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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Melissa Meeks Reviews "One Wild Ride"
Series: Time Masters Book One
By Geralyn Beauchamp
Cold Tree Press (October 8, 2007)
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Reviewed by Melissa Meeks
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Rating: 5/5
Describing this book is an interesting endeavor. Rather than ask the usual questions it actually makes more sense to ask what Time Masters isn't. In this case the answer is … Nothing!!! Beauchamp has managed to intertwine all genres in a coherent manner that I have yet to find elsewhere. At the same time she's also managed to work in all the elements of a good story with a superb quality of writing.
The hero - Dallan - is not only a hunk, but he's got the Romance factor going on big-time. If Shona hadn't already claimed him and he was for real, I'd certainly be first in line to do so myself. I've read quite a pile of books before and since first picking up Time Masters and still have to say over a year later that I've not seen much out there to rival the writing of this debut author. She's crafted an excellent plot and characters that leap off the page into the reader's imagination as if real and remain vivid even after putting the book down.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll even be frightened at times. As the cover says this is One Wild Ride. If you just have to find the best roller-coasters – this one delivers and you can even experience it from your favorite reading nook. So hop on and enjoy as the story goes from a "comedy sketch" due to characters being out of their accustomed environment on one page to fight scenes with action, adventure and suspense on the next. These fluctuations come at you often and fast in this book, as full of emotional power as a minefield of explosives. Of course the intense emotion is part of what makes the book so riveting. I could have stayed up all night reading just to find out what would happen on the next page, in the next chapter or even how the book would end. I have rarely found another author who can evoke such intense responses with the written word.
This book is one that I can't bear to lend out and risk losing as it's worth rereading many times. I had to buy an extra copy just for sharing so I could horde one to get my fix of satisfying reading anytime. Geralyn has put so much meat into her story that with every read I still find new details and thoughts popping up. Before it was even released, I quit trying to count my "reads" and still hope to squeeze in time to read it again and again. I am so glad this is only the first in a series and am already chomping at the bit for Time Masters Book Two: The Prophecy.
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12 comments:
- ForstRose said...
Thanks Carolyn - that was a quick turn over on my submission.
Bibliophile's Retreat can be found at http://forstrose.blogspot.com
Melissa Meeks
- September 2, 2008 at 10:01 PM
- ForstRose said...
BTW Readers - I'll be sure and check in on the comments here so I can visit with any of you who stop by.
Melissa Meeks
- September 2, 2008 at 10:03 PM
- M. C. Pearson said...
Sounds like an awesome book. I have a few that I never lend out for the same reason...gotta be able to have my fix of good books too. Thanks for the review.
- September 3, 2008 at 9:37 PM
- Michelle Sutton said...
I don't usually read sci fi but I love romance and I think the author is a great lady. I think she's in my ECFL group. :)
- September 3, 2008 at 9:42 PM
- Janna said...
I do that with books too, can't bear to lend them, but they are too good not to share so you have to buy an extra to pass around :-)
ryanx6 at msn dot com
- September 3, 2008 at 9:46 PM
- lmm0827 said...
Melissa, I've read Time Masters and it's all that you say it is. I'm looking forward with anticipation to its sequel.
- September 3, 2008 at 10:02 PM
- David said...
I feel the same way about TIME MASTERS. In close to 2 years of running CFRB I've seen only 1 other book that even came near it as far as the ingenious plot goes and that was FLASHPOINT, by Frank Creed. Many others were good, but not that good. TIME MASTERS went far and beyond any expectations I had. Being well over 500 pages (closer to 600) I was afraid to read it. Yet as soon as I started I was hooked. The only "bad part" I found was it ended up being too SHORT. I'm frantically waiting for the sequel.
David Brollier
CFRB co-Founder
- September 4, 2008 at 3:21 AM
- cathikin said...
I have also read this delightful novel by Geralyn, and I feel much the same as Melissa. I had to get another copy for the same reason. This is a great review, one that I think should tell just enough to get other people interested.
- September 4, 2008 at 3:23 AM
- Laura Davis said...
Melissa, what a fantastic review! You've got me so intrigued that I simply have to go out and purchase this book right away!
- September 4, 2008 at 7:57 AM
- ForstRose said...
@ all thanks for stopping by and all your wonderful comments.
You're welcome Mimi.
Yes Michelle, Geralyn is a member of ECFL as am I though she found it before I did.
TM is more fantasy than Sci Fi with a very strong romance thread. You might enjoy it if you like romance.
Yes Janna when they are good enough I can't stand to give up my only copy then I also need one to share - LOL
LOL David you're not the only one impatient for The Prophecy.
Thanks Cathi for the compliment on the review.
Laura be sure and tell us what you think of the book after you have a chance to read it.
- September 4, 2008 at 6:41 PM
- The Time Mistress said...
David the second book gets turned into the publisher the first part of November but I'm afraid you'll have to wait until next fall! Well, unless of course you'd like to be on the test team! Shoot me an email and let me know! And hey, if I wasn't the author, I wouldn't lend it out either! LOL! In fact, I loved it so much, I wasn't even going to ever publish it! It was all just for me! Thanks for the review Melissa!
- September 4, 2008 at 9:33 PM
- ForstRose said...
Thanks Mom for stopping by and seconding or is that thirding, fourthing, ... or whatever you'd call it my thoughts on TM.
And Geralyn thanks for dropping by too. Glad you didn't keep TM all for yourself but then again "someone" had other ideas on that count who has more pull than either of us LOL. So it was bound to get out sooner or later. Thanks for sharing it with the rest of us and you're welcome for the review.
- September 4, 2008 at 10:57 PM


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A hot topic of 1999 and now 2000 is application service provision. However, although the application service provider (ASP) market has much potential, it reminds me of the Loch Ness Monster: Everybody talks about ASPs, everybody knows someone who claims to have seen an ASP, but most people have actually seen only a blurry photograph.
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Push, an ASP based in Santa Barbara, California, uses the terminal server model of application publishing. The company uses Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition (WTS) and Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 to deliver applications to its clients through the Citrix ICA display protocol or the NFuse Web interface.
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Push began as a company called Make It Work, a Citrix solution provider that began performing application hosting. According to CEO Eric Greenspan, Make It Work stumbled into becoming an ASP about 18 months ago, when an East Coast customer needed access to the applications in Make It Work's West Coast office. Push changed its focus from systems integration to application service provision in September 1999. The company uses the terminal server model for application delivery for two reasons: First, this model lets users access a traditional desktop if necessary; second, terminal services let customers customize their application settings rather than endure the static user interface (UI) that Web-based applications typically provide.
ASPs can provide not only application servers but also entire IT infrastructures, including file servers, database servers, and email servers. When Push first introduced its ASP environment, the company used a model that differed from the centralized model most ASPs use today. Rather than maintain the servers from a central location, Push created "community centers" within the customers' geographic area. This way, the company's customers would be comfortable knowing that their data and applications would always be nearby and not feel nervous that their entire IT infrastructure was both far away and shared with other Push customers. This model would let customers access applications even if they had local access problems: Customers could simply drive to the nearest community center and use workstations there to access their data. However, a shortage of experienced technical-support personnel caused Push to abandon the community center model. (Push retained the community centers for sales executives and application specialists to offer local support.) The company has since established a centralized data center in Santa Barbara, where approximately 200 file, mail, database, and application servers (necessary to support Push's growing customer base) hum inside a fireproofed and secured facility. Figure 1 illustrates Push's centralized model. At press time, this Santa Barbara data center is the only site that Push uses. The company is currently scouting locations for an additional data center on the East Coast to provide local customer support to that region, as well as redundancy for the West Coast data center.
One advantage of a server-based environment is that it can offer more OS independence than a client-based model can easily offer, because the client in a terminal server or Web-based model doesn't actually run the remote application but rather displays it. However, OS independence applies only to the client side. On the server side, the applications must be compatible with the server OS. Because Push relies on terminal servers running WTS and MetaFrame to serve its clients, the company provides Windows-based applications (including Windows-based clients for non-Windows applications) that can run on that platform. Clients interact directly with the terminal servers running WTS Service Pack 5 (SP5) and MetaFrame 1.8. From there, customers run their Windows-compatible applications. The terminal servers might interact with other NT-based servers, depending on the applications that the customers use.
For example, if a customer gets its email from Push, then the email client running on the terminal server interacts with the data center's Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 system. If the customer stores sales data in a Great Plains application, then the Microsoft Access 2000 client running on the terminal server interacts with a Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 machine that's supporting the database. Currently, about 200 servers (i.e., production and lab) support the entire operation, and 15 of those servers are terminal servers. Michael Rich, CTO of Push, likes to remain 30 percent ahead of required capacity, so he keeps in touch with the sales staff to monitor future customer requirements.
Push's customer base currently consists of about 10 companies, each with from 2 to approximately 200 seats per customer site. All the servers in this environment—storage, mail, database, and applications—run NT Server 4.0 (single or multiuser version, depending on whether they're application servers) and have similar hardware profiles: 600MHz 2-way Hewlett-Packard NetServers with 1GB of RAM. This configuration lets the ASP support about 30 users on each of the 15 application servers. For increased reliability, the storage servers have a RAID 5 external drive array. Generally, Push subscribes to the "many small servers" model of thin-client computing: Keeping many small servers gives the company spare servers, with which Push can easily add capacity or take over for a failed server.
Because hardware problems are exacerbated when many people depend on a server, you'll find all the hardware in Push's ASP environment on Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). Rich explained, "Terminal Server and MetaFrame have little flexibility when it comes to hardware compatibility." Even when Push used the community center model and was willing to maintain customer servers and applications, the company insisted that the customer equipment appear on the HCL, simply to reduce support problems.
Setup Can Be Complicated
In any thin-client environment—ASP or inhouse—application setup can be complicated. Very few companies design applications for multiuser environments in which many instances of one application run on the same computer. For example, applications might reference machine name or IP address instead of username—a problematic scenario because the applications are actually running on the terminal server, not the client computer that is displaying their output. Also, applications must be able to maintain per-user settings even when multiple instances of the same application are running simultaneously. And although an application might be capable of running properly in a multiuser environment, you need to make sure— particularly in an ASP setting—that customers can run only the applications to which they have approved access. You must disable any command-line or .exe browsing support in their applications.
To ensure that applications run securely on Push's application servers, the company subjects new applications to a three-step deployment process. First, Push tests the applications inhouse. During this process, engineers attempt to break in to the command line from the application and study the application's code for features that could present problems in a multiuser environment. (For some potential problems that engineers look for, see "Tweaking Applications for a Multiuser Environment," September 1999.) If an application's features expose too much of the OS or file system, the engineers strip them out. Humans do all the work—Push hasn't found any automated tools that work as well as an engineer. The length of this testing period varies from 1 day to 2 weeks, depending on the application's complexity. If necessary, Push talks to the application's developers to resolve problems. Sometimes, the company finds that it can't resolve problems in an existing software version. For example, if an application can run only as many as 2 simultaneous instances on the same server, it won't run on a computer that needs it to support as many as 30 concurrent instances. In that case, Push informs the developer about the problem and asks for a terminal-server-compatible version of the software, which the company might not receive immediately but can hope for later. As more companies use terminal services as a method of deploying Windows applications, more developers will likely make their applications multiuser-aware.
After the engineers are satisfied that the application will run without problems (and have made any necessary modifications), Push deploys the application on a test server. There, the customer works with the application to make sure it's functioning properly. When the customer is satisfied, Push deploys the application on its production servers. This deployment isn't necessarily an all-or-nothing procedure: Push rolled out one application for a client with 250 seats very carefully—one department at a time—so that both Push and the client could evaluate the deployment's progress and fine-tune as necessary.
Because of the way Win16 and DOS applications run under NT, they don't perform as well as Win32 applications in a multiuser environment. In short (and all else being equal), supporting multiple instances of a 16-bit application requires more memory than supporting multiple instances of a 32-bit application. Therefore, Push doesn't encourage its customers to choose 16-bit applications. The company is currently trying to discover how to support a 16-bit application that one of its customers wants to use. At the same time, Push has convinced the developer to create a 32-bit version of the application that offers the same functionality.
Supporting ASP Customers
One of Push's customers is GiftTracker, a small company that issues gift certificates for stores that don't have an inhouse certificate program. GiftTracker chose an ASP solution for two reasons. First, like many business-to-business (B2B) providers, GiftTracker doesn't have an IT staff. Second, some of the applications the company wants access to (e.g., the Great Plains customer database) are too expensive for a small company to set up and house. From GiftTracker's perspective, almost no setup is necessary: Push engineers installed the ICA client on GiftTracker's computers and it worked—end of story. From Push's perspective, the task was a bit more complicated (not surprising to anyone who has set up an application to work in a multiuser environment).
What's the complication? In many ways, supporting ASP customers is like supporting inhouse terminal server clients: You need a reliable network, you need enough server resources to keep client applications running at a reasonable pace, and you need to provide a secure environment by locking down customer applications. However, if you need to support customers who aren't part of your company and aren't in the same building as most of the servers, you face additional hurdles. For example, Push can feasibly maintain all customer accounts on one domain controller—as long as the domain controller can authenticate all those people. (Push uses dedicated domain controllers to authenticate users.) However, if customers have specific security requirements because of agreements with their customers, Push must match or exceed those requirements. Therefore, some customers have their own domain controllers and even their own network segments inside the data center.
Similarly, Push maintains multiple server farms, which are logical groupings of terminal servers that contain the same applications. Clients connect to the server farms, which automatically forward the client to the least-busy server that supports the desired application. Push maintains server farms not only to organize applications but also to provide dedicated server farms for larger customers.
Push must also account for network reliability. The company uses HP OpenView to monitor network traffic and uses Packeteer's Quality of Service (QoS) product, AppVantage, to ensure that client performance is consistent with service level agreements (SLAs)—a measure of uptime and application performance. However, Push can't control the network end-to-end, even though the company keeps an eye on its portion. Because Push's pipeline to its customers is a public network, the company can't physically protect every part of the network from outages. For maximum reliability, Push maintains outside connections with three public networks: two national networks and one local cable company. Rich says that Push's customers have the option of maintaining dual network accounts to avoid outages that individual ISP problems cause.
Push has a large, growing, and varied user base—the company can't simply set up applications and move on to the next customer. Also, finding talent to support server-based computing isn't always easy. As Rich observes, "\[Multiuser Windows\] technology is young, so there's not a lot of expertise out there." Because Push evolved from Make It Work, which was a systems integrator, the company is having an easier time than an ASP new to terminal services or to MetaFrame might have. However, as anyone who has supported terminal services knows, supporting clients in a multiuser environment is a constantly evolving process, particularly when you're dealing with a changing group of users and applications and trying to ensure that your customers always have access to the latest software enhancements.
Future Plans
Because ASPs assume many of the duties of their customers' IT departments, ASPs generally engage in the kinds of technology evaluations that large companies with many seats to support engage in. In many ways, ASPs are large companies with many seats to support.
Having recently implemented some server-side modifications—introducing HP's OpenView for network monitoring, utilizing load balancing and failover clustering for file servers and mail servers, and changing the base network from a distributed model to a more centralized data center—Push is starting to make some changes to the service's client side. Today, Push supports any device (i.e., Windows terminals or PCs) that works with the ICA display protocol. However, in a thin-client environment, supporting PCs presents potential difficulties, because PCs are more vulnerable to misconfiguration than terminals are. Therefore, Push is considering Netier Technologies' NT Embedded Windows terminals for customers who need to run both locally installed applications and applications residing on the remote server. These terminals, which vary in hardware profile depending on customer needs, can work with Rapport—Netier's remote-management utility—thereby letting Push configure and update customer terminals from its main data center.
Today, Push uses NFuse to support some clients and ICA to support others. Eventually, most of its customers will access applications using this Web-based program neighborhood.
Chasing Nessie
Small businesses that lack dedicated IT departments can have trouble gaining access to applications and data security that larger companies might take for granted. Using technology such as WTS, companies such as Push can give smaller companies access to applications and infrastructure they couldn't otherwise obtain. Although the ASP model isn't yet widely deployed, industry analysts expect it to increase in popularity over the next 5 years because of this need. I wouldn't expect Nessie to soon rear her head in every office, but as people become more comfortable with the idea of outsourcing traditionally desktop applications, we'll have a few more photo opportunities.


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This essay assesses the scale and energy dimensions of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), identifies key obstacles, and discusses the implications for energy geopolitics.
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In this Asia Policy roundtable, experts examine how Asian states that are affected by China's Belt and Road Initiative view this strategy and its potential implications.
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This Asia Policy roundtable offers perspectives on U.S.-Asia relations from leading scholars and policy practitioners in select Asia-Pacific states.
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Bilateral relationships in Asia present major opportunities and challenges for the new U.S. administration. This roundtable contains nine essays analyzing key U.S. relationships in the region—with China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Russia, India, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, and Australia—and identifying the most salient current and over-the-horizon issues in each dyad.
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This report analyzes four key concepts undergirding the Pakistan Army's strategic culture and considers the implications for U.S. and Indian efforts to manage the threat from Pakistan.
Matthew Kroenig (Georgetown University) comments on the key issues examined in the NBR Special Report "Approaching Critical Mass: Asia's Multipolar Nuclear Future" and explains the practical implications of a multipolar nuclear order.
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This essay reviews the current state of India-Pakistan relations and examines the prospects for bilateral and regional cooperation between the two South Asian neighbors.
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This is the introduction to the report "Mapping Pakistan's Internal Dynamics: Implications for State Stability and Regional Security."
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This essay evaluates the most salient dimensions of the relationship between Pakistan and China, including cooperation on economics, security, and nuclear issues, and discusses relevant challenges facing the partnership.
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This essay argues that social, religious, and political trends tied to an expansion of Pakistan's lower-middle classes have strengthened mafia-style politics in ways that undermine the legitimacy of the state.
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded to Juan Manuel Santos "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end".
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text: Power to the people. At least the people on Facebook. That's the sentiment shared by Jim Cook, online editor at the South Jersey Times, who launched a last-minute bid to join the Woodstown-Pilesgrove Board of Education election in Pilesgrove Township, N.J., with no money, only 24 hours, and relying solely on Facebook posts shared with his friends.


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Last year, India celebrated Pt.Deendayal Upadhyaya's birth centenary. Deendayalji conceived the political philosophy Integral Humanism. The philosophy advocates the simultaneous and integrated program of the body, mind and intellect and soul of each human being. His philosophy of Integral Humanism, which is a synthesis of the material and the spiritual, the individual and the collective. He visualised for India a decentralised polity and self-reliant economy with the village as the base. In this issue we have given a few famous quotes of Pandit Deendayalji.
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Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya venerated Sister Nivedita on her 150th Birth Anniversary by organising different events concurrently at school and Khelmati High School, Tezpur.
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Oxbow enters into agreement to purchase 50.1 percent of Ovet Holdings
Europoort/Rotterdam, 30 April 2014
Yesterday evening, 29 April 2014, H.E.S. Beheer N.V. (HES Beheer) and ArcelorMittal signed the Sale and Purchase Agreement for the sale of ArcelorMittal's 78% stake in logistics service provider ATIC Services S.A. (ATIC) to HES Beheer.
HES Beheer is currently holding 22% in ATIC and this transaction would give HES Beheer 100% ownership of ATIC.
The transaction is subject to usual conditions governing such transactions.
A share purchase agreement has also been signed for the sale by HES Beheer to Oxbow Coal B.V. (Oxbow) of a 50.1% interest in OVET Holding B.V. (OVET Holding). This transaction is also subject to the usual conditions governing such transactions.
The proposed increase of HES's interest in ATIC will be funded partly with bank loans provided to HES Beheer by a consortium of banks comprising BNP Paribas, Rabobank Rotterdam and the Norwegian DNB Bank.
The shareholders' approval of the proposed acquisition of ATIC and the related funding arrangements and the proposed sale of the above 50.1% in OVET Holding to Oxbow will be requested at an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of HES Beheer. The Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets will be notified of the proposed increase of HES Beheer's interest in ATIC. Completion of the transactions is expected in June 2014.
It was announced on 3 April that HES Beheer had reached agreement in principle with ArcelorMittal and Manufrance B.V. (the latter a subsidiary of ATIC) on the acquisition of the 78% interest in ATIC held by ArcelorMittal and Manufrance. It was also announced that HES Beheer was engaged in exclusive negotiations with Oxbow on a transaction whereby Oxbow, conditional inter alia upon the ATIC transaction going ahead, would acquire a 50.1% interest in OVET Holding. Negotiations have continued in recent weeks between all the parties involved.
The proposed increase of HES Beheer's interest in ATIC is consistent with its policy. ATIC is a logistics service provider with a presence in several countries (mainly in Europe) specialising chiefly in dry bulk storage and transhipment and inland shipping. ATIC has indirect interests in three well performing Dutch companies in which HES Beheer also has a stake, namely OVET Holding, OBA and EMO/EKOM. After completion of the proposed transactions, HES Beheer's beneficial interests in these companies will increase as follows:
- OVET Holding: from 47.7% to 49.9%
- OBA: from 73.8% to 74.9%
- EMO/EKOM: from 36.6% to 57.0%
The transaction will also broaden HES Beheer's international coverage.
The acquisition of all the ATIC shares held by ArcelorMittal and Manufrance will give HES Beheer 100% (indirect) ownership of OVET Holding. OVET Holding owns 100% of OVET B.V., 50% of OBA Group (the other 50% of OBA Group being held by HES), 75% of OVET Shipping and 67.5% of OVET Screening. To comply with competition law, completion of the ATIC transaction is conditional upon the sale to Oxbow of 50.1% of the shares in OVET Holding. The proceeds of this proposed sale will be used by HES Beheer to partly fund the planned acquisition of 78% of ATIC. HES Beheer will fund the rest of the purchase price with bank loans.
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Talking Biz News » You don't have to understand the IPO to write about it
and today TheDeal writes about reporters needing to learn more about it. I like it!
Talking Biz News » You don't have to understand the IPO to write about it
and today TheDeal writes about reporters needing to learn more about it. I like it!
SARTA – Regional Media Workshop – Private Equity
Are you a reporter in Northern California that covers start-ups? Do you wish you had taken more finance classes in college that might have helped prepare you for your current beat? Now, I know that my knowledge of 19th century english literature is a hit at parties, but it didn't directly help me out when trying to decipher a term sheet . I know now that I shouldn't have switched my major, or at least kept a minor, from business to communications.
So, SARTA is having a workshop for reporters to help them understand the world of private equity and venture capital.
Here's a working agenda. Please feel free to RSVP to me (josh at morgandorado dot com) or to Oleg at sarta dot org. This is for credentialed reporters only. If you have a blog, but are not a credentialed reporter, send me an email and we'll see if there is a fit.
Draft Agenda
Check out the California Tech 100 being put together by Golden Capital and the California Space Authority April 24-25 in Irvine. To nominate a company for the Tech 100 go to http://www.goldencapital.net/Events/California_Tech_100.asp.
Companies HQ-d in the counties on the map below are eligible. Good luck!
The Long Tail: The Microsoft Memo: Some choose radical transparency, some have it thrust upon them
As a standard rule, reporters don't share their notes with subjects (or PR folks) and we don't share briefing documents with them. Interesting how this has played out. Wired was working on a story on transparency (fitting in this case) at big companies with Microsoft as the main focus. They interviewed several current and former Microsoft employees.
The wrinkle here is that Frank Shaw, of WaggEd (one of MSFT's longest-tenured PR firms) inadvertently sent the briefing document to the reporter (oops!). In the interest of transparency, the reporter posted it here (caution that link downloads the briefing doc – all 13 pages of it as a PDF). Now, the fun part is that Frank Shaw, posted about it as well.
Think is, it's a good article. I think we can add PR to that list of "laws and sausages" as things that you don't want to see made.
InfoWorld Tech Watch | InfoWorld | InfoWorld folds print mag to focus on online and events | March 26, 2007 06:00 AM | By Steve Fox
The print edition of one of my favorite IT trade publications has gone the way of the dodo. Link above is to a letter by Steve Fox, EIC of InfoWorld.
Great take on the history of the publication from Jim Forbes, here. I always had great experiences working with their "Test Center" on product reviews and had some great conversations with Michael Vizard 'back in the day,' ok in the mid-late 90's.
Morgan McLintic on PR: Don't bribe reporters with free tax software and $100
This goes under the "WTF were they thinking!" heading. Thanks to Morgan McLintic for pointing this one out. Click through his story to Valleywag were they include the name and contact info of the soon to be bombarded AE.
It's been a busy few days in El Dorado Hills. I watched presentations from 29 early stage companies, and was really excited by some, while some left me scratching my head. The dynamic of the conference that I love is seeing so many people that are so passionate about what they are doing. It's why I love working with start-ups. It's a lot easier to do great work when your client is so fired up about what they are doing.
Two companies, Pediatric Bioscience (a Morgan/Dorado client), and Visicon Inspection Technologies were selected as "Best in Show," by a panel of investors that included representatives from Akers Capital (Roger Akers), American River Ventures (Harry Laswell), DCA Capital Partners (Steve Mills), Velocity Venture Capital (Jack Crawford) and Keiretsu Forum (Max Shapiro).
The other 'finalists' were:
Abrevity, Cupertino
Brondell, San Francisco (Mark Cuban is an early investor)
Radius 8 (Fresh Park), Emeryville
NexGen Medical Systems, Sacramento
Pediatric BioScience, Sacramento
Revionics, Granite Bay
S Machines, El Dorado Hills
Visicon Technologies, Napa
Tagent, Sunnyvale
Companies that I found really interesting were:
– Freshpark – portable skateboard ramps (based in Emeryville)
– ioSafe – 'disaster ready back-up/storage' (based in Auburn)
– bioCool – very cool way to keep people ..ahem…cool…in high temperature environments
– BlackRock – auxiliary power systems for big trucks (seems boring until you realize the environmental impact of allowing idling trucks to shut down)
As always, congratulations to the team at Golden Capital (Jon, Jim, Allen and Karen) for putting together a great conference.


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Hazel shared this recipe for Slow Cooker Chicken Cordon Bleu on the Facebook page on Sunday…
4 chicken breast
4 slices ham
4 slices swiss cheese
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
1 tsp ground sage
salt and pepper
1 15 oz. can chicken broth
1 10 oz. can cream of chicken soup
Chicken breast pounded thin. Place a slice of ham and swiss cheese on it. Roll up and secure with a toothpick. Mix some breads crumbs, Parmesan cheese, sage, salt and pepper. Roll the chicken rollups in the bread crumb mixture. Brown in a skillet, then place in the clow cooker. In a bowl, comine a can of chicken broth and a can of cream of chicken soup and pour over the top. Cook on low for 6 hours. Delicious!
Thanks for sharing Hazel!


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Tanner hopes Stanford can reload
Coach looks to replace last season's senior leadership
Last year, Stanford claimed their program's second NCAA championship in a decisive 9-5 victory against California. The Cardnial are the top ranked team in the nation.
John Tanner enters his 14th season at the helm of the Stanford women's water polo program. An experienced and enthusiastic coach, Tanner took on the developing program in 1997 and has since turned it into a nationally-ranked powerhouse
Stanford is off to a nice start to the season as you defeated USC and UCLA at the Stanford Invitational. What do you need to do to repeat as NCAA champions?
Coach John Tanner: We need to be the team that we are in 2012. Right now, we are trying to forge an identity. We are also trying to figure out how all the pieces fit. We are proud of how we competed at the end of the games against USC and UCLA.
How do you replace not only graduated, All-American goalie Amber Oland but also Annika Dries and Melissa Seidemann who are redshirting as they are competing for spots on the United States Olympic team?
Tanner: You do not try to replace them because you cannot. But we have four great seniors in Alyssa Lo, Cassie Churnside, Pallavi Menon and Monica Coughlan. They give us real quality in different parts of the game. They are leading the way and they each have great passion for water polo and their teammates. They have made the build up to the season really fun.
You mentioned Alyssa Lo and she was a second-team All-American last spring. What makes her the special player that she is?
Tanner: Alyssa has a motor that runs nonstop. She creates problems for opponents in all phases of the game as she can drive, guard, post-up and score from many different places. She plays with great tenacity.


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Telling the Sunnyside Rotarians, who are hosting her exchange student year in the United States, that she likes to draw, Eda Calguner displayed an especially poignant picture she had drawn of an adult female.
While not naming the subjects in her drawings, Calguner's personal artwork was part of a PowerPoint presentation she made Monday at the noon luncheon of Rotary.
Along with beautiful scenes of a land that rises from sea level to rugged mountain peaks, Calguner flooded the Rotarians with facts about her homeland.
She told them Turkey is a Republican parliamentary democracy, based on a secular, democratic and parliamentary system in which rights and obligations are protected by law. She said, while the majority of Turkey's 70 million inhabitants are Muslim, the secular state "guarantees complete freedom of worship to non-Muslims in Turkey", adding that "mosques, churches and synagogues have co-existed peacefully for centuries".
The daughter of a college professor and a lawyer who resides in their nation's capital of Ankara, Calguner, who is 17, said she wanted to be an exchange student "to learn about a different culture, traditions, language, religion and lifestyles".
In exchange, she was sharing the same about her country Monday.
She said her nation is governed by a council of ministers led by a prime minister. "And the Grand National Assembly is elected by popular vote," she said, adding that "Turkey is a founding member of NATO. . . member of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization and the European Council. Currently Turkey is a candidate for European Union membership."
She also pointed out that Turkey is only slightly larger than Texas, but its city of Istanbul "is the only city in the world located on two continents, Europe and Asia", which gives Turkey the distinction of being considered "the bridge between east and west".
"Because of its strategic location at the juncture of Europe and Asia, Turkey controls the entrance to the Black Sea (to the north of Turkey)," she noted.
Calguner gave a myriad of details about Turkey, known as "the cradle of civilization", which has been home to Hittites and Romans, emerging from an empire to the modern Republic of Turkey in 1923. One of its most ancient sites is Ephesus, a familiar city in the Bible and one that is being unearthed in ongoing excavations today.
She spoke of a religious holiday, Ramazan Holiday (Candy Holiday), which occurs after a month of fasting in October, but ends with the eating of chocolates and candies and visiting relatives, especially the elderly. During Kurban Bayrani, another religious holiday, an animal is sacrificed, usually a lamb, and the meat distributed to poor people.
Turkey has five national holidays in addition to these two religious holidays, Calguner said.
In fielding a question from a Rotarian Monday who wanted to know how the Turkish people view America, Calguner cautiously separated "politics" from "the people", and proclaimed, with an infectious grin, "I don't know about the politics, but the general people-we like Americans, and we like America."
Calguner arrived in Sunnyside in August 2005, and will probably return home in June or July when school is dismissed; she is a senior at Sunnyside High School. She will divide her year between two host families in Sunnyside. Her first family is Brian and Kari Bliesner and their two sons, who will send her on to her second family, Jeff and Erika Barrom, after Christmas.
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Even five-year old kids worry about being poorNovember 14th, 2007 - 5:41 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Nov 14 (ANI): A new study has revealed that kids as young as the age of 5from poor families become anxious about the effects of poverty.
Led by researchers at the University of York, the study also found that even primary school kids try to hide their fears and anxieties from their parents to ensure that they do not add to the overall stress being experienced by the family.
During the research, it was also found that some kids would give parents their own birthday money or piggy bank savings to help with household expenses.
And some would intentionally keep school trips secret so that parents would not have to worry whether they could be afforded.
Therefore, the study showed that the kids were distressed and frustrated that poverty prevented them enjoying the same activities as some of their peers.
However, it showed that a far bigger source of anxiety was the awareness that their parents were stressed by poverty.
A 10-year-old boy has revealed how he would check that his mother was still safely in bed at night.
"It makes me feel unhappy inside because if she's stressed then there's nothing that I can do about it," Timesonline quoted him, as saying.
Carol-Ann Hooper, senior lecturer in social policy at University of York and co-author of the report, Living with Hardship 24/7, published by the Frank Buttle Trust, said that hardship affected all dimensions of children's well being.
"For many of the families in this study, poverty meant going without basics such as a cooked meal each day for adults or toys for children," she said. (ANI)
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The two brightest planets are gliding closer together in the early evening sky, and their celestial dance culminates with an ultra-close pairing on June 30th.
Anyone who pays even cursory attention to the evening sky has surely noticed that the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, have been drawing closer together in the west in the evening twilight. At the beginning of June, the two planets were 20° apart in the sky, about twice the width of your fist held at arm's length. Week by week, Jupiter and the stars behind it have gradually slipped lower in the evening twilight. But Venus, due to its rapid orbital motion around the Sun, has stayed high up.
The resulting slow-motion convergence is setting the stage for a dramatic sky sight. The warm-up act came on June 19th and 20th, when the planetary duo was joined by a thin and lovely crescent Moon. Farther to their upper left, and fainter, was Regulus, the alpha star of Leo. (I was texting all my friends: "Go outside. Now. Look west!")
But now the spectacle is taking an even more dramatic turn — one you just can't miss. For eight nights beginning June 27th, these two bright planets will be within 2° of each other — close enough to cover both with the thumb of an outstretched hand. In the midst of that weeklong run, on June 30th, Venus and Jupiter will appear so close together — just 1/3° apart — that they'll look like a tight, brilliant double star in the evening sky. You'll be able to cover both with the tip of an outstretched pinky finger. Amazing stuff!
Surely, this spectacle must be some kind of omen. Well, yes, it's a sign from the heavens to get outside and look! As my S&T colleague Alan MacRobert points out, a spectacular conjunction like this often gets people started in our wonderful pastime. "These planetary groupings in the sky have no effect on Earth or human affairs — except for one," he says. "They can lift our attention away from our own little world into the enormous things beyond. That's what amateur astronomers do all the time."
In fact, such conjunctions, or close pairings, of these two planets are not particularly rare. The orbit of Venus is tipped just 3.4° with respect to Earth's, Jupiter even less at 1.3°. So these close conjunctions are destined to occur. For example, the two appeared slightly closer together (though not as high up) before dawn last August 18th, and they'll be separated by about 1° before dawn on the morning of October 26th.
Sky & Telescope Contributing Editor Fred Schaaf brings up a very interesting point: this current trio of Venus-Jupiter conjunctions closely resembles a similar series in 3-2 BC that has been suggested as the Star of Bethlehem. "As has been the case in 2014–15," he explains, "the first two conjunctions back then were extremely close, the last one separated by about 1°, all three occurred not far from Regulus, and all were similarly high up in the sky."
Have a telescope or binoculars handy on June 30th. Both planets will crowd into the same telescopic field of view, Venus appearing as a fat crescent and round Jupiter accompanied by its four largest moons. The two planets will appear nearly the same size — but Jupiter, though much larger in reality, is also much farther away. On the 30th Venus is 49 million miles (78 million km) from Earth, and Jupiter is more than 10 times farther out at 564 million miles (908 million km). Their globes will also contrast dramatically in brightness, with Venus's crescent appearing dazzlingly white compared to Jupiter's duller, striped cloud deck.
And be sure to take pictures! Share your best shots with other S&T.com visitors by posting them in our Online Photo Gallery.
For a comprehensive guide to upcoming sky events, one that S&T's editors use every day, get the indispensable RASC Observer's Handbook 2015.


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Born in the in-law quarters of my paternal grandparents' farmhouse, I lived on a dairy farm at the northern end of Lancaster County, PA, until I was 8-years-old. Growing up part of a conservative community, some of my earliest memories are feeding animals, playing in the barn, and tormenting my twin sisters. After an injury to my father forced him to sell the farm, we moved to an area with non-Amish neighbors, who helped expand my horizons.
Although I joined my father and others in traditional barn-raisings and attended a private Amish school until the eighth grade, I became more aware of the world outside our community and more intrigued by it.
At 16, I took my first construction job as a laborer with a local post frame construction company and quickly climbed the company ranks. I was baptized into the Amish Church in 2005, and in 2008, at the age of 21, I founded Quarry View Construction with my father and brothers. It wasn't always easy–especially after my wife, Linda, and I left the Amish Church in 2013–but with her by my side and our two wonderful children to inspire us, we made it through successfully. Today, my passion is helping others, serving my community, and raising a family.
I saved most of the money from my first job at a horse auction until I had enough for a pony of my own. After three months of training, I sold the pony for a $450 profit. I bought another and repeated the process. After that first transaction, I knew business was my calling. Between founding Quarry View Construction and serving as a social marketing business coach, I have been fortunate to make a good living and pass my knowledge on to others.
On rides to and from job sites, I would listen to talk radio with my coworkers. I began to become more interested in world affairs and improving the world around me. When my boss offered me the opportunity, at 16, to attend my first political event–a visit from George W. Bush at the Lancaster Airport, I jumped at the chance. I've since become very active politically, including my most recent role as outreach director for AmishPAC.
My wife, Linda, and I were married in 2011, and our first child, Andrew, was born in 2013. My daughter, Lilyana Nasia, came along in 2014. After immersing myself in books, I realized I had to choose between the tradition and familiarity of Amish culture or living a life of significance through God away from it. Although we are no longer part of the Order, my wife and I retain many of the teachings, values, and principles of the Church.
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11 Books You Need to Read If You're Over 65
Senior Homes Magazine picks Kimberly and Carol's book, "Relax into Yoga for Seniors" as a "must read" for older adults and people who love them.
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Yoga Therapy Today: Special Considerations When Working with Older Adults
Seniors can be the most complex--and the most rewarding--yoga clients, write Kimberly and Carol in the August 2016 issue of Yoga Therapy Today.
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Teaching Yoga to Seniors: Essential Considerations
Program directors Kimberly Carson and Carol Krucoff, along with faculty members from Duke University Medical Center, published an article entitled "Teaching Yoga to Seniors: Essential Considerations to Enhance Safety and Reduce Risk in a Uniquely Vulnerable Age Group" in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
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Yoga Therapy Today: Yoga as Supportive Care in Healing From Cancer
Kimberly and her husband James Carson, PhD, explore how yoga practices can be powerful tools to promote the process of healing from cancer.
April 2015 | Open Outside Website
The Heart of Healing
Exploring how yoga can be used to prepare for surgery and bounce back.
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Yoga for seniors can help with balance, agility and strength. But injuries do happen.
Some poses can stress older bodies or cause injuries. Some tips to maximize benefits and avoid risks.
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Yoga for Bone Health
Yoga can help those with osteoporosis and osteopenia maintain bone mass, build strength, and prevent injury.
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7 Ways to Ease Into Yoga
An expert's guide on how to get started.
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Yoga for Seniors teacher training
International Association of Yoga Therapists' write-up on Yoga for Seniors teacher training.
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Yoga for Healthy Aging: Yoga May Be the Best Activity for the Elderly
Inviting elderly people to try yoga can be challenging, since many harbor the common misconception that you must be young and fit—or at least able to get down and up from the floor—to practice.
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Easing Into Yoga
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Massachusetts General Hospital investigators have created a point-of-care diagnosis system for healthcare-associated infections.
The system, called Polarization Anisotropy Diagnostics, involves taking bacterial RNA from a patient. PAD provides results in under two hours, while traditional culture can take up to five days.
PAD's results can tell whether antibiotic-resistant bacteria is present and if there is contamination of devices. The study focused on E. coli, Klebsiella, Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, and Staph aureus.
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BABEL is the crowning achievement in the trilogy from the unstoppable creative pairing of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu which also includes AMORES PERROS (2000) and 21 GRAMS (2003). Building upon its predecessors method of weaving together disparate storylines BABEL reaches new heights of ambition with a tale that in the absence of traditional narrative and protagonist relies on numerous incredible performances to evoke an affecting relevance by framing contemporary issues in very human struggles and mistakes. Richard and Susan (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett) are a wealthy couple from San Diego who are vacationing in Morocco in order to heal after the death of their young child their other two children are at home with their Mexican maid Amelia (Adriana Barraza). In a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy a rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsmans young sons (Said Tarchani and Boubker Ait El Caid) who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and catch Susan in the shoulder causing her to nearly lose her life. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation who promptly departs for Mexico to attend her childs wedding with Richard and Susans children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media while Amelia meets with the harsh immigration policies of the Bush administration. Meanwhile in Tokyo a widower (Koji Yakusho) tied to the rifle in question attempts to deal with his memories and his raucous promiscuous deaf daughter (Rinko Kikuchi). br/ br/ Nearly every performance of the film is devastating offering an intimate emotional experience that would approach melodrama if it werent rendered so realistically. Cinematographer Rodrigo Prietos color palette masterfully captures the muted tones of the harsh natural landscapes of Morocco and the Mexican border as well as the fluorescent lights of Tokyo that denote another though equally barren end of
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Designing a Plan of Study
The undergraduate major consists of courses required of all students and elective courses. You and your advisor may also agree that courses offered outside of the Anthropology Department should be part of your personal curriculum.
Required courses not only provide a broad overview of the subfields but also introduce certain concepts commonly recognized over a wide range of different types of research. Although there is no single theoretical school or theory followed by all anthropologists, required courses should serve to help construct some recognizable frameworks that anthropologists refer to when they talk to one another, even if engaged in quite different sorts of research. The curriculum seeks to develop both the specificity of subfield interests and the common moorings that enables the field to thrive amidst tremendous diversity.
It might be helpful to review some sample courses of study in various areas of Anthropology. Not all courses are available every year -- please check the course schedule for the most updated listing of courses.
An increasing number of opportunities to study abroad are being made available through the Reves Center for International Studies. Anthropology majors will often be surprised at the salience of anthropology in foreign programs. These programs generally last one or two semesters, although summer programs may be compressed into fewer weeks. Some programs are geared toward language study and many involve field research along with classroom study. Transfer credit from programs may be applied to degree requirements for an Anthropology major. Pre-approval for transfer of credit for coursework taken while abroad should be sought from the Department Chair in Anthropology. Sometimes it is necessary to enroll in such courses and to seek approval for the proper course credit equivalents at William and Mary after one returns from study abroad. In all cases, when planning out the courses needed for an Anthropology degree, it is advisable to block out time for study abroad.


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GREAT BARRINGTON — The Bridge Street bridge, the principal asphalt umbilical from the eastern side of town into the Main Street corridor, reopened to two-way traffic on Tuesday morning.
For the past year, only one lane of the 66-year-old bridge was open. A temporary traffic light regulated traffic to and from East Street to Main Street. This, at times, caused some traffic congestion. Traffic estimates from several sources indicated the traffic flow on the bridge averaged about 8,200 cars daily.
In 2014, the town applied for a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to upgrade the structure, which spans the Housatonic River. A 2012 inspection by MassDOT rated the structure as meeting "minimum" structural standards. The bridge deck and substructure were rated "good," but the superstructure was only rated "fair" in 2012, according to the National Bridge Inventory.
The grant was for $1 million. The town also contributed $1 million toward the repair, according to Town Planner Christopher Rembold.
In addition, the town also applied for a MassWorks grant to complete paving, utility upgrades and streetscape work around the bridge, according to Rembold. That portion of the project has not yet begun, said Rembold, as the priority was renovating the bridge.
MassWorks is an arm of the state's Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development that provides money for municipalities seeking infrastructure funding for economic growth and development. The town was eligible for a MassWorka grant at the time because of the pending development of the former Searles School into a hotel and the development of a mixed-use complex at 100 Bridge Street.
"We expect to begin that phase of the project in the spring," said Rembold.
Ironically, there has not been a lot of movement on those two projects of late. But Lenox-based Landmark Development has won approval to raze the former Laramee Cleaners building, also on Bridge Street. The ultimate plan there is to build an expanded 14,000-square-foot Co-Op Market with added retail space and condominium units.
Work on the bridge began in 2016, according to Eagle files. That work began with a closing of the bridge for three days, from Sept. 12-14.
The pony truss bridge was constructed in 1951, according to Eagle files. It was built to replace a a wooden structure that was washed away in the Great Barrington Flood of 1949, according to files.
The original bridge was built sometime in the late 1800s, according to local historian Gary Leveille's book, "Legendary Locals of South County."
Prior to the construction of the structure, resident George "Hermit" Crosby operated a ferry on the river to get residents to and from the Main Street corridor. When the bridge was completed, "Hermit" Crosby, according to the story, became slightly unhinged. He became more and more eccentric and was finally committed to a mental hospital in Northampton. He died in 1891.
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So, you have you typical day in the life of Gerard Butler, walking through Summoner's Rift or what have you. All of a sudden out pops a Warwic? What are you going to do? Well not to fear cause you are going to kick his *** down a well.
This is my own build for Panth. After playing with him for a while and seeing other builds, I developed my own build and it has worked for me so far. 90% of the games I play with this build I get the most kills in game and the most assists. In the 30 or so games I have played with this build I average 19-4-18
Start with Meki Pendant and 2 health pots. This allows you to toss your spear a lot to harass the hell out of champs or pick up last hits on minions and still have mana to do your combo at lvl 3. After a bit of farming and possibly a few champ kills depending on who you lane with, go back and buy the chalice and boots of speed. If you have enough to buy the berserker greaves, do it now. Otherwise go back to the lane and keep pushing them back.
After a bit of work in the lane, you can buy the greaves and the brutalizer. Now come some fun, as you should be at least lvl 6 and have your ulti. Drop in on some fools and score a kill or 2 but make sure your team knows what you are doing so they can help. This works well against a cocky mid who thinks it their lane. They are wrong, the entire map is yours.
After more farming and kills, go ahead and grab that last whisper. This will give you more armor pen, more attack speed and more damage. After the whisper you have a choice: Malidy or Starks. If another teammate has Starks already, grab Malidy. If not grab Starks.
At this point you should be working with your team to gank a lot and down towers. If there is a tower low and the other team is focused elsewhere, pop your ult and down the tower. Your attack speed will keep your passive up long enough for you to down the tower and run away to farm nutral minions for your health back thanks to life steal.
The bloodthirster or Infinity edge is based on your own preference. I usually get the bloodthirster to get more lifesteal, as you are attacking extremely fast. With your abilities you can easily take on a stacked Warwic 1v1.
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Digital Immortality: New Social Network Learns Your Personality and Keeps Posting After Your Death
In the second series premiere of Black Mirror, which starred Hayley Atwell and Domhnall Gleeson, a woman signs up for a service that uses social media profiles to allow people to "keep in touch" with deceased loved ones. Now, that service might actually exist in real life, as a new Portuguese social networking site uses artificial intelligence to learn a user's social media habits and continue posting after the user's death.
ETER9, which was created by AUTO.NET, stores all of the user's information from the site as "virtual memories," allowing the AI version of yourself, called the Counterpart, to learn how you behave and to mimic your behaviors in your absence.
This could be as innocuous as making a few posts while you're on a weeklong vacation, but it could also lead to an entirely creepy form of "digital immortality." The user can choose to allow the Counterpart to post in their stead in perpetuity, and if the technology becomes advanced enough that the AI can truly "learn" your personality, then loved ones could potentially continue to interact with a digital version of you for the rest of their lives.
"Eternizing is a way of keeping your thoughts and posts for all time. Are you curious? Come meet your Counterpart and become eternal."
While any kind of immortality can be made to sound appealing (although if you ask me, the above quote sounds like a f*cking cult), like many aspects of social media, it seems like a poor substitute. There's only so much that social media reveals about a person (and, indeed, it's probably not the best parts of a person's character), and talking to an AI that can mimic the behavior of a loved one without any of their emotions or thought processes sounds more than a little disturbing.
But what if a more holistic digital immortality were possible? In that episode of Black Mirror, Atwell's character becomes disillusioned with her late husband's "Counterpart," which has been downloaded into an identical body, because it doesn't have emotions or a will of its own, as her husband did. But if we someday discovered a means to exactly replicate our brains and upload it into an artificial body, achieving actual digital immortality, it may be an entirely different question.
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Source: Digital Immortality: New Social Network Learns Your Personality and Keeps Posting After Your Death
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The Assistant to the Bishop works in all areas of ministry as needed but has a special focus on mobility issues for rostered leaders and call processes for congregations. She also has a passion for healthy leaders and works with congregations on evaluation processes and mission discernment.
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The Rev. Glenn Chase is an employee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, working under the direction of the Oregon Synod Bishop. His areas of focus are Mission Support and congregational benevolence. The Rev. Chase works closely with "Project Believe" and has a real gift and passion for collaborative ministry models.
Rev. Michael Keys
The Rev. Michael Keys' emphasis is on sharing the Gospel and strengthening congregational work in Mission. Pastor Keys previously served at Trinity Lutheran in Gresham before moving to Alaska to serve at Central, Anchorage and then as bishop in 2006. He brings a passion for equipping congregations and leaders for the work of building up the Body and sharing the Good News of God in Jesus Christ. He has facilitated the start of new congregations, developed ecumenical collaborations, assisted with congregation partnerships, and developed lay leader training programs for Synodically Authorized Ministers.
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Jan brings significant experience and skills to her new role at the Synod Office. She has over 20 years' experience in both public and private sector organizations doing program design, development, and support.
She is a 'specialist' at bringing diverse partners together to forge vision and create on-the-ground practice that works. Her work with faith communities has included process design and facilitation, strategic planning, and council retreats as a member of the Synod Church Council Training Team.
Jan has a degree in Business Administration from Oregon State University and a post graduate certificate in Process, Consultation, and Training from the Institute of Pastoral Ministries at Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon. She is a current member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Gresham.
One of Jan's professional focus areas involves helping organizations with emerging change--developing systems that encourage diversity, nurture ideas, and provide thoughtful care and support for both individuals and teams along the way.
Jan has two sons and lives in Boring. Besides her work with the Synod Church Council Training team, Jan volunteers as a resource for families facing the journey of a loved one with Alzheimer's disease.


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Backdoor Roth contributions provide a way for some people with income above the Roth IRA contribution limits to add dollars to a Roth IRA. We've added two new articles to our online guide to Roth Retirement Accounts, both based on material in our book Go Roth!:
Backdoor Roth IRA Contributions
Some people can use this technique to add to a Roth IRA even when their income is above the limit for Roth IRA contributions.
Possible Challenge to Backdoor Roth Contributions?
Some tax professionals have identified a risk in using this technique, but we believe there is no cause for concern.