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IBM has been shipping WebSphere Everyplace Deployment (WED http://www-306.ibm.com/software/pervasive/ws_everyplace_deployment/), and Workplace Managed Client (http://www-142.ibm.com/software/workplace/products/product5.nsf/wdocs/workplaceclienttech ) with ODF (http://www-142.ibm.com/software/workplace/products/product5.nsf/wdocs/wmcodf ) supported productivity editors (for WMC) and ability to compose applications in an open standards based environment. This is based on open standards technology (Workplace Client Technology: Eclipse based http://www.eclipse.org, OSGi components http://www.osgi.org) that empowers application composition using open programming model. OSGi specification allows software components to be installed, updated, and removed on the fly without having to disrupt the operation of the device. The Eclipse SDK comprises of platform, java development tools, and plug-in development environment. It is one of the leading java IDE as well as application development tool (http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Whitepaper-Platform-3.1/eclipse-platform-whitepaper.html).
IBM will be offering similar capabilities with the future version of Lotus Notes (codenamed "Hannover" ). IBM announced the following on 5/15:
- "Hannover" is planned for public beta testing fall 2006 and is now being tested internally at IBM.
- "Hannover" will include the IBM productivity editors, which will be ODF compatible
- "Hannover," with the included productivity editors, will be available to Notes customers on software maintenance
Meanwhile, Microsoft has been talking about "Smart Client" technologies for few years: http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/ . As per Microsoft definition: "Smart client isn't a technology, and it isn't any specific architecture. It is a style of application that combines the best of both Windows applications and web applications." - http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/community/scfaq/default.aspx#88iuzuc8 .
1. Open standards support - including development platform, programming model
- IBM: OSGi, Eclipse, ODF, XML, Web Services, WAP, WSRP, J2EE, JSR168, JSR170, etc.
- Microsoft: Proposed Open XML (see quote from this article: http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39267678,00.htm on May 8th) "ODF was created by a consultative process, which is some guarantee against hidden agendas. It is an ISO standard: it has passed expert scrutiny and can be considered fit for use. It is properly open: it can be made part of any product without the need for authorisation or licensing. It is available now. None of this is true of OpenXML, which, even as it goes forward for consideration as an international standard, remains under the control of one company, with many of the format's technical details yet to be revealed."
- Web Services
- Application Block: varying levels of maturity. some are pretty old components. For example: .NET 1.1 had No-Touch deployment. .NET 2.0 has ClickOnce. Vista is promising to deliver significant change to ClickOnce. Which is the right choice for Developers? Another example: Composite UI Application Block vs Windows Presentation Foundation, Avalon? How will caching and off-line applicaiton blocks fit with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF - Indigo)?
2. Flexibility and Choice of devices/platforms, operating systems, thin/thick clients for collaboration
- IBM: Choice of devices/platforms (http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/lotus/offering1.nsf/wdocs/matrix2 ), Mac/Windows/Linux, thin, thick clients
- Micosoft: Windows, Windows, Windows, Mac (only for MS Office)
3. Server managed Client: intelligent installation, updates, Provisioning based on rules: IBM leverage OSGi and Eclipse
4. Disconnected usage and Replication:
- IBM provides local and encrypted data store using Cloudscape with associated client middleware such as local application server and EJB container that allows execution of rich client applications on the desktop/device. Uses SynchML4J for replication.
5. Productivity Editors
- IBM: IBM Productivty Editors with ODF support, open/edit/save to supported Microsoft Office formats, as well as PDF format
- Microsoft: MS Office, open/edit save to suppored Microsoft office formats, as well as PDF format
6. Contextual, Improve collaboration IBM: Activity computing paradigm provides context as well as a paradigm shift towards improved collaboration. Role based execution of business processes.
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/scag.asp
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/cab.asp
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040930smartclientth/manifest.xml
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/community/scfaq/default.aspx
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== The messy bits ==
== The messy bits ==
Why doesn't everyone just use <hask>newtype</hask> whenever they can, then? Well, quite often they do. But there is a subtle yet
Why doesn't everyone just use <hask>newtype</hask> whenever they can, then? Well, quite often they do. But there is a subtle yet significant difference. When we create a data type supposedly isomorphic to <hask>Bool</hask> like so:
<haskell>data Any = Any { getAny :: Bool }</haskell>
<haskell>data Any = Any { getAny :: Bool }</haskell>
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declaration creates a new type in much the same way as
. The syntax and usage of newtypes is virtually identical to that of data declarations - in fact, you can replace the
keyword with
and it'll still compile, indeed there's even a good chance your program will still work. The converse is not true, however -
can only be replaced with
if the type has exactly one constructor with exactly one field inside it.
Some examples:
Sounds pretty limited! So why does anyone use
newtype Fd = Fd CInt -- data Fd = Fd CInt would also be valid -- newtypes can have deriving clauses just like normal types newtype Identity a = Identity a deriving (Eq, Ord, Read, Show) -- record syntax is still allowed, but only for one field newtype State s a = State { runState :: s -> (s, a) } -- this is *not* allowed: -- newtype Pair a b = Pair { pairFst :: a, pairSnd :: b } -- but this is: data Pair a b = Pair { pairFst :: a, pairSnd :: b } -- and so is this: newtype Pair' a b = Pair' (a, b)
1 The short version
The restriction to one constructor with one field means that the new type and the type of the field are in direct correspondence:
or in mathematical terms they are isomorphic. This means that after the type is checked at compile time, at run time the two types can be treated essentially the same, without the overhead or indirection normally associated with a data constructor. So if you want to declare different type class instances for a particular type, or want to make a type abstract, you can wrap it in a
State :: (s -> (s, a)) -> State s a runState :: State s a -> (s -> (s, a))
and it'll be considered distinct to the type-checker, but identical at runtime. You can then use all sorts of deep trickery like phantom or recursive types without worrying about GHC shuffling buckets of bytes for no reason.
2 The messy bitsWhy doesn't everyone just use
whenever they can, then? Well, quite often they do. But there is a subtle yet semantically significant difference. When we create a data type supposedly isomorphic to
like so:
data Any = Any { getAny :: Bool }
we actually find that the isomorphism isn't exact:
Any . getAny $ Any True = Any True -- okay, fine Any . getAny $ Any False = Any False -- also fine Any . getAny $ Any ⊥ = Any ⊥ -- so far so good Any . getAny $ ⊥ = Any ⊥ -- wait a second...
(what's that upside-down T thing?)The problem is that types declared with the
keyword are lifted - that is, they contain their own ⊥ value that is distinct from all the others. In this example, we have
distinct from
⊥ :: Any
. What this means is that the following pattern match:
Any ⊥ :: Any
must evaluate its argument, even though it seems like the pattern match can't fail: we must check whether
case x of Any _ -> ()
for some
Any y
. This is intrinsic to Haskell's lazy, non-total semantics. The problem is that this means tracking whether a value is wrapped in a constructor or not, which means keeping track of those extra constructors at runtime even when all they do is distinguish an extra bottom value we don't even want. So in order to be consistent, but also allow the exact isomorphism to be preserved, Haskell provides the
keyword, for the construction of unlifted types. Pattern-matching on a newtype constructor doesn't do any work, because there is no separate ⊥ so every value in the type is wrapped in the constructor.
3 What about strict types?
You may notice that a type like
data Identity' a = Identity' !a
and so you might think you have your coveted isomorphism. But all the strictness annotation means is that
Identity' ⊥ = ⊥
really means
Identity' ⊥
- the semantics of the type are fundamentally the same, and in particular the case expression still forces the value.
Identity' $! ⊥
4 Examples
module Foo where data Foo1 = Foo1 Int -- Defines Foo1 constructor that lazily refers to an Int data Foo2 = Foo2 !Int -- Defines Foo2 constructor that strictly refers to an Int newtype Foo3 = Foo3 Int -- Defines Foo3 constructor that is synonymous with Int -- Argument is lazy and ignored, so -- undefined does not cause failure since -- the contructor pattern match succeeds. x1 = case Foo1 undefined of Foo1 _ -> 1 -- 1 -- Argument is strict (because of !), so -- undefined does cause failure. x2 = case Foo2 undefined of Foo2 _ -> 1 -- undefined -- The newtype behaves like Int, see yInt below x3 = case Foo3 undefined of Foo3 _ -> 1 -- 1 -- Constructor pattern match fails y1 = case undefined of Foo1 _ -> 1 -- undefined -- Constructor pattern match fails y2 = case undefined of Foo2 _ -> 1 -- undefined -- The newtype behaves like Int, there is no -- constructor at runtime. y3 = case undefined of Foo3 _ -> 1 -- 1 -- Demonstration of Int behavior int :: Int int = undefined yInt = case int of _ -> 1 -- 1
5 See also
The Haskell 98 Report defines newtypes in section 4.2.3.


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By Abigail A. Lorden, Editor-in-Chief | March 03, 2011
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has tapped the collective wisdom of its Editorial Advisory Board to get answers to many of your, and our, burning questions.
How healthy do the hotel and restaurant industries appear through the eyes of an IT exec? What areas of technology are the most under-innovated? Where are there opportunities to maximize positive change with minimum investment (what we like to call "low-hanging fruit")? We've got the answers to these questions, and more, that we hope will provide inspiration, moral support and get your creative bytes flowing. At the least, we encourage you to share the input of your peers with the finance, marketing and operations executives at your own companies. Hearing it from someone else may help bolster support for your ideas. Or as Joe Tenczar, CIO from Hard Rock Intl reminds us, "You may get a raise, or at least more things to do with the same amount of people." On behalf of
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, we offer our sincere thanks to the entire editorial advisory board for having great insight and for your willingness to share it. — AL
Q. On a scale of 1 (lowest) to 10 rate the health of your industry.
Steve Barrow, VP of IS,
Luby's, Inc
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I think the industry weathered the storm from the economic downturn but we still have a long way to go. The real estate market remains soft, which makes expansion difficult. Operators are trying to squeeze more out of existing investments, which places a premium on efficiency and cost control.
Steve Brooks, Dir., IS,
Tumbleweed Southwest Grill
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I believe hospitality will have 1% to 3% growth in 2011 and 3% to 5% growth in 2012. Over half of this will be from pricing, and half from guest counts. Guest-oriented chains will grow more, and those who focus less [on guests] will decline.
Mike Dickersbach, VP, IT,
Thayer Lodging Group
: (4.5)
RevPar is still down and occupancy in many cities still isn't what it was, but we are seeing some positive trends that I hope play through Q4.
Brian Garavuso, Executive VP & CIO,
Diamond Resorts Int'l
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City centers seem to be recovering faster than leisure destinations. Occupancies and room rates are improving, but length-of-stay and out-of-room spend is still significantly less than historical trends. Until the high unemployment rate improves and consumer confidence is restored, travel and leisure spend will continue to lag.
Michael Hassell, Dir., IT,
China Grill Mgmt
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My personal opinion is that we, as consumers, have not seen the indicators that make us feel that the economy has rebounded as strongly as we would like. Being in the high-end of the market, we will be last to see our guests come back.
David Lehn, VP, IT,
Noodles & Company
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We continue to see restaurant brands, both large and small, opening new locations and new markets. International markets in particular appear to be an area experiencing very nice growth from most of the large QSRs. And I think we'll be seeing more brands venture into previously untapped day-parts, notably breakfast.
Rocky Lucia, Dir., IT,
B.R. Guest Hospitality
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As the global economy starts to slowly recover, the hospitality industry seems to be back in demand and many operators are cautiously optimistic about sales growth. The industry's biggest challenges in 2011, I think, will be higher commodity costs and high unemployment rates that could stall consumer spending.
Mark McBeth, VP of IT, North America,
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
: (6.5)
Demand is increasing, while supply is limited due to the credit issues of the last two years. Business travel is back strong, we are seeing improved group pace, and RevPar growth is back in the double digit range. Three keys to the recovery and the industry's ongoing health outlook are the imminent arrival of Chinese tourism, technology and GenY. This new business will drive our technology strategies for the future, focusing on connectivity, mobility, functionality and innovation.
James Pa, VP, Brand Management,
Charley's Grilled Subs
: (5)
The volatile economy forced us to deal with previously masked flaws and…either fix them (for the better) or simply cave. Instead of opening more restaurant concepts, and diluting the share-of-stomach, the weaker players should be acquired and improved or I'm afraid they'll simply dissolve naturally.
Brian Pearson, CIO, Stacked Restaurants, LLC: (6)
I believe our industry is going through a Darwinian phase. Companies that were just hanging on prior to 2008 are progressing from a slow steady decline, to an all out free-fall. In an environment where the consumer can point their smartphone camera down a street, and see Yelp! ratings for each choice laid out like guiding beacons, there is no doubt that the pressure is on.
Darrin Pinkham, VP, IT,
Benchmark Hospitality Int'l
: (5.5)
Booking pace continues to improve and shows encouraging signs of real growth. In some markets, the rate is beginning to move in a very positive direction and transactions seem less commoditized than earlier in the down cycle. While revenues will certainly grow in 2011, these are tempered by the need to increase operating expenses for labor, benefits and operating supplies, which has been deferred over the past couple of years.
Daniel Sheehan, Senior VP & CIO,
Dunkin' Brands, Inc
.: (7)
I believe the economy is turning for the positive and comp sales, average ticket, and guest traffic are all up and continue to increase year-over-year.
Q. Where is the low-hanging fruit in your industry (maximum change with minimal investment)?
Software as a Service is changing the role of traditional IT. Systems can be acquired and implemented quickly and more cost effectively without requiring major expenditures in IT infrastructure. SaaS can be extremely effective in areas that do not require large amounts of integration support such as recruiting, guest relations, field service and customer relationship management.
Business intelligence is the best low-hanging fruit for making a good decision with a location, a menu or just about any financial decision. We will use it for guest and menu analysis, as well as loss prevention.
In every hotel, it's telecom. It doesn't matter what hotel I look at, telecom in 95% of hotels is being mis-billed, overcharged, or they are paying for things they don't need.
In the timeshare industry, it's consolidation. Due to the banking crisis and therefore a complete evaporation of financing, coupled with high operating cost structures, many smaller timeshare companies are filing bankruptcy or are being forced into some type of restructuring. For the larger and therefore stronger companies, who have been able to find alternative financing and improved capital resources, there are great opportunities for acquisition.
From a guest services perspective, it has to be high-speed Internet access. This solution must be wireless, fast and always available. You still need to offer a free model, but you should charge for additional bandwidth a nominal amount, and make sure you have the proper circuits and redundant bandwidth to support this number-one requested amenity in all your properties.
Trip Sessions, VP, IT,
Wendy's/Arby's Group, Inc
Biometric readers at the unit level. These devices are inexpensive, highly reliable, and easy to implement with many POS software applications today. They provide numerous benefits from cash control to labor control. In the Arby's brand, we have implemented this technology in more than 700 of our company restaurants with solid results from both a technical and business perspective.
Joe Tenczar, CIO,
Hard Rock International
There is no doubt that the synergy between IT and marketing is essential and trending upward. It is crazy to think that inexpensive tools like social media are not being used to their potential in some brands. If your company does not have a social media program, then take the initiative as an IT professional. Make friends with your CMO and prove to them how valuable and reasonably inexpensive Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Flickr are as marketing tools. You may get a raise, or at least more things to do with the same amount of people.
Q. What IT project(s) are on your company's priority list in 2011?
A back-office implementation in our Fuddruckers brand; we believe the software will give our store managers better tools for purchasing, production scheduling and managing inventory.
Software upgrades for accounting and our stores. We are updating Great Plains, POSi and Office to the latest versions and also plan on upgrading hardware that has reached its limit. On hardware we no longer replace it all at the same time, but if we can get maintenance and warranties to extend life, we do. Some of our handhelds and printers are in year five now and still performing well.
We're scrambling to find ways to manage the new rules and regulations associated with the New York State Hospitality Wage Order. I think it is only a matter of time before more states begin introducing additional legislation around work rules and benefits.
We want to design and rollout a loyalty program that encourages increased trial across our diverse menu and yields more frequent visits by rewarding our guests in ways that are meaningful to them. We hope to do this, in part, by seamlessly integrating our flourishing e-mail program...with Facebook and Twitter.
Chuck Marratt
MTM Luxury Lodging
AT MTM a continuing priority is the never ending task of being PCI compliant. In 2011 we plan on moving to tokenization with both our food and beverage POS, and with our PMS; we'll also utilize other technologies to eliminate paper-based credit card authorization forms which have been used by hotels for years. We are also adding considerable bandwidth to each of the MTM properties along with load balancing capabilities and redundant bandwidth connections.
With over 400 units (in multiple countries and continents) we are faced with the challenges of a standard BOH OS; mainly to benchmark efficiencies between country performances. Our goal is to aggregate the data from these various platforms and use the data to generate meaningful and actionable information.
For 2011, PCI compliance and certification everywhere is number one. Installing a global tokenized credit card hub solution for all our properties for all their transactions is number two. Completing the virtualization project for all of our property Maestro PMS and MICROS 9700 POS solutions, and eliminating these individual property servers, is number three.
We are putting a lot of muscle behind a more global rollout of our guest-facing, interactive technologies. Our metrics have proven an increase in guest satisfaction and likelihood to return in those units where we showcase Hard Rock content via technology.
One of our main objectives for this year is to use the various amounts of guest data we have to understand our guest better and drive them to our website where we can convert them to a sale.
Q. What are several challenges facing the hospitality industry?
Hassell: The fine dining segment is always the last area to recover from an economic downturn, which means we have to work a little harder to fill our seats in the restaurants. We are looking for innovative and exciting ways to get our guests to come back, or to visit us for the first time, without diluting the brand.
The speed at which technology changes and current technology becomes obsolete. In the past a PBX switch would last 10 or more years and CRT type TVs could last 10-plus years as well. New technology becomes obsolete much sooner, causing the hotel to make huge capital investments every four to five years instead of every eight to ten years.
How to address the ever increasing thirst for bandwidth by both guests and property associates. Customers expect that they can connect whatever device they've brought with them…; meanwhile, the industry is moving applications to the cloud or centralizing them in corporate data centers, and having property associates access them through the Internet. In the past hotels would buy a single T1 and share it between guest rooms and administrative associates. That doesn't work anymore because of the increased demand of both user communities. We're now looking at this issue and trying to determine whether to split the circuits or use sophisticated bandwidth management solutions to shape and control who gets how much connectivity. Now, throw in the fact that HSIA revenue may soon go the way of telephone revenue. Maintaining Internet Services as a revenue producer is becomingly increasing difficult.
Take equal parts low profit margin (our industry), a down economy, a rapidly increasing competitive landscape, and mix with that an outdated belief that your IT systems should last five years or longer, and you have a recipe for disaster. With the significant investment so many multi-unit operators have in POS and other IT systems, those very tool-sets can represent a barrier to entry for innovation. If the industry had tighter restrictions on APIs and/or pre-packaged interface middleware, I can all but guarantee that more companies would be implementing more innovation.
R.P. Rama, VP & CTO/CIO,
JHM Hotels
The needs of the customer; in particular, the current traveler (Gen X) and future traveler (Gen Y), who are users of mobile technology. They want Internet access wherever they are. They carry their gadgets with them, and they are used to having access to their work or entertainment in audio or video on an instant impulse. They will stay at hotels that provide them these services.
One of the more significant challenges remains PCI Compliance in the hospitality industry. In 2010 we implemented the remaining systems and safeguards that all but eliminated "compensating controls." With PCI-DSS 2.0, the regulation scope increases again. We have the process for compliance down to a science, but it certainly is not trivial. Getting to this point was challenging. The rules can be ambiguous, depending on the QSA that you hire. Based on conversations with my peers at 2010 meetings, there is a huge variance in the magnitude of compliance. I gathered the biggest challenge for most is how to enforce PCI compliance on franchisees.
Q. Where, in your opinion, is technology innovation lacking?
Integration tools. Consider all of the places that menu items and prices might be stored: traditional POS, handheld POS, kitchen display systems, online ordering, kiosk, and digital menu boards, to name a few. One could easily have several different technology vendors in each area with no clear integration capabilities among them. These technologies are often easy to implement as point solutions but difficult to scale and manage. The task becomes more daunting when these solutions are implemented in multiple brands.
I believe that wireless technology is behind the curve in hospitality, specifically in restaurants. For all the innovation in our home and office, very few businesses utilize wireless devices like handhelds, tablets and touch screens for the guest and pay-at-table devices.
Although tremendous progress has been made in the ability to integrate different technology platforms within a hotel to provide better and more efficient service to the guest and enhance the management of the hotel by the staff, there is still much work to be done. Standards need to be set for hospitality technology platforms, especially in regard to guestroom technology, to insure the ease of integration and interoperability of systems.
One area lacking in innovation is the area of payment technologies. I think this is negatively impacting guests' experiences in multiple ways. The practical constrains of PCI stifle companies' abilities to offer innovative payment solutions to consumers. These same constraints create a competitive imbalance, by allowing the largest companies with the most resources to offer unique, compelling payment offerings while the smaller companies are relegated to focus their resources to "keep the lights on" in order to process credit cards. To their credit, Starbucks recognized this dynamic, executed against it, and due to high barriers to entry, has a nice lead on the industry.
One of my greatest frustrations with the industry in general is the lack of highly available guest experience management systems (GEMS). If you want to order something for take-out, the solutions will vary from phoning it in, faxing it in, using online ordering, and a very few have mobile ordering on either the iOS or Android platforms. Additionally, the loyalty and reservations systems require the guest to have prior knowledge of the particular organization to effectively leverage them. It may sound utopian, but as a guest, I should be able to make a reservation or put my name on any wait list using familiar tools. I should be able to engage with concepts in a way that doesn't take training with each iteration. I really believe our industry needs to take a lesson from Facebook. If you make a game for FB, you have to follow certain rules. Those rules ultimately end up protecting a guest experience. We need a few more GEMS in the industry.
Infrastructure challenges abound. In cases where buildings are old, and old infrastructure exists, new infrastructure cannot be implemented due to structural challenges. If it can be implemented it is cost prohibitive and in some cases unstable. I'd also like to see more innovation for tracking service trays in hotel corridors after guests have left their trays outside their rooms to be picked up by the room service department.
Video surveillance software that is integrated with POS sales transactions. Employee theft is 3% to 7% of sales; that's huge! We created integration, but need to move faster!
I think the industry needs to take a more serious/focused approach to payment at the table. It is ridiculous to me that so few POS vendors offer a feasible, integrated wireless option. Many have tried with limited success for one technology reason or another. Consumer awareness of identity theft and pure convenience are going to mandate this in the next 18 months…if the PCI council doesn't beat them to it.
Q. What emerging technology do you consider particularly useful to your company?
I'm tired, as is most everyone I'm sure, of hearing about cloud computing, the fancy, consumer-friendly term that replaced SaaS (Software as a Service), which was around well before it was coined "The Cloud." It is definitely a means that should be utilized in our industry for guest-facing technologies and back-of-house. Let's reduce the machine hardware footprint to better manage everything.
We are very interested in mobile device applications; this fits in well with our initiatives to better utilize social media, along with some of the self-service applications that are out there on the horizon. Giving our guest the opportunity [to interact with us] from anywhere in the world to anywhere we may be, be it the sommelier in the dining room in Las Vegas, the catering manager in South Beach, or the marketing team in New York, is something that we are really excited about.
2D codes, such as QR codes and Microsoft tags. The amount and type of information that one can store and share via this technology is very exciting for us. No longer are you limited to a small amount of space in which to tell a story or create certain behaviors. By displaying a code our guests can be instantly transported to an entire website full of valuable information. We might redirect them to a brief video that describes how we produce our famous sauces; or to a nutritional calculator so they can see how few calories a particular dish has; or even to a survey or sign-up page to be included in our more traditional e-mail campaigns.
Social networking and mobilization have been very useful to us. It seems like everyone today is on Facebook, Tweeting, using Foursquare, etc. Today's guest is all about this technology. There are so many ways to create a following, which ultimately will drive guests to visit your website, make a reservation, purchase a gift card and become a loyal member of your hospitality group.
The use of electric buses for guest transportation, which is a less expensive alternative than gas. There are companies in the U.S. that are working on this technology, but the investment remains in question. I am hearing that…hotels could install charging stations for electric cars and buses, opening up a pay-for-charge revenue model for the hotel.
Back office scanners. This may be old news; however, we are looking for the "Swiss Army Knife" of back office scanners, with the ability to scan inventory; record operational metrics such temperature, time and sales; process checks; and be an input device for manager walk-arounds.
The ubiquity of consumer-grade, handheld computing devices has set the bar very high. Things like a ten-hour battery life on an iPad will hopefully spawn commercial-grade devices in the next 12 to 18 months. We have many uses for these types of devices, but the consumer units can't take my "rib sauce test." We use this type of technology for seating system scouts, roaming music video control, and table-top guest interaction. To this point we have had to choose between lower battery life, large external battery packs, or rib sauce in the bezels. I am looking forward to seeing manufacturers catching up with Apple in this area.
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John P. Dourley is my favorite interpreter of Jung. Author of numerous books on Jung, including A Strategy for a Loss of Faith, The Psyche as Sacrament, and On Behalf of the Mystical Fool: Jung on the Religious Situation. You can read a couple of his essays online: "The Foundational Elements of a Jungian Spirituality" (Scribd) [Read More…]
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Monday Morning Offering - 2
O God, it's morning!
And once again, you're up before I am.
It never fails: I turn off the alarm clock
and there you are, sitting at the foot of my bed,
waiting, watching, wanting to be
the first thought of my day...
Please forgive me, Lord,
but most days I don't have a first thought
until I've had my first cup of coffee.
So, please, be patient with me,
as you always are,
and give me time to wake
to your presence...
And you know, Lord:
it's not only morning - it's MONDAY!
Another week stretches ahead of me
and oh, how I wish the weekend
were another day longer...
Where am I going this week, Lord?
Where will you lead me?
What path will you light for me?
Please, Lord, when I walk astray
or try to take the short-cut,
prod me, pull me, push me back
where I belong, where I should be heading,
even if that path seems the one
I'm least inclined to walk...
Most of all, walk with me, Lord!
Guide me when I'm confused and lost...
Shine a light on my road
when darkness shades my steps...
Teach me to ask you for directions
when I am lost and cannot find the way...
Whisper encouragement in my ears
when I don't want to take another step -
when I don't want to take the first step!
Give me your hand to hold
when the path frightens me...
Give me your shoulder to rest on
when my spirit flags and my pace slows...
Show me where to turn
when I need to turn -
and teach me not to look back...
Take me down the just path, Lord;
lead me on the road to truth;
guide me along the highway of honesty;
give me strength to walk with proper pride
in the ways of integrity...
Help me to see that the only path worth walking
is the one that leads me to you
and takes me to love and serve my neighbor.
It's morning, Lord!
I'm getting up now to have that cup of coffee...
Will you join me?
(Some time ago I downloaded the graphic at the top of this post. Unfortunately, I have lost its URL and would be happy to credit the artist if anyone can lead me in the right direction. Thank you!)
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- AnonymousJuly 7, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Ah - what a lovely way to begin a Monday (and everyday!)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the beautiful reflection with words, music, and images. May your day be a blessed, peaceful one.
- Karuna
- AnonymousJuly 7, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Love the cartoon! I envision prayer to be a little like that sometimes.ReplyDelete
Karuna: thanks for your response! My hope is to write a weekly "Monday Morning Offering."ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 7, 2008 at 12:51 PM
I read this entry 1st thing when I woke up. It is a great way to set the tone for a Monday am. I love the music and scenes too. Thanks. hope your Monday is going well.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 7, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Concord Pastor,ReplyDelete
Your Monday morning reflections are extraordinary. You are a generous and gifted writer and pray-er. Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to seeing these on a regular basis.
LOVE the graphic and the prayer says SOOO much that I needed to hear this Monday. All that and a little Cat Stevens, Morning Has Broken,(which jolted me back into my younger days!!!) made this post especially pertinent to me! Thanks CP!!ReplyDelete
A quick note from A Catholic Notebook. . . . you can add your favorite books to the Blogger's Choice Catholic Reading List until Wednesday. The deadline was extended due to some special requests! I can't wait to see and share the results at the end of the week. Come on by!ReplyDelete
Well, I read and listened to this on Tuesday morning and it was equally as wonderful. My response, though, was tears which I interpret to be tears of joy or didn't St. Ignatius say, tears of consolation?ReplyDelete
This was beautiful and a wonderful way to start any morning. Thank you.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2008 at 5:31 PM
I just had a chance to view the video and listen to "Morning Has Broken." Absolutely lovely! Any chance we could sing in church?ReplyDelete


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See how you guys are? Beating on the new guy
I can feel the love.
They have a powerglide that mates up to a 4472 transfer case and has 4th gear?
Thanks for the PM, I really appreciate it.
I understand now. I thought you were interested in going fast reliabily
Airworld, I'm not tiffy at all, didn't mean for it to sound that way.
I need something that I can drive 300 to 500 miles on the highway and still be able to have some fun with it too.
A powerglide isn't gonna do it for what I'm looking for.
I hear you on the converter. Like I said, when I picked one up it felt like trying to move a whole 700 for some reason. It was huge. I won't be using a stock converter, that's for sure.
in my opinion , you would be better off with a power glide to handle the power and they are lighter, less hp to operate. You could Run a transbrake and the S-10 will launch like very hard
We run glides with trans brakes in monster trucks with 2k horse power( their figures)
when you pick up a 4l80 converter the weight difference is quite a bit more than a 700, but don't get in a tiff about the s-10 jab.
never been an s-10 fan here....crosley is the performance tech I been doing tranny rebuilds a few days here since (78 )but 4l80 like the E4OD ford unit are both large tranny case... tight fit in some instance's.. Horse power can brake even good parts
When you see one launch at 25 psi let me know what you think about the overkill then. The guys have found better tires, doing front end suspension travel limiters, and better shock kits. The better they are hooking up, the more the trannies are failing. I don't mean for that to sound snippy or anything. Please don't take it like that. They are just amazing to watch.
I've got one individual running over 800HP through a 700 is set up for him. He's dyno'd at a 10.2 for the quarter. I'm hoping for him to get some real world numbers soon. His is a good example of what these trucks can do. Even with the AWD he is having trouble getting it to hook up and spins almost 1/2 the time on the track when doing practice runs trying to set up his governor.
Right nowmine's just at about 330HP.
My goals are to build it to surpass 800HP but I want to be able to cruise with it to meets and play a little and not worry about getting a tow home. A different turbo, Air to Air intercooler, alcohol injection and a stand alone engine management are on the wish list. I just want my driveline to be able to hold up and not worry about busting it as the levels increase. I hope that makes sense.
Exceeding 800HP is being done pretty regularly now.
In the 700r Reaction shafts, input shafts, output shafts, flipped sprags, busted planetaries(including the 5 pinon) and burnt 3-4 clutches are problems on the turbo 4.3 engined trucks. And that is on stock 280HP 330 foot pounds of torque vehicles.
Some e4340 output shafts were produced to help there but none of the other parts (reaction shafts, rear planetary, or input drum) that was promised by the manufacturer ever made it unfortunately.
I'll be using a much lighter converter in the 4L80E. I'll have to contact you on that I picked up a stock converter at Dacco and it felt like I was picking up a 700r4. That is definitely out.
I've worked on a BUNCH of these trannies out of these trucks. I'm just ready to try something new.
Do you guys think the 2.75 1st gear ratio is worth the cost? (over $600 I've seen).
Oh...thanks for the info on the band settings or the lack thereof. Just makes it that much easier. Thanks so much.
We have not discussed the engine... the OE turbo V-6 will be used or ??
The converter is very heavy on a 4l80E unless you have a custom unit built. We've built several small 10 inch converters for the 4L80E. Billet converter front cover and stuff inside, very expensive
A friend of mine was an engineer on the 4L80E in the early days. They tried the tranny against the ZR-1 motor for the vettes. The heavy converter hurt the RPM acceleration of the engine too much I was told.
THe bands of the 4L80E... rear band is a copy of the T-400 , no adjustment to it.
The front band... if you are using the late wide band the matching longer servo pin must be used. No adjustment usually needed there
thats a bit overkill for an s-10 and one tight fit too
what converter would fit that flywheel have you put much thought about weight verse benefit logic here
4l80 is a great tranny without much mod's you can be over sold parts for this unit, but input shaft do brake often
Thanks, Crosley.
I really appreciate the input. If I have problems, you care if I put up pics with the questions? I've looked through the manuals and it actually looks easier than the 700. I hope I don't end up eating those words....
Buy the TransGo HD-2 kit for the 4L80E.
Cryo'd parts is a good idea
The year of tranny you have is good.
The Sonnax reverse boost valve is a good addition.
Good quality Alto red fricrions work well with standard steel plates. I am not a fan of kolene steels.
A quality rebuild with the proper clearances and fresh bushings the tranny should work great.
I didn't realize it was that confusing. Must've asked too many questions.
I'm just looking for some insight into building a good 4L80E.
There are many many good tips and tricks for doing the 700. Even come up with some myself.
Just wanted to know what guys have had success with in the 4L80E. Must not be too many guys building them or nobody likes me.
The vehicle is an AWD Typhoon. I've already got quite a bit of money tied up in adaptor plate, output shaft and transmission crossmember. Rear driveshaft shortened. I'll drive it up to Gilbert's driveline for a new front propshaft when it's done.
Torque converter and flexplate will be fun too.
Just trying to draw on the accumulated knowledge here.
Thanks again.
Thanks for the link but wasn't anything there. There was some discussion on which trans was better (700 vs 400 vs 350) but that was it.
What are you talking about? What kind fo car is this engine from? If your looking for help on a drag car setup look here:
Rat Rods Rule!
First 4L80E build questions.
I building my first 4L80E and it will eventually see very high torque levels.
I have a couple questions to see what you guys think.
I've built many 700s but this is my first 4L80E.
It's a 2000 model.
Alto makes extra capacity clutches(thin) for everything but the overrun and OD. Anyone like them?
Are the Raybestos blues better?
Hughes Performance shows that they have "performance" clutches and kolenes for OD and overrun. Anyone know what they are?
I wish to have WOT enabled 3-4 shifts. I'm used to the 700 issues so I'm concerned about this with the 4L80E.
I want it to be able to hold up to cruising a couple hundred miles and get a few passes at the track every week and not have to worry about it.
Setting band clearances. Please don't beat me
The ATSG shows a special tool similar to the tool used in the 700/4L60 for setting servo pin travel.
You know how in the 4L60 you can just leave off all the seals, put in the lineup, put in the snap ring and push on the servo cover and get your travel?
Is the band on the 4L80E the same way? If so, what is the recommended travel?
I'm gonna be running a TCI controller.
I plan to cryo everything. It's not that expensive and I've seen first hand it's affects on 700r4 components.
I saw several posts where the Sonnax valve is recommended by mr Crosley to prevent damaging high pressures. I've seen the wide front bushing. Hardened forward hub. 34 element sprag. Transgo 1-2 kit. Is that right?
I've seen the 4340 input shaft.
What else can anyone offer for a decent buildup? The 700 has all kinds of neat tricks (like the really neat reverse drum mod for the torrington under the pump Crosley put up) but the 4L80E doesn't have much of anything available on the internet.
Like I said, I've done lots of 700s and if any special tools are needed or any advice on clutch selection or clearances, please let me know.
Pick anything above that anyone feels like helping with as I am ALWAYS willing to learn more.
I've done searches on the subject on this BB but the poster's questions would get lost in sidebars(sometimes angry rhetoric) and were seldom answered.
Anything anyone wants help with on 700s, I'm more than willing to help. I'm pretty good there. Just don't know jack about 4L80E's. Syclone477 (I think) got a really good thread going on the 700 one day. I was kinda looking for that here.
Thanks so much.
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Obama Supporters?
Ok, I know there are a few of you out there on this site that voted for him and probably will do so again in November.
My question is why?
Seriously, not trying to start a giant piss fest even though that will come, but I would really like to know why you feel he should be re-elected.
Do you think he has done good for this country? What good do you think he has done for us? Do you think he is the alternative to a Republican so that's where your vote will go?
I ask because it seems like every day I see people with the Obama 2012 stickers on their cars. I just don't get it. It seems as though things are just as bad, maybe worse, for the people that are the supposed supporters of the Democrats ideology.
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I fear a social conservative presidency. We have already gotten a decent preview of how guys like Romney and Santorum think things should be in their competition to "out-conservative" each other. I'm not sporting an Obama 2012 sticker and I may still not vote for him, but there is not a chance in hell I'll vote for a Republican. More than likely I'll be throwing my vote towards a third party candidate.
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I just like him because "I wont have to worry about putting gas in my car, I wont have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know if I help him he is going to help me."
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Mikesova basically summed up my thoughts on the subject.
I used to like when the Republicans were the party of personal freedoms, but these days they are the party of regulating what happens in a bedroom and womb. What two consenting adults do in their bedroom is of zero concern to me.
I also ask myself am I better off than I was when Obama came into office (and I will likely ask myself the same question again in November and then again 4 years from then when whoever else is running, etc.). I earn more money than I did in 2008, I now own my own home (which is worth more than it was back when I bought it), I have less debt (besides the mortgage of course), we pay roughly the same in taxes as we did back then, my friends who were heading to Iraq seemingly every moment are all home from there...
Honestly, if Huntsman were still in the race though, I'd probably be sporting that bumper sticker on my car. I'm hoping that he was just using this cycle to test the waters, figure out the process, and get the name out there and that he's planning on putting in a bigger effort in 2016.
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I honestly really don't know who or what to support anymore. Its basically become about choosing the lesser of two evils.
I see the ads each of the republican candidates runs where all they do is run down the other guy. To me the message that sends is, "Vote for me, at least I'm not as bad as X". Rarely do you see anything positive.
The same thing goes for Obama. When I hear about him hitting the campaign trail I can't help but wonder how can people back a guy that is more concerned about keeping his ass in office than about fixing the problems we have. To me I might actually respect the guy if he came out and said, "I'm not going to campaign this year. I'm going to stay in Washington and work hard to solve our problems. When November rolls around and we are in a better place, that was my campaign." But that would be something honorable and noble...something severely lacking from politicians on either side these days.
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And if you aren't motivated to do it on your own, Obama() will provide you with a free cell phone, pay your rent, work on paying off your college loans, give you free food, free birth control, I know I'm forgetting something. Shi#, their even working on reducing your mortgage debt since you bought a house you couldn't afford. Why is the government your safety net?
So tell me why am I at work right now? Oh I need to work so the gov'ment can pay for those who don't
There's enough riding the gravy train that keep it moving, eventually there won't be enough paying in, oh wait, I think that's happened...... Why would they stop voting and give up their free shit? and the promise of "free" healthcare coming soon. Wait for it.....
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|March 6th, 2012, 08:59 AM
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Kerry and I are far better off than when Obama came into office. But it has nothing to do with what he has done. If anything I think when his whole health care debacle comes to light we will be far worse off in that category.
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But I get what your asking. In general, I don't think there's any president who could really improve my individual life a great deal. Maybe a better way to look at it is, am I, individually, in a worse situation than I was a in 2008? Even though the president cannot really affect my situation much (for the better or worse), you better believe that if I had lost my job, was deeper in debt, etc., etc. I'd be much more willing to vote the bums out of office.
|March 6th, 2012, 09:06 AM
I'm not old, honest...
On the other hand, if I look at the specific economy, I am actually worse. I am now upside down on both my motorhome and home and my 401K has not grown like I would have hoped.
|March 6th, 2012, 09:07 AM
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I'm better off now than I was when he came into office for mostly personal reasons. But I still don't feel we are going the right direction as a country.
I worry that maybe a lot of people are in the same boat, doing better now than before, but not seeing the writing on the wall that this train sure looks pretty certain to derail.
The country is far farther in debt. We might be out of Iraq, but now we are staring down the barrel of war with Iran, which is scary as hell. Unemployment seems to be remaining flat for the most part.
I dunno, I guess at the end of the day it probably doesn't matter who is in office because its the mindset in this country that needs a change more so than who ever our figurehead is...
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I'm going to write in Clinton. I made boat loads of money when he was in office, so lets try it again.
But really, The Republican candidates right now have to be mentally unstable, everything they says i really ask myself, What is their issue?
if neither of them shape up their act before November. I'm giving the black guy another shot.
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That having been linked, I will probably vote for Santorum if he manages to miraculously make the big ticket. Otherwise, I'll be voting third party. I absolutely hate the stance that "a third party vote is a wasted vote". That's what they were telling people in Canada up until around 1993 when the "third" parties actually started to overtake the main two. If people would just start voting third party, then all the sheep who are too scared to take a stand might eventually work up the gall to do the same.
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Will be voting 3rd party. Just not sure who to get behind yet. I am personally sick of the and putting these ridiculous people in front of us and trying to make us think this is the best they have to offer. When the politicions get on board with whats best for the country and quit their pissing matches, i think thats when things will start to change. They have to much of an elitist, untouchable attitude to properly run our country. Go ahead and flame on. It is just how i feel about it.
|March 6th, 2012, 09:48 AM
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I'm not sure about the 3rd party working out. But maybe if there is a big showing it will show people that there is really another option out there. I think like someone else said everyone feels its a wasted vote. But a lot of wasted votes add up...
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I don't know how many of you have noticed this scene, but it's a quick flash of where Boba drew his blaster after Boussh threatened Jabba with a thermal detonator in ROTJ.
I don't know how many of you have noticed this scene, but it's a quick flash of where Boba drew his blaster after Boussh threatened Jabba with a thermal detonator in ROTJ.
And it's a mirror image! Brak's Buddy actually fixed it when he posted the HD photos from ROTJ.
Yeah, it's pretty... flippy.
The film was reversed in order to (I believe) make the action flow more realistically..
If someone was to do an exact costume based on this frame, would it still be acceptable for 501st membership?
Boba Fett's ROTJ costume as it is suppose to be.
I wouldnt think that it would be acceptible no...
Ive always thought that scene was odd for years.. now i know why...
the image was reversed so the eyelines matched up. if it was correct it would look like boba was pointing in the totally wrong direction.
There were a couple of other quick scenes where Boba was flipped, but after Luke arrived, he was in his "correct configuration" if you will, and through the part where he fell into the Sarlacc pit. It's just that I am doing my research tonight for more accurate screen shots and this was the first time that I really noticed it. I had a feeling that there was something odd every time I watched it, but just couldn't quite put my finger on it. Thanks for the great feedbacks guys!
Count D, I hate to bring this up after you've completed that lovely (backwards) helmet. . . but looking thru my reference of secret archival production images, it seems that scene originally had Boba using his gravity shifter.
So this is how the original scene actually looked:
I'm afraid you've built your helmet upside down!
Oh man, all these upgrades and corrections are getting expensive. Do you realize how much machined-aluminum upside-down flipped ear caps cost?? That's it, I'm done.
Theres another shot in bobas palace where he is just standing there and its backwards also. I noticed it because the cape was on his wrong shoulder.
I knew I was guaranteed to laugh at some point in this thread. Good work CD and superj
stop it guys my sides are hurting
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(YONKERS, N.Y-WFLA) Consumer Reports has released safety scores for U.S. hospitals, combining five key measures into one composite score (from 1 to 100), giving consumers a way to compare hospitals on patient safety. Consumer Reports has rated a record 2,591 hospitals in all 50 states and the District of Columbia on this measure.
Of the 27 hospitals that Consumer Reports rated in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area, no hospitals scored over 60 on CR's 100-point safety score. The three highest scoring hospitals in the area are: Sth. Florida Baptist Hospital in Plant City (59), Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater (59) and Florida Hospital North Pinellas in Tarpon Springs (59). Of note, Florida Hospital North Pinellas earned CR's highest rating in avoiding bloodstream infections and avoiding surgical-site infections, meaning the hospital reported zero infections during the measurement period.
19 of the 27 hospitals in the Tampa area scored below the national average of 51 on CR's 100-point scale. (A detailed chart for hospital-level information is available.) One hospital scored below 30: St. Petersburg General Hospital (25). It received CR's lowest rating in avoiding mortality (surgical), avoiding bloodstream infections, communication about drug information and appropriate use of scanning (chest and abdominal). It also received CR's second-lowest rating on avoiding surgical site infections and avoiding readmissions.
Though there are many dimensions to hospital safety, and no single measure captures everything, Consumer Reports' hospital Ratings strive to give patients more of the information they need to make informed choices before choosing where to go for care. Nonetheless, untangling how much any hospital death stems from an underlying health problem, and how much stems from medical error, is messy, complicated and sometimes controversial.
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In medical mortality, only 35 hospitals earned Consumer Reports' top Rating, while 66 received the lowest Rating. By contrast more hospitals did well in surgical mortality with 173 earning Consumer Reports' top Rating, versus 228 hospitals receiving the lowest Rating. However the results are similarly sobering: for every 1,000 surgical patients who develop serious complications in a top-rated hospital, 87 or fewer die. But in a low-rated one, more than 132 die. What hospital you choose really matters – surgical patients in top-rated hospitals are at least 34 percent less likely to die than similar patients in low- rated hospitals.
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The Canisius College men's lacrosse team raced to an early lead and never looked back, cruising to a 19-7 victory against VMI on Senior Day. The Griffs – who scored 19 goals in a game for the first time in 13 years – improve to 7-6 on the season with the win, while the Keydets drop to 1-12.
"You want to be playing your best lacrosse at the end of the season and we get the sense that we are just about there after today's performance," said Canisius College head coach Randy Mearns. "We moved the ball well and made some great decisions. We knew that VMI was going to play a zone so we really worked on our zone offense this week. Our team did a good job of executing and buried their chances when they had the opportunity. I'm excited that we're performing at a high level right now but it's going to be a challenge going to Marist next week in a game we really need to win to get into the MAAC Tournament."
The top attacking trio of junior Austin Romantic and sophomores Vince Gravino and Billy Jacobbi dominated the contest, accounting for 17 points, eight goals and nine assists in the victory. Romantic doubled his previous career high with six points in the win, netting a hat trick to go along with a personal-best three assists. Gravino matched his classmate with six points, scoring one goal and adding a career-best five helpers. Jacobbi then set career highs with five points and four goals in the convincing victory.
Junior Brandon Bull also chipped in a personal-best four goals – doubling his previous career high – while also winning 8-of-16 faceoffs. Senior Cody Soberanes, juniors Sam Connors, Tim Edwards and Cody Gould, sophomores Jimmy May and Mike Vavonese and freshman Jeff Edwards rounded out the scoring for the Griffs in the 19-goal attack.
Junior Alex Govenettio stopped a career-best 14 shots for the third-straight game to earn the win in net. Vavonese and sophomore Brendan Barren both set career highs in ground balls, leading the Griffs with five and four, respectively.
The Griffs scored early and often in the victory, racing to an 8-0 lead less than 20 minutes in the contest. Soberanes opened the scoring with the senior netting his first goal of the season on Senior Day just 82 seconds into the game. By the end of the first quarter, Canisius had grabbed a 5-0 lead with Jacobbi leading the Griffs with two tallies in the period.
The momentum carried over into the second quarter as Tim Edwards, Vavonese and Jacobbi all tallied goals in the first 3:24 as Canisius opened up an 8-0 lead. The Keydets finally got on the scoreboard with 4:33 remaining and scored two man-up goals as the teams headed into the intermission with the Griffs ahead, 8-2.
Canisius then scored the first five goals of the third stanza to put the game away with a 13-2 lead with 9:25 remaining in the period. The Griffs then cruised to the 19-7 win from there with May finishing the scoring with his first collegiate tally.
The Griffs held a slight advantage in shots (43-40), ground balls (33-27) and faceoffs (15-13) in the win. The difference was Canisius' efficiency as the team shot a season-best 44.1 percent, while the Keydets converted just 17.5 percent of their shots.
Mickey Hofmeister led the Keydets with four points and three goals, while Evan Windisch and Michael Hutwelker combined to make nine saves in net.
Canisius returns to conference action next weekend with a key road contest at Marist. With a win, the Griffs secure the two seed for the MAAC Tournament but a loss could mean the team misses the conference tournament. Game time in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. is set for 7 p.m.
Game Notes: The Griffs' 19 goals are the most for the team since scoring 21 against Siena on April 29, 2001 … The 12-goal margin of victory is the highest for Canisius since an 18-6 win against Wagner on March 24, 2007 … The Griffs' 44.1 percent shooting is the team's highest since converting 45.5 percent of their shots (10-of-22) in a 10-9 win against Siena in the 2012 MAAC Championship on May 6, 2012 … Gravino recorded five assists in the win after posting five helpers in the first 12 games of the season … Soberanes and classmate Dylan Knopfke were honored in a Senior Day ceremony prior to the game, playing in their final game at the Demske Sports Complex … Canisius has won 11 of the last 12 meetings against VMI.


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Marc Morrone was born in 1960 in the Bronx and, when he was 2, his family moved to Show More
Q. We had two lovebirds together for the last five years. Just recently the male died. He was fine the night before and dead in the morning. We took the female to the vet the next day to be sure that she was OK. The vet said that she was fine and that the male could have died from a heart attack or a stroke. We chose not to pay for an autopsy. The female was chirping for him the first day after his death, but she seems fine now and eats and preens her feathers and otherwise is OK.
We would like to get her another companion. I always heard, though, that most birds mate for life and if one bird dies, the other will die of a broken heart. I do not want the female to die of grief but cannot afford a mate right now. Will putting a mirror in the cage help? --Helga Williams, Hauppauge
A. The myth about birds dying of a broken heart after their mate dies is just that.
So your bird can do quite nicely on her own until you can get her a mate again.
She may be a bit lonely and puzzled, but animals lose their mates all the time and deal with the situation until they can find another one.
A mirror actually will help her a bit as long as she does not get too obsessive with it; some birds will entertain themselves nicely with the bird in the reflection and others will hover over it in a maniacal manner all their waking hours. See how she does.
Q. Our 12-year-old cat seems otherwise healthy but has started to sneeze violently 10 to 15 times a day. There is no discharge or mucous, and I was wondering if a cat can have hay fever or allergies. --Ken Sprauge, Levittown
A. Cats do get all sorts of upper respiratory conditions, as well as asthma and environmental allergies. Take the cat to the vet for an evaluation.
One possible culprit is the litter the cat is using. Many litters these days have odor-masking scents that bother my nose and can bother some cats' even more. Imagine having your nose right up against such a product as you dig through it. Many cats do not tolerate such an experience and either sneeze as yours is doing or avoid the litter box totally.
I just use a plain litter made of recycled newspaper: I put a small amount of litter in the boxes and change it daily.
Q. There is a woodpecker that has started to peck at one spot on the side of our house for an hour at a time.
The siding covers a gap in the plywood, and there is an echo when you tap there. This pecking is driving us crazy.
Is there anything we can do to chase it away? --Michael Alentado, Brentwood
A. Now that the daylight gets longer each day, it is stirring up the hormones in wild birds.
The males are starting to sing in the morning to announce their territories, and proclaim that they are getting ready to breed.
Woodpeckers cannot sing like other birds, so the males will drum like this one is doing to announce his intentions.
It is hard to dissuade a bird full of hormones. The best thing to do is to cover the area on your house that he is drumming on. Plexiglas, sheet metal or even a tarp should do the trick.
Some people say to tie a child's pinwheel with streamers attached to the fins that will flutter madly as the wind blows them round and round. This will chase the bird off while the pinwheel is spinning, but as soon as it stops the bird will go right back to the spot and drum away until the pinwheel starts to spin again.


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The Society of Genealogists have an increasing number of online datasets available to their members. This one is of particular interest to those with Polish ancestry.
Polish Refugee Subsistence and Genealogical Data
Entries from a card index compiled by Antoni and Stella Szachnowski, members of the Catholic Family History Society and donated to the Society of Genealogists in November 1999. The original slips, now divided into two indexes, relate to the names of Poles 'primarily before 1939" found in a number of sources including, amongst others no doubt, the following:
- Polish Subsistence: Parliamentary Papers "Russia, Poland & Serbia miscellaneous papers 1803-1854" (comprising returns of Polish refugees receiving subsistence or any assistance from the Grant voted by Parliament from 1838-1841.)
- Polish Genealogy: entries from the registers of the Chapel of the Virgin Mary of Czestochowa, Diocese of Westminster; London St Peter Apostulate – baptisms; Electoral rolls (St Pancras 1891, Lambeth 1891, St Marylebone 1892, Westminster Borough 1908); 1841 Census Portsea Hants, Polish Refugee Hospital; soldiers from the Polish Army; Naturalisations.
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I know there is a boba thread on the painting...is there any other suggested jango options for finishing the kamino jet pack, color wise and weathering wise?
I know there is a boba thread on the painting...is there any other suggested jango options for finishing the kamino jet pack, color wise and weathering wise?
rustolium: royal blue
krylon short cuts: ocean blue
rubb and buff: silver
This is for his Kamino jet pack:
http://www.r2ro.com/images/newjangojet packcolors.jpg
(From Seeker's website)
The arena Jet Pack colors are different than the helmet colors too! Don't worry I won't tell anyone!
http://www.r2ro.com/images/arenajet packcolors.jpg
dang that a great shot of the arena pack in kamino colors..LOL now we need you to do the same thing for the kamino pack..LOL
what areas would you suggest rub and buff for? I was thinking at least the rocket top...
Huh? There are separate images posted above for the arena pack and kamino pack.
Arena: http://www.r2ro.com/images/arenajet packcolors.jpg
Kamino: http://www.r2ro.com/images/newjangojet packcolors.jpg
I think its confusing because the picture of the "kamino" pack isnt the correct pack...there are no thrusters or rocket missle, it looks a lot like the areana pack colored different...and is there actually white in the kamino pack?
Yes, it is the correct pack. The thrusters and rocket are just not pictured. The Kamino jet pack does have white on it. That paint job is accurate. Go double check your ref CD.
I could actually add the thrusters and the missle on this image.
thanks for the heads up.
no problem...did you guys go with any R&B on the pack? and i havnt check my ref cd yet but is there close ups of the inscriptions on there?
The tip of the rocket on the Kamino pack has rub n buff on it. There are close-ups of the symbols on the jet pack on the ref cd, but you can also order a Jango Kamino Pack decal set of the symbols from luckys31 in the jet pack forum.
well now...i will have to go find lucky..LOL
I was able to find all but the purple metallic....so i figured it was only for weathering and grabbed something close...but all the rest i got the same scu#s
I noticed while checking out my reference cd that there seems to be a difference in the boba and jango pack when it comes to the small red area near the top of the pack. Jango's as seen in picture "jet pack top tank right.jpg", appears to not have the little block sections on it as boba's does. Is that accurate for the movie or is it a broken pack on display...anyone have confirmation on that section of the pack? I have an old boba pack im redoing and will replace that area with a flat piece of abs if it is supposed to be flat
That's a stunt pack. The hero pack does have the "piano keys" as they are called.
Here's a pic, showing the hero pack with the piano keys.
that actually shows the beacon as being aluminum as well...it looks painted white in the stunt pack shot...where did you get that shhot? what book?
it's on the ref cd from the UK Fact Files. But a similar shot can be found in the book Star Wars Chronicles: The Prequels.
cool..ive got that book, ill have to check it out...big book and havnt looked through it in awhile


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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Do you know what an older man can give you?
(This is the only picture I could find, sorry it's not clearer.)
1)The onus is placed on the women being preyed on, not the predator. The young women manipulated and hurt by older men are constructed as more culpable than the men wronging them.
2) The girl in this picture is clearly white, but is the man black? The lips and the dark hair seem to code him as black, and it would fit neatly into our cultural narrative of relations between black men and white women as predatory and scurrilous.
3) Illegitimate children constructs the family as necessarily nuclear (along with other issues).
4) AIDS is not equal to death.
ETA: Casey of Pop-Punk Junkie asked what the origin of this image is, and I don't know. I found it at the first site I link and I couldn't find any other sources for the image (thus the shadow/poor quality). Anyone know anything about this poster?
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What organization is posting these and where? Sometimes I can't believe what people try and get away with.ReplyDelete
That's a good question, and I don't know. I'll clarify in an addendum.ReplyDelete
um wow. more shaming women into keeping their damn legs closed in the first place crap...aren't we done with this yet?ReplyDelete
So much wrong with this, on so many levels. I'm actually tempted to ask if it's a joke! It is a joke, right? *Fervently hoping it's a joke*ReplyDelete
Wow.... what's next, "Why do you keep letting that man rape you?"????ReplyDelete
I recently read the guest post on Dollhouse and started floating through your other entries. I find that I enjoy them and that the perspective that they offer is very enlightening. On this one, I have to point out something that I feel was neglected (not intentionally, I think, but thematically).ReplyDelete
I certainly see, and agree with, your assessment of how the woman in this image is portrayed. The language can easily take you there. I think it is fair to note that this poster should be incredibly frustrating from a male perspective as well.
I'm certainly not "old", but I'm not 16 anymore either. I find the equation of "older man" with "AIDS" aggravating to say the least. Why is it assumed that anyone labeled an older man must have had experiences that have led to the contraction of sexually transmitted diseases and that we would freely disseminate those diseases if we did have them.
I certainly understand that this is not the focus of this blog, but I felt this might be a valid point nonetheless.