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No. 1 Alabama suffers some tough losses to the draft, but it also has the recruits to replace them.
Sheldon Wilson is the Player of the Year after smashing records in Oklahoma.
Alabama wins national championship and now tops CBS Sports College Football Team Recruiting Rankings powered by Tom Lemming.
The White Team Roster for the 2012 Under Armour All-American Bowl Game.
A pair of Georgia teams are near the top of the list, along with a team with a 500-win coach and a team with the nation's longest winning streak.
Nation's top quarterback makes a verbal pledge to join LSU.
Late field goal helps Calhoun stave off furious rally by nation's No. 9 team to capture Class AA state title.
Shaq Thompson makes the jump to No. 5 overall.
Top recruits across grades are expected to attend the LSU-Alabama game, which could have a major impact on team recruiting rankings.
No. 54 recruit in the nation is the latest pledge to join the LSU offensive line.
Trio of offensive stars headline the MaxPreps 2011 Preseason All-American Team.
John Theus is the nation's No. 1 tackle.
Georgia powerhouse Buford takes the top spot in MaxPreps' look at the top small schools in the country in 2011.
Four top 10 recruits - Cayleb Jones, Ellis McCarthy, Johnathan Gray and Landon Collins - are among the more than two dozen elite football standouts headed to Oregon.
Dorial Green-Beckham is the No. 1 overall recruit.
Small Schools All-American Team
Already a Texas legend, Johnathan Gray leads the U.S. Air Force 2010 Junior All-American Team.
Texas running back Johnathan Gray, Missouri receiver Dorial Green-Beckham among headliners.


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Grand Rapids residents enjoy tree ceremony, ice skating at Grand Rapids Art Museum
At 5:30 p.m. on November 30, the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) held its annual tree lighting ceremony.
GRAM director Dana Friis-Hansen spoke at the ceremony as well as Mayor Heartwell, who introduced ice skater Kimberly Scott. Scott danced to an instrumental version of "Joy to the World" on the Rosa Parks ice rink.
Following the performance, it was time to light the tree.
"Three… Two… One!" the crowd shouted, and the mayor hit the switch, lighting the eight mile string of 40,000 energy-efficient LED light bulbs that hung from the tree.
After the ceremony, visitors had several activities to choose from, including riding the horse-drawn carriage, shopping downtown, visiting the museum, seeing a performance of Magic and Music and skating on the ice rink.
The Rosa Parks rink opened after the ceremony and many took the chance to skate. Young adults whizzed around the parents taking children out on the rink for the first time. Couples and friends enjoyed conversations and a leisurely skate.
The tree used in the ceremony was a 42-foot-tall blue spruce. The tree came from the Cadillac area and was set up Monday, Nov. 26.

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When it was seen that smartphones will soon become popular devices for people to access the internet from, developers started to come up with convenient ways for people to access online content through their smartphones. Because URLs were too long and inconvenient to type on a phone, QR codes were invented and they have been serving countless smartphone owners ever since. All a smartphone user has to do is scan these codes and be taken to the encoded URL in their phone's browsers. This helps people who want to transfer URLs from their computer to their phone. All they have to do is generate a QR code for the website they are browsing on their computer and then scan that code using their phone. Here to help you do this is a tool called Smart QrCode Generator.
Smart QrCode Generator is a free to use browser extension that lets you generate QR codes for the URLs that you are visiting in Google Chrome. All you have to do after installing the extension on Chrome, is to click the blue icon in the browser's address bar. A drop down window will appear with the QR code that you can scan with your phone. Right clicking on images in webpages helps generate QR codes for images.
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Is QR code so smart to use that one (I) think? I began to doubt when I read this article a few days ago
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/20/cognitive-overhead/ -
Apparently, the QR Code was not invented to enable URLs on smartphones. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_codes, the system was invented in Japan to support the automotive industry.


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Spanish for "idle", used to describe someone who is lazy, specifically at work.
Shawn es un ocioso
Hey ocioso, give me a hand will ya?
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Dark Fantasy, Bondage and restriction, Discipline, Humiliation, Male Domination, Reluctance, School, Spanking
Author's infos
Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Sun 18th of January 2009
"Welcome class, to the first lesson of..." the young male teacher walks to the blackboard, picking up the chalk and writing it in large letters "BONDAGE 101"
A roar of giggling and laughter breaks out among the students, a relatively small attendance of only 10 or so people, 9 of them being male and one female that didn't look at all like she belonged there. Dressed in a long skirt with pigtails and classes. Light freckles to go with her pale skin. Her eyes down in a book, not paying much attention to the teacher or the other students for that matter. The teacher continued on "If you came here for immature reasons that I suggest you leave now". But not a single person moved, the sound dying down as all eyes once again followed the strict and serious teacher.
"good, now we will continue. Bondage is about control, power. For the dominant, it's complete ownership over the submissive and just as so, for the submissive it is the feeling of being helpless and restrained. The feeling of rope or steel against their skin as they fight for freedom. Now can I get a volunteer up here?" everyone in the class immediately began staring at the girl in the room, still reading her book calmly, after a few moments without looking up, she raises her hand and closes her book, laying it at the desk. Standing up and walking up to the desk and waiting patiently for her orders
"Alright Miss, straighten your arms behind your back" She did as she was told and the teacher pulled a small length of rope from a drawer in his desk. Tying it around her wrists and knotting it tightly. He grabs her by the back of the shirt and turns her to face the rest of the students, her breasts more clear through her shirt due to her arms pulling the fabric tight to her body. The teacher smiles a bit and speaks in a loud voice for everyone to hear "do the ropes make you feel more confined and submissive then before?" and with a faint smirk and a clearly sarcastic tone in her voice she says, just as he, loudly enough for the class to hear "Not at all, I'm more comfortable then ever"
A few students in the back laugh but it quickly dies down. The teacher grabs her shirt once again and turns her around, forcing her against the desk and she bends naturally at her waist, bending over the desk just as he had intended for her. Her long skirt still covering half her thighs. He asks the question again, and once again he gets a sarcastic answer. She laid her head against the desk with a grin on her face "he couldn't possible do anything more"' she thought, but of course he was willing to take it as far as it had to go to prove his point. He reached down to the hem of her skirt and lifted it up, over her back, revealing her panties to the entire class. She began fighting and wiggling but he held her at her shirt down against the hard wooden desk. He didn't have to ask again, he knew from her reaction that she realized how helpless she really was. And just at the most tense moment, when the class sat in shock, the girl blushing and embarrassed, not sure how to accept a humiliation that she volunteered for, the bell rang. The students didn't move a muscle, every single one of them sat motionless with their gazes on the intense scene at the front of the classroom. The teacher waited a moment and as they stayed he started to usher them out with his hand, "Are all of you deaf? Get going" he released the girl and walked over to the door, opening it and holding it open, a look of impatience clear on his face. The boys slowly got up and walked out, each taking a final look at the girl still paralyzed at the edge of the desk. Some of the boys even considering the idea of running up and grabbing at her, but after seeing such a strict look on the teachers face, they decided against it.
After all of the boys had walked out, the girl managed the courage to say "alright, lesson's over, let me go" with a slight tremble in her voice. The teacher closed the door and ignored her. Walking back over to her as she started to stand up, he grabbed her by the hair causing her to arch her back and whimper in pain a bit. Putting his mouth close to her ear he spoke in a soft tone and as calmly as he could he asked the question from before once more "do the ropes make you feel confined and submissive?" She pauses a moment and he reaches up and aggressively grabs her breast through her shirt, she screams "yes!" he squeezes firmly and says "yes what? Be respectful, you know how to be respectful don't you?"
"yes sir!" she says in a whimper and he releases her. She collapses back onto the desk and once again he lifts her skirt, she stammers "w-w-what are you doing?" and in the strictest and coldest voice so far he responded. "Giving you a spanking for your behavior. You not only disrespected me, you also embarrassed me in front of the class.".
"b-b-but you c-c-an't do that!" she stutters again. but he ignores her, pulling her panties down and letting them fall to her ankles, sliding his hand over her ass, getting familiar with the shape of it. Sliding his fingers between her legs, probing against her pussy. A chill goes down her spine as she feels so violated and weak, even more so because in a sick way, she feels excited by it. She feels pressure on her inner thigh, it's his hand leading her to spread her legs, she follows his direction unconsciously, leaving her legs wide enough to keep her balanced. Then a moment of peace as his hand rears back into the air and it all comes to an end when his palm plants against her waiting skin. It stings at first but starts to become more of a burning. Her body tenses up and she flinches when it hits. Followed by her muscles relaxing beyond her control, her whole body is sore from fighting the ropes, she gives into it and accepts it, once again a hand lifts up and comes down at the other side of her bottom. Heavier then before. She tenses up again but each and every time she recovers quicker then before. He continues to punish her for what seems like hours. And by the end of it, she doesn't want to admit it to herself but she is so turned on by the whole thing, she leaves a small puddle of her juices at the edge of the desk.
The teacher unties her wrists and then walks around to his chair behind the desk, "stand up" he says and she immediately obeys. Her cheeks glossed with tears, still sobbing a bit and trying not to let the teacher know she enjoyed it more then it hurt her. He looks her in the eye "Do you think you were punished unfairly?" she takes a moment and shakes her head, admitting that she had deserved it while secretly thinking about how glad she is to have done so. "Now, you will return for this class on time every day, you will help me demonstrate or you will get an F in this course, I own you now, understood?" she nods and reaches back to rub her burning cheeks. The teacher stands up and walks back around to her, she doesn't move "...and one last thing." he bends down hooking his finger into the waistband of her panties, still at her ankles "I'll be keeping these, you are not to wear underwear for the rest of the day, nor sleep in any clothes tonight, is that clear?" she says in a low voice "yes sir" as she steps out of her panties and he lifts them up from the floor, tossing them onto his desk and walking back around to his chair. "Now get going, you have other classes to attend to"
She does as she is told, walking off slowly and opening the door, taking one last look back at her panties on the desk and then to him, the final thought of wether he's her new master enters her head right as she closes the door, taking a moment to adjust her skirt and pull it down as far as it will go. The whole thing playing over again and again in her mind, the bruises on her wrists and the welts on her bottom a sore reminder of the whole thing, another bell goes off which yanks her back into reality and she hurries off to her next class.
The End.
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Anonymous reader
2016-07-17 20:42:12
How you are saying that if it was socially acceptable that is True but not if it was one step off from a study hall they say that you can do this emplace of it I mean. But you did need to take more into the year and at her home that was a dumb way to end it
anonymous reader
2012-08-17 02:01:55
well written but the plot needs work, bondage class really. if this "bondage class" was socially acceptable there would probably be more than one girl in the class.
anonymous reader
2011-04-24 22:29:47
I looove this please write more
Anonymous reader
2009-06-13 11:49:52
Totally got me wet! Plz write more!!
2009-06-10 03:07:08
I loved it. More please! The setting is a great fantasy setting!
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Fair Comment
Americans don't hesitate to say anything they please about a public performance. But the right to do so wasn't established until the Cherry Sisters sued a critic who didn't like their appalling vaudeville act.
October/november 1982 | Volume 33, Issue 6
The year 1896 found Oscar Hammerstein in trouble. He was in debt, and the acts he had brought to Broadway weren't doing well. He was desperate. "I've tried the best," he is reported to have said. "Now I'll try the worst." So he sent for the Cherry Sisters. Effie, Addie, Jessie, Lizzie, and Ella Cherry clearly were the worst act of the day. They couldn't dance, and they couldn't sing. In fact, they couldn't do anything at all. Except draw crowds.
The five sisters and their brother had been born on a farm near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and lost both their parents while they were still very young. They apparently took care of each other until the girls were old enough for show business. Then, in the early 1890s, they put an act together and hit the road. Their brother, Isa, took off at the same time: "He hopped aboard a load of hogs headed for Chicago and has never been heard from since," Carl Whyte told a newspaper reporter in 1945. Whyte was in a position to know. He was in love with Effie—the only sister who ever found romance. She was older than Carl—"but I can tell you I was completely hypnotized by her charms," he said. "And her kisses took me completely out of this world." Whyte played piano for the sisters as they toured the Midwest.
Their act was terrible, and everybody said so; but it exerted a sort of ghastly fascination over its audiences. By the time Hammerstein sent for the Cherry Sisters, they were on their way to becoming famous.
The great impresario found the women every bit as bad as he had been led to believe, and so did the critics. "Never before did New Yorkers see anything in the least like the Cherry Sisters from Cedar Rapids, Iowa," wrote the New York Times when the act opened in the New Olympia Theater on November 16, 1896. "It is sincerely to be hoped that nothing like them will ever be seen again. "
"Did you ever hear the musical 'kerchunk' of the half-flooded milk pail as the brindle cow kicked it over with her offhind foot?" asked the critic of the New York Herald . "Well, that is Lizzie's voice. Did you ever hear the frightened squeak of the rooster when your sister-in-law's first born jumped on him hard with his little copper-toed boots? If you didn't, you won't appreciate Jessie's song about 'Fair Columbia.' "
Nevertheless, the audiences loved them. Night after night young men crowded the New Olympia Theater at Broadway and Forty-fourth Street. Often they brought vegetables; sidewalk vendors were said to do a brisk business every evening selling onions and rutabagas and melons. "There was scarcely a young blade in the late nineties," the Des Moines Register recalled in 1929, "but boasted he had heaved a cabbage or two at the Cherry Sisters." Hammerstein himself may have encouraged such activity by rigging a fishnet across the footlights to protect the sisters.
The Cherry Sisters' success might have been harrowing, but it was real. They were said to have made one thousand dollars a week in New York City and they continued to pack the houses when, after a month's run on Broadway, they eventually took their show on the road. Everywhere they went the critics were apoplectic, with each trying to outdo the other. Finally, in 1901, a fellow in Iowa outdid them all.
"Effie is an old jade of 50 summers," he wrote, "Jessie a frisky filly of 40, and Addie, the flower of the family, a capering monstrosity of 35. Their long skinny arms, equipped with talons at the extremities, swung mechanically, and anon waved frantically at the suffering audience. The mouths of their rancid features opened like caverns, and sounds like the wailings of damned souls issued therefrom. They pranced around the stage with a motion that suggested a cross between the danse du ventre and the fox trot—strange creatures with painted faces and hideous mien. Effie is spavined, Addie is stringhalt, and Jessie, the only one who showed her stockings, has legs with calves as classic in their outlines as the curves of a broom handle."
Addie Cherry, the capering monstrosity, sued. The case, Cherry v. Des Moines Leader , was won by the newspaper on a directed verdict after the sisters performed in court for the judge. Although the sisters lost the case, the court action gave them something that eluded them in show business: lasting fame.
The ruling of the Iowa Supreme Court, upholding the lower court's directed verdict, has become one of the strongest and most reliable bastions defending the right of "fair comment" in libel actions. It is the case that "is so often cited in judicial rulings on fair comment and criticism," say Robert H. Phelps and E. Douglas Hamilton in their text, Libel—Rights, Risks, Responsibilities . "Without this defense, editorials would be anemic, commentary spineless, art criticism tepid and letters to the editor platitudinous. Sports reporters, feature writers and columnists would be straitjacketed."


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Couple of interesting tidbits: new basketball training facility to be built; 2016 ASG - sounds like Raps going all out for it; re-branding the team?
That last one could be interesting....
Couple of interesting tidbits: new basketball training facility to be built; 2016 ASG - sounds like Raps going all out for it; re-branding the team?
That last one could be interesting....
I guess Phil Jackson didn't return Leiweke's phone call. The first big decision he makes and it's a dud.
man Leiweke's doing an amazing job passive aggressively ridiculing BC without directly coming out and saying "this guy had no idea what he was doing"
Re-branding meaning what exactly?
Didnt BC promise Stefanski the gm job? If Stefanski gets it (if noone else wants it) that should get a lot of LOLs.
whoa they're talking about changing EVERYTHING with the team now - name/unis/colours - that'd be awesome
talking about buying/creating a state of the art training facility too. holy shit.
"Want someone that has had success in trading."
Basically they are trying to expand the popularity of the team in all of Canada not just Toronto and the GTA.
The Toronto Huskies
The Toronto Mounties
The Toronto Polar Bears
The Toronto Beavers
The Toronto Moose
The Toronto Maple Syrup
ALL options
I don't think they'll change the team name. But they probably will change the look
The uniforms could use an update the home uniforms are so boring and ugh the camo gear AWFUL!
I remember hoping as far back as the Carter days that they'd change the name. Raptors is an awful, awful name. And all because of a damn movie. If the team had even been renamed a few years later because of a movie, they may have ended up with Wolverines...An actual animal that lives in and is associated with Canada. Also a basketball name because of Michigan. Also leeching off teh popularity of one of the most popular comic book characters of all time.
I could get behind Wolverines, but i think Leiweke will want something more original if it's supposed to represent all of Canada.
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Computing went from centralized mainframes to distributed desktop PCs, and is now going back to another centralized model: cloud computing, which lets users access and manipulate data from applications stored on the Internet rather than computer networks. Here's a rundown of the different flavors of cloud computing.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the most well-known and oldest type of cloud computing: Hosting applications online, not on enterprise computers. A number of public companies like
SaaS pioneer Salesforce.com has more recently pioneered Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), whereby the San Mateo, Calif.-based software maker opened up its platform for other application developers. This opened the floodgates for small start-ups aspiring to build SaaS applications as well as businesses around the applications. At the same time, Salesforce's move has prompted many other larger SaaS companies to also consider opening up their platforms to developers. In time, I expect that all major SaaS vendors will also become PaaS vendors and encourage an ecosystem of developers that create innovative application ecosystems. (See my interview with Rene Bonvanie, former chief of Salesforce.com's platform business.)
The next piece of cloud computing to look at is Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). In the past, we routinely bought backup devices, external storage drives, and so on, to complement our core computing infrastructure. Enter remote backup, remote storage and remote hosting–infrastructure moves to the Internet. While these technologies are not new, they have only recently gained recognition as part of the hyped cloud computing story. A big proponent of the IaaS category is Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, which allows companies to contract or expand their computing capacity in the cloud. Another IaaS example is San Mateo, Calif.-based Fabrik's digital media storage offering. (See Deal Radar 2008: Fabrik.)
Along comes Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), another variation of cloud computing. A good example would be Waltham, Mass.-based
San Francisco-based InsideView also takes an interesting spin on DaaS by bringing together data from many different providers, as well as data collected by its own artificial intelligence technology, and packaging it with software to build a comprehensive dashboard for sales people. In a sense, this puts InsideView at the cusp of SaaS and DaaS, and makes it a truly innovative company. (See Deal Radar 2008: InsideView.)
Another layer of cloud computing innovation has come from San Ramon, Calif.-based Sabrix, which developed software that automatically calculates taxes for companies. Sabrix started life as an enterprise software vendor, but has morphed into a SaaS provider that also does business process outsourcing (BPO). In other words, Sabrix's customers have asked the company to not only provide the SaaS, but to also take on their tax management function. (See my interview with Sabrix's CEO Steve Adams.)
Of the above, SaaS-enabled BPO is the one that I see as the most powerful new trend, which is going to have huge ripple effects on the outsourcing industry. Pure labor arbitrage models should expect SaaS to become a threat. In time, Sabrix, for instance, might be able to convert labor-intensive services to technology-leveraged solutions. India Inc., beware!
I will wrap up with one final example that is opening up an entire category of start-ups and innovation: online virtual worlds and multi-player gaming. In the era of narrowband Internet and personal workstations, gaming had a distinctly different flavor. More isolated before social media took the world by storm, today's multi-player games like "World of Warcraft," area phenomenon shaping a whole generation of youngsters.
Amidst this tectonic shift in the universe of entertainment, start-ups are re-architecting the software and hardware infrastructure supporting the industry. Abundantly funded companies like Trion World Network have ambitious goals to turn gaming on its heels by applying the principles of cloud computing. (See Deal Radar 2008: Trion World Network.)
And so it goes. The technology industry and its ingenious innovators continue to push the envelope and do things differently–and in the process, create new and exciting trends.
Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She has founded three companies and writes a business blog, Sramana Mitra on Strategy. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her first book, Entrepreneur Journeys (Volume One) is available from Amazon.com.


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In his insider's account of the demise of the company he loved, John Tyson makes it clear his purpose is to praise Nortel, not to bury it.
John Tyson is a former executive with Nortel.
By David Sali
The Ottawa native chronicles his 35-year career at the technology firm in a new book titled Adventures in Innovation: Inside the Rise and Fall of Nortel. The official release date, Jan. 14, wasn't chosen by accident: it marked the fifth anniversary of the day the former telecom colossus filed for bankruptcy, the final chapter in the once seemingly invincible firm's epic collapse.
"The timing was perfect," explains Mr. Tyson, 71, who spent two years working on the project.
Adventures in Innovation describes Mr. Tyson's ascent from a fresh-faced art college graduate who talked his way into a job as then-Northern Electric's first industrial designer, to his ultimate role as vice-president of a multinational telecommunications powerhouse.
Along the way, Mr. Tyson helped create and bring to market some of the firm's most iconic products.
His promise was evident from the get-go – his first major project, in 1968, was designing the Contempra telephone. The first handset that could be either placed on a desk or mounted on a wall without modifications, the Contempra went on to become a ubiquitous presence in homes around the world, eventually earning its own exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
The success of Contempra taught Mr. Tyson the importance of taking risks and challenging conventional wisdom, lessons he never forgot on his journey to Nortel's highest echelons.
"In my experience, innovators are the strongest group in the corporate subculture," he writes in the book. "Driven by passion and facing resistance, they will always apply the rule: Forgiveness is easier to get than permission."
It's that spirit of daring and innovation, not the ugliness of the last decade, that the author wants people to remember about the place where he worked for more than three decades.
"It means seeing an opportunity, taking the risk – in our case, with (Bell-Northern Research, the R&D arm of Northern Electric that was established in 1971) and Nortel, it was literally bet the business," the father of three says from the Nepean home he shares with his wife, Yolanda.
"Without reach, there's no challenge. Without risk, there's no reward. And without vision, there's no future. It requires leadership, it requires pioneers and it requires passion and conviction," he says.
"Rather than see Nortel and BNR relegated to the wastebin as toxic, I really felt they deserved a celebration," Mr. Tyson adds, explaining his desire to write the book.
Throughout the '70s and '80s, that risk-taking mindset continued to flourish at BNR and the firm that was known by then as Northern Telecom. The company became a leader in telecommunications hardware by anticipating trends rather than reacting to them, Mr. Tyson argues, pouring millions into developing digital switches in earnest long before anyone else, for example.
Mr. Tyson credits men such as Robert Scrivener – Northern's head of research who later became president of Bell Canada – for creating an environment where innovation was a guiding principle. It proved to be a powerful recruiting tool as well, attracting the likes of Terry Matthews and Michael Cowpland, young engineers who launched their careers at Northern before becoming tech titans in their own right.
"It's so important to find a kindred community of interest," Mr. Tyson says. "There are so many self-help books that always start with a number, whether it's seven habits or six hats or 12 steps. (But) it's always about success.
"As I say in the book, I and my colleagues, we didn't talk about success in terms of celebrity or we didn't talk about success in terms of money. We talked about success in terms of relevance and fulfilment. It really comes down to loving what you do, loving where you do it, and doing it with a community of kindred spirits. If you have those things, what you have is fulfilment and relevance. It seems to me that's what it's all about."
There was plenty of fun along the way, he adds. He writes of how, after the U.S. government deregulated that country's telecommunications industry in the early '80s, Northern Telecom chartered Holland America's flagship cruise liner, the SS Rotterdam, for a pair of product seminars that featured entertainment by Tony Bennett and Victor Borge and drew hundreds of America's top CEOs and businesspeople.
"Could you imagine such an outrageous idea?" Mr. Tyson says with a mischievous chuckle. "And we got away with it. It made our competitors shudder. Those were the kinds of things that we thought, if we're going to do it, we're betting the business, well, let's go for it."
Gradually, however, the company's brain trust began to view R&D as an expense rather than an investment, he says. Intent on maintaining market share instead of being a market leader, Nortel failed to anticipate the rise of cellphones and the Internet, he argues, a disastrous miscalculation from which it never recovered.
"It all really started to come apart in the '90s, with Nortel almost missing wireless cellular entirely," he says.
"I do give credit to (former CEO) John Roth for being the one who fought to get back in and build a wireless division in the company. But as you get into the mid-'90s and you see the clear beginning of the impact of Internet and the web and then mobility, Nortel missed it and compounded it by its $20-plus-billion excursion through acquisition, which was either a means of buying time or buying market share. It was a miss – a huge miss.
"Nortel fell asleep at the switch," adds Mr. Tyson. "They were exposed and they refused to see it. The fate was sealed."
The company's decision to disband BNR in February 1996 and absorb most of its employees into the firm's main operation was a clear message that Nortel's days as a trailblazer were behind it, he says.
"It was tragic," says Mr. Tyson, who eventually left the company in 2000. "Everything changed on that day, in terms of temperament, commitment, passion."
Today, he prefers to remember the good times, and believes the love of risk-taking and innovation that fuelled Nortel's brightest minds for so long is still alive and well in a new generation of Canadian high-tech success stories led by Ottawa's Shopify.
"Their spirit is contagious," he says. "I think we're in good hands."
In more than three decades at Northern Electric, Northern Telecom and Nortel, John Tyson gained valuable insight into the keys to success in a fast-changing world. These lessons, he writes in his new book, "apply to any organization – large, small or startup – built on the power of innovation."
1. Vision matters. Without it, there is no future. "Organizations, indeed nations, that fail to understand that intellectual capital is their greatest strategic asset do so at their own peril and will be condemned to endure the future they created because of their lack of vision and necessary leadership," Mr. Tyson writes.
2. Pathfinders matter. Northern's leaders created and nurtured a culture of innovation. "Empowered and nurtured, everyone loved going to work, celebrated their skill and did whatever it took to succeed."
3. People matter. "Large or small, organizations need to inspire their people and excite them."
4. Values matter. Northern believed strongly that the customer was always first and supported the community through sponsoring charitable events, endowing academic chairs and incubating the high-tech sector, Mr. Tyson writes.
5. Organizations under stress can forget their reason for being. "R&D, as the lifeblood of corporate success, needs to be part of a corporation's DNA … Falling one step behind in the innovation race changes an organization's gestalt from a winner to a loser."
6. Product innovation often means being willing to obsolete or cannibalize your own product. "That means taking a leap of faith and having a go-for-it attitude. It means never being satisfied or leaving well enough alone."
7. R&D is complex, expensive, multidisciplinary, and a collaborative undertaking that cannot function in fits and starts. It requires "a separate structure of accountability, one free of the profit-and-loss performance metrics of revenues and gross margins."
8. Tools are toys and the workplace is a playground for innovation.
9. Centralized R&D works when the challenge is to create disruptive solutions. "If well-led and well-managed, the tightly integrated and collaborative community allows for the conditions that nurture personal and professional risk-taking along with unorthodox thinking."
10. Market leadership cannot be claimed. "Real leadership is attained through the passion to reach, to accept and manage risk and to create and follow a vision. It can never be taken for granted."
11. Success is a measure of a corporation's past hard work and innovative achievements. It "can breed arrogance and, more insidiously, complacency and sloth in the top echelons of a corporation. Board members and executives can succumb to the sin of greed and fall prey to the deadliest sin of all: revelling in one's own hubris."
12. Fun matters. "To me, loving my job was synonymous with fun. A lot of laughter is the best medicine for the mental health of an organization and is also a means of releasing creativity, imagination and innovation."
13. Recognition and celebrations matter. Spending on such items is often the first thing to be cut when times are tough, Mr. Tyson writes, and that can have disastrous long-term effects. "Good faith and common sense might suggest that cutting the means to keep people focused and happy while dealing with the challenges of the tasks at hand would be the very last thing to do."
14. Innovation creates new wealth because it creates new value. "By stepping up to the challenge of innovation, new opportunities and new careers are created."
15. A culture of innovation creates a domino effect where small businesses can expand. Young people are "impatient and nomadic by nature," Mr. Tyson argues in his book. "If they cannot find or produce an ecosystem which nurtures innovation at home they will, in frustration, follow the money and migrate, leaving an impoverished community behind."
16. Corporate culture, easy to see but hard to measure, takes time to create but very little time to destroy. "BNR's employees bought into the company's vision as an act of faith and continued their commitment to the original contract through thick and thin … Fulfilment came from having the opportunity to do what they loved and being surrounded by kindred spirits who shared their passion."


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Someone got away with a great deal, Thursday. A California company purchased the Trump Plaza, the centerpiece of Atlantic City's boardwalk, for the bargain-basement price of $20 million, the Associated Press reports. The price is the lowest ever paid for a casino in the city.
While a name for the resort has not been decided, the new owners, The Meruelo Group, have confirmed it will not retain the "Trump" title. The Trump Plaza has fallen greatly from it's former prominence, as most of founder Donald Trump's casinos have become money pits.
Trump Entertainment Resorts plans to use the $20 million from the sale, compared to the $210 million is cost to build the casino in the 1980s, toward paying down nearly $300 million in debt. The company only has one casino remaining, the Trump Taj Mahal. However, CEO Robert Griffin doesn't shy away from the possibility of selling it. "Blow me away with an offer, and I'll be happy to take it to the board," he says.
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It's part of her tour visuals that goes on a screen behind her, the dancers, the backing singers and 2 other video screens showing other stuff. Journalism FAIL
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- 2/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 pounds medium shrimp, shelled and deveined, shells reserved
- 2 pounds chicken wings
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 4 quarts chicken stock or low-sodium broth
- 3 bay leaves
- 6 whole chicken legs
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 8 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 6 large scallions, white and green parts thinly sliced separately
- 4 medium celery ribs, cut into 1/2-inch dice
- 2 large Spanish onions, coarsely chopped
- 2 medium green peppers, cut into 1/2-inch dice
- 1 pound smoked andouille sausage, half finely chopped, half sliced into 1/4-inch rounds
- 2 teaspoons dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 pound okra, stems trimmed, cut into 1/2-inch rounds
- 3 tablespoons filé powder (see Note)
How to Make It
In a large, heavy stockpot, heat 1 tablespoon of the vegetable oil. Add the reserved shrimp shells and chicken wings, season with salt and pepper and cook over moderately high heat, stirring occasionally, until the chicken wings are browned, about 10 minutes. Add 1 tablespoon of the tomato paste and cook, stirring, until glossy, about 2 minutes. Slowly pour in the stock, stirring with a wooden spoon to release any browned bits on the bottom of the pot. Add the bay leaves and bring to a boil. Skim the surface of the stock, reduce the heat to low and simmer for 1 1/2 hours, skimming occasionally.
Add the chicken legs to the stock and simmer until they are cooked through, about 40 minutes. Strain the stock into a heatproof bowl and transfer the chicken legs to a large plate. When the legs are cool enough to handle, remove the meat and discard the skin and bones. Tear the meat into 2-inch pieces and set aside. Skim the fat from the surface of the stock and reserve the stock.
In a large enameled cast-iron casserole, stir the remaining 2/3 cup of vegetable oil with the flour until smooth. Cook the oil and flour over moderately low heat, stirring constantly, until a deep brown roux forms, about 25 minutes. Add the garlic, scallion whites, celery, onions, green peppers and finely chopped andouille sausage. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables soften, about 15 minutes. Add the thyme, cayenne, 1 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon of tomato paste and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Gradually whisk in the reserved stock. Simmer over low heat for 1 hour, skimming occasionally.
Add the okra and simmer until just tender, about 8 minutes. Add the reserved shredded chicken and the andouille rounds and simmer for 10 minutes. Season the gumbo with salt and pepper. Add the shrimp and simmer for 1 minute. Turn off the heat and let the gumbo stand for a few minutes. Stir in the filé powder and scallion greens and serve hot.
Make Ahead: The recipe can be prepared through Step 3 up to 3 days ahead and refrigerated. Reheat gently and proceed.
Serve With: White rice.
Wine Recommendation: Cool this spicy gumbo with an inexpensive, tangy, fruity white wine, such as the 1999 Eno Friulia Pinot Grigio, or a light Latin-American beer, such as Cerveza-Aguila.
Notes: Filé powder is made from ground, dried sassafras leaves. It acts as a thickener for stews and should be added at the very end to avoid over-thickening. It's available in the spice section of most supermarkets.


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Most of the time you just get real sick but there are many recorded deaths, don't eat potatoes that have turned green or sprouts on potatoes.
Potato plant poisoning - green tubers and sprouts
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Potato plant poisoning occurs when someone eats the green tubers or new sprouts of the potato plant.
This is for information only and not for use in the treatment or management of an actual poison exposure. If you have an exposure, you should call your local emergency number (such as 911) or the National Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222.
Poisonous Ingredient
Solanine (very toxic even in small amounts)
Where Found
The poison is found throughout the plant, but especially in green potatoes and new sprouts. Never eat potatoes that are spoiled or green below the skin. Always throw away the sprouts.
Potatoes that are not green and have had any sprouts removed are safe to eat.
Dilated pupils
Loss of sensation
Lower than normal body temperature (hypothermia)
Slow pulse
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I met Anna at Utica station (which had some impressive columns) and we drove to Cooperstown. It is so lovely to see Anna again, I will not possibly be able to explain how much. We talked all the way home. Her appartment in Coopers town is lovely. It is on the top floor of a house, almost like an attic and that makes it feel special and somehow secret. There is a lovely kitchen with blue walls where we all cook together. I am sleeping on large window seat in the living room. Sarah, the girl Anna is living with is lovely too. I really like both their accents. New England accents are so lovely.
Cooperstown is rather sweet, all detached clapboard houses with shutters. Some are painted in some really lovely colours, I think I'll try and get photos. I saw one painted in a leafy green, with a turret and if left abandoned for a decade or so would make the most perfect haunted house. Now I want to live in a house with a turret when I am older. Ten minutes walk gets you into the centre of town where the sights consist of an old theatre which is now a shop, a very charming bakery and a wax museum where the heroes of baseball are immortalised.
After dinner we went and sat outside the library with a flask of cinnamon and chocolate tea and a few slices of zuccini loaf (cougette to english people, it has chocolate chips in and is a great deal more delicous than it sounds). We watched 'Away We Go' a funny and sweet film about a couple who are expecting a baby and decide to travel all over America to find the best place to bring her up.
I feel tall here, I am taller than both Anna and Sarah. The have started asking me to get things from top shelves.


text: Games, From The Pencils Of ChildrenLuke Plunkett7/19/10 8:00amFiled to: ArtMarioStarfoxSonicCultureTop1351EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Earlier this year, I found a bunch of my old school books from when I was 5-8 years old. Full of Robotech sketches and prayers to God that I would be able to play Ghostbusters at recess. Advertisement I am an idiot, however, and before putting them back in a box at my parent's house, I didn't take any pictures of them. Ario Barzan, though, is way smarter than I am, and has done just that, scanning a bunch of childhood sketches depicting the adventures of Starfox, Sonic and one lovestruck Goomba.Seeing somebody else's drawings is awesome, because it makes me realise maybe I wasn't that weird spending entire days designing levels for video games that didn't exist. You know what I mean? Cut-away drawings of an entire 2D level, complete with poorly-written "notes"...oh, if only I could drag them out, and have them made! There'd be entire games consisting of nothing but spikes. Fire, and spikes. Advertisement sifting through bits of one's youth [selectbutton] Reply135 repliesLeave a reply


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Chilisin Continues to Achieve Record Revenue
Press release [Friday 1 February 2013]
In 2012, Chilisin broke its 3rd consecutive record high in revenue. In a difficult year for many passive component makers due to decline in PC demand and price erosion, Chilisin, one of the largest inductor manufacturers in the Greater China region, achieved an outstanding 7% revenue growth year-on-year. Chilisin was able to outperform most industry peers due to various reasons; most importantly, its early penetration into China's hand-held device market and its newly developed relationships with Chinese and Korean customers contributed to its outstanding performance in 2012.
Sales to smartphone customers accounted for roughly 20% of Chilisin's total revenue in 2012. Last year, in response to smartphone market's quick rise and hand-held device miniaturization trend, Chilisin was able to successfully offer many new products, including its LVS Series wire-wound power inductor as well as 0402-sized chip beads and inductors. Digitimes Research estimated that smartphone shipments in China will reach 189 million in 2012, achieving a 137% growth rate year-on-year compared to 2011, and continue to grow 36% to drive shipments to reach 256 million in 2013. Jack Chung, Chief Operating Officer at Chilisin, states that in light of its continued growth momentum, smartphone sales will become one of the main factors that will support sustainable growth for the company.
Continued success in 2013 will depend largely on Chilisin's technological capability in offering new products, production capacity expansion, as well as market penetration into new regions and applications. In anticipation of the thinness and lightweight trend of hand-held devices, Chilisin successfully developed the AME/MHCD Series high-current molding power inductor and 0201-sized chip beads and inductors in 2012. Sources from the industry have stated that focus in 2013 will be on battery performance enhancement within hand-held devices. Ready for full production this year, the AME-MHCD Series is set to become a main driver of growth. Alongside the AME/MHCD Series power inductor, the TFL Series thin-film chip inductor was developed last year for high-precision smartphone and tablet RF application. Production is expected to ramp up significantly in 2013 as demand for high-end hand-held devices continue to grow. Another product development highlight will center on the multilayer and thin-film type Common Mode Chokes for USB 3.0 and HDMI application. Currently in testing phase, these new products lead the way among various other inductors to be developed in 2013.
Growth in sales will be boosted by capacity expansion of both newly developed and mature products. In the months transitioning from 2012 to 2013, roughly 80% of Chilisin's production lines operated at full capacity. Since November 2012, Chilisin has already expanded its workforce by 20%, and is projecting to invest roughly 15 million US dollars in 2013 to expand and enhance its production facilities in both China and Taiwan.
Further growth in 2013 will be driven by market penetration into new geographies and applications. Sales to the Greater China region in 2012 accounted for 82% of Chilisin's total revenue. After its strategic entry into China's handheld device market in 2011, Chilisin is expecting to enter into new markets beyond the greater China region. The 2012 CEATEC Exhibition in Japan was a hallmark for Chilisin's entry into the Japanese market, through which Chilisin established relationships with both Japanese and International distributors and customers. Chilisin expects to receive substantial orders from Japan in the coming year as Japanese end-product manufacturers face increasing price pressure. Continued marketing efforts in the US and Russia is also expected to yield promising returns in the coming year. Apart from hand-held devices, automotive and lighting applications will be an important working point for Chilisin to diversify its product application.
Chilisin has had a successful run since 2009, almost doubling its revenue in 3 years. Through strategic planning in terms of market penetration, product development, and capacity expansion, Chilisin has been able to break its own revenue record year on year since 2009. By focusing on its core strengths, Chilisin seeks to achieve its fourth consecutive record revenue in 2013.
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