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I don't know who the other guy is, but the domain is just for sale. You can probably buy it for $20 if you want too. Most people here, probably including yourself considering that this is almost a year old, haven't posted in a long time. I fortunately still get notifications for this forum. Best forum ever by the way.Yeti of Chaos wrote:...to these plans in reviving that wonderful page? Even the domain stopped existing!
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House and Senate leaders unveiled a transportation finance plan that calls for $500 million in new tax revenues.
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Modern Network Architecture: Work Place productivity
This last week I gave a presentation about CRM strategy. After the presentation, there were some interesting comments made by the business owners in the group I thought might be interesting to both my technical and non-technical readers. Specifically about business services workflows. After a lot of good business question, this weekend something has been nagging at me. So I went back to the basics for business services organizations. I thought I'd take advantage of your interest and share some of the insights I gained.
From the context of workforce productivity, a business services organization is split into two business roles: Billable roles and Non-billable roles. For the business services organization to be most productive these roles need to be delineated and organized to avoid staff members performing both types of roles. The business services staff workflows are divided into either billable or non-billable roles. All role tasks are then organized to support keeping the billable roles from being distracted by non-billable activities.
So for example, in a law office the managerial, front desk, sales, office manager and the accounting roles are all non-billable. The attorney's and the paralegals are both billable roles. Profitability is directly dependent on how much time is lost when the billable roles are distracted from billable activities. This is fairly intuitive.
The problem is that in many business services where billable and non-billable roles. In our law firm example, the owner, attorneys and paralegals are expected to perform both billable and non-billable tasks. What happens is that the larger the business grows, the more time the billable roles spend on non-billable activities. (i.e. Answering phones, selling the business, managing the business, etc.) Every minute a billable staff member is on a non-billable phone call is lost profitability. The reality is that the more time a billable role spends on non-billable activities, will directly (and negatively) impact the bottom line profitability of the organization.
So what is the solution? Well it depends. Mostly it depends on the owner and the vision of the organization. There are basically three strategies for growth, strategy 1 is to build a larger non-billable staff to support the owner (and raise the billable rate of the owner). Strategy 2 is to increase the non-billable time the owner spends on the business, in order to build a larger billable staff and take a piece of each billable roles income. Strategy 3 is to become highly specialized and only take on the most profitable diamond (vs. dross) opportunities. (Requiring an ability to find or attract those types of diamond opportunities.)
The owner of course will ultimately decide what business strategy(s) to choose. Based on this strategy will determine how to organize the non-billable and billable staff workflows to support maximum profitability. By following these business workflows the staff activities will naturally align to keep the billable staff as close to 100% billable as possible.
From a technical perspective… To this point my technical team has been helping the owner and staffs identify and plan these workflows. With and understanding of these workflows my technical team can import these workflows into the organization's CRM, ERP and other business systems. Each staff member is then prompted to automatically follow the workflows designed by the organization. In this way billable and non-billable roles perform documented tasks a way that the owner has planned. Because the workflow was created by the management team, results can be measured by the team itself without having to become technical experts. The technical teams can then step away from the business management roles within the organization
I can't go away without thanking Robert Sailer (Pacific Northwest Law Group), Mark Walters , Corey Hansen, Eric Veal, Mark Brown and Gavin Johnson (In Vigor Law Group) and the AU business club for their contributions to the presentation. The educational presentations are unique opportunities to get the input of many experts. The result is seeing the same business problem through another business experts eyes. Thanks to everyone involved.
IP Address Management with IPAM
Internet Protocol Address Management (IPAM) allows the IT department to track IP address deployment throughout the organization. If you come from the world of Windows and Active Directory (AD), you know that Windows comes with its on system for tracking IP addresses throughout a windows forest. For most small and medium size businesses this is more than adequate. What happens though as the organization grows. Enterprise businesses begin buying other businesses. These businesses may or may not have the same server and hardware platforms. As the business grows, buying other businesses new platforms need to be added the network mix of servers, routers, VPN, phone systems, cell phone systems. Some of these systems are not necessarily willing to talk with one another. The one thing they have in common is each device needs an IP Address.
IPAM systems are designed to solve this problem by centralizing DNS (Domain Naming System) and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) for large networks. Imagine a billion dollar company buying a 500 million dollar company. Instantly the management teams of the various companies need to work together. Unfortunately the AD forests, Server systems and VPN's are not talking to each other. Nor will they probably ever be able to talk. Imagine too that the newly purchased company has cell phones integrated with their entire system will the buying company lucky to just see email. When connecting the two organizations, with common private IP addresses, duplicate IP's becomes a big problem. Haven't 1000's of duplicate IP's that need to be figured out is even worse. Yet if the two companies can't work together, they are losing money. It's an IT Management nightmare
What the IPAM system is designed to do is to take over the DNS and feed the correct IP addresses to the entire organization. While windows DNS talks best to Windows systems, IPAM systems talk with everyone. I've been looking most recently with Proteus. In addition to managing the IPv4 addresses Proteus and other systems allow central control, planning and management of the IPv6 environments for all IP systems. When I was studying IP addressing everyone was taught IP sub-netting. It became a matter of pride to be able to sub-net in one's head. With IPv6 that's just not possible or reasonable to expect everyone to do this. Instead one set of experts can plan and manage the IPv6 for everything in the Enterprise world. Proteus has a GUI interface that is not too hard to pick up with 20 or so hours of practice.
There are a lot of advantages. For one thing it reduces the points of failure in complex networks. This means less downtime. As long as there is redundancy build into the IPAM system. A few years back I was working on a banking system that was using AD to manage security for their online banking customers. This was the first time I'd seen Active directory run without DNS. It was a security issue that reduced the points of failure for the system. An IPAM system would be able to manage the DNS in separate trees without the same levels of security risk.
Another customer I worked with was selling a mobile VPN system. Tracking customers as they maintained the same IP number, but move from location to location on the same VPN, was a difficult problem for small networks. For larger, international networks, it was difficult to manage centrally in real time. With an IPAM like Proteus, these mobile VPN problems are solved as a part of the IPAM solutions.
As network continues to grow in complexity, it may require that smaller and smaller networks will benefit from an IPAM system. While Microsoft has a strong dynamic DNS system as part of it's network operating system. Still an IPAM takes this to a much higher level.
Assumptions about what they can afford…
How to you feel about your management team? Is this a confrontational relationship? Perhaps your relationship is open and mutually beneficial? As an IT consulting expert, what I find is that most IT groups are completely oblivious of the management teams when making decisions. That's not to say they have no opinion. Ask the typical IT expert what management wants. The reply will often be that management just wants everything done cheaply. It it's too expensive they won't do it no matter the value to the business.
Phillip Ellis, with RGL Forensics, specializes in forensic accounting. He is also an expert in evaluating the true value of a business organization. I asked Phillip how a business network could improve the value of the business.
"It takes money to make money – capital investments in IT can help a business grow faster and avoid costly "emergency" expenditures, which can often be more costly than the original IT investments would have been."
Phillip understands that cheap is not better. As IT experts we all know that if we take shortcuts on the technology, it will eventually fail. What Phillip is looking for is a solution that will maintain the cost effective workforce productivity. He realized that emergency expenditures cost the organization more than the savings when taking shortcuts.
I asked another expert Robert Sailer is from Pacific Northwest Law Group a similar question. Robert works on the legal side of evaluating businesses. In addition to legal due diligence, his company also drives technical due diligence for the business organization. When analyzing a technical assessment he is looking for answers before the sale of a business.
"… is the hardware platform sufficient to accept new upgrades coming along from the software, cyber security, and communications companies."
Eventually all businesses will be sold. This type of due diligence can mean millions of dollars in the sale price of the organization. As Robert points out,
"…the life expectancy of the IT system, and the older/less flexible it might be, that results in a lowering of the eventual purchase price…"
When I walk into a business organization, my first step is to do an assessment of the present technology. When I bring up my concerns with the IT department the response is usually something like,
"Yes we've brought this up every year with management; they just won't let us spend the money to fix it. Our management is only looking for ways to save money, not spend money."
Obviously this statement just doesn't jibe with what Phillip and Robert are saying. My next trip is to the management team. I explain the risks and/or missed opportunities I've found. I explain the business value of solving these problems. This value could be in the reduction of risk or the leveraging technology to build workplace productivity. When I explain this in a way that Phillip or Robert might explain it something always happens. IT departments are shocked to see money coming into the IT department to pay for projects they had been proposing for years. Then after implementation the bottom line benefits to the organization are more substantial than I even promised. (I take Scotty's advice, lower expectations and blow them away with the results.) The result, management begins asking,
"What else can you do for me?"
Next time you can't convince a manager to fund a new project, price is not the real reason. They just aren't sure how to tell you that you just haven't sold the value of your proposal. It may be that you just need to change your proposal. It might help to find an expert like Phillip or Robert to align with (either within or outside the organization). Build value in the minds of managers using business language. Then exceed the promise with values that are important to your management team. You will succeed over and over again.
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As a consultant, I find a strange paradigm in the IT departments. We all work on a mission critical aspect of the business. Yet most business owners and managers almost ignore the IT department. When I work with IT departments I've also noticed that IT Experts seem to ignore the business owners and managers as well. I can't help but think that both management and IT experts are missing some interesting opportunities by not trying to understand what each other is doing.
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A new innovation
Look back through my blogs and the first thing I write about is how things change in technology. Because of this we, IT Experts, need to re-invent ourselves over and over again. This is of course, because technology changes so quickly. As an IT expert, we always need to be on the lookout for new and interesting ways to direct our careers. So one question I like to ask, is where should we be re-inventing ourselves. Continued »
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For the owner, manager and staff…, business technology can be like climbing a stepladder blindfolded. The bigger the business the higher the ladder. The owner depends on their IT Support Company or IT department to design, build and maintain that ladder. Business owners realize that technology is mission critical to the business.
The question is now being asked, is technology too critical to be left strictly in the hands of the IT department???
For over 21 years I've worked in the technology field as a Seattle Consultant and I think I'm finally getting it. The business is more than just the technology; it's actually about the goals and vision of the owner. This is not the way I started out. An important mentor in my life taught me that business is business. Technology is a tactical not strategic. By understanding this you can write your own ticket in terms of the projects you want to implement. Until a few years ago my ticket was interesting projects. I loved walking into businesses and looking for opportunities to deploy new technology. I later found as a consultant that most IT guys could only get interesting projects when the technology failed. So I began teaching IT experts how to build a technology ladder that supported the business and was interesting to the technologist. It's starts with the abilities.
- Scaleability
- Usability
- Reliability
- Availability
- Connect-ability
- Secure–ability
And many more abilities
You can probably name two or three more. What I found is that if I wanted to get a project through, I needed to pick one or more of these abilities that was important to management. Where do you find what ability is important to management? Well you could ask, but that's slow and tedious. So when was the last time you looked at a mission statement or a vision statement? As a consultant I work with so many businesses and see so many mission statements that the employees have never read. The reality though is that the CEO and the Board spent a lot of time putting those together. Want to impress them? Write your proposal bases on their mission statement. Use one or more of the abilities I've described, to base your metrics on that will measure the success of your project.
So if the vision statement says something like…"… we will be the biggest widget maker is Seattle." They are talking about scale-ability. Scale-ability is a data design that will allow the business to grow to the biggest in the area. So the value statement for whatever you write about must be based on building a scale-able business that won't fail when the business grows to half to their goal. Instead you want to sell a business that will grow past the present goals. This will make the managers take a second look at your proposal.
So what are some of the other keywords to look for? Well think about the company who "…wants to provide the best customer service?" This is about connectivity of data so that every department knows the same information about the customer when they talk to a customer.
Some companies want a great environment for their employees. That's reliable and available services that allow the employee to focus on work rather than failure.
Managers are always looking for Usability so that customers and employees have systems that are easy and fun to use and require very little training.
I can go on and on about this. Often I come into environments where the IT department has been asking for the same thing I am recommending to the client. They assume that the real problem is price and budget. The real problem is that IT people are not thinking about the real goals of the organization. By understanding how these business abilities translate into the technical project you want to implement you can create a document that will allow you to get your project done.
Social Networking: Online Community Marketing
Recently one of my consulting clients asked for an online strategy. We discussed a number of different strategies. Most people think about some type of online community marketing when they think of social networking. When hear discussions about twitter or Facebook marketing, these are really small technologies that are tapping into the online communities that are there right now. In this article I would like to discuss looking at an online community, rather than a technology.
So first let's think about community. People live in a community because of a common interest. That interest could be centered on the landscape and beauty of the community. The interest could be financial, in that many people in the community may work for the same or even similar employers. The community might have a unique cultural diversity or even a cultural singularity that might be of interest to people in the community. The more of common interests there are in a community, the bigger the community becomes. The marketer's job is to tap into those interests and you will find more and more small sub communities within the larger community. As a marketer if we integrate ourselves with an interest group, we can market to that group. Instead of selling them everything though, we are most successful when we market products and services that are of interest to that sub-community. As an example don't sell vacuum cleaners to a group of car enthusiasts, unless that vacuum cleaner is designed specifically for the problems with cleaning a car.
On the internet, there are communities as well. These communities are focused on information and data. Find these communities and you have also found a group of buying customers. Which is the pitfall many marketers run into, in any buying community there is interest in buying a very limited product or service. That is the problem with most corporate online social marketing strategies. Instead of marketing to the group interest, they market as if the group were the general community.
As an example: Look at Facebook. Marketers will point out the number of users on the system. As if to say that all these users are potential buyers. The reality is that very few of these users are there to actually buy products. Instead they are interested in participating in an online community and sub-communities. Finding and supporting these sub-communities in Facebook or across the internet is the first step for online marketing.
Experts like Tracey Warren teach businesses understand and leverage these online communities by providing services like a "Social Media Tuneup." So if you were a producer of car parts, the first goal is to identify the car enthusiasts groups. If on the other hand you market eggs and other groceries, marketing to a car enthusiasts group might not be as effective. The car enthusiasts are not in the buying mode for eggs. When they are, they will be looking at a different group.
The rule I share with people is that social networking is like a cocktail party. People are not there to do business. That is not to say that a lot of business isn't done at cocktail parties. It's done in a very subtle way. Nobody opens an egg selling stand at a pool side party. It could be argued that everyone at the party will probably be buying eggs in the next week, "Why not at this party?" The reality is that when people buy eggs they go to a grocery store… not a cocktail party. Instead go into the party and ask, "So when and where do you buy eggs?" Chances are it will be a place where you can sell your eggs online.
Oh and if they help you give them some virtual chocolate as a thank you.
So why bring up online marketing strategies and community marketing? The topic of this blog is modern network architecture, not old school network architecture. As the day to day infrastructure support moves into the cloud, there is less need for server support. The modern network architect will need to understand and answer these types of questions for their employers and clients. This is the question I was asked by a consulting client at the beginning of the article. The more we don't understand about online marketing, integration with business systems and the like, the more we become legacy and irrelevant in determining the future architecture of the network.
Social networking: Social networking expert
Most of the deeply technical IT Experts I work with don't spend a lot of thinking around social networking strategies. I'm not sure why, but I think this might be because most deep IT experts much more comfortable relating to things (computers) or ideas (computer systems) rather than relating to people. Being a Seattle business consultant, specializing in Continued »
Social Networking: The Chocolate strategy
When twitter was first being introduced, I talked to the students in one of my classes about twitter. The whole class laughed at me. Thinking that social networking really wasn't something serious a system administrator would bother with. As a Consultant and teacher I try to look into the future and predict new potential opportunities for both my Continued »
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Recently a client of mine suggested that UC communication was silly. I've worked on teams where tools like Lync make life much easier. It's not just about text messages. It's about presence, Continued »


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Food is the language of love in Paris. Paris vacation rentals offer visitors the chance to delve into one of the world's premiere cities in an intimate way and discover imaginative cuisine found nowhere else. While restaurants get 5-star billing (and deservedly so), you may be surprised by the sophistication of market vendors, who serve award-winning foods on the streets of Paris. So whether you eat in your Paris apartment or treat yourself to a night out at a restaurant, you're sure to enjoy a meal you'll never forget.
Finding Food in the rue Cler
The rue Cler is an open-air marketplace that captures the essence of Paris. With fruit and vegetable stalls, flower stalls, indoor cafes and a lot of sightseeing opportunities, it's no wonder this is one of the trendiest places in the city. Locals visit to collect everything needed to prepare meals from week to week and enjoy healthy eating with fresh, organic produce; La Maison du Jambon is considered one of the best delicatessens in Paris. A wide variety of meats, pastries, and even household items are available in rue Cler, making it a true one-stop shop.
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'Veep' Season 4 & 'Silicon Valley' Season 2: HBO Renews Sunday Comedies for 2015
Well, this shouldn't come as too big of a shock. Given the Emmy caliber of HBO's 'Veep' in its first few seasons and its current third, as well as the buzzy reception of Mike Judge's tech comedy 'Silicon Valley,' HBO has made things official with 2015 renewals for its current Sunday comedy lineup. Might that mean Selina Meyer (Julia Louis Dreyfus) gets a new title to match her current career path, too?
No word yet on exactly how many episodes HBO intends for either renewal, though 'Veep' has consistently remained at 10 episodes per season (the current year concluding on June 15), while 'Silicon Valley' will come in at 8 episodes for its inaugural launch, wrapping up the first season on June 1.
For those unfamiliar, 'Silicon Valley' stars T.J. Miller, Thomas Middleditch, Judd Apatow vet Martin Starr, Josh Brener, Christopher Evan Welch, Amanda Crew, 'The Office' star Zach Woods and 'The Daily Show' vet Kumail Nanjiani, and follows "the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, where the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success." Judge himself directed the pilot, co-executive producing with fellow 'King of the Hill' EPs John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky along with Alec Berg, Michael Rotenberg and Tom Lassally.
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In the upcoming period, the government will focus on attracting investors, said Qandil. Within this context, an Egyptian delegation would visit London this month to promote private-sector projects in Egypt, he added, stressing that the UK – one of the world's top financial centres – had become a "global investment hub."
Qandil had previously stated that the IMF loan constituted a "world recognition certificate" for the Egyptian economy and a prerequisite to boosting investor confidence.
A preliminary IMF loan agreement was signed last November, but final ratification of the deal was postponed in December upon the request of President Mohamed Morsi, largely in reaction to domestic political turbulence at the time and economic uncertainty.
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Gold iPhone 5S Sells Out in Hours
Apple's latest iPhones hit store shelves world-wide, with demand heavily tilted toward the more expensive model gold-colored model. Ian Sherr reports from a San Francisco iPhone store, and Charles Passy explains the psychology behind why we wait in line for phones. Photo: AP.
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ELON, N.C. – UMBC softball swept a pair of contests for the second straight day to take all four of its contests at the Phoenix Opening Tournament. Senior Caitlin Chance (Easton, Md./Easton) and junior Taylor Hall (Cosby, Va./Cosby) each generated three RBI on the day for the Retrievers.
The Retrievers picked up the 3-2 eight inning victory, scoring three runs on five hits, while Elon (7-4-1) finished with 10 hits, but left eight runners on base in game one. UMBC eliminated a three-run deficit in game two by exploding for a nine-run fifth inning in a 10-8 victory against Iona to improve to 4-2 on the year.
UMBC surrendered a two-out double in the bottom of the third inning to Emily Cameron and Emily Roper followed with an RBI single into right center to take a 1-0 lead. The two connected again in the fifth, this time with Roper coming up with the RBI double, to extend the advantage to two runs, 2-0.
The Retrievers wasted no time, driving in a pair of runs in the top of the sixth inning to knot the contest at two. Sophomore Bridget O'Malley (Brooklyn, Md./Seton Keough) put herself into scoring position, doubling to left field, and then scored on a defensive miscue from Elon following a fly out from Hall. A double down the left field line from senior Chelsea Bertoglio (Laguna Hills, Calif./Laguna Hills/Saddleback College) setup an RBI single from Chance to tie the game at two apiece.
In extra innings, UMBC moved Jessica Holte (Ashland, Va./Atlee), who was placed on second, over to third on a ground out by sophomore Danielle O'Neill (Lothian, Md./Southern). O'Malley singled down the right field line, for her second hit of the contest, to score the game-winning run.
Holte moved to 3-0 on the season with eight innings of work, allowing two runs on 10 hits and striking out three. Alli Burdette allowed two runs through 5.2 and Caitlin O'Shea (1-1) was credited with the loss, surrendering the game-winning run in 2.1 innings.
UMBC got out in front early on Iona, loading the bases with one out in the top of the first inning against Iona's starting pitcher Jordan Courage. Chance picked up her second RBI of the day, reaching on a fielder's choice to score O'Neill from third and giving the Retrievers a 1-0 advantage.
A pair of singles followed by a home run put the Gaels out front, 3-1, in the top of the third inning. A defensive miscue from the Retrievers allowed for Iona to extend the inning and add another run with back-to-back singles.
The Retrievers exploded for nine runs on eight hits and a pair of Iona errors in the bottom of the fifth inning. Four of UMBC's eight hits went for extra bases, including a leadoff home run from O'Neill, giving the Retrievers a 10-4 lead.
Iona (0-2) did not go quietly, homering to lead off the top of the seventh and adding three more runs on three hits in the frame. UMBC relief pitcher Kelly Lane (Albany, N.Y./Colonie Central) held on for the victory (1-1), allowing two earned runs in 3.2 innings. Christine Costelllo (0-1) was credited with the loss, surrendering five runs on seven hits in 4.1 innings of work.
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Overweight and incidence of cancer: results of a large cohort study with more than 145,000 adults in Austria
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To investigate the relation of overweight and obesity with the incidence of cancer a population-based cohort of more than 145,000 Austrian adults (67,447 men and 78,484 women) was followed over an average of 10.9 years. Incident cancers (n=6241) were documented by the state cancer registry. Cox proportional-hazards models were calculated adjusting for smoking and occupational group. In men, increases in relative body weight were associated with colon cancer (hazard rate ratio (HR) 2.48; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.15, 5.39 for body-mass index (BMI) ≥ 35 kg/m2) and pancreatic cancer (HR 2.34, 95% CI: 1.17, 4.66 for BMI > 30 kg/m2) compared to participants with normal weight (BMI 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2). In women, there was a weak positive association between increasing BMI and all cancers combined, and strong associations with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (HR 2.86, 95% CI: 1.49, 5.49 for BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2) and cancers of the uterine corpus (HR 3.93, 95% CI: 2.35, 6.56 for BMI ≥ 35 kg/m2). Incidence of breast cancer was positively associated with high BMI after age 65 years. These findings provide further evidence that overweight is associated with the incidence of several types of cancer in men and women.


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HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A Montana man whose tearful reluctance to rob a pizza restaurant earned him free food apparently made up the sob story that gained him the clerk's sympathy.
David Randall Lacey, 35, entered a Papa John's pizza restaurant on Jan. 22 with a bandanna over his face and gave the clerk a note demanding money, Helena police said. He broke down crying and told the clerk he needed the money to support his wife and children, who were hungry. The clerk made him a large pepperoni pizza and some chicken wings as he waited, and the man left.
The Independent Record reports (http://bit.ly/14vlTZr) an investigation found Lacey has no children in Helena and changed his story when he saw how little money was in the cash register - just $24.56, according to a police report.
Police received a tip that Lacey acknowledged his role in the incident and a clerk picked him out of a lineup. He was arrested Thursday on suspicion of felony robbery. He remained jailed Friday with bail set at $25,000.
Lacey told police he needed the money to buy food, court records said.


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(2012-03-28, 16:58)snowatom Wrote: Hi amet
Thanks for pointing out the location of the XBMC log file, that gave me a chance for a little debuggin on my own. Seems like the subtitle addon only accepts raw media file formats, and not media files contained in a RAR file structure which XBMC is plays just fine.
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ANAPA, Russia (AP) — After years of delays and negotiations, Russian gas company Gazprom on Friday formally started construction of its €16 billion ($20.65 billion) Europe-bound South Stream pipeline, key to its strategy of strengthening its supply to its most important export market.
The South Stream pipeline will connect Russia's Black Sea coast with the Balkans, Austria and Italy, carrying up to 63 billion cubic meters of gas annually. Europe currently gets about two-fifths of its gas from Russia and the pipeline's route bypasses transit nation Ukraine to ensure safe shipping of its gas. Pricing and payment disputes between Russia and Ukraine have caused major disruptions in the past, cutting off gas for millions of customers in Europe.
The project, funded by Gazprom, Italy's Eni, France's EdF and Germany's Wintershall, is due to start operating in 2015. Gazprom holds 50 percent in the joint company and is the main investor in the project. However, investors and industry experts have criticized the €16 billion project as too costly.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, the pipeline's most powerful promoter, took part in Friday's ceremony in which two 6-meter steel pipes were welded together to mark the start of the construction.
"South Stream will create the conditions for a reliable gas supply for the main consumers in southern Europe," Putin said.
By beginning construction, state-controlled Gazprom steals a march on of its European Union-backed rival, the Nabucco pipeline, which has been plagued by a lack of funds and a reliable supply of natural gas.
"South Stream solves two problems at once," Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said. "First, it does away with restrictions in the volumes of Russian gas exports and it minimizes transit risks by expanding our transportation network."
Gazprom in October also opened Nord Stream, a pipeline under the Baltic Sea directly linking Germany with Siberia's vast natural gas reserves with a capacity of 55 billion cubic meters. The construction of South Stream and expansion of Nord Stream will leave Gazprom with a surplus capacity of 50 to 100 billion cubic meters, according to analyst estimates.
The pipeline will go under the Black Sea to reach Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria and Italy in one leg, and Croatia and Greece in a second.
With so much free capacity and a largely unchanged client base, South Stream seems to be built with the main aim of securing supplies to its existing European customers. But it will pick up a number of new energy company customers in Serbia and Croatia as it goes through their countries.
"Gas will simply change its direction and flow to the same destinations," said Alexei Kokin of the UralSib investment bank.
South Stream will be able to carry a third of the gas that Europe currently buys from Russia. Investors are concerned that the demand won't be there when the pipeline comes on line in 2015.
But Gazprom's deputy chief executive Alexander Medvedev told journalists that the company has agreements for the entire 63 billion cubic meters, although he refused to specify how firm these agreements are. He also said that one-fourth of the gas supply running through South Stream would be bought by new clients, likely referring to energy companies in Serbia and Croatia.
South Stream was conceived in 2007 after a pricing dispute with Ukraine. The need for the project increased in 2009 after an even fiercer dispute with Ukraine left tens of millions across Europe without gas for three weeks.
Ukrainian leaders are concerned by the project, fearful that it will push the country out of the European energy market and mean the end to the vital proceeds it gets from allowing natural gas to be transported from Russia to European consumers.
Associated Press writer Maria Danilova contributed to this report from Kiev, Ukraine.


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The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) is the oldest and largest international scholarly membership organization in the field of biblical studies. Founded in 1880, the Society has grown to over 8,500 international members, including teachers, students, religious leaders, and individuals from all walks of life who share a mutual interest in the critical investigation of the Bible.
In November of 2009, Dr. Jeannie Constantinou, host of the AFR podcast Search the Scriptures, attended the annual meeting of the SBL in New Orleans, Louisiana, and brought along her microphone. Armed with questions from listeners, she interviewed several of the scholars in attendance about various aspects of Biblical interpretation. Following are the recordings of those interviews.
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Tributes (Town): Successfully lynch/kill all the wolves.
Capitol (Wolves): Bring the tributes down to the same number of wolves.
Independents: Stay alive with Katniss
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Night Phase:
- Voting for a lynch is open to all players. You must follow this format: [Vote lynch xxx]. Votes must be in bold. If you are changing your vote, then put [Change Vote lynch xxx] to the person you want to lynch.
- You can make multiple posts, but be sure to have your vote in by the end of the day phase. Failure to have to 2 consecutive day phase votes will result in a modkill.
- There is no "No lynch" vote.
- If there are any ties in the lynch vote that the mayor does not break, then I will use a random generator for the lynch.
- Day actions are performed right away, unlike night actions which are performed at the end of the phase.
- The day phase will be about 24 hours and will end at 6:30 CST. If you need timezone conversions, let me know
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- There will be no posts during the night phase.
- Wolves will have their own discussion site.
- All night actions must be sent to me before the end of the night phase.
- The night phase will be 24 hours like the day phase
- Try not to spam, although I will allow some casual conversation to get the game going.
- Please don't post when you are dead.
- Role-hinting is allowed, but no role-claim.
- No outside communication
Tributes (Town):
Katniss Everdeen: She is the mayor. She can break ties if they occur or she can stop a lynch all together by PMing me, but only once. If she is killed during the night phase, she can shoot an arrow at the wolf who attacked her, giving her a 50% chance of killing the wolf.
Peeta Mellark: He is the protector. Peeta can pick one person each night phase to protect from the wolves. He cannot protect himself and he can't protect the same person more than once.
Haymitch Albernathy: Haymitch will take the role of protector if Peeta dies.
Glimmer*: She is one of the 4 seers. Due to her beauty, whenever she inspects a player, they will always show up "innocent".
Cato*: He is one of the 4 seers. Because of his brutal personality, whenever he inspects a player, they will always show up "Guilty."
Clove*: She is another of the seers. Because of her arrogent attitude, whenever she investigates someone, it will be reversed. So whenever she inspects a townie, they will come up "Guilty." Whenever she inspects a wolf/independent, they will come up "Innocent."
Marvel*: He is one of the 4 seers. Due to his survival instinct, whenever he investigates someone, they will appear "Innocent" if they are town or "Guilty" if they are a wolf/independent.
Rue: Rue will be the rogue. She can stalk one person, and if that player kills her during a night phase, she can resurrect herself.
Cinna: Although not a tribute, he is a generic tribute/townie.
Thresh: He will be a generic tribute/townie.
Foxface: She will be a generic tribute/townie.
Madge: Although not a tribute in the book, she will be a generic tribute/townie.
District 3 Tribute: Generic tribute/townie.
District 4 Tribute: Generic tribute/townie.
District 6 Tribute: Generic tribute/townie.
District 7 Tribute: Generic Tribute/townie.
*Note that the seers will NOT know which character they are.
Capitol (Wolves):
President Snow: He is the godfather/alpha wolf. He will show innocent during Marvel's investigation. He will also be the one to send in the wolf kill and any night actions from other wolves.
Plutarch Heavensbee: He is a silencer. He can select a player during the night phase and the person he chooses will not be able to vote during the day phase. He can only use this ability three times and cannot be used in consecutive night phases.
Seneca Crane: He is the normalizer. He can pick one player during the night phase and strip that person of their ability. He can only use this ability 3 times and not during consecutive night phases.
Effie Trinket: She will be a generic wolf.
Primrose Everdeen: She can redirect a kill during the night phase to another player. Her winning conditions is to stay alive with Katniss, and once Katniss dies, Primrose will lose.
Gale Hawthorne: Gale can choose to resurrect Katniss if she killed during the night phase at the cost of his own life. As long as Katniss is alive at the end of the game, Gale will win as well.
Player List:
Deathblade(District 6 Tribute)
@Hakoshi(Effie Trinket)
@Darkfire Knight
@Dark Butterfly(seer)
@Kagami Sama
@Mr. Meme(Seer)


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Measuring Progress Toward Sustainability: Workshop on the Inclusive Wealth Report Project
A workshop on the Inclusive Wealth Report (IWR) will take place on 29-30 April 2013 at UNESCO Headquarters. The objective is to promote the report presented during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Brazil) in June 2012. This report puts forward a new index to measure the economic and social progress of nations. Sometimes called the "Green GDP", the Inclusive Wealth Index assesses economies and social progress in an inclusive way, considering not only manufactured capital but also human and natural capital.
The workshop aims to draw the attention of decision makers from the 20 countries* assessed in the first edition of the report —representing 58% of the global population and 72% of the world's GDP in 2010— and introduce a brief overview of the next report, to be published in 2014. Organized by UNESCO, the United Nations University (UNU) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the workshop will bring together government officials and scientists as well as representatives of development banks, regional organizations and other UN agencies.
Many experts have observed the limitations of current indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to measure national economic and social progress. In response to the urgent need for new indicators, the Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI) proposes a radical shift in the way we measure nations' performances. Instead of focusing on monetary flows as the GDP does, the IWI focuses its attention on the stock of assets, including human capital (education, demographic curve, income, etc.) and natural capital (fossil fuels, minerals, forests, farmland, fisheries).
The first IWR assessed 20 countries including high, middle and low-income economies from all continents over a period of 19 years (1990-2008) with a focus on natural capital. The next IWR, to be presented in 2014, will focus primarily on human capital and health.
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*(Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Japan, Kenya, Nigeria, Norway, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United States of America, United Kingdom and Venezuela.)


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LINCOLN - Board of Trustees Chair Dr.
Gene Harker is pleased to announce the presidential search team has
engaged the services of AGB Search (http://agbsearch.com/) to assist
in recruiting the next president of Lincoln Christian University.
LCU's AGB consultant is someone who knows Lincoln
Christian University well. Dr. Paul Corts attended Lincoln Bible
Institute (LBI)/Lincoln Christian College in 1961-1962 and his
brother David graduated from LBI in 1961. Additionally, Dr. Corts
was the featured guest speaker in 2009 when the school changed its
name to Lincoln Christian University.
Corts has had a distinguished career in higher education, most
recently as president of the Council for Christian Colleges &
Universities (CCCU), a presidentially led, Washington-based
international association that provides public policy advocacy for
faith-based higher education as well as conferences, publications,
services and web-based programs to support the professional
development of governing boards, presidents, administrative staff,
and faculty of its member and affiliated institutions.
Prior to joining the CCCU, Dr. Corts served as Assistant Attorney
General for Administration with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
from 2002-2006, where he also served on the President's Management
Council, the Federal Prison Industries Board, the federal CFO
Council, and other federal councils and boards.
Prior to his work at DOJ, Corts served for nearly 12 years as
president of Palm Beach Atlantic University (FL) and as president of
Wingate University (NC) for 8 years. Earlier in his career, he was a
faculty member and administrator at Oklahoma Baptist University (5
years) and Western Kentucky University (10 years).
As a higher education administrator, he has focused on strategic
planning for campus growth and program development, resource
development, early technology adoption, and management. His
presidencies have reflected strong growth in revenues, assets,
reserves, endowments, technology and physical facilities. As an
academic, he specialized in rhetoric and communications and is the
co-author of two textbooks. He has authored books for governing
boards on the need to care for their president and to provide
sabbaticals for presidents and cabinet leaders. He has consulted
widely with boards and presidents.
Dr. Corts served many professional organizations in higher
education, including the American Council on Education Secretariat,
the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
Secretariat, chair of the board of directors of the Independent
Colleges and Universities of Florida, and a term as president of the
American Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and
Universities. Corts was active for many years in leading numerous
accreditation teams for the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools (SACS). He has also served on local, regional, national, and
international boards as well as local and regional economic
development boards and Florida's Council of 100.
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Dr. Corts earned a BA degree from Georgetown College (KY) and
received his MA and PhD degrees from Indiana University.
According to LCU Board of Trustees Chair Dr. Gene Harker, "Dr.
Corts' knowledge of the Restoration Movement and extensive
experience in the world of Christian higher education makes him
an ideal choice to lead our search process."
Dr. Corts will be meeting with the presidential search team
soon, to prepare the presidential profile and establish the
search timeline. Ongoing updates can be found at
www.LincolnChristian.edu/presidentsearch in the weeks ahead.
The presidential search team interviewed five firms during the
month of May before making their final selection. The
presidential search team consists of Dr. Gene Harker (Chair),
Dr. Carolyn Bartlett, Dustin Fulton, Dr. Bob Rea, Dr. Bob Kurka,
Jan Rutledge, Dr. Rochelle Cathcart, Dr. Silas McCormick, Gordon
Venturella, and Dr. Neal Windham.
Established in 1944, Lincoln Christian University's mission is
to equip Christians to serve and lead in the church, the
workplace, and the world. LCU has seen more than 16,000 students
pass through its "doors," and its alumni have gone on to serve
in all 50 United States and more than 165 countries. Today, LCU
offers a variety of degree programs for undergraduate, graduate
and seminary students. Classes are offered on campus, at
extension sites in Illinois, Indiana and Nevada and online. To
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