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In case you weren't aware…in addition to the engaging, corporate sector of Odyssey, our company boasts a vibrant and valuable youth division! And we are alive and kicking, having worked with more than 15,000 young adults. Our programs are typically half- and full-day events where youth from schools, clubs and other organizations have the opportunity to push their limits. Guided by our philosophy of "Building Confidence and Growing Individuals," we invite our young participants to take positive risks with the support and encouragement of their peers. Our goal is to bring both a physical and mental approach to learning; and our programs serve as a perfect tool! Whether you visit one of our local courses, or our team comes to your campus, the programs will challenge, engage and connect the members of your group.
VCU students help children maimed by land mines
By Karin Kapsidelis
Published: March 3, 2009
The bags of plastic parts and shiny screws might have been many things: something you wear on your head, one student guessed. A pen holder, said another.
But the sum of the parts was more than a classroom puzzle for Virginia Commonwealth University graduate students.
"You're going to build eight hands that will go on eight different people and change their families," said Todd Demorest, who oversaw a recent team-building lesson for students in the VCU School of Business' fast-track executive program for a master's in information systems.
photo by JOE MAHONEY/TIMES-DISPATCH
Kimion Walker (left) and Scott Lints participate in a team-building exercise at the VCU School of Business, where they built prosthetic hands for children.
The prosthetic hands will help children maimed by land mines — about 2,000 accidents occur each month from the estimated 100 million devices planted in 60 countries.
The idea to help children who have lost hands to land mines came from industrial engineer Ernie Meadows and his wife, Marj, whose daughter Ellen was killed in a car accident. Meadows designed the prosthetic hand as a memorial for his daughter and has turned the project over to Rotary International.
Rotary works with Odyssey Teams Inc., a California-based company that offers philanthropic team-building exercises for businesses.
Demorest, a facilitator with Odyssey, said that by creating value for others, these workshops develop teamwork and leadership skills in a way that the typical ropes courses and beach volleyball games can't.
"This is real," he said. "It's not like a metaphor anymore."
The Helping Hands workshop showed the business students that their goals should be "something bigger than just building a product and making a buck," said John Testement, whose Glen Allen-based RoadMaps Consulting helped coordinate the VCU event.
He said the workshop also illustrated the need to avoid what can happen within a company when employees get "siloed" working on their own projects and "never look over the cubicle wall to see if they can help others."
That was a focus of the workshop. Students were divided into teams, but it wasn't a race to see which one could assemble the hand first. Team members were encouraged to stop and help other groups.
"Were we not able to collaborate with others, we would not have been able to put it together correctly," said student Kimion Walker, whose team discovered it was missing a piece.
At the start of the event, the teams didn't know their goal, although one student did guess they were building a mechanical hand.
When their work was done, the students saw of video of children receiving prosthetic hands. An artificial limb would cost about $3,000, according to Odyssey, but these hands are given to the children for free.
The VCU students decorated wooden boxes that will hold the hands they made and posed for pictures that will be given to the children.
It was the first time VCU has offered the Helping Hands workshop, said Jean B. Gasen, an associate professor and faculty adviser in the VCU information-systems department.
Students have told her the exercise put the challenges they face into a much different perspective, she said, and that the world would be a better place "if people could treat one another with the compassion that they felt on that day."
The workshop was part of the orientation for students in the 14-month master's program, and its lesson struck a chord with Walker.
"The key to effective leadership is to serve," she said.
The current economic crisis shows the need for leaders with a strong sense of values, she added, noting that in the Wall Street meltdown, the nation is seeing how "capability without integrity can be dangerous."
Contact Karin Kapsidelis at (804-) 649-6119 or firstname.lastname@example.com .
Corporate Social Responsibility: It's Not Just a Fad
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) seems to be competing with "Green" on the business magazine covers and newspaper headlines. There are many interpretations of CSR, and the intent behind the actions taken and publicized by the organizations─most often either pro or con.
Opportunities abound for CSR events that are positive for all involved. An important consideration is what events will be selected. Often, employees have a very limited view of what their companies do in the CSR arena. They may be aware, for example, of a United Way campaign or a Wells for Water type fundraiser. Unless employees make the time to look on the company's internal website, they may not really understand the complexity or generosity of the company and the difference it makes around the world — beyond its normal goods and services.
In these tumultuous times, organizations are facing a multitude of challenges, such as keeping the people in the company energized, ambitious, connected to their work, and in a positive mood; in other words, the ideal employee. It is hard to do anything exceptional on top of a lousy mood. The proper choice of CSR events can increase cross-functional networks, decrease communication silos, foster solution-based thinking and raise mood levels, and thus, productivity.
With the challenge (and scrutiny) of being in a "fishbowl" where the decisions of investments and cuts are critical and viewed and felt by many, a one-time tested choice is to allocate funds to the people. This allocation, with a specific ROI in mind, and with a process, tool, and/or service that is highly recommended can be a "brass ring" that is reachable and deemed worthy by all involved.
By investing CSR funds and time in the employees, they will feel included, taken care of, worthwhile and appreciated. They will also learn new skills and/or competencies that are essential to the game of business as their roles evolve. There is a belief that if a company–and the individuals in the company–treat their internal customers as well as their external customers, more often than not everything else will work out, even better than expected at all levels of the business.
Today, more and more companies are turning to a melding of CSR/philanthropy and team building events for their employees. Companies can no longer afford to have team building just for fun or entertainment. Employees will rarely stay on one team. It is imperative that resources spent on building a team will create the capacity for individuals to make powerful choices and blend more easily as they move from team to team.
These hybrid team building events are a fabulous place to bring corporate values and/or targeted points to life. Participants have an opportunity to connect with their co-workers as they participate in altruistic activities (i.e., prosthetic hands for land mine victims, bicycles for less fortunate youth, playhouses for children hospitals, etc.). These programs provide a visceral experience that anchors the learning points with emotion, which lasts longer than a PowerPoint presentation or a team photo. In addition, the employee has a "face" to the people affected by the company's CSR initiatives and/or the benefits of where the company contributes. And perhaps more important, they, too, will feel as if they are being corporate socially responsible with all the pride, gratitude and humility that comes with it.
The cynicism that often goes along with team building events is diminished in these highly developed and relevant training events. The value is discovered at the outset and continues beyond the classroom walls. Those who are cynics have progressed to becoming skeptics; the skeptics to "on the bus"; the others to full-blown players on the team full of ambition. This ambition is fueled by their connection to who they work with; the work they do; and the impact they make internally and externally in this world that needs a little CSR everywhere.
When in a conversation that is aimed at team building, target a program that can provide a wide ROI for the employees, their teams, and the internal and external aspects of the business; offer them the opportunity to put their thumbprint on something that touches near and far. Philanthropic team building is a sure way to hit the CSR mark at many levels.
About the Author
Todd Demorest is the lead facilitator with Odyssey Teams, Inc, a Chico, California-based firm that helps business leaders keep their eye on the prize by building a stronger organization through processes designed to promote team building, innovation, enhanced customer service and greater profitability. Todd can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Managing – The Art of Creating Space. Lain Hensley's response to the question of how to create more space as a leader.
The idea is that all parts of our life – and management can be seen
as pieces of a pie. If you cut a slice out of it you create a void. That void
will be filled with something.
'Unrealistic' pursuit – a personal validation of Odyssey's work
In 2004 Lain Hensley, co-owner of Odyssey, and I were discussing the notion of blowing out our paradigm of what was possible for us in terms of business success WITH family/health balance. We were playing around with a new training concept that would challenge others to be more 'unrealistic' in their pursuits. We called the program/process Unrealistic Leadership™. I decided that if we were going to espouse such ideas that I must be willing to try my/our own medicine…. If we can't produce tremendous results then how can we claim to know anything about it and/or teach others?
So, I committed to train for and complete an Ironman traithlon. I had been a runner before but never a swimmer or cyclist. I had also been discouraged by Doctors saying that due to chondromalacia (knee disorder) my knees would progressively get worse/weaker and my running days were over.
The question of balance in my life at the time when there was no conceivable way for me to find the time to train for this was a real issue. How could I find the time? And could my knees become stronger, more re-generative?
Two boys, age 4 and 6 needing much father time. My wife, ever supportive of my pursuits though a bit worried about this one. The work vacuum pulling me in without enough hours in the day for what we needed to do as a business. Travel to various countries and time zones to deliver Odyssey programs.
I spent the next two years carving crazy amounts of hours and places to fit in my training. Getting stronger and fitter over that time eased my mind a little bit but it never erased the main fear that I had of not being able to accomplish this goal. It was so beyond me and any evidence that I had produced – even all the way up to the day of my Ironman – that I could get off my bike after riding 112 miles and swimming 2.4 miles and begin a marathon. Nothing in my training came even close to providing such evidence of possibility or probability. The only thing that I kept hearing from other Ironman finishers was that (you) will be able to tap into something without ever knowing whether you'll be able to tap into it. Hmmmm? How does that work?
At the same time of committing to my Ironman, Lain and I had also committed to much bigger financial goals within Odyssey. This multi-pronged 'unrealistic pursuit' meant that Odyssey's global impact needed to have more impact. So while I rode, I thought. While I ran, I thought. While I swam I thought. And there was plenty of time to think with peak training weeks reaching 18 hours. I was learning that some of my greatest breakthroughs for Odyssey came during some of my earliest runs, longest bike rides or hardest training moments. Sometimes really tough trainings were the only way to get out of my head and NOT think about Odyssey. These quiet times of brain and busy times of body were invaluable to freeing up space for something new to arrive in my thinking – later.
The toll of my training time impacted the Odyssey team who compensated enormously for my crazy schedule covering me at different times and events so I could squeeze time.
Notable training moments on Odyssey trips included falling off the treadmill in Singapore when I was too focussed on looking at myself in the mirror and didn't see that I was running slower than the treadmill. Oops! Falling off an elyptical trainer in Zurich when the handle caught the sleeve of my t-shirt and launched me over the front. Navigating through dozens of kids playing marco polo in an indoor pool in Dublin. Swimming in a roof top pool in Madrid the night the bombs went off in Spain (Al Queada). Long runs in Germany with my Odyssey crew after too much Munich the night before.
May 22nd finally arrived. Friends and families of hundreds of wanna-be Ironmen and women finishers cheered with bagpipes blazing and a gunshot that started the final phase of our Ironman journey and my 'unrealistic' pursuit.
Eleven and a half hours later I finished. Many obstacles came up during that time as I covered this last 140 miles of my journey. Perhaps all the fear, trepidation, nervousness and anxiety prepared me to have it be 'not as bad as I thought'. Trusting more than my little voice may be telling me not to, believing in something beyond the current body of evidence that I have of what is possible, relying on my team (family, co-workers) and others. These lessons still resonate though I often find myself sliding down the slippery path of more 'realistic' views that the media, economy, doctors and other influences have that my unconscious uses to manipulate into a perspective that is safer, more 'real' and ultimately, less powerful.
Odyssey doubled it's revenues over the course of my Ironman pursuit. My knees are still stronger than before (Cross training, religious intake of Glucosomine and still the belief in re-generation of these miracle joints) My kids were fine with Dad training so much and will hopefully remember me crossing the finish line with one of them under each arm. My wife, ever supportive, worries about a sequel though I've committed that IronDad is more important to me now than another Ironman.
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Group team-building options get creative
By Hunter R. Slaton
Popular wisdom holds that we are living in the age of the niche. Appropriately enough, team-building companies are now offering some out-there activities that depart from tired-and-true trust falls, paintball games and ropes courses of years past.
One offbeat option is WhirlyBall, which combines lacrosse, hockey and basketball with bumper cars. The WhirlyBall (www.whirlyball.com) company has three Illinois locations, where bumper car team members work together to score baskets using plastic scoops. Visit whirlyball.org to find other places where the sport is played and watch a game in action.
For those who don't enjoy getting knocked about, Canadian Outback Adventures (www.canadianoutback.com) organizes a barbecue challenge where teams battle, Iron Chef-style, with must-use ingredients in an outdoor cooking competition. After the judges choose the winning team, it's time to eat.
A do-good way to forge bonds: The Helping Hands program from Odyssey Teams (www.odysseyteams.com) assists groups in building prosthetic hands that are donated to those in need. Since the program began in 2004, a total of 1,200 hands have been assembled, 750 of which have been distributed to amputees in foreign countries including Colombia, India, Jordan and Kenya.
"Our Team is well balanced…we have problems everywhere"
We often add a little Odyssey color/flair to our events with quotes etc. (like the one above from Tommy Protho) placed throughout the training room. This quote usually gets a laugh. It's true isn't it? Every team has it's little blemishes here and there. And on a given day or project it can be anybody's turn to be the 'blemish'.
For over 20 years I've had the pleasure to see some of the best aspects of humanity in this work. It seems during our programs people are really challenging themselves, and opening up to be 'good people' to each other. To include, speak positive, and support each other during the task at hand. Should a dysfunctional 'blemish' appear, we all learn from it and move forward without blame, drama, politics etc. In short, people are being socially responsible.
While this has been happening at a foundational level for decades with Odyssey's team building programs… Seven years ago we wanted to bring it into the spotlight and well beyond the training room walls. Thus, the inception of our Corporate Social Responsibility – Helping Odyssey programs.
Life Cycles, Helping Hands, and Playhouse Project programs give people the opportunity to create tangible results that effect local and global people, families, and communities. It is emotional, and valued by all that are involved.
More than a sound bite heard from a CEO, at Helping Odyssey's participants get the unique and compelling satisfaction of 'walking the talk' and giving back, adding to etc. It feels good to make a difference in some ones life. It also feels good to learn something new and relevant about yourself, team, and business – guaranteed to happen at one of our trainings.
Firm's team-building exercise helps children
by Nathan Gonzalez – Jun. 4, 2008 05:55 PM
The Arizona Republic
What started as a team-building exercise for a group of Procter & Gamble employees turned into a surprise set of gifts for deserving Valley children.
About 135 Procter & Gamble employees from throughout the country gathered Tuesday at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort, where they assembled the bikes as part of a team-building exercise during a corporate training session.
None knew where the bikes would end up, until about 30 children from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Phoenix were led into the ballroom.
Transformational Teambuilding – A new twist on the traditional
Written By Diana Rowe
in Insurance and Financial Meetings Management Magazine -May/June 2008 issue
full article
Teambuilding with a purpose — corporate sales meeting attendees assemble bicycles for deserving kids. Odyssey Teams' Life Cycles program has donated more than 10,000 bikes to children worldwide since 2001. Doing good for others enriches not only receiver and giver, but the corporate culture as well.
Photo courtesy of Odyssey Teams
first bike ever — or his first prosthetic hand — assembled by your team. The same objectives of cooperation and communication are achieved but with the added, profoundly powerful component of doing good for others. "Paying it forward" not only enriches giver and receiver, it extends to the company's bottom line.
Becoming Good Corporate Citizens. Is CSR the meetings industry's new ROI?
Article written by Maria Lenhart
Meetings West, June 2008
"The only reason to hold a meeting is to save the world."
That was the audacious gauntlet thrown down by Tim Sanders at the end of his keynote address at MPI's Professional Education Conference-North America in Houston last February. The former Yahoo! executive, now a motivational speaker, author and CSR (corporate social responsibility) advocate, challenged the audience to start taking a leadership role in their organizations by initiating platforms for social and environmental change.
Similarly, CSR has been a hot topic at other industry conferences, including the recent SITE Executive Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where 143 incentive professionals gathered to discuss global trends.
"CSR is like the ROI of 2008–everyone is focused on it," commented SITE President Padraic Gilligan after the summit. "While it has been a growing item of discussion for the past few years, it has moved to a point where you can't be willing to take a risk and not have a company position on it."
At PCMA's annual meeting in Seattle last January, the Convention Industry Council (CIC) Task Force on Sustainability and Responsibility convened for the first time to determine how CIC member organizations can serve as resources on issues concerning the environment and social responsibility. Shortly afterward, MPI created its own task force comprised of CSR experts who will help the organization develop resources for members over the coming year.
Defining CSR
So what is CSR all about and why is it gathering so much momentum in the meetings industry?
Although it includes environmental issues, green initiatives are only one aspect of CSR. According to its "CSR: Where We Stand" statement, MPI defines it as encompassing a "triple bottom line" of "people, planet and profit," a broad spectrum of social, economic and environmental concerns.
"The triple bottom line behind CSR also looks at social responsibility–the economic and social equity of business choices," says Marge Anderson, assistant director of the Energy Center of Wisconsin and head of MPI's CSR Task Force. "Meetings are perfectly positioned to contribute to social responsibility by integrating community service projects into their programming so the impact they leave behind is positive. We can also have a positive impact by contributing to the local economy."
While CSR may seem to be most relevant to corporate meeting planners, Elizabeth Henderson, CMM, MPI's director of Canadian development and staff liaison for the CSR Task Force, says it has significance for all meeting planners.
"Associations, including MPI, are very concerned with CSR," she says. "And independent planners are working with both association and corporate clients who have an increasing CSR focus. It's important for them to know how to fit in with this."
For Sanders, author of Saving the World at Work, which will be published by Doubleday in September, CSR is no mere fad, but a "revolution" that is not going to go away.
"CSR is the biggest social trend of my lifetime and it will continue to be important," he says. "After all, you're never going to see headlines that say "Eco concerns are dead" or "Communities no longer need help."
Sanders believes it is the emergence of a new generation of corporate employees that is making it essential for companies to have CSR policies and practices. He also maintains that companies who don't have acceptable CSR practices will not be able to attract top talent.
"This is very important to young people and it strongly influences where they want to work," he says. "Research shows that compensation is no longer the biggest factor–a company's social commitment has more impact than anything else. This generation, the children of the Baby Boomers, has been strongly influenced by horrific events such as Hurricane Katrina and the media coverage, and corporate scandals such as Enron have also had an impact."
According to Sanders, there are three main criteria that determine whether or not a company is being a good corporate citizen: how it treats its employees, how it gives back to the community and its ecological and sustainability practices.
"The first is the most important," he says. "You can be as green as you want, but if you're not good to your employees, it doesn't matter."
Sanders is optimistic that corporations have the ability and even the will to have a positive impact on issues such as global warming and poverty.
"I've always believed that companies can change the world for good, even though a lot of environmentalists believe that corporations are evil," he says. "I don't. Corporations are made up of people and people want to do good."
Not everyone in the meetings industry is as optimistic, including longtime educator, consultant and independent planner Joan Eisenstodt, CMM, head of Washington, D.C.-based Eisenstodt & Associates.
"I do not agree with Tim Sanders on this one–because I do not think that most companies and organizations are embracing the deed versus the words of CSR, and because customers and staff and members are not shouting for it," she says. "Moreover, when it is shouted out, most organization find a way around the actions."
The Planner's Role
Where Eisenstodt, Sanders and others do agree is that meeting planners can and should play a crucial role in influencing their companies to implement CSR practices.
"Meeting planners have a lot of power for change," Sanders says. "They are the ones who pick the sites, the vendors, the speakers. They are the movie producers of their companies. Meetings are the only time in which people sit and think about the company's goals and objectives–so they are the time when the message can be delivered."
Angie Pfeifer, CMM, MPI's chairwoman of the board, advocates that planners take the initiative on CSR matters in their companies, something she says she has done in her role as vice president-corporate meetings, travel and incentives for Investors Group Financial Services in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
"I heard from my boss that we were starting a CSR task force and I said that I wanted to get involved," she says. "Since I manage both meetings and travel at the company, I knew there was a lot I could do. My team and I took a lot of time to research how we could implement CSR. It's not easy and it takes time."
The results soon paid off, however, with the company able to save many thousands of dollars by taking such steps as not supplying bottled water at meetings, but reusable bottles instead.
"The myth is that CSR is costly, but it's not," Pfeifer says. "It was very emotional for me to see how we'd saved by doing the right thing. And, of course, CSR is not just about green meetings. I'm at the table at my company in regards to all sorts of CSR."
Even companies that already have extensive CSR policies and practices in place may still need action on the part of planners to make sure these extend to meetings. Such was the case at Timberland, a Stratham, N.H.-based shoe manufacturer whose CSR practices include giving each employee 40 paid time-off hours a year to do volunteer work.
"When I joined Timberland a few years ago they had not yet integrated their CSR practices into meetings," says Michelle Johnson, a former in-house planner for Timberland who is now a partner in a planning firm, Creative Community Communications, whose clients include Timberland.
She says the chief reason behind this is that Timberland did not have a centralized meetings policy, something she recommends to all corporate clients who want to implement CSR meetings practices.
"We had many different departments doing things, so we put together a meetings policy that reflected Timberland's CSR focus," she says.
"A centralized policy allows you to look at where you are spending the money. Then you can look at what should be asked for in every hotel contract in regards to CSR."
Community Giving
One of the most visible ways that planners are implementing CSR is by scheduling a day or partial day devoted to a community project, endeavors that range from rebuilding hurricane-ravaged structures in New Orleans to assembling bicycles for needy children and other projects that can take place in a hotel ballroom.
Just as green practices can be good for a company's bottom line, community volunteer efforts have type of locale also has its fair share of attractive, meetings-friendly sites with reasonable prices.
Oceanside Oases
While everyone appreciates a day at the beach, fewer and fewer companies are able to afford coastal prices and are now looking for alternative locales with affordable price tags that still provide a fun-in-the-sun atmosphere.
Enter Ventura, Calif. Located about 28 miles south of Santa Barbara, Ventura is an idyllically beautiful seaside community with a good deal of history, even housing one of California's nine remaining missions: the San Buenaventura Mission.
"It is an old-fashioned California beach town," says Kathleen Fitzgerald, director of sales for the Ventura CVB. "We have a self-contained little Main Street area that has some significant architecture and wonderful restaurants and boutique shops."
Nature-loving groups can visit the breathtaking Channel Islands, just off the coast. They can also go whale watching or take a sunset cruise with companies such as the Island Packers.
"Another fun thing to do is have a meeting on the beach," Fitzgerald says, adding that The Yellow Umbrella Company regularly sets up such gatherings.
Ventura also has plenty of places for groups to stay, Fitzgerald says, adding that its average daily rates during peak season (July-August) can hover around just $139-$149, and off-peak (December) at around $99 per night, and many accommodation offerings are situated close to the water.
"Every room has an ocean view" at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, she says, adding that the Ventura Beach Marriott and Four Points by Sheraton Ventura Harbor are also a popular group choices.
Jessica Wimer, vice president-president elect for the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, regularly rotates her group between high-end coastal destinations and recently decided to bring a group to Ventura, thoroughly enjoying the experience.
"It was excellent. There was something for everyone. Ventura is really quaint and has an adorable Main Street with shops and museums and easy access to the water," she says, adding that the price point was spot-on. "Value-wise, the hotel was reasonably priced, so that was great.
Moving north up the coast into the Pacific Northwest is Astoria, Ore., located on the Columbia River and just a few miles from the ocean.
Not only is the destination close to water, offering fun group activities such as oyster shucking and fishing, Astoria is also a historic destination with a funky flair.
"Astoria isn't cookie-cutter," says Donna Quinn, director of sales and marketing for Astoria's Cannery Pier Hotel, adding that Lewis and Clark wintered there and it is also the site of the first post office west of the Rockies. "There is definitely a sense of character here and groups can sense that, whether they are meeting in an old Victorian house or a renovated building on the coast."
The town of less than 10,000 residents is a true value to planners, with a variety of unique meeting venues available at prices much less than larger beachside destinations.
Quinn says many visiting groups like to take a ride on the city's Riverfront Trolley for just $1 per person. Groups can also reserve the trolley for events or even head over to the Columbia River Maritime Museum for a tour.
Although it may be small in size, Astoria is far from a sleepy coastal town, Quinn says that "in the last five years there has been a renaissance of energy and vitality" in the destination, starting with a surge of restaurants and new venues such as The Loft at the Red Building, a popular meetings site.
The Loft, which overlooks the Columbia River, offers on-site catering for banquets, receptions and awards banquets.
Just next door is the Cannery Pier Hotel, located on a pier over the river, offering several spaces for meetings and events.
Just down the road are two other convention hotels: the 32-room Hotel Elliott with more than 15,000 square feet of meeting space and the 78-room Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Astoria with 2,000 square feet of meeting space.
Mountain Tops
Groups looking for a beautiful yet thrifty location in the mountains needn't look to high-end ski destinations, but can instead consider places such as Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
"I think we are kind of undiscovered at this point, and because of that hotel costs have remained consistently affordable," says Dani Zibell-Wolfe, vice president of tourism for the Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce.
Sitting at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Coeur d'Alene not only offers 15 blocks of boutique shopping and a variety of group-friendly restaurants with outdoor seating in its downtown district, but the community is also located right on Lake Coeur d'Alene, offering a plethora of activities at reasonable prices.
"When you add the lake into the equation, it creates so much value," Zibell-Wolfe says. "Not only dollar-wise–but the activities we have create a wonderful value."
Available water activities range from parasailing on the lake to organizing a dinner cruise for visiting delegates with companies such as Lake Coeur d'Alene Cruises.
Surrounded by mountains, groups are never far away from land-based adventures as well.
"You can walk out of your hotel and generally be within a half-mile of a paved, non-motorized bike trail," Zibell-Wolfe says, adding that during the winter groups can also enjoy skiing nearby. "We have two ski resorts, Schweitzer Mountain Resort and Silver Mountain Resort, within an hour's drive."
With a vibe that Zibell-Wolfe calls "small town boutiquey," she says oftentimes groups who visit the destination have an inkling to stay permanently.
"People come here for a convention or meeting and they end up buying homes," she says. "It happens every year. We have a convention coming in June and one of the things they want to set up is a real estate tour."
As far as meeting space goes, Zibell-Wolfe says the destination is known for the Coeur d'Alene Golf & Spa Resort, which while consistently rated a four-star property, is still affordable for groups.
Other meeting hot spots include the Best Western Coeur d'Alene Inn and the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Coeur d'Alene, both offering reasonable rates.
"Conventions and meetings are all about attendance and after awhile [of going to the same place], it becomes old and stale," Zibell-Wolfe says. "If you can add some interest in a new destination with exciting activities for the same price, if not less, it is more exciting for attendees. When you come to a destination like Coeur d'Alene, there are so many activities that are at your fingertips, and that adds a lot of excitement."
Driving about four hours east on I-90 will land groups in Butte, Mont., another affordable and unique meetings destination in the mountains.
Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Butte was a boom town, known for its copper mining. At that time, mining was so profitable it attracted people from all over the world, giving the destination an ethnic flavor that is still felt today.
"Butte is authentic; it is the real deal," says Sara Rowe, director of the Butte CVB. "It has this incredible history and people really haven't discovered Butte yet, so we still have good rates on hotels and the food is phenomenal."
Rowe explains that during the mining boom, Butte welcomed a good deal of Irish, Chinese, Cornish, Italian, and Serbian workers, whose influences have greatly affected the town's culinary options.
"We don't have a lot of chain restaurants, we have ones that have been here a long time and have a real ethnic flavor," she says, highlighting group favorites such as Lydia's Supper Club and Pekin Noodle Parlor.
Located "right at the top of the Rockies," Rowe says there are plenty of ways groups can experience the beauty of the outdoors in Butte.
"We have incredible trails, both for vehicles and for hiking," she says. "There is also a lot of climbing and within 15 minutes you can find some of the best trout fishing in the country."
Although winter weather can prove chilly, summers "are gorgeous," Rowe says. "In July, it will be in the 90s and at night it will be around 65-70."
In addition, Butte is known for its festivals, such as Evel Knieval Days, this year scheduled for July 24-26.
"Butte is known as a festival city, and Evel Knieval was from here," Rowe says, adding that the community also has a Chinese New Year's celebration and a St. Patrick's Day celebration. This year's National Folk Festival will run from July 11-13 in Butte.
When it is time to get to business, Butte has a variety of affordable meeting space options for groups, starting with the Butte Civic Center, which can seat 5,000 guests theater-style and 2,000 banquet-style.
The 131-room Butte War Bonnet Hotel is another popular group option, with more than 4,000 square feet of meeting space, as is the Copper King Hotel & Convention Center, complete with an 8,000-square-foot ballroom.
Desert Destinations
While Palm Springs' gentle breezes and Scottsdale's long stretches of green fairways may come to mind first when planners consider a desert destination, alternative locations such as Moab, Utah, can also quench groups' thirst for the desert, but at greatly reduced prices.
"There is so much to do for very little cost," says Marian DeLay, executive director of the Moab Area Travel Council, adding that hiking, camping and rafting on the Colorado River are all popular activities. "Golf is even cheap here. It is around $26 for 18 holes, or just $38 with a cart."
The Moab Golf Course is one such place where groups can enjoy a day in the sun. The facility also often organizes tournaments, DeLay says.
Beyond its golf, Moab is within easy driving distance to many of the country's national parks, lending itself nicely to groups looking for reasonably priced outdoor activities. For example, DeLay says groups can visit nearby Arches National Park for $7 a day.
Moab offers a variety of ways to experience the desert, one of them as a split activity between a Jeep and a jet boat.
"We have outfitters that take groups on a Jeep and jet boat combo," DeLay says. "In the morning, half of the group will get in Jeeps and go up to the Canyonlands and the other half will go on a jet boat on the Colorado River. Half way through the day, the Jeeps end up at the boat docks and they switch.
"They absolutely love it," she says. "All that is about $60 a person and it includes lunch."
Groups can also enlist companies who specialize in leading guided ATV and dirt bike tours of "some of the most spectacular scenery you are ever going to see," DeLay says.
Two of the most popular meetings hotels in Moab are The Red Cliffs Lodge and the Sorrel River Ranch Resort & Spa, both of which offer a variety of indoor and outdoor meeting spaces for small- to-midsize groups.
DeLay says meeting planners can expect to pay around $200 a night at the two hotels during peak season (May-September), but prices can go as low as $140 during slower periods. Limited service hotels are also available for groups in Moab, with prices hovering around $60-$70 per night.
Traveling south to Arizona, the terrain is as much known for high-end meetings destinations as it is for long expanses of cactus-filled desert. Despite this, by heading a little more than 100 miles south of Phoenix to Tucson, planners will find that their dollars stretch pretty far.
In January, Preferred Meeting Management's Cline brought a group of 700 delegates down to Tucson, staying at the JW Starr Pass Resort & Spa, and couldn't be happier with her experience.
"It is absolutely a fabulous city to bring conferences to," she says. "It has an intimate feel and all the advantages of being a smaller community, but it has everything you need. The price structure definitely had a little less impact on our budget [than other destinations]."
Although prices were reasonable, Cline says the quality was still there.
"They certainly could demand the same prices [as other destinations]," she says. "They have beautiful facilities, but their prices are not high-end."
Graeme Hughes, director of convention sales for the Metropolitan Tucson CVB, says the city's value not only stems from its attractive prices, but from its variety of venues.
"Value comes from having choices and options," he says, adding that the city is host to several group-friendly resorts such as Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa and the Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort, as well as the Tucson Convention Center.
"So much of what we do is based in the desert," Hughes says, adding that some groups like to head up to Cocoraque Ranch & Pavilion for a truly Wild West experience. "They can accommodate up to 30 people on horseback, and they will take you on a cattle drive. It is like City Slickers. Then the full day ends with a barbeque at the ranch house."
Groups who would rather experience the desert from the indoors can visit the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, the second-most-visited attraction in the state, according to Hughes, with a zoo, museum and botanical garden.
Yet regardless of what groups decide to do when in Tucson, they are in for a truly unique desert experience, Hughes says.
"Tucson still offers a little bit of mystery," he says. "We like to think of it as authentic Arizona. We have the rugged terrain and the picturesque sunsets. In Tucson, you can literally walk out your door to hiking trails and nature preserves."


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'Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540'
A traveling exhibition of prints places Augsburg at the center of artistic innovation
Reviewed by Andy Campbell, Fri., Nov. 15, 2013
Blanton Museum of Art, 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr., 512/471-7324
Through Jan. 5
Pay attention to paper. That seems to be the imperative emanating from "Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540" at the Blanton Museum of Art. This exhibition, which originated at the National Gallery of Art and features graphic work made roughly between the first updrafts of the Italian Renaissance and the post-traumatic turmoil of the Reformation, maps a particularly productive time in the history of the southern Bavarian city of Augsburg, which is perpetually playing handmaiden to better-known Nuremberg in histories of Renaissance art. Like other metropolitan centers, Augsburg had its share of local artists, and they were essential cogs in that city's cultural life. The hearty patronage of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I didn't hurt either; so fond of Augsburg was Maximilian, that he was playfully dubbed its mayor.
Augsburg was a crucible of graphic experimentation. The armorer Daniel Hopfer pioneered the printmaking process of engraving by flattening out pieces of iron and incising his designs onto them. And hard to imagine today is the wonderment that master printer Erhard Ratdolt's multicolor woodblock prints would have elicited from contemporary viewers. Luckily, the process is also on view, in the form of the odd woodblock or engraving plate.
The wonderful thing about Northern Renaissance art (the prints and drawings from Augsburg are no exception) is that it can be seductively, invitingly goofy. In one engraving by Hopfer, a giant wooden beam is wedged into the eye of a man, who picks at the orbital of another man. It's a literal illustration of a parable from Matthew – "Why do you see the mote in your brother's eye and not the beam in your own?" – and it's stupendous, because the whole implausible scene is set in a local church. Other figures in the print mill about, doing their daily devotional thang, playing to the print owner's sense of piety and pride of place. Slow down long enough to look, and there's a whole world to see.
But there's one problem: the corny period music playing from speakers hidden in various corners of the galleries. This wouldn't be so noticeable if the exhibit downstairs, the ebullient retrospective-as-installation of Brazilian artist Waltercia Caldas, didn't use music infinitely better. There, the music comes through personal headsets, allowing listeners to let the score affect their meanderings. It may be harsh to liken the plinkity-pluckity madrigals piped through galleries upstairs to Muzak-playing mall courts or the edutainment of Medieval Times, but Blanton, you leave a critic no choice. The implication seems to be that viewers need a little sonic push to enjoy the show, and, as theatre folk are wont to say, that's playing down to your audience.
That, and it made us crave a turkey leg.

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The California Highway Patrol has identified the woman killed in a crash on Highway 101 south of Donovan Road in Santa Maria on Sunday as 25-year-old Ashley Kerr of Santa Maria. Kerr was a passenger in a Blazer driven by 22-year-oldTravis Dashek of Santa Maria. Dashek who was hauling a boat trailer, went off the right side of the highway, …Read More »
Holiday DUI Crackdown Resulted in Less Arrests
The Winter Holiday Anti-DUI crackdown has resulted in less DUI arrests from local routine traffic enforcement and special Avoid the 14 DUI enforcement deployments overnight in San Luis Obispo County throughout the past week. From 12:01 AM Friday December 26, 2014 through Midnight Sunday December 28, 2014 officers representing 9 county law enforcement agencies have arrested 11 individuals for driving …Read More »
Man Killed on Oceano Dunes
A man was killed on the Oceano Dunes last night. According to officials he was getting something out of his vehicle when another vehicle hit him from behind, pinning him between the two vehicles. He died at the scene. The driver of the car that him said he didn't see the man or his truck. Officials say no alcohol was …Read More »
Morro Bay Man Bitten by Great White Shark
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Paso Robles Live Fire Training Excercises
Paso Robles Department of Emergency Services firefighters will be conducting live fire training exercises at 2921 Park Street today. The training fire will begin at approximately 9:00 am and end around 4:00 pm. This training will not present any hazard to adjacent residences; however, smoke will be visible in the area from the fire. The purpose of the this event …Read More »
One of the Busiest Travel Times is Over
Over one of the busiest travel period of the year, Californians rode trains in unprecedented numbers this Thanksgiving, despite gas prices dipping to their lowest level in six years. November ridership and revenue reports for Amtrak California are in and boast impressive gains. The Pacific Surfliner, the 2nd busiest intercity rail corridor in the nation, set records for the highest …Read More »
SLO Sheriff's SAFE Detectives Arrest Man With Child Pornography
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (SAFE) detectives, with assistance from the Arroyo Grande Police Department High Tech Crimes Unit, arrested a man for possession of child pornography on Dec 23rd. Joseph Rizzardi, 48, was taken into custody in Avila Beach without incident, after detectives discovered videos of child pornography on a computer that was traced …Read More »
For Many Retailers, Christmas Season Extends Past December 25th
For many local retailers, the 2014 Christmas season extends well after December 25th. Stores are busier than ever with customer exchanges and returns. Price changes for end of the year sales also keep clerks hopping. Discounts offer bargains for shoppers, however, if the price charged at the register is more than the lowest posted or advertised price, then any expected …Read More »
Man Killed in Car Crash is Identified
The CHP has identified the man killed in a crash on Los Osos Valley Road Sunday night. Sixty-five-year-old Mauricio Cardenas of San Luis Obispo was killed after being struck by a car near South Bay Boulevard, about six p.m. Officials say there was no crosswalk in the area, and the driver told officers it was dark and he didn't see …Read More »
Bike & Pedestrian Safety Enforcement in Atascadero
Atascadero Police Department will step up Bike & Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Operations on Saturday, December 27th, with focused enforcement on collision causing factors involving motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists. The department has mapped out locations over the past five years where pedestrian and bike collisions have occurred, along with the violations that led to those crashes. Extra officers will be …Read More »


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How may I completely lock the system via
C-Sharp code like the
Bundespolizei-Virus does? I´m trying to secure my computer with a little software that locks the system when nothing happens for 5 minutes and only unlocks when the user entered the right password.
It´s not my goal to write an own virus or something like that, it´d just be nice to know how.
I don´t want to lock it as windows does because I want to show my own User Interface.
It´d also be useful when writing a program for public computers where users only should work with this program and have no possibilities to access the operating system in any way.


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Um, password needed....
Posted 04 September 2011 - 08:46 AM
Posted 04 September 2011 - 08:53 AM
I'll PM you the womens password, the LGBT and survivor disability don't have a password, and you need to PM Wendi, LOH, Rhianydd or a Board Moderator for the ritual abuse forum.
Posted 04 September 2011 - 09:06 AM
I've sent you a PM about the Ritual Abuse forum. As Green Snail said, the LGBT and survivors with disabilities forums don't have passwords so you should just be able to access them as normal.
Let us know if you have any problems.
Take care


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Probably a stupid query, but I'm trawling the codex for a solution.
I don't want any non-admin members (on a private BP site) to have access to the dashboard, I just want a simple splash page, they log in and get access to the site - non registered members are asked to log-in prior to access and moderated prior to acceptance (I was going to use BP-Registration-Options to do this unless Members allows for that too).
Is Members the right plugin for me?
I would have used the plug-in support forum, but I'm not going to pay $29.00 if I don't have to - times are tight all-round eh!


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Peppers at 10, which seems low.
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|1 day 18 hours ago
|Brewer? Yes # of batches?
Brewer? Yes
Beer Styles: A cherry milk stout is my best. Like to drink Belgians.
Other? I love the engineering side. Made an electric kettle I'm proud of
|5 days 8 hours ago
|I wouldn't
I wouldn't have thought of this, but in hindsight I think she, or her writing, may have kept this movie from being an all time great.
|5 days 8 hours ago
You misread this. Not best. Worst.
|5 days 8 hours ago
Dazed and Confused, Good Will Hunting, Dogma (and other Kevin Smith movies), Argo, The Town, Gone Baby Gone. He might not be Paul Newman or Daniel Day-Lewis, or even a Ryan Gosling, but he's been in some good movies as an actor and has done arguably even better as a director.
|5 days 16 hours ago
Thanks. I couldn't remember what came before Abbey Road and I guess I misread the discography when looking it up. I guess order not considered, I'd still rank Sgt. Peppers over the White Album, but the either way you have a great 3-in-a-row excluding yellow submarine.
|5 days 21 hours ago
I'd have to flip the list. Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Road, Let It Be
|6 days 12 hours ago
Well, thank god Hoke bended over backward for him, seeing how critical Shane has been to the program.
|6 days 20 hours ago
|Get some
Get some used irons PW-3. These days golf technology hasn't evolved nearly as much in the past 15 years as it had the 15 years prior to that, so it's easy to find very decent sets for cheap. Make sure your irons have good sized cavities (not blades). Get them regripped if you have to.
Find a used matching 3wood and 5wood. Once again you can find some nice older Callaways or something comparable for cheap. Finally, test out a bunch of used drivers and pick one. Don't spend much on a putter.
At some point adding a sandwedge will be helpful, but sometimes beginners struggle with high lofted clubs around the green.
|1 week 17 hours ago
Because betting is relative to odds not simply who you think will win it all. As the article notes, we started at 15/1 and now are 7/1, which still isn't quite as good as Bama. The fact that a lot of people put money on us meant they liked our chances relative to the odds.
To illustrate, let's say Bama, OU, Mich are all 5/1 odds but FSU is 30/1. Where do you think the money is going to go? Does that mean people think FSU is the most likely team to win it all? No.
All that said, it's safe to say people think very highly of our chances.
|1 week 3 days ago
|Good point
Been here for exactly 5 seasons
|1 week 3 days ago
|I thought
I thought I might get into Texas football when I came here for grad school. Went to a couple games and realized I just didn't care. Actually found myself rooting for Rice in a game because Sam McGuffie was on their team.
|1 week 3 days ago
I once snuck into the barn when they were slaughtering the spring lambs and they were all screaming. I grabbed one and ran away as fast as I could. But I didn't know where I was going. It was cold, very cold. I thought if I could just save one, but he was so heavy. Eventually the sherriff picked me up and returned the lamb to the rancher. I still wake up some nights and hear them screaming.
|1 week 4 days ago
|You're not going to
You're not going to go wrong pretty much anywhere in Ann Arbor. Burns Park, Angell, Eberwhite, Bach elementary schools will all be in neighborhoods near campus. Wines is pretty close as well and Thurston is close to north campus, if you're an engineer.
|1 week 6 days ago
|Sounds like
Sounds like they had some cancerous players in the locker room that needed to go. Maybe Thad was getting too caught up in stars and not putting enough focus on character, or at least that's what he seemed to be suggesting in not the most eloquent terms. I think he's a good coach and imagine they'll turn it around. Sorry to interrupt the circle jerk.
|2 weeks 13 hours ago
|He doesn't get it
"I don't think there's any head coach at our level that can control everything that happens in this day in time."
It's not about controlling everything, it's about being responsible for the culture of your program. That should be all the more apparent with Baylor and PSU headlines.
|2 weeks 14 hours ago
Fewer than Kelvin Grady.
|4 weeks 5 days ago
Watc you didn't get about it?
|5 weeks 14 hours ago
|Come on man
Don't try to put words in my mouth. Literally no one in this entire thread is saying the issue is solely due to talent. It is a mathematical certainty, however, that our talent pool is diminished because of our cultural focus on other sports, so to claim our mediocrity has 0% to do with potential talent never trying seriously at soccer or even having exposure to soccer is either disingenuous or ignorant.
|5 weeks 18 hours ago
|Spatial intelligence
I'll say he probably has the best spatial intelligence of any soccer player, which I consider to be an athletic measure. Reminds me of Wayne Gretzky. Reminds me of Magic Johnson.
People in this thread want soccer skills to be so unique, but they aren't. Trapping a long ball doesn't take more or less skill than making a 3 pointer. Dribbling a soccer ball doesn't take more skill than dribbling a basketball. Understanding of spacing isn't more important for Bobby Wood than it is for Danny Amendola or Darren Helm. Eye-foot coordination isn't more important for a soccer player than eye-hand coordination for a baseball player. And so on.
|5 weeks 19 hours ago
|Don't disagree
I don't disagree with any of this, but I think it's important to note that youth soccer, while very big in suburbia, is still not penetrating equally across all socio-economic divides. You mentioning the $2-3 k a year being a perfect example.
So I do think it is an opportunity problem for big chunks of our population.
|5 weeks 19 hours ago
|Why is it
Why is it 100% coaching and 0% talent? Who is creating this dichotomy? I'm not arguing against the importance of coaching and better youth soccer instruction, but it is impossible to argue against numbers.
If you have X number of kids and half of them are never exposed to soccer or were gently pushed toward other sports, you just cut your talent pool in half. For a country like Argentina, you don't have to even consider whether the kids will get a fair shake at showing their mettle on a soccer field. In the US, there's a good chance that a great soccer player got so little exposure that their talents were never developed/recognized. Whether or not that player is LeBron James or Adrian Peterson is not the point. The point is our theoretical talent base is much much bigger than our practical one.
So when someone says, how can the US have so many people and be so mediocre at soccer, well, part of the reason is that our population misrepresents our practical talent pool.
|5 weeks 19 hours ago
|You're warping
You're warping my argument.
People in this thread are essentially saying that NBA stars are only good because of freak athleticism and their skills wouldn't translate to soccer, which may be somewhat true in cases like a Russell Westbrook. There are many NBA athletes or NCAA Div 1 basketball players that did not make it based off freak athleticism. They made it because they are freaskishly good at everything else that makes one good at sports. Things like endurance, coordination, understanding of the game, quick thinking, honed a particular skill, basically all of the things people are listing as being so unique to soccer.
So no, you're not just missing out on a couple Zardes 2.0's, you miss out on every type of player when kids aren't exposed to soccer to begin with. Of course, you need coaching to then develop that talent, but once again, that's a separate issue for US soccer.
|5 weeks 19 hours ago
Everyone in this thread is equating athlete with essentially 40 times and verticals. Being good, or even wordclass, at a sport has a lot more to do with the other aspects of athleticism that are harder to measure. These traits, which people refer to as kinesthetic intelligence (as I referred to in another post), is what makes one person good at every sport they pick up, whether it's ping pong, golf, soccer, or basketball.
So we aren't just missing out on freak athletes, like say a Russell Westbrook, we're missing out on the bulk of the entire talent pool whether they are freak athletes, masterly skilled players (Curry) or all-around playmakers who seem better than they should be (Steve Nash types).
I'm not arguing that we need more Zardeses. I'm saying there our country size does not reflect our soccer talent pool compared to other countries because our best athletes (not just in raw measureables) play other sports.
The quality of youth instruction is of course important as well, but that wasn't the argument at hand here.
|5 weeks 20 hours ago
Football I can agree with, at least for certain positions. Basketball no. Skill is incredibly important to basketball in a similar way to soccer. So is quick thinking, spatial awareness, vision, etc., i.e., everything that goes into what people refer to as kinesthetic intelligence, which is not the same as raw athleticism.
And of course if you put some random athlete on a soccer field who has never played before they aren't going to impress. The point is, nearly all of our best talent, whether athletic freaks or just all-around excellent athletes end up focusing on other sports. Even if they do play soccer as a kid, they are probably getting mediocre instruction and less time on the field than international counterparts.
|5 weeks 20 hours ago
|Who are these experts?
Athletic people are good at sports. Athleticism is also not just fast or jumps high. It's coordination, spatial awareness, etc. Didn't you ever have the friend who was good at every sport? It's like how Harbaugh looks for QBs that were also stars of their baseball squad or what not. Look at Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, etc.
Maybe Lebron would suck at soccer. Maybe his athleticism wouldn't translate. But when our best athletes are almost all choosing to focus on basketball, football, baseball, hell even hockey in the north, over soccer, it's ludicrious to suggest that that isn't a disadvantage for the US vs. nations where it's soccer and then everything else.
|5 weeks 1 day ago
|I think
I think his point wasn't so much that they wouldn't care but more the communication part. We care about discovering all sorts of unintelligent life forms on earth, so that's likely not it. The problem is, how could we ever have meaningful communication with a worm. Worms aren't even all that different from us genetically (something like 70% of the same genome). So consider how different some other form of life would be, and how completely improbably it would be that our intellects would be remotely on the same page. This is a pretty good response to the Fermi Paradox people are pointing out in this thread as well.
|5 weeks 3 days ago
True, we're going to miss out on some gimmees at home. But, if the goal is to win the B10, as opposed to say just making the tourney and going 10-8 in conference, I think your road schedule is crucial. If you're competing for a title, you should be winning at home whether it's NW or it's IU.
|6 weeks 6 days ago
|The ever
The Dave Brandon Ever After Trophy: A giant macaroni noodle.
|7 weeks 1 day ago
No, it was not "one big outside shot." He was 39% from 3 starting February.
I saw a kid who tried too hard when he was on the floor, likely because he was fighting for minutes and due to Beilein's unpredictable substituion patterns. He also made some passes that only Walton or Spike were capable of. The problem was for every great pass, he'd force one and turn it over.
His biggest strength goes unnoticed to many and especially to stats: defense. You can look to the Purdue game we lost in the BTT, where Swanigan couldn't do a thing when Kam was in the game.
Kam's biggest limitation, certainly within the framework of Beilein's offense, was his ball handling. Maybe Bacari will be able to better leverage Kam's strengths and minimize the impact of his weaknesses. Regardless, no one can look at the wing/forward depth chart next year and say we are better off without him.
|7 weeks 2 days ago
|It's a projection
No one is saying we are better than OSU, just that we project to be pretty damn good this year. It'd be ridiculous to go around bragging about a #3 preseason ranking, but it's hard to argue against it.
We project to have the likely the best or certainly the deepest DL. I doubt you'll find a better set of starting corners. Two safeties who have seen significant playing time, one of whom has potential to be a big time play maker. While uncertainty looms at LB, the unit wasn't good this year and we have Peppers plus healthy McCray and incoming Bush. I can see a talented freshmen like Bush actually contributing because frankly a lot may not be asked of the linebackers this year with the strength of the DL.
On offense, we have an OL that projects to be solid, two very solid+ WRs, a ridiculous TE group, options at RB and then there's QB. This team doesn't need a JT Barrett or Deshaun Watson. While there is uncertainty the options don't seem scary, maybe even arguably exciting, especially considering who is coaching them. If O'Korn is too mistake prone, it seems reasonable based off spring to think Speight could be a good game manager. Even in absolute disaster scenarios, you have Morris and Peters.
Projections are projections, so sure they don't mean much. At the same time, there is a strong argument for top 5 projection.


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A Born Again Christian has repented his/her sins and has received The Lords forgiveness. Now if you keep on pointing out the things that the Born Again Christian has done in the past then you're working for satan as you're now doing his job by trying to make the person feel guilty for the things he/she has done in the past.
When God forgave the Born Again Christian his/her sins - God wipe that persons slate clean. So who do you think you are to keep throwing it into that person's face.
This is a message from God to all Bron Again Christians do not let satan use people around you to steal the new anointing in your life. God loves you and He has forgiven your sins!
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The Eye-Test and Dustin Byfuglien's Impact on Jets
Garret Hohl
May 08 2015 02:41PM
Dustin Byfuglien --like many of the Winnipeg Jets' best players-- is a pretty controversial player. You either love him and think he's the best, or you just out right hate him.
Regardless of which category one falls in line with, almost all agree that the Big Buff has a tonne of talent in many areas but struggles in others. Very few will deny his offensive prowess, and almost everyone can remember at least one moment where a dangerous play evolves from a defensive miscue.
Which camp you lie in depends on your opinion of whether or not his strengths overcome his weaknesses.
Let's take a look at the numbers.
Taking a look at what factor luck plays in being a "Cinderella Team"
Cam Lewis
May 08 2015 07:30AM
Since the 2005-06 lockout, we've seen quite a few memorable Cinderella Runs in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. In fact, there have been so many, it almost seems inevitable that a seventh or eighth seeded team is going to make a deep run into the playoffs while a top seeded team is knocked out in the first round. The stage was set in 2006, the first year into the new era of the NHL, when the eighth seeded Oilers made it to within one game of winning it all. Since then, we've seen the seventh seeded Flyers make it to the Finals, the eighth seed Canadiens to the Eastern Finals, the eighth placed Kings win it all, and many other upsets.
What goes into being one of these so called Cinderella teams? Are these teams really actually even underdogs? In the case of the Los Angeles Kings, no, not at all. To a lesser extent, same goes for the 2006 Oilers. Sometimes, these are mediocre teams who ride luck all the way through season and into the playoffs. Other times, actually, pretty commonly, these are examples of good teams who had an unlucky regular season, resulting in them being way lower in the standings than they should have been.
Let's take a closer look.
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May 08 2015 07:00AM
The Flames stay alive, Bob Hartley, the Battle of Alberta, Leafs coaching and GM favorites, Kevin Bieksa moving, Oilers interviewing coaches, the Kings are old and more in this week's Roundup brought to you by DraftKings.
What can previous playoffs series tell us about what's going to happen in the second round, and beyond?
Cam Lewis
May 06 2015 08:00AM
The playoffs are crazy. There's no other way to put it. And of course, this year has been no different. Although the playoff are wacky and unpredictable, there does appear to be a pattern over the past couple of seasons that suggests what it takes to win. Underlying stats would suggest that generally, the team with the better Corsi For percentage wins the playoff series, but when that doesn't happen, what's the deal? Is it luck? How far can that carry a team? What can the last two years of first round playoff match ups tell us about where the teams in this year's playoffs are headed?
Let's take a look.
Nation Drafts 2015 charity playoff pool update
Thomas Drance
May 02 2015 12:35PM
The Nation Network isn't accustomed to playoff success. What else do you expect from a blog network based out of Edmonton?
We're experts in the draft lottery though, and we know a thing or two about playoff pools - particularly the Nation Drafts charity playoff pool that we run annually. With the second round of the 2015 Stanley Cup playoffs already in full swing, let's take a moment, look back at round one, and check out the progress that the Nation Network's poolies are making in the competition!


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Julian Gollop is a game designer, responsible for the strategy classic X-Com, which he co-created with his brother Nick Gollop. Julian Gollop lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Julian started creating computer games in 1982 while at school, where he designed 'Time Lords' and 'Islandia' for the BBC Micro. He learned to program on a humble ZX81, before swiftly upgrading to the Sinclair Spectrum. After leaving school he created 'Nebula' and 'Rebelstar Raiders' for RedShift, a pioneering strategy games publisher based in North London. He then attended the London School of Economics to study sociology and econmics. Whilst there he created 'Chaos', published by Games Workshop, and 'Rebelstar', published on Mirrorsoft's budget label, Firebird. After moving back to Harlow he set up Target Games, and was joined by his brother Nick. They created 'Laser Squad' for the Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad CPC, with Atari and Amiga conversions outsourced. This was followed up by 'Lords of Chaos', a sequel to the original Chaos, but with strong RPG elements.
Julian showed a prototype of Laser Squad 2 to several publishers, and it was picked up by MicroProse and transformed into 'UFO: Enemy Unknown' (aka 'X-Com: UFO Defense'). X-Com sold massive numbers, and was followed by two sequels 'X-Com: Terror from the Deep' and 'X-Com: Apocalypse'. Terror from the Deep was developed by Microprose using code licensed by Mythos, while X-Com: Apocalypse was developed by an expanded Mythos development team. X-Com: Apocalypse was a successful and profitable game for Mythos, despite a troubled development, but it was the last X-Com game that the Gollop brothers worked on. Further sequels, 'X-Com: Interceptor' and 'X-Com: Enforcer' were developed by Microprose, but they departed from the established strategy game genre. The much touted 'X-Com: Alliance' was canned by Microprose, despite a massive amount of money being lavished on it.
Meanwhile, Mythos began looking for a better publishing deal, and signed a contract with Virgin Interactive for four titles. The first of these titles, 'Magic & Mayhem' was released in 1998. Unfortunately, Virgin Interactive, once the mightiest publisher in europe, became a shadow of its former self. Mythos began work on the 'Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge', which was essentially a remake of the first X-Com with 3D graphics. VIE was taken over by Titus Interactive, who stopped funding development of the 'Dreamland chronicles', and Mythos was liquidated. In 2001, Julian, Nick and Steve (an ex-Mythos employee) began work on 'Laser Squad Nemesis'.
Julian likes to dabble in many things of a creative nature, including programming, art, music and cooking. He considers Richard Stallman, Tim Berners Lee, Doug Engelbart and Linus Torvalds, among others, to be the true heroes of the modern computer age. Julian likes to relax by reading, swimming, and walking in the mountainst. He was married to Reni, a Bulgarian artist, in 2003, and lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.


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If I save a table in Management Studio's Table Designer for example, I believe it runs DDL SQL in the background. Is it possible for me to grab this SQL so that I can save it to a file?
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Modern versions of SSMS (2008+ at least) allow you to generate a change script once you have made changes to a table using the graphical designer. You go to the menu item Table Designer > Generate Change Script.
That said, I agree with Thomas. In the long term, you should be proficient at T-SQL so that you can write
You can just go to the table after it is created in SSMS and right click and then select the Script options in the menu.


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The ostensible point of this is that the writer's strike will eventually leave actors with nothing to perform except scenes from 'scripted reality,' but the actual point is that there is nothing funnier than reenactments of scenes from 'The Hills.' NOTHING.
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Formscan By Eamonn Murphy - Her sire, Lavirco is strongly represented in the preceding couple of heats with Mikael D'Haguenet and Roi Du Mee. That deceased German-bred stallion has the likely winner here in the shape of TARLA. So good at Clonmel in mid-November, Tarla was unlucky when coming a cropper at the last at Cork 39 days back and with a bit of luck now she can account for Cnoc Seoda. She also went at the last that day at Cork, when looking held in second place. As a course winner here though, she's due respect. Declan Queally can't use his 5Ib claim on his father's charge as this is a Grade 2 event. Mark Enright can't draw his 5Ibs on Avondhu Lady either and the same is true of Derek Fox (7Ibs) on Charlie's Vic. Glibin and Noras Fancy could challenge for placings whilst Our Girl Lucy has it to do on figures.
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A novice steeplechase for five yrs old and upwards mares only, that are EBF eligible
Weights - A novice steeplechase for five yrs old and upwards mares only, that are EBF eligible
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Riders - Winner of three steeplechases or of a Grade 3 steeplechase 3lb extra; Of two Grade 3 steeplechases or of a Grade 2 steeplechase 5lb extra; Of a Grade 1 steeplechase 7lb extra;
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The Bachelor of Science in Business (BSB) is an upper-division, professionally oriented business degree for individuals who are seeking a broad overall education and solid grounding in the common body of business knowledge. This interdisciplinary perspective provides a versatile base for mobility into all business areas that prepares them for the business world of today - and of tomorrow. The degree combines the theoretical underpinnings of core business disciplines, notably management, marketing, finance, and logistics, with applied study in a practical setting, especially the small-business climates across most of the Commonwealth. Through the choice of an 18-credit option, students develop a specialty related to a key business sector. Students also develop written and oral communication skills throughout the program, acquire contemporary computer skills, and engage in active and collaborative learning. The degree allows students throughout the Commonwealth to become familiar with the unique business environments of their local communities, a design that sets the degree apart from other business degrees offered both within the University and throughout the Commonwealth.
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I've been asked to redevelop a static site I designed for a client about a year ago so that it can be easily updated, or basically add a CMS system to it.
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Response of the middle atmosphere to anthropogenic and natural forcings in the CMIP5 simulations with the Max Planck Institute Earth system model
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[1] The ECHAM6 atmospheric general circulation model is the atmosphere component of the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM) that is used in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) simulations. As ECHAM6 has its uppermost layer centered at 0.01 hPa in the upper mesosphere, these simulations offer the opportunity to study the middle atmosphere climate change and its relation to the troposphere on the basis of a very comprehensive set of state-of-the-art model simulations. The goals of this paper are (a) to introduce those new features of ECHAM6 particularly relevant for the middle atmosphere, including external forcing data, and (b) to evaluate the simulated middle atmosphere and describe the simulated response to natural and anthropogenic forcings. New features in ECHAM6 with respect to ECHAM5 include a new short-wave radiation scheme, the option to vary spectral irradiance independent of total solar irradiance, and a latitude-dependent gravity-wave source strength. The description of external forcing data focuses on solar irradiance and ozone. Stratospheric temperature trends simulated with the MPI-ESM for the last decades of the 20th century agree well with observations. The future projections depend strongly on the scenario. Under the high emission scenario RCP8.5, simulated temperatures are locally lower by more than 20 K than preindustrial values. Many of the simulated patterns of the responses to natural forcings as provided by solar variability, volcanic aerosols, and El Niño–Southern Oscillation, largely agree with the observations.