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"Mummy, who is that man standing in front of the orchestra having a public fit"? And how important is what we see the man on the podium doing, as opposed to what we hear.When I asked Leopold Stokowsky the latter question, he of all people, answered that music was for hearing, not seeing, the look of the conductor was not important.
We concert-goers spend a lot of time watching the conductor and his movements and behaviour, so I think it matters how the conductor looks. Perhaps Stokowsky had got hold of the wrong end of the stick!I wish I could make a film of several conductors giving the upbeat to, say, Beethoven 5 or Don Juan of Strauss. They would all look different: lunges, swoops, all sorts of movements, Richard Strauss might just lift a finger, Beecham slashes from his knees upwards, Harty might nod or wink, Albert Coates lead with his backside, Furtwangler's hands wobble towards the penultimate button of his waistcoat, Gergiev look like a sufferer from Parkinson's disease - they would all look different for sure. If you asked all these conductors how they would get the orchestra to start, I don't suppose they could have told you.
Orchestras with resident conductors get to know their various methods and gestures, sometime painful to watch, like Rudolf Schwarz whose body had suffered in a concentration camp. His upbeat could come from behind his back or under his armpit. As a guest conductor at Bournemouth, Charles Groves stood with arms wide apart about to conduct the overture to Euryanthe; a fly settled on his nose so his left arm moved to wipe it off. The orchestra started.
The gestures of the man on the podium can means a lot to the audience. Beecham's courtly movements in Mozart or Haydn could let the audience see how a phrase should go. Strauss was quite undemonstrative but I remember that when he opened his arms the sound in the Albert Hall nearly caused the roof to cave in. Certainly if the conductor gives no indication of a climax the audience can feel disappointed.
On the other hand showing too much emotion can be boring and an audience quickly senses if a conductor is insincere or playing to the gallery. Sargent sometimes gave this impression with an orchestra although with a choir he was thrilling and at his best.
These thoughts were brought to light by a performance of the suite from Prokofiev's War & Peace, LPO under Vladimir Jurowsky. In more than sixty years concert going I have never seen a conductor whose body language showed such pleasure in what he was doing. Jurowsky positively adored Prokofieve's score. It was not distracting but enchanting; his joy was contagious. I felt 'I could have danced all night'.
Blake proclaimed 'Damn braces: bless relaxes' so it is never Peace and War, always the other way round. And so, October 3, 4 and 5 we had programmes in a mini-series called War and Peace, the battlefield being the Royal Festival Hall and there was a brace of orchestras being doves and hawks, The London Philharmonic and the Russian National, the whole thought up and conducted by one man, Vladimir Jurowsky. He was late musical director at Glyndebourne and now continuing to be a frequent visitor on the podium of the LPO. Still youngish he is absolutely first-class and imaginative as a builder of programmes.
Britain was at war in 1940 when the young Britten (27 years old and living in the USA) submitted his Sinfonia da Requiem - written in memory of his parents - in response to a commission from the Japanese for a work celebrating the 2600th year of the states founding. It was naïf of him of course it was not acceptable. But the work is a masterly piece, full of new wonderful sounds.
This opening salvo was followed by Walton's first master work, his 1929 Viola Concerto, written by a young man in love with an older woman, well-constructed (the concerto and, who knows, possibly woman too) and full of a beautiful poignancy and bitter sweetness. Lawrence Power lived up to his name and added tenderness. The first of the programmes was topped off by a suite for orchestra of excerpts of Prokofiev's War and Peace, first and welcome performance in this country, I think. Jurowsky conducted it with evident and youthful relish, positively caressing the delightful music.
Next evening the Russian Orchestra took over, beginning with the Sixth Symphony of Vaughan Williams, first unleashed in 1947 when the composer was over seventy years of age. Aggression is present in this work, although it is utterly different from the aggression of his Fourth Symphony. The fingerprints of RVW are there too but the music sounds as if it might come from another planet. The effect was overwhelming I found hearing the symphony after a twenty year gap. The RVW was paired with the Symphony No. 5 by Prokofiev. He conducted his work himself in 1944 and it contains at least fifty good tunes. Curious that Prokofiev and Stravinsky who rarely composed tunes were often bracketed together in name.
On the third night the platform was crowded with over 125 players as the Russian National and LPO joined forces, first of all taking a whack at the 1812 Overture. It was a joyful shindig that could probably be heard in Nizhny Novgorod. Tchaikovsky was in two minds about the overture. First he said he thought it was a poor piece then changed his mind later. True it is episodic - but it works and the moment where the tubular bells enter was truly gala (no cannons incidentally).
It was strange to follow 1812 with Brittan's Dowland take on Lachrymae, rather like putting a thatch cottage beside the Taj Mahal.The giant finale was the Leningrad Symphony of Shostabovich; nice bits but OMG is it long, brilliant playing but it was a relief when Dmitri hammered home the prolonged series of final cadences (he always made the sensible point of waking up the commissars with a bang or two.)


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President Obama sparked a controversy Friday with comments made following a meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.
Obama was quoted as saying he and his Vietnamese counterpart "discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson."
Chris Stirewalt, digital politics editor for Fox News, opined that the remarks about the Vietnamese communist leader would be "unwelcome news to the families of the nearly 60,000 Americans who died in the Vietnam War."
Rush Limbaugh was quick to acknowledge that Ho Chi Minh did in fact cite Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, but added that:
"...this is nothing new from communist dictators. Communist dictators have often cited such people."
In a video interview in 1981, former U.S. intelligence agent Archimedes L. A. Patti described events in the country at the end of the Second World War when Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnamese independence from the French. Patti indicated he was surprised at Ho Chi Minh's citations of the Declaration of Independence. He said "life and liberty and happiness were in the wrong order" but that finally "we set them straight." (The discussion occurs about 50 minutes into the video.)
Friday's kerfuffle is reminiscent of a controversy surrounding former White House communications director Anita Dunn, who cited "two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa," in a speech in 2009, sparking similar remonstrations.
Dunn subsequently said "The use of the phrase 'favorite political philosophers' was intended as irony."
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May 2009
The Sisyphus Factor
Researchers validate model of ion action at the interface of oil and water
Cesium ions (red) initially in oil (green) tend be sucked into the neighboring water (blue). PNNL for the first time measured that long-range aquatic attraction by balancing it against the attraction to a solid metal, represented by the gray bar at the far left. Enlarged View
Results: Everyone knows that oil and water don't mix. But what happens when you add charged metal atoms or ions, such as cesium, to the brew? Do the ions latch onto the water or the oil? How strong is that attraction?
A team of scientists from Pennsylvania State University, Peking University, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory conducted an experiment that, for the first time, confirms the accuracy of a simple, longstanding model of how ions behave at the interface of oil and water. The new information may give scientists more confidence in applying the "Born potential" to some of the complicated challenges in predicting ion transport near and through chemical and biological systems.
Why it matters: "We actually measured a very useful theoretical concept," said Dr. James Cowin, project leader and a PNNL research scientist. "From this study, we now have a better understanding of how water can influence ion motion. This can help us understand such things as how ions move from water into a cell membrane, or how to extract Hanford's radioactive cesium from water using oil or other organic solvents."
The study also will aid scientists in selecting which molecular models to use for their research. Some situations require extremely detailed, and therefore costly, simulations. Now researchers know they can obtain satisfactory results in certain applications from the less elaborate, less expensive, Born model.
Methods: Like most metals, cesium dissolves in water as charged atoms called ions. These ions strongly prefer to be in water, rather than oil. Thus, it takes a lot of energy to drag a cesium ion initially in water to a neighboring oil. It is much like having to push a heavy rock (the ion), from a deep valley (the water), uphill into the oil. Because of the long-range nature of the ion-water interactions, the ions still "want" the water, even when moved a long way away from the interface. This means the hill has a long "slippery slope" that tries to suck the ions back toward the water, from deep within the oil.
Many chemical reactions of ions occur only where the oil and water meet. The rates and outcomes of these reactions depend critically upon the height of that hill, and the shape and reach of that slippery slope, that describe the ion interactions. Theory, guided by experiments, is key to predicting these interactions. Simple theories, such as the Born potential, were created as early as 1920. Recent, very expensive and elaborate molecular dynamic theories can now estimate the shape of the hill, as well as how far it reaches into the oil.
"Experiments to measure that hill, particularly its shape, are needed so that researchers can decide which theory to use," Cowin said. "These experiments were essentially non-existent until this study."
The team employed molecular beam epitaxy and other resources in the Department of Energy's EMSL, a national scientific user facility at PNNL, to measure the slope of the hill under different circumstances. Knowing the slope of the hill at many distances from a film of water allowed researchers to reconstruct the shape of the hill, rather like a roofer specifies a roof shape by calculating a series of slopes and distances.
"The trick was to warp the hill by a known amount, until we bent it flat," Cowin said. To do this, the team created an oil-water-oil sandwich with a metal slab on one side, roughly 100 oil molecule diameters away from one of the oil-water interfaces. Forces in the metal created a new hill with a precisely predictable slope going toward the metal, in the opposite direction from the hill's slippery slope toward the water layer. (See illustration.)
"It turns out ions would like to be in the metal even more than they want to be in the water layer," said PNNL scientist Dr. Greg Schenter.
Researchers studied the ion motion as the layered system was slowly warmed. Near 90 degrees above absolute zero, the syrupy oil (3-methylpentane) is just thin enough to permit the ions to move.
The motion of the ions is very sensitive to the warping of the hill. At a critical warping, the hill becomes flat at the position where the ions have been placed. Now the ions find themselves at the very top of the new bent hill.
From how the ions moved, and by what fraction they went toward the water versus toward the metal, the team calculated the precise rise of the slope of the hill at that distance from the water. Repeating the experiment with the ions placed initially further and further away from the water, gave the slope of the hill at each distance. "And from that, for the first time, we reconstructed the actual shape of the hill," Schenter said.
What's next: Experiments such as the one above are conducted in a vacuum at very low temperatures. Cowin and his team are now developing an instrument to permit examination of reactions on the surface of water in a vacuum at higher temperatures. They especially want to study the photochemistry of the "polar dawn" in which sunlight releases pollutants from chemicals that have collected on Arctic and Antarctic snows during the winter.
Acknowledgments: The research was funded by a DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences chemical sciences grant and the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER). The work was performed at DOE's EMSL, a national scientific user facility at PNNL. The interdisciplinary research team consisted of Richard C. Bell at Pennsylvania State University, Kai Wu at Peking University, and Martin J. Iedema, Gregory K. Schenter, and James P. Cowin at PNNL.
Reference: Bell RC, K Wu, MJ Iedema, GK Schenter, and JP Cowin. 2009. "The Oil-Water Interface: Mapping the Solvation Potential." Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(3):1037-1042.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 417 diseños de 100 diseñadores freelance.
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Others sell hand-holding and smiles; We sell Performance, Execution and Exceptional Service.
On Wall Street, the term "alpha" is used to measure/signify performance above the norm. Our performance is well-above the norm.
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Applicants may submit a Letter of Intent briefly describing the project before submitting a proposal in order to find out if their ideas are potentially fundable by the Foundation (FAQ).
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Evidence that this application has the approval of the Board of Directors: a copy of the minutes of the Board of Directors meeting.
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After these materials are received, you may be contacted for a visit if your application is accepted for consideration. Only one copy is necessary.
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- David Frum: Lawyer in Pakistan accused him of being a paid agent of that country
- He says the lawyer offered no evidence to back up the spurious charge
- Frum says the context of the accusation is Pakistan's "memogate" scandal
- He says the evidence makes it seem likely that "memogate" is a hoax
That was an interesting week!
On Wednesday, Google Alerts brought me a piece of startling news: A lawyer speaking to a tribunal of the Supreme Court of Pakistan had accused me of acting as a paid agent of the government of Pakistan.
No, seriously, that's what the man said.
From Pakistan's Daily Times on May 23:
"Counsel Akram Sheikh had claimed in a statement that a Pakistani embassy provided funds to Harlan Ullman and David Frum for damage control after the memo controversy."
I was so taken aback by the claim that I telephoned Sheikh to ask whether it was true. We had a short but intense exchange. Sheikh flew immediately into a rage at me, accused me of harassing him, insisted that I was somehow violating Pakistani law by telephoning him, refused to confirm or deny the Daily Times account and ended by inviting me to sue him for defamation.
My confidence in the Pakistani system of justice not being very high, I declined the latter invitation. But given that Sheikh's charges have gained a hearing inside Pakistan, some kind of answer seems due.
Sheikh's charges are false, of course. Duh. More surprising than the falsehood, though, is the sheer laziness of the charge. Where is the fake evidence? The forged check, the bogus wire transfer, the suborned courier? Money always leaves a record. Can you really stand up in front of a Pakistani tribunal and spout whatever fool nonsense pops into your head? Apparently so.
Yet as ludicrous as are Sheikh's statements about me -- I'll leave Ullman to speak for himself -- this small comedy is a piece of a much larger drama.
On October 10, Britain's Financial Times printed an opinion piece that contained an arresting claim: The author said he had personally conveyed a memo from the Pakistani Embassy in the U.S. to the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, requesting U.S. help to prevent a military coup.
The story was dramatic and important, but there was one troubling element: the byline on the piece. The author was Mansoor Ijaz, a writer with a long, long history of discredited assertions. Remember the story about the Clinton administration rejecting a 1996 offer by the government of Sudan to extradite Osama bin Laden? That story, investigated and debunked by the September 11 Commission, continues to circulate among the American right to this day. That story was the work of Ijaz, the first -- but not the last -- of his disproven allegations. (Click here for a comprehensive list by CNN's Peter Bergen and by Andrew Lebovich.)
Yet despite the dubious source, the Financial Times story ignited a firestorm in Pakistan. Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S. was forced to resign.
Not content with his first success, Ijaz added further allegations, including one that the government of Pakistan had been tipped off the to bin Laden raid.
That latter claim was even more explosive: Only last week, a Pakistani court sentenced to 33 years in prison a local doctor convicted of helping the United States track bin Laden.
Now to my part in the story. Writing here at CNN.com in December, I ridiculed Ijaz's suggestion that the U.S. government would ever have shared such information with the government of Pakistan, and reminded readers of Ijaz's history of unreliability.
This column caught the attention of authorities inside Pakistan. Pakistan had convened a special commission of its Supreme Court to investigate Ijaz's memo allegations.
On March 15, that commission asked Ijaz to answer my column. Ijaz, who was under oath, told the tribunal that he had sued me for libel. He said, "In view of the fact Mr. Frum defamed me, my lawyers in Washington informed him that if he does not retract, I will be taking legal action against him."
(You can read the transcript here. This exchange is on page 43.)
This statement was untrue. No lawyer for Ijaz had ever contacted me, I was never threatened with legal action over the column, and I did not retract it, points I made in a follow-up column March 21.
Sheikh is Ijaz's counsel before the investigating commission. I surmise it was irritation with my March 21 column that led Sheikh to concoct the new accusation that I was a Pakistani government spy.
My sense, from the distance of Washington, is that Pakistanis are slowly coming to the realization that the memo controversy was a hoax. Yet as with the false charges against Clinton, the damage to Pakistani civil institutions from the memo controversy will not soon be undone.
Those Western media organizations that enabled the hoax have a reckoning to do. Ijaz has a long and proven record of false reporting about some of the most serious issues of international security. It seems only elementary editorial prudence to decline to put media institutions ever again at risk of publishing further false stories, by closing their pages and their TV studios against such a man with such a record.
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A Woodside, California home quietly traded hands last November for the staggering price of $117.5 million dollars, according to SF Luxe. That makes it the most expensive residence ever sold in the California, and possibly the second-most expensive private real estate deal in the United States ever.
The mansion is roughly 9,000 square feet, and was designed by Virginia-based architect Allan Greenberg. It has a pool, nine-acres of property, and is surrounded by 360-degree views of the Woodside Mountains, according to SF Luxe.
The record-breaking transaction reportedly took place on November 27, 2012 to an undisclosed buyer. The residence was never publicly listed for sale, and SF Luxe reports it was previously owned by Tully Friedman of Friedman Fleischer and Lowe LLC, a San Francisco investment firm.
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Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1crossman Apr 20, 2012 3:17 PM (in response to GinoRossi)
Another great infographic from Mr. Unstoppabe!
I am curious... you say that for Spaces you can customize the Overview page. Can't your users do that for Groups, too? And if the users can update the Overview page they must be admins for that space; how do you prevent them from creating subspaces?
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1GinoRossi Apr 20, 2012 3:25 PM (in response to crossman)
User can customize the groups as well, however for spaces I provide banners that I insert into html widgets that give the space more identity over what the regular users do in groups. Most group owners do not know how to properly customize their group .. so when I get the opportunity to migrate them or start them from scratch in a space, I work with them & show them how to customize it.
Once they are in a space I do not prevent them from creating subspaces, I do police the community & make sure they do not create sub communities that are not useful. When I get to train them I cover this part as well as maintaining the space, promoting it, etc.
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1crossman Apr 20, 2012 3:29 PM (in response to GinoRossi)
No way I could stay on top of all the subspaces that are created. Your community must be much smaller than mine - or do you somehow get a report or listing of the new subspaces when they are created?
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1GinoRossi Apr 20, 2012 3:35 PM (in response to crossman)
I receive email notifications for all community admins. So I know what they are upto, but for the most part this has not been a problem yet.
I do not offer every requestor of a space to be an admin, I do this for those that want higher level of access or those that understand what we are doing .. then I hold them accountable for the community.
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1crossman Apr 20, 2012 3:43 PM (in response to GinoRossi)
I receive email notifications for all community admins.
Ah, I see. That's very clever.
But if Admin A who you are watching updates the permissions for his / her space and adds someone else as Admin B you wouldn't see what Admin B is up to, right?
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1GinoRossi Apr 20, 2012 4:05 PM (in response to crossman)
That's correct .. but only a few communities have two admins & I always instruct them to do with the intentions of backup.
I occasionally do go into sub spaces & delete them .. sometimes the need for them is no longer there, either way the content remains in an area that is easy to find & as long as folks know where to go ..
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1nbussard Apr 20, 2012 3:18 PM (in response to GinoRossi)
This is a cool graphic, Gino, and obviously a big effort. I'd like to understand the relationship between container type and activity, but I'm a little confused by the statistics you are showing here. How are these related to the migration?
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1GinoRossi Apr 20, 2012 3:32 PM (in response to nbussard)
LOL .. I created a much larger blog post on this that leads into the infographic.
To make a long story short .. this infographic compares our results on the shown metrics for Q4 2011 vs Q1 2012. The migration began in Q4 2011 & was completed early Q1 2012.
I hand picked several groups & ran stats on them. Following the migration I ran stats on those migrated groups again for all of Q1 2012 .. then I realized that their active users, page views & content creation had gone way up.
Given that over 50 groups were migrated, I can point to the migration as one reason for activity growth. There is something about Groups that although they are OPEN, people still look at them as exclusive. When the "JOIN" option goes away in a space .. users are more comfortable participating. That is what I have gathered so far from the metrics & conversations I've had with over 20 highly active community members.
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1nbussard Apr 20, 2012 3:41 PM (in response to GinoRossi)
This is really interesting. My experience in our community points to the exact opposite—no one wants to participate in spaces, only in groups. I also have a huge list of other reasons I think spaces are inferior to groups, difficulty of navigation being pretty much the top of the list (especially when you consider spaces are not really searchable). Fascinating that you've concluded the reverse. It just goes to show, there are no absolutes!
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1crossman Apr 20, 2012 3:45 PM (in response to nbussard)
(especially when you consider spaces are not really searchable).
Not searchable? You might be meaning something I'm not familiar with because our spaces are most definitely searchable. (type in the box, get results)
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1nbussard Apr 20, 2012 4:14 PM (in response to crossman)
Sorry, I should clarify…you have to know whether something is a group or a space in order to search/browse, because places don't show in the main search results. If you browse groups, you can search by tag, allowing you to find related groups. Lobbies you have to search by name using the Browse Lobby feature. Or, am I wrong about that?
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1crossman Apr 20, 2012 4:25 PM (in response to nbussard)
I am not sure what a Lobby is.
That said, Places should be visible in your search results. Both in the type-ahead dropdown menu as well as the full results screen (you do have to hit the Places tab, though). Earlier versions of Jive place the elements in the same places but the functionality is similar.
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1nbussard Apr 20, 2012 8:50 PM (in response to crossman)
Our Spaces are called Lobbies. Sorry for the confusion--looks like I need to call it a week.
Earlier versions of Jive place the elements in the same places but the functionality is similar.
I think you mean, place the elements in different places. That is kind of true, but what seem like small differences have a big impact. For example, we have several groups and Spaces (Lobbies for us) related to mobile projects. When I search for "mobile," I get no places in the main results, but get this mini places results widget:
If the place you're looking for does not appear here, your next step is to make a conscious decision to look in Lobbies/Spaces, Projects, or Groups. So you have to know already what you're looking for, and understand the difference between them all, something our users complain about loudly. Obviously, Jive recognized that this was not great, and changed it in v5. Now you can search all Places without choosing a type, which is a huge improvement.
Additionally, when you browse spaces in v4.5, you are presented with a browsable hierarchy in the main part of the screen. The search is there at the top, but it is not the most obvious thing on the page, so the usual inclination is to try to use this navigation, which is not very good. In addition, we don't have a clear organizational hierarchy, so this is frustrating for many of our users. I imagine it's quite different if, like in Gino's case, the structure is heavily embedded in the organization.
I will definitely take another look at spaces when we upgrade to 5, but for now, almost all of our spaces are essentially empty storefronts, while groups are taking off like crazy.
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1jessekane Apr 20, 2012 8:08 PM (in response to nbussard)
I'm a little confused at your definition of places. Your posts imply a place is a fourth location (place or space or group or project). As I understand it, places is just a generic term (places = spaces, groups and projects). Which is why your comment about you places widget results confuses me more because those search results ARE showing spaces (globe icon), groups (overlapping circles) projects (three blocks) and blogs (green thingy)
But it's very late as Im staying up to help test some Jive related improvements, so maybe I'm just confused...
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1tmaurer Apr 20, 2012 9:01 PM (in response to jessekane)
I think what she means is that the search results in 4.5 show a very limited set of places. So if the limited set doesn't surface what you were looking for, then you need to click one of the links for the actual type of place you want to find. And often people just don't know which place type to search within. Heck, I'm one of the people running the community, and I don't always know which place type something might reside within.
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1nbussard Apr 21, 2012 2:35 PM (in response to tmaurer)
That's exactly what I mean. Thanks, Tracy. I'm glad to see this issue apparently resolved in Jive 5.
In any case, the point I was originally trying to make is that there seem to be a several factors that make groups or spaces effective for an organization. Gino's data is a refreshing challenge to assumptions I had made based on my experience managing my own community. Thanks for sharing!
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1GinoRossi Apr 20, 2012 3:48 PM (in response to nbussard)
The main reason for migrating the groups had to do with content going in-active. Another reason was the fact that our community members couldn't understand the structure. With spaces I am able to replicate the way their business unit is structured &/or their department. Migrating the groups gave the content a second life (as shown by my metrics), but most importantly our community members can find a lot of information in areas that are easy to find.
I do love some of the features in groups & I wish they were part of space, but that's not here for us yet. Another part that I should mention, we use a lot of contractors & in the way we've setup our instance, contractors can only access spaces. Groups still exist .. but now they cover smaller topics such as rather than company products or areas of departments.
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1Melissa.Rosen Apr 20, 2012 4:03 PM (in response to GinoRossi)
great graphic! we are rolling out in a similar way, except our Space Admins are a select few who will lead the individual Org space. Already some are questioning what kind of control/governance we can have around the sub spaces that will inevitably proliferate. Honestly, I think at some point we need to relinquish control (to a certain extent).
Re: The Great Group Migration of Q1GinoRossi Apr 20, 2012 4:06 PM (in response to Melissa.Rosen)
Some of our spaces do have select admins. They do a great job & work hard at keeping engagement up.
As a result of the group migration many new spaces & their subsequent sub spaces were born, the jury is still out on how those communities will be transitioned into their new admins.
I plan on having conversations with the leaders of our business units to further discuss.


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LBHS student wins Soroptimist award
Laguna Beach High School student Alia Manetta has been awarded with the Soroptimist Violet Richardson Award, which includes a $1,000 scholarship.
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The Rotary Club of Laguna Beach has chosen LBHS student E.J. Kramer as its Student of the Month for March.
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The 18th annual fundraiser for the Laguna Beach Music Boosters is April 21 at the Artists' Theatre at Laguna Beach High School.
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Lagunans went "Out On The Town" and helped raise more than $6,500 for Thurston Middle School on March 21.
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LBHS senior will do exchange program in Brazil
Laguna Beach High School senior Sam Wellsfry will head back to high school next year — in Brazil.
Sam has been accepted to the AFS Brazil exchange program, and Laguna Beach AFS has awarded him a $1,000 scholarship.
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BAUCHI, Nigeria (CNN) -- The truck driver kept his hand on the horn, but resorted to shifting into first gear and used the full weight of his container truck to force his way through the over-crowded and narrow market street.
In Nigeria, men burn broken computer equipment to collect reusable metals like copper.
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Traveling to northern Nigeria, we visited the Iya Abubakar Resource Center's IT training course -- attended by students, businessmen, and women.
The Centre imports computers, but from charities like Computer Aid in the UK, to ensure they are reliable.
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Lady Gaga, Management + Merchandiser Sued for $10 Million Over Bratz Dolls
Lady Gaga, her management at Atom Factory and her merchandising company Bravado are being sued over a line of Bratz dolls made in Gaga's image and likeness. Actually, the dolls were never produced, so they are being sued for breach of contract for failing to approve the line of dolls in time for the 2012 shopping season.
MGA Entertainment, Inc., which is based in Van Nuys, California and manufactures Bratz toys, filed suit in New York state, seeking a whopping $10 million in damages, according to Bloomberg.com.
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However, come April, Bravado's CEO told MGA's CEO that Gaga wanted to delay the production and shipment of the dolls to coincide with the release of her new album in 2013. Talk about changing horses in mid-stream!
MGA maintains that the defendants continue to withhold approval in order to force a delay in the marketing of the dolls. The company points out that Gaga is currently promoting another licensed product – her Fame perfume — instead.
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Gaga's rep said tried to keep the Mother Monster's name out of its, saying, "This is a dispute between Universal Music Group's merchandising company and MGA. There was no legitimate reason for dragging Lady Gaga into that dispute. Lady Gaga will vigorously defend MGA's ill-conceived lawsuit and is confident that she will prevail."
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The use of raw animal proteins to promote animal health has not been based on proven or known scientific facts, only anecdotal incidents. On the other hand, it is well known that animals fed raw diets (BARF or other) shed significant amounts of pathogenic bacteria, which studies have indicated may put some people at risk, as compared to pets being fed commercially prepared or cooked, home-made diets.
What are the risks of feeding raw protein diets other than shedding… can my pet become ill?
While many animals fed raw protein diets appear healthy, some do get ill. Even healthy animals can shed pathogenic bacteria that can affect the human companion team member and others. Certain individuals are at increased risk of disease if they encounter various pathogens, particularly people that are immune-compromised, very young or elderly. This basically describes most of the individuals Delta Society Pet Partners visit: Patients in hospitals, senior centers, nursing facilities, hospice care, rehabilitation facilities, and schools involving young children, among others.
How long does my pet have to be off of raw protein foods before re-starting visitations again?
Dogs can shed for a variable amount of time. At a minimum a 4 week waiting period before visits are resumed.
What if my other pets eat raw protein diets?
If a Pet Partner has access to the food or bowl used, it would be best to NOT feed any of the other pets raw meats. Inadvertent eating of raw meat or cross-contamination is very real. Any dog or cat from a household where raw protein food is fed is not eligible to be a Delta Society Pet Partner.
What commercial foods are being recommended instead?
You can look for a balanced diet from any of the reputable pet-food manufacturer, preferably one labeled in accordance with the Association Of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO). You should also consult with your veterinarian.
What if my veterinarian is fine with feeding raw protein diets?
While your veterinarian may not believe the risk is that great for your pet, Delta Society Pet Partners teams are in contact with many individuals who are at a much higher risk for infections. Since many studies have shown pets fed such diets shed a significantly higher number of pathogenic bacteria, the risk is too great for inadvertent, but avoidable infection. Also, your veterinarian is not assuming legal responsibility for you and your pet, Delta Society is.
Are there home-made diets I could use instead of commercially produced brands?Yes there are some available recipes, but the risk of an improperly formulated and balanced diet is real. Some sources to try: i. the University of California, Davis at (530) 752-1393. ii. Similar veterinary nutrition experts can be found on the website of the American Academy of Veterinary Nutrition (AAVN).
If you have any questions or concerns, please email to: firstname.lastname@example.com for the Delta Society Medical Advisory group to address.


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TransactionWarehouse necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Transaction Warehouse, Inc.
TW provides vertical market portal and data gateway solutions with a focus on tight integration with existing third party CRM and CIS platforms. We build highly scalable web software in the same spirit as 37signals, FreshBooks and other companies offering fully managed web software. Our software is truly turnkey with low cost of entry.
TW is a transactional data processing company, often payment/financial transactions.
Our target audience is relatively closed due to the nature of the software that we build. Our software is not sold to on the open market but instead we build software in partnership with CRM and CIS providers and utilize their existing sales channels to market our software. Our company logo (and eventual product logos and website) will be very brief and used only in support that our software is legitimate and complimentary to the CRM's and CIS's that we integrate with.
Our target audience is made up greatly of utility companies and municipalities. We also work with private educational institutions (Trade/Tech schools).
You should have experience with the FreshBooks billing platform because our logo must work very well with that software as it is what we use to bill for use of our own software. If you are not familiar with FreshBooks already, you can create your own account free at freshbooks.com. Once logged in, they have a VERY SIMPLE interface that allows change of three color areas and upload of three logo versions: System, Invoice (HTML) and High Quality (PDF). Please be familiar with this, providing submissions of your proposed logo along side of its use with FreshBooks (screenshot including complimentary colors applied in the FreshBooks Settings) will greatly increase your position.
We are highly drawn to 37signals as inspiration for not only their company logo but also how they utilize of family of product logos that are all related (Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack and Campfire). We will follow a very similar model with our software product logos. We also find ourselves inspired by the 37signals.com website as a whole and would work in the same direction using our new TW logo.
In summary: logo must work well in the context of the FreshBook billing software as well as when used to anchor a 37signals.com inspired company website.
The TW logo needs not contain "Inc."
Encourage submissions that also include hex values for three color areas used for FreshBooks:
What I'm looking for with the logo is what complimentary colors would work for their three color areas. Color Area 1 is the darkest blue in the sample, where the logo and table header are shown. Color Area 2 is the medium blue used in the top navigation tabs. Color Area 3 is the lightest blue used in the sub nav.
The text colors can't be modified.
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World Bulletin/News Desk
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday said Colombian ex-president Alvaro Uribe was plotting to kill him, adding to a deluge of accusations by the former bus driver in recent months.
"Uribe is behind a plot to kill me," Maduro said in a televised speech. "Uribe is a killer. I have enough evidence of who is conspiring, and there are sectors of the Venezuelan right that are involved."
He did not provide details.
The Venezuelan president, who was elected in April by a narrow margin, earlier this year accused the United States of seeking to kill opposition leader Henrique Capriles to stir chaos and spark a coup.
He later said he himself was the target of an assassination plot by mercenaries from El Salvador who had entered Venezuela.
The leftist, former President Hugo Chavez frequently clashed with Uribe while the two were both in office over issues ranging from border security to free trade agreements and military cooperation with the United States.
Chavez died in March after a two-year battle with cancer
Just hours before his death, Maduro alleged "imperialist" conspirators had infected the former president with the disease.
Like the late Chavez, Maduro has frequently denounced assassination attempts but rarely presented proof or demonstrated who was responsible for them.Last Mod: 04 Mayıs 2013, 11:14


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Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:50
On Tuesday August 3, 2010 violence erupted along Lebanon's southern frontier. Almost simultaneously verbal violence against Lebanon erupted from the U.S. House of Representatives. Soon thereafter Lebanon lost, at least temporarily, $100 million in U.S. military aid. What is this all about?
On the Lebanese Frontier
The Lebanese border, or so-called Blue Line, has been a Middle East flashpoint for decades. It has been the site of repeated wars, cross border skirmishes and often futile United Nations peacekeeping efforts to keep things below a boiling temperature. Israel says that south Lebanon has harbored Palestinian fighters in the past, and now Hezbollah fighters, all of whom endanger its security. At least publically, Israel never asks why there is such long lasting hostility toward it. And, if their leaders do so in private, it never impacts policy. Instead, Israel has consistently waged war on its neighbors to stop the vengeful incursions of those whose land Israel has...what? Gotten from God? Conquered from the Canaanites? Confiscated after chasing out Arab forces that identified them as European interlopers? Stolen?
The incident of August 3 was triggered by Israel's attempt to cut down a tree along the Lebanese frontier. The IDF claims the tree was on the Israeli side of the frontier fence. Please note that the Israeli protest about this to the United Nations and the Lebanese government actually used the word "border." I mention this because, officially, Israel usually avoids acknowledging final borders. Anyway, the UN says that the unfortunate tree was in fact on the Israeli side. OK. If that is the case, someone on the Lebanese side made a deadly mistake. However, it might help our understanding of the situation to see the incident in context.
1. Speaking now of the post PLO era, we can say that Lebanese forces, including those of Hezbollah, rarely cross the border. The significant exception here was the cross border kidnapping and killing of several Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah in an effort to force Israel into a prisoner swap. This incident sparked the 2006 war.
2. The Israelis violate the Lebanese border almost constantly. Mainly this comes in the form of Israeli air force over flights. These are allegedly for reconnaissance purposes which somehow is suppose to make this violation of Lebanese territory acceptable. The UN peacekeeping force assigned to Lebanon has protested this sort of violation by Israel over and again to no avail.
3. Israel has taken it upon itself to seed the Lebanese side of the border with unexploded cluster bombs and spy devices. The spy devices keep an eye on Lebanese border roads and villages. Some of the spy mechanisms need clear fields of vision to record and send data and so, on occasion, the Israelis clear cut parts of the frontier area. That is what the Lebanese believed the Israelis were doing on August 3. The Lebanese claim that they fired warning shots and when the Israelis did not pull back, they directed "lethal fire" at them. One Israeli officer was killed and another seriously wounded. The Israeli response killed three Lebanese soldiers and a journalist.
4. The Israeli government has labeled the action an "ambush. They have demanded the punishment of the Lebanese officer who gave the order to shoot. If that does not happen they threaten to destroy all of the Lebanese army outposts along the frontier. The UN has encouraged a diplomatic approach. This is unlikely. Historically, it is not how the Israelis do things. They think of themselves as too strong to have to compromise. To put the case more broadly, for over sixty years they have been refusing do what is necessary to bring peace between themselves and their Arab neighbors. Instead, they are constantly expanding their territory by conquest, constantly practicing ethnic cleansing against the Arabs under their control. Then they get upset when the Lebanese on the frontier do not give them the benefit of the doubt, but rather assume that whatever the Israelis were doing to that innocent tree, it involved aggressive intent. Yet it is the Israelis themselves who have conditioned the Lebanese to look at things this way by the pattern of their past actions. If Jerusalem does not like this attitude on the part of its neighbors, they should try changing their behavior.
In the U.S. Congress
Even before this clash the Israelis were trying to deny Lebanon what little weaponry its army gets from abroad. They have lodged protests with Washington and Paris, where a good part of the aid comes from. This campaign against Lebanon was proceeding quietly until August 3 when the rule of silence fell away, particularly amongst Israel's allies in the U.S. Congress.
1. Within a week of fighting Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that he had exercised his "legislative prerogative to place a suspension" on $100 million of aide to the Lebanese army. Berman said he suspected Hezbollah involvement in the August 3 incident because the Lebanese officer who ordered the shooting was a Shi'ite and known to "hang out" with members of Hezbollah. On the basis of this Berman wants the U.S. to investigate the level of influence Hezbollah exerts on the entire Lebanese Army.
2. A comment from a Democratic Party aide on Capital Hill, "One of the purposes of aid to Lebanon is to professionalize its military so incidents like this do not happen." Response from Lebanese Minister of Defense, Elias Murr (see legislative prerogative link above), "those who want to help the army on condition that it doesn't protect its territory, people and border from Israel, should keep their money...." Response of State Department Spokesman Philip Crowley, the Lebanese military should understand that "nothing that we do is condition free. We place conditions on how our military aid is delivered, and there are similar conditions in terms of how Israel is able to use the assistance we provide them." Really! Well, maybe in theory. But in practice, I am afraid Mr. Crowley is woefully misinformed on this last point.
3. Finally, the Democratic aide sited above, who works with the Foreign Affairs Committee, asked "how high up does it go [who gave the command to fire?] Are the Lebanese soldiers going to be reprimanded? If soldiers were out of line, that's one thing. If it comes from the top, that's another." Thinking back to the numerous crimes of George Bush Jr. and his cohort--to Abu Ghraib and the policy of extraordinary rendition–and the fact that such questions were assiduously avoided–one must conclude that hypocrisy is alive and well in Washington.
What does it all mean?
1. About the Middle East – Things are indeed changing. Israel is finding it harder to push its neighbors around. With the possible exceptions of Abbas and the West Bank, Israel can no longer assume that they can kill and maim with impunity. This must be frustrating for Netanyahu, Lieberman, and et. al., bound as they are to a machismo culture and a "never again" world view wherein new variants on the Nazis are seen lurking around ever corner. No one, including President Obama, can guarantee rational responses from the Israeli government. It is a dangerous situation.
2. About Washington – In terms of the Congress almost nothing has changed. When it comes to Middle East foreign policy, men like Berman and Klein and many others too, still stand in as agents of a foreign power. And they do so in an obvious knee-jerk fashion. I am afraid it will stay this way until Israeli behavior becomes a voting issue in the U.S. for more than just Zionist Americans.
3. And For The Rest Of Us – We walk a line between periodic instability and region-wide war. Either way there may well be more 9/11s in our future. What will it take to make ordinary Americans, of whatever religious denomination, grasp the danger of allowing their Middle East policy to be made by a special interest that has no regard for either the well being of individual citizens or the national interest? Now that is a seminal question.
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I regularly keep an eye on quite a few jobsites, especially ones concerning Museums. I guess you could say a job working at a Military Museum would be my dream. Just recently, I noticed a job advertised for Director of a well-known British Army unit's Museum. It makes very interesting reading indeed.
Qualifications and Experience: Detailed and up to date knowledge of the Army and Royal Signals in particular, including military communications and their significance to the command and control of operations.
Now, it strikes me that the only person likely to have that kind of experience is going to be a retired officer!
Both the Royal Marines Museum and the RN Submarine Museum have raised eyebrows recently by appointing non-service types to senior posts. Previously, the unwritten rule was that to have any chance of being Director of a military museum, you had to be a former serving sailor, soldier or airman. This doesnt just apply to senior posts, but all posts down to shop cashier sometimes. Its a real 'jobs-for-the-boys' thing.
While I see nothing wrong with giving jobs to people who have served the country, I do question the wisdom of keeping such institutions as a closed shop. A narrow and exclusive recruitment policy severely limits the experience, expertise and dynamism that will be found in the museum. Neither does it reflect the realities of running a Museum – what is a retired officer likely to know about applying for grant funding, formal and informal learning, or community outreach?
A young person who has just graduated with a Degree or a Masters might not be wearing the Regimental tie, and they might not know the Regimental March, but such things can be learnt. Also, they are more likely to bring new, fresh ideas to the table. Some Military Museums have grasped the bull by the horns and appointed people who have expertise in marketing and heritage in a broader sense, which is remarkably foresighted for a sector of the Heritage industry that is usually remarkably insular and conservative.
Especially at a time when Museums are facing many changes and challenges, and are having to re-examine their policies and priorities in the face of funding challenges and a depressed economic situation. It is not a time to rest on laurels or to try and preserve the status quo.
Maybe 20 years ago it was OK to bung a load of uniforms in a glass case and leave them there. But in the twentieth century the visiting public, and indeed the Regiments and units that the Museums are dedicated to, deserve a lot better. Regiments and their history have so much to contribute to society – there are plenty of ways that they can complement the national curriculum, for example.
The link between Armed Forces and general public is absolutely crucial, as shown by the recent growth of interest in charities such as Help for Heroes, and the attendances at Wootton Basett for repatriations from Afghanistan. Museums SHOULD have a role in this, as a place for people to find out about the armed forces, and for the armed forces to meet and inspire people. But apart from a few notable cases, in a lot places this doesnt really seem to be happening.


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I was browsing Twitter last night when Thoughbot linked to their post about commit messages.
This was quite timely as my team has been thinking about improving the process of creating our release notes, and it has been proposed that we generate them automatically from our commit messages. This in turn requires that we have commit messages of sufficient quality, which – to be honest – we don't always. So the second proposal is to enforce "good" commit messages as part of reviewing and approving merge proposals into our projects. See this post from Kevin on my team for an overview of our branching strategies to get an idea of how our projects are structured.
We still need to define what constitutes a "good" message, but we will certainly use both the article from Thoughtbot and the oft-referenced advice from Tim Pope as our basis. We are also only planning to apply this to commits to trunk because, well, you don't need a novel – or even a short story – for every commit in your spike branch!
Now, back to the Thoughtbot article, and this piece of advice stood out for me:
Never use the
-m <msg>/
--message=<msg>flag to
git commit.
Since I first discovered
-m I have used it almost exclusively, thinking I'm being so clever and efficient, but in reality I've been restricting what I could say to what felt "right" on an 80 character terminal. If nothing else, I will be trying to avoid the use of
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Before we could unpack from our trip to Houston for All-Star Weekend the news hit us all. Hall of Fame Los Angeles Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss lost his battle with cancer Monday.
It was a bittersweet start to the busiest week of the NBA season, what with Thursday's 3 p.m. ET trade deadline usually dominating the headlines and airwaves. And it should prove to be just as compelling as usual, with the rumors always outpacing the actual deals in terms of sizzle.
We did our best to squeeze all of that and more into Episode 105 of the Hang Time Podcast, which also features a guest appearance from recent Michigan Sports Hall of Fame inductee and NBA TV's very own Steve Smith.
In addition to our chat with Smitty, we also got some quality time with the greatest winner in the history of the game, Bill Russell. The living legend and 11-time NBA champion with the Boston Celtics (which should explain our penchant for referring to him as "The Lord of the Rings"), sat down for an interview during All-Star Weekend and shared some insights on the past, present and future of the game.
Do you agree with Michael Jordan's "five is better than one" choice of Kobe Bryant over LeBron James? What did Rick Fox say to Dwight Howard when they met face-to-face during All-Star Weekend? And where in the heck is Hawks forward Josh Smith headed, if anywhere, before Thursday's deadline?
Check out all of that and more on Episode 105 of the Hang Time Podcast.
As always, we welcome your feedback. You can follow the entire crew, including the Hang Time Podcast, co-hosts Sekou Smith of NBA.com, Lang Whitaker of SLAM Magazine and Rick Fox of NBA TV, as well as our new super producer Gregg (just like Popovich) Waigand and the best engineer in the business, Jarell "I Heart Peyton Manning" Wall.
– To download the podcast, click here. To subscribe via iTunes, click here, or get the xml feed if you want to subscribe some other, less iTunes-y way.


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Tell your Congress members: Be a clean water champion
The proposed clean water rule would restore protections for to nearly 25,000 miles of Maine's streams. Will Congress heed the more than 800,000 Americans who have called on the EPA to protect our drinking water and ensure the health of our streams? Or will Congress cater to the polluters and developers who want to pollute our waterways and pave over our wetlands? We're on the verge of a big victory, but we need your action to protect the waters we love!
Send a message to your Congress members urging them to move forward on clean water by making a public statement in support of the clean water rule.