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By By Charlotte Adams | November 1, 2009
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Search and rescue (SAR) is a crowded arena with many players—from the U.S. military and Coast Guard (USCG) to local police and fire departments. These organizations vary widely, and their training reflects that, though there is a common thread running through it all. Rotor & Wing looked at helicopter pilot training for combat SAR (CSAR) pilots in the Air Force, maritime rescue pilots and planners in the Coast Guard, and civilian pilots and crews in two non-military schools.
With the widest areas of responsibility, the largest forces and the most money, though of course never enough, the Air Force and Coast Guard have the most comprehensive and longest programs. The civilian schools, which serve a wide array of customers, offer broad menus of courses. Instructors, who are often military or Coast Guard alumni, can offer high-quality training but in more bite-sized pieces.
Incoming HH-60G students at the USAF's CSAR school, Kirtland AFB, N.M., arrive already qualified as helicopter pilots through basic training at Fort Rucker, Ala. Those transitioning to Pave Hawks spend four to six months in classroom, simulator and flight training, explained Capt. John Brunner, an instructor pilot and senior evaluator with the 58th Special Operations Wing, which trains both CSAR and special operations pilots.
After qualifying in their mission aircraft, students get instruction in day and night SAR techniques in non-tactical and tactical environments. Non-tactical instruction includes search patterns, landing zone operations and recovery of a person if the helicopter can't land. It also covers power management for the high gross weights at which the HH-60G normally operates. Students learn how to use aircraft data systems and the radar in search modes, how to operate with the other members of the air crew as a single unit and how to plan missions. For reasons of economy and efficiency, most of the non-tactical pilot training is done in simulators.
Tactical training includes the use of night vision goggles (NVGs), low-level flight, and command and control in single- and multi-ship exercises. Two single-ship day flights introduce aircraft handling techniques and low-level tactical flight profiles. Three dual-ship, daytime formation flights introduce students to multi-ship operations, wingman considerations and defensive maneuvers.
There are also two single-ship night flights and three night flights in two-ship formations, as well as two nighttime helicopter aerial refueling sorties. Tactical training culminates with a mission checkride—a multi-ship night flight with a deep penetration scenario. This covers everything from mission planning to return to base in a simulated low-to-medium threat environment. The aerial refueling checkride is considered part of the mission checkride but may be executed separately, depending on tanker availability.
In parallel courses, air crews learn how to use multiple types of rescue equipment, including the military equivalent of a Stokes litter and plastic rollout stretchers. The flight engineer is also trained to operate the Pave Hawk's built-in external hoist and in other techniques, such as fast ropes, rope ladders and rappelling. Crews also learn to operate their weapons. Pilots and crews fly some flights together and are trained to operate in mountainous, desert, maritime and forested environments.
Although SAR is a major Coast Guard mission, the USCG does not have a dedicated SAR flight school. Student pilots take basic training with the Navy and Marine Corps in Pensacola, Fla., and transition training at the Coast Guard's Aviation Training Center (ATC) in Mobile, Ala. While the transition course includes some instruction in SAR techniques and concepts, the focus is on training good safety pilots, according to Cdr. Pete Mingo, chief of the Training division at Mobile.
The HH-60/HH-65 transition course takes 6–7 weeks, including 2–3 weeks of classroom and procedures trainer work, about one week with flight simulators and 2–3 weeks of flight training. Students graduate as copilots.
ATC Mobile introduces SAR techniques through scenario-based simulator training. One example could be a flare sighting 20 miles south of Mobile. While the student is en route, instructors insert emergencies, so that students gradually learn to handle overwater emergencies in every phase of flight.
Students are introduced to sector, parallel, creeping line and expanding square patterns as part of learning to operate the flight management system. They also get some daytime hoist training. But most SAR experience occurs at the unit level as part of on-the-job training.
One-week-long recurrent training takes place every 12–15 months through lectures and 4–5 multi-scenario simulator sessions. In a medevac scenario, for example, a pilot might fly from the USCG Air Station at Cape Cod, Mass., to pick up a patient at Martha's Vineyard and bring the patient back to Massachusetts General hospital. The instructor can insert bad weather, an instrument approach and various emergencies.
In other scenarios the rescue mission is inserted on the fly, which is more true to life, Mingo said. Pilots often get assigned missions when they are performing patrols. The pilot makes a regular call to base, for example, and hears a report of a boat taking on water.
The instructors at Mobile also conduct in-person proficiency checks on as many pilots as possible each year. On these checkrides, pilots have to demonstrate the ability to operate the aircraft safely and to do SAR plans and procedures, pattern work and overwater approaches. The Mobile staff typically gets to 85–90 percent of Coast Guard pilots. The remaining pilots are checked by instructors at their local units.
Copilots also need to take the Search Coordination & Execution (SC&E) course offered as outreach by the USCG's National SAR School in Yorktown, Va., or the online SAR Fundamentals course to qualify as aircraft commanders. The four-day SC&E course covers the on-scene coordination and execution of the SAR controller's search plan. Graduates are expected to be able to act as the controller's "eyes and ears," maintain contact with each rescue unit on the scene and track progress, said Chris White, a master training specialist. If they are designated as on-scene coordinators, they will ensure that the search plan is correctly executed. Because SAR missions may involve close interaction with state and local agencies, the SC&E course is often attended by outside maritime agencies such as state marine police and waterfront fire departments.
Civilian schools contacted by Rotor & Wing offer a wide range of courses in SAR techniques, with team-oriented hoist operations at the core. SRT Helicopters' Hoist Course averages 1.5 days of ground school and 8 to 8.5 days of work in the helicopter, according to Chris Gadbois, president and CEO of the Bakersfield, Calif.-based company. SRT has devised a simple hoist simulator to practice phraseology, hand signals and crew coordination. The simulator allows students to get "pretty solid" on these items, Gadbois said. "If they mess up on the checklist or get the phraseology wrong in the airplane, it costs them a quarter or a soda."
SRT stresses training the whole crew and coined the term, total resource management. TRM emphasizes using every bit of information you can lay hands on from the time you get up in the morning to anticipate conditions and mentally prepare for the day ahead. SRT usually provides two hoist operator instructors and two pilot instructors—with operational experience in the aircraft they cover—for each engagement. The hoist instructor doubles as a ground safety instructor. Night hoist training is a separate course running from five to 10 days, depending on the number of pilots and their skills. The night course goes more into flight physiology, Gadbois said. For the pilots the course emphasizes instrument flight skills. They practice going from aided to unaided vision in the middle of a hoist operation, for example, simulating NVG failure or loss of reference. They also do instrument takeoffs under brownout or whiteout conditions. "If they're not already instrument-proficient, they will be by the time we're done," he said. Pilots also practice aircraft emergency procedures, such as hydraulic system failure.
SRT emphasizes its customized approach. "We do a risk assessment of everybody we train as part of how we decide how we're going to train and how to do business," Gadbois said. Pilots, for example, are asked to fill out a questionnaire regarding how many hours they've flown, for which aircraft and on what missions.
SRT also offers a SAR planning course which can run from three days to three weeks, depending on how much the operator wants to cover. This can include detailed SAR patterns and training on how to operate with other SAR entities. One operator who took hoist training from SRT was the Baltimore County Police aviation unit. One of the things SRT stressed was the organization's ability to work together with ground rescue personnel in the local fire department. According to Gadbois, interoperability includes common communication, equipment and procedures that are well defined before the unit becomes operational. The Baltimore County Police acknowledge the benefit of closer coordination with the fire department. Fire department members were brought in on the initial ground school and also joined the aviation unit in most of the training events, said Sgt. Ron Wines, aviation commander.
The approach paid off immediately, when the aviation unit and the fire department crew it trained with rescued an injured hiker. The two organizations also held a joint hurricane awareness exercise. During training, the police unit's Eurocopter AS350B3 AStars were outfitted with dual controls. That way, the SRT pilot instructor, who had some experience on the AStar, could demonstrate or correct a maneuver, Wines said.
Priority 1 Air Rescue, Mesa, Ariz., also offers a wide range of training courses and focuses on pilot/aircrew integration. The company has rescue hoist system operators and SAR pilot instructors, which provide initial and advanced Part 133 Class D training courses for customers in more than 15 helicopter types including Bell, Eurocopter, MD Helicopters and Sikorsky, according to Mark Torres, director of operations.
Successful rescue hoisting is built on cross training, crew interoperability and teamwork—the Class D Basic Hoist Rescue course is the foundation that customers build upon, Torres explained. This course involves two days of ground training and four days of flight training. The flight portion includes tasks such as inserting and extracting the rescue specialist over land. Hoist-related emergency procedures include events such as loss of hoist power, loss of hoist hydraulics, cable oscillations and cable/hoist stoppage. The course concludes with realistic and challenging SAR mission flight simulations.
Priority 1 also offers a SAR Planning course that, among other things, includes search patterns and a template for pilots of questions they need to ask when a call for help comes in. The advanced Class D Hoist Rescue Training courses covers more complex rescues in more difficult environments such as mountainous terrain, vertical cliffs, high-rise buildings, swiftwater, open ocean and maritime vessel scenarios. Night hoisting training with NVGs is also available. Torres points to Priority 1's "highly standardized training program" as a key differentiator. All of its courses include a nine-module ground school, static aircraft mock-ups, rescue equipment demos, flight proficiencies and technical and emergency procedures training, according to the company. In addition the company stresses that its Part 133 Class D Human External Cargo Rescue Hoist training curriculum has been approved and audited by the FAA and Transport Canada.
One of the top maritime SAR planning tools is the USCG's SAROPS (SAR Optimal Planning System). The flagship course at the Coast Guard's National SAR School—aimed at aspiring SAR mission coordinators or controllers—includes training in the use and application of SAROPS. The four-week-long Maritime SAR Planning course includes theory (about four days), application (about one week) and scenario-based training (about two weeks). Theory covers forces affecting drift, such as wind and surface currents, various types of maritime search objects and SAR policies, White explained. The application segment introduces students to SAROPS. The third phase includes Command Center scenarios, where students are exposed to the demands and pressures, as well as the noise and distractions, of a real-life SAR Command Center. In these role-playing exercises, the instructors—behind a one-way mirror—play the parts of the person in distress, the resources sent out to assist, the radio watchstander, 911 operator, hospitals, park rangers and anyone else they believe might be able to assist in the search. A scenario starts off with some type of statement, such as a mayday call from a fishing vessel at a certain location. The students decide on the search area, search patterns, resources and method of rescue.
About three years old, SAROPS is used in every case that requires a search plan—when communications are lost, creating uncertainty as to the position of the person or vessel in distress. The SAR controller inputs the search object—a person in the water, a raft or multiple types of airplanes or boats—its dimensions and the story of what happened. The scenario includes any information about the time, position and type of object. Solid data is best—such as the actual time and place where trouble occurred—but the software can work with more vague information such as the general area of an object or its point of departure and intended destination. SAROPS uses this data to create a starting point from which to run drift models.
The controller then activates SAROPS' automated planning process. In approximately 90 seconds, the program crunches the data to create the search plan with the highest probability of success. It computes the optimal search area, pattern type and orientation, commence search point and track spacing to be used when the searchers arrive, taking into consideration the further movement of the object during the search.
SAROPS displays a swatch of colors, known as a probability grid (see image above), on a map interface, indicating the best area to search, explained Cdr. Chris Day, maritime planning officer with the Northern Command in Colorado Springs, Colo. The grid's colors, ranging from gray to red, represent increasing levels of probability that the object will be found there. The colors are created by the dispersal of a set of "particles," each of which represents the search target. Initially these particles are "placed" within a set radius of the estimated location. Their movement simulates possible drift paths of the target from the last known or estimated position, a calculation based on computer wind and sea current modeling algorithms and real-time weather information. Where the most particles converge, the grid square is red, indicating a higher-probability area. The grid, in turn, is overlaid with a diagram of the search pattern, including icons for the starting point and the search vessel or aircraft. The SAR controller, operating out of a USCG Command Center, may select to use 2,500, 5,000 or 10,000 particles, depending on the size of the area to be searched. In most cases 5,000 is the normal setting.
Another way of describing SAROPS is that it's running and evaluating up to 10,000 simulations of target drift—the particles—in just a few minutes in order to estimate the best area for searchers to cover when they arrive at the scene and the best orientation of the search pattern, explained Geoff Pagels, a SAR supervisor at the USCG 5th District's Rescue Coordination Center in Norfolk, Va. SAROPS has greatly accelerated the generation of a search plan. Ten years ago it took an experienced SAR controller 2.5 hours to manually calculate a single search plan, White said. Now several hundred plans can be evaluated in just a few minutes. SAROPS typically focuses on variations of the parallel or creeping line patterns, as these are designed to cover large areas uniformly, White said. For smaller areas or where better data is available, other types of patterns, such as an expanding square or sector search, might be more appropriate.
The latest version of SAROPS features "backdrift," which basically allows the program to run the drift model backwards to find the general area where a disaster occurred. This feature would be useful if a distress call comes in, but there is no last-known position. In the subsequent general search over an area of water, a promising debris field is found. At this point a backdrift, based on the debris location and the time of the distress call, can estimate a probable area where the emergency occurred. A forward-drift from there calculates the probable area to search and the optimum search pattern. This feature was used to help find victims of the June 1 Air France disaster. The Coast Guard was contacted by the French government, which felt the reverse drift would be useful, Pagels said. USCG did a backdrift from a debris field to the estimated crash area and then a forward drift to an area where more debris and bodies were found.
Could the program be improved? It would be helpful for information about a distress call to pop up on the SAROPS screen while the SAR controller is working, Pagels said. When a citizen calls in, it would be helpful to see the person's name, number and location on the screen. "If it's a cell phone call, we need to have complete access and viewing of the cell towers that pick up the call because that helps us narrow down the search area."


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I got a Royal Mail neighbour opt out sticker last year. The Royal Mail logo quickly faded in the sunshine, and by the end of the year, the sticker had more or less delaminated.
I sent off for a new one a month ago and put it up a couple of weeks ago. I'm pleased to say it is lasting very well:
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Probably just printed on an inkjet label.
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No, its to opt out of delivery to neighbours. See https://www.royalmail.com/personal/r...y-to-neighbour.
To opt out you just order a sticker which you display near your letter box.
For the junk mail, I read that after you fill the form in, they stop putting the junk mail in with your own mail actually at the delivery office, rather than displaying a sticker at home. I never bothered opting out of junk mail. Occasionally there'll be something worthwhile delivered, and if the postman doesn't bring it, someone else certainly will.
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Also on the subject of Random Pictures...
Google has my old doctors surgery listed as a funeral home .
I'm not a postman though! I work in distribution.
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I didn't actually know about these stickers and have never seen one. As I said I work for RM part time but am not in deliveries, instead working in distribution in a mail centre dealing with business mail.
Why would you not want your mail left with neighbours? Don't you get on or trust them? All the neighbours near me are older retired people and really nice. We all take parcels in for each other. I would say I never trusted all my neighbours at my other house though and might have considered this scheme.
You would have thought these days though that a sticker wasn't needed. Postmen have to carry their PDA with them and log where they are on them to track their movements, for office logistics and so managers can track where they are, and the PDA could easily store this info and they could just check if it could be left or not when someone isn't in.
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You're Lucky Dave. Here in a Row of three, both immediate neighbours are complete Douche-Bags. One of them even has a note in their Window to leave with their friends on the other side of us, or their other Social Climbing Plastic friends opposite....
Never known neighbours like 'em anywhere......
Getting 0ld0r is mandatory - Growing up is just an option.
I don't like being disturbed by other people's post.
The delivery office has defined opening times. <insert_random_neighbour_here> doesn't.

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Skylight presents intimate take on 'Porgy & Bess'
In the summer of 1926, George Gershwin returned home from rehearsals for a new musical. Wired and needing to clear his head, he picked up a recent bestselling novel as bedtime reading. He didn't put it down until he had finished it the following morning. The novel was DuBose Heyward's "Porgy."
In "The Life and Times of Porgy and Bess: The Story of an American Classic," Hollis Alpert describes what happened next: Gershwin was so excited "by the story and its author's apparent musical sensitivity" that he immediately wrote Heyward and suggested they collaborate on an opera. Nine years later, it made a now-legendary Broadway debut as "Porgy and Bess."
This Friday, the Skylight Music Theatre will conclude its own nine-year journey to bring "Porgy and Bess" to Milwaukee for the first time since the Florentine Opera Company's 1989 production - and for the first time ever in the Skylight's storied 54-year history.
"When I came in the door as artistic director in 2004, I knew that the Skylight had never done 'Porgy,' " Bill Theisen said during a recent interview in the Skylight's offices.
"That made me sad," continued Theisen, who is stage director and choreographer for "Porgy," his final show as the Skylight's artistic leader. "I know it's not the easiest piece to program and produce, but it's the most important American opera, and it's a piece I've wanted to do from day one of my time here."
Easier said than done.
Theisen and music director Richard Carsey had discussions with the Gershwin estate about reducing the orchestration to fit the Cabot Theatre space; Carsey has received permission from the estate to orchestrate this "Porgy" for nine players. Theisen also needed time to think through the similar changes required to make "Porgy" work in the Cabot's cozy confines.
The result, in a show that can swell to 70 once one adds the ensemble, is a cast of 15 - 16 if one considers that the vocally demanding role of Bess has been double cast, with each Bess (Kearstin Piper Brown and Rhea Olivaccé) handling 10 of the 20 scheduled performances. Whitefish Bay High School grad Jason McKinney plays Porgy.
When Less Becomes More
For Theisen, that change in scale offers a huge opportunity.
"When you see 'Porgy' in a large space with a cast of 70, it's hard to know just what the heck is going on," Theisen said. "In our cast of 15, every character has a moment - some have many - that's an important part of the entire piece. You're not just standing in a group of 20 while singing your one solo line."
"We're going to find all of these individual characters and make them specific, which will focus attention on their relations to each other and help give a sense of the community on Catfish Row," Theisen said. "It's going to allow people to see 'Porgy' in a very different way."
Theisen is confident that designer Ken Goldstein's unit set - which will invoke Catfish Row through a backdrop collage, featuring period-specific doors and shutters - will further this vision.
"The set's simplicity ensures we don't get bogged down with the notion that this has to be here and that has to be there," Theisen said. "It enables a lot more variety in staging the piece, allowing us to make more interesting versions of scenes and give the characters more options."
"The intimate set will also bring the characters front and center," Theisen added. "And as isn't always true with a cast of 70, losing various members of this community will really resonate."
"You'll feel that we're a community," agreed Sheri Williams Pannell, seated next to Theisen during an interview.
Williams Pannell, who was an ensemble member in the Florentine production, is playing Maria while doubling as this production's assistant director - a position that underscores Maria's authority as the matriarch of Catfish Row. Williams Pannell also created and will direct "Goin' Up North," the after-show Skylight cabaret during this run.
"When a member of the community goes away - be it during the hurricane or through murder - you will see and hear the loss," Williams Pannell continued. "The physical presence is gone, and in a cast this size, you'll know it."
The potential payoff of the Skylight approach becomes apparent when one listens to Theisen and Williams Pannell talk about the characters. They have a very clear idea, for example, of the long road that the two leads must walk in order to tell a fully dramatized story rather than embodying static archetypes.
"In the beginning, both Porgy and Bess are broken individuals," Theisen observed. "Their attraction is sexual, but they also really need each other in order to develop as human beings."
"Bess has a longing," Williams Pannell added. "She sees the love that Jake, Clara and their baby share and she wonders, 'Can this really happen to me? Porgy, can you bring this aspect of life and fulfillment to me? I want to give this a chance. Let's see if it can happen.' "
Even the directors' discussion of the archvillains in "Porgy" - the dope-peddling Sportin' Life and the murderous, abusive Crown - suggests shadings one doesn't ordinarily see in depictions of either.
Musical or opera?
On the surface, Theisen's goals for the Skylight "Porgy" echo the stated intentions of Diane Paulus, who hoped that the 2012 revival she directed on Broadway - officially known as "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" - would give audience members a chance to know the opera's characters as fully rounded individuals.
Paulus' remarks triggered a scathing open letter from Stephen Sondheim, who strenuously objected to revisions that included rewriting or adding to Heyward's libretto, turning recitatives into spoken dialogue and removing much of the dialect.
Although he didn't see the New York production, Theisen shares some of Sondheim's reservations, citing Paulus' replacement of recitatives with spoken dialogue as an example.
"One of the most brilliant things that Gershwin did was have 'Porgy' sung through for everyone except the white characters," Theisen noted. "In our production, the only time the music stops is when the detective is out there. It's really jarring, and powerful. Take away that one little element and it lessens the impact of the piece as a whole."
"If you're going to do this piece, then you need to do the piece," Theisen insisted. "Gershwin put it together as a whole, and it's important to keep that integrity." Theisen noted that many of the Skylight's cuts - resulting in a projected run time of just under 2½ hours, not counting one intermission - are consistent with cuts Gershwin himself made before the Broadway opening.
Conversely, Theisen was taken with the lean and very smart "Porgy" staged by Chicago's Court Theatre two years ago in its 251-seat Hyde Park performing space (the more ornate Cabot holds 360). The Court production also featured a unit set and a 15-member cast, along with six musicians.
Theisen and Carsey took a road trip south to see it, and while Theisen was underwhelmed by some of the singing - it was staged as a musical rather than an opera, and the voices were average to good but not great - he still came away impressed.
"What I loved about it is that the storytelling was very good," Theisen said. "We're doing an opera, not a musical, and we're using a cast of opera singers. But seeing the Court production only encouraged me. I knew I wanted more vocal power. But seeing their production made me certain, dramatically, that the direction we'd chosen was the right way to go."
An empowering story
The characters in the Court's "Porgy" took charge of their own story to a degree I'd never seen, in a show that has been dogged from the start by criticisms that for all its undeniably good intentions, it flirts with stereotypes.
Theisen's breathtaking vision of still further empowering Catfish Row's inhabitants - by allowing operatically trained talent to give full voice to these characters' aspirations in how they sing as well as how they act - is intoxicating.
Theisen and Williams Pannell insist that they'll settle for nothing less.
"My goal in serving as Bill's assistant director is to make sure that we don't create caricatures in developing the personalities telling this story," Williams Pannell said. "If we do this - if we are authentic and sincere - then we honor the descendants of those ancestors on Catfish Row. And in doing that we also honor our own ancestors."
"Looked at from the vantage point of the period rather than through 2013 eyes, what one sees in these characters isn't stereotypical," Theisen said. "It's actual. It's historical."
Will the audience agree?
In his book, which is a cultural history as well as the story of "Porgy" itself, Alpert describes how Gershwin's opera has reflected - and also been shaped by - the societal changes taking place around it.
Theisen - who describes the book as "great" and who had a heavily tabbed copy with him during the interview - is therefore well aware that any staging of "Porgy" takes on a life of its own, with potential ramifications that extend far beyond the stage on which it's performed. He seems to relish the challenge and opportunity this gives him and the Skylight.
"Hopefully, we can bring the audience real people in real situations," Theisen said. "If we're honest in our presentation, and if the audience can take itself back to a time when things were very different, it can and should be successful. Our 'Porgy' won't just be a general overview of stereotypical archetypes. The world of Catfish Row was their world, and these are their lives."
Milwaukee native Nathaniel Stampley, who will be playing Crown and who has clearly thought hard about this issue, summed things up well when I spoke with him the following day.
Yes, Stampley noted, the creators of "Porgy" - all of them white - were outsiders to the Gullah traditions and culture they were trying to represent. And no, they didn't always get everything exactly right.
"But those outsiders were intent on bringing a level of humanity to characters who hadn't at that time had a chance to be protagonists," Stampley said. "There was a genuine effort to make them human, scars and all. Even by today's standards, that's pretty progressive."
What: Skylight Music Theatre's "Porgy and Bess"
When: May 17 through June 9
Where: Broadway Theatre Center's Cabot Theatre, 158 N. Broadway.
Tickets: $22.50-$65, subject to change. Call (414) 291-7800 or visit Skylight's website.
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viciokie wrote:NormH wrote:Will we ever get to see more information (story) on the return of the BUGS, from the system that must be concealed?
Steve White has written two books updating the series following the "Insurrection" time line. But it would be nice to see the Bugs come back, stronger than ever.
If the starfire books follow the game more or less the bugs will be found before they can rebuild a battle fleet entirely
I think we'll see: Another war with the bugs although not as large as ISW4. Possible books include, the first two ISW wars when Terrans and Khanite fought. And finally, the third ISW war where the Grand Alliance fought aganist the Rigillains.


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SOCORRO, N.M., Sept. 11, 2008 – New Mexico Tech is producing a series of television commercials to attract prospective students. The university is looking for actors to portray college students for two central roles and several minor roles. There is no pay, but this will be a fun and educational experience.
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This page lists frequently asked questions about the Wikimedia Foundation. Other questions are addressed at Answers. If you do not find your question answered here or there, please feel free to contact us.
- 1 In a nutshell, what is Wikipedia? And what is the Wikimedia Foundation?
- 2 If I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, where does my money go?
- 3 Which projects do you support?
- 4 Is the Wikipedia Education Initiative a project of the Wikimedia Foundation?
- 5 How is the Wikimedia Foundation run?
- 6 How is the Wikimedia Foundation funded?
- 7 Why doesn't Wikipedia use ads for revenue?
- 8 How can I donate via debit or credit card?
- 9 What other options exist to allow me to donate?
- 10 Why does the Wikimedia Foundation accept Bitcoin?
- 11 Are my donations tax-deductible?
- 12 Why is there a minimum donation?
- 13 What is your donor privacy policy?
- 14 What is your refund policy?
- 15 What can I do to help you spread the word?
- 16 How can I contact the Foundation?
In a nutshell, what is Wikipedia? And what is the Wikimedia Foundation?
Wikipedia is the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia. It is online, free to use for any purpose, and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than 35 million volunteer-authored articles in over 291 languages, and is visited by more than 374 million people every month, making it one of the most popular sites in the world.
It is a collaborative creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people during the past twelve years: anyone can edit it, at any time. It has become the largest collection of shared knowledge in human history. The people who support it are united by their love of learning, their intellectual curiosity, and their awareness that we know much more together than any of us does alone.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. Together these sites are the fifth most visited web property in the world. The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. You can review our letter of tax-exemption and our financial reports and annual filings.
Our mission is to empower a global volunteer community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it available to everyone for free, for any purpose. We work together with a network of chapters in many different countries to achieve this goal.
If I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, where does my money go?
Money you donate pays for staff salaries and technology. Even though Wikipedia and its sister projects together reach 374 million people every month, we employ only 277 people; see our staff overview.
Our staff is divided into three program departments: technology (website operations, software development); legal, communications, and community advocacy (public outreach, community programs, legal defense); and learning and grantmaking (supporting chapter programs and growing Wikimedia worldwide). The remainder of our staff work in management, finance, and administration. Your support also pays for servers, bandwidth, and Internet hosting that allow us to keep Wikimedia's projects running and growing.
Above all, the Wikimedia Foundation exists to support and grow the vast network of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia and its sister projects – more than 80,000 people around the world.
Which projects do you support?
The Wikimedia Foundation supports a number of projects including Wikipedia. We also lead and support the development of MediaWiki, the open source wiki software behind all our public websites.
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More information may be found on the page about our projects.
Is the Wikipedia Education Initiative a project of the Wikimedia Foundation?
No. The Wikipedia Education Initiative is not a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. So donations to the Wikipedia Education Initiative do not fund Wikipedia or its sister projects.
How is the Wikimedia Foundation run?
The Wikimedia Foundation has a staff of 277, led by the Executive Director, Lila Tretikov. The staff supports the work of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who contribute content to the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is also supported by countless volunteers participating through committees, as interns, or on an ad hoc basis.
The Board of Trustees articulates the mission and vision of the Wikimedia Foundation, reviews and helps to develop long term plans, provides oversight, and supports the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts. It is the ultimate organizational authority of the Wikimedia Foundation as defined in its bylaws. See Meetings for published Board minutes and Resolutions for published Board resolutions. The Board is comprised of ten members, with three seats elected directly by the Wikimedia community; two seats selected by the Wikimedia chapters; one Board-appointed "community founder" seat (reserved for Jimmy Wales); and four Board-appointed "specific expertise" seats. The Board is supported by an Advisory Board.
We have an office, located in San Francisco, California (USA), where most of our employees work. All Board members and remaining staff work remotely.
We strive to operate highly transparently, and have published key policies and financial information.
How is the Wikimedia Foundation funded?
The Wikimedia Foundation is funded primarily through donations from hundreds of thousands of individuals, but also through several grants and gifts of servers and hosting (see benefactors).
The Wikimedia Foundation receives donations from more than 50 countries around the world. The average donation is quite small, but their sheer numbers have ensured our success. People make contributions year-round, and once a year the Wikimedia Foundation makes a formal request for donations.
We are not considering advertising as a source of revenue.
The Wikimedia Foundation has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States. Donations made from other nations may also be tax deductible. See tax deductibility for details. Click here for details on how to make a donation via credit/debit card, PayPal, Amazon, or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact us through donatewikimedia.org.
Why doesn't Wikipedia use ads for revenue?
We do not believe that advertising belongs in a project devoted to education, and one that is driven by the values consistent with a balanced, neutral encyclopedia. Our big, global volunteer community (the people who make Wikipedia) have always felt that advertising would have a major effect on our ability to stay neutral, and ultimately ads would weaken the readers' overall confidence in the articles they are reading.
The current models for web advertising are also not supportive of our views on user privacy. We do not want to deliver ads to users based on their geography or on the topic they are currently reading about. Contextual advertising (similar to geo-targeted advertising) reads the content you are viewing which goes against Wikipedia's strict privacy policy for users. We respect your right to online privacy, and bring you the knowledge and information you are looking for.
We are not against the world of online advertising, nor are we against other organizations that host ads. We just know ads are not an appropriate thing to find in a project devoted to education and knowledge – and especially one that strives for balance and neutrality.
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Please refer to the information on tax-deductibility for the details of tax-deductions and tax receipts.
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Argentine "miracle" baby rescued from morgue remains in serious condition at 4 months old
(CBS/AP) The Argentine baby who was who survived 12 hours in a hospital morgue after her April birth is now four months old and closer to coming home.
Argentine "Miracle" baby recovering after 12 hours in morgue
Luz Milagros Veron - whose name translates to "Miracle Light" in English - was flown with her mother Analia Bouter on Thursday to a pediatric hospital closer to her home in provincial Chaco after months in intensive care in Buenos Aires.
The baby showed no signs of life when she was born three months premature in April, according to doctors, and she was quickly sent to the morgue. She's alive today because her parents insisted on seeing her body to say goodbye. After 12 hours inside a sealed coffin, she moved and let out a tiny cry. She was cold as ice, but far from dead.
Since then, Luz Milagros has grown and become stronger, but she isn't ready to go home yet.
Hugo Ramos, the deputy director of the hospital in provincial Resistencia where she will now be cared for, said she suffered neurological damage, still has internal bleeding and remains on a respirator. She's in stable but very serious condition, Ramos said, according to Argentina's Diarios y Noticias news agency.
Bouter acknowledged the challenges but expressed hope her daughter would improve enough to take her home. "In the future we'll see how to prepare the house to receive her," she said.
Last April, Boutin insisted on going to the morgue's refrigeration room, where she brought her sister's cell phone to snap a picture of the newborn for the funeral. Her husband had trouble opening the lid, and then stepped aside to let his wife see inside.
"I moved the coverings aside and saw the tiny hand, with all five fingers, and I touched her hand and then uncovered her face," Boutin said at the time in TeleNoticias interview. "That's where I heard a tiny little cry. I told myself I was imagining it - it was my imagination. And then I stepped back and saw her waking up. It was as if she was saying 'Mama, you came for me!''


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In S.C., Cruz faces 2016 skeptics
CHARLESTON, S.C. — It didn't take much for Ted Cruz to bring a crowd of conservatives to its feet here.
By the time the Texas Republican senator finished speaking Tuesday night, an adoring audience hailed Cruz and his no-compromise, combative style of conservatism that has made him the scourge of the GOP establishment but a hero of the tea party.
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"Liberty is under assault today like never before," Cruz said, pacing the stage like a televangelist.
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But even in deep-red South Carolina, a well-received speech full of Cruz's signature flair is no guarantee that the firebrand politician could win the early primary state in a run for his party's presidential nomination in 2016.
The Republican Party here, as in many other states, has many factions. And in interviews with activists and GOP leaders across the state, a common theme emerges: Cruz can clearly energize the far right, but he has yet to demonstrate he can pull together the necessary coalition of business-minded Republicans, libertarians, social and fiscal conservatives and moderate-leaning voters who are eager to see a Republican win the White House come 2016.
"Electability — that will be his challenge," said Republican Lindsey Graham, South Carolina's senior senator. "He's got to show he can put the patchwork together."
The questions about Cruz also are a symptom of the ongoing debate consuming the GOP: Is it best to stick to an unyielding brand of conservative politics to win the hearts and minds of voters frustrated at both parties, or should Republicans be more willing to broaden their tent and work with Democrats in a divided Washington?
( QUIZ: Do you know Ted Cruz?)
Cruz, a first-term senator, has not officially said he's running in 2016, but his close associates predict a White House bid is almost certainly in the offing for the 43-year-old, Harvard-educated lawyer.
If he were to run, he faces several prospective GOP foes who have sought to broaden their appeal by courting the party's warring factions while pushing new policy agendas, such as Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. He also faces comparisons to past right-wing candidates, such as Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who rapidly petered out in the 2012 race for the GOP presidential nomination.
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The Texas freshman compares his battles with the party establishment to Ronald Reagan's before he became president in 1980, but plenty of people in South Carolina have doubts that Cruz could become a unifying Reagan-type figure for Republicans.
For instance, Rep. Mick Mulvaney said the Texas senator "fell flat" and "missed an opportunity" to show he can lead the country and the party out of the political wilderness when he spoke last May in Columbia, S.C., at the Silver Elephant Dinner. It was the first of Cruz's three appearances so far in the Palmetto State since last year.
"It was the same old, same old," said Mulvaney, a Republican who represents the northern part of the state and was elected in the tea party wave of 2010. "It's the same thing you see on Fox News every single night. I guess that's fine for a certain segment of the Republican primary base in South Carolina, but the folks who are going to make a difference in the outcome are the folks who follow the issues much more deeply, are much more educated on the challenges we face. They'll press people."
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Speaking to a handful of reporters before his Tuesday speech at an auditorium at The Citadel military college, Cruz signaled he plans to pitch himself as the Republican leader who is battling Washington, given that he has been on the front lines of virtually every major issue, such as gun control, immigration legislation and, of course, Obamacare.
When asked about doubts about his electability, he pointed to the grass-roots "army" and "diverse coalition" that propelled him to victory in his 2012 Senate race.
"We saw support from every spectrum of the Republican Party," Cruz said.
Asked how he would sell himself to South Carolina Republicans, Cruz said, "It's too early to worry about 2016." But he added: "The person for whom I intend to vote is whoever is standing up and leading. Whoever is effectively making the case for free market principles — for our constitutional rights."
"What I'm trying to do in South Carolina and across the country is really energize and mobilize the grassroots," Cruz told reporters. "People understand the path we're on isn't working."
Cruz alluded to those ideological battles during his 25-minute speech to some 100 conservatives at an annual awards dinner hosted by the Free Enterprise Foundation, a nonprofit research group promoting fewer regulations on businesses.
The "biggest divide," he told the crowd, is between "entrenched politicians in Washington in both parties and the American people."
After his speech, Cruz stayed and shook hands until everybody left the hall — and thanked each of the wait staff individually. Later that night, he met with a group of event organizers and area Republicans at a Marriott Hotel bar booth.


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As part of National Consumer Protection Week, the Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Marilyn Tavenner, announced the redesign of the statement that informs Medicare beneficiaries about their claims for Medicare services and benefits. The redesigned statement, known as the Medicare Summary Notice (MSN), will be available online and, starting in 2013, mailed out quarterly to beneficiaries.
This MSN redesign is part of a new initiative, "Your Medicare Information: Clearer, Simpler, At Your Fingertips," which aims to make Medicare information clearer, more accessible, and easier for beneficiaries and their caregivers to understand. CMS will take additional actions this year to make information about benefits, providers, and claims more accessible and easier to understand for seniors and people with disabilities who have Medicare. This MSN redesign reflects more than 18 months of research and feedback from beneficiaries to provide enhanced customer service and respond to suggestions and input.
"Consumer protection starts with making sure consumers not only get timely and accurate information, but that they understand what services they're receiving from Medicare," said Acting Administrator Tavenner. "The new Medicare Summary Notice empowers Medicare's seniors and people with disabilities. The statement is easier to understand and navigate, and makes clear what information to check and how to report potential fraud. The new MSN also makes it easier for people with Medicare to understand their benefits and file appeals if a claim is denied."
To see a side-by-side comparison of the former and redesigned MSNs, please visit: http://www.cms.gov/apps/files/msn_changes.pdf
The redesign of the MSN includes several features not currently available to Medicare beneficiaries with the current MSN:
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- An easy-to-understand snapshot of the beneficiary's deductible status, a list of providers they saw, and whether their claims for Medicare services were approved.
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- Definitions of all terms used in the form;
- Larger fonts throughout to make it easier to read;
- Information on preventive services available to Medicare beneficiaries.
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One of my entries into the Medieval Life Catagory, a Guild hall Feast!
Ageven meets with a few friends for an evening meal in his elaborate palace. The five flag sections represent the five Guilds of Historica, Nocturnus, Kaliphlin, Avalonia, Mitgardia, and Valaryio.
Medieval life is not just the ordinary life of the tradsman or farmer, it is also the life of rich counts and barons!
You're welcome to check out my photostream for more pictures (they've been pushed back a bit though...).
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I think the book is fascinating. I liked it because you find out what it is like being a person and a cat. My favorite part was when Miranda turned Arabella into a cat. I liked that part because that would be so cool for a cat to change you into a cat. Arabella reminded me of myself because I have a cat, I have a stepfather, and if I ask my cat a question it seems like she talks back to me. I found Miranda interesting because she talks, and she was very nice.
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Two years before Flow, Terence Blanchard released Bounce, a departure from anything he had done in his already storied career. It was a seminal album, with the ideas of a musician 20 years his junior, but the skill and command of the jazz great that he had become. As a follow-up, Flow exhibits that no one better balances traditionalism, provincialism and contemporary aesthetics like Blanchard. This is almost immediately evident and highlighted on "Wadagbe," the album's third cut. Blachard's instantly recognizable, clarion-call horn-tone is still there, as is the native New Orleanian's homage to the Nola stomp and mardi gras Indian chants, plus a classically lyrical jazz-head and an end-song coda that singes. Guitarist Lionel Loueke, still in his early 30s at the time, wrote "Wadagbe" and Benny Golson tribute "Benny's Tune." Young drummer Kendrick Scott wrote album-standout "The Source." In fact, Blanchard handles sole writing duties of just one song on the album, "Wandering Wonder," allowing his younger sidemen's voices to shine. It is this young energy that keeps Blanchard and the album's producer, Herbie Hancock, sounding so vibrant and current. Hancock, years into receiving Social Security, turned in the piano solo of the year on "The Source" -- a percussive display so cerebral, violent and dramatic that it almost defies belief. Few of Blanchard's Young Lion peers from the 1980s are still relevant in any fresh way, which makes Flow, together with its predecessor Bounce, such a revelation. Blanchard isn't stuck making 60s tribute albums or recycling the sound of his youth. Instead, he's hooking up with the hip kids, sometimes directing traffic, sometimes going with the Flow. ~ Vincent Thomas


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Chris' wife Joelle directed me to the Web site of an amazing young photographer named Alex Stoddard. Stoddard is only 19 years old, and has some incredible photographs for a guy of any age, let alone someone so young.
But it gets better. He writes on his Facebook page that he "discovered photography at the beginning of 2010." So he's only been doing it for three years.
I wrote Alex and asked him if he wouldn't mind me publishing a few of his photos, and he graciously accepted. Here are a few of my favorites, but you can see many more on his Web site, and on his Facebook and Flickr pages.
Native Americans used to believe that a photograph could steal your soul. Well, a few of these did.
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The tympanic membrane, or eardrum, separates the ear canal and the inner ear. The ossicles are small bones which connect the tympanic membrane to the inner ear.
Ruptured or perforated eardrums are usually caused by middle-ear infections or trauma (for example, an object in the ear, a slap on the ear, explosions, or repeated, excessive ear pressure from flying or diving).
If healing does not occur with antibiotics or other non-operative treatment, surgery may be necessary.
Chronic middle ear infections are described as:
Signs of chronic ear infections include persistent ear pain, ear drainage, or hearing loss (over a 3-month period).
While the patient is deep asleep and pain-free, (general anesthesia), the surgeon grafts a small patch from the fascia of the forehead muscle (temporalis) onto the eardrum. This graft is used to repair the tear.
For problems with the small bones (ossicles), the surgeon will use an operating microscope to view and repair the chain of small bones using plastic devices or ossicles from a donor.
In most cases, the operation relieves pain and infection symptoms completely. Hearing loss is usually minor. However, if the ossicles require repair, outcome may be less optimal.
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US unemployment dips below 8 per cent, but IT sector takes a hit
Some risk of being forced to take a job as a teacher
The economy in the United States added as many jobs as economists had been expecting and President Obama had been no doubt praying for, and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 per cent, the first time it has been below 8 per cent since the current Great Recession began in December 2007.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics not only put out numbers for September this morning in its monthly jobs report but also revised upwards its figures for July and August, showing that job creation was a bit stronger in the heat of the summer than was originally expected.
Taking out workers on farms, the US economy added 114,000 workers in September, according to the BLS, and interestingly, 104,000 of those jobs came from the private sector and 10,000 of them came from state, local, and federal governments - which had been slashing workers for years and years. Uncle Sam added 4,000 workers to the payrolls, and with teachers coming back to school, another 16,100 extra people were added at educational institutions, boosting the work rolls at both state and local governments and more than compensating for cuts made by governments elsewhere.
The Department of Labor's job counters went back over their numbers for the two previous months and now think the economy created 181,000 net new non-farm jobs in July, up from 141,000, and added 142,000 in August, up from the 96,000, that were originally reported for those two months.
If you average out the first nine months of 2012, the US economy has added 146,000 jobs per month, while in 2011 the economy averaged 156,000 net new jobs per month.
After getting his butt kicked by candidate Mitt Romney in the first presidential debate early this week, President Obama has something positive he can point to and - as presidents always do - take credit for when it can be reasonably argued that companies create and preserve jobs despite governments and bad economies, not because of them.
The US unemployment rate drops below 8 per cent
The other good news, bolstered by increased teacher and construction worker employment, is that the unemployment rate - which had been hovering between 8.1 and 8.3 per cent in the past year - dropped to 7.8 per cent in the month of September. The number of officially unemployed people – meaning they are looking for work and have not found it – dropped by 456,000 to 12.1 million.
Last month, healthcare companies added 44,000 workers, transportation and warehousing companies added 17,000 people, and financial services companies boosted the payrolls by 13,000. Manufacturers slashed 16,000 workers, however.
2012 is a slightly shrunken carbon copy of 2011 in terms of job creation
Within manufacturers, and using the raw data instead of the seasonally adjusted data from the BLS surveys of businesses, computer and peripheral equipment makers slashed 3,800 workers in September: leaving 164,000 people still getting paychecks. Communication equipment makers cut 200 people, to 108,100, and semiconductor and electronic component makers chopped 2,000 people, to 386,200. Telecom companies cut 1,200 workers and have a labor pool of 826,200, and data processing and hosting companies also trimmed 1,000 people to a workforce of 239,300. Even computer system design and related services, which had been helping boost the economy in recent years, cut 6,300 workers in September to 1.61 million people. And management and technical consulting services employment fell by 5,300 people, to 1.15 million workers.
September was not a good month for the IT sector, at least judged by this proxy. ®


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WALTHAM, Mass. – Visiting Roger Williams University outscored host Brandeis, 12-2, in the opening 5:03 of the second half as the Hawks came away with a 54-47 victory over the Judges in a non-conference women's basketball game. Brandeis falls to 4-5 on the season, while RWU evens their record at 4-4.
Brandeis struggled out of the game for the second game in a row hitting just one of their first 10 shots as Roger Williams opened on an 11-2 run in the first 7:46. After the teams traded the next two buckets to make it a 13-4 lead, Brandeis responded by holding the visitors to just two field goals over the final 10 minutes. The Judges reclaimed the lead on a steal by junior Nicolina Vitale (Clinton Township, Mich./Chippewa Valley) that led to a Samantha Mancinelli (Durham, Conn./Coginchaug Regional) lay-up, making it 16-15 with 4:38 to go. Brandeis extended the lead to seven at 22-15 on a pair of Erika Higginbottom (Millbury, Mass./Worcester Acad.) free throws and took a 27-21 margin into the locker room. No player in the game had more than five points or two field goals in the first half.
In the second half, Roger Williams opened with the key 12-2 run, including the first seven points of the stanza, as Brandeis missed its first 10 shots. Half of the Hawks' points in the stretch came on 3-pointers by junior guard Elizabeth Kilzi (Waverly, Pa./Abington Heights). It was a lay-up from sophomore Kaitlyn Bovee (Berlin, Conn./Berlin) gave the visitors the lead for good at 30-29 after two Vitale foul shots had put Brandeis ahead for the final time. Kilzi's second trifecta extended the lead to four points with just under five minutes gone. Brandeis twice got within one point and were within two with the ball and 7:09 on the clock, but the Judges couldn't convert on three straight possessions, and the Hawks finally got to the line. Ari Renwick (Westwood, Mass./Fontbonne Acad.) connected twice at 4:42 to make it 42-38, and the Hawks kept it a two-possession game the rest of the way by hitting 6-for-8 from the line and converting two big offensive rebounds into hoops.
Brandeis was led in scoring by sophomore guard Hannah Cain (Gloucester, Mass./Gloucester), who scored 11 points, six in the second half. She hit 5-of-12 from the field and 1-of-2 from the line. Vitale added a season-high eight points off the bench. Senior Samantha Anderson (Johnsonville, N.Y./Hoosic Valley) led the Judges with six rebounds, while four different players had two assists.
Roger Williams put three starters in double figures, with Bovee leading all players with 13 points – eight in the second half - and tying for game-high honors with seven rebounds - five offensive. Kilzi and rookie Angela Arioli (Prospect, Conn./Holy Cross) each had 10 points for the Hawks. Rookie Lisa Lutz (Downers Grove, Ill./Downers Grove North) matched Bovee with seven boards and had a game-high four steals, while Kilzi had two assists. RWU owned a 16-8 edge in scoring from the free throw line and a 36-35 rebounding advantage, including 21-9 in the second half.
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Gaucho wrote:Is Suter really elite or is he just way above average? I don't know. But I expect the Wings to throw some insane contract at him.
As an aside, I hope we keep Paul Martin and he decides to stop underachieving.
As I wrote in the other thread, Mike Babcock referred to Ryan Suter as a generational talent. I know he's smarter than I am when it comes to hockey, so I'll have to trust him. I know we'll be battling Red Wings and others to get him, so who knows. Maybe he prefers the West, but if I had a chance to play with Crosby and Malkin and Neal and Letang and hopefully another good winger like Parise or even Semin (lol), if I am Suter or anyone else, I say 'sign me up'. We'll see how it plays out, Gaucho.


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Apple Forgets Steve Jobs and Announces a Non-Magical iPad
Mar 12, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Over the years, I've watched company after company lose its invaluable edge because executives critical to its success moved on, or died, and didn't pass on critical skills. Only IBM really made a massive effort not to screw this up, and even it eventually forgot, forcing a massive reset -- which almost caused it to fail -- in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Sony Walkman, PlayStation, Trinitron; Palm PDA; RIM BlackBerry; Microsoft Windows 95; Intel Inside; Cisco Flip Camera; and now it looks like I'll be adding the iPad to this list in a few years.
It really doesn't seem that difficult to take something that is already incredibly successful and keep it so. You'd think the hard work (and it is) would be in creating success in the first place. But we forget that people move on and, unfortunately, don't live forever either. When they go, often that hit product goes with them. Rarely does the product get worse; it often just loses its way or, in the latest case, loses the magic.
I'll lead you on a trip down bad memory lane and end up with the best/worst Apple product launched post-Jobs so far (because I think it will get worse). To be clear, I think the product (Siri omission aside) is fine -- it's how it was presented that sucked.
I'll end with my product of the week: Corel's VideoStudio Pro X5, likely the best affordable easy to use, semi-pro video editor on the market.
Sony: The Apple Model
Sony has been down this path a number of times, so I'll pick the two it could have most easily avoided: the Walkman and the PlayStation. It owned portable music with the Walkman, and it kept that ownership from the cassette to the CD version. Its products were well designed and very easy to use. They often cost a premium, but folks were willing to pay it -- and that was largely why Steve Jobs modeled the product side of his Apple turnaround on them.
Anticipating the need to tie its hardware to content, Sony bought up record and movie companies but then failed to tie them together. You see, instead of being an advantage, owning content became a disadvantage. While Apple could make it very easy to get music for the iPod (initially rip CDs), Sony was so afraid of piracy it wrapped its much better-looking devices with DRM (security software) that made them impossible to use.
Sony forgot that "ease of use" was a key attribute, and instead of using its content ownership to make its devices easier, it went the wrong way, and the iPod took the crown from the Walkman.
On the PlayStation, it held for two versions -- the first and the PlayStation 2. Recall that parents bought these things, and there was a US$300 ceiling on what parents were willing to pay. With the PlayStation 3, Sony let the engineers rule, and they needed something to drive their Blu-ray format into dominance, so the PlayStation 3 cost -- wasn't priced at -- cost nearly $1,000 to build.
It sold for around $600, or twice the known ceiling. Sony took its biggest margin product and in one fell swoop turned it into its biggest loss, and the more the sold, the worse it got. Nintendo took the market from them with its Wii, priced under $200.
In both cases, Sony was as dominant as Apple isnow, and in both cases, it forgot the rules it helped establish and catastrophically gave the market to another vendor. Sony has never fully recovered from those mistakes.
Palm: So Close
Palm had the product that really set the stage for the iPhone. Ironically, it largely came from the ashes of the Apple Newton, which died because it was presented the wrong way. Rather than pitching it as a super calculator or PDA, Apple showcased handwriting recognition as its key feature, and that didn't work.
Palm learned from this and had a custom language called "Graffiti," which only a few really learned, but it worked. At one point -- like Apple -- it was trending to be the most valuable technology company.
Where it screwed up was in making the transition to phones, which it didn't do properly. Initially, it caught the mistake and bought another company that was founded by its founders (kind of like what Apple did with NeXT), bringing the founders back. In the end, though, it had just lost too many key people, and it couldn't compete.
Its death finally came after it tried to create an iPhone event with ex-Apple people who clearly hadn't learned how to do what needed to be done. They took an excellent product and effectively killed it, showcasing that working around Steve Jobs isn't the same thing as learning how to do what he did.
Intel Inside
Intel under Andy Grove and Dennis Carter did something that folks said couldn't be done: It created consumer interest in a component. At its peak, Intel Inside became a quality brand, which allowed Intel to price above AMD and still win business.
When Steve Jobs took over Apple, he began a secret project to convert Apple to Intel. He befriended Andy Grove to get the job done, even though during all of this, he marketed his PowerPC-based PCs as better than Intel.
When Carter left, he was CMO, and folks seemed unable to figure out how he did what he did. The biggest mistake was taking the Bunny Men -- an iconic image that folks visiting the Intel plant still ask about today -- and destroying them with a Super Bowl ad that portrayed one as a criminal.
In one fell swoop, Intel took a billion-dollar image crafted over years and burned it to the ground. Today folks just don't seem to care that much about the technology inside their products anymore, which has, up till now, benefited Apple with its iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad -- all of which increasingly have only Apple inside.
RIM BlackBerry
Now this is almost criminal. RIM owned the smartphone space before Apple, and it did so with a better device for email and all forms of bidirectional text-based communications. This product was far safer than the iPhone -- you can blind type, which means for folks who can't stop texting and driving, their eyes are more likely on the road. It was more robust than the iPhone as well -- replacing screens on iPhones has become a very profitable business. It was more secure than the iPhone, and initially it was called the "crackberry," because folks were so addicted to it.
Rather than contesting Apple's changes, RIM tried to embrace them, and with the BlackBerry Bold created a device that was nearly as good and nearly as bad as the iPhone, but without all of Apple's unique advantages.
Effectively RIM seemed to agree that Apple's way was best and found it couldn't build -- and no one ever can -- a better iPhone. Then came the PlayBook, which was arguably, when partnered with a BlackBerry, the best blended product on the planet. It didn't require a separate contract, and it extended the BlackBerry. But once again, RIM marketed it poorly. It was presented as an iPad alternative, suggesting that Apple's product was the bar RIM couldn't meet.
I can picture Steve Jobs saying "what fricktards!?!" I'm sure he thought he was going to have a fight and then RIM threw it.
Wrapping Up: The Worst Best iPad
The iPad is basically a premium netbook (remember those?) that has replaced the keyboard with a larger screen. The Netbook failed (except in third-world countries) because people saw it as a crippled notebook. The iPad succeeded because they saw it as something new and different.
What really made the difference wasn't the hardware (though it clearly helped) but the entire package of services, apps and experience. Steve Jobs convinced folks the product was magic, and even though it was actually rarely used, many people still saw it as a "magical" device.
Tim Cook is clearly no Steve Jobs. During the pitch, he talked about the processor and named Nvidia, which actually has a better part (Tegra 3 has five cores and 12 shaders; Apple's has two cores and four shaders). He highlighted "Dictation" which suggests, like handwriting recognition and the Newton, that you'll get something far better than you'll actually get.
He left out Siri, the signature feature on the current iPhone, and didn't provide a date (suggesting execution problems). Finally he didn't even really name the product, just "New iPad" -- like the unsuccessful "Apple TV" (which it refreshed during the launch).
In short, while the New iPad is clearly better than the iPad 2, Apple broke a ton of Steve Jobs' rules in presenting it, repeated John Scully's mistake with the Newton, actually resurrected Intel Inside (but with Nvidia), and left out the "magic." It was the worst presentation of an Apple product since Jobs came back in 1996.
Apple needs to find a way to get Steve Jobs' skills back. If it doesn't, it will end up as another entry on this list of shame.
Product of the Week: Corel Video Studio Pro X5
Corel's Video Studio Pro, now in its fifth version, is an amazing product. It has semi-pro features that allow you to take raw footage from your smartphone or tablet cameras and turn it into really interesting content that looks and feels professional.
If you want to build an on-screen video tutorial it does that. If you want to output in HTML5 (the new Flash), it'll do that. If you want to layer graphics into your video, it will do that.
You can both create and share unique templates that give your movies a custom look. You can put the interface on one screen and work on the second on a two-screen desktop, and you can add music and sound one track at a time.
The product is priced at less than $80, which is a steal given what it can do for you. As a result, Corel's Video Studio Pro X5 is my product of the week.


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Brody and Jillian keep most of their toys in their bedrooms and their closets, but after we moved, I put a few toys into our guest room/playroom closet. This room has a TV and plenty of floor space for them to play with their toys in one area. Hopefully, by keeping these toys a little more organized, it will make clean-up a little easier.
This is a quick, simple, inexpensive way to organize toys. The boxes are plastic shoeboxes from Walmart that cost less than $1 each. The labels are chalk board labels from Hobby Lobby that I wrote on with a chalk pen. Super easy!!
I'm sure it would be helpful for Jillian if I added pictures on the inside bottom of the box so that she knows what goes in each box. While Brody can't read yet, he has memorized the boxes and can recognize the words to know which toys go in each box.
The labels are adhesive stickers so they stuck easily to the boxes and to the canvas bins.
Books! Do your kids love to take every.single.book off of the shelves like mine do? :)
I separated the boy and girl dress-up clothes into 2 boxes. The boy box is labeled "costumes" and the girl box is labeled "dress-up".
What have you organized lately? I would love for you to share some your new year organization projects! I hope you will join in the fun with our organization linky party!
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What are sleigh beds? Sleigh bed is a trendy as well as classic bed that mostly features a rounded headboard as well as foot board. Its name is originated from the sleigh that is dragged by equines, and reindeer. The scrolled wall surfaces of this bed compose its sleigh look. As a matter of fact, you could just imagine yourself being Santa Claus, using a sleigh with his reindeer.
If you believe that sleighs from the old age are too much, then you'll be soothed to know that the contemporary sleighs have actually been softened for a contemporary touch. Undoubtedly, every person who visitings sleigh-type beds will certainly be lured to obtain one as it is geared up with every little thing – style and character. Customer wise, it is vital that you think it through before acquiring a sleigh bed. Below are some considerations you could intend to weigh up.
Degree of Comfort
Bed is our sanctuary at the end of the day. It is vital that you are comfy on it if you are to purchase a bed. Selecting a fairly soft bed will accomplish its intention to be your sanctuary, and also a safe haven for your family members with spine illness or any kind of exoskeleton issues.
The construct from a bed is necessary as it establishes how long it will certainly last, and also how much weight it can carry. Sleigh beds are normally made of difficult timber because it is tough and hard-wearing. On the other hand, you could likewise choose a timber product like that of mahogany as some have the tendency to break instantly.
In case you want a modern try to find your living room, then you can likewise get one made out of iron, stainless-steel, aluminum, and also iron wrought. Although heavy timbers are much more durable and challenging, these modern-day sleigh-type beds are lighter and also they have actually been toned down to suit any type of contemporary room which is a lot more practical yet sophisticated looking.
In case you have currently determined which sort of sleigh bed to obtain, then you ought to do a price comparison of different store deals. You could visit your regional furnishings shop and also try to find discounted beds. As a much more hassle-free alternative, you could additionally check out the multitude of on-line establishments that provide marked down sleigh beds. During that means, you make sure to pick from a vast choice of sleigh-type beds, and also get the least expensive offer.
Many of us feel the need of changing home furnishings in our space. Perhaps the most effective and most inexpensive method to opulent up any kind of space is to change the bed. Unlike the old times, beds currently function as both a refuge as well as device that intense up your space in an immediate. So, if you wish to seem like aristocracy in your very own area, then you could always opt to obtain a sleigh bed.
Sleigh beds are simple yet sleek beds that could mix and blend well with any area, leaving it with a modern appearance. In that way, your new bed will never ever keep an eye out of location.
Sleigh bed is a classic as well as elegant bed that mostly includes a curved headboard and foot board. Sleigh beds are normally made of hard wood considering that it is challenging and also hard-wearing. In instance you have actually currently determined which kind of sleigh bed to obtain, after that you ought to do a rate contrast of various store offers. As a many more practical alternative, you could also examine out the great deal of online establishments that provide discounted sleigh beds. If you want to feel like royalty in your own room, then you can consistently decide to get a sleigh bed.
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