, or economic requirements. Some men who should have been retained have been allowed to get away. Whether or not one believes in the doctrine of pre-ordination, it is almost inevitable that certain individuals will succeed in an organization like ours. What with a country having the economic possibilities of our own, with industry developed to a state which the world never before has witnessed, with accountancy beginning to come into its own, it is imperative that any organization in that field which attempts to keep pace with modern conditions have top men competent to deal successfully with the problems which arise. The men who will be chosen, naturally are those who combine character, technical ability, high professional ideals, devotion to their chosen profession, and devotion to the organization of which they form a part. Any man along the way who has these characteristics scarcely can escape being chosen. We are proud of an organization in which an office boy can rise to the position of firm member. We are proud of staff men who have demonstrated their ability to work their way through the complicated paths of difficulty to a point where they can assume the responsibility necessary to justify their admission to the firm. We believe in the future of our organization. We believe in the practice as well as the principles of democracy. We believe in Napoleon's theory that every private carries in his knapsack the baton of a marshal. We think the experience of our three youngest partners should serve as an inspiration to every member of our staff.
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Chocolate Crumb Pie Crust (recipe to follow)
8 oz. (8 squares) semisweet chocolate
3 pkgs. (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
3 Tbs. all-purpose flour
1 cup heavy cream
1 tsp. vanilla or almond extract
Preheat oven to 350º.
Prepare crust according to directions.
Lightly grease 9-inch spring-form pan and press crust mixture onto bottom and 1 inch up sides of pan.
Bake for 8-10 minutes.
Remove pan from oven and cool completely on wire rack.
Melt chocolate, remove from heat, and set aside to cool.
Place cream cheese and sugar in mixer bowl and beat until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
Add flour and beat until thoroughly combined.
Stir in reserved chocolate and beat until thoroughly blended.
Add cream and vanilla and beat about three minutes until thoroughly combined.
Pour over cooled crust and bake in preheated oven 60 minutes.
Turn off oven and leave cake in closed oven 1 hour.
Remove cake from oven and cool completely on rack.
Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Run knife around edge of cake and remove side of pan. (Impatient me will probably skip the refrigerate part! Gosh, I've already waited like 2+ hours!)
Chocolate Crumb Pie Crust
1-1/2 cups finely crushed chocolate wafers
3 Tbs. sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350º.
Combine crushed wafers, sugar, and cinnamon in bowl.
Add butter and stir until well combined.
Press crumb mixture onto bottom and partly up sides of lightly greased 8-inch or 9-inch pie plate or spring-form pan. Flatten to even thickness with back of a spoon.
Bake in preheated oven 8-10 minutes.
Cool completely before filling.
Use as base for cheesecake or fill with ice cream, chocolate mousse, or other pie filling.


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