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The other day I drove to the North Springs Marta Station to meet my middle son who was catching the train from the Atlanta airport. We never go directly to the Atlanta airport because the traffic is always heavy and airport parking is expensive.
On the way to the Marta Station I had to navigate Georgia 400 which is known for heavy traffic on a multi lane highway. Driving in my Volvo 240 with the "be green" bumper sticker on the back window I had both hands firmly on the steering wheel. On 400 it starts as a 4 lane highway and lanes are added the closer you get to the Atlanta metro area.
I am known as a mindful driver who never exceeds the speed limit. On this trip I held a steady speed of 60-65 mph. I felt like my car was not even moving because everyone was zipping by me at 75 mph. Oh, the cheap gas makes Georgians feel that they can drive as fast as they want. Conservation is never thought about unless the price of gas rises above 4 dollars a gallon. Does higher gas prices equals conservation?
On ABC News the other night Charlie Gibson had a special called "Addicted to Oil". He raised an interesting point that gasoline prices do not factor in the hidden costs of production. Such costs include the military (for fighting the gas wars in Iraqi and other places to protect our interests- cheap oil) and global warming.
Maybe such costs will be added in the future to reflect the true cost of a gallon of gasoline. If so, can you imagine how much we would be paying? Maybe 4 to 6 dollars a gallon. I bet those highway 400 drivers would slow down and show that higher gas prices equals conservation.Follow Us on Social Media


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Cardinal Gibbons boys lacrosse rolls past Ravenscroft
Cardinal Gibbons coach Alex Buckley looked at film of the Crusaders' convincing 16-4 win against Ravenscroft and saw plenty of room for improvement.
The Tuesday win moved Gibbons to 2-0 on the year, having outscored its opponents 32-12 to start the season, but the first-year coach's sights were straight ahead.
"It is a long season and at no point can we ever get satisfied with our effort," Buckley said. "There's always things we can do better."
Senior attack Gannon Morrison, a Marist recruit, had a direct hand in 10 of the Crusaders' goals Tuesday, finishing with three scores and seven assists.
Buckley looked to Morrison and fellow seniors Robbie Lavelle and Daniel Geiger to keep the team positive at all times this season.
"I thought it was going to take longer for these guys to trust each other and learn to play for each other, but they started doing that before our first scrimmage," Buckley said.
"I'm really pleased with the way that our guys have supported each other and that's going to carry us through hopefully the whole season."
For Ravenscroft (1-1), which has made it to final four of the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association for the past two years, the loss served as an early-season measuring stick.
"(Nonconference play) is an opportunity to measure yourself against quality programs," Ravenscroft coach Sandy Kapatos said. "Sometimes it's good to take a trumping, as much as you hate to go through it. ... They are a program we aspire to be like and obviously we have a ways to go, but the year is young. We want to be playing our best lacrosse at the end of the year."

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It's breeding season and it's the 30 minute period at the end of night when all the birds begin to awaken soon almost all male birds will sing; quietly at first and then loud and hard. As the sun rises, EVERY bird in earshot is singing simultaneously. You are the audience.
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Snowboarder Mike Schultz, who has designed adaptive sports prosthetics that some of his teammates will be wearing in competition, has been named the U.S. flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Paralympics.
He was selected in a vote by U.S. athletes, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced Wednesday. Schultz will the lead the 74-member delegation in Friday's opening ceremony, which will be shown on NBC Sports Network at 6 a.m.
In 2008 Schultz suffered injuries in a snocross race that resulted in having his left leg amputated above the knee when the snowmobile he was riding landed on his leg. After the accident, he created his own prosthetic knee using a mountain bike shock and other equipment he had in his garage. Seven months after his accident, he went on to win a silver medal on his dirt bike in the adaptive Super-X competition at the Summer X Games.
After seeing a need for better adaptive sports prosthetics, Schultz founded his company BioDapt Inc. in July 2010.
The 36-year-old from St. Cloud, Minn., will make his Paralympic debut after learning to snowboard in 2011. Athletes on the U.S. snowboard team in the LL-1 and LL-2 classes wear the prosthetic knee and foot designed by Schultz's company.
For full clip, go to Monster Mike Schultz FB page! Today marks 100 days out from the Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympic Games. With an amazing, supportive team around me, hard work and dedication, I am a few steps closer to Pyeongchang with a recent gold and a silver from the World Cup snowboard events in The Netherlands. This weekend, I have two more World Cups in Finland where I will try to lock in my spot for Korea. On this day as we countdown 100 days until the Paralympics in Korea, I am excited to launch and share with you this video of my journey - one that, at times, seemed impossible but is unfolding into a dream of mine. #100days Video Credit: @nostyleprod
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Schultz enters the Paralympics as one of the top snowboarders in the world having won a silver medal in banked slalom at the 2017 world championships.
At the final World Cup in February at Big White in British Columbia, Schultz wrapped up season titles in snowboard-cross and banked slalom.
"To me, there's two symbols for Team USA: the national anthem and the American flag," Schultz said in a statement. "To be on the world stage carrying our flag and representing the U.S. Paralympic Team is a huge honor. I'll be trying my hardest to hold back the tears during the opening ceremony."
The Paralympic snowboard competition begins Monday with men's and women's snowboard-cross. The banked slalom event, new to this year's Paralympics, will be held March 16.
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By Katheryn Robichaud, Communication Studies, '13
When I came to Chico State as a freshman, I was hesitant: How would the transition be? Is this the right school for me?
For the first time, I was moving away from my home in Pleasanton, and I knew I would face some homesickness. I decided to dedicate freshman year to learning how to balance my time, studying for my classes, and becoming familiar with my new world. That year, I explored Chico, the downtown area, and Bidwell Park and made new friends living in the residence hall. By the end of my freshman year, I knew that I liked Chico, but I didn't yet feel a strong connection to the campus and community.
Since orientation people had been telling me, "Make sure you get involved," but I didn't quite know how. I was unsure of what to do to feel more connected. My sophomore year, I decided to make joining a club a priority and ended up joining one within my communication studies major. The club helped me to meet people within my own area of interest and become friends with people in my classes.
At the same time, I became more familiar with the Chico area, learned all the streets around campus, and had got to know more of my professors and classmates. By the end of my sophomore year, I knew I really liked Chico.
But it was the third year that changed my entire college experience. My junior year, I became a Summer Orientation peer advisor, and it was one of the best opportunities I could have found.
As a Summer O leader, I trained for six months to become a Chico expert, and throughout the summer I got to welcome all the new freshmen and transfer students, orient them to campus, tell them the ins and outs of being a Chico State student, introduce them to graduation requirements, and help them pick out appropriate classes for their first semester. I got to share my own experiences with these students, and it felt great helping to kick-start their Chico Experience.
Meanwhile, I became friends with the other 28 incredible students who were hired as Summer Orientation leaders. Along with making connections with faculty on campus, I improved my teamwork skills, public speaking, and ability to interact with a different group of people every day. At the end of my third year, I loved Chico.
In my senior year, I continued with the Summer Orientation program as one of four senior staff members, meaning I got to help select the new members for the 2013 Summer Orientation, train them, and put on workshops to help the team bond. I concurrently had an on-campus internship, making it my busiest but most rewarding year. I now felt the strong connection to the campus and community that people had told me about when I first came to Chico. I finally fully understood that "getting involved" was the key to a well-rounded experience at Chico State.
I graduated this spring, and it is very hard to accept that this chapter of my life has come to an end. By graduation, I loved Chico State so much that I wished I could have stayed longer! After getting involved with Summer Orientation, making countless friends and connections on campus, and making an impact on new students, I can look back and say that coming to Chico State was the best decision I ever made.


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I was looking at a competition to find the best six word short story! Yep, six words. Apparently this comes from Ernest Hemingway, who once bet someone he could write the world's best short story in 6 words. It was poo pooed, but he wrote:
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Now *that* is good. Kind of a neat concept Trouble is, it's hard to top that one without copying it. You can do all kinds of variations. But something original??
Anyone got any? And no, I do NOT intend to steal your idea and enter it into the competition. I don't think it is for me at all, but I thought it would be fun to see what we all come up with. Make Friday go a little quicker.....


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I hesitate to comment on your wordless Wednesday but your photography is just always so good.ReplyDelete
Comments are always welcome on Wordless Wednesday! It's just the post that's quiet... ;)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2011 at 8:09 AM
Wonderful images, Paula! Wishing you a delightful day.ReplyDelete
These are great Paula! I love the look on the sheep's face.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Brrrrrr! Did y'all get some of that snow over the weekend? 'Fraid it's just a sign of things to come...again...brrr!ReplyDelete
Lovely images!ReplyDelete
I'm speechless! (is that the same as "wordless"?) ;)ReplyDelete
beautiful but cold!!!ReplyDelete
Wow...your photography just keeps getting better and better all the time, Paula!ReplyDelete
wow, such beautiful pictures...love them! :DReplyDelete
Did u get a new camera? These ones R awesome. Love the frost detail......ReplyDelete
Thanks for checking up on me.
I love, luff, lurve!! morning frostiness.ReplyDelete
Beautiful as always Paula!
You must have been out early to get these shots!! It's cold here this morning too.ReplyDelete
Were you happy with the fabric?
BEAUTIFUL frosty pics!!! Hope you have a wonderful day Paula:)ReplyDelete
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That looks cold!! Great pictures!!
Would you be jealous if I told you it was 80 degress here yesterday...had my A/C on??
Hugs, Ann
The pictures are beautiful!!! Hope you're having a nice day!ReplyDelete
Those are great pictures. Did yall get any snow up your way? I am comforted that there was no frost on Lily Bell.ReplyDelete
Your photography is wonderful. I love the beautiful winter scenes. Wonderful images. Wishing you a great day.
So pretty.........I can feel the chill and the calm stillness in each picture! blessings,KathleenReplyDelete
Cool pictures :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing!
I sure wish y'all could keep all that cold on your side of the mountains. We're feeling a bit of Fall weather here, now. :(ReplyDelete
Brrrrr. Pretty but brrrr.ReplyDelete
Awesome Pictures, we've had a few frosty mornings like that. Wish I'd caught them on camera like you..Wouldn't have been as good though.I would have cut the sheep's head off...SusieReplyDelete
Great picture of the frost on the chain. Cold in California but only thing to take a picture of is fog.ReplyDelete
Looks wonderful to me---I love the cold!ReplyDelete
Beautiful pictures..brrr..they made me cold ! !ReplyDelete
Uhhhhh....I think it's COLD THERE!!!Hahaaa...Yuck! I'm already wishing for Spring!ReplyDelete
Great shots though!!
Holy moly, I almost forgot what the cold could look like. sure hope I stay warm..now is the only time I'm glad I don't have chickens to feed :o)ReplyDelete
Beautiful pics there my sweet friend.. Pretty frosty ...ReplyDelete
I got chilly looking at the frost! Brrrr.ReplyDelete
BRRR for sure. Those are beautiful photos however.ReplyDelete
What kind of camera do you use?
Mine don't take photos that nice.
The quiet post is awesome, really!ReplyDelete
I love frosty morning scenes like these.ReplyDelete
these pictures are amazing! where were these taken?ReplyDelete
Just beautiful, Paula!ReplyDelete
I never thought about frost having any beauty, until now. RichardReplyDelete
OH BRRRRR girl...... that looks cold. We too have frost here but I in no way want to stick my toe out the door to take pics.... you are brave!!!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos; you have a great eye! Many thanks for your comments and prayers; they have helped.ReplyDelete
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IntercontinentalExchange Group Inc. (ICE) is pitching Wall Street on new derivative contracts allowing investors to wager on U.S. homeowner defaults, six years after subprime-mortgage swaps helped fuel the financial crisis, according to five people with knowledge of the matter.
ICE, which owns the biggest clearinghouse of swaps tied to the creditworthiness of companies, is gauging interest among banks and investment firms for a contract linked to a new type of mortgage securities that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac started selling last year, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private. The government-backed firms have issued $4.5 billion of those bonds, which share the risk of home-loan defaults, as policy makers seek to scale back their roles in the $9.4 trillion mortgage market.
Subprime mortgage derivatives were among the fastest-growing financial instruments during an era of innovation that fueled the credit bubble that triggered the 2008 crisis. As the market for the new risk-sharing debt matures, creating swaps that allow investors to start betting against it or hedging against losses would be "the logical next step," said David Liu, co-manager of a securitized-asset fund run by New York-based TIG Advisors LLC.
"Having a healthy two-way market will actually keep things more balanced," said Liu, whose fund, with about $450 million, has invested in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac notes.
Principal in the risk-sharing securities can be erased when homeowners stop paying their mortgages.
After the first sale of the bonds in July by Freddie Mac, the riskiest portion has soared from par, or 100 cents on the dollar, to about 129 cents on April 29, according to Trace, the bond-price reporting system of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
The debt carries a coupon that floats 7.15 percentage points above a borrowing benchmark. The rally allowed the company to sell similar debt in April at a spread of 3.6 percentage point.
Unlike the mortgage-linked swaps created during the credit bubble, the new contracts would be backed by ICE's clearinghouse, the people said. The Dodd-Frank Act has been pushing most trading in the market into such entities, which are intended to curb risks to the financial system by collecting margin to ensure deals are honored and holding billions of dollars in reserves from banks.
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Some banks have expressed reluctance to support swaps that may jeopardize their ability to win underwriting assignments or hamper development of the new market, the people said. At the same time, dealers are looking for ways to boost trading revenue after volumes in other markets shrunk.
Freddie Mac hasn't been involved in the discussions, said Patricia Boerger, a spokeswoman for the company. Brookly McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for Atlanta-based ICE, declined to comment, as did Fannie Mae spokesman Andrew Wilson and Denise Dunckel, a spokeswoman for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees the mortgage-finance giants.
Policy makers see the risk-sharing notes as a way to reduce taxpayer dangers and assess whether the firms are charging enough to guarantee their traditional home-loan bonds. The sales also resemble the future under a bill by the leaders of the Senate Banking Committee, which would replace the companies with a government reinsurer that bears losses after private capital.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were seized by the U.S. in 2008 during a crisis that was exacerbated by the wagers on subprime mortgages made with credit-default swaps. The side bets multiplied losses at banks such as Citigroup Inc. and insurers including American International Group Inc. and allowed bearish investors to accelerate the contraction in credit.
"There is a definite potential downside, as history clearly shows," said Michael Canter, head of securitized assets at New York-based AllianceBernstein Holding LP. On the other hand, there's already a series of index-based swaps that serve important roles in corporate-credit trading, he said.
Derivatives tied to the loss-sharing deals could allow dealers to hedge their inventories and investors to take positions more quickly, helping the market's functioning, Canter said. They also would let underwriters and the issuers prepare for future sales, Liu said.
Mortgages since the crisis haven't been as risky, suggesting a new swaps market wouldn't pose any immediate danger, Liu said.
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ICE's plans, which it's working on with eBond Advisors LLC, may also include futures contracts tied to the privately traded mortgage swaps, as well as instruments tied to the performance of a broader pool of loans that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac back, two of the people said. Richard MacWilliams, managing partner of New York-based eBond Advisors, which advises on notes called exchangeable bonds, declined to comment.
ICE's clearinghouses in the U.S. and Europe are the world's largest for backing credit swaps. As of April 28, it had guaranteed $52 trillion of contracts through 1.7 million trades, the company said yesterday.
The market for mortgage swaps has shriveled since the crisis. Just $460 million of most-active ABX index contracts tied to subprime loans traded in the week ended April 25, compared with $106.7 billion for the busiest index swaps tied to corporate credit, according to data from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
ICE stumbled last year in its effort to create a futures contract based on corporate credit swaps. That idea was ahead of its time and "largely failed," ICE Chief Executive Officer Jeff Sprecher said last year.
The company is close to offering a new futures contract based on the most-active swap indexes owned by Markit Group Ltd., replicating the lineups of investment-grade and junk-rated companies, a person with knowledge of the plan said last month.


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Under the purchase agreement signed on 7 March 2017, Deutsche EuroShop AG is acquiring 100% of the shares in a property company that is the owner of the Olympia Center in Brno. The company is being sold by two funds managed by Rockspring Property Investment Managers and ECE Real Estate Partners respectively. The acquisition is expected to be completed during the first half of 2017. The acquisition will increase Deutsche EuroShops portfolio to 21 shopping centers, with a market value of some 5.1 billion (100% perspective).
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Last week, the Ravens cut fullback Vonta Leach. By the end of the month, he plans to have a new team.
"I know I can play in this league and I've got some teams that are courting me," Leach recently said, via the Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector. "In the next two weeks, I know where I'll be playing."
The veteran spent two years in Baltimore after five in Houston, two full seasons with the Packers, and one split between Green Bay and New Orleans.
"There are a lot of teams out there that want me, about seven teams," Leach said. "Me and my agent are going to take our time and see what's the best fit for me. I'm probably going to play three more years before I hang it up."
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The 27th DCC is now history.
Below are a few of the highlights. If you have any comments or pictures to contribute please contact us.
The highpoint of DCC? One would probably have to say the outstanding A/V setup. Two large screens with flamethrower projectors in the main ballroom plus two remote large screen LCD monitors and sound in the hallway and the demo room allowed keeping track of presentations wherever you might be.
Kermit Carlson, W9XA, and crew spent many hours making arrangements, setting up and operating A/V equipment. A/V equipment was provided by Ron Steinberg, K9IKZ.
Mark Thompson, WB9QZB headed up the local marketing efforts.
Oh, but how about the roast pig Friday night at the social hour, wasn't that pretty good too?
DVDs are now available.
In attendance:
Joe Lynch, N6CL, editor of CQ-VHF and his XYL Carol, W6CL, were in attendance with sample issues.
Gary Pearce KN4AQ recorded all the sessions and will be offering a DVD of the conference. DVDs may be ordered from his website at www.arvideonews.com.
Hap Holly, KC9RP, of the R.A.I.N. Report was in attendance Saturday and did interviews with many in attendance.
Larry Wolfgang, WR1B, QEX editor represented the ARRL and also presented information on the steps involved in getting an article published.
Icom America and Kenwood were represented and had displays.
Of course the usual movers and shakers too numerous to mention were there too.
For a complete list of presentations, look here ...
Some of the speakers at the 27th DCC.
Pictures courtesy Gary Pearce, KN4AQ
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|Paul Rinaldo, W4RI
|Jerry Shirar, N9XR
|Mel Whitten, K0PFX
|Pete Loveall, AE5PL
|Dan Smith, KK7DS
|Mark Thompson, WB9QZB
|Erik Westgard, NY9D
|Paul Wiedemeir, KE5LKY
|Larry Wolfgang, WR1B
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After the demise of several high-profile credit union business and commercial lending programs over the past few years, examiners are applying more scrutiny to the way credit unions conduct their operations.
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1. Organize your loan files neatly and consistently.
From his experience, one out of three credit union loan files are in some state of disarray, said Larry Middleman, president/CEO of CUBG.
"If you have paper files, clean it up. Now, many have gone electronic. When you have examiners coming in, first impressions are key."
2. A high yield on a business loan is there for a reason.
In this market, 4% to 5% is a pretty good rate right now, Middleman said. A credit union might be able to refinance at 6% if the business has a good track record and can prove themselves. Another good reason credit unions or certain entities like a CUSO would charge higher than market rates is when an establishing an effective niche.
Ultimately, when it comes to high yields, Middleman said, "I challenge you – ask, is it a risk we don't want to take?'"
3. Have a meaningful risk rating system for pass rate loans.
Middleman said "this is a pet peeve" because when credit unions say "everything is a three," it's not good for the management or the board.
"Why do you have criteria where you cannot do a one-rated loan?" he asked.
The bottom line is credit unions can indeed have one-rated loans particularly in those cases when the member is "a very strong borrower that is rock solid with your credit union," Middleman suggested.
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4. Don't get emotionally attached to a loan request.
Credit unions that are relatively new to business lending, tend to have this problem, Middleman said.
"The length of a time as a member should not be a factor," he urged. "It is not underwriting criteria. In 2008 to 2010, I was amazed at the number of heavy hitters that got too highly leveraged and everything they did in business lending had turned to gold." That all changed when the economy took a turn and everything started to collapse, Middleman recalled.
5. Use written proposals to communicate the value you bring to the business relationship.
"This is something credit unions don't do well," Middleman said.
A written proposal of no more than two to three pages that specifically states how the credit union will save a business time, money and how to make them more money can make significant strides.
"If you put it in your written proposal, I guarantee it will add volumes to that business. Show at least a brief snapshot of a transition plan – who's going to handle what."
6. Maximize the business check program.
"I know some are saying 'who writes checks anymore, they're going away,'" Middleman said. "Yes, consumer checks are on the drafting block but businesses have a lot of reasons to write checks – for tax purposes, for audit purposes."
The average business check order is $70 and a portion of that can be fee income for credit unions, Middleman noted. The typical rebate that check printers offer to credit unions is about 10% to 20%, he added.
"Get them hooked into (checks) when an account is opened. If you don't, you're missing out on fee income."
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7. Identify your niche.
Credit unions should ask, "what are they doing better than anyone else?" Effectively communicate in 30 seconds or less what your niches are, Middleman said. The senior management team and board of directors should also know what they are too.
Identify where you want to be in lending — for instance, retail businesses or bigger facilities. Find out where you excel and go after it.
"During my banking days, we were known as the low cost provider," Middleman said. "Our pricing on deposit products and services were lower than Bank of America and Wells Fargo. We led with 'we can save you money. We also had a good branch network. Our target was a one to 20 mile radius of where the businesses were."
8. Sophisticated small businesses will want everything.
Middleman said while he's glad to see some credit unions serving "mom and pop businesses, because there's a place for those," but one goal would be trying to move up the ladder to serve businesses that will be more meaty and profitable.
He pointed to a focus group of 10 small businesses that convened to discuss their needs and where credit unions fit in addressing them. The most important request was being close to a branch, they said. Others valued access to credit. Roughly four of the participants said the deposit side was more important than lending services. As for technology, some used remote deposit capture religiously while others could not care less, Middleman said.
"The point is you need a nice package of services. Every one of those businesses had high value for service and having a point person when they needed help," he pointed out.
9. Branch integration requires significant effort and it starts at the top.
There should be a nice balance of expertise to answer questions and talk about complete products such as remote deposit capture, Middleman said. Then, referrals can be made to the central area for follow-up, he added.
"I can tell you that credit unions struggle with this left and right. The answer is it starts at the top. If the CEO preaches every single week 'we are going to have an effective branch network,' it will get done."
10. Change the perception of the credit union as a player in the business market.
Middleman said he learned this from that focus group of 10 business owners. Among their complaints were not getting timely responses from credit unions and not receiving adequate help, especially on the lending side. Some didn't even consider credit unions when it came to their business service and lending needs.
"Step one is simple awareness. Step two is chipping away at businesses where you have a product or service advantage. The business owner might be an existing member," Middleman offered. "Stay in touch. At some point, Wells Fargo is really going to tick them off and then the credit union will be right there" to offer relief.


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The human body is composed of approximately 65 percent to 70 percent water. Every cell, tissue and organ contains water, and every metabolic reaction and function in the body needs water.
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Performing the above will safely remove all metabolic waste products and contaminants in our environment from the body without excessive burden on the kidneys.
- Fruits and vegetables — The more varied the colors of the fruits and vegetables, the more vitamins, minerals and antioxidants you will get. Most detoxification pathways in the body utilize the nutrients we obtain from fruits and vegetables. Buy organic when you can.
- Functional Foods — These foods have actions beyond their basic nutrient content and are known to enhance our body's ability to detoxify. Examples include artichoke, the Brassicaceae (Cruciferous) family, beets, onions, garlic, green tea and herbs like turmeric and dandelion root.
- Fiber — Just like water helps to excrete toxins via the urine, fiber is needed to excrete toxins via the stool. The Institute of Medicine recommends total fiber intake from foods at 38 grams per day for young men and 25 grams per day for young women. However, the 2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that 93 percent of Americans consume less than 25 grams per day.
One important benefit to exercise is sweating, which helps remove toxins. Also, as our heart rate goes up, so does our metabolism, burning the fat that stores many of the toxins we're exposed to on a daily basis, including toxic metals such as mercury.
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Some 2.2 million homes and businesses in New York lost power in the storm, which blew ashore in New Jersey a week ago.
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State of Michigan Voter Registration Application and Michigan Driver License/ Personal Identification Card Address Change Form
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Birth certificates are available at the City Clerk's Office if the person was born in Warren. Death certificates are available at the City Clerk's Office if the person died in Warren. The cost for birth and death certificates are $7.50 for the first copy and $3.00 for extra copies. Seniors pay $2.00 for their birth certificates and get a 20% discount for the death certificate of their spouse.
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- Not spayed/neutered $5.00 | Senior Citizens $4.00
- Three Years Rabies:
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- Not Spayed/neutered $10.00 | Senior Citizens $8.00
You need to send the following to get a dog license by mail:
- The original rabies certificate.
- A check made out to the City of Warren for the cost of the license.
- A daytime phone number in case we have any questions.
The rabies certificate will be returned along with the receipt and dog tag.
Garage Sale Permits [Garage Sale Permit Form]
If you want to have a garage sale, a permit is required. Two garage sales per calendar year are allowed; with a limit of four days per occurrence. Please be advised your garage sale may or may not be posted on your City of Warren cable channel for advertising depending upon date received.
- There is no charge for a garage sale permit. A simple application must be completed.
- A garage sale permit can be obtained through the mail or by fax.
- Call the City Clerk's Office to have an application mailed or faxed to you.
- The homeowner address and sale date will be posted on the City's Website.
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On 10/25 GYAK88 wrote: The Story: Saint Patrick by Jonathan Rogers is about Ireland's well known saint. The book is about Saint Patrick who comes from a well known, well to do family. At a very young age he was taken away from the comfort of his family & sold into slavery into Ireland. He very faithfully worked as a shepherd ... Saint Patrick by Jonathan Rogers
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Standard ECMA-155
Private Integrated Services Networks
- Addressing (PTNA-2)
2nd edition (June 1997)
This Ecma Standard defines the requirements for the handling
of network addresses for the identification of entities which
use or provide telecommunication services offered by Private Integrated
Services Networks (PISNs). This Standard covers numbering, including
the requirements for the support of a Private Numbering Plan,
the addressing of network service access points for open systems
interconnection (OSI NSAP addressing), and the support of subaddressing.
This Standard is applicable to Private Integrated Services Network
Exchanges with broad-band and narrow-band capabilities (PINX)
and to terminals to be attached to the access of PINXs. Any use
by a PINX of the Support of Private Numbering Plans supplementary
service provided by a public ISDN is outside the scope of this
Although this Standard does not explicitly describe its application
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Western Snowy Plover
Basic Facts About Western Snowy Plovers
The western snowy plover (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus) is a small wading shorebird with pale brown wings, back, tail and head and white under parts. It has dark patches on either side of the upper breast, dark gray to blackish legs and a black bill.
© Photo by Michael L. Baird
Western snowy plovers eat invertebrates like crustaceans and mollusks, marine worms, along with insects.
There are an estimated 2,600 western snowy plovers along the Pacific coast.
Did You Know?
Plover nests are camouflaged to look like sand and are barely visible to even the most well-trained eye.
Western snowy plovers are found throughout the southwestern United States from Texas to California and up to Colorado, as well as Washington and Oregon.
Snowy plovers are primarily visual foragers, using the run-stop-peck method of feeding typical of most plover species. They forage on invertebrates in the wet sand and amongst surf-cast kelp within the inter-tidal zone, in dry, sandy areas above the high tide, on salt pans, on spoil sites and along the edges of salt marshes, salt ponds and lagoons. They sometimes probe for prey in the sand and pick insects from low-growing plants.
Western snowy plovers make nests on sand spits, dune-backed beaches, beaches at creek and river mouths and the banks of lagoons and estuaries. The nests, or scrapes, are made in small depressions, often human footprints in the sand, and are constructed using pebbles, shell fragments, fish bones, mud chips, vegetation fragments, or invertebrate skeletons.
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Weight: 1.2-2 ounces.
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Car News: 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show
BMW i8 Official Pricing Announced
- BMW i8 will start at $135,925 before shipping
- Goes on sale next spring as a 2015 model
- Plug-in hybrid motor makes a combined 362 horsepower
BMW has officially announced pricing for its plug-in hybrid i8 coupe. The high-performance hybrid will start at $135,925 plus destination, placing it in competition with high-dollar luxury models from Aston Martin, Audi and Porsche.
Officially revealed in production form earlier this week at the Frankfurt Auto Show, the BMW i8 is an all-wheel-drive sports coupe with futuristic styling. Exterior traits include large wheels, highly stylized front and rear bumpers and a low-slung design that features upward-swinging doors.
The eye-catching exterior matches the car's unusual powertrain. Under the skin, a 231-horsepower 3-cylinder engine powers the rear wheels, while a 131-hp electric motor works the front wheels. The result is 362 hp combined, all-wheel drive and an exotic-car-like 0-to-60 miles per hour time of around 4.4 seconds.
But reaching 60 mph in 4.4 seconds is the least of the i8's tricks. According to BMW, the plug-in exotic will return an estimated 94 miles per gallon -- a figure once reserved for tiny hatchbacks with electric drivetrains. The i8 also uses a Driving Experience Control switch to allow drivers to choose between Sport, Eco, Pro or Comfort settings. A fifth eDrive setting allows the i8 to travel up to 22 miles on electric power alone.
With its $135,925 base price, the i8 will compete with several top-end luxury sports cars. Rivals will include: the Audi R8, which starts around $116,000; the Porsche 911 Carrera S, which starts around $100,000; and the Aston Martin Vantage, which starts at $123,000.
Thus, the i8 will be more expensive than its closest rivals. And since the R8, 911 and Vantage all boast over 400 hp, the i8 will also be the least powerful. So BMW will have to convince shoppers that the i8's new technology is worth a premium over more established, gas-powered competition.
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Staff Sgt. Sonny Zimmerman
Staff Sergeant Sonny C. Zimmerman, 25, of Lima, formerly of Waynesfield, was killed in action Tuesday, July 16, 2013, in Afghanistan.
Sonny was born Aug. 21, 1987, in Lima to Michelle (Turner) and Chris Zimmerman. His father survives in Waynesfield, his mother survives in Waynesfield, and his step-father David Fischbach, survives in Ottoville. On Sept. 30, 2012, he married Morgan McGhee, and she survives in Lima.
Also surviving are a daughter, Riley McVicker; his grandparents, Loretta and Ronnie Zimmerman, of Waynesfield, and Lucy Turner, of Bellefontaine; two sisters, Kaylee Zimmerman, of Waynesfield, Staff Sergeant Baily Zimmerman, of Pope AFB, N.C., a step-brother, Andy Fischbach, of Nebraska; a step-sister, Abby Fischbach, of Columbus; his mother- and father-in-law, Chrisa and Kevin McGhee, of Lima; a brother-in-law, Matt McGhee, of Lima; and a sister-in-law Nici (Andrew) Wright, of Alexandria, Ky.
Sonny was a 2005 graduate of Waynesfield-Goshen High School, a member of Waynesfield United Methodist Church, an avid Ohio State University Buckeyes fan, Cleveland Browns fan and Detroit Red Wings fan. He played roller hockey and while attending high school he played football and baseball. Sonny was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Airborne Division, where he was an infantry squad leader. His awards included a Purple Heart, three Army Commendation Medals, two Army Achievement Medals, two Army Good Conduct Medals, National Defense Service Medal, three Afghanistan Campaign Medals, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Non Commissioned Office Professional Development Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, three Overseas Ribbons, NATO Medal, Combat Infantry Badge and Air Assault Badge.
Funeral services will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at Waynesfield-Goshen High School, with U.S. Army Chaplain French and the Rev. Kathleen Hays officiating. Burial will follow at Walnut Hill Cemetery in New Hampshire.
Friends will be received from 1 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. Friday also at the school.
Contributions may be given to "Wounded Warriors" in Sonny's memory.
Armentrout Funeral Home in Waynesfield is in charge of the arrangements.


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Monday, October 15, 2007
I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide: Job Security vs. Career Security
ZZ Top owns the radio in New Mexico. They're on the classic rock stations, the hard rock stations, the 80s stations, the country stations, and even the Spanish-language stations. I have several times in New Mexico changed the station during a ZZ Top song only to land on another station playing another ZZ Top song. I have even more than once changed the station in NM during a ZZ Top song only to land on another station playing the same ZZ Top song. New Mexico radio belongs to ZZ Top. Everybody else is just visiting.
"I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" is a ZZ Top song. Hopefully you can figure out what it's about, but just in case, the singer's point is that he is bad, and he is nationwide. I also am bad, and nationwide. I'm off to Ohio tomorrow morning, I was in Philadelphia last month and Chicago the month before, and I live in Los Angeles, New Mexico, and Silicon Valley.
This proves I'm nationwide. Let me tell you how I'm bad. I've twice refused to do work because it was boring. Saturday I turned down work this way, and earlier this year I got fired for it. But my baddest moment in the Rails community came when I was banned from the Rails list.
The list moved to Google Groups, and did it without warning or announcement, which bothered some people. I was one of those people. I had the Rails list filtering to the trash based on the email address. The migration broke my spam filters and fuxored my productivity. (For contrast, right now I have four messages, total, in my Inbox. This is normal for me. It takes some serious effort.) So I reported the list admin to Google Abuse for signing me up to a Google Group without warning me. Turns out the list admin was DHH, and a lot of people on the Rails list thought I shouldn't have done that. They expressed this to me with the maturity and good manners many of us have come to expect from the Rails list, I responded at the same level, and DHH banned me from the list.
Speaking of DHH:
There can be no doubt that DHH is both bad, and nationwide. In fact, he's one further: he's bad, he's worldwide. Speaking all over the world about Rails makes him worldwide; responding to enterprise critics with a simple "Fuck You" makes him bad.
It's good to be bad. It's good to be nationwide. It's even better to be worldwide.
How can we apply the lessons of ZZ Top in the workplace?
Obviously if you walk into your boss' office, jump on his or her desk, pull down your pants, and perform toilet functions all over the place, that would be bad. But it would not be nationwide, and it would not encourage becoming nationwide. In fact, it would not really be bad, it would just be stupid. But this silly example highlights a deeper paradox: that which is bad is usually local, and that which is nationwide is usually good.
It's also important to remember we're talking about being bad and nationwide (or worldwide). George Bush, for example, might seem to be bad, and worldwide, but in reality he is merely evil, and worldwide, which is not the same thing. This, of course, gets into the question of the fundamental nature of badness, and such paradoxes as "not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good." If this confuses you, just remember: Run-DMC and ZZ Top are good role models. George Bush is not.
The reason it's good to be bad, and nationwide, is that job security does not exist any more. Job security, in reality, was never important; it was a proxy, in an earlier version of our society, for income security. Obviously, as much as our society has changed, income security remains important.
Job security no longer gets you income security, but career security might still be a valid goal. Personally, I want to have more than one career, but unlike a lot of people, I don't want to replace the career I currently have; I want to add on a few additional careers that are also interesting to me. This brings up questions like what a career even is any more, and these are valid questions, but that's for another post. Right now I just want to show you how being bad and nationwide (or worldwide) make for career security.
Being bad and worldwide was great for DHH's career. In fact, he was bad and worldwide when he made his "Fuck You" slide, and being bad made him more worldwide. This happened because people notice when you're bad, and being worldwide, or nationwide, or any kind of wide, is closely linked to being famous. I say "closely linked" because being wide is not the same thing as being famous, but it is a similar thing. Wide people are not always famous, but famous people are always wide. When DHH told the enterprise people "Fuck You," he was already famous and wide; this notorious act made him more famous, which in turn made him more wide.
Notorious acts can, however, backfire. When I told the Rails list something similar, it made me more famous, yet it also made me less wide. This is because being bad makes you skinny unless you get away with it, in which case it makes you wide. This brings us back to the toilet functions paradox. Being bad and nationwide at the same time is not necessarily easy.
In fact, at the time, the weirdest criticism I got on the Rails list was that I would never get a job. Several people said it, or something like it. One person said this event would come up in job interviews. (It hasn't.) Another person said that if I didn't like DHH signing me up to receive emails, I should program in Java. Still another person said that if I didn't like DHH signing me up to receive emails, I should program in PHP. I have to wonder how DHH must feel about the idea that choosing to program in Ruby and/or Rails represents a decision about his personality, let alone his email signup technique, more than any other factor. I wouldn't want that kind of responsibility, and fortunately for DHH, I'm not giving it to him. (I also think there's some pretty faulty logic involved in conflating the guy's personality with an inherently impersonal move like migrating a mailing list.) But the important point here isn't rehashing an ancient argument; the important point here is that many people thought what I did would be bad for my career.
Of course they were wrong. There are many people, in fact, who do not feel comfortable hiring Rails zealots. Many companies prefer to hire someone who is aware of shortcomings in Rails. Anybody who's been in technology a long time has seen somebody with stars in their eyes waste a ton of money by using a fantastic technology for the wrong reasons in the wrong context. Experienced managers want to make sure this won't happen to them, and they can't do that by hiring an unquestioning true believer. To a hiring manager in their forties, a hero-worshipping Rails fanatic looks like a starry-eyed teenager with posters of a rock star. Experienced managers don't respect that, because it doesn't lead them to expect reasonable conversations or pragmatic decision-making. You have to remember, rock stars always look silly later on.
In the short term, this little fracas made me skinnier, but in the long term, it made me wider. It encouraged me to further question DHH's wisdom, and I ended up with specific techniques to work around limitations in Rails. That's been useful in projects.
Likewise, when I got fired for refusing to do boring work, that made me wider as well. In fact I ran into the manager who I refused to do boring work for, just the other day, and he invited me to hang out with him. The same company that fired me for refusing to do boring work still let me keep the RailsConf ticket they bought me.
If that seems weird, here's a contrast. Many years ago I was one of the only people to still have a job after the dot-com bust. But I quit that job, moved to the middle of nowhere, and learned to draw. I knew people in technology who wrote me off as a failure because of this and laughed about it. Some even refused to believe I had quit.
The moral of the story is pretty simple. If you walk away from something, and go on to nothing, people think you were wrong to walk away. If you walk away from something, and go on to do well, people think you were right to walk away. (Although learning to draw in the forests of New Mexico was a wonderful experience, there are very materialistic people who will never respect that kind of thing, so as far as they could tell, I walked away and went to nothing.)
Anyway, this is exactly why being bad and nationwide works. Being bad draws attention; if you go on to succeed, lots of people know you're successful. Jay Phillips is bad, and nationwide: he speaks all over the country, and he names Ruby techniques after dangerous drugs. He's got a cool project called Adhearsion, which he may or may not be disillusioned with. Whether he continues the project or not, he's got career security. He's established himself as a leader and an expert, and many, many people know of the methodphitamine.
Like DHH, like myself, Jay Phillips' career security derives from being bad and nationwide. Thus is the wisdom of ZZ Top verily shown. Quod erot demonstrandum, amen. You might be satisfied with the exposition, but if not, you might want to know how you, too, can become bad and nationwide. I'm going to show you, but first, let's look at a half-naked woman in a bear suit with a toy bear.
Apologies to anyone offended, btw. I just like that picture. I have no idea wtf is going on there. I'm not even sure where I found it. I wanted to work it into the conversation logically, but you try that.
To become bad and nationwide, you need to give people something else to talk about besides your badness. Coming up with bad things to do will be easy and fun; the hard part is coming up with something else for people to talk about as well. Nobody would remember the methodphitamine if it hadn't been a powerful technique. If you tell everybody you have a Ruby technique called "The Crack Whore Factory," and your technique turns out to be puts :hello_world, nobody's going to take you seriously. They're just going to think you're an idiot. You have to have something useful and/or valuable to justify the attention.
(This is what Paris Hilton doesn't understand. It's not enough to get attention. You have to do something to justify it as well.)
In a sense, being bad and nationwide is really just a special case of Seth Godin's Purple Cow philosophy of marketing. You get more business, and better business, by being unique; being bad is one way to be unique. But if you're unique, yet not particularly valuable, that's like the pet rock. Your uniqueness may power sales, but only for a brief time. Staying power comes from uniqueness and value.
Speaking of cows, the notorious screenwriter Joe Eszterhas once wrote a screenplay about the President of the United States having sex with a cow. Although Eszterhas had a great track record of writing hits, and an army of powerful friends in Hollywood, nobody bought that screenplay or made that movie. See the pattern? Usually bad and nationwide, Eszterhas was in this case merely bad.
Long story short, the key to being bad and nationwide is to do something useful. Create something new, that definitely came from you, that other people value. Rails, Adhearsion, or even just a blog. This simple step is much more important than most people realize. It has to trace back to you personally, or it's useless for your career. As programmers, we are in the position of working for people who do not have the ability to determine whether or not we are good at our jobs. Even other programmers sometimes have trouble figuring out who is or isn't a good programmer. For potential managers and/or potential clients, the hiring and firing processes are both essentially random, unless you have some obvious distinguishing feature. That makes marketing yourself essential.
I once heard a story about a company where one dedicated programmer did all the real work, and all the other programmers were coasting off his efforts. (One of them even ran a porn site from his desk instead of working.) This programmer usually came in around 10 or 11AM, scruffy and unshaven, so, after a while, management fired him for being unprofessional. Every other programmer there immediately realized that management would eventually learn that they hadn't been doing anything for months, so they all quit too. Management was left with nothing. Nobody would come back unless the guy who did all the work came back, and he wasn't coming back. Even though this sounds like a farce, it's a true story, and it happens all the time.
You might wonder why I'm telling you this, when my best bet for career security is to hunker down and create some wonderful new thing. There's a couple reasons. First, talking about it is easier than doing it. Second, this blog is a wonderful new thing. Third, I'm studying acting and visual FX programming, I'm looking for some time to work on my drawing skills again, I want to finish one of my attempts at writing a novel, and I have a very interesting idea for a side business in hypnosis. (I have very good training in that field.) Long story short, I don't have the time, and this blog gives me all the career security I need in technology for the time being. (Also, at the moment I'm just more interested in learning Seaside, Processing, Rubinius, and Mindstorms than creating something new.) But for those of you ambitious enough to want something more, or cautious enough to want to avoid any career obstacles during the next bust, there are your steps: Be bad; be nationwide; make something cool. They're simple enough to understand. Doing them is the hard part.
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Interesting to see some comments about you picking up more artistic stuff and turning down work thats boring.ReplyDelete
This was a very fucking entertaining read.
- AnonymousOctober 15, 2007 at 11:13:00 AM PDT
Hey Giles,ReplyDelete
Inspiring post, especially for someone who just got fired for refusing to do boring work (actually I resigned but let's not split hairs.)
@chris - thanks!ReplyDelete
@anon - boredom considered harmful! if you're not into what you're doing, you won't write good code. developing the habit of writing bad code - or worse yet, of tolerating bad code - is a very bad thing for your career. it's better to spot boredom from far away and avoid it, but if you have to choose between finding a new job and writing code which blunts your edge, find a new job.
Yes, I recently hatched my own plan for national domination at impact analysisReplyDelete
You're one of my inspirations. Thanks!
Yow. I'm an inspiration. Cool!ReplyDelete
IMNSHO, being able to pick and choose jobs on the basis of how interesting they are, is one of the most compelling reasons to get really good at one's profession.ReplyDelete
God damn I love non-sequiturs!ReplyDelete
"... you, too, can become bad and nationwide. I'm going to show you, but first, let's look at a half-naked woman in a bear suit with a toy bear."
Super condensed version of this post: "Any PR is good PR as long as you have some substance behind your hype. Extra points if you are a unique and special snowflake."
- AnonymousOctober 15, 2007 at 3:30:00 PM PDT
I wish there were more people like you.ReplyDelete
And yes, you're an inspiration for me as well :)
@joe - exactly.ReplyDelete
@cypher - gracias!
@evan - that's pretty much it. all the stuff about programmer marketing ultimately traces back to Seth Godin's books and a few short but crucial parts of Chad Fowler's "My Job Went To India."
Giles, man, right on. Fuck security. Fuck jobs. Fuck the presentation layer of life (I just made that up). It's all an illusion anyway; do things that matter** and good things will come. It took me way too long to wake up to that, and this post sums up that experience nicely I think. Plus, it's rock n roll. The kids love the rock and roll.ReplyDelete
**NOTE: I'm defining "things that matter" as things that, first and foremost, matter to you, but hopefully things that have a nice community side effect as well. What good is boring execution of things that a million others have done before? It's worthless. Life is too short.
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I like the lovely lady in the bear suit. That was a nice break in the read. :)ReplyDelete
I couldn't help but chuckle at the story of the programmer who did all the work getting fired, and the company being left with nothing. I heard a story like this from a friend just recently. He was working at a major software company, who will remain nameless, whose major business is products for a particular language, but they were starting to branch out into a different language. My friend started on this "new branch" team this past spring as a contractor. One guy on the team had been there for a few years, and was the workhorse. He didn't say anything about anyone else mooching off this guy.
News had gotten out that a layoff was coming soon, and everyone assumed that they'd be let go, except for the workhorse programmer. That was the logical thing to conclude. So my friend and the rest of the team started looking for work elsewhere.
The kicker is one day my friend gets invited into his boss's office, is told that the workhorse is being laid off, along with the rest of the team, but they'd like to keep him on full time. He asked what would happen if he refused, because he was conscientious. He didn't want to cost the workhorse guy his job, plus he was having second thoughts about the wisdom of taking the job there in the first place. His boss said they'd keep the workhorse if he declined. So he did. He had already been in contact with an old employer, and they were interested in having him back. The problem for management was they had already told everyone else, including the workhorse, that they were being laid off. The workhorse was pissed. They tried to invite him back. He refused. So basically this "new branch" language group lost its entire development team, because of management's ineptness. They got the "order of operations" all wrong. If they were going to tell their top guy he was gone, they should've been sure my friend wanted to stay first. He mentioned as well that in legal terms, being a publicly traded company, management screwed up communication about the layoff, tipping people off to it before the decision had actually been made. You would think this is just management 101, I don't care what kind of business you're in.
Or, you know, you could actually do good work, and not be a primadonna. But I can see how that might not appeal to you ;)ReplyDelete
All right, smartass. I know you're just jealous of my amazing funk.ReplyDelete
Nice informative article. thanks for sharing and keep sharing such kind of articles, as these articles really helpful for experienced and new comers.ReplyDelete
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The normalized Moore complex functor is usually considered taking simplicial abelian groups to chain complexes. But there is an obvious dual version that takes cosimplicial abelian groups to N-graded cochain complexes.
Moreover, applied on a cosimplicial group that has the structure of a cosimplicial ring, the Moore cochain complex yields a cochain complex that has the structure of a dg-algebras (the details are at monoidal Dold-Kan correspondence).
This seems obvious and useful enough, but I find surprisingly little literature on this dual monoidal Dold-Kan correspondence. In fact the only relevant reference that I am aware of is Castiglioni-Cortinas, Cosimplicial versus dg-rings: a version of the Dold-Kan correspondence.
They consider not the Moore cochain functor but its right adjoint, and show that its left derived functor is an equivalence of homotopy categories.
But it would seem that instead considering directly the Moore cochain complex functor on cosimplicial rings would be at least as interesting.
I can dream up some of its properties myself, but I keep feeling I must be missing the canonical literature on this, which must exist. Does anyone have more references on the Moore cochain complex functor on cosimplicial rings/algebras?


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I owe Al Scherwinski an apology: for years he recounted stories of his mother taking advantage of his presence at the kitchen sink to wash every plate, cup and saucer in the kitchen cupboards. I was convinced he was embellishing just a little. However, from the look of the piled up plates on the counter - he might have been telling the truth.
You rock, Ida.
"Alvin Scherwinski Helping His Mom." Digital image. January 15, 1961. Original photograph
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