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In my late thirties, I developed an obsession with American cinema of the 1970s that surfaced yearly in the dead of winter. The obsession would start with me reading a scholarly book about seventies films. This would be followed by a manic updating of my Netflix queue and then marathon screenings. I would usually burn out by late March. I would move on to other interests. I would forget about seventies films. But the cycle would start again the next year. Always like clockwork, yet never planned.
The obsession began in the winter of 2006, when I bought The Films of the Seventies, an annotated filmography of every American, British, and Canadian movie that had come out between 1970 and 1979. I bought the book on a lark at a used bookstore in Winston Salem. I was living in North Carolina with a girlfriend, in a relationship that was still a year and a half away from its end but already on the decline. When I got the book home, I highlighted all of the films I had already seen: Jaws, Star Wars, Breaking Away, Alien, Grease—the stuff of childhood memories. Then I proceeded to watch classics that, embarrassingly, I hadn't yet seen: Dog Day Afternoon, Network, Serpico, All the President's Men, The French Connection, Chinatown. At the time, I saw this as an exercise in self-education. I had recently finished a Ph.D. in American Studies, and I felt I needed to know about these films. The project preoccupied me for a few months, and then it ended. Or so I thought.
In February 2007, the obsession returned. I read, in quick succession, Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (a book I had been assigned in grad school but never read) and Peter Lev's American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions. The reading had nothing to do with my teaching or my academic research. I just found myself enthralled by these assessments of cinema and the 1970s. Biskind hooked me when he wrote, "this was a time when film culture permeated American life," when film was "no less than a secular religion." I was intrigued by his claim that "this was to be a directors' decade if ever there was one." Lev similarly captured my imagination when he noted that this was "the most exciting and most experimental period of the American feature film." I made lists as I read, and I subsequently watched movies like Shampoo, Scarecrow, The Parallax View, The Conversation, Marathon Man, The Last Detail, and, fittingly enough, Obsession. This time, my fixation lasted into the spring. By the summer, I had moved to California to start a new job and my six-year relationship had ended. I was thirty-seven years old.
A year went by without a relapse. I was busy teaching at a new school and processing my failed romance. I spent February and March in a battle with a loud, temperamental neighbor. In search of a fresh start, I moved into a beachside apartment in April. I cultivated new friendships. There was no seventies that year for me.
In the winter of 2009, however, it started again. I devoured a collection of essays, American Cinema of the 1970s: Themes and Variations. I made more lists. My viewing included Klute, Nashville, Night Moves, Joe, Phantom of the Paradise, Hardcore, McCabe and Mrs. Miller. But that year, I had a revelation. I recognized a pattern not in the cycle of what I was doing, but in my experience of it: as it turned out, every time I revisited the '70s, I liked reading about the films more than I liked watching them.
The books made the movies sound better than they were. The books put the films in a historical context, explicated their cultural themes, imbued them with political significance—Watergate and Vietnam, the working class, paranoia and conspiracy, generational strife. But the movies themselves? They were often plodding, incoherent, indulgent, dull. Not all of them. But many of them. The Last Detail bored me. Night Moves confused me. Phantom of the Paradise was whacky. Joe was improbable.
In retrospect, the books I had read warned me of this. Peter Lev, for example, states bluntly (albeit on the very last page of his book), "one should not overly romanticize the films of the 1970s. In a period of uncertainty and change, many mediocre films were made." In his introduction to Themes and Variations, editor Lester Friedman counsels the reader to beware of "hyperbolic assessments" of the era, for they "belie the fact that terrible movies were made during the 1970s." He writes this on page twenty-three, so I suppose I have no excuse there.
The same thing would happen each year. I regularly found myself waiting impatiently for a movie to end just so I could highlight the title in my filmography and be done with it. Or avoiding watching it altogether. My ex had noticed this tendency of mine when we still lived together in North Carolina. Some of the titles that arrived from Netflix would sit next to the television for weeks. She would threaten to mail them back the next time I was away from the house. "You don't have to do this to yourself," she said at one point, sending us both into a fit of laughter. And yet I did. I was stuck in a cycle of pleasure and tedium.
Then I turned forty in 2010 and it all stopped.
I have two related theories about my obsession with American cinema of the 1970s. The first is that the books I read provided a historical context for a time in my life when I was aware of very little beyond my own childhood. The books offered a portrait of a cultural milieu that was taking shape outside of my tiny world of family, play, and school. I could insert the memories and images I had of my own seventies childhood—a quite happy childhood—into a bigger picture of what was going on in America. This was an exercise in intellectual nostalgia, in historicizing my youth. That's why I liked reading about the films more than watching them. The moving pictures I had in my head, of me then, were much better.
The second theory is that reading about the seventies provided an escape. In my late thirties I was going through major transitions: a stressful job search, the end of a serious relationship, a move to California. Rather than deal with the corrosion and change that defined my present, I retreated to a safer past. It wasn't really about the seventies at all. Sometimes we sit through bad movies because we need to.
So was my obsession with seventies films about nostalgia or escape? I'm not sure they're so different. I was certainly obsessed with both at a particular stage of my life. All I know is that when I finally let her go, when I turned forty and resolved to look forward more than I looked back, that decade also lost its purchase on me. It's true that one should not overly romanticize American cinema of the 1970s. But it's also true that one not overly romanticize the past. Those moving pictures may sound good in theory, but sitting through them can just be another way of making the present pass by.
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When I first learned of the massacre of children and teachers in Connecticut, my first thought was "not again." Based on my Facebook and Twitter feeds I am not alone. "Not again," we say, first in disbelief, and then in resolve. Yet until something changes, we all know, it will happen again.
The first step, I think, is to realize that we face a human problem. Evil is part of our nature as surely as good is. We are a species of violence. This is a profound truth—a historical truth, a biological truth, a moral truth. The great theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once declared, "The doctrine of original sin is the only empirically verifiable doctrine of the Christian faith," and now we have yet more horrific evidence of this truth. Yet if we stop our thinking there, we remain mired in a hopeless nihilism. Surely evil will always be with us—in this world, at least. But the persistence of evil is no reason to cease working for good. We can't make a perfect world, but we can make a far better one.
We are now appallingly familiar with the script that plays out in the hours and days after an atrocity like this, and so we know that soon enough some pundits or politicians will start declaring that the answer to gun violence is more guns. If only a teacher had been armed, or the principal. Since evil will always be with us, they say, if the other guy has a gun, I better have one too. A bigger one. This is the answer of moral nihilism. We can do better.
Pondering evil is a fine place to start, but we need to understand that this kind of evil is not just a human problem—it is, sadly, a particularly American problem. We live in a culture diseased by violence. Ours is a frontier society, born and nurtured in conquest, genocide, enslavement, and revolution. Ours is a beautiful and noble experiment in freedom and democracy too, admirable and good in many ways—but also, clearly, a society still living off an inheritance soaked in blood. This inheritance has left us a culture that glorifies war and weapons, that preaches perverse doctrines of honor and distorted notions of manhood. The Swedes and Japanese and Indians share our same human condition, but they don't kill like we do. We are reaping what we have sown.
This realization too might lead one to despair. With so many guns, and such a legacy of violence, the best we can do, says the gun lobby and its enablers, is arm ourselves, protect our own. Aside for the empirical reality that such defensiveness rarely works—as in the case in Newtown, the guns in ours homes are far more likely to kill through crime or accident than to protect—this position fails to understand that cultures can and do change. Our American cult of violence is a product of history, and it can be undone in history. Not easily, not quickly, but schools and parents and churches and governments and people of courage and character can move the tectonic plates of culture. We may never live in a world without violence, but we can live in a society that doesn't worship killing and glorify killers. We can. Some day.
But we don't have to wait for that day before we save lives. We can start tomorrow. Most obviously:
We can regulate guns.
We can provide better mental health care.
These steps would vastly reduce the mass killings that happen in those places where people say, "we never thought it could happen here." To middle class folks. To white folks. In malls and offices and kindergartens. Good policy ideas abound, ideas that could immediately reduce the number and scope of these kinds of mass murders. All we need is the political courage and leadership to make it happen. These simple steps really shouldn't be that hard.
Most murders, of course, don't happen in those places. Most killings happen in ghettoes of violence, in the places where people know all too well that it can happen here, because it does, relentlessly. The chronic violence of these forgotten places, places where the poor and black and brown live, is a product of our particular history too, the result of our uniquely American combination of racism and neglect and greed. We can and must root out the violence in these places, through policies that provide educations and jobs, hope and opportunity, free from the shackles of systemic poverty and racial injustice.
This is hard, never-ending work. But we must start, now, if we want "not again" to mean anything more than an empty cry.
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I am a member of the faculty at UC Davis, and my campus has been roiled these past few days by violent actions taken by the campus police, directed at non-violently protesting students. The video of campus police pepper-spraying students has been seen 'round the world, and letters of protest, outrage and demands have been blowing up my email inbox all weekend.
On Sunday, just as I was catching up on Friday's events, I was also set to present at a panel at the American Academy of Religion Conference, in San Francisco. The panel was convened by the good people behind Freq.uenci.es, a "collaborative genealogy of spirituality" and a website to which I've contributed. I prepared some remarks, but I felt impelled to preface them by saying how weird it felt to talk about spirituality life on my campus — for my students, colleagues and friends — had changed irrevocably. I opened with some comments about feeling that tension, and then went on with the show. I explained that I was having a hard time reconciling these two things, but that I was okay to live with that unreconciled tension.
This morning, on my way to participate in the General Assembly at UC Davis, a friend told me about another video. A second video – not of police and protesters, but of the Chancellor, Linda Katehi, being walked to her car, following an on campus meeting Saturday night. In the video, you see Katehi walking down a road, flanked by hundreds of silent, standing students, making their protest as loudly as possible by not saying a thing.
All you hear are her heels click-clacking on the asphalt.
That video, not the one of the cops, speaks to the power of these students that this community. And the sound of her heels amidst the crowd of hundreds of students express perfectly the potential in this moment. Potential that is political, and dare I say: spiritual, too.
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The most recent data released by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (2008) disclosed that 11.7 million persons in the United State experienced at least one attempted or successful incident of identity theft during a two-year period. The incidences increased 22% from 2007 to 2008. For the past decade it has been a federal crime to "knowingly transfer, possess, or use, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person." A steady stream of news stories reminds us of the dangers of identity theft and identity impersonation—from credit card and social security numbers stolen, to bank accounts hacked into, to child predators trolling social networking sites under false identities.
Our legal system and news media have sent us a clear message about identity theft: it is criminal. It is unacceptable. It is a menace to society. You need to protect yourself, vigilantly, against it. But in the imaginary world of popular culture, the ethics of identity theft is, well, far less rigid. In the fictional stories we tell ourselves about identity fraud, the act itself can actually be a justified means to a moral end. In the past year alone, three films have been released with plots that are propelled by characters who assume false identities, identities inhabited "knowingly" and without permission. In the sci-fi film Source Code (2011), a soldier is transposed into the body of an everyday man who is riding a train that will blow up in eight minutes; he is occupying the man's body in order to try to find the bomber on the train. In Unknown (2011), a doctor awakens after a car accident to find that another man has assumed his identity, is married to his wife, and has his career (the other man's photograph even shows up when the doctor's name is searched on the internet). Finally, the documentary Catfish (2010) explores the world of Facebook and the ways in which users perform their identities for people they've never met in real life. I don't want to give too much more away from any of the three movies, as each contains various twists and turns, but suffice it to say that identity cloning and identity manipulation is a theme that runs through all of them.
And here's what strikes me about this cultural content and its broader context: in each case, the ethics of assuming someone else's identity is not exactly black and white. In fact, in the moral logic of Source Code, posing as another person is wholly justified if it can help save the lives of others. In Unknown, it turns out that identity fraud is ultimately a redeeming act for one of the characters. And Catfish challenges the audience to reflect on whether questionable identity performance justifies the good works that can result in the process. In short, if another person's identity is assumed for reasons other than criminal purposes and/or economic gain, then it may just be okay.
It's not just these three movies that explore the ethical gray area of identity theft. We can go back farther into the decade to find others. As readers of the Harry Potter series know, the magical "polyjuice" is a potion that will transform the imbiber into another person, at least in outward appearance. While it is used to evil purposes in one of the books, it is also used by Harry and his friends Hermione and Ron throughout the series to obtain valuable information and pursue dangerous missions. Their temporary acts of identity theft are deemed morally defensible. Another example: the hero protagonist of the popular 2002 film Catch Me If You Can is a clever identity imposter—based on a real-life criminal—whom the audience finds itself rooting for. And in the TV show Mad Men (spoiler warning…), the lead character is not actually the "real" Don Draper, but is a Korean war vet named Dick Whitman who has assumed the identity of an officer killed in the war—named Don Draper.
Of course, the theme and plot device of false identity is not a new preoccupation of literature and cinema. Mark Twain explored it in Pudd'nhead Wilson, Herman Melville in "Benito Cereno," Vladimir Nabokov in his dark novel Despair. Older movies, like Day of the Jackal, the film version of the play Six Degrees of Separation, and the science fiction story Gattaca all revolve around identity fraud. But in the world we live in today, where online identity theft is a rapidly growing criminal phenomenon, I find these contemporary iterations of the theme even more noteworthy. As the performance of our identity becomes more fluid, unstable—indeed more uncomfirmable—in this online age of social networking, it seems that our sense of the morality of identity performance has become more muddied and culturally contested. The law and the news media are telling us one story about the ethics of identity theft and manipulation; our popular culture is telling us another; and, I daresay, what we post on our own Facebook and Twitter accounts is telling us a third.
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1. Gather your friend(s) together.
2. Listen to new episode of This American Life.
3. At the end of the episode, as Ira runs down the credits, each person guesses which clip will be used to mock Torey Malatia.
4. The person who guesses correctly gets to drink.
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How did the humanities lose out to neuroscience in making culture seem interesting?
I've been listening to a lot of NPR and podcasts lately. I've given my historical favorites a little break (sorry, This American Life and Sound Opinions), and I've been listening more and more to Planet Money and Radiolab (as podcasts), and to the usual NPR fare that airs while I do dishes or cook dinner: All Things Considered, Marketplace, and of course: Fresh Air.
What I've noticed is how often scientists and economists show up on theses shows to talk about things I thought were the main interests of humanists and social scientists. Questions like the how restaurants work, whether or not race matters, why certain songs get stuck in our heads, how people calculate the value of things or make decisions they know are not in their best interests, and so on.
These are the questions to which I have long sought answers by looking at culture and its various expressions, and in which my field of American Studies has long been interested (albeit in different forms, over time).
Yet somehow, every time I turn on the radio, I find one or another neuroscientist (or, often enough, Jonah Lehrer) talking about precisely these same questions, and about how the pathways of neurons and synapses can answer questions art or love or whatever.
So here's my question to my colleagues: how did we become so untouchable or so uninteresting to mainstream media? How come the good people at NPR (and, presumably, their listeners) find neuroscientists and economists more interesting and more capable of talking about these questions that we are? How did they become the go-to academics for understanding how and why people do what they do? Social scientists and humanists look at those phenomena, too, but somehow, we have become generally less interesting than our colleagues.
This is not the neuroscientists' fault: they are good at what they do, and their creativity in asking profound questions that teeter on the line between culture and biology ought to be encouraged. Similarly, it's not the fault of the radio programmers; they are looking for the most intelligent, engaging guests they can find. And they're finding them in neuroscience and economics, not in the Humanities.
Why is everyone else talking about culture but us? Are we that boring? Have we grown so adept at gazing at our own navels that we can't talk about other things? Does "the public" think that so-called "hard" science is really the only arbiter of actualities in the world?
How have we become so irrelevant even on topics that are ostensibly our areas of expertise and scholarly interest?
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Get your troop in the holiday spirit by joining us for an afternoon of fun at Peoria's Festival of Trees benefiting Crittenton Centers. Join us to learn more about this worthwhile cause and help raise awareness for these special kids!
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As part of the upgrade, all existing accounts (usernames and passwords) will be deactivated. Following the upgrade, all adults will be required to create a new online account to gain access to the system. If you so choose, you can reuse your old username and password when creating your new online account. With your new online account, you will be able to manage yourself, your family, and/or troop(s), depending on your current participation status. For example, a troop leader who has a daughter participating in Girl Scouts will be able to manage both his or her family and troop(s) with a single login.
If you have not activated your eRegistration account, this is a great reminder for you to do so.
Parents: One person per family will be designated as a Family Manger. This role will be assigned by the system according to the first listed parent or guardian (labeled "Guardian 1") on the child's account at the time of the upgrade. Only the Family Manager will be able to view and manage the accounts of children and family member(s) from his/her own login. The Family Manager designation can be changed by contacting the council.
Accounts for girls under the age of 18 must be managed by a Family Manager; girls under the age of 18 will no longer be able to login under their own name. The adult listed second on the child's account (labeled "Guardian 2") will become part of the family, and he or she can either activate and manage the account or allow the account to be managed by the Family Manager. Guardian 2 will see the guardian relationship with his or her child, but will be unable to manage their child's activities or memberships.
Troop Leaders: Troop leaders with an online account can manage their troop(s) and troop members online. No data will be lost during the upgrade, and leaders will be able to manage their troop(s) and their own accounts as soon as the new eRegistration account is created.
How to Create a New Online Account for the eRegistration System
Step 1: Go to our eRegistration site and click the "New Online Account" button on the right hand side of the screen.
Step 2: Enter the information as requested. This basic information will allow the system to search for your record and check if you already exist in our database.
Step 3: One of the following will apply:
If the system finds you in the database, you will see the following message: Congratulations! We found you in the online system. Please go to your email and follow the instructions to activate your online account. Please follow the instructions to complete your account activation.
If you receive the following message: We have found you in the system, but in order to continue please contact us,please follow the instructions and contact the council. This message generally appears when there is no email address on record, or if there is a potential but unconfirmed match.
If the system does not find you in the database, you will be prompted to provide additional information to create your profile.
If you need assistance, please contact our Help Desk for assistance at 888-623-1237 or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
'Dear Mr. President' Contest Winner Amanda Breeden
GSCI congratulates Amanda Breeden, a Girl Scout from Normal and a member of the Teen Leadership Board, for being chosen as a winner in the "Dear Mr. President" contest! "Dear Mr. President" is part of the Girl Scouts Speak Out series, in which GSUSA asked girls to submit public service announcements on key national or global issues. Amanda's PSA, titled "What Do YOU See?" focuses on the need for tolerance in an increasingly diverse country.
"My entry embodies the idea of accepting the human race as a whole, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, political ideology, age, or ethnicity," Amanda says. "It sends the message that we could grow so much as a country and as a world if people were to just embrace diversity instead of fear it." In Amanda's ideal world, she says, women and men would be paid equally, and women would be allowed to make their own health decisions. "This uses the entire population to its fullest potential, allowing everyone to be happier, healthier, and more prosperous." She also hopes to see diversity incorporated into government positions, so today's girls can become even more inspired to grow into the next generation of leaders.
Amanda has been a Girl Scout for ten years, and describes herself as being very passionate about women's rights, politics, equality, and humanitarian efforts. She, along with her mother and younger sister, have been very involved in Girl Scouts since they joined—along with serving on the Teen Leadership Board, she is a girl member of the Girl Scouts of Central Illinois Board of Directors, a leader-in-training and a program aide, and has previously earned Bronze and Silver Awards. Her favorite Girl Scouting memory is her time spent representing her council as a delegate in the Girls' World Forum in Chicago last summer, where she met girls from 90 different countries as they learned how to take part in reaching the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. Amanda says was interested in entering the "Dear Mr. President" contest as a way of continuing to voice her opinion—"even though (young girls) can't vote, we can definitely make a difference," she says.
To view Amanda's winning entry, go to speakout.girlscouts.org. Congratulations, Amanda!
Girl Scouts . . . The Studio
Go behind the scenes with your favorite writers and illustrators to find out how they work – and to get a few tips to make your own work shine!
GSUSA's The Studio is a showcase for inspiring storytellers of all kinds, who offer an inside look at how they do what they do. New authors will be added every month, so keep checking back! GSUSA plans to expand the site to include other artists, as well as the ability for girls to upload their own work. Their goal is to create a community of girls who can share their creative work with others and learn from professionals working in a variety of creative careers.
Experience The Studio!
Be the Voice of Girls
The Girl Scout Advocacy Network provides a tool for you to become a voice for girls and to make a difference in your community and across the nation. Together, we can educate policymakers and community leaders on issues that directly affect girls and the Girl Scouts. By being an advocate, you will have an impact on girl policy issues moving through Congress and the state legislatures.
To join the Girl Scouts Advocacy Network and be a voice for girls, log on to www.girlscouts4girls.org.


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Ms. Karen W. Beraha is a practicing physician. Ms. Beraha practices medicine in North Dartmouth, MA and 1 other location and specializes in Pediatrics. Ms. Beraha is affiliated with St Lukes Hospital. Ms. Beraha speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Richard Gere's 'Time Out of Mind' acquired by IFC Films
Dakota Fanning yearns for the mystery of old Hollywood
Dakota Fanning is 'super happy' with boyfriend Jamie Strachan
Dakota Fanning says her mother is no stage mom
Dakota Fanning: 'I was an exceptionally mature child'
WATCH: Kevin Kline attempts to seduce Dakota Fanning in 'The Last of Robin Hood' trailer
Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen go skinny dipping in 'Very Good Girls' trailer
Dakota Fanning discusses environmental issues, gender equality
Dakota Fanning to star in 'Brain On Fire' adaptation
Controversial child model Thylane Blondeau reappears for Jalouse cover
Dakota, Elle Fanning, sister actresses, growing apart, says report
Dakota Fanning, 19, dating model Jamie Strachan, 32
Beyonce, Kardashian, Danes dazzle at Met gala in NYC
Hannah Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994), better known simply as Dakota Fanning, is an American teen actress. Fanning's breakthrough performance was in I Am Sam in 2001. As a child actress, she appeared in high-profile films such as Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, and Charlotte's Web. Fanning began transitioning to more adult roles with Hounddog and The Secret Life of Bees. She has won numerous awards and is the youngest person ever to have been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Joy (née Arrington), who played tennis professionally, and Steve Fanning, who played minor league baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals and now works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles. Her maternal grandfather was former American football player, Rick Arrington, and her aunt is former ESPN reporter Jill Arrington. Dakota is the older sister of Elle Fanning, also an actress.
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Fall Foil Grilled Sweet Potatoes
- two sweet potatoes peeled and chopped
- 2 heaping tbsp of brown sugar
- 1 tsp of cumin
- 2 dashes of cinnamon
- 2 dashes of sage
- 2 dashes of cayenne pepper
- 2 tbsp of salted butter
- Make two large pieces of foil on the counter, put one sweet potato in each. Each sweet potato will cook separately.
- I mixed the spices in two small dishes because 1/2 of each spice goes in each packet. So in each small bowl mix 1 tbsp brown sugar I used a heaping one, 1/2 tsp cumin, 1 dash of sage, cinnamon and cayenne in each bowl.
- Sprinkle 1/2 of the spices and sugar mix on each pile.
- Slice each tbsp of butter up into little pieces and put a tbsp on each of the two piles.
- Top with a second piece of foil and curl up and seal the edges to make two packets
- Have your husband grill them on about 350 degrees cook for 15 minutes, flip them and cook for another 15-20 minutes.
- Be careful opening them they were really hot but so delicious enjoy.
On the steaks we rubbed and seasoned them heavily with kosher salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and paprika on both sides. Then cooked perfectly by Steve to a medium rare...well they were more rare but they were heated all the way through and perfect. Jackson even loved them!
The asparagus I cut of the ends to one bunch. Covered a baking sheet with foil. I preheated the oven to 450. I covered the asparagus with a light drizzle of olive oil then seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and parsley. I cooked for three minutes, flipped then cooked another three minutes. I plated the asparagus and then topped with some freshly grated parmesan cheese which lightly melts waiting for you to eat it!!


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Book your room at Tup Kaek Sunset Beach Resort
Deluxe (Deluxe Building)Max Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Deluxe Garden RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant)
Deluxe, Beach FrontMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Grand, Beach Front (Grand Deluxe Beach Front)Max Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
On private beach with a spa tub, near Tubkaek Beach
This Krabi resort is located by the sea and set on a private beach within walking distance of Tubkaek Beach. Area attractions also include Nopparat Thara Beach and Ao Nang Krabi Boxing Stadium.
Resort Features
At Tup Kaek Sunset Beach Resort, relax by an outdoor pool or hit the private beach where you can enjoy kayaking.
Room Amenities
Televisions come with cable channels. Guestrooms also feature refrigerators, air conditioning, and minibars.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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At your hotel
Simply step outside to unwind on the resort's beach. After a day at the beach, enjoy amenities at Tup Kaek Sunset Beach Resort like an outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a spa tub.
The resort offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access.
Tup Kaek Sunset Beach Resort is a smoke-free property.
- Bar/lounge
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Hair salon
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Total number of rooms - 32
- Babysitting or childcare
- On private beach
- Garden
- Spa tub
- Outdoor pool
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Wedding services
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Cruise terminal shuttle (surcharge)
- Ferry terminal shuttle (surcharge)
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
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- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Smoke-free property
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- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
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- Refrigerator
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- Room service (limited hours)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds available
Eat and drink
Sunset Restaurant - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
An outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a private beach.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Ecotours on site
- Kayaking on site
- Massages on beach
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
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The fine print for Tup Kaek Sunset Beach Resort
When you arrive
Minimum check-in age is 20
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-in time ends at 10 PM
When you leave
Check-out time is noon
How you can pay
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No pets or service animals allowed
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: THB 5500
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per child: THB 2750 (from 4 to 12 years old)
- Breakfast fee: THB 300 per person (approximately)
- Rollaway bed fee: THB 1200 per night
We should mention
A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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All Items > Knives > Spring Assisted Knives > $15 through $24.99
Tiger USA Tycoon Blackwood Spring Assisted Knife - Tanto Black Serr
- Overall Length: 9.00"
- Blade Length: 3.50"
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- Handle Length: 5.50"
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- Model: Tycoon
- Country of Origin: China
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Administrative Law and Policy
Level: Postgraduate coursework
The administrative law and policy program aims to develop an understanding of the relationship between law, and the analysis and implementation of public policy. The values inherent in administrative law and those of public administration are examined together with the practical aspects of the application of the law.
The Master of Administrative Law and Policy is unique in terms of its content and delivery. You can undertake units of study in Law as well from the pool of units offered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences' government & international relations program, and by the Faculty of Education and Social Work.


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Huron Consulting Group
Zumwalt joins Huron Consulting board
Debra Zumwalt, vice president and general counsel for Stanford University, has been appointed to Huron Consulting Group's board of directors
Inside the role of IP in M&A transactions
In the last few decades, business leaders have had to consider one more factor that has been growing in significance: Intellectual property. Companies now see IP, especially patents, as keystones of business architecture.
Bottom line remains top of mind
Five years after the beginning of the financial crisis, the bottom line remains top of mind for legal department operations managers and their teams
Judge dismisses $30 million whistleblower suit against Huron
Huron Consulting Group may be guilty of "bad practice," but it didn't help to defraud Medicare and Medicaid out of millions of dollars, according to U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, who dismissed a whistleblower suit against the company on Tuesday.
Strategies for leaner legal departments: Part 1
How your department can maximize internal efficiency and resourcefulness
The art of GC peer networking
There are dozens of events throughout the year around the country offering inside counsel opportunities for continuing legal education (CLE), broad based networking and dialogue with service provider sponsors.
The 4 best technologies to add to your legal department's toolbox
Technology has infiltrated nearly every part of the modern world, and legal departments are no exception.
Company loses millions in dispute with litigation portfolio outsourcer
Case reminds in-house counsel to scrutinize all contracts
Tools to increase your productivity
Lawyers discuss the advantages of laptops, tablets and apps
Above and Beyond
An Expanded Job Description Has Many Law Department Operations Managers Providing Input, Expertise Organization-Wide, Latest Survey Finds


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Dennis Mavin
Tulsa Gets Past FIU 77-65
Shaquille Harrison scored 17 points and Tulsa used a big second half to take down Florida International 77-65 on Saturday.
FIU Wins At Texas-San Antonio
Florida International's Dennis Mavin led five players in double-digit scoring at Texas-San Antonio Thursday night giving the Golden Panthers an 80-72 win.
Buckles Helps FIU Power Past UAB
Rakeem Buckles had 21 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks to lead Florida International past UAB 78-73 Thursday night.
FIU Holds Off FAU 66-57
Dennis Mavin turned a Jerome Frink steal into a three-point play with 39 seconds left as Florida International held on to defeat Florida Atlantic 66-57 Saturday.
Florida A&M Tops FIU In OT 93-88
Jamari Bradshaw's 3-pointer forced overtime, and he scored five of FloridaA&M's 12 points in the extra session, to lead the Rattlers over Florida International 93-87 Thursday night.
Georgetown Smothers FIU 92-57
John Thompson III had little to tell the Hoyas at halftime, but in a good way. Excellence of execution during the first half against Florida International left Georgetown's coach without complaint.
FIU Jumps Ahead And Holds Off Georgia State 61-60
Tymell Murphy shot 75 percent from the field and scored a game-high 23 points to lead Florida International in a 61-60 victory over Georgia State on Saturday.
South Carolina Defeats Florida International, 84-72
Tyrone Johnson scored 18 points and Jaylen Shaw added 16 points to lead four players in double figures to give South Carolina an 84-72 victory over Florida International Sunday.


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When Chasing a Foul Ball Please Do Not Leave Your Child Unattended In a Radio Flyer Wagon
On Monday afternoon the Mets and Marlins squared off in a spring training game and all was right with the world. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and it was a perfect day for families at the ballpark. Then Chris Young hit a ground-rule double which made its way over the left-field fence and one parent figured it would be smart to leave his kid (who was in a wagon) to chase the foul ball. Check out the .GIF on the child and the wagon hightailing it for the left field fence, but luckily the crisis was diverted. Lesson learned, hopefully.Powered by Sidelines


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Highlights from Inauguration Ceremony 2014
Mayor Carolyn Kirk and Senator Ed Markey
The Mayor's, School Committee's, and City Councilor's inauguration and oath of office ceremonies were held at Kyrouz Auditorium at City Hall on Wednesday, January 1, 2014. A warm welcome was given by Senator Tarr, followed by the pledge of allegiance, led by Baylee Kirk, the national anthem sung by Gordon Baird, and speech given by Art Haven founder David Brooks. Mayor Kirk gave a very inspiring inaugural address, highlighting her past term's accomplishments and goals for the coming term. The Cape Ann Symphony String Quartet provided lovely background music for the event and Allison Doody gave an outstanding performance of Katy Perry's Roar.
Sefatia Thekan and New City Council Member Paul Lundberg
State Representative Ann Margaret Ferrante and Vito Calamo
Senator Bruce Tarr and Baylee Kirk
Mayor Kirk Taking the Oath of Office
School Committee Members Taking the Oath of Office
City Council Vice President Sefatia Thekan, President Paul McGeary, and Councilor Steven LeBlanc
Gloucester High School Student Allison Doody singing Roar
Renewal of Newell Stadium hits the Finish Line
The Renewal of Newell Stadium hits the finish line, with a helicopter fly-by, rising of the flag, ribbon cutting and a very review of all the athletic teams, a day of celebration, and Gloucester has won every game played on the New Balance Field at Newel Stadium. ABSOUTLY PERFECT !!
Grace Center Ceremony and March From Councilor Paul McGeary
Wind Turbines 101 Tonight at the Sawyer Free Library
Fifth graders from the West Parish School took a field trip aboard the Thomas E. Lannon Pics From City Councilor Paul McGeary
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Fifth graders from the West Parish School took a field trip aboard the Thomas E. Lannon on Tuesday, Oct. 2. All third- and fifth-graders in the Gloucester Schools get the experience, which is funded in part by the City's Community Development Block Grant Program and in part by each schools PTO. In addition to a two-hour cruise, the youngsters also spend part of their day visiting the Cape Ann Museum to learn about our city's cultural history.
In photo below, Tom Ellis, skipper of the Lannon, instructs the youngsters in proper shipboard behavior prior to leaving the dock.


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In April 1991 BusinessWeek ran a cover story entitled, I Can't Work This ?#!!@ Thing, about the difficulties many people have with consumer products, such as cell phones and VCRs. More than 15 years later, the situation is much the same--but at a very different level of scale. The disconnect between people and technology has had society-wide consequences in the large-scale system accidents from major human error, such as those at Three Mile Island and in Chernobyl.
To prevent both the individually annoying and nationally significant consequences, human capabilities and needs must be considered early and throughout system design and development. One challenge for such consideration has been providing the background and data needed for the seamless integration of humans into the design process from various perspectives: human factors engineering, manpower, personnel, training, safety and health, and, in the military, habitability and survivability. This collection of development activities has come to be called human-system integration (HSI). Human-System Integration in the System Development Process reviews in detail more than 20 categories of HSI methods to provide invaluable guidance and information for system designers and developers.
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|3 Human-System Integration and the System Development Process
|4 Managing Risks
|5 Case Studies
|Part II Human-System Integration Methods in System Development, 6 Defining Opportunties and Context of Use
|7 Defining Requirements and Design
|8 Methods for Evaluation
|Part III The Future: Scenarios, Conclusions, and Recommendations, 9 Scenarios for the Future
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Black Girl Dangerous and Julio Salgado radicalize childhood cartoon characters
By Jos | Published: September 25, 2013
Tweet This week in awesome, Black Girl Dangerous commissioned artist Julio Salgado to draw childhood cartoon characters as social justice organizers. Mia McKenzie explains the genesis of the project: Tweet
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Quick Hit: Terrific rape culture cartoons thanks to students at York University
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TweetI'm not a big fan of rape jokes, but bring on the jokes about rape culture! The students at York University in Canada have created some awesome rape culture cartoons starring some of our favorite super heroes. The comics truly get to the heart of how flippin' ridiculous rape culture is and how those who perpetuate it [...]
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Lorraine attended Queens College at night and St. John's University School of Law at night working her way through college and law school (partly as a taxi driver). She graduated from Queens College in 1972 and law school in 1980. Lorraine was a member of Law Review, graduated on the Dean's List and won the New York/Connecticut Client Counseling Competition. When she took her bar exam she came in #2 in New York State. Upon graduation, Lorraine worked for 2 1/2 years in the corporate department of a Wall Street law firm and went into private practice in 1983 after her daughter Jacqueline was born. Ms. Coyle is the senior partner of the firm of Coyle & Associates, llp with offices in Riverdale, The Bronx and on Park Avenue in Manhattan.
Lorraine's practice concentrates in divorce mediation and custody, trusts and estates and real estate. She has lectured on real estate transfers, Medicaid planning and tax savings through estate planning. She was a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the First Department, Appellate Division; she is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys; was a Director of the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and was president of the Bronx Women's Bar Association.
Lorraine Coyle early political life began in Queens where she worked on the first campaign for Assembly of former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi; worked as Mr. Hevesi's secretary when he went to the Assembly and then worked in the New York State Senate for Nicholas Ferraro as a legislative aide. Ms. Coyle met her husband – former Attorney General Oliver Koppell and now City Councilman- in Albany and they married in 1980.
Ms. Coyle has served on the Board of Directors of Riverdale Neighborhood House; serves pro bono counsel for many not-for-profit organizations and raised thousands of dollars on Avon's 60 mile breast cancer walk. Ms. Coyle also is a Small Claims Court Arbitrator and served for years at three hospitals as a rape crisis counselor.
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Islamic State. Ebola. Climate change. The issues topping the agenda at the 69th UN General Assembly (UNGA) have no easy solutions. But during the debates of the last week, one thing was clear: Without equal participation of women, we stand no chance of tackling these global threats or preventing future ones from emerging.
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Peace X Peace Connection Point Dialogues
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Okay I've searched these boards and BGG but though the question has been asked I see no good answer. Specifically what the OP asked in this BGG thread, first post.
Exactly when do you roll for this effect--right after placing the first gate (and I presume monster) or after resolving the entire first mythos card?


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Choosing a Printer that's Right for You
When you're out shopping for a printer, you have to first think about who will be using it.
Enterprise-level businesses have gigantic, collating, document-handling monstrosities but most small and medium businesses don't need that much power. Here are some reliable techniques for purchasing a printer for just yourself or your small business.
1. Determine who needs the printer, and what that person does
This will help you learn what class of printer you actually need for your upcoming purchase. How long are you willing to wait for pages to print? Do you need a multifunction device (MFD) that does faxing, printing, scanning and copying? Does your printer need network features? And will you need to be able to print wirelessly over Wi-Fi ?
And do you want an ink or laser printer? Ink printers don't always print pages as speedily as their laser counterparts. Compare this value in printers by looking at their pages per minute (ppm) output in color and in sheer black. Usually, a printer will produce pages faster in black than in color, resulting in a higher ppm count. To sum up: Laser printers usually print faster than ink printers, and black usually prints faster than color.
2. Get a Price Range
Now you can check a shopping site, such as Newegg.com or Buy.com, and search for printers based on the features you've decided you need. Jot down some models with specs and pricing. After you've gotten an overview of what's available out there, narrow it further.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The influx of new restaurants in Washington in recent years is creating a shortage of workers in the city's food service industry.
WAMU Radio reports District of Columbia restaurants employed about 50,000 people last year. This year, that number has grown to about 53,000 workers. With all the growth, restaurant owners say they are having a tougher time filling jobs with experienced staff.
When Woodward Table opened its 300-seat restaurant near McPherson Square last year, it took three months to fill all 130 staff positions. General Manager Omar Hishmeh says it's very difficult to find even one or two good waiters or bartenders.
The staffing process took so long at the new Ted's Bulletin on 14th Street that managers were still seeking workers the day the restaurant opened.
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The Hinesville Soccer Association and Hinesville Gators are sponsoring a week-long elite soccer camp starting next Monday at James Brown Park.
Team Italy scout and trainer Gavino Asteghene, director of the Atlanta Calcio Academy, will return for the camp. Asteghene, a native of Italy who also coaches at The Lovett School in Atlanta, first came to Hinesville in February 2013 and worked with the First Presbyterian Christian Academy soccer teams. They worked with Astegehene and his staff for two hours each morning on the technical and mechanical aspects of the game.
That year, the FPCA girls' team, which finished second in the state the year before, won the state title, and the boys' team was the state runners-up.
Last July, Astegehene and the academy hosted a camp at Liberty Independent Troop Park.
During last year's camp, Asteghene said that Hinesville had a lot of talented players.
The campers received one-on-one instruction from Asteghene and his team, which last year included former professional Italian player and goalkeeper Francesco Macri.
Registration for the camp is online at www.atlantacalcioacademy.com and is open to boys and girls ages 6-18. The camp runs from 9 a.m.-noon Monday through Thursday.
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As I often say, my outsides may be all Dorsey, but my insides are all Valandingham. (Valandingham being my grandmother's maiden name.)
I say this because although I look very much like my dad's side of the family, all the little inexplicable twinges, aches and pains that I experience are familiar to me not from personal experience, but because I've listened to the women on my mother's side of the family and their various health complaints for my entire life.
Every one of us gets these terrible weather-related migraine headaches. As soon as spring weather rolls in, we'd like nothing better than to curl up in a ball with a blindfold and some earmuffs to block out external stimuli. And sure enough, it just kicked in for me this week.
We all have, it seems to me, extremely squeaky digestive systems, to the point that occasionally the stomach growls can be heard across the room. I'm not sure what that means, but it doesn't seem normal.
Even a strange little thing that happens when I drink wine I can trace back through my family. Somehow, drinking certain things makes the glands at my jaw joint ache. If this is a diagnosable ailment, I don't know about it; the only people who suffer from it, to my knowledge, are related to me on the matrilineal side.
My grandma and I had the same type of feet. Long, narrow and possibly functional as water skis should the strap-on kind fail. These, of course, come with abysmally weak ankles—not great for someone who wants to spend 3 nights a week skating, but I do my best.
Another development that seems to manifest as the Valandingham women get older is the inevitability of tailbone problems. I don't have it yet, but going by the track record, I'm certain I will.
Despite all these inherited issues, or non-issues, in putting this issue together, I have learned that there are things I can do to possibly change my destiny. Like paying attention to my spinal health before it's too late.
I also didn't know that there were so many gender-specific issues with orthopedic ailments. Medicine is not a one-size-fits-all affair, and it is reassuring to know that these specialists are looking out for the individual needs of their patients.
Another inspiring story involved Alan Nelson, an employee at Franciscan Omni Health in Chesterton, who was given first aid by his coworkers when he experienced a heart attack at the club. You can never underestimate the benefit of knowing CPR and having the right equipment nearby.
And finally, it seems that the more you take care of your skin, the more it will take care of you. This is particularly important as we move into the summer season and head out to the beaches. Sunscreen and protective moisture creams can do you a world of good in the long run.
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Improving Your IT Service Delivery Results - What do organizations do When Successful Shared by JamesRichard
Overview: When IT service groups deliver excellent results there are common fundamental practices that are followed. It doesn't matter whether frameworks such as CMMI, ITIL or ISO are used or not. What matters is how to speed up your progress and results by learning from others. With examples based on our experience since 1989, this webinar shows how to define goals that directly address the needs of your organization, use improvement frameworks (e.g., CMMI for Services, ISO and ITIL) appropriately, and devise a pragmatic action plan.
The webinar covers:
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The webinar covers:
- Developing a Plan
- Setting compelling goals for your improvement program
- Directing all improvement towards achieving business goals and solving the organization's problems
- Developing an action plan based on the defined goals and problems
- Using an improvement model or standard to address the goals and problems
- Deriving metrics for the goals
- Identifying potential future problems (risks) with the action plan and mitigating the highest priority risks
- Implementing the Plan
- Applying selling strategies to deploy new practices
- Increasing the speed of deployment by working with the willing and the needy first
- Reducing the risk of failure by building and deploying solutions in increments
- Delaying policy document creation and edicts until each solution has been practiced and is well tested
- Checking Progress
- Using metrics to track progress based on defined goals
- Determining corrective actions needed to get the improvement program back on track
- Clarifying lessons learned and actions needed to make future executions of the improvement cycle more effective
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- Defining goals that directly address the needs of your organization
- Practices that are fundamental and common in successful organizations
- Using improvement models (e.g., CMMI, ITIL, ISO) to address goals and challenges - making a direct mapping and learning from others
- Creating a pragmatic action plan
- Defining processes as small useful checklists, and using the practices for problem solving and maintaining organizational gains
- Deploying organizational change
- Essential metrics for tracking progress - making sure you get the results you want
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- Senior managers of IT service teams
- Service providers (technicians and support staff)
- Internal company Project Management Office (PMO) leaders and members
- Team supervisors of IT service teams
- IT project managers
- Internal process improvement coaches tasked with improving the organization's cost, schedule, quality performance
is co-founder of The Process Group, a company formed in 1990 that consults on process improvement, CMMI, Scrum, software engineering and project management. He has 28 years of experience in software and process engineering. Neil is a CMMI-Institute certified lead appraiser for SCAMPI appraisals, Intro to CMMI instructor (development and services), Six Sigma Greenbelt and Certified Scrum Master. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Essex (UK) and is the co-author of Making Process Improvement Work - A Concise Action Guide for Software Managers and Practitioners, Addison-Wesley (2002), and Making Process Improvement Work for Service Organizations, Addison-Wesley (2012). The Process Group consults to software, IT, systems and hardware organizations.