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- Audio: Coach Stone's Pregame Interview
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Katey Stone, The Landry Family Head Coach for Harvard Women's Ice Hockey, collected her 400th-career victory as the No. 6/7 Harvard women's hockey team shutout Dartmouth, 3-0, in an ECAC quarterfinal matchup Friday afternoon at Bright Hockey Center. The win gives Harvard (22-5-3, 17-3-2 ECAC) a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series against Dartmouth (16-9-5,11-7-4 ECAC).
Harvard recorded its 15th straight playoff-opening victory with Miye D'Oench, Kalley Armstrong and Kaitlin Spuring each netted a goal for the Crimson. Emerance Maschmeyer, who was recently named the Ivy League's Rookie of the Year, posted 21 saves in the freshman's fourth shutout. It was the first playoff shutout for Harvard since the Crimson blanked Cornell, 4-0, 11 playoff games ago, on February 28, 2009. Harvard also killed off all three of Dartmouth's power-play chances to up its season total to 96 of 103 penalties killed, the best in the nation.
After a scoreless and penalty absent first period, Harvard surged out of the locker room to control the puck in the second frame taking 17 shots on target. Off a Dartmouth turnover Gina McDonald passed ahead to D'Oench who pulled Lindsay Holdcroft out of the net. When D'Oench sent a shot towards the net Holdcroft dove to stop it and the puck bounced off D'Oench and into the goal to put the Crimson on the scoreboard at the 12:22 mark. The Big Green put two shots on goal past Harvard's defense, but Maschmeyer turned away the attempts to keep the 1-0 lead as the teams headed into the second intermission.
The roles reversed in the third when Dartmouth tripled its second period shots on goal in the first six minutes, but the run was short lived when Harvard struck against on the Crimson's second power-play opportunity of the afternoon. Lyndsey won the faceoff and sent the puck to Michelle Picard. Picard found Armstrong right in front of the net on Holdcroft's stick side. Armstrong, who has missed the past four games due to injury, snuck the puck past Holdcroft to put the Crimson ahead by two with 12 minutes to play in the contest.
Three minutes later, Samantha Reber played the puck from the point to Spurling. Spurling netted the Crimson's second power-play goal of the day on a shot right outside the left circle to put Harvard ahead by three.
The Crimson is back in action tomorrow in game 2 of the series against Dartmouth. The game is scheduled to start at 2 p.m.
Game Notes
Emerance Maschmeyer recorded her fourth shutout with 21 saves … Third time this season the Crimson have had two power-play goals … The Crimson are now 18-0-0 after leading after two periods … Harvard is now 5-5 against Dartmouth in playoff games ... The Crimson is 38-41-3 all-time against the Big Green.


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MOVIE REVIEW- Why the fuss?:Is there life after maturity?
Whether they're straight women or gay men, whether they saw the series on HBO, DVD or, somewhat sanitized, on TBS, there are enough Sex and the City fans to make a big-screen sequel economically feasible.The series caught time in a bottle. Can they reopen the bottle and put a little more time in it?
Were there unresolved story issues? The series ended, after 94 episodes, with each of the four heroines finding fulfillment in her personal and professional life and– perhaps for the first time– acting her age.
As with any franchise, the solution is to treat that perfect ending like a snow globe: shake it up a little and see where things fall.
Three years have passed. Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) is still with "Mr. Big" (Chris Noth), and he's buying a fabulous penthouse for them to share. When Carrie hesitates about giving up her old apartment– this is New York– Big makes history's least romantic proposal, and they're off to the altar.
Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) is living in California with actor Smith Jerrod (Jason Lewis), the boytoy who saw her through cancer, but she still doesn't "believe in marriage" and flies back to Manhattan to be with her friends as frequently as if it were a subway stop away.
Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) is still happily married to Harry Goldenblatt (Evan Handler), and they've adopted a Chinese girl, Lily, to make their home complete.
Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) is married and living in Brooklyn with Steve Brady (David Eigenberg), son Brady, and nanny Magda (Lynn Cohen).
The first break in the bliss comes when Miranda and Steve are making love, a rare occurrence these days, and she tells him, "Let's just get it over with." It's not much of a surprise, except to Miranda, when he later confesses to having had sex with someone else.
Carrie lets wedding plans spin out of control until Big gets cold feet on the way to the library, where the ceremony is taking place. This makes for one of the more suspenseful wedding scenes in recent memory.
Samantha, feeling neglected because Smith is always at the studio, is attracted by a new boy next door, Dante (Gilles Marini), who has a different sex partner every night and never closes the curtains. With neighbors like him, who needs HBO?
Amid the highs and lows of their separate lives, the four women manage to spend more time together than men on a chain gang where the key has been lost. Except for Charlotte, whose joy just keeps increasing, each has at some point to reevaluate her situation and reconsider the importance of the man in her life.
As in the series, the men are largely reduced to accessories. Big and Steve have more to do than Smith and Harry, but they're clearly not the stars.
Accessorizing is the name of the game, with Candice Bergen dropped in for one brief scene, and series regulars Mario Cantone and Willie Garson squeezed in as the token gays.
The most valuable supporting player is Jennifer Hudson as "Louise from St. Louis," the personal assistant Carrie hires. She represents the new generation of twentysomethings moving to New York in search of love, and is being counted on to bring in both young and African American audiences. Like everything else about the movie, she can be seen by cynics as a crass commercial calculation rather than something organic to the story.
There may be less sexually explicit dialogue than on the series, but there are several brief softcore sex scenes, mostly involving Dante– although each of the women but Carrie gets a turn.
The series is efficiently recapped at the beginning for newbies in the audience, who may wonder what the fuss was about when it's all over. Fans who can't get enough should love the movie while those of us with some objectivity will conclude it wasn't necessary, but it isn't bad.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will host an international meeting to plan for the period after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's "inevitable" departure, the Foreign Office said on Tuesday.
The meeting will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, and delegates will include Syria experts, academics in post-conflict stabilisation, representatives of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) opposition group and other agencies.
The gathering highlights jitters over the shape of a post-Assad Syria, and experts fear regional and sectarian rivalries could extend the bloodshed and destabilise other countries in the strategically sensitive and volatile region.
"Aim is to galvanise planning for political transition in Syria," Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Twitter.
"Assad's departure from power is inevitable. Vital that international community plans ahead for the day after in Syria," he said.
Hague, along with other Western leaders, dismissed a defiant speech by Assad on Sunday, which the Syrian president billed as peace plan but in which he rejected talks with his opponents. Rebels described the speech as a renewed declaration of war.
While many experts say Assad's ousting is all but certain, there is no sign his rule will end soon. Rebels are edging closer to the centre of the capital Damascus, but Assad still has backing from powerful allies Russia, China and Iran.
More than 60,000 people have died in the uprising which has developed into a civil war since it erupted in March 2011, the United Nations said last week.
Foreign ministers and SNC chief Mouaz Alkhatib are not expected to attend the talks. The meeting is not open to reporters, and the conclusions are expected to be published in a closing communique.
Reporting by Mohammed Abbas; Editing by Alison Williams


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Ingredients and Preparation
- Preheat oven to 400ºF.
- Use a fork to mix the breadcrumbs and mustard together in a small bowl. (The mixture should be crumbly.)
- Season the pork chops with salt and pepper
- Heat the oil in an ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Cook the pork chops for about 3 minutes on each side, until browned.
- Transfer the skillet to the oven and cook the pork chops until a meat thermometer registers 160ºF. This should be about 20-25 minutes. Cooking time depends on the thickness of the chops.


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Mark over @ 45n5 talks about geotargeting ads and keyword tracking for sales to best optimize your blog and fine tune it for sales. While I was writing a comment to his post, I realized this is actually too large and better suited for a blog post–so here it is.
- Do you know what keywords are converting blog subs for you?
Sales aren't the whole shebang, subs are good gravy too (and depending on the type of site–Subs hold *more* long term value than hit-and-run-sales IMO). So which of your blog pages draw more subs? And which keywords are the "omg-sign-me-up-now!" eyeballs finding your blog with?
It's easier to twig into what topics/content draw links and inbounds, you don't need any special analytics tools to track that. But what about subscribers?
I have some pretty heavy traffic pages–and popular too. But they're not big subscriber/converters. Some link love, some stumbles, it's all good. I also have small traffic count pages that go unnoticed (link love) yet I discovered they are subscriber gold mines and I make sure those get some attention so they rise and hold their spot in the SERPs.
What twigged me onto this was keeping a close eye on my subscriber counts. I find email sub counts easier (more stable) to monitor, so I work with those numbers. If my blog averages between 10 and 20 new *email* subs a day–I keep on trucking. When I hit 20+, 30+ and 40+ a day, that's when my bloggy senses start to tingle and I want to know WHY.
Things to note:
- There is no new stumble/delicious/social bookmarking action going on
- There isn't a new juicy inbound possibly sending the converters
- Search traffic counts are within normal range
So when you discount each of those things as being a reason for the jump in blog subscribers, how can you pinpoint where these new subscribers are coming from and why? This had me scratching my noggin for a bit, but the secret: It's in the keywords.
Analytics is cool, groovy stuff that I'm delving more into right now, but I'm not that sophisticated with implementation yet. For one thing, every analytics option that's 3rd party hosted isn't allowed on any of my sites and blogs (why hand over all my juicy secrets to competitors? Free? Ha!). And I'm not a coder. Double whammy.
But I have found a works-for-now option: Bot Tracker (WordPress plugin). You can use it to monitor which pages the search engines are crawling and all that jazz, but you can also watch which pages are hot spots in the SERPs for any given day. Drill down a bit and you'll see which keywords are being used to find those pages.
When you discover the keywords and content that best converts to new subscribers, it's easy to write more of that juicy subscriber-bait, as well as make sure what you already have floats to the top of the serps and is more easily found by searchers.


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I have been building dashboard using Reporting Services (SSRS) for a client of mine. The dashboard is going to be used to display useful information on their SQL Server instance, the information contained in the reports will be retrieved from DMVs. Information like the SQL Server wait types, information on a SQL Server instance, along with other useful information such as page life expectancy (PLE) buffer cache hit ratio, Expensive IO queries and the like. This can be useful when performance tuning and monitoring SQL Server. How I went about creating this report will follow in future posts but in order to get this information 'real time' from several different SQL Servers required me to build a dynamic data source.
In this post we will look at how we build this dynamic connection.
First up we need to create a database to hold information on the servers we want to connect to. There is likely to be a nice easy way of getting this information for you automatically using something like PowerShell but for the purposes of this post we will collect the data manually.
Create a database and a table to hold the SQL Server information:
/*create a database to house the server and instance information
--this can be any data source you like
--in my case it's SQL Server database*/
USE [master]
CREATE DATABASE [ServerList]
/*Create a simple table to store the SQL Server information*/
USE [ServerList]
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ServerList](
[Severname] [varchar](50) NULL
/*Populate the table with some server names*/
INSERT INTO [ServerList].[dbo].[ServerList]
Create new Report Server Project
We have our list of servers that we want to connect too stored nicely in a database table, next we will create a Report Server Project and create new report. Our report will show wait times for each server instance, the query for the report is courtesy of Glenn Berry's (Blog | @GlennAlanBerry) Diagnostic queries. So we'll create a new project
Once we have a new project we need create a new report, right click the reports folder in the "Solution Explorer" and select <New Report> this starts up the Report Wizard:
Create a data source to an instance of your choice, we will change this later to connect to a server from a drop-down list.
Click next and plug in Glenn's waits query:
Complete the report wizard and we should have report that connects to our server and displays information on what SQL Server is waiting on.
Create a Data Set for the server list
Next we need to create a data set that connects to our list of servers
We have a data set based on our server list data source. Next up we want to plug this dataset into a parameter
Create a Parameter
Right-Click on the <Parameters> folder and select <Add Parameter> call it ServerName
Select <Available Values> and select <Get Values from a query>
The final thing for us to do is pass our parameter into our waits data source so we connect to the correct server as selected by the report viewer. To do this we need to change our waits data source to pass the parameter in as the server name. The code looks similar to this:
="Data Source=" & Parameters!ServerName.Value
We plug this code into the expression on the waits data source
When we preview our report, we will need to first select a server from our drop down list, and select <View Report> we will then get the waits information from the sever chosen.


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Amur Pike?
2006/9/9 17:32
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The discussion on pheasants on the other thread got me thinking about non native gamefish and game animals introduced to the state. Some, like brown trout (and carp for better or worse) have thrived and have turned out to be valuable and prized fish. Back in the late sixties (I think) the PFBC attempted to introduce a new gamefish from Siberia called an "Amur Pike." This fish was expected to grow to great sizes and become great new gamefish. They were introduced into the western part of the state. Pymatuning Lake I think may have had them. It seems the fish failed to thrive and died off. Up until a few years ago they were still mentioned in the PFBC regulations booklet with seasons and bag limits. Has anyone on the board ever seen one of these? I have never seen a photo of one of them and would be curious to see one - esp if it was an actual fish caught in PA waters.
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Re: Amur Pike?
2006/9/11 8:26
From Chester County
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I vaguely remember hearing something about that. Here's what I found:
The Amur pike, also known as the blackspotted pike, Esox reichertii, is a pike native to the Amur River system in east Asia, as well as freshwater habitat on the island of Sakhalin. Closely related to the Northern Pike but smaller, it reaches a length of 110cm, sporting a silvery body with small black spots.
Like other pike, this species is prized for sport fishing, but is not generally found outside its native range. This species was introduced to Glendale Lake, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, by the Pennsylvania Fish Commission in 1968. Pure Amur pike were last spawned in 1971. All of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission's brood stock was lost in the summer of 1976……………too bad!!!…..Lol
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Re: Amur Pike?
2006/9/10 11:16
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I was raised near Glendale Lake and fished there quite often as a kid. There is a 10 hp limit for boats and we had a small boat for the lake.
I have caught quite a number of these Amur Pike. They seem to me to be a shorter, but fatter northern pike. They do have a spotted pattern. But they are found and caught like every other pike - shallow grassy coves in spring to spawn, ambushing baitfish near deep water escape routes in summer and dogging baitfish in the shallows to fatten for winter in autumn.
Overall, nothing special - no better or worse than northerns.
Posted on: 2007/10/24 9:38
Re: Amur Pike?
2006/9/18 8:28
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I think the last PA Amur choked to death on the last PA Chukar pheasant, IIRC...:)
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Tony winner Betty Buckley to lead workshop in Denver
Next month, professional as well as aspiring actors will have the chance to work with a Broadway luminary when Tony Award-winning actress and Grammy-nominated singer Betty Buckley brings her Intensive Song Interpretation & Monologue Workshop to Denver.
Buckley plans to guide students "through a methodology that facilitates audience connection through songs and monologues." Educators, college students and high school students are encouraged to apply.
The Texas-born actress won a Tony in 1983 and a place in Broadway lore for her turn as Grizabella in "Cats" and her rendition of the Andrew Lloyd Webber song "Memory." Buckley debuted on Broadway in 1969 after landing the role of Martha Jefferson in "1776." She also played Norma Desmond in Webber's musical of the Billy Wilder-Charles Brackett classic "Sunset Boulevard."
Those of a more pop culture bent may recall that Buckley was featured on the hit TV series "Eight Is Enough." She portrayed Sandra Sue Abbott, or "Abby, Tom Bradford's love interest and then wife, after the actress Diana Hyland died during the first season. In addition to her television work, Buckley has had roles in a number of films, among them "Carrie" "Tender Mercies" and "Wyatt Earp."
The four-evening intensive workshop runs July 9-12, 6-10:30 p.m. An accompanist will be provided for singers. For further details and to apply, contact email@example.com.


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I've got one last cranberry recipe for you. It's the Thanksgiving stuffing recipe that Hope Dlugozima, MNN's vice president and director of community and social networking, created about 10 years ago. When one of her relatives insisted that there was no better stuffing than Pepperidge Farm from the bag, Hope set out to prove that theory wrong. She adapted a recipe from "Joy of Cooking" and came up with this winner.
This stuffing can be cooked outside the turkey or stuffed inside the bird. If you're going to stuff it in the turkey, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recommends that you stuff the bird loosely immediately before cooking and cook until the internal temperature of the turkey AND stuffing is 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 2/3 cup hazelnuts, roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup fresh or dried cranberries
- 1 loaf rustic bread (a 1-pound size)
- A handful of parsley, chopped
- 2 cups chicken or turkey broth
- finely grated zest of 1 lemon
- olive oil, for drizzling
- salt
- pepper
Time Estimates
Prep time: 30 minutes
Cook time: 1 hour
Total time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
If using dried cranberries, put the cranberries in a bowl and cover with hot water for about an hour.
If you're cooking the stuffing outside the turkey, heat the oven to 375 degrees F and oil a 9x13-inch baking dish.
Remove the crust from the bread and cut the bread into 3/4-inch chunks.
In a large bowl, combine the bread, olive oil, salt and pepper. Arrange the bread cubes in a single layer on baking sheet and toast them until lightly browned.
Melt the butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onions and cook until softened, 1 to 2 minutes.
In a large bowl mix the bread, cranberries, onions, hazelnuts, parsley and lemon zest. Stir in the broth. Toss well to combine; the bread should absorb most of the broth.
Season to taste with salt and pepper.
If cooking separately, spread the stuffing in the prepared dish and cover with foil. Bake for 25 minutes; then remove the foil and bake until crusty and golden, about 35 minutes more.
If stuffing the turkey, put the stuffing in the bird right before cooking and cook until the internal temperature is 165 degrees F.
Enough to stuff a large turkey
Hope's notes
- If you want to stuff the turkey but you have people who are concerned about the safety, put half the stuffing in the turkey and cook the other half separately.
The original recipe called for pecans, but since Hope was living in Portland, Oregon, the hazelnut capital of the world, when she first started using this recipe, she chose the local nuts. If you'd prefer pecans, go ahead and switch them out.
She has also switched out the cranberries for dried cherries in the past.
Depending on the consistency, you may need to use a tablespoon or so more of butter.


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New emissions regulations have changed the formulation of diesel fuel, as well as the engines that use it. And although there have been some doom-and-gloom predictions on the subject – mainly based on rumors of poor fuel economy and low power, and high cost considerations – all indications are that the new regulations will have little impact on current and future diesel motorhome owners.
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No matter which MMO I play, I always end up with a rogue-like class. The fragility, agility and trickiness of this class-archetype is what I enjoy playing the most! I may by far not have the skill to play them flawlessly but I love that you can theorycraft and plan so much with this archetype. So it comes as no surprise that I absolutely love the thief in Guild Wars 2.
During the beta weekend event, I recorded a video of the thief's traits and how each of them effects the tooltips when you put 30 points into them. I put together a picture of all the weapon skills' tooltips comparing 0 and 30 points in the traits accordingly. I stopped after that because it would've been too time-consuming for me to do the same for the utility skills… especially considering traits and skills can change between every beta event and release.
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Cloudcenters provide the same kinds of tools that all datacenter and server operators are already accustomed to, but with all the traditional advantages of cloud (i.e. self-service, pay-as-you-go, and scalability). Instead of creating completely new paradigms, cloudcenters are a methodology by which the customer can have a virtual datacenter hosted 'in the sky.'
Amazon's Web Services (AWS) is not the only way to build scalable Cloud Infrastructures. There are two emerging methodologies for constructing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) AKA "Cloud Infrastructure Services". The first is what we call "cloudcenters", which are essentially datacenters in the sky. The second is what we call an "Infrastructure Web Service". GoGrid was one of the pioneers for cloudcenters, while AWS largely created the second model.
Understanding IaaS means looking closely at these two approaches. Clearly the notion of cloudcenters embodied by AWS competitors such as ourselves, FlexiScale, ElasticHosts, AppNexus, and others is important. My colleague, Michael Sheehan, will go into more depth on how we think this distinction modifies his earlier Cloud Pyramid (above left) in a follow-on article to this one.
Infrastructure Cloud Models
Understanding these two approaches is important because it directly affects your selection of a Cloud Infrastructure provider. These two models highlight a difference in core infrastructure and in target markets. Cloudcenters provide a direct equivalent to traditional datacenters and hence are usually more desirable for IT staff, systems operators, and other datacenter savvy folks. Infrastructure Web Services on the other hand are more analogous to Service-Oriented-Architectures (SOA), require significant programming skills, and are much more comfortable for software developers.
Infrastructure Web Services
I'm going to assume for this article that you are somewhat familiar with Amazon Web Services (AWS), but I'll briefly re-cap. AWS provides a number of different 'Web Services' that can consumed individually or put together to support different kinds of applications, usually a batch processing or web application of some kind. These services include:
- Object-based file storage via Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Servers on demand via Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Block storage on demand via Elastic Block Storage (a part of EC2)
- Distributed database functionality via SimpleDB (SDB)
- Content distribution and edge-caching via CloudFront
- Messaging & queuing via Simple Queuing Service (SQS)
- Payment processing via Flexible Payment Services (FPS)
- Billing & re-packaging of the above services via Amazon Dev Pay
This is a robust ecosystem of services form which you can use any or all of in order to build your application, getting the traditional benefits of Cloud Computing such as self-service, pay-as-you-go, and massive scalability.
Unfortunately, every service above is based on an Amazon standard, not an industry standard. S3 is not accessible via CIFS or NFS. EC2 provides Xen hosting, but image management and storage is completely custom. SQS does not use any standard queuing or messaging protocols such as JMS or STOMP. SimpleDB now has an 'SQL-like' interface, but is essentially a 100% ground up creation of Amazon.
A major advantage of using the Amazon approach however is that greenfield applications developed from scratch have a very powerful set of vetted, scalable services, that can be used to build that application. This means avoiding the intrinsic and extrinsic costs associated with deploying a separate queuing or database system.
The alternative, of course, is to use the same tools, paradigms and standards that you deploy in an industry standard Enterprise datacenter today.
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So, I'm really new to Java as a whole. Started a class on it 2 months ago now, but I have gotten really into it. I've started doing graphics based things, but most of my learning is without a specific teacher, just trial and error. This has led to some... gaps... in my knowledge. Mainly in terminology. Every time I try and use an online guide, I get hopelessly turned around, so I'm here asking humans who can probably help explain it better for help.
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Charlie Kindel spent more than two decades at Microsoft, working on everything from Windows Phone to Windows Home Server.
Now, after that long career, the 46-year-old tech vet has partnered with another former Microsoftie, Stefan Negritoiu, to create BizLogr.
The company's primary product, MileLogr, just got a facelift with additional functionality. We caught up with Kindel — an angel investor who is known for his provocative blog posts about the tech industry — in this installment of Startup Spotlight.
Explain what you do so our parents can understand it: "MileLogr is a calendar app that creates mileage logs for taxes, expense reports, and timesheets."
Inspiration hit us when: "Last year, when I was driving all over the Seattle area meeting with other entrepreneurs and startup people I realized: 'I should be logging these miles. I can get a tax deduction. But what a pain! There's got to be an easy way.'
I looked at the various existing products and services and they all required me to 'do work.' To use these products you have to either pay attention to the odometer in your car and write things down in a logbook, remember get out your smartphone and run some app, or buy some expensive hardware GPS logger thingy.
One day, it occurred to me that I don't do anything unless it's on my calendar. And most of my calendar items have some indication of WHERE the meeting took place. I wondered how hard would it be to generate a mileage log, after the fact, just from my calendar?
That was the genesis of MileLogr: A calendar app that creates mileage logs by mining your appointments and using geo-location services to determine where you drove.
Since then we've identified a whole range of scenarios where deep inspection of users' calendar data, combined with context from other sources such as geo-location, can provide a surprising amount of valuable insight. This really is a big-data problem and the company we've formed — BizLogr — is really about building practical products based on context driven big-data analysis. We focus on data sources related to time (calendars) and space (location). Our company motto is "practical software products at the intersection of space and time."
MileLogr is the first product of many we plan on building; with it we have high-confidence we can make some money on something that is truly useful to a large number of people."
VC, Angel or Bootstrap (Why): "We are bootstrapped. I started my first software company in high school. I built shareware apps, first for the Apple ][ and then for Windows 2.x. For years and years I would get these $25 checks in the mail from users. When I met Stefan Negritoiu, my co-founder, we both agreed that BizLogr had the potential to be a money-printing machine, just like my shareware business had been.
We both have other things we are working on and we wanted to build MileLogr and other BizLogr products in our spare time. We agreed we'd run it like a real company so we could get the hands-on experience of having to deal with company formation, stock-options (BizLogr, Inc. is a S-Corp), book keeping, and so forth. We also have enough confidence in the concept that we want to make sure all of our ducks are in a row for when it takes off.
It is important to us that we do it as frugally as possible. So far, the only real money we've spent is on legal fees for the corporate formation. Everything else you see in the MileLogr product was done via barter, equity, and hard work.
As we explored the initial idea and the technology it became clear that we're really on to something. We keep being told by mentors an advisors that this could be really big. I've had several angel investors beg to put money in. But our plan remains to continue to bootstrap until we are generating profit."
Our 'secret sauce' is: "Two things: Calendar systems are stupidly complex. Each system has a different API with wildly different semantics. I had hoped that standards like iCal and CalDAV would help, but calendaring systems are a perfect example of the truism "the great things about standards is that there are so many to choose from." We've figured out how to abstract away the differences between all of them (Google, Exchange, Apple, Yahoo, etc…). Shockingly no-one has really done this before! Second, we've developed the first of many 'relevance engines' that are focused on extracting value from people's calendars. We've filed several patents and are pretty confident with the claims."
The smartest move we've made so far: "Focusing on the technology stack we are the most comfortable with; that allows us to be the most productive. Or, put another way, avoiding silly debates around what technology to use and just getting down to building the darn thing. I worked on the original Active Server Pages team and have used C# and ASP.NET forever. Stefan has deep experience there as well having built a complete email system at Duke with ASP.NET. I learned Node.js last year and had become proficient in that. But it would have been stupid of us to pick that for MileLogr simply because we would have been less productive."
The biggest mistake we've made so far: "Classic startup mistake: Not getting more early users to play with our original prototype. We 'shipped' our first prototype with one goal: "Charlie can use it to generate the mileage log for his 2011 taxes." (I drove 3,017 miles and got a $1,674 tax deduction from that).
This was great, because we had one real user, but we should have pushed harder to get a least a couple of other people using it. Some of the code of that prototype carried forward to what we have now, but because we basically reset, we went a long time without something we could test with other users.
When we finally launched the beta in early September we quickly got some pretty strong feedback. We've just released a bunch of new fixes that address that feedback, so it feels great to be in that iterative mode…we should have done it sooner."
Would you rather have Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg or Bezos in your corner: "I assume "in your corner" implies being a trusted mentor and champion. While having any of them championing for you would be terrific, I'd pick Bill Gates. One, I've never actually met the others, so I can't really say I understand them. I can't really say I know Bill Gates that well either, but at least I've interacted with him. I'm pretty good at figuring people out. Two, Bill seems to be the most well rounded. His breadth of perspective is mind-blowing. Nobody can dispute his deep, deep technical chops, and he's proven he understands and can drive business at a world-wide scale. Three, pragmatically, he doesn't have any skin in the game right now, so I'd be confident any advice or help he provided would be unfiltered."
Our world domination strategy starts when: "Oh, that started when Stefan and I first shook hands at a Starbucks when we agreed to form the company. We won't tell you what we are going to do to dominate the world, but we can tell you what we aren't going to do: Take it too seriously. This is all too much fun, and we are learning way too much, for us to get our panties in a wad."
Rivals should fear us because: "Their products require users to remember to do work. People who use their car for business use already do the work required for MileLogr: They put appointments on their calendars. Users want to lower their taxes. They want to do less work. And they don't want to worry about getting audited. MileLogr delivers on this."
We are truly unique because: "It is shocking to us that nobody has really tried to mine calendars before. So the solution is pretty unique. But we think our approach is unique too: We have stumbled onto a startup that we know can be a huge success, that we can build incrementally and gain real experience doing."
The biggest hurdle we've overcome is: "We've had technical challenges and user experience challenges and we've argued with each other. But, looking back so far, none of those things really stand out as being major hurdles. We had a plan and we executed it to get the Beta done. We were a bit later than we originally wanted, but that was totally within the principles we agreed to when we started building this thing."
What's the one piece of advice you'd give to other entrepreneurs just starting out: "Ideas are a dime-a-dozen. They are worthless. Execution is everything. And getting people to pay for your execution is MORE everything. So stop talking. Stop thinking. Get code written. Code talks."


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1. Leadership: In Turbulent Times
"After five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians. Insight is her imprint."-USA TODAY "A book like Leadership should help us raise our expectations of our national leaders, our country and ourselves."-The Washington Post
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"—The New York Times Book Review In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D.
2. This Is The Day: Reclaim Your Dream. Ignite Your Passion. Live Your Purpose.
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In response, Tim often identifies a crippling fear or lack of courage, to which he advises: "now is the time to take some risks, to quiet the voices of defeat, to step forward and make a mark, because this is the day.
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Are they archenemies or coconspirators? Lovers or friends? What are they doing in the Caribbean, and why is a Croatian assassin determined to kill them? The only thing they know for certain is that they'll be spending the rest of their lives in prison if the police catch them before they learn the truth.
4. A Time To Kill: A Novel (Jake Brigance Book 1)
For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life–and then his own.
5. No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
The collected best of Ursula's blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: "How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn.
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In this twenty-ninth book in the long-running, million-selling adventures of Sienna Nealon, she finds herself traveling to Japan to locate the source of this trouble: Shin'ichi Akiyama, a man she met years ago, who promised they would meet again in his her future – his past – and whose power is to control the very flow of time itself.
7. It's Time To Pray: God's Power Changes Everything
Through the shed blood of Christ on the cross and His resurrection, Jesus restored our relationship with the living God and enabled us to live an abundant life! Though we will experience difficulties, in the midst of these things we are not powerless and without hope.
Our power and hope is in God, and the Holy Spirit empowers us to live above the fray! The most powerful thing we can do in our lives is PRAY! The Bible tells us to pray without ceasing and to pray about everything.
If you are struggling in your walk, if you look at the world around you and feel dejected, look up, for your redemption is nigh! Join Pastor Carter in this book as he looks at the lesson Jesus gives us in Mark 9—along with some of his own personal experiences and testimonies—and how it relates to us, our walk with God, and our impact on the world.
You will find, as Pastor Carter has, that it's time to pray! Each chapter contains a section titled "Important Takeaways from This Chapter", which includes key thoughts, key words, and key insight.
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9. Time To Hunt (Bob Lee Swagger Novels Book 3)
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1991 Women's Tennis Team
The 1991 MWC women's tennis team won the NCAA National Championship with an 18-5 overall record, including a 14-0 mark against NCAA Division III schools. Highlighting the team's run to the national championship were three intense matches against Kenyon, UC-San Diego, and Gustavus Adolphus. MWC won all three matches by 5-4 scores in claiming the program's third national title.
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Kung Fu Drafter18 Mar, 2012 By: Nancy Spurling Johnson
User Profile: Curt Moreno's complex pursuits feed his simple desire to better the drafting profession.
Curt Moreno is many things, just a sampling of which include CAD manager at a civil engineering firm in Houston, Texas; CAD industry writer; voracious reader; and the personality behind the Kung Fu Drafter blog. Beneath all that is an uncommon devotion to drafting.
Tell us about life in Texas.
I grew up and went to school in Houston. Over the years I've had a lot of jobs — I often worked two or more jobs at once — and I've had the opportunity to travel all over the Gulf Coast to work and meet people and have adventures. But in the end, I've never known a place as diverse and beautiful as Texas. I can't think of another state where you have tropical heat conditions in the south and snow in the north or where you can drive for more than 12 hours in one direction, and still be in the same state. To me, Texas is just home.
How did you get into CAD?
It's an odd story, but when I was in the eighth grade my family moved near the end of the school year. At my new school they made a scheduling error and I had a computer science class first and last periods. So I would normally skip the second class. But one day I stayed for the second class. In that class the teacher pulled out an old four-color plot of St. Paul's Cathedral. I was fascinated by the plot and decided that I wanted to get into drafting the following year at the high school.
When I arrived at high school, I took Drafting I as a freshman elective. My teacher's name was Tommie Montgomery, and she would prove to be the first of several people who helped discover and shape my passion for our craft. It was 1989, and I had never used a computer. The following year our drafting class received two 286 IBMs, and she sat me down with a copy of Mastering AutoCAD and told me, "I think this is something you will like. I don't know much about it so you will have to learn from the book. See me at the end of the semester." That was 22 years ago.
Tell us about your current job.
Like most CAD managers, I started as a CAD drafter who was the go-to person. I left Houston to work in East Texas for a while for my current employer, and after I returned to Houston we had hired enough people in our local office that I just sort of assumed the CAD manager role. Which, by the way, is the worst way in the world to choose a manager.
A lot of people know you through your blog, Kung Fu Drafter. Tell us about that pursuit — and how you came up with the name.
I've been a constant Internet user since the mid-90s and had been actively involved on discussion forums for a long time. Forums were the blogs before blogs. I had a few web sites previously, including RetardedSeal.com, but when the recession began in 2009 I decided to create a CAD-centric blog. I had met CAD bloggers at Autodesk University 2008 and was interested [in blogging]. With the economy down, I decided I wanted a site to use as a body of work to show any would-be employer.
I had always enjoyed writing and thought the blog would serve as a CAD resource, a résumé, and something fun to do. I wanted it to be a "CAD lifestyle" blog for geeks featuring the sort of topics I found interesting. So from the beginning it was more than just CAD because I am about more than just CAD. Now, three years later the blog has really come into its own. We have some contributing writers, we try to post content regularly, and we really strive to make it a place where CAD users can come to find links and news about the latest releases, updates, and content for their application.
As for the name, it was a matter of chance. The blog was born on Easter 2009, and there happened to be an X-Files marathon running on TV. In one of my favorite episodes, one character asks for the help of another, but first he has to admit something. So he says to the second character, "Your kung fu is the best." Combine that with a love of old kung fu movies and the name was obvious.
You're also very involved in social media. What are your thoughts about the role of social media in the professional world — and in particular, the CAD world?
It's true, I probably spend too much time planting stakes in the social media world. But the up side is that I have met some great people. When you get down to it, the real role of social media is to act as a megaphone and spread your reach. Along those lines I think that every CAD professional can benefit from these sorts of friendships. It's like having hundreds of CAD users who you can ask a question, commiserate with, or offer to help.
However, these sorts of relationships are simple extensions of traditional socializing. I feel there will come a time in the not-so-distant future when technology will facilitate a much more intense sense of collaboration than we currently know. I think that's the next logical step and evolution of the fledgling social and collaborative services we have today.
How do you stay engaged in social media and still get your job done?
The key is to properly manage your signal-to-noise ratio. For example, by limiting the people that I follow, my incoming messages are both meaningful and manageable. So taking 30 seconds to type a reply to a limited number of select messages is an easy task. In terms of creating content, as on Google+, I try to plan posts ahead of time so as to minimize the time taken to actually write a post. Those two techniques, combined with services that repost content from one social media platform to another, make social media a simple addition to any work day.
You're also an avid reader of nonfiction books (and, as I like to kid you about, everything on the Internet). What motivates you to read so much? What interests you most?
Ever since I was a child I have been a ravenous aggregator of information, long before I knew what that meant. To me, it was just natural to go through the day noticing and retaining all sorts of information. As I grew older I realized that nonfiction, and then the Internet, were wonderful sources of information. Even the fiction that I read tends to be fact-filled since it is mostly historical fiction.
Today the content I read, online and off, tends to be business-management concepts and books on human psychology. I tend to gravitate to any book that is focused on human behavior. All of that aggregation has come together to help me form a concept of career and business management that is nontraditional and in conflict with the current state of management in most drafting rooms.
You have an interest in protecting the profession of drafting. Tell us about that.
I am passionate about our professional careers and the craft we practice. I am sure there are ways we can improve how we view ourselves and our work. But first we have to realize the value of the work we create and the deep, rich heritage prepared for us by the millions of drafters who came before us.
The CAD world seems to be so divided as of late. PLM, IPD, BIM, and CAD all seem to have diverged, and their respective populations seem to be exclusionary of one another. I think that there must be a sense of inclusion in order for drafters of all flavors and disciplines to ensure the best benefits and working environments for the industry as a whole. Being divisive and excluding "2D drafters" from the world of BIM doesn't solve that goal. I believe we've all got so much to offer one another.
Any other personal philosophies or interests related to the CAD profession?
I think that too many architecture, engineering, and design offices operate their drafting rooms as factories. There is a plague of poor project management, unrealistic or undefined goals and responsibilities, and a 19th-century mentality in regard to doing business. All this serves to reduce the drafting department to a factory that's sole purpose is to churn out plan sets as if they were widgets on an assembly line. I think once these companies realize that their business is based on relationships and innovation, these mentalities will stop.
What do you do when you're not working, blogging, or tweeting?
Wow. I like to spend time with my dog, horses, and family. I love going to see a good movie at the theater or watching a really corny movie at home with friends. My interests range from learning to make wine to wanting to build a 3,000-piece Lego set to a desire to learn to speak Chinese. I'm a recovering photography enthusiast who has spent way too much on cameras over the years.
What have I missed?
I guess all that is left is just a sort of life-outlook statement: I've been plenty of places and met plenty of people, and I've discovered so many things that captivate me. But, in the end, the one constant in my life has been this profession of drawing and documenting the world as it is and as it will be. I've come to realize that CAD is not my job; drafting is my profession, and it has a wonderfully diverse ecosystem of variants and specializations. Regardless of the skills that I learn, whether they be graphic arts, web design, writing, or photography, they have always been subsidiary and in support of my drafting profession.
From the age of 14 this is who I am, and if there is one thing I have learned it is that you have to be true to who you are.
Read more about Curt Moreno's workplace philosophies at www.cadalyst.com/iamdrafter and www.cadalyst.com/hireme.
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Dear President Obama,
I think it would be really cool if you would resign as President and take your sorry ass to some shithole like Somalia or maybe even Kenya where you would have a real shot at becoming King, or dictator (You could even design yourself a cool uniform) without bothering with stuff like a Constitution. Yeah, I know. We would end up with Joe Biden as President, which would surely be a bitch, but, on balance, he is just a run-of-the-mill idiot, rather than a socialist ideologue committed to "fundamentally transforming" the country.
We can deal with idiots, but you, sir, scare the dogshit out of me.
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(sfôr'tsä), Italian family that ruled the duchy of Milan from 1450 to 1535. Rising from peasant origins, the Sforzas became condottieri and used this military position to become rulers in Milan. The family governed by force, ruse, and power politics. Under their rule the city-state flourished and expanded. Similar to the Medici in their use of personal power, the Sforzas differed in that they were warriors, not bankers.
The first prominent member of the family was Muzio Attendolo Sforza, 1369–1424, a farmer from the Romagna who became a noted condottiere and took the surname Sforza [the forcer]. He fought in the service of several Italian states, then became involved in the struggles for the succession to the kingdom of Naples and died while serving Queen Joanna II in her efforts to retain the throne. His illegitimate son, Francesco I Sforza (see Sforza, Francesco I), became duke of Milan in 1450 through his marriage to Bianca Maria Visconti, daughter of the last Visconti duke of Milan.
Francesco was succeeded by his eldest son, Galeazzo Maria Sforza, 1444–76, a highly educated but dissolute and cruel man; he was a patron of the arts and employed the architect Bramante. He was assassinated in the Church of San Stefano at Milan by republican conspirators, but the popular uprising anticipated by the assassins did not materialize. Another of Francesco's sons, Ascanio Maria Sforza, 1455–1505, was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and also a patron of the arts. He secured the election of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) as pope.
Galeazzo's daughter Bianca Maria married Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and his illegitimate daughter Caterina Sforza, 1463?–1509, became the wife of Gerolamo Riario, lord of the cities of Imola and Forlì and a nephew of Pope Sixtus IV. After Gerolamo was murdered (1488), Caterina ruled both cities until she lost them to Cesare Borgia in 1499. With her second husband, Giovanni de' Medici, she bore a son who became the famous condottiere Giovanni delle Bande Nere (see Medici, Giovanni de').
Galeazzo's wife, Bona of Savoy, acted as regent for their son, Gian Galeazzo Sforza, 1469–94, who succeeded to the duchy as a minor on his father's assassination. However, in 1480, Galeazzo's brother Ludovico Sforza (see Sforza, Ludovico) deprived his nephew of the duchy and assumed its control. Gian Galeazzo died a virtual prisoner. His daughter, Bona Sforza, married Sigismund I of Poland. In the Italian Wars Milan was claimed by Louis XII of France, great-grandson of Gian Galeazzo Visconti. Ludovico lost Milan to Louis in 1499, but in 1512 the Swiss, as members of the Holy League against France, stormed Milan and installed Ludovico's son, Massimiliano Sforza, 1493–1530, as its duke. The Swiss actually controlled Milan until their defeat at Marignano (1515), which obliged Massimiliano to surrender Milan to Francis I of France; Massimiliano retired to France.
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian conferred the title of duke of Milan on Massimiliano's brother, Francesco II Sforza, 1495–1535. Francesco took possession of his duchy after the French defeat (1522) by the army of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at Bicocca. Accused by the imperial general Pescara of plotting against Charles, Francesco was deprived (1525) of most of his duchy. He joined (1526) the League of Cognac against the emperor, but was obliged to surrender to the imperial troops that besieged him in Milan. After the Treaty of Cambrai (1529), Francesco was restored as duke and ruled until his death. He had no heirs, and the succession to Milan once more was contested by France and Spain, with Spain emerging victorious in the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559).
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When someone cares
Like I do
About a man
Dressed in blue
That person feels
There's nothing better
Then the love
They share together
She knows there's love
In both their hearts
And prays everyday
They'll never part
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To remember
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There's nothing better
Loves a gift
Not to be abused
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Compared to the dull green of common tansy, 'Isla Gold' is brilliant. Where common tansy recedes, 'Isla Gold' takes center stage. A showy plant isn't necessarily big news. But this one brings along with it all the gutsy vigor and adaptability of its distant ancestors--meaning it's one of the toughest and most resilient perennials you'll find.
Its common name suggests just how tough. The word tansy has worked its way to us from middle English, via middle French, from the Greek athanatos meaning immortality. While tansy is a strong-smelling herb and does have a history of medicinal uses, I suspect it was the plant itself that was judged immortal.
Tansy came from Europe to North America probably with early settlers, long enough ago that it now behaves as a native plant here, growing along roadsides and fences throughout New England, west to Minnesota, and south to Missouri. Use 'Isla Gold' tansy to add a spot of color that lasts from early spring until frost knocks it down.Description
Tansy, sometimes known as golden buttons, is Tanacetum vulgare, and this new golden-leaved form is 'Isla Gold'. The highly aromatic lacy or fernlike, 2- to 6-inch-long chartreuse leaves grow along main stems that can reach 4 feet tall, but usually top out around 2 to 3 feet. The plant grows in a gradually expanding clump, so you can control its width. Petalless, buttonlike flowers that are 3/8 to 1/2 inch in diameter cover the plant in late summer into fall with large, flat-topped clusters.
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Meyers tweeted on Monday that his former Saturday Night Live castmate will "curate and lead" the band and run it even while shooting his IFC comedy series Portlandia. NBC confirmed the news.
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