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At San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios came prepared with buzzworthy news and footage to share, but it was the end of their presentation that delivered the biggest surprise. The Avengers writer and director Joss Whedon took to the stage to unveil a teaser and the official logo for the highly anticipated sequel to his record-breaking superhero team-up and few in the audience were expecting it.
What was shown preceding The Avengers: Age of Ultron title card was footage of an Iron Man armored suit transforming into Ultron, the villainous robot and one of Earth's Mightiest's greatest foes. Little did we know that the voice and face of that character would be James Spader.
The man who played Dr. Daniel Jackson in the original Stargate film and more recently had a starring role in the latter seasons of The Office, also having worked with Disney in Steven Spielberg's Oscar nominated Lincoln, is going to play the primary antagonist of The Avengers: Age of Ultron.
The news comes directly from Marvel who are continuing to embrace a trend of utilizing their own brand to promote internal news and the official casting is the second for The Avengers sequel having happily confirmed that Robert Downey Jr. had signed for both currently-planned Avengers sequels a few months earlier.
With Age of Ultron not beginning to shoot until next year, the timing of the casting announcement months before Thor: The Dark World hits theaters and while Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy is curious, if not timely. For the last week, headlines from both Disney-Marvel and rival studio Warner Bros./DC Entertainment have focused on high profile casting, with Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper and Elizabeth Olsen having been confirmed to be in talks with Marvel while Ben Affleck was officially announced to take on the iconic role of Batman in the Man of Steel sequel.
Since Affleck is official and the other Marvel-associated names are not, perhaps Marvel is attempting to turn the buzz back towards them with an official announcement of their own regarding their highest profile and most bankable upcoming project.
With a commanding voice and onscreen presence, coupled with his unique mannerisms, Spader is an unusual yet inspired choice. Yet, looking at his facial expression in the image from NBCs upcoming series The Blacklist above, Whedon made an appropriate and exciting selection. Our theories of Iron Man's AI assistance Jarvis going rogue and the voice of the character (Paul Bettany) getting a chance to play Ultron is at least partly not going to be the case.
We know Spader… Ultron is going to be a source of great pain and conflict for The Avengers and it's becoming increasingly likely that one (or more?) of the heroes may not make it out alive. Who will die? Did Tony Stark create James Spader as his deadliest creation? Should the film be renamed The Avengers: Age of James Spader to better fit Whedon's entirely new origin story for the character?
Rob Keyes blogs at Screen Rant.


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El Tiempo and El Espectador have published some really horrific accounts of terrible abuses, mostly committed by right-wing paramilitaries, and mostly committed against women, in the terribly-misnamed town of El Placer, whose name means 'pleasure,' in the bajo Putumayo region.
Thankfully, these crimes mostly ended a half dozen years ago, altho that doesn't reduce their horror. The media is publishing these accounts because of the presentation Wednesday evening in the BLAA of a report, entitled 'Women, Coca and war in the Lower Putumayo,' by the Center for Historical Memory as part of the Fifth Week of Remembering. The southern Putumayo region, desired by outlaw groups because of its valuable coca-leaf plantations, had long been dominated by lefist guerrillas, who trampled residents' human rights in their own ways. But in 1999 right wing paramilitaries invaded, driving out the guerrillas and accusing residents of having collaborated with them.
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in South Putumayo.
The accounts are particularly disturbing in light of Colombia's controversial Justice and Peace Law, which enabled the paramilitaries' demobilization, but was heavily criticized for letting vicious criminals off with only light sentences or none at all, and invite reflection on the negotiations now beginning between the government and the leftist FARC guerrillas.
Ex-Pres. Alvaro Uribe has been the loudest critic of the negotiations with the guerrillas, which he believes will permit impunity. But he conveniently forgets the impunity received by the right-wing paramilitaries - who notoriously fought alongside government forces while Uribe was governor of Antioquia Province and later president of Colombia.
The paramilitary demobilization, with all of its defects, at least reduced the number of civilian massacres and displacements. A possible peace treaty with the FARC guerrillas would undoubtedly have huge flaws, but could also prevent many future human rights violations.
By Mike Ceaser, of Bogotá Bike Tours

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New Bluetooth Basketball Analyzes Your Shooting, Dribbling Skills
It's called "madness" for a reason — the college basketball frenzy in March is enough to convince many that if they only had a better handle on the ball, or a higher arc, they, too could have made it to the Final Four.
Now there's a basketball for that.
An Ohio-based company called InfoMotion has created a high-tech, Bluetooth-equipped basketball that senses the player's motions with the ball and, after analyzing the data, shares it wirelessly to a compatible iOS or Android smartphone app.
InfoMotion has kicked off a Kickstarter campaign today to raise money for the production of the ball.
Mike Crowley, InfoMotion's CEO, says the app doesn't just spit out data; it's supposed to offer advanced diagnostics to help players improve their games. "Five years ago, when we started the company, we knew consumers needed data. But the next evolution, beyond just activity tracking, is, how do I get better?"
The sensors in the ball can measure the direction of the ball's spin and how quick your release is after catching the ball. In terms of ball handling, the Bluetooth ball knows the efficiency of your left hand versus your right hand, and how hard you dribble with each — in a sense, how confident you are with the ball.
Using this data, the app will recognize patterns and offer suggestions to shoot with a higher arc, or use your legs, or change the trajectory of the ball.
While the ball can sense when it has hit backboard, rim or net, InfoMotion's "hit-or-miss" technology is still in development, so right now the app won't tell you how many shots you've made — only how many you've taken.
The app also has a multiplayer mode, in which you and up to three other friends can take turns shooting 10 shots at a time and compete. InfoMotion's goal is to create a kind of virtual playground, in which ballplayers around the world can compare scores within the app.
The sensor-laden basketball is made of indoor/outdoor synthetic leather, courtesy of Spalding. Despite the fact that the ball comes packed with an eight-hour battery, Crowley says it meets regulation weight and size. It's Qi-compatible, so it can be charged wirelessly, and comes with a charging sleeve.
If you can already feel the synthetic leather pimples under your fingertips, here's the part where you might get a little, um, deflated: InfoMotion doesn't expect the ball to ship until the third quarter of this year. And it will retail for a whopping $295. That almost makes these basketball sneakers look reasonable (not really).
To be fair, this new offering is much cheaper than InfoMotion's first high-tech basketball, which launched in 2011 and ranged in price from $2,500 to $5,000. That ball was aimed mainly at high-level coaches and players.
But $295 is still a lot for a synthetic-leather basketball. Here's a little free advice, kids: High-tech or not, just get out there and shoot — a lot!


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The beer is flowing again for the spring Breckenridge Massive Beer Festival at Main Street Station sponsored by ResortQuest Breckenridge, one of the most popular events of the Breckenridge annual Spring Massive celebration (the summer beer festival is held on July 18th). Now 'hoppily' in its third year, the festival runs April 11, 2009 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. sampling beers from over twenty local and national brewers. Musical guests Papa Mali from New Orleans, Motorhome from Fort Collins, Colorado and mountain locals Big Richard will perform throughout the festival on the Main Street Station stage.
As the exclusive festival Breckenridge lodging partner, ResortQuest is the sole provider of discounted tasting mugs. Unlimited beer tasting mugs start as low a $20 per person with a ResortQuest Breckenridge lodging package. Without the lodging package, mugs are available at the door for $30 per person.
Experienced Breckenridge Beer Festival attendees know the best value is the VIP Package, this year limited to an exclusive 250 lucky patrons. Festival VIPs receive unlimited tasting in the line-free VIP room, early entry to the festival, a commemorative glass mug and a private lunch buffet provided by the new Himalayan Restaurant at Main Street Station. 'Last year over 3,500 people attended the festival, so bypassing the lines with the VIP access is priceless,' recommends Main Street Station Events Manager Karin Bearnarth. The VIP Package is $50 per person with ResortQuest lodging and $75 per person at the door the day of the festival.
ResortQuest Breckenridge offers a wide selection of lodging for the Breckenridge Massive Beer Festival. General Manager Andru Zeiset says, 'We encourage people to make a weekend of it by offering some fantastic discounts. Get in some amazing spring skiing or shopping, have a great time at the festival and end with a convenient and safe night right in Breckenridge.'
ResortQuest guests can also take the complimentary guest shuttle back to their accommodations. Breckenridge Massive Beer Festival packages start at $99 per night for two people with discounted tasting mugs for $20 per person or $50 for the VIP. Guests can select from hotel suites, studios, one to four-bedroom condominiums and luxurious private homes in ski-in/ski-out or downtown locations. For more information on ResortQuest or the Breckenridge Massive Beer Festival lodging, visit ResortQuestBreckenridge.com For more information or to book your reservation call 800.506.7639.


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Principal, New York
At BCG, Challengers go against expected thinking and inspire their teams to be truly innovative. Ramiro connects the dots to see the bigger picture.
At BCG, you're expected to fully own your work from end-to-end. You'll receive support, guidance, and input along the way, but driving real impact is up to you. This kind of environment might be stressful for some people, but it's the fastest way to learn, develop, and take on increasing levels of responsibility.
I've always been interested in a rigorous and quantitative approach to solving problems, finding answers, and exploring ideas. Based on that interest, I earned an undergraduate degree and eventually a PhD in chemical engineering. However, as interested as I am in abstract ideas, I'm even more interested in seeing ideas have an impact in the real world.
At BCG, I've had the opportunity to not only work on some of the most difficult and important problems our clients face but also partner with clients to ensure that change actually takes place. The amount of real-world impact I've been able to have since joining BCG is something that continually amazes and inspires me.
Ramiro graduated from the University of Florida with a BSChE in chemical engineering as well as a BS in chemistry. He earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
I love being able to work on major change initiatives that often impact tens of thousands of people or create hundreds of millions of dollars in value. I can't imagine any other environment where you jump from one career-making project to another every three to six months.
When I joined BCG, I already had strong analytical skills and knew how to drive to the "right" answer. However, being right is rarely enough to get the world to change. At BCG, I've learned a tremendous amount about how incentives, transaction costs, and inertia drive both individual and organizational behavior. This deeper understanding of human and organizational behavior has helped me tremendously when I need to persuade individuals and marshal organizations around a new idea.
I worked in Amsterdam and Santiago during my first two years at BCG. Santiago was an amazing experience as I got to brush up on my Spanish, and travel extensively around the region, including trips to Buenos Aires, Cordoba, the Atacama Desert, and Easter Island.


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A new article by Oracle's Java Champion Jim Weaver, titled "Expressing the UI for Enterprise Applications with JavaFX 2.0 FXML -- Part Two," now up on otn/java, shows developers how to leverage the power of the FX Markup Language to define the UI for enterprise applications. Weaver, the author of Pro JavaFX Platform, extends the SearchDemoFXML example used in Part One to include more concepts and techniques for creating an enterprise application using FXML.
Weaver concludes the article by summarizing its content, "FXML provides the ability to radically change the UI without modifying the controller. This task can be accomplished by loading different FXML documents, leveraging JavaFX cascading style sheets, and creating localized resource bundles. Named parameters can be used with these features to provide relevant information to an application at startup."
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Dear Emuna,
This is quite an awkward and painful dilemma. When I was two my father was arrested for sexually abusing my 12-year-old brother. It was the 1980s and all that happened was that my father went on probation and had mandatory therapy. During the course of his therapy, it was determined by a doctor that he was at high risk for re-offending.
My parents soon divorced and for the rest of my childhood I had limited and supervised visits with my father. Because all my visits were supervised by another adult (which was mandated by a judge) I was never abused. Now that I'm an adult, the stipulations have been lifted.
When I became pregnant with my now three-year-old daughter, I made a decision to sever any and all ties with my father. Knowing what I know makes me highly frightened for my daughter's safety and I can't take the risk. Not to mention I don't want an awkward conversation of, "No Dad, my daughter can't spend the weekend with you because of your past...."
Am I dishonoring my father? Am I giving him a life-time punishment for something that happened almost 30 years ago?
-- Don't Want the Risk
Dear No Risk,
The commandment to honor your parents does not require you to put your family at risk. Your primary job is to take care of your daughter and to raise her to be an emotionally and physically healthy human being, as much as it is within your power to do so. You certainly need to protect her and even the slightest risk is too great. She is your priority. Her safety and security are paramount. That is clear and there is no need to second guess yourself on this point.
Your daughter is your priority. Even the slightest risk is too great.
I don't know if supervised visits with your father are an option. Perhaps that could be arranged with very strict parameters. But if it makes you the least bit uncomfortable or raises even a small concern, don't do it. The potential downside is just too great.
You also have an obligation to protect yourself. You are the foundation of your family, of your husband and daughter's life. Your daughter needs a physically and emotionally healthy mother and your husband needs the same in a wife. If contact with your father will be toxic for you and impede your ability to perform these essential roles, then you should also steer clear.
You are not punishing your father. He continues to learn the hard way one of life's most important yet sometimes painful lessons – that actions have consequences.
-- Emuna
Dear Emuna,
I married a wonderful man 15 years ago. He is a good father to our children. He has his faults, which oftentimes anger me; but on the whole he is very good to me. I know he loves me a lot though sometimes it is to the point of putting me on a pedestal and not really seeing me for who I truly am.
My question is what do I do? How can I develop a deep, meaningful relationship with him so that I can come to develop real love for him? Believe me, I do try to focus on the good in him and all that he does for me, and this allows us to function well together and accomplish the task of raising our children. But isn't marriage supposed to be more than this? I don't feel an "inner" connection to him.
We both came into our marriage with much emotional "baggage" (who doesn't?). I have been working for years on my own growth and have developed a lot from when we first got married. I don't see him growing or changing (or wanting to, for that matter). I think this is part of the reason that it is truly hard for me to form a real connection with him. At the same time, he continues to treat me very well and be a good father. How do I fill the void that I feel for a meaningful relationship?
-- Feeling the Void
Dear Feeling the Void
I understand the desire for a husband with whom you can forge a deep connection. I understand the desire for a husband whose drive for growth matches yours. I understand the desire for a husband who appreciates the real you. But it is truly rare (in fact, well nigh impossible) to find one person who can fill all our desires. It puts an unfair burden on your husband and on the marriage. You describe your husband as a wonderful man, a good father and someone who is kind to you. You are one very lucky lady. And you're raising a family together. Take a moment to appreciate what you have; a lot of women would give anything to be in your position.
You state that even when you focus on his good, you have a hard time developing real love. The Torah teaches us that love comes only through giving. Think of it as a mantra: "You give, you care." This may not come naturally and may require a lot of practice.
This is the secret formula for a good marriage: You give, you care.
You mention how giving your husband is to you, how well he treats you but you don't mention your own behavior. You need to be at least as giving to him, not for his sake but for your own. Give to him, constantly, over and over and over again. That's the Torah way to build a relationship. That's the Jewish path to true love.
That connection you seek doesn't come through those deep meaningful conversations (those DMC's my kids like to make fun of!) but through giving – every day, whether you feel like it or not, especially when it's "or not." This is the secret formula for a good marriage.
Marriages never thrive and love never grows based on what we're getting. A marriage, a relationship, our love is enhanced solely based on what we're giving.
-- Emuna
Dear Emuna,
I work at home and I love it. I can move at my own pace. I can save money on my wardrobe. I can even take an afternoon nap if necessary. The only downside is the constant proximity to the refrigerator. I can also eat all day long. There's breakfast, early morning snack, mid-morning snack, late morning snack…you get the picture. It's too tempting and I'm starting to gain weight. Any helpful thoughts?
-- Pudgy Mommy
Dear Tempted,
There is probably nothing I can tell you that you haven't read in a million weight-loss books and articles. Nevertheless some of them may bear repeating.
The biggest challenge of working at home is structure. That applies to all aspects of the job and in your case especially to eating. Establish regular break times each day and ONLY enter the kitchen at those designated moments.
In some ways you actually have it easier. You can stock your fridge with healthy snacks. You are not at risk of the office saboteurs, the ones who bring in home-made brownies or have a large jar of chocolates on their desk or who order pizza and cupcakes for everyone's birthday.
And, like everyone else, you need to choose alternative activities for those moments of the day when you feel low-energy or frustration – a quick nap, a change of focus, a walk around the block.
I'm not sure this is actually a bigger challenge for those who work from home. It's a dilemma for anyone who struggles with their weight. And the strategies – willpower, self-discipline, distractions, asking the Almighty to help – remain the same.
-- Emuna


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EVENT DATE: May 21, 2016
EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH NORFOLK wrote -
Join Emmanuel Baptist Church (EBC) as we put on our first annual 5k Race for Hope! Our goal is to create an environment where the church and community can join together in raising awareness and hope for those in our midst who suffer from human trafficking, drug addiction and other areas of injustice.
Race Day Details: 5K Run/Walk (rain or shine)
Date: Saturday, May 21, 2016
Time: Registration opens at 8:30am; Race begins at 9:30am
Location: Emmanuel Baptist Church | 63 Rockwood Rd. (Rt. 115), Norfolk, MA - Additional parking is a short walk away at the Freeman-Kennedy school located on 70 Boardman St. in Norfolk
Donations: Money raised will go towards supporting the Amirah House, a faith-based nonprofit organization located in the Boston area that strives "to provide a refuge for those seeking to break free from exploitation and heal in community on their journey toward lasting hope." The Amirah House provides safe homes for those that want to break free from sexual exploitation. They believe each human life is sacred, created in God's image, and therefore, worthy of love, mercy and justice. It's their goal that each woman served at Amirah will be restored and empowered with a sense of her inherent value and God-given strengths.
We are asking all race participants to raise/donate a minimum of $25.00* to help cover the event costs. All participants are encouraged to find sponsors to help raise funds over the registration fee to support the Amirah House.
How to participate:
1. Complete your registration. Click "Join the Team" on this website.
2. Ask people to sponsor you. All of the proceeds from the race will benefit the Amirah House in Boston (www.amirahboston.org). Spread the word to your friends, family, co-workers, everyone! Help us bring hope to victims of injustice.
"Those who HOPE in the LORD will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will RUN and not grow weary." - Isaiah 40:31
3. Show up on race day! Come to run, walk or just spend your morning with us as we gather together as a church and a community.
Additional Details: This year's event is clock timed, and all participants will be receiving a water bottle for signing up. Medals will be given for first, second and third place winners for men & women. We encourage both runners and walkers of all ages to sign up! There will be music, kid friendly games, light refreshments and informational booths for those attending.
Please contact the EBC 5K Committee at firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions or concerns.
*Please note that your $25.00 registration fee is not tax-deductible. You will receive a tax-deductible receipt for all donations over and above the registration fee. Donors can donate to the Amirah House directly by sponsoring a runner (click on an individual team member) or by clicking the orange "donate" button at the top right corner of the page. Thank you for your support!


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Jaguar Steering Wheel Covers
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"Proof that we are going in the right direction"
A packed, atmospheric Papp László Budapest Sportaréna; spectacular shows; a headline pre-final performance from John Newman; and of course, four spectacular matches: the Women's EHF FINAL4 2018 was a stellar success that showed the event is going from strength to strength.
EHF President Michael Wiederer is more than satisfied with how the competition has developed.
Speaking with ehfCL.com in Budapest, Wiederer outlined the importance of the event for women's handball globally, commended the high-level organisation by the Hungarian Handball Federation, and looked forward to the future.
ehfCL.com: How does the 2018 edition of the Women's EHF FINAL4 measure up with the success of previous events?
Michael Wiederer: It is further development of the Women's Champions League finals. They have come a long way, starting in a big hall looking for spectators, looking for entertainment, and we were always looking at the same time for a high-level sporting event. Now, I think we found the platform, and today's programme, what I have seen, is at a very high level. All the spectators are in the hall – although they are mainly Hungarian spectators, they are in their seats as well for the match for third place, so it is proof that we are going in the right direction.
ehfCL.com: What do you think of the events organised on the fringe of the Women's EHF FINAL4, for example, the Junior FINAL4?
Michael Wiederer: For me it is a very good initiative of the Hungarian Federation to have this festival, and to have accompanying events. It is also proof that it is not an isolated event, it is a package, and this makes it interesting for people.
ehfCL.com: What can you tell us about the media interest this year?
Michael Wiederer: We know there is a new record for broadcasting stations and territories. We really appreciate that as well, because we need to work hard for the further development of women's handball. It is not easy to create top-level teams. You have to start from a certain basis. The grassroots activities of the organiser are excellent on one hand, but on the other we need the coverage worldwide to strengthen women's handball.
ehfCL.com: How does the EHF FINAL4 fit with the global picture of women's handball?
Michael Wiederer: The FINAL4 tournaments are showcases, both on the men's and women's side. I can see today many people coming from all kinds of directions. I think it is motivating people, it's motivating young players. I remember when we started the Men's FINAL4 in Cologne there was a certain discussion among people, who said 'Oh, but we like home matches.' Nowadays, if you ask a player in the Champions League, he or she always says: 'I want to go to Cologne. I want to go to Budapest.' So, this is a target, and therefore, it is an important highlight overall – not only for club handball.
ehfCL.com: What about the future of the event?
Michael Wiederer: We have one more year in Budapest. The Hungarian Federation expressed their interest to continue the organisation. It is a bit different than it is in Cologne where we are the organiser. Here we have a local organiser, but they are doing a very good job, so let's see. We will have talks with them and we will see what's coming after 2019.


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Provincial Nominee Program or Canada PNP exists because Canadian provinces have their own nominee programs that are designed to encourage skilled migrants to settle in those provinces. These programs are designed to meet the specific needs of employers and to encourage capital investment for that specific geographic area.
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To apply under the Provincial Nominee Program, applicants must be nominated by a Canadian province or territory. Under this program applicants should have the skills, education and work experience needed to make an immediate economic contribution to the province or territory that nominates them.
Persons coming in through this program are provided permanent resident status and ultimately the opportunity to apply for Canadian citizenship.
All the Canadian Provinces do not provide Provincial Nomination Schemes; however, most provinces have an agreement with the Government of Canada that allows them to nominate immigrants who wish to settle in that province.
To be eligible to apply for the Provincial Nomination Scheme, the applicants have to pass three stages:
- Job Offer– Applicants must have a valid job offer from a Canadian company based in the province to which the candidates intend to migrate. Alternatively, candidates can obtain a nomination certificate if they have a close relative living in that province.
- Provincial Government Approval– The job offer should be approved by the relevant provincial government. The applicants are assessed against the migration requirement of the particular province. Candidates will also need to be able to prove that they have a genuine interest to reside and work in the province.
- Application for Permanent Residency- Once the applicant receives a nomination from the particular province, they should make their application for permanent residency with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC).
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Provincial Nominee applications are given preference over other skilled visa applicants by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC).
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Whether it is for a scheduled maintenance visit or an emergency repair, service calls can be costly and time consuming. However, foodservice operators can take several steps to ensure that they get the most out of a service technician's visit while keeping the costs of these calls to a minimum.
According to Mark LeBerte, president of Nashville, Tenn.-based service agency Atech, most of the steps operators can take to limit service costs come on emergency calls. Operators can take the first and perhaps the most effective step before making contact with the service agency. The operator should gather all the basic information on the troubled equipment and be ready to offer it when the agency asks.
It's not unusual, LeBerte said, for operators to call for service on a piece of foodservice equipment that is still within its warranty period. If a non-factory-authorized service agent makes the repairs, troubles with everything from payment to warranty validity can result. With access to the serial number, though, a service agency should be able to at least make an educated guess on warranty status.
Even when a unit exits its warranty period, knowing the manufacturer and model number is extremely valuable. With that information, the service agency should be able load parts for the broken equipment on its truck for the first visit, greatly increasing the chances for a first-call fix.
"It's always a challenge to get that sort of information. You're dealing with a line cook or a kitchen manager and they're in a hurry, but once they understand that part of the puzzle, they're willing to work with us. They want that sort of service experience, so they'll take the time to find the model number," LeBerte said.
In addition to name, rank and serial number, information about how the foodservice operator uses the equipment can help speed repair times and reduce costs. If the operator knows exactly what the unit was being used for when it went down, for instance, relaying that information to a technician can help him hone in on the problem.
In a different vein, knowing how the unit is used on a day-to-day basis can impact scheduling and may lead to a quicker fix. Pieces on the main cook line are nearly impossible to service during lunch and dinner periods, so the service agency will try to work around those hours, LeBerte said. Operators, then, should be sure to communicate if they use the malfunctioning equipment for away from the line tasks like prep work. In such a situation, they may be able to move the time of their visit up.
After scheduling a call, operators can take (and avoid) some equipment-specific steps to reduce repair times and costs. One of the most common mistakes, said Leberte, is unplugging a malfunctioning unit. Unless doing so presents a health or safety risk, leave it as it is. "Many times we come to a piece of equipment that's having a failure and they already turned it off or unplugged it. Then, when we plug it back in, it works just fine. It's been reset because a lot of the controls now are digital and computerized. Unplugging it and plugging it back in will reset the problem...We need to see the error code," said LeBerte.
For reach-in refrigerators, moving the food to another unit can speed up the fix. While time-consuming for kitchen staff, not doing this could force the technician to handle the job at a much higher per-hour rate to complete this task.
Another move that will make the best use of the technician's time is to have the service agent look at other problems, even the seemingly minor ones while still on-site. The fixes the service agent recommends, said LeBerte, can prevent a full-on failure. What's more, this allows operators to make the most out of an expensive truck roll. "The cost to bring mobile service to their location is expensive. That cost has already been absorbed by that one piece of equipment. If they can consolidate repairs and have us look at something else while we're there, it avoids additional expenses from another service call."
Most of the above applies primarily to emergency service calls. The calculus changes significantly for scheduled maintenance visits, said LeBerte. In those cases, it is the service agency's job to track and manage equipment. There are, though, a few steps operators can take to make these calls go smoothly.
One involves cook-and-hold ovens. These units can take two-plus hours to reach their holding temperature, the level at which most are calibrated. Many service agencies recommend warming up these units well before the technician arrives. (Operators, though, should check with their own service agency to see if this is their policy.)
Operators, also, should take a few minutes to make a list of potential problems to give to the technician on a scheduled maintenance visit. This list can help direct the tech to specific problems or concerns. While in most cases the technician would likely find the issue without direction, having this extra checklist can only help prevent problems.
"Ultimately we both want the same thing and that's for the equipment not to fail," said LeBerte. "That's what they're paying us for. We're trying to minimize downtime for our customers."


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Back in the mid-1990s during the heyday of the American independent film scene there were several films released during the decade that became lightning rods for controversy stemming from their, at the time, risqué subject matter. I use the phrase "at the time" because it's not clear whether movies are really capable of shocking us nowadays. In the age of the "torture porn" genre (Hostel, et al.), where even Law & Order plotlines can get pretty damn sick for prime time television, a lot of what stirred social conservatives to boycott studios over what they deemed objectionable material in movies just doesn't work them up the way it used to. It may come down to whether or not movies are really the pop cultural force they used to be.
The idea that an indie ensemble drama that features mostly a lot of awkward communicating between the unbelievably dysfunctional could cause so much trouble now seems almost quaint. Happiness, with its empathetic treatment of a pedophile character and it's numerous, uh, money shots, might still seem provocative by today's standards if for nothing else than for its refusal to deny the film's screwed up characters their essential humanity, but at the time of its release it caused an outright media firestorm prompting its original distributor to deem it too toxic for release. It eventually found a new distributor and did open to equal parts fawning praise for people who think that provocative equals good and righteous denouncement from a lot of people who probably didn't even bother to see the film.
Movies that cause big controversies tend to obscure the actual quality of a film because of how politically loaded one's reaction to the film can feel. If one over praises a film that gets this much heat it can seem a little sophomoric, like they just want to seem with it. If a critic finds it in poor taste and just not that funny—it does get filed under "comedy" at Amoeba—they run the risk of seeming really square. Time, as always, makes old controversies seem pretty irrelevant and I think that time has been more or less kind to Happiness as it holds up as an exceptionally smart ensemble piece about life for the deeply miserable. And the gallows humor goes a long way towards making what is such a vivid portrait of loneliness more or less bearable.
The movie revolves around three sisters with three distinct personalities living in New Jersey. Trish Maplewood (Cynthia Stevenson) is the smarmy "perfect" one with the big house in the suburbs and the psychiatrist husband and three kids. Helen Jordan is a pretentious writer (scary Lara Flynn Boyle) who worries to herself that she's no good and Joy Jordan (Jane Adams) is the nice one who is easily kicked around by pretty much everyone in her life. As the Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum pointed out in his review of Solandz's 2001 film Storytelling, in Solandz's universe there are victims and predators and not much in between.
What's really going on with these characters and the people in their lives is basically a catalog of obscene dysfunction. Trish's husband (Philip Baker Hall) is a pedophile who rapes several of his son's 11-year-old classmates (offscreen). Helen's next door neighbor Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a sweaty, nervous wreck who makes violently obscene phone calls to women he finds in the telephone book while masturbating. Joy's boyfriend is a Russian cab driver who doesn't mention the wife he has during their fling and then later shakes her down for money after his wife has attacked her. The parents of the three sisters are living out their years in a joyless marriage that their dad (Ben Gazzara) abruptly ends to be with other women before realizing that he can't perform sexually. And then there's Kristina (played by Camryn Manheim), the morbidly obese woman who lives in Allen and Helen's building who murders her doorman who had raped her earlier and disposes of his body by cutting him up into little pieces and sticking his remains in her freezer.
How you react to these kinds of shenanigans depends, I guess, on your capacity for provocative material and whether or not you buy the context that the material is presented in which is heavy on irony. Solandz seems to be daring us to empathize with some of these people occupying varying stages of perversity and he insists on making it as difficult as possible while at the same time demanding our understanding. Depending on your point of view he is either a brave humanist or the worst kind of nihilist who cynically rubs our faces in the wreckage of his meticulously assembled freak show.
What is just as important to Solondz as turning a bright unforgiving light on the awful transgressions of his characters is not denying a sense of humor about them. It's this unmistakable humor that creeps up in his movies, I think, that turns so many people off. Solandz's humor tends to increase the pathos of his films instead of breaking their sense of nausea-inducing tension. When the pedophile's son tearfully asks his dad whether he ever considered raping him and his dad, also in tears, tells him that he would have just "jerked off instead" we're really blurring the line between darkly comic and just unrelentingly dark. This is, I suspect, Todd Solandz's vantage point of choice for looking at the world. We can understand the tragedy of what a lost soul the pedophile psychiatrist is and the genuine love he has for his son, we can even hope that Allen and Kristina find a way out of their loneliness with each other, but just as the slightest hint of hope comes into the picture there's usually a horribly comical twist around the corner that comes as a slap in the face making Solandz's conception of life itself seem like a cruel joke but a joke that still has the potential to elicit laughter, awkward or otherwise .
The actors, brave lot that they are, are entirely at the service of Solandz's words and they are admirably game for what must be an intense and draining experience getting in the heads of these creeps and sad sacks and sadists. Critics have continually dismissed Solandz's stock character types as thinly conceived and entirely defined by their dysfunctions. I think Solandz would probably shrug and say that we are uncomfortable with the truth of people and their behavior and that if we really knew what the woman down the hall was up to we might realize how close Solandz's world is to our own.


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What does your relationship with your guild remind you of?
As some of you might be sick of hearing about (when I'm sad, I make my friends' shoulders wet), over the past couple of weeks, I've been (unhealthly) preoccupied by tensions between me and my guild. Well, actually, my guild is probably blissfully unaware of such tensions. Either that or it's ignoring them in hopes that they'll go away.
So in reality, we could say that I've been preoccupied with tensions between me and my perception of my guild.
Which triggered a reflection on how us players view our relationships with our guilds. Some of us take our guilds for what they are: social/hobby clubs, comparable to a garage hockey team or bird watching club. To others, guilds are just a means to achieving in game goals of collecting nice gear and seeing content. At the other end of the spectrum, some (and I tend to fall into this trap a lot) compare their guildies to family, and sometimes even to romantic partners.
Let's take a look at some of these perceptions of relationships between players and their guilds.
1- The Random People Who Do Stuff
Not everyone bonds with the people they play with. Not everyone wants to bond with the people they play with. And that's totally fine- as long as you're upfront about your goals, pull your own weight and don't step on others to get what you want, there's no obligation to be more socially involved than necessary.
2- The Social/Sports Club
As intense as some of us players can get about the people we play with, this is what guilds really are: a group of people who share a common hobby. It's also the key to guild shopping: finding other players who share the same approach and goals about the game.
Even roles within a guild are comparable to real life clubs. Guild officers are like the guy (or girl for the politically correct) on the amateur sports team who sets up the competitions, the guy (or girl) in the running club who orders the t-shirts and so on.
3- The Academy
I've never seen guilds described as a school, but the thought occurred to me as I was talking to a friend from my old casual guild who wanted to play at a higher level. "OMG!" I exclamed, "You and I, we graduated! We're casual guild alumnae!"
I guess this way of seeing guilds only applies to us learning junkies who get our kicks from slowly perfecting our play. After all, it's totally cool to be content playing the game to relax or hang out with buddies. But I felt that "graduating" from a casual guild felt more positive than the more common perception of "breaking up" with a previous guild.
Using "guild as a school" also keeps me focused during more stressful times with my own guild. When you're spending several hours a week with these people (and in the video game world, "these people" often have varying levels of social skills), rough patches are inevitable. But when frustration builds, the realization that I still have a lot to learn about my class and about my gameplay from my guild reminds me that I'm still in the right place.
4- The Workplace
I see this one a lot. Guilds get compared to businesses and work environments all the time. After all, you sort of have levels of hierarchy (amusingly, my GM loves to be called "boss"…which of course is the exact reason I NEVER call him that), you have objectives, you have a group culture and so on.
Obviously, a group of humans is a group of humans is a group of humans. Organization (workplace) psychology applies to guilds the way it applies to social clubs because it's all about making individuals better at achieving the group's goals.
But businesses and guilds have their differences. In one, you're dealing with employee's money, careers and lives. In the other, you're dealing with people's spare time. As anyone who's ever had to deal with a young guild officer who's never had a job before knows, the required management standards aren't really the same.
5- The Family
"My guild is like my family." There's another one that comes up a lot. Like any group of friends that you get along well with and that you spend a lot of time around, strong bonds can form. Before you know it, you're sending each other Christmas cards, going to each other's weddings and dialling each other's number whenever something big happens.
This kind of relationship with one's guild can be great and it can be devastating. Many of us have long term friends we've met playing MMOs and many of us have been lucky enough to receive support from friends we've met online during tougher times. Some of us don't have good relationships with our real families and have found some sort of replacement in the people we play with.
The danger in this is that relationships online often seem more intimate than they really are. They develop quickly, they're easy to be dishonest in (the naivety of people online never ceases to amaze me) and they make it easier to hide from problems with real life families. And while you're hiding, problems grow.
6- The Romantic Partner
Those who don't play MMOs and who've never been involved in online communities probably think this is the weirdest perception ever. Yet, I've seen and heard a lot of gamers compare gquiting to breaking up with someone. And that was exactly the feeling I had when I left my old guild: the alternating feelings of relief and regret, of freedom and loneliness. I've also seen someone compare talking about an old guild to talking about exes: you can do it a little if flatters the new guild/significant other, but never if it flatters the old guild/significant other.
I do often use romantic relationships as metaphors a lot when talking about my guild. Mainly because it makes for great dirty jokes… But I am someone who gets really attached and who doesn't like to move on. The dangers of this? Having trouble knowing when I've overstayed my welcome, having too high expectations and being overly affected by arguments or incidents.
Conclusion: Looking at things from a step back
Lately I've had this feeling of exhaustion whenever I log into the game and I've had my internet time cut down quite a bit due to busy busy real life. So I'm limiting my playtime. My character is geared enough that I don't really need to play much outside of raids. Since I was frustrated by inefficient communication within guild, I cut down on my socializing on Mumble. I focused more on my gameplay, on analyzing fight damage patterns and on raid parses. Basically, I reminded myself of the "academy" or player personal progress take of a guild relationship.
And it feels good. My expectations dropped: after all, since I'm at roughly the same level of skill as the rest of my guild, the only person I'm depended on to reach my player improvement goals is myself. The stress has been a lot less and I've been able to channel more energy on Blog Azeroth. Which I hope I can keep up because Blog Azeroth is like my family. Err… Um… Yeah… Never mind….Explore posts in the same categories: Guild thoughts
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36 Comments on "What does your relationship with your guild remind you of?"
January 14, 2011 at 12:01 pm
I would say my current guild has a club type feel, with elements of family.
The guild before that was one I started and built from the ground up. It felt like walking away from my baby when I left. In fact, it took months for me to be able to even consider joining anothet guild.
January 14, 2011 at 12:31 pm
I have some actual family members in my guild with me. So, it feels like… family! Sometimes dysfunctional, but we always care about each other in the end!
January 15, 2011 at 2:02 am
This is a topic close to my heart and one I've been wrestling with since early December.
I've really worked very hard to put together the guild I have now. Some of these people I've been raiding with for 18 – 20 months. I'd call it my family in game, but lately it feels very dysfunctional and I'm agonizing like crazy about what to do.
I feel like every step I take is a misstep and every time I stumble I irrevocably damage the structure. It's making me pretty neurotic about the whole thing.
So, I dig what you're saying.
/returns to panicking
January 15, 2011 at 3:09 am
Great post…. i love your blog and my work mates give me hell because im always reading it, they think that some how one day i will be involed in a ingame wedding with you….. annnnnyywaaay two points i really like was the workplace comparison and the break up. My guild end of wrath guild split…… into four parts. It gets pretty awkward to for example:
im running a dungeon with a friend who is in guild x i am now in guild awesome. GM of guild x /w my friend and asks who he is running with….. hahahahaha (GM of guild x dont like me to much for i am the better holy pally) its just all round a little awkward. we were such a tight guild but many people going different directions the outcome was inevitable. i think i had more to say but collegues are looking over my shoulder…. Stapler of Justice!!!!!!
great post keep em coming
January 17, 2011 at 3:24 pm
What about thinking of your guild as your pet? Not the people in it, but the guild as a whole. Maybe even more of a child than a pet. I want the best for my guild, and I feel like I have a responsibility to steer it in the right direction.
I've thought about how I would feel if my guild broke down and whether I would go on raiding with another guild, but ultimately I think I would just stay the leader of a defunct guild rather than join a new one, even if I ended up giving up on the game completely.
I guess that kind of relationship with a guild can really only develop when you are a long time officer/leader.
January 21, 2011 at 1:54 pm
You know I always said that you don't have to like the people you raid with
I often seen people get too involved in things outside of raiding and then they seem to let it effect what they do when they raid
If you can show up and produce who really gives a damm if you "socialize" or not. I know I don't care if joe blow isn't on gabbing away on mumble or guild chat. I know I do care if Joe Blow shows up to raid and sucks badly though.
January 21, 2011 at 7:10 pm
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Even though the temperatures may not have felt very springlike Wednesday, Arlington Heights officials celebrated the start of a new season with a groundbreaking for Arlington Downs, the long-planned $250 million redevelopment project that finally got under way.
Village President Arlene Mulder joined trustees, developers and other supporters of the massive residential and commercial project for a quick ceremony in the cold weather before continuing to celebrate at Arlington Park, just down the street from the site on Euclid Ave.
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Found it on Facebook: gay marriage is not a libertarian value
One of my Facebook friends posted the following:
The libertarian in me agrees with a lot of the post. I'd like government to stop playing nanny to people. It would make for smaller, cheaper, and less intrusive government, not to mention more individual freedom and personal responsibility.
But, as the Sesame Street song used to say, one of these things is not like the other one: gay marriage.
I'm not arguing against gay marriage in this post. I just want to point out that it doesn't belong in list of "rights" on the poster, because it's not a personal behavior. To be equivalent to the other points on the list, the first question should read as follows: "Don't like homosexual sex? Don't engage in it."
The fact is that marriage is not a private act or behavior, it's a public one and one, moreover, in which the state has a significant interest. Stable marriages are good for a state and the children of those stable marriages are a necessity for a country's future. Analogizing gay marriage to other individual acts that can be done in the privacy of ones own home or on ones own property or in a private club is a false equivalence.
Having said that, if the state feels that gay marriage is a virtue that will benefit society, the state can then advance gay marriage. (Or, if it takes my advice, get out of the marriage business, leaving marriage to religious institutions, and legislating civil unions that provide the greatest benefit for the state.) Just don't pretend that gay sex and gay marriage are the same thing, because they're not.
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Richard Freeman sent this, commenting that it looks like a huge eel or python. The YouTube blurb reads: 'This video is provided by Liupanshui TV,showing a lake monster spotted in Zangkejiang River flowing through Liupanshui,a small city located in the southwest of China.Rumors say the monster sank a cargo ship,leaving a crewman dead. A witness estimates the monster is about 8-meter long.
It looks like a giant python,dosen`t it?'
I don't know about sinking cargo ships but it is certainly an interesting piece of film and more convincing than many of its type.


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