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The Wisconsin men's hockey team thought last weekend's series against then top-ranked Denver was huge, but tying and beating the Pioneers only increased the importance of this week's trip to Duluth. The Bulldogs (16-9-1 overall) lead the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
Wisconsin (14-6-4 overall, 10-5-3 in the WCHA) rank second in national polls conducted by U.S. College Hockey Online and USA Today, which both solicit votes from coaches and members of the media. The Ratings Percentage Index and PairWise Rankings both have the Badgers at third, as does something called KRACH, which stands for (seriously) Ken's Rankings for American College Hockey.
The KRACH (developed by statistician Ken Butler) attempts to be the most statistically accurate measure of each team's ability. It's based on wins and losses, obviously, but also strength of schedule. Ken's system also factors in something called "logistic regression," which weeds out teams that compile a lot of wins against weak teams. (Trying to understand the particulars of KRACH vividly reminds me how much I hate math.)
Based on the current rankings, the number-three Badgers have a tough month ahead, with fifth-ranked Minnesota-Duluth up next and fourth-ranked St. Cloud State coming to the Kohl Center on Feb. 19-20.
But Wisconsin is poised to finish strong. The team has a pair of tested goaltenders in juniors Scott Gudmandson (7-2-4) and Brett Bennett (7-4), both of whom are giving up just 2.2 goals per game. On the offensive end, senior forward Michael Davies has registered multiple points (goals and/or assists) in nine games, including the last six straight.


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Barack Obama turns 54 today, so we're celebrating his birthday with four of our favorite stories about – and one written by – our president. From carving out family time in the White House, to building a Washington-based geek squad, take a closer look at the man we call Commander-in-Chief.
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Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Combine the rice, coconut water, 1/2 cup water and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and cover; cook until the rice is tender, about 20 minutes. Remove from the heat; let stand, covered, 5 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and toss with the butter and coconut; set aside.
Meanwhile, combine the scallions, cilantro, thyme, garlic, habanero and 1/2 cup water in a food processor or blender; puree to make a smooth paste. Transfer 1 tablespoon to a small bowl; stir in the curry powder, turmeric, cumin, 1 teaspoon pepper and 1/4 cup water. Transfer the remaining paste to a large bowl and add the chicken and 1 teaspoon salt; toss to coat.
Heat the olive oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add the curry-scallion paste; cook, stirring, until the paste darkens and starts to separate, about 5 minutes. Add the chicken to the pot. Reduce the heat to medium; cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until almost cooked through, 15 minutes.
Increase the heat to medium high. Uncover and cook, stirring occasionally, until thickened, 15 more minutes. Stir in 1 1/2 cups water, the carrots, chickpeas and spinach. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium. Simmer until the chicken is tender, 15 more minutes.
Transfer the chicken mixture to a 9-by-13-inch baking dish and top with the rice mixture. Bake until golden brown and bubbling, about 25 minutes. Top with golden raisins.
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It started about six months ago: when I plugged in an external monitor, the screen would go blank, forcing me to reset the screen. Later, it would not only go blank, but actually crash the computer; if I want to use an external screen I now need to reboot with the screen attached2. There's also been occasional graphics glitches - disappearing lines, garbled text and the like. Some software bug, I thought, and perhaps some electrical problem with the external monitor connector.
But about two weeks ago the screen started to freeze randomly, once or twice a day. The static screen image is visible, but frozen. Sometimes the mouse pointer will still move. Sometimes the screen is completely frozen. A few times I've gotten an immediate reset and reboot. There is nothing at all in the log; as far as the OS and applications are concerned the graphics system is fine. I can log in remotely from another computer and all software is still obviously working and displaying stuff. Restarting X does not help - the screen image is frozen no matter what you do. It seems pretty clear to me now that the graphics hardware on this machine is dying. The machine runs pretty hot, so I guess thermal damage could be the culprit.
This is very inconvenient. While I don't use this machine for simulations, I do use it for just about everything else. Whenever the screen freezes I need to reboot, and lose the last bit of work I've done. Worse, it completely derails my train of thought. The computer desktop is my short-term memory, with all the open documents reminding me of what I'm doing. After a reboot it takes a long while to get back up to speed again, and some stuff, like writing blog posts, I may completely forget about for days. I need a new computer.
As it turns out, this is a pretty bad time for the computer to break. I use it a lot for work, but the project doesn't have a budget for big-ticket items at the moment, so I'll have buy the new machine myself. The question is which one. My current machine is small - 10.4" screen, and just under one kilo - with decent memory and ok speed. The battery was rated at 7.5 hours, which was about five hours in practice when new (it's down to 3.5h or so now). I'd like to keep the low weight and good battery life, but this time go for a wide-screen model. That would give a bit of much-needed extra screen space without making the computer much larger. Whatever I get needs to be compatible with Ubuntu Linux.
I'm inclined to get another Panasonic, since they're rugged and good quality (my problem notwidstanding). Perhaps an N9; it's the wide-screen version of my current machine but it's a fair bit faster, and has as good or better battery life. It'd be a little heavier at 1.26 kg, but not so much that I'd be bothered by it. The Let's Note series are rugged - they handle drops, falls and heavy weights, and the keyboard is water/coffee-proof. It's got good wireless connectivity with Wifi, Wimax and Bluetooth; there's both analog and hdmi video ports, and an SD-card reader.
Someone suggested a Thinkpad X201 as an alternative. It's about the same type as the Panasonic and it'd be a bit cheaper - though not by that much once you configure it similarly. It has a trackpoint in addition to the trackpad, and of course it's black, not painted silver. On the downside, it'd be heavier, have shorter battery life and not be nearly as rugged. I'd also feel better about buying a machine designed and assembled locally here in Osaka rather than get an import brand. And of course, I know that Ubuntu works fine on the Panasonic; I'm not as certain about the Thinkpad.
Whichever I get, I'm getting it soon. It's distracting - exhausting - to mentally look over your shoulder as you work for any signs of the computer freezing up on you. It's scary in a way, to be so reliant on a piece of equipment.


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Large Fermi Surface of Heavy Electrons at the Border of Mott Insulating State in NiS 2
One early triumph of quantum physics is the explanation why some materials are metallic whereas others are insulating. While a treatment based on single electron states is correct for most materials this approach can fail spectacularly, when the electrostatic repulsion between electrons causes strong correlations. Not only can these favor new and subtle forms of matter, such as magnetism or superconductivity, they can even cause the electrons in a half-filled energy band to lock into position, producing a correlated, or Mott insulator. The transition into the Mott insulating state raises important fundamental questions. Foremost among these is the fate of the electronic Fermi surface and the associated charge carrier mass, as the Mott transition is approached. We report the first direct observation of the Fermi surface on the metallic side of a Mott insulating transition by high pressure quantum oscillatory measurements in NiS 2. We find our results point at a large Fermi surface consistent with Luttinger's theorem and a strongly enhanced quasiparticle effective mass. These two findings are in line with central tenets of the Brinkman-Rice picture of the correlated metal near the Mott insulating state and rule out alternative scenarios in which the carrier concentration vanishes continuously atmore »
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- Univ. of Bristol, Bristol (United Kingdom). HH Wills Laboratory
- Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge (United Kingdom). Cavendish Laboratory
- Univ. of Central Lancashire, Preston (United Kingdom). Jeremiah Horrocks Inst. for Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy; Univ. of London, Egham (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics, Royal Holloway
- Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab)
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- Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
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- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; magnetic-properties; pyrite-structure; infinite dimensions; metal transition; nis2-xsex; approximation; system; superconductor; pressure; crystals
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Elizabeth Stella Absolom 1892-1992
Hi, new to the net. My paternal grandmother was "Elizabeth Stella Thurley" nee Absolom. Her father William Absolom, moved from the Summer Hill (2130)area of Sydney in 1880/90's to Hobart. She had 5/6 sisters and 1 brother David Absolom, who was killed at Gallipoli. My Grandmother had 4 children of whom, only 1 aunt is alive. Would appreciate any help or pointers to Absolom history.
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Paul's first role, in 2000, was as a Commis Chef at the Savoy Hotel under Anton Edelmann, where he stayed for two and a half years, working his way up to Chef de Partie. From there, Paul moved to the Savoy Grill when it reopened under the direction of Marcus Wareing, and helped it to achieve a Michelin star, the first in
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An independent commission of state lawmakers voted 9-3 Tuesday to close the Howe Developmental Center in Tinley Park, a recommendation that's likely to play a key role in the governor's decision about the future of the embattled center for disabled adults.
The decision whether to close Howe rests with Gov. Pat Quinn, who had delayed speaking publicly about Howe until the 12-member Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability issued its recommendation Tuesday at a public hearing in Springfield. There is no deadline for the governor's decision.
Reaction to the announcement came swiftly from both sides of the issue.
Critics of Howe, which includes groups such as the Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities, said the ruling was fair and was the best thing for the center's roughly 300 residents and their families.


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CNU sweeps past Salisbury
Captains will see familiar foe Emory in regional final Sunday
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- The second day of the 2011 NCAA Newport News Volleyball Regional finished with a Christopher Newport sweep of Salisbury in 3 sets, 25-19, 25-16, 25-21. The Captains advance to the NCAA regional final against the top-seed, and No. 3 ranked Emory. Game time Sunday is set for 3 p.m. ET.
CNU and Salisbury both struggled in the first set to find rhythm in their attack as both teams combined for 15 attack errors. The difference in the first set proved to be Bailey Jensen. The Junior from Ashburn, Va. led the Captains with six blocks in the set to spark her team mates as they worked themselves into the flow of the game.
The Captains secured a lopsided second set as Salisbury's attack faltered with 11 errors and allowed CNU to race out to a double-digit lead. Both teams put together a more efficient attack in the third set as CNU hit .325 while Salisbury crawled into positive numbers for the first time in the match, hitting .163. On the match, the Sea Gulls hit only .009 as CNU stymied them at the net.
Jensen led the way for CNU with 11 kills including a .647 hitting average. Jensen also added 8 blocks. Heavenrich posted her second consecutive tournament double-double with 29 assists and 10 digs.
Salisbury's Kelly Vieira led the Seas Gulls with five kills while Michelle Meehan turned in a strong performance with a match-high 17 digs.
Sunday's Regional Championship against Emory is a rematch of the 2010 NCAA tournament quarterfinal. The Captains suffered a tough loss 3-2.


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Contracts and Payments: Your Options When You Don't Have a Signed Contract
by Mark Monlux
Suppose you've completed a job for a client, and they refuse to pay you. Worse yet, you never had a written agreement with your client. What options do you have?
1. Never, ever again, work without a contract. The reasons are long and many but very quickly, it is like trying to build a house without a blueprint. Without a blueprint, anyone is bound to have trouble from the get go. Treat a contract the same way an architect treats a blueprint.
Use it to define the project and schedules of work and payment. Having a contract in place will solve almost all potential problems you might have with a project because there is a solid game plan in play. Contracts are NOT scary. They are common, everyday things.
You sign one when you get the oil changed or when the fridge is repaired. Even a credit card purchase is a basic contract. Question, define, and sign before you begin any project. (Contracts can be found in the Graphic Artists Guilds Handbook: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines.)
2. File for copyright immediately. Chances are, if you discounted the merits of a contract, you have discounted the merits of protecting your work by filing for copyright. Again, the reasons for filing for copyright are many and numerous. But first and foremost, it is an affordable measure of protection which is readily available to you. All your work, at all times, should be filed for copyright as part of the project process.
3. Invoice the client. The main thing here is money. You want to get paid. Send an invoice detailing the work you completed as a service. Then follow up in 30 days (and I do mean within 30 days, not 30 days-ish) with a late payment notice. After 90 days the client should have from you an invoice, a late payment notice and a second late payment notice.
The last notice should say that you are going to pursue legal recourse. You have now established for the courts that you have given both adequate and regular notice to the client to have them pay you for your service. Do this via hard copy, snail mail.
4. File for small claims. (This is a separate article unto itself.)
5. See if you can reach a settlement. Again, the main thing here is that it is all about the money. You have to get past the "he-said she-said" thing. It is NOT productive.
Going to court is not productive. It takes time from your work schedule (during which you could be earning money), and there will be lawyer fees (more money). You have to reassess your profit margin and be willing to cut a deal.
Odds are that miscommunication got you into this mess and communication will get you out of it. Keep a level and cool head in your discussions and work toward the goal of being paid; NOT proving your point, and you will be one step ahead of the game.
If a client pays you in part or in full, it is an affirmation of your contract. If, as in this case, you do not have a contract, the invoice you have sent them will serve as the contract. (Thus, your invoice should reflect terms of license, i.e.,: quantity, area distributed, time period, etc.) Their payment is an agreement to that contract.
This article was originally published in the Graphic Artists Guild column, Dear Mark. www.markmonlux.com
© 2009 All Dear Mark materials are copyrighted by Mark Monlux, and may not be reproduced in any way without expressed written permission.
DISCLAIMER: To the best of my action or belief the material posted on "Dear Mark" discusses general principles of law in response to issues of concern to the illustration community. Nothing posted by Mark Monlux should be construed to be a substitute for advice of counsel regarding the specific facts and circumstances of an individual case.
Laws and their interpretation differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Legal advice addressing a specific situation should be sought from an attorney duly licensed in the appropriate jurisdiction.
Contract Glossary
A contract is an agreement, whether oral or written, whereby two parties bind themselves to certain obligations. Synonyms: agreement or letter of agreement (if the contract takes the form of a letter). This glossary simply explains what the clauses in your contracts mean.
Covenant Gardens: Demystifying Noncompetition Agreements
by Philip I. Frankel, Esq.
There is usually confusion about how noncompetition agreements (NCAs) apply to employees or self employed individuals. Traditional NCAs apply only to an employment setting and protect the employer's interests. Independent contractors are free to contract and negotiate any terms and conditions they want in their own agreements.
The Letter of Agreement
A Letter of Agreement is an abbreviated contract on your studio letterhead, confirming your understanding of the assignment, expected fees and contracted rights for the assignment. Why using a document like this places all parties in agreement about rights and terms before the job begins.
Writing Your Own Contract: Pre-Contract Checklist
by Mark Monlux
A check list of items that you should discuss with your client before you write up your contract.
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Letters to the editor, Feb. 27
Re: "Automatic cuts take toll as deadline approaches" (Feb. 26).
This is a ridiculous situation, only I'm not laughing. Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, which help the most economically disadvantaged Americans, instead of raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, who haven't experienced substantial tax increases since Word War II?
We need to be expanding social programs, not cutting them, which means raising taxes on the wealthiest. We have enough resources to ensure everyone's basic human rights to food, shelter, education, and health care; we just have a drastically uneven distribution of resources. Throughout high school, I lived in a bubble where it felt like the recession was just a story in a newspaper or a sweet excuse for a sale at the local shopping center.
Now, in college, I'm surrounded by classmates saddled with student debt that will take them a lifetime to pay off and whose parents struggle to find living-wage jobs. Research on societal stress and on happiness shows that even the wealthy live healthier, happier lives when society is more equal. It's time to stop hoarding and to stop denying other people their human rights. As someone born into the 1 percent, I call for raising taxes.
Anna Winham, Portola Valley
Obama's failure
President Obama's sequester of billions in across-the-board spending cuts that is set to go into effect next month is a product of his failed leadership.
Our federal government is spending almost $1 trillion more than it is taking in yearly. The sequester is part of the Budget Control Act of 2011, which mandated the cuts if a congressional "super committee" failed to reach an agreement on how to reduce the deficit.
The sequestration idea was proposed by the Obama White House and signed into law by the president. The president has provided no information about what spending cuts he is willing to make to replace sequestration.
Now is the time for the president to act as a leader rather than a campaigner and work with Congress to make the bold spending cuts needed.
William Kales, San Francisco
Initiative reform
I quite agree with the writer who said that we should have only volunteer signature gatherers for initiatives ("Initiative reform's moment," Editorial, Feb. 19).
Unfortunately, he must convince not only the people of California but also the Supreme Court of the United States. In a 1988 ruling, it said that such a restriction is an unconstitutional infringement on free speech.
Hopefully, some day we will have a court that does not believe dollars should count as much as votes.
Sally Faulhaber, Alameda
Domestic guns
Though occurring in a distant land, the Oscar Pistorius tragedy ("Accounts differ on Pistorius' role," Sports, Feb. 20) underscores the documented truth that home-kept firearms exact a toll on occupants and guests far outweighing whatever security they might provide against criminal intrusion.
Richard Boyce, San Francisco
Sutro's plantation isn't a wilderness
I'm sorry, but a plantation of Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus trees with a rat-infested tangle of English ivy on the ground does not, and never will, constitute a "wilderness," as Joseph Mascaro writes about Mount Sutro ("Stop the stripping of our urban forest," Open Forum, Feb. 23).
Adolph Sutro, who planted the trees more than a century ago, put in a diverse mix of half a dozen tree species. Unfortunately, the eucalyptus grew so fast, and dropped so much leaf and bark litter, they killed all the other seedlings.
Today, neither dogs nor people can penetrate the dense English ivy ground cover.
UCSF neighbors should be aware that the oily, highly flammable eucalyptus fueled a 60-acre fire in Sutro's forest in October 1899, just 10 years after it was planted, and again in October 1934, when it took nearly the entire San Francisco Fire Department - 400 men - to put it out.
The most destructive fires in California history, in terms of homes burned, were fueled by eucalyptus in North Berkeley in 1923 and the Oakland hills in 1991. UCSF should thin out the trees just to reduce the fire hazard.
Let's give biodiversity a chance by supporting UCSF's plan to thin out the eucalyptus and plant fire-resistant native species.
David Schmidt, San Francisco
Cutting down too many trees
I could not agree more with Mascaro on the impending removal of trees from Sutro Forest. For anyone in doubt about the extent of the planned clearing, I urge them to take a walk to Mount Sutro and see just how many trees are marked for removal. After, that go to Glen Park, where recent bond money has financed the clearing of trees and underbrush that used to serve as valuable habitat for coyotes, skunks, birds and even humans in search of a little privacy in an overcrowded city.
While I would not support the planting of invasive species in the vast swaths of California where they do not already exist, I do think that these otherwise well-meaning environmentalists go too far when they destroy productive ecosystems with only the faint promise that something more natural may later take root. As my father always told me, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Stephen Upjohn, San Francisco
Fond memories of our urban forest
Mascaro's piece recalled pleasant memories of visits to the eucalyptus grove in Sutro Forest. One of my favorite photographs shows my wife and our young son in this wonderful place. I have been to many coastal areas covered with native plants. They can't compare with amazing beauty of San Francisco's urban forest. It is a treasure to be protected.
Larry Morris, Sacramento


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Loyola Federal is intensely customer-oriented. That's why the savings and loan association turned last year to Activity Vector Analysis as a tool to choose the right people for customer representatives.
Customer reps, who work at Loyola Federal's 31 Maryland branches, have nearly constant contact with the public. And the company wanted to be sure that new hires for these 60-odd positions would find the job fun.
Those who rate high in sociability on a test like the AVA are more likely to enjoy dealing with the public and will be more effective, says John Shobert, Loyola Federal's vice president for human resources.


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I'm a kinda newbie in hosting, maybe my questions sound silly, but I couldn't find answers by reading manuals or googling. Please help! I need to host a lot of simple rails/sinatra/padrino applications of different ruby versions each with 0..low hits per day. They belong to different owners and should be well isolated from each other. When an app is hit it should respond in reasonably short time, but I expect several simultaneous visitors hit the same site to be a rare case. I'm going to create separate os user for each application. Surely I'd like to put them as many per server as it's possible. Thus I need to choose the web server with the lowest memory footprint, which can run applications on behalf of different users with different ruby versions and gemsets. I consider lighthttpd,webrick,nginx+passenger,thin,apache+passenger I suppose the reliability of all choices is sufficient for such a job, and while performance isn't an issue, the memory consumption is. I found many posts regarding performance issues, but most of them discuss the performance tuning and issues. I couldn't find a comparison of web servers memory usage when idle. So which one would you choose for that job?
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Cary Medical Center recently held its Annual Employee Longevity Awards Banquet at the Caribou Inn and Convention Center recognizing 86 employees with a combined 1,430 years of service to the hospital. Employees and guests enjoyed a delicious meal, and the banquet room decorated with a "Kentucky Derby" theme. Among those attending the banquet and recognized were:
50 Years of Service: (seated), Ellen Corrow, with (standing, L-R), Kris Doody, RN, Cary CEO; Bill Flagg, Director of Community Relations and Development; Paula Parent, RN, Director of Human Resources and Chief Nursing Officer; and Doug Plourde of the Hospital Board of Directors.
45 Years of Service: with (far left), Kris Doody and Lori Ouellette, Primary Charge of Radiology; are Susan Curran, Kathleen Parent and Carol Harvey, with (far right), Paula Parent, and Doug Plourde.
40 Years of Service: Joan McElwain and Pauline Martin, with Kris Doody, Micah Desmond, Director of Support Services, Karen Stackhouse, Laboratory Primary Charge; Paula Parent and Doug Plourde.
35 Years of Service: Kris Doody,with Doug Plourde and Paula Parent.
30 Years of Service: (seated, L-R), Cindy Blanchette, Kelly Wardwell and Galen Caron, with Kris Doody, Bill Flagg, Tatiana Kosyak, Pharmacy Director; Karen Stackhouse and Robert Lester.
25 Years of Service: Lori Ouellette and Gail Cyr, with (from left), Doug Plourde, Kris Doody, Paula Parent and Shawn Anderson, COO.
20 Years of Service: (seated), Marthe Pelletier, Karen Ouellette, Susan Plourde, and Dick Fortier, (standing, third from left), with Galen Dickinson, Kris Doody, Paula Parent, Stephen Mazerolle and Doug Plourde
15 Years of Service: Christine Helstrom, (second from left), with Kris Doody, Paula Parent and Doug Plourde.
Here are just a few of the many positive things our patients have to say about their the care they received at Cary Medical Center.
Mike is a great PT - - just loved him.
The Cary Physical Therapy folks were friendly and welcoming. They introduced themselves and called me by my first name which made me feel like they thought of me as a person and not just another patien. We set goals and met them - they taught how to walk correctly with a cane which I found helpful. My month at Cary P.T. was an enjoyable experience. I'd recommend it to anyone.
I always choose Cary for myself and my son without a doubt. We have always had a wonderful experience.
I want to thank every one at Cary Medical Center for help and kindness. Not just one person everyone was so nice. That's why I only go to Cary Medical Center Cary is the best hospital around.
I came in by ambulance due to heart issues. The nurses were excellent, lab techs very competent.
I was very happy with the care I received at Cary. Just wanted to say that in addition to the clear level of medical competence & professionalism of all the staff I met, regardless of level, I also appreciated their interpersonal demeanor & bedside manner. I was afraid, and the were able to calm my fears.
I had wonderful care from nurses & CNA's during my 12 day staff. Too many to record names.
I was very impressed over all with my colonoscopy. Dr. & nurses were excellent and never once made me feel I was an imposition to them when they were so busy. I have already recommended Cary to my friends
All were informed and had excellent attitudes. Very professional and caring.


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Microwaves are generated in the microwave oven by a magnetron and cause the water molecules in the food to oscillate. Heat is generated by the friction which is caused, with the result that the food is thawed, heated or cooked.
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Heat resistant plastic utensils which are suitable for use in the microwave can be used to thaw, heat and cook food. Follow the manufacturer's recommendations. Heat-resistant paper made for use in a microwave oven is also suitable. Follow the manufacturer's recommendations.
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Life In The Start-Up Lane: When "Standards" Keep Changing…
As I've mentioned in some of my prior posts, whether it's just another day in Finance or within the life of a start-up, there is no normal day. Take that a step further and you'll likely find that there is no level of "normal" reporting that you can rely on to measure what is happening with the business. At least not the "standard" level of reporting that you would have relied on at a prior company, which was likely much larger and more mature. As we are about to kick-off our sixth fiscal Quarter, the reporting that we relied on two Quarters ago is far different than what we are using now, and what I expect to be using in another few Quarters.
Part of the challenge within a start-up is balancing the integration of new systems while developing the rest of the business. This is not a sequential sequence of events, but a series that run parallel, often forcing business decisions based on experience and gut instinct. This is probably where I highly value the time that I spent in equity research covering 20 different retail and apparel companies. Monthly comp sales unleashed a flurry of data that had to be quickly assessed, reported on, and subsequently disseminated to clients. It had to add value, and above all, it HAD to be correct. Making business decisions in the absence of data, or at least incomplete data, is a very uncomfortable position for most folks.
So how do you measure the business when the standards are constantly changing? The absence of standards is not indicative of an absence of accountability or transparency, but part of the evolution that naturally occurs within a start-up. Yes, there is a Budget that is developed and based on certain assumptions, but it's not long before that Budget becomes a distant reference point as you begin compiling data and assessing the potential trends that are developing within the business. However, one to two Quarters of data certainly is not a "trend" within a start-up, but it sure helps in refining the assumptions used in the Forecast. As with our business, while we are cognizant of the metrics that we will ultimately be using to measure our performance, some of those metrics are simply meaningless at this point since the business is still young and there isn't enough data yet collected. That doesn't mean that we're not tracking our bookings, revenues, margins, and other macro indicators, but the detailed view is in a bit of a holding pattern at the macro level until we can drop down to the next level for more meaningful reporting.
As our business continues to grow and prosper, I absolutely expect a fundamental shift in our reporting abilities as we collect more data. We'll move from the "spirit" of building the business to "fine tuning" the engine and driving increased performance through the data distributed to our key internal stakeholders. In these early stages of a start-up, it's a delicate balance between giving the teams the latitude they need in developing the business, tracking their activities to the Budget, and determining whether their invested time and expenses will deliver an ROI in the immediate future. In the initial phases, that ROI may come in the form of customer satisfaction, referrals for new projects, potential new hires, and if all are executed properly….bottom line profitability.
Living the day-to-day life of a start-up is not the black & white mechanical structure most are used to working under. It necessitates the development of comfort in change and knowing that will be the case for quite some time. However, at the end of day, just take a step back, look at the evolution of your bottom line results, the trend in customer engagements, customer feedback….and you'll know exactly how well you're performing.
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The European Union has seldom played a leading role in the politics of non-member countries. But for six months, EU officials have been playing the leading role in the effort to hold together Serbia and Montenegro, the only republics remaining in Yugoslavia after four others declared independence, sparking a series of wars.
The old Yugoslavia has been dead for a decade. Serbia's sole partner in what remains of Yugoslavia is Montenegro, a mountainous coastal region with a population of about 600,000 people.
When former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ruled in Belgrade, western powers encouraged greater autonomy for Montenegro. During the last years of Milosevic rule, Montenegro essentially went its own way. It got rid of the Yugoslav currency and adopted first the Deutschmark and then the euro. It shifted its trade away from Belgrade, and conducted an independent foreign policy.
Last March, the Europeans brokered a new unity agreement. Under the terms of the so-called Belgrade agreement, Yugoslavia will be replaced by a new nation called Serbia and Montenegro. The ties between them will be far looser than they are currently. Should either party wish to opt out of the agreement, it can do so after three years.
Jan Willem Blankert is the European Union diplomat with the job of monitoring progress on the Belgrade agreement. He says the Serbs and Montenegrins have been advised by the EU that it is in their long-term interest to get along. "Our statement has been, if you want to integrate [with Europe], integration begins at home," he says. "Show by your integration at home how you can integrate with the European Union. You are one country. Therefore, you have to show one face, one trade regime, one face, one negotiator."
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, who is giving up on his current job to run for the presidency of Serbia, says holding Serbia and Montenegro together is his biggest accomplishment in two years on the job.
But few Serbs are enthusiastic about the Belgrade agreement. The economic reformers were outraged that the deal permits Montenegro to maintain a separate currency. There is growing sentiment here to be done with Montenegro.
Another group interested in preventing a break-up is the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the EBRD. It is playing a major role in rehabilitating Yugoslavia's war- and sanctions-shattered infrastructure. The EBRD is also involved in trying to stitch the two Yugoslav economies back together, as is being required by the European Union. Henry Russell is the EBRD representative in Yugoslavia. "One way forward might be for both parties to look forward to integration with Europe. Even if they took separate paths, they both have the desire to join the European Union, whenever that may happen. And joining the European Union requires harmonization," says Mr. Russell. "So de facto you may find that harmonization becomes a priority for both."
But analysts are skeptical about the prospects of Serbia and Montenegro remaining together. Negotiators are again bogged down in details, and the debut of the new state is behind schedule, although the EU says it will take place by the end of the year.


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I'm blocked. I can't finish anything, I can't hold on to excitement for anything for more than a few weeks (the new boyfriend as the only exception). Maybe it is just him that I want to focus on and it just makes everything else seem so blah.
I have all these ideas in my free time but I keep getting interrupted by work, family, friends… my real life. My dream world receives no steady fuel, just stark reality. I have no hope for excitement arriving in the near future. Real world goals are not easy. They are not laid out on a neat syllabus with set milestones for results. Moral causes are immediately rationalized away as life rolls over them.
I know too much. I see the next step in everything I have enjoyed and I cannot get there in any of them:
Dancing – teach, make costumes, and travel
Fashion – have a clothing company
reading/writing – write stories
Education – PhD
Career – CPA
Music – learn more about it and put together good performance music
Photography/Videography – learn to put it all together
Travel – need a profitable plan
Yoga is the only place where I have no place else to move forward with. I think that is the essence of Yoga though to move peacefully with it. Knowing that in itself make me feel I am at a progressive pace with it.
There is something about the next step in all that I listed above that shuts me down and makes me feel lazy. It is too hard and I don't trust myself to have the stamina to follow through. In some areas I feel I need more education, like a fashion degree, to get me immersed in the culture of things. But I have taken so so many classes and have a hard time showing up to all of them. I feel compelled to rebel against the system in place and must gather my freedom.
In many ways I would only be taking a next step for myself with my own money. That was a down fall of the CPA exam part II failure. I had no one to be accountable to except myself and I was willing to waste more money on the task just to test my ability to focus. Sigh. Honestly I don't even like accounting. It drains me but pays my bills, so getting my CPA is a difficult task because the subject is just like work and I can't focus on that stuff for so much of my day.
I need to play. That need counters my need for goals and productive routines. I need to play. It comes down to productive play… Maybe I'll just let it all go and keep playing for the sake of playing. Eventually I'll get over my need to be productive in my free time. I just wish that work didn't suck up so much of my productivity and drive. It could go two ways: 1) just accept it and put more energy into work, or 2) Keep stressing myself out and battling myself in my free time.
I don't see a clear way out while I'm enslaved to my bills. 6 more months of debt to go. I just need to remember to make life as awesome as possible in the mean time. Which in itself is another difficult task to add to my list.


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Study after study has shown that most strategic initiatives fail. Timelines slip, financial goals are unrealized, and synergies fail to materialize. Yet year after year, organizations spend countless hours — and tens of millions of dollars — trying to get it right.
The reason for these failures is that most organizations suffer from one or more of the following ailments:
- There is a general lack of enthusiasm, ownership and accountability for the overall strategy and vision of the organization.
- Executives, managers and employees identify primarily with their own workgroup, division, or business unit in ways that are detrimental to the organization as a whole; silos trump cohesiveness and collaboration.
- Distrust, suspicion, politics and fear between levels of management and functional areas displace open, honest and productive communication.
- People debate issues and problems endlessly but rarely succeed in implementing sustainable improvements.
- No one takes accountability for solving problems and initiating solutions. Excuses, finger-pointing and CYA are more prevalent than commitment and responsibility for generating outstanding results.
- Executives spend significant time and energy on strategic plans, only to go back to embedded habits and practices.
So, why do these dysfunctional, suboptimal conditions exist in most organizations, despite the fact that everyone knows they undermine productivity and morale?
Commitment: The missing ingredient
While executives say commitment is critical, and many believe they have it, more often than not, what leaders call Commitment is really Compliance.
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