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Not all canines in the backcountry are just tagging along for a good time.
Six ranching families hold permits to graze sheep on San Juan National Forest allotments, and most use imposing guard dogs to protect herds from predators.
The dogs, typically breeds such as Great Pyrenees and Akbash, take their work seriously.
Last summer, authorities received several complaints from hikers and bicyclists who said the sheepdogs approached aggressively, growled and in several cases followed them. Nobody was bitten.
Coexisting in the backcountry was the topic of a forum last week at the La Plata County Fairgrounds. Sheep ranchers, Forest Service rangers and Bureau of Land Management personnel were present to answer questions and listen to suggestions.
Hiker John Bregar recalled an incident on the Colorado Trail when he and his wife were accosted by two sheepdogs. Bregar said the dogs snarled and circled menacingly until they left the herd perimeter.
It was intimidating, to say the least. An unpleasant experience, he said.
As the meeting progressed, three possible solutions emerged: sidestep the herds, inform the public or train the dogs. Or maybe some of each.
The first strategy would involve bypassing the sheepdogs altogether by tracking herd movements on a website or Facebook page.
Kiley Whited, a BLM rangeland management specialist, said the technology wasnt in place to make tracking an option at present.
Others thought it more efficient to control 20 dogs than thousands of recreationists.
Its unrealistic to pinpoint the sheeps exact location. The only plausible solution is for the dogs not to harm people, said hiker Joe Griffith.
A few area ranchers already have taken this advice to heart.
Ernie Etchart, who lives in Montrose and grazes his sheep on public lands near Silverton, has socialized his younger dogs to be less aggressive toward humans.
The dogs are a very important tool. They let us stay profitable, he said. Prior to their use, predation was 12 to 15 percent. Coyotes are clever and still manage to pick off a few lambs, but its minimal.
If approached by a sheepdog, recreationists are advised to keep pets close, stand their ground and maintain a calm, confident demeanor.
Stop, get the dogs attention, use a stern voice and direct them to go back to the sheep, Etchart said. You then become the authority figure.
Dogs normally do not pursue once intruders leave the herd perimeter.
The high-country grazing season lasts from July to early October.


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Road Test: Chevrolet Captiva 2.2 VCDi 163 LS 5dr FWD (2011-2012)
Road Test: Chevrolet Captiva 2.2 VCDi 163 LS 5dr FWD (2011-2012)
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Chevrolet knows its audience. They're the sort of people who like to get plenty for their money, so the first- gen Captiva was right up their street. It was big - seven-seats big - attractively priced, and didn't look too bad. Sure, it possessed a fair few rough edges and could never be described as a dazzler in any area, but it was competent and sold pretty strongly. Better, in fact, than its twin brother, Vauxhall's Antara.
But now, it's much better. Not just a little bit better, but a lot. Central to this is the new 2.2-litre VCDi. It replaces the 148bhp 2.0-litre unit and is available in a choice of two tunes: 161bhp or 181bhp. We drove the more potent version, which backs up that healthy power output with 295lb ft of torque. That's enough to drop the 0-60mph to 9.3secs - almost two seconds quicker than the old car. It's also cleaner and more efficient - a combined mpg figure of 42.8 is on-the-money for this class.
Better still, it's a good engine to use. The old one, well, let's just say the clatter and roar never found favourwith us, but this is smoother and, like all diesels, does good work low down. Nor is there any need to put the engine under much stress, since six-speed manual and automatic gearboxes have replaced the old five-speeders - keep it burbling away between 2,000-3,000rpm, and it's perfectly happy.
This is sounding positive, then - there's also substantially revised suspension, with stiffer springs to sharpen up the Captiva's road manners. That works, but the flipside is that the ride isn't as relaxed as it should be for a car of this class, and the overall driving experience is still pedestrian.
At least there are no concerns about safety, as the Captiva sports a veritable acronym soup of driver aids as standard - TCS, BAS, ESC, HAS (think traction control, brake-assist, stability control and hill-start). For those who buy these cars, such collections of letters are probably more important than the fact the handling's, well, a bit handier.
But we can all appreciate a good-looking car, and with that gigantic new grille, resculpted bonnet and larger wheels, the Captiva's a handsome thing. Shame the cabin can't escape the whiff of flimsy plastics, but there's decent storage, the seats stow without fuss, and there's a lot of kit as standard, including Bluetooth and a plug-in for your iPod.
But the pull of the Captiva has always centred around its value - the top-spec LTZ we drove comes in at £30,295. That's Freelander and X3 money. The equivalent top-spec Hyundai Santa Fe which is this car's most natural rival is £24,630 - £5,665 cheaper. Maybe Chevrolet doesn't know its audience that well after all…
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Blood Testing
Too often, people fall victim to a disease that could have been prevented if their blood had been tested once a year.
For instance, we know that prescription drugs can cause liver and kidney problems, but other factors (alcohol, over-the-counter drugs, excess niacin, hepatitis C) can make a person susceptible to liver or kidney damage. These conditions often smolder for years until a life-threatening medical crisis occurs. Because of a phenomenon known as "individual variability," some people are especially vulnerable to liver and kidney damage. The good news is that a simple blood chemistry test can detect an underlying problem in time to take corrective action.
The average person older than age 60 takes several prescription drugs every day to treat or prevent chronic medical conditions. According to the American Medical Association, adverse reactions to prescription drugs are either the fourth, fifth, or sixth leading cause of death in the United States (Lazarou 1998). The American Medical Association emphasizes that these deaths occur even though the doctors prescribing the drugs are supposed to be monitoring their patients to prevent such drug-induced deaths. The problem is that cost-conscious health maintenance organizations and hurried physicians are not mandating blood tests that would detect drug-induced tissue damage in time to prevent disability and death. If you are taking certain prescription medications, regular blood testing is mandatory according to the drug labeling, yet doctors routinely fail to prescribe the recommended blood tests, and their patients too often pay the "ultimate" price.
The reason most people consider blood testing is to ascertain their risk factor(s) for cardiovascular disease. Published studies consistently show that various cholesterol fractions (HDL, LDL) and triglycerides can contribute to heart attack and stroke. What most people fail to realize is that significant changes can occur in their blood fat levels over the course of a single year, meaning that an earlier test may not accurately reflect their current serum lipid status.
Since 1983, Life Extension has advocated regular medical testing for the purpose of optimizing your personal life extension program.
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Tellabs's Early Stock Trading Roiled by Dividend-Date Confusion
Confusion about a special dividend being paid by Tellabs Inc. sparked stock swings in heavy premarket trading of the company's shares Wednesday.
Traders said some market participants likely mistook Wednesday for the so-called ex-dividend date. Prior to the ex-dividend date, shareholders in
Tellabs, which is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market, are eligible to receive a recently announced $1-a-share, one-time payout. Buyers of the stock on or after that day aren't eligible.
Dec. 24 is the ex-dividend date, according to Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ). That's because Tellabs's $1-a-share payout is greater than 25% of the recent value of the stock, making it subject to a special rule that allows investors to remain eligible up until the date the dividend is paid.
But traders said some market-data providers indicated Wednesday was the ex-dividend date. Several news outlets distributed the erroneous information, causing confusion in premarket trading, said Tom Scottino, Tellabs's senior investor-relations manager.


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Warrant ruling expected today
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BENNINGTON -- A judge is likely to rule today whether search warrants, and their supporting documents, that were served against a local businessman on Monday are public records following a hearing on Wednesday.
An attorney representing Thomas Lyons, owner of Bennington Subaru, argued in Bennington Superior Court Criminal Division that the affidavits filed by police to secure search warrants for Lyons' private residence and business should be sealed. Judge Cortland T. Corsones ordered Wednesday's hearing after attorney David Silver, of Barr, Sternberg, Moss, Lawrence & Silver in Bennington, filed a motion Tuesday to seal the documents and prevent the public from accessing them after the Banner requested copies from the court.
Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette said Tuesday that Lyons has been under investigation by police for possible criminal activity for about one month. Several sources within town government have confirmed that the investigation involves an alleged prostitution ring.
Corsones allowed a portion of the hearing to be confidential after Silver said he planned to use information within an affidavit as part of his argument. Corsones asked the public, which only included a Banner reporter and photographer and a reporter with the Rutland Herald, to leave the court.
During the open portion of the hearing Silver argued that the documents in question, "to which the public otherwise has access," could be sealed by Corsones because "statutory presumptive right to public access upon return of a warrant can be overcome by showing that a substantial threat exists to effective law enforcement, or individual privacy and safety."
Bennington County Chief Deputy State's Attorney Christina Rainville said the state was not asking for any portion of the records to be sealed or redacted for investigative purposes. Rainville had filed a motion on Tuesday asking for the documents to be sealed, or at least partially redacted to protect the ongoing investigation.
The warrants served against Lyons were part of a three-warrant package, according to Rainville's motion. The third warrant had not been served at the time the motion was filed because police had not been able to locate the targeted woman. Information included in the documents could hinder the investigation, Rainville argued in her motion.
Rainville said Wednesday that the third warrant had been served and the state no longer had a position on whether or not the warrants should be sealed.
Silver made several arguments for sealing them, however.
He said a supporting affidavit used to secure the search warrants is "not a legal document," but rather, it is "an investigatory document."
"It's not part of the court record. It doesn't have to be based on admissible evidence. It can be based on hearsay, and in fact, this was based on hearsay and sometimes double hearsay and triple hearsay," Silver said. "I submit to you, your honor, that much of what is in this affidavit is more prejudicial than probative."
Silver also said release of the documents would constitute a substantial threat to Lyons' privacy, although he said the courts have not made clear what the threshold is.
"I submit to the court that whatever the threshold is for substantial threat to privacy, this affidavit, under these circumstances, meets that threshold and goes far beyond for some of the reasons that we discussed when the court room was sealed," he said.
Silver noted that Lyons is a well-known member of the community, serving as a member of the Bennington Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Trustees and a former member of the Bennington Museum's Board of Trustees, as well as several other local organizations. Lyons, Silver said, is "the owner of a Subaru dealership whose livelihood depends a great deal on his relationship to customers, his relationship to the community at large."
The damage to Lyons' reputation from the documents, should Lyons never face charges or be offered the Diversion program -- which would then seal his court records -- would be "irreparable," according to Silver.
If the allegations in the documents are released while police continue to investigate, Lyons will have no "forum" in which to defend himself "for the many, many months it's going to take to get the forensic evidence evaluated," Silver said.
While Silver said he wanted the warrants sealed unless and until charges are filed, Corsones cautioned that the documents may also be public if the state decides not to file charges.
"I think that might be the case as well," Corsones said. "It still might be a public record at that point."
"We'd be back here arguing that," Silver said.
Corsones said he planned to review Silver's arguments and issue a decision "as quickly as I can."
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I will freely admit to being a Kiehl's Addict of the highest proportions. I love Kiehl's, everything by Kiehl's and usually head there first when having skin issues. But, for some reason when looking for hand cream, I've never looked there. I have usually used little travel sized bottles of fragrant lotions from Bath and Body Works or a similar store, never with the effects I was looking for.
My job is particularly tough on my hands. I wash my hands probably 2-3 times an hour, usually with the same soap used for "scrubbing in" in the operating rooms (this is the soap that they stock my part of the hospital with). So, you can imagine the beating my hands usually take, then throw in low humidity and some wind outside, and I'm likely to be cracked and bleeding.
I recently picked up a tube of Kiehl's Ultimate Strength Hand Salve, and it seems to be doing a great job so far. I have been applying it 2-3 times a day, and despite my obsessive hand washing, I have hands that are moisturized, without a crack in site! The formula is meant to provide a "glove-like" barrier against moisture loss, and it contains a lot of botanicals according to Kiehl's. When I apply it, there is a cooling feeling for about 60 seconds. Although the formula is a little greasy, if I avoid putting the cream on my palms this doesn't really bother me at all. I'm not sure this is a cream I need year round, but as a rescue treatment in the winter season, I haven't found anything better yet!


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Brown/tan/oxblood pair of penny loafers would be perfect, even better in suede!
Hello forum!
I am a massive fan of white jeans/trousers and I am looking for a nice fitting pair as we speak.
But the thing that puts me off of buying them is the fact that I am unsure of what shoes would go with them.
I like smart things and will probably opt for trousers over jeans.
Apart from the obvious black pair of shoes, can anyone suggest any shoes that would go with them or any shoes that are online now?
Thanks for your help!
Brown/tan/oxblood pair of penny loafers would be perfect, even better in suede!
as above brown loafers would look nice, as would a pair of brown double monkstrap shoes.
If you want something you can use with other clothing, dark brown will be good. I'd personally steer away from lighter coloured shoes as white trousers are quite bold to start with, but in the end you'll have to make the judgement on what your limit is. As mentioned by Nath, suede will work well too if you don't mind being a little more casual.
Should you be okay with something less compatible, there are various colours you could choose from, as after all white goes with just about whatever you like. Blue is once again a popular colour this year, and I've seen quite a few versions of various styles of shoes in blue suede this season.
Such a good shout Nath - oxblood loafers would look sick. But go all out and go for tassle loafers imo....very continental....
I have just bought a pair of blue-grey suede brogues from TKMax which would work.
Almost makes me wish that I liked white trousers now! Maybe I can yet be convinced...
I really want some white trousers to wear with this blazer:
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It's just the impracticality that puts me off. I might have to wait until the weather is nice and sunny before I think about buying some.
Thanks for the replies guys!
The colours that you are thinking are the ones that have crossed my mind
But the one the strikes me of the above comments is the brown / tan options
I have a lot of tan shoes but can't imagine them to go with white,
Would they go better with a more off white?
brown, brown, brown, brown, brown. If in doubt go with brown. brown will work much better than black because black is for black tie and funerals and possibly business attire, oxblood is good but just go for brown.
How boring Brown brown brown. Maybe blue desert boots for casual, or even dark red ones. Add a bit of colour to your life. Or if you're crazy like me wear white daps/plimsoles and bright socks, red or ice blue maybe. Of course it depends what you will be wearing on the top half of your body. IMO it's good to match the shoes to something else, like a shirt/polo/jumper, so you would need to pick out one of the colours from the top item. Yes I know I'm crazy but at least you would look bright and chearful. Keep your brown shoes for more formal wear. IMO white trousers are more casual than formal. OK I'll shut up now.


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He was an electrical engineer and had a long career at Westinghouse and the Bureau of Standards, and held many patents. He loved travel, opera and his life-long hobby of building fine furniture. He was a staunch Republican who loved the government and believed in paying taxes.
In 1984 he and his wife, Ruth, who died in 1992, moved to Palo Alto to live with their daughter, Judith Steiner, and son-in-law, Hans Steiner, and their three children, Remy and Hans-Christoph, of New York City and Joshua, of Oakland, all of whom survive him.
He is also survived by his son, John W. Harrison, Jr. of Georgia; daughter, Susan Harrison of Florida; grandchildren, Jenni and Kiri Brotsch; daughters-in-law, Patina Mendez and Rivka Karasik; and four great grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to Lytton Gardens, 649 University Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301; or the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301.
Donald C. Loughry
Donald C. Loughry, a longtime member of the Palo Alto community, died Feb. 22 surrounded by his family.
He was born in Flushing, N.Y., on Jan. 12, 1931, the older of two sons of James Kenneth and Anita Loughry. He grew up in Ridgewood, N.J., and attended Ridgewood High School. He graduated in 1952 from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. After college he worked two years at the Naval Ordinance Lab in Maryland and then two years in the Army Signal Corp.
His major accomplishment in his 42 years working at Hewlett-Packard (1956 to 1998) was his leadership in the development of technical and Internet standards. He led work in the 1970s on the IEEE 488 bus that made it easier for machines to interface with each other. He was the key initiator of the IEEE's 802 family of standards during the 1980s and 1990s.
The 802.3 Ethernet standard is now used in more than 300 million computers and the 802.11 wireless standard is ubiquitous in mobile devices. These international standards enable for easy global communications. For his standards efforts, he earned many awards, including the 2003 IEEE Proteus Steinmetz Award and the 2011 IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award.
Staying abreast and educated on current events around the world — and sharing that knowledge — was always a goal of his. He led "Great Decisions," an annual eight-week course by the Foreign Policy Association, at First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto for more than 25 years.
He loved all varieties of science but especially enjoyed astronomy and would stay up all night watching and photographing an eclipse or a meteor shower. His other passion was bonsai; he found creating beauty in the form of miniature trees to be spiritual and relaxing.
After retirement, he combined his love of science and teaching by spending several days each week preparing and testing science experiments with a "wow factor" to excite his 6th-grade students at Crittenden school in Mountain View, where he volunteered for six years.
He was a loving husband and best friend of Alice, his wife of 55 years. He distinguished himself through his loyalty to family, friends, church, volunteer organizations and neighbors.
He is survived by his wife, Alice; son, Alex; daughter, Lynn Bergquist (Rick); grandchildren, Kristina and Eric Bergquist; brother, Richard (Janet), of Denver, Colo.; and brother-in-law, David Phillips (Ruth) of Maryland.
A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, March 24, at 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto. A reception at Fellowship Hall will follow.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, 400 Hamilton Ave., Suite 340, Palo Alto, CA 94301; First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301; or KQED, 2601 Mariposa St., San Francisco, CA 94110.
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Faced with a $37 billion budget shortfall and a significant reduction in troops, the Army is "trimming the fat" by reinstating a program that sends home soldiers who fail to meet body-fat standards, Fort Gordon officials said this week.
The Pentagon revised its body-fat regulations last month in an attempt to "return to the basics" and build a "leaner and meaner force" that includes only soldiers in peak physical condition, said Master Sgt. Christopher Wallace, the training coordinator for the Signal Corps' Regimental Noncommissioned Officer Academy.
Though height and weight requirements remain unchanged, the Body Composition Program gives commanders the power to flag overweight soldiers and require them to see a dietician, develop an action plan and go through monthly assessments.
The Army was more lenient when soldiers were needed in Afghanistan and Iraq, Wallace said, and overseas command stations did not provide adequate space for troops to exercise.
Now, the Army wants "top-notch recruits who meet and beat the standard, instead of just barely making it," Wallace said.
First Sgt. Roberto Berry, the head of the NCO Academy at Fort Gordon, said the Army began phasing in changes in November. Looming ahead were sequestration, which left a $37 billion hole in the Defense Department's budget, and news that troop levels would be cut by 80,000 soldiers by the end of fiscal year 2017.
Within the first two months of the policy shift, eight to 10 soldiers sent to Fort Gordon for signal training initially failed the Army's physical fitness test, Berry said. Many came within 1 percentage point of meeting body-fat requirements or within five seconds of passing the Army's 2-mile run, records showed.
Under the Army's new regulation, Berry said, trainees are sent to a doctor to confirm whether they have allergies or conditions that might prevent weight loss. They are then given a second chance in one to two weeks to meet the body-fat standards and pass the physical fitness test.
"If they are good to go, the training course continues," Berry said. "If they're not, they are sent home."
Back at the home station, the commander who approved the soldier for training has three days to flag a soldier exceeding body fat standards and then two working days to notify and enroll the soldier in the Army Body Composition Program, new rules state.
A soldier who is flagged is not promotable, will not be assigned to command positions and is not authorized to attend military schools or institutional training courses. Within two weeks of enrollment, the soldier must schedule an appointment with a dietician or health care provider and develop an action plan. Monthly assessments will follow, in which soldiers will be expected to lose 3 to 8 pounds or 1 percentage point of body fat each month.
A soldier who doesn't meet that goal will be shown the door.
From 1990-96, soldiers who did not meet the Army's body-fat standards were immediately discharged.
Now, soldiers have 180 days from time of entry to meet standards.
Soldiers who are pregnant, have a major limb loss or are have undergone prolonged hospital stays are exempt. Those with a validated temporary medical condition that directly causes weight gain or prevents body fat loss will have six months to resolve the issue.
A physician can extend the period to 12 months, granting a soldier temporary immunity for not showing progress.
Soldiers might be required to modify calorie intake when reduced physical activity is necessary. Dangerous weight-loss tactics, such as fasting, supplements, and vomiting, are prohibited.
Wallace said signal soldiers are still failing the initial test. The good news, he said, is that the number of marginal soldiers has shrunk to one a month.
Berry said he can easily see the Army returning to "one shot, one kill."
"They want a leaner force, both physically and mentally," Wallace said. "No longer are we just going to accept mediocre soldiers who get by. Soldiers need to be in compliance or they are going to be sent home."


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CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Market research firm Infonetics Research released vendor market share and preliminary analysis from its 4th quarter 2012 (4Q12) and year-end Enterprise Unified Communications and Voice Equipment report. (Full report published March 4.)
"Following two years of modest growth, the PBX market had a tough 2012. While shipments grew, competitive pricing pressure persisted, driving down worldwide revenues, exacerbated by Europe's tough economic conditions," notes Diane Myers, principal analyst for VoIP, UC, and IMS at Infonetics Research.
"On a brighter note, unified communications ended the year on a high note, led by Microsoft and its Lync platform," Myers continues. "We expect the PBX market to move back into positive territory in 2013, with moderate growth in addition to continued strong adoption of UC applications by large and mid-market enterprises looking to improve flexibility and productivity."
- The global PBX/KTS market totaled $8.1 billion in 2012, down 4% from 2011; the EMEA region alone declined 10%
- In 2012, the unified communications segment grew 8% year-over-year
- North America and APAC were the regions to net positive revenue gains in the PBX market in 2012, growing a modest 2% and 1%, respectively over the previous year
- Pure IP PBX licenses grew 11% in 2012
- Cisco maintains its lead in global PBX/KTS revenue for the 6th consecutive quarter; Avaya and Siemens round out the top 3
- Only 3 vendors in the enterprise telephony market posted year-over-year revenue gains in 2012: Cisco, Mitel, and ShoreTel
- Infonetics expects fierce vendor battles to continue in 2013, particularly between Microsoft and Cisco in the unified communications segment
Clients: Join Diane Myers Wednesday, March 13, at Noon ET for a live enterprise telephony market recap. Log in to http://bit.ly/WXSXmO for password to join the call live or view on demand.
Infonetics' quarterly enterprise telephony report provides global and regional market size, vendor market share, analysis, forecasts, and trends for TDM PBX and KTS systems, hybrid and pure IP PBXs, IP PBX by system size, VoIP gateways, unified communications, IP deskphones and softphones. Companies tracked: Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, HP (3Com), D-Link, LG Ericsson, Microsoft, Mitel, NEC, Polycom, Samsung, ShoreTel, Siemens, Sonus, Toshiba, others. To buy the report, contact Infonetics: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp.
- Infonetics' latest Enterprise Voice, Video, and UC research brief: http://bit.ly/Xut12Y
- Video conferencing sales perk up in Q3, but not enough to reverse YoY slump
- Cisco captures lead in enterprise SBC market
- $377 billion to be spent on VoIP and UC services over next 5 years
- Unified communications survey highlights enterprises' shift towards mobility
Download Infonetics ENTERPRISE VOICE, VIDEO, and UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS report highlights, tables of contents, prospectuses, 2013 market research brochure, and events brochure at http://www.infonetics.com/login.
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Twila White has been floating in post-graduation euphoria for days now – that happy haze specific to those who have scored passing grades, fulfilled every requirement and officially finished high school.
She did the routine for high school graduation: cap and gown, proud family and all the usual pomp. The circumstance, however, was highly unusual.
White graduated from Tustin Adult School in the Tustin Unified School District. The ceremony was held at Tustin High School, where White entered as a freshman in the Class of 1963.
Fifty years later, this great-grandmother graduated on the plaza.
Tustin Principal Jonathan Blackmore described the strong character of a Tustin Tiller, as he presented White with a custom Tillers T-shirt to commemorate her journey.
The expression is better late than never. While White never expected to be quite so late, she says having her high school diploma is definitely better.
"I was smiling for 24 hours straight."
Life got away
Her father had been in the Marines, stationed at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. Eventually the family moved to Tustin, where White started classes in 1959 at Tustin Union High School, as the two-story building was called then.
The style was matching outfits and bouffant hairdos. She played clarinet in the band, taking classes that included homemaking and bookkeeping.
Halfway through her junior year in 1962, she was beset by a series of personal issues that culminated when a close friend was killed in an accident.
"My whole world was falling apart," she recalls. "I was devastated with grief. I couldn't stop crying."
She just stopped going to school. White never planned on not finishing high school, but life got away from her.
"All those years, I was surprised I didn't graduate. How did that not happen?"
She planned to return in 1963 but discovered she was pregnant. In those days, if you were pregnant, you certainly couldn't attend school.
Over a lifetime, White has held a series of jobs: waitress, receptionist, assembly line worker – and mother. Now her daughter and granddaughter are college graduates.
"It used to be you could get a job pretty easily. When they asked about my education, I would mention Tustin High and turn my head and sort of mumble."
In 1998, she moved back into her parents' home to help care for her mother.
In 2008, shortly after her 63rd birthday, White felt a yearning to study math and English. She took two math classes at Irvine Valley College, but kept thinking about that high school diploma she didn't have.
On a death certificate, she notes from experience, you fill in the deceased's level of education.
"I didn't want my daughter to put down eighth grade for me."
Diploma is more essential
Adult education is one of many nails hammered by the recession. Tustin Unified is one of a handful of districts that has managed to keep its free adult high school open as part of adult education. There are 204 enrolled.
Betty Sarell, adult education coordinator, says need for the classes is increasing for two reasons: First, the recession increased competition for jobs and made a high school diploma essential. Second, certain younger people in the country illegally who came here as children and attended local schools can now be eligible for legal work permits – if they graduated from high school.
This month's graduation of 72 students was the school's largest.
At Tustin Adult School, students study independently on campus at their own pace, completing work packets under teacher supervision. They also must pass the California High School Exit Examination.
Sarell says graduation often becomes a goal people set for themselves. Some need a diploma for a job or career advancement. Some want to be the first in their families to graduate. Others want to be a role model for their children.
Tustin doesn't prepare students for GED tests, to earn a certificate equivalent to a high school diploma. Here, students do all the coursework.
Sarell says there's something significant about graduating.
"When students earn a diploma, the completeness is remarkable. There's a change in their life."
Back where she started
The symmetry to this story is pleasing: It ends where it started 50 years ago.
In 2008, when White first inquired at the Tustin Adult School office, she could see her old high school over the fence.
In order to earn 75 missing credits, she studied almost every weekday – bringing her cup of coffee in the mornings and staying until noon, or coming in the afternoon and staying until 9 p.m.
She took 11 courses, studied at school for 865 hours, and earned an A in every subject.
"Each subject was all I thought about. I wanted to get all I could from each course, and do the best that I can, so I deserved graduation in my own eyes. I love the part where I feel like I'm learning something."
She brings an adult appreciation to studying and school. It opens up a whole new world.
"Education gives me something nothing else does. It opens up something inside me, and I have to keep coming back."
She lost her husband, Brooke, while she was studying – but graduation itself was a day of joy.
Family – including her sister (a 1964 Tustin High graduate), her daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter, great-granddaughter, niece and two grandnephews – and an old high school friend, Luz Crosthwaite, came to celebrate.
White says the tide came in: Everything that had been swept away was returned to her.
"I came to understand that required subjects have much more value than the credits received for taking them. I will spend the rest of my life being interested in physical science, economics, history and art."
Maybe this ending is also a beginning.
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**** Baron strained hamstring
I like Fields attitude right now, shot not dropping so getting aggressive driving to the bucket.
Will we ever win a championship again? Id like to think so!
If I was Woodson though, I'd give JR Smith a run at the point. He's gonna do better than Bibby or Shump I reckon.
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Clarkson University's Dana Barry is Visiting Professor & Conference Speaker in Japan
[A photograph for media use is available at http://www.clarkson.edu/news/photos/dbarry-snct-2012.jpg .]
Dana M. Barry, senior technical writer and editor at Clarkson University's Center for Advanced Materials Processing, is a visiting professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Suzuka National College of Technology in Japan.
During May, she gave a lecture titled Entrepreneur Education and Creativity to the advanced students at the college. She described entrepreneurship and creativity, and pointed out that creativity is essential to entrepreneur education.
For example, in order to be successful, she said, entrepreneurs must generate valuable ideas for new products and services that will be of interest to some identifiable market.
Barry carried out activities with the students or would-be entrepreneurs to promote and develop their creative-thinking skills. She also gave a similar lecture to more than 80 students at Gifu National College of Technology.
Barry previously initiated an international program, which includes five teaching models that she developed, to promote creative thinking in science and engineering. Her collaborator for this project is Dean Professor Hideyuki Kanematsu, Suzuka National College of Technology.
Together they created novel textbooks and other materials (written in English and Japanese) to complement this international effort. The program won National Awards of Excellence from the American Chemical Society in 2004 and in 2007.
While in Japan, Barry also presented a paper at the fifth KES International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia Systems and Services held in Gifu, May 23-25. Her paper, titled Problem-based Learning for U.S. and Japan Students in a Virtual Environment, was authored by D. M. Barry et al. (Hideyuki Kanematsu, Yoshimi Fukumura, Toshiro Kobayashi, Nobuyuki Ogawa, and Hirotomo Nagai) and published by Springer in 2012.
In it, she described the U.S. team's problem-based learning project to design and build the car of the future and concluded that it applied well to the e-learning environment offered in Second Life, an online three-dimensional virtual community.
In addition, Barry served as a coauthor for the conference paper titled Nuclear Energy Safety Project in Metaverse. This paper was authored by H. Kanematsu et al. (Toshiro Kobayashi, Nobuyuki Ogawa, Yoshimi Fukumura, Dana M. Barry, and Hirotomo Nagai) and published by Springer in 2012.
Barry served as a visiting professor for Suzuka National College of Technology in 2002, 2005, 2008, and 2010. She was also a visiting professor and keynote speaker in China in 2011, and a visiting professor in England (2003) and in Malaysia (2001, 2004, and 2007).
In addition to her position at Clarkson, Barry is scientific board president for Ansted University and an officer of the northern New York section of the American Chemical Society.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo caption: Visiting Professor Dana Barry speaks with the President of Suzuka National College of Technology, Professor Yasutsugu Nitta.


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 12:37 AM
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Stanford to study increasing freshman enrollment
Original post made on Dec 18, 2007
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 12:37 AM
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 18, 2007 at 10:58 am
> Increasing the number of undergraduates would affect
> housing, financial aid and the ratio of faculty to students.
Time for Stanford to think about on-line classes to provide access to people that it can not immediately accommodate via on-campus admission.
a resident of College Terrace
on Dec 18, 2007 at 11:07 am
There is excellent research showing that in-person instruction trumps online learning for many individuals. Much is gained from the social experience of campus living.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 18, 2007 at 8:02 pm
> There is excellent research showing that in-person
> instruction trumps online learning
The cost of on-campus instruction at a place like Stanford is pushing $50K a year. In addition, the infrastructure costs to house and educate students adds thousands to this number.
On-line education is growing at leaps and bounds because it is far less expensive, and can allow people to gain access to a campus from anywhere in the world. Not to mention, allowing more students access to the "corpus" of the University than otherwise would be possible in the traditional scheme.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 28, 2007 at 11:41 am
Increasing the freshman class creases problems with distribution requirement courses, especially the freshman writing course. A fixed number of courses are scheduled, with capped enrollment, to make sure classes are full. This means that, for example, if a Chemistry professor teaching a large, required general chemistry sequence changes the day/time of his course on the first day of classes – students need to make a schedule adjustment. It is a good idea for a student to try to change his writing class, because many classes are offered each quarter. However, because classes offered match the number of entering freshmen and transfers, in many cases a student needs to move out of a writing course before a student can add a writing course.
This is not a plea to increase the size of writing courses. I have taught writing (not at Stanford) and I understand that one additional student adds a great deal of out of class work time for the instructor. I am assuming Stanford wants freshman student writing improved.
This is a plea to increase the number of courses offered to freshman. If most of the classes have two or more openings at the start of each quarter, freshman can more easily make a schedule adjustment. Some of these writing courses are offered for two quarters, some for one quarter. A student with a high score on the writing test is eligible to take the one quarter course.
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I am remodeling an old church and parsonage into a quilt retreat in Northern Iowa. I am looking for advice. Any absolute "Do's" or "Don'ts"? I want to make this as quilter friendly as possible!
Thanks in advance!
I think the arrangement of 7 rooms, 14 twin beds is great. It leaves all the options open. If someone wants their own room they can have it, but if two want to cut costs, twin beds are really nice.
Chiliwist Valley
Sounds like your retreat is coming along beautifully! Maybe I'll be able to attend one in the future!
Make sure you have 1 or 2 rooms that are handicap accessible. Including showers with benches, raised toilets. It's easier for us disabled folks to attend retreats.
Hi Julie,
We just opened a quilt retreat in Sweetwater TN in a 150 year old farmhouse. What I have found is that guests really appreciate a good rolling padded chair for sewing. I mounted power strips onto the top of the tables so guests wouldn't have to crawl on the floor to plug in machines. We have 18 twin beds in 5 large bedrooms. We only sew at tables 13 , because we didn't want it to be crowded. We have a lot of rug hooking and hand sewing guests that do not require tables. Check out our website (still a work in progress) and contact me if you want to talk about ideas. Good luck in your adventure!!
That sounds like an adventure for me.
Quilting My Rainbow
Our lovely retreat in VB, there were king sized beds, full baths, flat screen TV in each room. @ twin or double beds would have been better. It was amazing the beauty of the beach, the rooms, no problems with bathing etc. also they had a washer and dryer and 2 huge refrigerators.
Julie: your project is very interesting to me. I wonder if you have a website where I can follow along with your progress? Or, can we talk by email?
Our house will someday be a bed and breakfast. We have the room, we have antique furnishings and interesting artwork, we love to cook, we already host cyclists and hikers and our set up is just right to someday become a B & B. We have most amenities that quiet home away from home in an interesting warm town where some people already like to vacation.
Now, I am curious if I should also think about hosting quilting retreats? I have never attended one, but they sure do sound like fun. Our home could easily handle 10 ladies at a time. I have a large dining room area that could be set up with tables for sewing machines, etc. Hmmmm....this is a serious possibility. Is 10 a good number? is it too small?
Will your converted church also be used for other activities? I would really like to follow your progress and then I perhaps need to attend a retreat to see what goes on.
Thanks for giving me a good idea
Hi All,
My retreat now has a facebook page at Quilted Steeple and a website at www.quiltedsteeple.com You can follow progress there. We should be opening in the next few months! So exciting! You can also address more specific questions to me if needed at firstname.lastname@example.com
Will pass on a grand opening date as soon as I have it!
Julie, I hope to bring a group to your facility sometime! That's not a bad drive for me coming from central Minnesota. Are there any quilt shops nearby? How soon will you post prices?
On the banks of the Mississippi River in north central Minnesota (Brainerd lakes area)
There are 2 quilt shops in Algona - 8 miles away and about 45 minutes from 2 large shops - The Qulted Forest in Forest City and Country Threads in Garner. Prices should be posted in the next few weeks. I look forward to seeing all my QCA friends!
this looks wonderful. I would take the train from Wenatchee, WA, to Minneapolis - St Paul.
Patti, cool! I can pick you up on the way down! I'll bet we could talk Deb into coming, too!
Hi All,
My retreat now has a facebook page at Quilted Steeple and a website at www.quiltedsteeple.com You can follow progress there. We should be opening in the next few months! So exciting! You can also address more specific questions to me if needed at firstname.lastname@example.com
Will pass on a grand opening date as soon as I have it!
Wow, Julie - this looks fabulous! How exciting for you - it looks like a very special place. I can't wait to see your grand opening and follow along with your success. Hopefully someday I can get there to visit too. I'm not sure if our B and B could even come close to your accommodations, it just looks absolutely superb!
Julie, it looks like a wonderful place to hold retreats. I look forward to pictures of your first retreat, I'm sure it will be a great success.
Life is like a quilt...bits & pieces, joy & sorrow, stitched with love
Thanks for all the advice - Everyone is so helpful!


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Calling All Cartographers for the first IMTA PechaKucha Map Design Session
The 2010 conference and trade show of the International Map Trade Association's Asia Pacific region will take place in Melbourne, Australia on 18 & 19 June. I encourage all cartographers to attend the cartographer's forum on 19. June and contribute a PechaKucha presentation. These should be a collection of 20 slides showing the evolution of a recent or favourite map from inception to final product. When assembled in a powerpoint presentation with each slide taking 20 seconds, we have a 6'40" presentation that should need no voice-over. Musical soundtracks are welcome. Following each presentation there will be time for questions and comments.
PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It's a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. (from the PechaKucha website)
Future IMTA members are encouraged to participate, too. IMTA is dedicated to fostering the exchange of ideas and information and enhancing your knowledge and understanding of the mapping and spatial information industry. Join IMTA and receive all the benefits of membership or register for the day of the forum as a non-member. IMTA conference
I sincerely hope that you'll want to join us for what should be a fun and informative session, and maybe join the organisation, too!
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Articles on Joseph Albanese, Diane LeBlanc, Susan Paley, Kathleen Malloy and Jill Rousseau.
The Village Bank in Auburndale recently announced the addition of Joseph Albanese of Newton to the bank's board of directors and the promotions of employees Diane LeBlanc, Susan Paley, Kathleen Malloy and Jill Rousseau.
Albanese is the founder and CEO of Commodore Builders, a commercial construction company headquartered in Nonantum. He is a registered professional engineer with a degree in civil engineering from UMass Lowell and an MBA from Boston University. His career in construction has included executive positions with A.J. Martini Inc., George B.H. Macomber Co. and Shawmut Design and Construction before his founding of Commodore Builders in 2002.
LeBlanc was promoted from vice president of human resources to senior vice president. A Hudson resident, she joined The Village Bank in 2004. She has overseen staff growth from 65 employees to today's staff of 115. She is also responsible for oversight of the training function, and has been involved in the creation of the bank's supervisory training, management training and mentoring programs. LeBlanc was recently honored as a "Community Bank Hero" by Banker & Tradesman, a trade publication for leaders of the banking and real estate industries.
Paley, the bank's community relations officer and formerly an assistant vice president, was promoted to vice president. Joining The Village Bank from Boston Private Bank in 2007 as a mortgage originator, the Newton resident was promoted to the community relations position shortly thereafter. In that role, she has been responsible for a significant growth in the bank's involvement in the community. Under her guidance, the bank has played an active role in more than 150 events annually over the past three years, with m ore than 95 percent of the bank's employees participating. She is a graduate of Simmons College.
Malloy of Framingham and Rousseau of Waltham were both promoted from assistant treasurer to assistant vice president.
Malloy joined The Village Bank in 2007 as manager of the Newton Highlands branch, and was promoted to training manager in 2008. She was the 2012 winner of the bank's President's Award for professionalism, attitude, commitment,and interpersonal skills. Before moving to the Boston area and joining The Village Bank, Malloy worked for MBNA America Bank in Delaware for 14 years as a senior personal banking officer, focusing on small business development. She holds two bachelor's degrees from the University of Delaware.
Rousseau joined The Village Bank in 2005 as manager of the Waban branch, with management experience from Citizens Bank. Her branch has served as a training site for most of the bank's new tellers, and the branch itself has experienced significant deposit growth under her management.


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Oh no.
The BBC is to release a new Doctor Who game next year, but if you're an Xbox owner you won't be able to enjoy it. Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock will be released for the PlayStation 3, Sony's PS Vita handheld and PCs. The Corporation promises the game will feature "photo-real graphics, television quality scenes and highly …
You do sound totally blown away.
Okay.... I'm curious as to the actual reasons, but it's not likely I would have bought it anyway. I generally steer clear of any game based on films/tv series as they have mostly been disappointing in my experience.
The only exception I can think of was Episode 1 Racer for the N64...
The worlds only example of a game that was better than the movie it was inspired from?
Shame Sony snuck in and got the exclusive, but hey, we can't expect the BBC to favour license payers over commercial interests. Glad for my PS3 :) Although all we've seen is a hastily-constructed promo video, and it takes longer than a year to add "photo-real graphics and television-quality scenes" especially if you're a minor developer. Maybe in 2014, or maybe it will suck just like every other Dr Who game has. I smell a low budget, even if Sony are involved. Still, staying hopeful ...
BBC Worldwide gets precisely sod all from the TV License. It's the commercial arm of the BBC that deals with TV programme exports, DVD (and digital download) sales, advertising on its overseas satellite channels (yes, the BBC *does* do ads! Just not in the UK!), etc.
Seriously. Look it up. It's effectively a commercial entity that just happens to live in the same building(s) as the publicly funded stuff. In fact, it's the revenues from BBC Worldwide—and the potential overseas sales—that have helped pay for programmes like Doctor Who and The Blue Planet. Without those additional revenue streams, the BBC would have a lot less money to play with.
A fact not helped that only *part* of the TV License revenues actually go to the BBC to begin with. That rollout of broadband to the UK's rural extremities we've been reading about? TV License! The BBC actually get very little say in how that license's revenues are spent. This is why they have to go cap-in-hand to HM's Government every 10 years or so.
Exclusive? So did you not notice that the game would be available for the PC?
Well if the trailer was anything to go by... it's already included in iTunes - just hit the visualisation option.
I mean, seriously. Is that supposed to sell the game?
Made me go all tingly inside.
Amen. Even if the game is crap, there's nothing like the theme tune to send a chill down the spine.
The ridiculous thunderclaps they've inserted into the Matt Smith series, I now spin through the credits when watching it on catch-up.
I love my xbox360 and I love doctor who, come on BBC I thought you were supposed to be platform agnostic!
Well I'm not buying a PS3, just for this, so that's one less sale than they could have had!
As above this is their main body of work.
BTW Tumble is good
"come on BBC I thought you were supposed to be platform agnostic!"
This is a product licensed by BBC Worldwide, not a BBC product.
get out my big glowing di**o.. er Sonic Screwdriver.. er Move controler. or perhaps it will stay charging like it has been since sports demo got deleted.
Someone got my child the last version, it was dire. I wouldn't imagine any xbox owners feeling sorry about missing out on this, given how many good games you can get for your money on that platform
The problem with Return to Earth was that it was clearly aimed at little kids, probably up to about 7 years old. The pre-publicity didn't even hint at this and what was even more curious was that it came with a 12+ age rating. My six year old loved it, anybody much older would have found it tedious and repetitive.
....be as much of a mess as the show is now?
since the show is far from the mess it was under RTD aqnd is actually highly enjoyable and coherent!
Go back to your box sets of Dobbie Doctor, Jesus Doctor and Emo doctor with the farting aliens and cuddly fat aliens fighting giant mecha-cybermen!
They are a mainly Playstation Network Developer, and also some PC games, it is now easier to get things onto PSN than the XBox shop.
MS also put a lot of rules in place which may have stopped this happening. There is something about needing a publisher wich PSN doesn't.
I don't think Sony have done anything to stop it beyond making it easier to get on PSN.
On the one hand, it will probably be out for other platforms after a few months.
On the other hand, and I'm speaking as a PS3 owner and a fan of Doctor Who from, well, before the new First Season: The new Doctor Who s... *Yawn* Sorry about that... I'm just saying that I'm not as excited about the new Doctor Who series... *yawn*... Sorry, sorry again! Look, if it was a game based on the old, non-pop-BS series /and/ if it the first game had been great, I'd be excited. As it is, I'm not sure it's even important enough for me to even comment on. Oh what the heck. It's Friday.
"On the one hand, it will probably be out for other platforms after a few months."
No it won't. It hasn't happened with previous titles so it's unlikely it will happen with this.
"The BBC is to release a new Doctor Who game next year, but if you're an Xbox owner you won't be able to enjoy it."
From the reviews of the previous release, the Sony owners won't enjoy it too much either.
...That XBox is the more serious game console after all? ;-)
for a decent Doctor Who game.
Curious bias in this headline don't you think?
Read the story and you find that the game will be available on Sony devices and PCs (presumably Windows). So why does the headline single out the Xbox? Why no mention of Nintendo products? After all Nintendo had a true exclusive on the last commercial release and is is the best selling of the current crop of consoles and so has the largest user base. Could it be that the author wanted to stir up a little trouble, maybe upset a few Xbox owning Who fans?
BBC Worldwide tend to sell the rights to do this sort of thing to whoever will pay and agree to the licensing terms. As such it's not Worldwide's decision which platforms the game will be released for and it's certainly nothing to do with the BBC. There's no reason why this or any other game should have to be released on every platform.
Hey look! The downloadable adventure games (from the BBC this time, not Worldwide) are only available for Windows and OSX. Are the BBC deliberately giving the cold shoulder to console owners? No, it was probably just a simple case that developing these java games for any more platforms would not have been economically viable.


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Rajesh Sethi
Consumer/Organizational Studies
368 Bertrand H. Snell Hall
Clarkson University
PO Box 5795
Potsdam, NY 13699-5795
Phone: 315-268-6441
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ph.D., Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh
Courses Taught
* MK332 — Marketing Research
* MK609/610 — Marketing Management
* MK696 — Marketing Methods
Recent Publications
Sethi, Rajesh, Zafar Iqbal, and Anju Sethi (2012), "Developing New-to-the-Firm Products: The Role of Micro-Political Processes," Journal of Marketing, 76 (March), 99-115.
Danneels, Erwin and Rajesh Sethi (2011), "New Product Exploration under Environmental Turbulence," Organization Science, 22 (July-August), 1026-39.
Sethi, Rajesh and Anju Sethi (2009), "Can Quality Oriented Firms Develop Innovative New Products?" Journal of Product Innovation Management, 26 (2), 206-21.
Sethi, Rajesh and Zafar Iqbal (2008), "Stage-Gate Controls, Learning Failure, and Adverse Effect on Novel New Products," Journal of Marketing, 72 (January), 118-34.
Sethi, Rajesh, Somendra Pant, and Anju Sethi (2003), "Web-Based Product Development Systems Integration and New Product Outcomes: A Conceptual Framework," Journal of Product Innovation Management, 20 (January), 37-56.
Pant, Somendra, Rajesh Sethi, and Madan Bhandari (2003), "Making Sense of the e-Supply Chain Landscape: An Implementation Framework," International Journal of Information Management, 23 (April), 201-21.
Sethi, Rajesh, Daniel C. Smith, and C. Whan Park (2002), "How to Kill a Team's Creativity?" Harvard Business Review, (August) 16-7.
Sethi, Rajesh, Daniel C. Smith, and C. Whan Park (2001), "The Effect of Cross-Functional Product Development Teams on the Innovativeness of New Consumer Products," Journal of Marketing Research, 38 (February), 73-85.
Nicholson, Carolyn Y., Larry D. Compeau, and Rajesh Sethi (2001), "The Critical Role of Interpersonal Liking in Building Trust in Long Term Channel Relationships" Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 29 (Winter), 3-15. (Lead article)
Sethi, Rajesh and Carolyn Y. Nicholson (2001), "Structural and Contextual Correlates of Charged Behavior in Product Development Teams," Journal of Product Innovation Management, 18 (May), 154-68.
Sethi, Rajesh (2000), "New Product Quality and Product Development Teams," Journal of Marketing, 64 (April), 1-14. (Lead article)
Sethi, Rajesh (2000), "Superordinate Identity in Cross-Functional Product Development Teams: Its Effect on New Product Performance and Its Antecedents," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 28 (Summer), 330-44. (Lead article)


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I retired from the Army National Guard in 2005 with twenty years. I have been a LEO for 21 years. You have insulted a veteran and a LEO. Way to go *******.
Something good at least has come out of these idiotic threads.
I never had a vested interest in tonight's game, but now I'm a big LSU fan for the next quarter of football
OP isn't going to last in this forum. I'm running a book on when he's banned, no mods need apply. Current favourite is 2 days. $1 outlay will get you back $1.02.
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The leftistas describe a chicken hawk as someone that didn't go to war, yet sends our troops off to war. ie Dick Cheney-George Bush etc.
Billy Blue Dress avoided the draft like the plague, yet sent American forces off to bomb aspirin factories and infant formula plants.
Great detective work....
Yet 500 former Admirals and Generals are set to endorse him over Oblunder...
Nearly 500 former military admirals and generals are poised to endorse Mitt Romney, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
The group will post a full page ad in the Washington Times on Monday. The advertisement will have the headline, We, the undersigned, proudly support Governor Mitt Romney as our nations next President and Commander-in-Chief, followed by the names of the former military commanders.
A spokesman for the group emphasized its independence from the official campaign. The Romney campaign has not sanctioned this ad buy, a spokesman said, and the members of the group are paying the fee themselves.
The spokesman added that 389 of the individuals on the list are on the Romney Military Advisory Council, too. The Romney campaign has already announced these individuals endorsement.
They have 389 on their list, the spokesman said, while we have almost 500.
The list comes as a Military Times survey revealed that active duty, National Guard, and military reserve members support Romney over Obama by a two to one margin.
Generals and Admirals support the Republican...
Shocking news
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Yes it is shocking since Oblunder personally piloted the chopper, rappelled out, broke down a fortified door, ran up three stories and put a slug in Osama Bin Ladin's head.
Then he personally threw the corpse in a dinghy, took it out to the middle of the Pacific, weighed it down and then threw it overboard, creating an artificial reef....
All while fighting off a death ray coming from Crawford, Texas operated by the evil Chimpy McHaliburtonBushhitler and his even more abominable side kick Dick Cheney....
Audie Murphy? Sargent York? They got nothin' on Oblunder....
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NEWARK — Coming into the new school year, evaluations for teachers and schools are changing at the state level. However, Worcester County Board of Education officials promised that no matter how they are measured by the state county schools will strive for the same goals that they always have.
"Our expectations don't change," said Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Dr. John Gaddis.
With the release of this year's Maryland State Assessment (MSA) scores last week, Worcester once again found itself at the top of the list.
"I'm exceptionally pleased to see these types of results," said Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jerry Wilson. "We're performing at the highest level in the state in both reading and math."
Once the scores for grades 3-8 are cumulated, Gaddis explained that Worcester is the overall top ranked school system out of all 24 Maryland counties. But the switch this year from Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) to Annual Measurable Objectives (AMO) as an evaluation of a school's progress means that even with the best test scores in the state, not all schools in Worcester may receive the highest academic ranking.
"That's going to be a hard thing for our parents to understand," said Gaddis.
Gaddis noted that Showell Elementary School (SES), which had close to a 100-percent proficiency in test scores, may not fall into the first out of five ratings on the School Progress Index (SPI), as judged by the AMO. Despite this, Gaddis stated that Worcester is incredibly proud of the school, which was one of the highest performing in the state.
"We are not upset at 97.7 percent," he said.
If SES doesn't meet AMO, which is still uncertain, Gaddis stressed that there would be no penalty.
While it may seem confusing that one of the best scoring schools in the state might not meet the new measurement criteria, Gaddis pointed out that AMO works at a much more individual basis than AYP.
Under AMO, every school and every sub-group in those schools are measured for increased performance every year. According to Gaddis, if AMO isn't reached, which the county should learn in the near future, then it will only be missed by the barest of threads.
"It comes out to one student," he said.
The extreme attention of AMO on every sub-group of students making progress does have benefits, noted Wilson.
"It does keep you focused on the progress of every single student," he said. "It creates focus independently on schools and students."
Wilson added that the "bar has been raised" with the AMO, especially in regards to meeting "international benchmarks."
But classification changes and categorizations won't alter Worcester's educational goals, reiterated Gaddis.
"You can make us a one or a two [on the SPI] but no matter what you make us we're number one in the state," he said of Worcester's test scores.
One thing Wilson hopes to see during the transition to new modes of progress measurement is more fluid testing. While Worcester may have topped the MSA this year and has a history of excellence on the test, Wilson pointed out that schools receive test scores often too late to help shape student's schedules around how they are performing.
"One criticism of these types of assessments is that they're more like autopsies," he admitted.
Gaddis agreed.
"We can't use MSA instructionally … you get them into a pattern and it's very hard to change things," he said.
Besides the switch from AYP to AMO Worcester, along with others in the state, will be using a new kind of teacher evaluation starting this school year. Like AMO, the new system will pay much more attention to individual performance and pre-set goals. Additionally, many teachers in non-traditionally tested areas like art, music, and gym will be under evaluation.
Though Gaddis confirmed that "change is hard" for a lot of teachers, he said that the vast majority are looking forward to the new evaluations.
"We have not received more than one or two negative comments," he said.
This is because the new system will allow for progress goals to be custom tailored for each teacher with the help of their administrators.
"They're really going to guide their own professional development and evaluation," said Gaddis, who added that teachers are "very positive" about working to set their own benchmarks for students.
He admitted that in traditionally untested subjects like art and music, setting realistic and quantifiable goals might take time and effort but explained that the new evaluations will only be tried out in Snow Hill schools this year as part of a pilot program before eventually being incorporated throughout Worcester.


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Confession: Crying for history
The assignment: Find and interview someone who lived through WWII. Write a paper about their experience.
The actuality: I interviewed a really sweet lady that was basically untouched by the war. Nobody she knew was in the military. She lived on a self-sufficient farm out in the boonies so did not struggle any more than usual to get by. I sat down to write the paper and it was so boring I couldn't stand it. Especially hearing some of my classmates talk about their interviews.
So, I did what any good creative-type would do. I wrote a new paper. A completely fictional paper. I told the fascinating story of my grandfather and his sister. He was sick and turned away when he tried to enlist. His sister, however, went off to war as a nurse, leaving him behind. Everyone in town mocked him for sitting at home while his sister went on to be a hero. Unfortunately, his sister was killed by enemy fire just before she was to return home. My grandfather was never the same after that and my parents named me, the first grandchild, after his sister the nurse.
The day papers were returned, Mr. G didn't hand mine back. Instead, he told me to please see him during lunch. I spent the entire morning terrified that I was going to fail because he must've realized it was a work of fiction. When I entered his classroom, he asked me to wait while he read my paper one last time. As he finished, he wiped at his eyes and I swear he was crying.
"This," he said, "is such a beautiful story. I'm so glad I assigned this paper so you could preserve this bit of your family history. Absolutely wonderful."
He then handed back my A+ paper and I went on my way.
Lesson learned? Creative writing is preferable to the boring truth in situations where you won't be found out. It was a lesson I was happy to learn early in high school and it served me well throughout my college years. And sometimes beyond. Too bad that's not the lesson the Mr. G was trying to teach.
21 comments:
- angi_b72 said...
lol..great story. I hated writing papers in school!
- Jan 25, 2009, 7:27:00 AM
- kimber p said...
do you still have the paper? You should turn it in a to publication as a short fiction story, make some $ off that awesome imagination of yours..lol
- Jan 25, 2009, 7:47:00 AM
- Lora said...
I had to write a paper on the French Revolution in 10th grade when we were reading Tale of Two Cities.
I picked torture methods used back then, and made up terrible terrible things to present to the entire 10th grade class. It was the knarliest thing in the world, and all the teachers absolutely loved the paper. I made up sources and everything.
One of the history teachers called me in to talk about it and I thought for sure I'd been busted. But no, he was fascinated. He asked me how I found so much info that he had never heard of, and I told him the internet. It was 1992 so no one knew too much about it. He told me that he didn't really understnad computers but I had inspired him to learn.
We are such jerks!!
- Jan 25, 2009, 8:53:00 AM
- Lyndsay said...
Ah, the joys of being one of the smart, creative kids in school. I wish I had such a legendary tale from one of my "fictional" papers ... but I guess taking away the lesson that will serve you well for years in the ultimate rewards, huh?
- Jan 25, 2009, 9:20:00 AM
- melanie @ don't expect much said...
ooooo... I am SO sending a link to your blog to Mr. G today... you are SO busted!!
lol Creativity = win everytime
- Jan 25, 2009, 9:43:00 AM
- Melissa said...
ewww... my least favorite thing to do in school was write! Still do. That's why I love to blog...lol
Great story.
- Jan 25, 2009, 9:58:00 AM
- blognut said...
Awesome... and a little naughty... but still awesome.
- Jan 25, 2009, 12:01:00 PM
- A. said...
Awesome confession. It is a great lesson, and with all the papers I write for school, I still use it...
- Jan 25, 2009, 12:43:00 PM
- Tiffany said...
That's great! The power of fiction.
- Jan 25, 2009, 1:50:00 PM
- Ryan Ashley Scott@Optimistic Cynicism said...
Oh! Next your going to tell us your cats don't actually converse!
- Jan 25, 2009, 2:20:00 PM
- beckiwithani said...
Wow, I agree with a previous commenter that that is a REALLY great confession. You should write a book about your "family history" and fool Oprah!
- Jan 25, 2009, 8:15:00 PM
- Yaya said...
- Jan 25, 2009, 9:15:00 PM
- Hula's Secret Blog said...
This is too funny!
How creative of you! Ha!
- Jan 25, 2009, 9:17:00 PM
- The Wife O Riley said...
Good for you! I have always believed a little creativity never hurt anyone.
- Jan 25, 2009, 10:30:00 PM
- ella said...
Add the topper: Now you can't really remember what your grandfather really did---only your fictionalized account of it!
- Jan 25, 2009, 11:57:00 PM
- andy said...
i think it's awesome that you do not have guilt...but instead have learned a great life lesson. give people what they want to get good grades...and also so they will sometimes think better of you;)
love it.
- Jan 26, 2009, 2:23:00 AM
- Call Me Cate said...
The problem with pre-blogging is that I forget to come back and respond to comments.
I *DO* still have the paper somewhere. I came across it in the last couple of years and just had to save it.
Lora - that's taking it to a whole 'nother level. Congrats!
Ryan - of COURSE my cats actually converse. Geesh.
Becki - I'm not scared of Oprah. Bring her on, I'm sure I could fool her.
Ella - Nope, I remember what Grampa did. But that would be awesome if I didn't.
Thanks so much to everyone that stopped by and commented. Comments make me happy. :)
- Jan 26, 2009, 1:52:00 PM
- ♥ JaYmE ♥ said...
LMAO good to know i wasnt the only one. bwaahahahaa
- Jan 28, 2009, 1:36:00 AM
- Mommy2lilgems said...
wow! That is an awesome story!! Makes me feel better for all my fabrications! I'm here by way of SITs cause you're saucy!
- Jan 28, 2009, 4:03:00 PM
- Mommy2lilgems said...
sorry for all the exclamation marks in my previous comment. :)
- Jan 28, 2009, 4:06:00 PM
- Young said...
Wow! You are very interesting. I wish I could be a creative writer like you. You're really smart. ^_^
- Jan 29, 2009, 1:30:00 AM


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gslender wrote:Also, there is no concept of "remove plugin" for folks that don't wish to use, or someone does something buggy etc.
LT401Vette wrote:One thing that might be getting you is a 64 bit vs 32 bit JRE.. You do need to have the right RXTX driver in place for what ever JRE starts it. When starting by the exe, it is a 32 bit exe so it will invoke the 32 bit JRE and so I have the 32 bit RXTX driver in there. By Double clicking it can start in 64 bit mode if you have a 64 bit JRE installed, or if you are running it from eclipse while it is running on a 64 bit JDK. Then you can just move the 64 bit RXTX driver in place. That is how most of my development is done, 64 bit win7 on a 64 bit jre
LT401Vette wrote:Try running it from a command prompt with that command, then if you are running a 64 bit JRE and it complains, move the RXTX driver from the dir"
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