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Don Magic Juan's Annual Birthday and Players' Ball- Chicago
Bootsy Collins stood tall at this year's Players' Ball. Literally, Bootsy's about 6'5," without the foot tall leopard hat. And no one rocks the shoulder pad jacket like Bootsy, who was presented with an honorary Player award and helped Bishop Don Magic Juan present trophies for Most Improved Player, Most Valuable Player, Best Young Player, Best Female Player, etc.


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England v Scotland, Six Nations, Twickenham
Stage set for Calcutta Cup clash
ESPN Staff
January 31, 2013
England's Tom Croft crashes over to score the last time these two sides met at Twickenham in 2011 © Getty Images
England will attempt to prove their headline-grabbing victory over New Zealand last month was no fluke when they kick off their Six Nations campaign against Scotland at Twickenham on Saturday.
Stuart Lancaster's side stunned the rugby world with a thrilling upset of the world champions in their final autumn outing but that game will have been swiftly confined to history with the pressure now on to repeat that level of performance against their familiar European rivals.
Scotland will have been desperate to draw a line under their end of year campaign for a vastly different reason having slumped to three straight defeats - the last of which was an embarrassing reverse at the hands of Tonga that cost coach Andy Robinson his job and left them languishing down in 12th in the IRB world rankings.
The Scots now have a new man at the helm in the shape of Robinson's former assistant Scott Johnson whose first challenge is one that proved too much for his predecessor and many more coaches before that - winning at English rugby's HQ. The last time Scotland beat England at Twickenham was back in 1983 with Lancaster's in-form side clear favourites to extend the visitors' barren run.
Head to Head
England - Player to Watch: Billy Twelvetrees will make his England debut in a new-look midfield alongside Brad Barritt with Manu Tuilagi sidelined through injury. Can the in-form Gloucester centre fill those sizeable boots?
England - Team News: Twelvetrees will line up at inside centre in one of two changes to the side that beat New Zealand last time out with Joe Marler also stepping in for the injured Alex Corbisiero at loose-head. Brad Barritt will revert to the outside centre role while hooker Tom Youngs has held off the challenge of a fit-again Dylan Hartley. Ben Youngs edges out Danny Care for the No.9 jersey and Alex Goode returned from a shoulder injury in time to retain the full-back berth.
Scotland - Player to Watch: The rapid promotion of New Zealand-born winger Sean Maitland has raised a few eyebrows but he qualifies through his grandfather and will no doubt be desperate to win over any doubters with an eye-catching display.
Scotland - Team News: Maitland is set to win his first cap as one of six changes to the side upset by Tonga. No.8 Johnnie Beattie earns a recall for the first time since 2011 while hooker Dougie Hall returns to the starting line-up after a six year break. Ruaridh Jackson is named at fly-half with Greig Laidlaw switching to the No.9 shirt for the first time and Sean Lamont moves from wing to centre. In the pack, Ryan Grant returns from injury at loose-head prop and Jim Hamilton is recalled to partner Richie Gray in the second row. Kelly Brown will lead the side from openside flanker.
Key Battle: A bruising battle awaits at Twickenham - especially up front - and expect captains and rival opensides Chris Robshaw and Kelly Brown to be in the thick of the action. Both players have been among the top performers in the Premiership this season but that will count for little come kick off. Which player will be able to get his side onto the front foot - and keep them there?
Trivia: England have won six out of the nine matches that referee Alain Rolland has officiated in the Six Nations. Scotland have only won one out of the six matches that Rolland has officiated in, most recently refereeing them in their 13-6 loss to Italy last year.
Stats: Scotland have only scored one try against England in the last five meetings between the two sides with that score coming from Max Evans in 2011.
Betting: There has been very little between these two sides of late so you may be tempted by Bet365's offer of 11/2 for an England win between 6-10 points. Or do you fancy Scotland debutant Scott Maitland to grab a try on his debut? Bet365 have the New Zealand-born winger at 14/1 to grab the first try or 7/2 to cross the whitewash at any point in the game.
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"Manu is a fantastic player and an asset to any team but, having said that, there are numerous guys in this team who have proved their worth in the Premiership and international games."
"We are the poor little boys on the block and we are happy to go in as the poor little boys on the block. But rest assured, come game time we may not be a poor little boy."
Prediction: Fired by belief and brimming with confidence in the wake of their victory over the All Blacks, England will kick off their campaign with a win but a gutsy Scotland side determined to right a few wrongs will keep them within a score.
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- Michael White & Leisei Chen Duo at Play
Open at 6PM, Performance at 8:30PM @ Play
1018 S. Santa Fe Ave. Los Angeles CA 90021
Premiere: Inspirations for "Orbit"
Video combining examples of Michael White's past musical work with photographs by Leisei Chen and various artists that have inspired the new work Orbit, created by Leisei Chen. 32 minutes. Sponsored by 2013 DCA COLA Individual Artists Fellowship Award, premiered at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.
Michael White & Leisei Chen Duo
Michael White & Leisei Chen of MWQ will perform a small intimate DUO set of Violin & Voice-Vocals-Qigong Movements for the Gallery Opening Reception of ROADplay: a fine art exhibition, featuring featuring the works of Airom Bleicher, Jim Holyoak, Echo Lew, Warren Long, Paulo Solano and special guests. All Ages.
Contact-Curator: Brian Esquivel : 214.808.9032 : email@example.com
- MWQ UNIT2 For Free Public Concerts
- Michael White Quintet UNIT2 will be availablefeatured at your Free Public Concertin July-October 2014Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Arts Commissionthrough FREE CONCERTS IN PUBLIC SITES programAPPLICATION ELIGIBILITY:You can apply for a concert if you represent aPark, Juvenile Hall, Civic Center, Library, Probation Camp, Senior Citizen Center, Hospital, Arts Organization, Non-profit Performance VenueThe Online Application Deadline onMonday March 10, 2014 at 5pmThe application and program guidelines link: http://bit.ly/1d3dNNG
- Video: "Inspirations For Orbit"
May 19th - July 7th 2013
2013 COLA Individual Artist Fellowships Visual Artists Exhibition
at Los Angeles Municipal Arts Gallery
4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Our video "Inspirations for Orbit" (31:51) created with Michael's past works with Leisei and various other artists's photos edited by Leisei Chen. Currently the video is displaying among all 2013 COLA individual artists fellowship artists.
- The First Annual OSUM Gala
Performing LIVE as Michael White Trio, Michael White violin, Leisei Chen vocals & Mark Towns guitar at the First Annual Gala for OSUM - Operation Smiles Uplifting Military, the founder Dr. Montes and co-founder Dorothy Stinger. Michael is a korean war veteran, and will be one of his first patients to receive much needed dental treatments! Please come and join us for support this noble cause!!! This event includes food, drinks, silent auction and live performances. The Admission $67 Buy Ticket : Contact 323.522.5971 : Semi-Formal Attire
- COLA Fellowship Artist Project "Orbit"
"Orbit" is commissioned by the Department Of Cultural Affairs, composed by the Living Legend Jazz Violinist Michael White as the prestigious COLA Individual Artist Fellow. It will be premiered and performed LIVE at Grand Performances, the SoCal largest free public concert presenter, with his band "Michael White Quintet", consists of such Jazz master musicians who performed with numerous Jazz Giants throughout their careers - Michael Howell guitar, Heshima Mark Williams bass, Kenneth Nash percussion and the world best kept secret Jazz vocalist & Qigong/Taiji artist Leisei Chen.
Also we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Michael's bona-fide classic Impulse records "The Land Of Spirit And Light" Sharing the stage with a beautiful fellow COLA fellowship recipient, indian choreographer, dancer, writer and designer Malathi Iyengar and her dance company.
"This performance is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs."
- Happy New Year 2013
photo by Leisei Chen
Happy Blessed New Year 2013!
明けましておめでとう! 恭喜恭喜!新年快乐!Buon anno! Bonne Année! Շնորհավոր Նոր տարի! sretna Nova godina! Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! glückliches neues Jahr!ευτυχές το νέο έτος! 새해 복 많이 받으세요! Godt Nyttår! feliz Ano Novo! срећна Нова Година! ¡feliz año nuevo! heri ya mwaka mpya! gott nytt år! Chúc mừng năm mới! سال نو مبارک! masaya bagong taon! gembira tahun baru! onnellista uutta vuotta! नया साल मुबारक!
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- A Heartfelt Exchange With Carole
Hello Michael.
Forgive me if I'm wrong but is this your music?
Michael White - Let Love Be Your Magic Carpet on youtube
Hi Carole,
Yes your are right! Michael White's composition & music from X-Factor, Elektra/Asylum album in 1978. In 2010, it re-released in CD.
We perform a acoustic version of this song in LIVE as well. This photo, link below, probably captured when we were playing and singing the song at a concert in May 20th 2012 : )))
Leisei & Michael
Hello Michael.
That is so amazing.
As a young jazz dancer years ago I would dance to your song and I can honestly say that I would be swept away by the magic of it and lose myself in the melody. It was my favourite song to dance to. I stopped dancing after having my family and this song became lost in memory until I heard it on face book one day. It made my heart beat faster and actually moved me to tears when I listened to it. All those magical memories of dancing to it came flooding back. I had to buy the album straight away and now I play it nearly every day.
I am extremely honoured that you have replied to me and want to thank you for making such beautiful music that steals my heart.
Yours sincerely
- Happy Thanksgiving + COLA Fellowship Award
- We are excited to share our blessing with you over this thanksgiving holiday!!!Michael was selected for the prestigious 2013 Department Of Cultural Affairs (DCA) CIty Of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship Award which has been recognized internationally. Michael is commissioned to create NEW WORKS to be premiered by master Jazz musicians and our original band members of Michael White Quintet (MWQ), Michael White violin, Leisei Chen vocals, Michael Howell guitar, Cecil McBee bass, Kenneth Nash percussion, performing live at the California Plaza in Los Angeles on Friday June 28th 2013, co-sponsored and hosted by Grand Performances.We are very honored and grateful for COLA fellowship performing arts panelists Mitch Glickman, Adilah Barnes, Romalyn Tilghman.We are looking forward to share the stage with a beautiful fellow performing artist, 2013 COLA fellowship recipient Malathi Iyengar, work together with Joe Smoke, Christopher Riedesel and Sherlan Abesamis at City Of Los Angeles Department Of Cultural Affairs, Scott Canty at Los Angeles Municipal Arts Gallery, Leigh Ann Hahn, Fred Stites, Regina Cabrera and Amanda Wah at Grand Performances.Special thanks to Dalili Lya Pierson, Phil Ranelin, Martiros MarHak Hakopian, Evrika Evo Zatikian, Mirza Todorovich, Candace Avery, Kristy Hanson for all their support.
- The Land of Spirit and Light
- "Michael White is the embodiment of what made jazz cool, and he still plays a hell of a show! As jazz violinist Michael White, 82, sang "Let Love Be Your Magic Carpet Ride" with his Quintet on Sunday night at the Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival in East Oakland, I leaned in my chair with my eyes closed, the sun still visible from too many glances at the solar eclipse and all I could think was… this is important. . . " [Read More...]


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It was on January 11, 1908, that Mark Twain was given his last great banquet by the Lotos Club. The club was about to move again, into splendid new quarters, and it wished to entertain him once more in its old rooms.
He wore white, and amid the throng of black-clad men was like a white moth among a horde of beetles. The room fairly swarmed with them, and they seemed likely to overwhelm him.
President Lawrence was toast-master of the evening, and he ended his customary address by introducing Robert Porter, who had been Mark Twain's host at Oxford. Porter told something of the great Oxford week, and ended by introducing Mark Twain. It had been expected that Clemens would tell of his London experiences. Instead of doing this, he said he had started a new kind of collection, a collection of compliments. He had picked up a number of valuable ones abroad and some at home. He read selections from them, and kept the company going with cheers and merriment until just before the close of his speech. Then he repeated, in his most impressive manner, that stately conclusion of his Liverpool speech, and the room became still and the eyes of his hearers grew dim. It may have been even more moving than when originally given, for now the closing words, "homeward bound," had only the deeper meaning.
Dr. John MacArthur followed with a speech that was as good a sermon as any he ever delivered, and closed it by saying:
"I do not want men to prepare for heaven, but to prepare to remain on earth, and it is such men as Mark Twain who make other men not fit to die, but fit to live."
Andrew Carnegie also spoke, and Colonel Harvey, and as the speaking ended Robert Porter stepped up behind Clemens and threw over his shoulders the scarlet Oxford robe which had been surreptitiously brought, and placed the mortar-board cap upon his head, while the diners vociferated their approval. Clemens was quite calm.
"I like this," he said, when the noise had subsided. "I like its splendid color. I would dress that way all the time, if I dared."
In the cab going home I mentioned the success of his speech, how well it had been received.
"Yes," he said; "but then I have the advantage of knowing now that I am likely to be favorably received, whatever I say. I know that my audiences are warm and responseful. It is an immense advantage to feel that. There are cold places in almost every speech, and if your audience notices them and becomes cool, you get a chill yourself in those zones, and it is hard to warm up again. Perhaps there haven't been so many lately; but I have been acquainted with them more than once." And then I could not help remembering that deadly Whittier birthday speech of more than thirty years before — that bleak, arctic experience from beginning to end.
"We have just time for four games," he said, as we reached the billiard-room; but there was no sign of stopping when the four games were over. We were winning alternately, and neither noted the time. I was leaving by an early train, and was willing to play all night. The milk-wagons were rattling outside when he said:
"Well, perhaps we'd better quit now. It seems pretty early, though." I looked at my watch. It was quarter to four, and we said good night.
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Zorro's - new concept in fast food
A new restaurant is opening in Augusta at the former Taco Tico location on West 7th. Chef George Matta is bringing his culinary talents to this community and introducing a fresh approach to the fast food environment.
Matta, well-known in Wichita as the owner and executive chef at Adrian's and formerly the executive chef at Cafe Chantilly and Piccadilly Grill, is hoping to open Zorro's Tacos and More at the end of this week.
"I was looking to buy some real estate, possibly the three Taco Tico locations - Augusta, El Dorado and Newton. The deal in El Dorado fell through, but I decided to go ahead with the other two," he explained.
But he soon realized his ideas wouldn't mesh with the established franchise methods. He purchased the two locations and will be bringing a new concept to fast food.
"Everything will be fresh. All the food will be restaurant quality in a fast food environment," he said.
He also explained the meat would be fresh, along with all the other items on the menu.
"No artificial food," he said. "Just good value at good prices."
The menu will include Mediterranean, American and international cuisine. There will be everything from tacos to wraps, gyros to bierocks, pulled pork, homemade chip fries, Euro sandwiches on pita bread, even delicious carrot cake made by Bagatelle Bakery in Wichita and baklava, a sweet Mediterranean dessert that everyone loves.
"We will be serving up fresh healthy food, but we'll also have items for the diabetics. There will be healthy options. We care what people eat and we're are thinking of everyone. Where else will you be able to get sugar-free baklava?" he asked with enthusiasm.
Each week there will be featured specials on the menu and Matta plans to be in the kitchen full-time until he has someone who can prepare the food to his standard.
The building has also had a face-lift. The interior has had lots of fresh paint and it's hard to miss the numerous photos and paintings of the dashing black-clad masked Zorro. Matta has license from Zorro Productions to use the iconic images and is proud of the Zorro painted on the outside of the building by renowned artist Rick Regan, whose parents live in Augusta.
"It's a family-friendly, fun atmosphere with really good food," Matta added, "And we agree with Zorro's point of view - he had high standards and he helped his community. That's what we're going to do, any way we can."
The chef is also an accomplished musician, as well. He sings and plays the guitar, specializing in Flamenco and Classical Music. Matta has played professionally in Paris and in Africa. He may perform at Zorro's occasionally.
He already loves the small town atmosphere.
"I enjoy the genuine quality of this small town," he said. "I've really enjoyed working with Dan Allen, the city inspector and all the people at the city building. Everyone has been very helpful and we are very excited to open."
The hours will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on week days, and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends, with the drive-through open until 10 p.m. throughout the week.
Matta said, "The first Zorro's is opening in Augusta. I believe we are making history here. Fresh food in a fast food setting. We're excited."
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Google recently announced the new Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which brings the rich mapping and interactivity of the Google Earth application directly into the web browser, "bringing the full power of Google Earth to the web, embeddable within your own we site." And along with the plug-in comes the new Google Earth API (profile).
And besides the API, there's lots of power in using KML, the XML mark-up language for expressing geographic information. Here it lets you easily display data in Google Earth and Google Maps.
The Google Earth API Developer's Guide is the place to start for details on the API. You'll need to understand KML to take full advantage of the API's capabilities. See the Google Earth API Interfaces for a list of object interface declarations.
A great way to see what's possible with the Google Earth API and plug-in is to install the plug-in , then visit the Google Earth API Examples page. The Samples page provides 31 API code snippets, and lets you run the code and view the results. To see KML in action, visit the KML Playground. Want to test your global geographical knowledge? Take the Geo Whiz challenge.
John Hanke, Director, Google Earth and Maps, spoke recently about A new world unfolding, where something that might be termed the "geoweb" will continue to grow and evolve as people "figure out how 'earth browsers,' embedded maps, local search, geo-tagged photos, blogs, the traditional GIS world, wikis, and other user-generated geo content all interrelate."
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Our group is about learning and performing Salsa. The primary dance is Salsa, but of course, there will be more that will be done such as Merengue and many more!
Come and join us as we discover some of the folkloric dances of the Latin islands! Bomba, Plena, Seis and others!
Our goal is to have fun, learn and enjoy music and dances of the Caribbean Latin America. We also like to encourage and support budding artists in any of the following categories of Latin music and dance:
Mariachis, Rancheras, Boleros music of Mexico
Cumbia and Valleneto music of Colombia
Andean music of Peru, Ecuadore and Bolivia
Bachata music of Dominican Republic
Son, Timba music of Cuba
Plena, Bomba, Seis and Aguinaldo music of Puerto Rico
Llanero music of Venezuela
Tango, Milonga, Chacarera, Chamamé and Southern cone music music of Argentina
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What do yachties, golf enthusiasts, gym members and real estate investors have in common? Geoff Charleston is doing his best to find out. As IT manager at the luxury Queensland resort, Sanctuary Cove, Charleston is putting the finishing touches to an integrated customer relationship management (CRM) system. Drawing information from resort facilities including a marina, restaurants and bars, a golf club, a health centre and a real estate sales office, he is banking on the system providing valuable insights for his company.
"We want to be able to have better relationships with people based on knowing more about them," says Charleston. "The system will gather information about anyone who has any contact with Sanctuary Cove."
Once fully implemented, the Microsoft CRM system will be linked to booking and management applications in each of the facilities. By drawing details into a central repository, client records will always be up-to-date. The system will allow the resort to maintain contact with guests, encouraging repeat visits and greater use of facilities.
Sanctuary Cove's aspirations are echoed by many small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in Australia. Keen to improve customer service levels and steal a march on their competitors, SMBs are investing in CRM systems in increasing numbers.
CRM software was once the exclusive domain of large companies, with cost and complexity putting it out of the reach of others. But a consistent push by vendors into the SMB space is changing that. Now, companies with just a handful of employees can often justify the investment needed to get a system up and running.
Invest in intelligence
Indeed, the SMB CRM market is white hot. At one end, vendors with products designed for micro businesses are pushing up the scale. At the other, heavyweights such as SAP and Oracle are pushing down, eyes fixed on a mass of potential customers. For most SMBs, the decision to implement CRM software is driven by increasing frustration with existing information management methods. Many simply outgrow manual systems or small software packages and realise that, if they want to continue to expand, things have to change.
Relocatable building company Ausco found itself in this position in mid-2000. At that time, the company was hard at work providing fleets of relocatable buildings for the Sydney Olympics as well as mining companies in remote parts of Australia.
"We were relying on a combination of Access databases, ACT! software and manual systems to keep track of prospects, clients and orders," says Ausco IT manager Ian Mascord. "It would take about a week after each month-end to get a clear picture of what was going on because it took that long to get all the customer information together."
But despite such enthusiasm and the obvious potential of CRM, many organisations confess to harbouring reservations prior to taking the plunge: "I have to admit we did have a bit of a fear of CRM," says Mascord. "You hear a lot about failed implementation attempts, about these big, complex projects out there that in the end just don't work."
Because of concerns that packaged CRM systems may be too expensive, Ausco initially set out to create its own application from scratch. Developers were employed to design and build a system that could be rolled out to the company's factory and sales locations around the country.
But, after a couple of years' work – and a limited rollout – the project was shelved, deemed unable to provide the kinds of benefits sought. Instead, the company took a deep breath, dug further into its pockets and looked for a packaged alternative. After reviewing six competing systems, the company opted to implement Intentia's Movex.
Mascord says once the system was in place, benefits were seen immediately. Management had access to real-time views of customer orders, prospects and sales projections for coming months. Sales staff members were encouraged to use the software through competitive incentives. The more orders logged through CRM, the bigger the bonuses.
Bolt-on aversion
Facing similar challenges was electrical and computer equipment reseller CABAC. The New South Wales-based company provides thousands of product lines to customers throughout the country. With customer details being held in everything from small databases to the paper diaries of sales staff, streamlining operations became imperative. Having invested in an SAP financials and warehouse management system in 1999, the company decided to build on that and implement SAP's CRM offering as well.
"I have a great aversion to bolt-ons," says CABAC's managing director Gordon Ketelbey. "For a company of our size, we had taken a big step with SAP, but it had worked and so it made sense to use their CRM offering as well."
Rather than having a large team of salespeople constantly out on the road, CABAC conducts proactive marketing from a call centre, at significantly reduced cost.
"Someone on the phone can make 60 to 80 calls per day, and it costs us A$4 per call," says Ketelbey. "This compares with someone in a car who can do about six calls a day, costing about A$100 a call."
While CABAC has successfully implemented a large-scale CRM system, the desire of most SMBs to avoid complexity is resulting in many shying away from the offerings of tier-one vendors. Despite the vendors' aggressive marketing of products to smaller companies, the nature of the software – which is often based on applications originally designed for much larger organisations – can make implementation an expensive and time-consuming task.
Klaus Bartosh, sales and marketing director at Australian Web hosting company Hostworks says he believes CRM offerings from larger vendors simply don't suit the requirements of many small organisations.
"They might be fine for larger companies, but in Australia, most companies are small or medium in size," he says. "They are just too complex and too expensive to manage." Bartosh adds Hostworks, which has opted for an outsourced, Web-based CRM system, gets all the advantages with none of the tribulations and expense of managing infrastructure itself.
"I believe it is definitely the way to go for smaller companies thinking about CRM systems," he says.
Bottom line hard to define
While reports of such efficiency improvements are common in the SMB space, actually putting a bottom line figure on a CRM system's impact on turnover is not an easy task.
"We are a very service-orientated company and trying to quantify the cost of service or customer satisfaction is very difficult," says Ketelbey. "You have to take it very much on faith at first." He says the company is financially very strong and a portion of that has to be attributed to CRM. The difficulty is calculating that proportion.
Sanctuary Cove's Charleston agrees, also saying measuring the effect of CRM comes down to "gut feel".
"As a small organisation, you can find yourself under huge pressure to put in a CRM system," he says. "Initially, it's impossible to put a dollar figure on the benefits it brings but, once in place, that becomes a little easier."
Charleston says the resort can now embark on highly targetted marketing campaigns based on the knowledge base it has built. When compared with blanket advertising campaigns, the cost savings of such an approach can be measured and directly attributed to CRM.
Small company, big impact
In even the smallest of companies, CRM usage appears to make a demonstrable difference to operations. With just eight full-time staff, Sydney-based company Resolution Marketing Services (RMS) has made its system an integral part of its entire operation.
Too small to justify the costs associated with implementing and managing complex software suites such as SAP or even Microsoft CRM, the company opted instead for the ASP-delivered Salesforce.com service.
RMS offers outsourced marketing and communications services to a range of big company clients. Its telemarketing, event management and market research involves staff making as many as 2,500 calls each week. Managing director Graham Porter says keeping track of activity and ensuring all information gathered is captured and stored are the key reasons for using a CRM system.
"Every single time a call is made, it is logged within the CRM system," he says. "The intelligence this provides us and our clients with is enormous. To do this without a CRM system would be virtually impossible."
Prior to using Salesforce.com, the company used an amalgam of spreadsheets, personal databases and pieces of paper to track activities and store information.
"With so many repositories of information, they tend after a while to become worthless," says Porter.
Like many other small organisations, Porter says he needed the advantages of a reliable CRM system without the expense and complexity of running one internally. "I'm not an IT guru, I'm a marketing person and I just want a system that works."
But regardless of the potholes of wary users, potentially high implementation costs and increased operational complexity, the CRM bandwagon rolls on. With the small and medium sized market offering such fertile ground, vendors will continue to package their offerings to suit. And if recent experiences are any guide, companies taking advantage of the trend have much to gain from the process.


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Helz Cuppleditch has been working in the craft industry since 2008 when she produced Pepper & Friends craft collection. Since that she has had great success with the zoo themed Bazoo collection, Pepper & Friends Christmas, a range of 12 cling stamps and decoupage pads and now the Neighbourwood paper craft range. Helz hand draws every single element in her collections, including each character and every single paper, to make true individual works of art.
Dovecraft is a brand leader in the UK Papercraft Market. Each season new collections are launched with stunning designer paperpacks and accompanying accessories such as brads, ribbon stickers, chipboards and much much more! All products are competitively priced within the craft industry.
Every quarter, First Edition creates paper pads based around a range of seasonal themes inspired by currend design trends that crafters will want to work with. Using only the highest quality acid free card stock, print finishes such as first class glitter, foil and double sided designs are standard on every collection.


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Hampton Inn Oak Island hotels are provided below. Search for cheap and discount Hampton Inn hotel prices in Oak Island, NC for your family, individual or group travels. We list the best Hampton Inn Oak Island venues so you can review the Oak Island Hampton Inn hotel list below to find the perfect place.
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Mr. Magorium, who is 243 years old (so are his jokes), is a cross between Willy Wonka and Geppetto, but Hoffman plays him with little more than a goofy dumb lisp, achieved by tucking his lower lip under his upper teeth, so that he looks just as rabbity-stoopid as he sounds.
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For all its playful touches and neat-o nostalgia for nondigital entertainment, the whimsy feels forced.
Writer/director Zach Helm, who wrote "Stranger Than Fiction," achieves bursts of charm and whimsy, but not quite enough magic to elicit a consistent sense of wonderment.
Hoffman has countless characters inside of him, and this is one of his nicest.
Twenty or 30 minutes into Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium the urge to flee may rise within you like an oceanic tide. But stick with it. The film is very sweet--in fact it represents the dawn of a new sport, Extreme Whimsy.
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OK for kids 6+
Sweet magical tale will feed kids' toy cravings.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this sweet, family-friendly fantasy is brimming with product placement, though most of it's in context (you can't really make a movie about a magic toy store without toys...). Plus, the positive messages about friendship, trust, finding your potential, and believing in yourself overshadow most of the branding. There isn't any violence, but the store does throw a temper tantrum that sends toys flying after patrons (the red walls also fade to gray, and the toys lose their spark and color). A significant death, while presented in an idealized way to fit in with the tone of the film, is handled gently and poignantly; there are some sad scenes, but it's peaceful overall (though really young kids may need further explanation of how death really works). A young boy is looked at as a loner and has trouble making friends with other kids.
Messages: Strong positive messages about believing in yourself and others, as well as working together and staying open to the possibility of "magic" in everyday life. A significant death is handled gently; there's some sadness, but overall the characters learn from it and become stronger.
Violence and scariness: In one chaotic scene, the store throws a temper tantrum -- toys are tossed from shelves, others fall or explode, some attack store patrons (one child is tied up, a woman ends up with a squid on her head, a dragon breathes fire, etc.). So there's some mild peril for a few moments, but nothing serious. Some bickering between characters.
Sexy stuff: Not an issue
Language: One use of "crap" and a few mild insults -- "insufferable fool," "ninny," etc. Henry is affectionately called "Mutant." Mr. Magorium uses a lot of big words, which many kids may not understand (of course, given how fast he talks, they may not really notice them, either).
Consumerism: The Wonder Emporium is brimming with toys of every size, shape, and color, and many are recognizable brands: Curious George, Easy Bake, Playmobil, Legos, Silly Putty, Lincoln Logs, Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Ugly Doll, Slinky, and more. Expect lots of retail tie-ins.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not an issue
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David Hall: The 1929-S is fairly common in circulated grades, a little tougher than the 1929, but not as scarce as the 1929-D in all grades including Gem MS65 or better. It is scarce in mint state and Gem condition. The strike is typically pretty decent for a San Francisco Mint Buffalo nickel, though specimens with a "mushy look" to the strike are sometimes encountered. Luster is of the "grey-brilliant" type.
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Solomon Martinez Jr.
Mar. 13, 1929 - Feb. 19, 2013
Solomon Martinez Jr. was born on March 13, 1929 in Santa Fe, New Mexico to
Solomon and Frances Martinez Sr. and was the eldest of 7 children. At the age of 17, he joined the U.S. Navy, later joined the U.S. Marine Corp. as a part of the Headquarters Company, 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division and serving in the Korean War. He first made headlines in The Stockton Record in 1953 for his efforts in getting a California State flag sent to him by the Stockton Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West to fly on his tank in Korea to proudly represent California's Service members' contribution to the war efforts. After his service in the Military he went on to join The Pile Drivers, Local 34 Union. In his career he was a part of many structural projects such as Pier 39, The TransAmerican Building, The Hyatt Regency Hotel, Embarcadero Freeway and The Bart Tube all in San Francisco, CA just to name a few. He was a hard worker with a passion to build. He worked his way up to Superintendent and later retired, and is now known as an Honorary Member of Local 34.
He married Virginia "Virgie" Luna on Nov. 9, 1952, and they celebrated 53 years of marriage together. They shared and are survived by two daughters Irene and Cathy Martinez, grandchildren Joel, Tony, Madi (Mike) and Lee. He is also survived by his brother Joe A. Martinez (Luddie), only sister Marty Chavez (Richard), two sisters-in-lawAntonia and Mary Martinez, numerous nieces, nephews and extended family.
He was preceded in death by his parents, siblings: Waldo, Tony, Patrick and Frank and his wife Virgie Martinez. On the days leading up to his passing he was surrounded by his loving family in his own home. For all who ever met him, knows that he will forever be remembered as a playful kid at heart, and hard working man of many accomplishments.
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July 22, 2010
DCFS Stakeholders,
We have seen first hand over the past 90 days the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Louisiana's coastal communities. Families that have never before needed outside help are turning to food stamps, food banks and other aid programs to keep their families afloat during this trying time.
Many of you are already offering your services to the families and individuals on Louisiana's coast and, today, DCFS is asking for your assistance in distributing information about where impacted-residents can seek help from this agency.
We are encouraging all agencies with a stake in the well-being of our state's coastal residents to print out our Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) flyer -
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Thank you again for your help as we work to keep children safe, help individuals and families become self-sufficient and provide safe refuge during disasters.
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The obverse of the Morgan silver dollar depicts Miss Liberty facing left, her hair in a Phrygian cap, and with LIBERTY inscribed on a ribbon or band holding a spray of leaves and sheaves. E PLURIBUS UNUM is above, seven stars are to the left, six stars are to the right, and the date is below. The portrait was modeled after Miss Anna Willess Williams, a girl of 19, who sat for Morgan earlier, and who was depicted on several varieties of pattern half dollars in 1877. All coins are hand selected and graded accurately. We go thru great length's to find and stock these dollars. There are no problem coins in any of the grades that we offer.
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KIM ROSS: When the music's over
An iconic keyboardist who made a large impact during the music movement of the '60s has passed away. Co-founder of The Doors, Ray Manzarek, died Monday at age 74, after a long battle with cancer. Granted, the dark philosophical music by the quartet of Manzarek, lead singer Jim Morrison, guitarist Robbie Kreiger and drummer John Densmore may not be on the top 10 list of many of my readers, they are one of my favorite bands, topped only by Janis Joplin. Manzarek and Morrison met in Los Angeles while attending UCLA as film students. Throwing the film industry to the wind, the two took a chance, employed Densmore and Kreiger to join their parade to the hall of fame. With their combined talents of poetry and music they embarked upon a journey of rock-n-roll insanity, writing their own chapter in the book of music history. If you have ever watched The Doors live, then you understand there was never any predicting how Morrison would perform. Morrison is famous for singing in an almost euphorical and meditational state, widely known for opening his doors of perception with every drug known to man. Often times, Manzarek, beating the five-to-one odds of failure, had to roll with it, playing to Morrison's version of the moment in an almost maniacal style. In several books and interviews, band members say the unknown of each performance is what made them great. Songs such as "Love Me Two Times," "Backdoor Man," and "Moonlight Drive," are just some of Morrison's life-induced poetry that still plays on the airwaves today. While they are most famous possibly for "Light My Fire," – their first musical hit, the lyrics were written by Densmore, only brought to life by Morrison. Alas, the music of the Doors came to an end after a lengthy court battle in which Morrison was charged with public indecency during a performance in Miami, Fla. Unable to beat the rap, the band separated. On July 3, 1971, Morrison was found dead in the bathtub in his apartment in France. Cause of death remains argumentable – some say drug overdose but from what doctors concluded, without an autopsy, death was caused by heart failure. In 1993 The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The group has several songs inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and hold their place forever with a commemorative star on the Hollwood Walk of Fame and are listed in the Rolling Stone top 500 songs of all time with two tunes making the list. Recently Manzarek reunited the remaining Doors members in 2011 for their last Whiskey-A-Go-Go. The group remained together until Manzarek met with his beautiful friend, the end.If I had to imagine what Morrison and Manzarek were doing after meeting again 42 years later, I would have to guess they are taking a moonlight drive as they break on through to the hyacinth house. Kim Ross is editor of the Poteau Daily News. Write her at P.O. Box 1237, Poteau, OK 74953 or e-mail her at email@example.com.


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Marilyn Monroe, one of America's most beloved pop cultural icons, and New Coke, one of its most despised, commanded the biggest bids in the first in a series of online Christie's auctions of Andy Warhol artworks that ended Tuesday.
The winning bids totaled $1.84 million for 124 auction lots. It was the second round of all-Warhol sales in a multi-year effort by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to liquidate its holdings to boost its grantmaking endowment. Winning bidders also must pay a 25% buyer's premium.
The first sale, a regular auction in November at Christie's in New York City, reaped $17 million.
QUIZ | At the auction house: Can you guess the price?
"I Love Your Kiss Forever Forever," a 1964 lithograph on two sheets of paper showing five different-colored pairs of Monroe's lips, attracted 50 bids in the online auction and fetched $90,000 -- 16 times higher than the pre-sale top estimate of $5,000.
"New Coke," a colored screen print on two sheets of paper dated around 1985, the year Coca Cola changed its soda's formula to the general distaste of the guzzling public, went for $75,000, more than doubling the $35,000 top estimate.
The auction's bestselling celebrity image was Warhol's own: He appeared in a dozen pieces (11 of them photographs) that collectively brought in $116,200, including $38,000 for a T-shirt with his fright-wigged visage.
PHOTOS: Arts and culture in pictures by The Times
Only one of the show's 125 auction lots failed to attract any bids: "Madonna and Child," a 1981 graphite drawing on paper that showed a baby suckling its mother's breast, had been expected to sell for $30,000 to $40,000.
Critic's Notebook: Andy Warhol -- the ghost in MOCA
Andy Warhol online auction is prime turf for celebrity-gawking
Andy Warhol Foundation taps Christie's in big Warhol art sell-off
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Chuck Hughes of Linwood and Dwayne Hughes of Lexington won Saturday's Yadkin Team Tournaments Fish-off at High Rock Lake with a five-fish catch totaling 22.05 pounds that paid $1,070.
Chuck Hughes of Linwood and Dwayne Hughes of Lexington won Saturday's Yadkin Team Tournaments Fish-off at High Rock Lake with a five-fish catch totaling 22.05 pounds that paid $1,070.
The two fishermen owed their victory partly to the bitterly cold temperatures that prevailed when the teams idled off in the fog at 7:15 a.m. Instead of motoring to their intended destination, the two anglers aborted their trip because of the cold and fog and stopped at a cove a short distance from their starting place at Tamarac Marina.
They boated their limit of fish in short time by tossing spinnerbaits at brush and laydowns. Their catch was anchored with a 5.08-pound bass.
Most fishermen experienced rod guides coated with ice and fishing reels with scratchy-sounding inner parts because of the frigid weather.
Despite the difficult conditions, some teams caught fish.
Jamie Benton of Denton and Scott Eggleton of Salisbury stunned onlookers at the marina when they plopped an 8.06-pound trophy bass on the scales along with four other fish but fell short of the winners with 19.83 pounds. They won $500 for second place and $130 for the big fish of the day.
Their fish also were caught with spinnerbaits, which Benton said was in contrast to his practice round the day before.
"I couldn't get the fish to touch spinnerbait on Friday," said Benton. "I didn't get many bites at all."
The Salisbury team of Jack Vanderford and Lucas Hedrick, substituting for his dad Phillip Hedrick, finished third with 14.44 pounds and shared $270. Vanderford and the elder Hedrick won the points championship for the season that paid $500.
Most of the top teams caught their fish with spinnerbaits or small crankbaits in shallow water.
Benton and Eggleton won the Oct. 12 Yadkin Team Tournaments contest at High Rock Lake with 17.15 pounds and collected $325. They also took the big-fish award of $65 with a 6.16-pound bass.
Orlando Giles and Joey Musgrave, both of Lexington, placed second with 16.18 pounds and earned $200.
Bobby Lovings of Salisbury and Dwight Morgan of Gold Hill finished third. They had 14.94 pounds, winning $85.
Salisbury's Brad Peyton, the new director of The Fishers of Men Piedmont Division following the retirement of Mike Sides, has set the 2014 schedule for the trail.
FOM Team Series events will take place Feb. 22 at Belews Creek out of Carolina Marina, March 15 at Lake Wylie out of South Point, April 5 at Lake Norman out of McCrary Creek, May 24 at High Rock Lake out of Tamarac Marina, and June 21 at Badin Lake out of Circle Drive.
Legacy Series dates are March 1 at Lake Norman, May 17 at Lake Wylie, and June 7 at High Rock Lake.
The FOM District 3 Championship for qualifying teams takes place Nov. 15-16 at Lake Wylie out of Ebenezer Park, Rock Hill, S.C. Practice days are Nov. 12-14. The lake is off limits for competitors Nov. 5-11.
The Carolina Anglers Team Trail Yadkin Division visits High Rock Lake Saturday for a qualifying tournament out of Tamarac Marina.
For details, contact Marty Williams at 336-870-1280.
Bobby and David Matthews of Durham won the Oct. 19 Piedmont Bass Classics End-of-Year Bass Trail event at Falls Lake. The two fishermen received $700 for a five-fish catch of 22.81 pounds. They anchored their haul with a 7.99-pound bass, the big fish of the day.
Crappie fishermen now have their own version of the popular Alabama rig originally intended to catch bass. The downsized bait, named the Reality Shad Buffet Rig by the TTI-Blakemore Group, was showcased on Breakout Day at the SEOPA conference in La. On Breakout Day, manufacturers set up booths to display the latest in fishing equipment and electronics.
The Reality Shad Buffet Rig features a tandem spread wire holding a 1/16-ounce crappie jig on top and a 1/8-ounce crappie jig on the bottom. The rig can be cast or trolled and sells for $6.25.
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ROME — Italian private equity fund Investindustrial has bought a 37.5-percent stake in British carmaker Aston Martin, the companies said in a joint statement on Friday.
"Investindustrial is investing 150 million pounds (186 million euros, $240 million) in Aston Martin in the form of a capital increase for a 37.5-percent stake," the firms said.
The 99-year-old car-maker will get an injection of Italian expertise and much-needed resources to compete with luxury competitor giants such as the Fiat Ferrari.
There had been a bid from Indian jeep maker Mahindra & Mahindra for the stake in the British manufacturer, whose flashy vehicles feature regularly in James Bond movies.
Aston Martin said it would now proceed "with its extensive and exciting plans for sustainable long-term growth".
The car-maker rose to fame thanks largely to its DB5 sportscar, a favourite of early Bond actor Sean Connery which returned to the limelight in Daniel Craig's car chase through Italy in the 2008 "Quantum of Solace".
The company said production would continue to take place in Gaydom in Britain, where 1,600 workers are based.
Andrea Bonomi, senior principal at Investindustrial, said: "We are delighted to form part of this iconic global, but quintessentially British brand."
Sales at Aston Martin have been hit along with other small car-makers during the global economic slowdown and it had been looking for key funds for research and development.
Aston Martin said it intended to invest "more than half a billion pounds in its new product and technology programme over the next five years."
The car-maker is owned by Kuwait-based finance firm Investment Dar, which bought it from Ford Motors for $767 million in 2007.
Investindustrial, owned by Italy's Bonomi family, used to own Italian motorcycle maker Ducati.
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Fall Travel: Weekend Getaways
Governor Deval Patrick's food favorites in the Berkshires
These restaurants and other culinary attractions have satisfied the top politician's taste buds. By Alison Lobron
How do six different restaurant kitchens prepare tomatoes from a single farm? By Devra First
With the retirement of longtime Globe sports columnist Bob Ryan, we look back at one of his best works. Penned in August 2006, after our home team lost five in a row to the Yankees, he takes Red Sox Nation to task for lashing out with anger and blame. By Bob Ryan
Fall Travel: Weekend Getaways
These restaurants and other culinary attractions have satisfied the top politician's taste buds. By Alison Lobron
Fall Travel: Weekend Getaways
Looking for a culture-packed autumn trip? Consider these sure-to-please historic homes, museums, and art collections. By Tina Sutton
Fall Travel: Weekend Getaways
If you're visiting the Berkshires, try these attractions that emphasize local food. By Alison Lobron
Dinner With Cupid
Will a connection blossom for these two gardening enthusiasts?
Parents have no idea how much kids will change their lives. That is as true when they enter our lives as when they leave our houses. By Mary Regan
From the pages of ChopChop magazine, applesauce, lettuce wraps, and more food youngsters will love to make and eat. By Catherine Newman and Sally Sampson
Style Watch
In a Sudbury Colonial, designer Rachel Reider created this casual, playful space for parents and kids alike. By Jaci Conry
On the Block
These properties--in Taunton, Westborough, and New Bedford--will delight old-house lovers.
Defending Shakespeare in the age of MCAS. By Jessica Lander
Out and About
The "Soup Nazi" in Harvard Square, Tom Brady at Gillette Stadium, Curt Schilling in Fenway Park, and more
Tales From the City
A Winchester couple disagree on the value of spiderwort.
Your Week Ahead
Convention wisdom, outrageous hats, political puppetry, and more.
On Twitter, the gold medal-winning gymnast from Needham sums up her Olympic experience.
Globe Magazine readers respond to recent stories on the attacks on Bain Capital, memories of Julia Child, and more.


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Most liquid cooking oil is a better option than butter, margarine or other solid fats but some types of cooking oil are healthier than others, according to everydayhealth.com. What makes a cooking oil healthy or unhealthy is the amount and type of fat it contains. Healthy cooking oils are high in monounsaturated fats, which are some of the healthiest types of fats and may help lower blood cholesterol levels. Cooking oils may also contain polyunsaturated fats, which are also healthy and can help improve heart health.
Good choices include the following:
Plant-based oil
Olive oil
Peanut oil
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Soybean oil
Flaxseed oil
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Many of these oils can be used to make delicious bases for salad dressings and marinades
Almond oil
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Grapeseed oil
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How to use
A variety of heart-healthy cooking oils can give a meal great flavor.
Experiment with light sautés or marinades; if you avoid frying foods or using heavy amounts of oil, nut or vegetable oil adds taste and valuable nutrition to any meal. For example, nut cooking oils go well in rich pasta dishes with grilled meats. Lighter olive oil is a good complement to fish sautéed with herbs. Sesame oil tastes great in an Asian-inspired dish and lightly drizzled on top of an Asian salad. But remember, a little oil goes a long way.
Healthy Alternatives Here are some other options that are even lighter and healthier.
Lightly coat your pan with cooking spray rather than adding liquid oil
Bake by wrapping food in parchment paper or aluminum foil to steam it and keep it moist
Use broth, such as a low-sodium vegetable, beef, or chicken variety, as a cooking medium and sauce base
Steam food above boiling water
Season food with lemon juice for a citrusy flavor
Marinate or cook with balsamic vinegar for a tangy, rich flavor
Unhealthy Cooking Oils
Avoid these oils some of which are so high in saturated fat that they have more of it than some meat and can clog arteries and lead to high cholesterol levels and increased risk of heart disease.
Coconut oil
Palm oil
Palm kernel oil
Safflower oil
Also avoid any oil-based products with trans fats and hydrogenated oils even worse for you than saturated fats.


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15. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard TroublesSunfox Apr 14, 2011 4:47 PM (in response to Swiss_Cheese)
I doubt there's any use for XMP profiles at 1066MHz; the SPD is enough.
I should note that when I was having issues, playing around with voltages did absolutely nothing for the issues - even huge increases wouldn't allow minor tweaks to work.
16. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard Troublesevwrt Apr 15, 2011 2:47 AM (in response to Sunfox)
I haven't been able to reproduce my problem since I went with all manual settings. I tried defaults again, (not custom defaults) and in the real time monitoring section of BIOS I have the same high vcore. After reseting defaults it was reallly hard to start. I thought I would be able to leave nearly everything on "auto" and it would work, however I no longer trust the auto settings. A BIOS limitation/problem?
I would suggest checking all the voltages you are running for anomalies if you haven't already. Like was the case for Sunfox, it may not help but out of interest I'd like to know what the cpu voltage displayed in BIOS real time monitoring is.
A few years ago I had a mainboard that behaved similarly. After I had been using it for about a year a bios update was made available that resoved the issue for me.
17. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard Troublesamunaor Apr 15, 2011 1:27 PM (in response to Swiss_Cheese)
After migrating over from the DX58SO to Version 2, I've been experiencing the exact same symptoms you describe, very sporadic and unpredictable.
After reading through your post, elated that you had possibly slain the "00" gremlin with a set of Corsair Vengeance sticks, I ordered up a set for myself. Right now I have 6-GB's of Dominators: TR3X6G1600C8D tied my upgrade: i7-970/DX58SO2, previously the: i7-920/DS58SO combo. Although the modules ran fine at both XMP and Auto settings on the i7-920/DX58SO combo, I kept the setting on Auto because of the 1.65 voltage concern, then and now. I'm wondering if with with Turbo-Boost enabled, weather XMP might not be necessary?
I'm not into overclocked, gaming that requires a truckload of dry-ice parked next to my window, pumping coolant over sizzling hot chips, just looking for quality stable components for image editing.
Personally, I'd send the Crucial sticks back. No sense in having more than one headache simultaneously! Plus, it seems the Vengeance sticks provide more spacious headroom, all at the prerequisite 1.5 volts.
I'm curious! When you had the Vengeance modules installed, did you ever experiment with enabling the XMP profile; is this how you arrived at the timings you posted?
Thanks for your very insightful elaboration.
18. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard Troublesamunaor Apr 15, 2011 11:11 AM (in response to Swiss_Cheese)
These particular board/processor combos make no sense to me either! Why do the Intel engineers push a flashy hot, Lamborghini, chassis, advertized great capacity, while providing only a selection of lawnmower engines with diminished capacity?
BTW...New BIOS issued for DX58SO2: Version 0779. No mention of the hang at "00" but there's a slew of other issues that have been addressed, including
where fans run at full speed when coming out of S3/S4/S5:
19. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard TroublesSwiss_Cheese Apr 15, 2011 4:21 PM (in response to amunaor)
Hi, anumao
Yes I did experiment with the XMP, I never tried running over the 1600MHz that my RAM was spec'ed out for though, and yes that is how I derived the timing and voltages but it seems there is more then one profile out there for XMP. I don't know enough about them yet to explain why. also to the best of my knowledge Turbo-Boost is for the CPU, XMP is for the RAM and the only things I saw in the extreme memory profiles that might effect the CPU where the changes in the Uncore multiplier and the Uncore voltage. I've been giving myself a crash course in these subjects because I'm new to this architecture. Now the reason I wanted to mess with the 1066MHz RAM instead of returning it was because Tech support told me my 1600MHz ram wasn't the supported RAM they said they would RMA a new board but I was assured that if I installed the same parts on that board that I would have the same exact problem. So before I tried returning the board I decided to try the spec RAM. while waiting for it to arive I experimented with the Vengeance RAM and got rid of my boot issue. But, I still wanted to see if the 1066MHz would work. it's been in the machine for 2 days now. I downloaded the data sheet for it and have tried about 15 different combos of timing and voltage, I noted all the changes so I wouldn't try the same one twice, since I had to wait two hours in between power ups. I have not been able to get the Crucial PC8500 1066MHz 6GB DDR3 Triple Channel RAM to work without the boot issue sofar. it ran CAS 7 no problem at all, the system and programs all ran fine on it, no stability problems just the boot issue. anumaor, I also did this testing (instead of just returning everything) because I thought maybe through trial ,error and other users experiences we could maybe resolve this issue or find some way to work around it. and that did work! it was something that Sunfox said that caused me to try what I tried and now we know of a RAM and profile that doesn't have a boot problem. I'm also trying some things based on the most recent comments evwrt made, and now because of you I'm going to take a look at this BIO's update before I try and mess with the waking computer issues( I wasn't seeing the same wake issues you and Sunfox were reporting). thank you BTW for mentioning the BIO's update, I would probably not have checked for a BIO's update so soon before attempting to mess with the waking issues. I still have 10 more days before I can't return my DX58SO2 for my money back. so I'm going to try all I can and hopefully we can get the issues fixed. I won't complain about this board because I've tried an Asus it had some real quality issues and come to find out a lot of people are seeing that now. I have a friend that I talk with often that has an EVGA board and he's having SATA issues Marvell of course, both the brands I mentioned were socket 1366. with the Intel Board you have more SATA options and the USB 3.0 seems to work. so it seems that all the manufactures are having very similar issues and I feel like my Intel board while also having some issues is at least a quality board, I think its in Intel's best interest to support there products and customers, and I think they know it. I intend to keep trying to get my system 100% and I'm going to keep posting and asking for INFO its helped me a lot already and hopefully will help everyone else. I'm interested to see if the Vengence RAM will work for you, of course if you update the BIO's before trying it we won't realy know for sure.
20. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard Troublesamunaor Apr 15, 2011 6:33 PM (in response to Swiss_Cheese)
Without incident, I've already performed the BIOS update on mine, via USB stick and F7. My Vengeance modules won't be here until Monday, all 24 GBs - CMZ24GX3M6A1600C9 - which the DX58SO2 board is spec'd to support. I've wanted to increase RAM capacity ever since my DX58SO daze. Now seems to be the opportune moment. With this tuned set, if for some reason, the board balks at the full 24 GBs, I can back it down to 12 GBs and try that.
I don't understand why Intel even bothers with the Marvell controllers. I had so much trouble with the Marvell eSATA II connectors on the back that I wound up disabling them in the BIOS. The Marvelous internal 'Blue' SATA III connectors, ACHI mode, would lose any SATA III, System disks attached to them if powered down for more than one or two hours. Scrapped that pursuit, but I think there might be a remedy implemented for that within the last BIOS release: version 0779. Anyway, that's another chapter.
Meanwhile, as I await the arrival of my Vengeance modules, I'll try a few cold boots and wakes from system induced S3 and see if the infamous "00" hang still appears...
21. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard TroublesSwiss_Cheese Apr 16, 2011 12:38 AM (in response to Swiss_Cheese)
I'm having some serious issues with the new BIO's update 0779. among other things I can't seem to run the Extreme Memory Profiles at all. I've also noticed some new options in the BIO's relative to the Memory Timing tCWL for one and there are no entries for this in the Extreme Tuning Utility. If i try to run the XMP profile it will not allow it and reverts back to the default profile 1066MHz. I thought that the new tCWL entry was causing the issue, so being unfamiliar with that setting I looked it up. By default it was set to 6 but the info I found on it suggested that for 1600MHz it should be set to 8. I had to set the profile up in the BIO's because the XTU didn't have all the entries I needed to set the profile there. even after setting it in the BIO's and saving I got the red LED flash during boot telling me it wasn't going to accept the settings and it forced me to accept the default settings of 1066MHz again. anyway it's 2:30 AM I was hoping to get to sleep early tonight but that went out the window at 10pm when I installed this BIO's update. Not looking good at this point I'll try again later Hope you all are having better Luck.
22. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard Troublesamunaor Apr 16, 2011 10:53 AM (in response to Swiss_Cheese)
So far my rig seems to be stable, fingers crossed behind back. I still have my USB devices disconnected. I did swap the DVI connection back to DisplayPort and reconnected my three Intel RAID-5 disks yesterday. Allowed system to initiate sleep a couple of times and powered down completely, including power supply switch; awoke from system induced sleep with the shake of the mouse and booted from complete power down without incident. Left rig powered down completely overnight, booted up today, again, without "00" incident.
After mulling over your post, I decided to check to see if I would experience similar problems engaging the XMP profile…which modules - TR3X6G1600C8D - are still running at default (Auto) setting: 1067. After selecting XMP, the system had no trouble rebooting and retaining the XMP profile. Concerned about the 1.65 voltages' these chips need and the new, expensive, processor, I reentered BIOS and reset the parameters back to Auto.
I don't have the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility installed. I had trouble with previous iterations of this tool, so I never much liked it. And, in my opinion, it could be playing a factor in not allowing the BIOS to retain the XMP profile. You may want to try uninstalling the Utility, launch into your BIOS, note the configuration settings you have changed from default, especially if any RAID disks are involved, hit F9 to set the BIOS back to its default settings, then re-adjust your personal disk settings back to what you had, along with anything else you might have changed from default. Then, try again to apply the XMP profile and see if it will stick. If it does, you might have second thoughts about reinstalling the Tuning Utility. If you do reinstall, it should work properly, but you might need to go through this mad process each time you reflash the BIOS.
If the above should fail in allowing the XMP profile to stick, with the Desktop Utility still uninstalled, try reflashing the BIOS from the flash utility installed on a USB stick and reboot. In order to access this, you'll need to hit F7, when F2 BIOS access prompt appears. After completion, enter BIOS and again, go through the F9 sequence mentioned above.
Hope this helps and good luck.
23. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard TroublesSwiss_Cheese Apr 16, 2011 11:08 AM (in response to amunaor)
Amunaor, Thank you for your insight, the "Extreme Tuning Utility" did in fact appear to be the culprit. after removing it I was able to run and retain the XMP profile and no more red LED at boot. I'm a bit put off by this though, because I really liked it as a monitoring tool if nothing else, and the fan controls were very handy. It was working great until this last BIO's update. I'm going to test the cold start now and I'll also have my Fingers X for that.
24. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard Troublesamunaor Apr 16, 2011 4:35 PM (in response to Swiss_Cheese)
Good to hear that!!
Well, sad to say, but the infamous "00" hang from a cold boot power up is still here. I had my rig powered down for a couple of hours while a storm passed through. After which, I switched the power supply on and hit the ON button. There it was, stuck on the big "00" with fans blazing. Hit the reset button and it cycled through Post as it should. What a disappointment!
Hope you're having better luck! Hopefully the Vengeance modules, due to arrive on Monday, will turn this thing around for me!
25. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard TroublesSwiss_Cheese Apr 16, 2011 6:48 PM (in response to amunaor)
You must live very close, I'm in Maryland we had the same type of storm. I am extremely happy to report that I have had with my Vengeance RAM installed and running once again at 1600MHz two successful cold starts without incident each at least 2 hours apart. and Im going to continue to test it till Monday. I never was able to get the computer to boot right with the 1066MHz RAM or with the 1600MHz RAM running at 1066MHz. I do have a concern for you though I looked your RAM up yesterday and its a different CAS. It's CAS 9 I hope that's not going to make a difference for it. I'm running CAS 8 on a CAS 8 Profile. I'm Extremely interested in the out come, because I do a great deal of Graphics related work and while I would be happy with 12GB of Vengeance RAM I would be much happier with 24 : ) . I've still got my fingers X
As for the waking up issue I never experienced what you and Sunfox and several others have reported, after I fixed my boot issue I started testing and among those tests was letting the computer hibernate to see if it would boot properly upon waking and it would boot back up and take me to the OS and i could run all kinds of render tests. But during that testing I started to play with the fan controls Dynamic settings because I noticed my CPU was running alittle hotter during longer renders (I'm using the default Intel heatsync for now). I increased the idle speed to 30% making it run about 1115 RPM its default setting ran at 20% at 1020 RPM. my system temp idles around 35C I have my fans set to increase speed at 45C increasing speed to reach 100% at 65C. this all works great, Until.. I let the computer hibernate and wake. as I said the computer wakes up and reboots and windows resumes. all previously running programs that I had open resume as well, and are in a stable condition. since I had XTU open while testing I noticed that my Fan speed settings did not return to the set 30% 1115 RPM, instead it would default back to the 20% 1020 RPM and I would no longer have control over the fan speeds from within XTU. when I rendered an Image the CPU would get as hot as 60C but the fans wouldn't ramp up. they were stuck at 1020 RPM, I did notice that the system default for static fan seed was 20% 1020 RPM , thinking that maybe the dynamic fan speed control was crashing or failing to wake with the rest of the system i decided to turn the default static control to 30% also. but even after setting it and rebooting then letting the system go to hibernate and wake after two hours, when it woke it would still default back to the 20% 1020 RPM and the only way to get it to adjust was to reboot.
But wait there's more...
I also noticed that my LAN connection was slow to wake up, the computer could be up and running for as much as 2 min. and the LAN would still not reinitialize although it did shortly after that time. after the machine finished waking it would be stuck at a 30 state as displayed on the LED (Resuming from S1-S5 State) and it would not return back to 00 (standard),as I'm pretty sure it should. well that's pretty much as far as I got before the I started testing the 1066MHz RAM. now that my system seems to be working ok again relative to the booting. I'm going to spend some time and see if these things are still an issue after that last BIO's update 0779.
Just as a side note I decided not to reinstall XTU for now. but I am looking for a good monitoring program one that works real-time while other programs are running and doesn't list CPU temp's as margins.
26. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard Troublesamunaor Apr 16, 2011 6:57 PM (in response to Swiss_Cheese)
I used Corsair's RAMinator for that selection which I purchased from NewEgg. The 24-GB set is only available with those timings:
Still, they should run at: 1067MHz 1333MHz and 1600MHz-XMP all at the prerequisite 1.5 volts
The 12-GB Vengeance set is also rated at those same timing specs.
We'll see what happens.
Yes, I live in Virginia.
I also experienced another "00" hang. This time after manually initiating sleep, then shaking the mouse to wake, the system hung for a second at "00" then rebooted into another "00". This time I hit reset and it went on through post.
Have you tried the Intel Desktop Utility (Monitor Only):
Like I said...there seems to be no rhythm of reason to this madness!
27. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard TroublesSwiss_Cheese Apr 16, 2011 6:54 PM (in response to amunaor)
It all seems very specific to me. I have a 2hour time and the machine will boot great anytime under that 2 hours and anything under 1600MHz RAM and she won't boot.in fact that's way to specific in my option. I've got it in sleep mode now I may not post again tonight but I'll let you know.
28. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard TroublesDistinguished friends, we are trying to solve a problem that was not created by us, I havea processor 990x, corsair dominator pc3 CMT6GX3M3A2000C8 1600-2000, intel250g SSDSC2MH250A2K5, EVGA GeForce GTX 580 GDDR5 PCI-Express 2.0Graphics Card and Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit . my computer with these components do not present any problem with a board Rampage Extreme III. all problems have arisenafter I made the change to BOXDX58SO2 intel board.
29. Re: Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard TroublesSwiss_Cheese Apr 17, 2011 12:42 PM (in response to telly )
Telly I'm really not sure what problem you are having, if it's to do with 00 booting issue then I suggest you read through this thread and see if you can pick up some pertinent information.
Well, yesterday I tested, tested and tested some more I found more issues after updating to 0779 BIO's then I had before. I was experiencing some real problems with the waking state, it would hang every time at wake on 6F (BDS driver entry) I waited more then 15 min to see if it would move past this state on it's own but it never happened. I had to push reset every time. also this problem wasn't time sensitive at all it would happen if I woke the machine right after inducing the sleep state, or if I let the machine sit for 2 hours after it went to sleep itself. I was still seeing the "network not connecting" upon waking. but I want to clarify that. the network wouldn't go back to a connected state like it is when you do a boot. but if you clicked on a browser it would then reconnect to the network and show that it was. this could be some setting in windows, I didn't check. I also experienced intermittent loss of my keyboard , and for the first time the full on fans with 00 no boot after waking.
I was also having 00 boot hang during cold starts, I would call it intermittent. since the "Extreme Tuning Utility" was causing me problems with the 0779 BIO's and I uninstalled it, (to allow me to use the XMP profile) I wasn't able to see if I was still having fan RPM issues, because without it there are no real fan controls, you are either all on or slow for CPU fan. their was more but I,d had enough, I restored the 0765 BIO's Reinstalled "Extreme Tuning Utility" and reset my XMP profile from the restored 0765 BIO's. so far I have 5 clean cold starts in a row no hang (I had 19 in a row before BIO's update) in fact it never hung again until I updated to 0779 BIO's and now I've got my fan controls back. I'm testing waking states again on old 0765 BIO's I've passed one with no 6F hang so far.
I'm not much of a Gamer I built this machine for Graphics work all be it a budget Gaphics machine. But that EVGA motherboard is starting to look good to me even with the SATA Issues. I realy wish this board was acting like it should.


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Lingpupa wrote:I could be wrong, of course, but I would be surprised if cigarette smoking was widespread in 19th century Tibet. Snuff, perhaps, again, I don't know, but cigarettes?If anything it strikes me as more likely (I must stress again that this is not much more than an educated hunch) that the story might have been first attached to a figure of Gendun Chopel's time and then grafted back to Dudjom Lingpa.Do you think that one is true or just someone re-telling the story of Dudjom Lingpa and grafting it on to Gendun Chopel?
People did not smoke cigarettes in Tibet during the 19th century. But they did smoke these tiny little pipes.


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New London City Council approves revised budget
New London — The City Council passed a $41.3 million general government budget Tuesday night, ending months of controversy over the 2012-13 spending plan and how much property owners are willing to pay for services.
But residents could still petition the council's action and send the budget back for a second referendum.
"I think it's going back,'' resident Tom Wise said after the 5-2 vote. He said residents want lower taxes and less spending.
Council President Michael Passero and Councilors Donald Macrino, Wade Hyslop, Adam Sprecace and Anthony Nolan voted in favor of the revised budget, which represents a 5.1 percent tax increase. The council also approved a 1.31-mill tax rate increase, bringing the tax rate to 26.6 mills.
The budget is about $1 million less than what was approved by the council in June and rejected by voters in September.
Voting against the budget were Councilors John Maynard and Marie Friess-McSparran.
Maynard opposed the administration's recommendation to cut $250,000 from the police budget and said the council should have taken more time to find other places to cut.
Friess-McSparran said she could not support the revised budget because about $500,000 was a savings from refinancing the city's debt service. There is no guarantee the city will save that much money, she said.
"I don't think that's a good way to balance the budget. It's a dangerous way to do business,'' she said. She also agreed with Maynard that the police budget should not be cut.
But Sprecace said even with a $250,000 cut from police, there is enough money in the public safety budget to fill up to six vacancies in the department.
Passero agreed.
"I don't believe a $250,000 cut from an $11 million budget, the largest in the city, will hamper the department from doing its duties," Passero said.
The group, Looking out for Taxpayers, which helped spearhead the petition drive which forced the September referendum, is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. tonight at the Senior Center to discuss the council's action.
No one from LOT could be reached last night.
The council had approved a $42.3 million budget in June, which was a 7.5 percent tax increase. Earlier in the year, the mayor had proposed a budget which would have raised taxes by 20 percent. There has not been a property tax increase in the city since 2009.


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Jason Ross is a writer in New York.
With the White House poised to announce gun restrictions, many are wondering about the possibilities. Banning assault-style weapons is a no-brainer for many Americans. The argument practically makes itself: Assault? No, thank you!
The fine writer Philip Caputo, a Vietnam veteran who was shot by an AK-47 while reporting in Lebanon, attested in The Post last month: "I am intimately familiar with what these weapons are designed to do, and that is to kill people."
Indeed. But AK-47s and AR-15s are hardly alone in that regard. The technology of firearms owes its existence to man's desire to kill other men. For many years, combat guns and hunting guns were one and the same.
That changed after World War II with the creation of the assault rifle. But the breakthrough innovation of these guns — their use of medium-powered cartridges — actually makes them less lethal than many other rifles. In fact, their civilian variants typically bear just one indisputably sinister element: high-capacity magazines.
A more aggressive approach is also gaining steam among the left: banning all semiautomatic weapons, the large group to which assault-style rifles belong. This century-old technology allows guns to be cocked only once, thereafter firing a single shot for every pull of the trigger. Is such rapid-fire capability too great to allow in civilian hands? Perhaps. But, then, what should we do about manually actuated weapons that shoot almost as fast? Remington offers a black, pump-action .223-caliber rifle to police departments. Anyone looking at it — or being shot at by it — could be excused for mistaking it for an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.
Unfortunately, by targeting guns' form rather than their function, the efficacy of type-specific gun bans is questionable. The enforcement prospects, though, are downright frightening. There are probably at least 3 million assault-style weapons in American hands. As for semiautomatics in general — shotguns, rifles, pistols — the number is many times that. Buying them back would cost billions. Seizing them would provoke violent clashes as the "Come and take it" crowd lived out its wildest fantasies.
The country needs a solution that limits the killing power of civilian weapons across the board — regardless of action type — while keeping enforcement costs and social unrest to a minimum. Luckily, we already have it: magazine control.
The magazine is the part of the gun that holds the cartridges. The standard magazine for a 9mm semiautomatic handgun holds 17 rounds. Assault-weapon magazines typically carry 30. Those magazines drop out at the press of a button, to be replaced by fresh ones.
Let's replace them with smaller ones. Lower-capacity magazines will fundamentally transform the character of these guns. Put a five-round magazine in an AR-15 and you no longer have an assault-style weapon. You have the world's ugliest varmint rifle. A Glock becomes a plastic six-shooter, capable of holding a burglar at bay but not capable of a Virginia Tech-style rampage.
Most hunting rifles and shotguns would be unaffected, as they typically hold five rounds or fewer. Some existing guns with firmly attached magazines exceeding the limit could be exempted without creating a loophole for new guns. Others would need to be modified by gunsmiths to remain legal.
The federal assault-weapons ban passed in the 1990s capped the magazines of some guns but not others — an inevitable result of focusing on gun types rather than gun capabilities. The poor results gave Congress cover to let the law expire in 2004. Today, just six states limit magazines in some way.
The politics of passing such a law are uncertain. What's clear is that a limit on magazine capacity undercuts the hardest punch of the pro-gun side — "They're taking away your guns!" — and leaves most hunters unmolested. Can New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) say the same about his proposal to ban assault weapons?
In fact, the biggest threat to magazine control might be from my allies in this fight: liberals. Few of my Wilco-listening brethren own guns. Many don't understand how they work, and some actively loathe them. Will they see magazine control as a half-measure to be spurned? Or will they realize that the most effective assault-weapons law might be the one that melts down a grand total of zero assault weapons?