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Perihan Magden is one of Turkey's most widely read young authors. Turkey's Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk called her "one of the most inventive and outspoken writers of our time." She is also a regular columnist for daily Radikal, criticizing the military's influence in politics and the militarization of Turkish society.
Magden's most recent novel, "2 Girls", became a bestseller in Turkey and was translated also into English and German.
Magden is one of Turkey's most intrepid columnists and, as such, the target of numerous lawsuits. One article which brought her into confrontation with the state was her defence of Mehmet Tarhan, jailed for his refusal to perform mandatory military service. Turkey has not yet introduced the possibility for conscientious objectors to avoid service.
"Every human has a right not to kill. And if you are doing your military service in Turkey there is a big chance that you might be killing someone, because there is an ongoing war in the Southeast of Turkey since 30 years. So I write this article. And the head of the army made a complaint to the prosecutor."
Some of Magden's earlier trials were attended by ultra-nationalist groups. In fact, some of those who showed up at her trials were later arrested on charges of belonging to the Ergenekon terror group. When the arrests took place in early 2008 Magden felt vindicated:
"I feel relief, I feel fairness, I feel justice. I feel like good will prevail. And I feel good for my country. This is like the cleansing of Turkey, a detox for Turkey. It was killing us, it was wrapped around our neck, it was starting to suffocate us – this fascism, this deep state. This is like breathing in and out much more comfortably."
Perihan Magden
Magden was already sentenced twice to probation and has several other pending court cases. In case of a third conviction, she would have to go to prison. This has not prevented her from speaking her mind.
- Perihan Magden's columns in Radkal newspaper (in Turkish)
- Interview with Perihan Magden on the Rumeli Observer blog: The virtue of boldness – Meeting Perihan Magden
October 2008


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AIPG National Annual Convention Meeting Policy
AIPG Bylaws (ARTICLE 3) stipulates that an annual meeting will be held to conduct the business of the Institute. The planning, organization, and conduct of the meeting shall focus on the business of the Institute, field trips, technical presentations, and social events. The Annual Meeting will be under the organizational and financial authority of AIPG headquarters.
The AIPG Annual Meeting is also intended to be a venue for attracting non-AIPG colleagues to collaborate in seminars and field trips, for an opportunity to create income for AIPG and to increase visibility of AIPG on the section and national levels.
AIPG's Annual Meeting must place a high priority on providing the time and space for the Executive Committee and Advisory Boards to perform their duties and for a continuing education program of interest and value to all. Significant efforts must be made to encourage student participation in the Annual Meeting Program.
The objective of the Institute's Annual Meetings are to:
- Conduct the official Annual Business Meeting of the Membership.
- Generate revenue to support the AIPG mission.
- Provide an opportunity to reach out to non-members, especially colleagues in sister societies, universities, industry, and government.
- Provide a forum for the incoming/outgoing Advisory Boards, Standing Committees, Task Forces, and Ad hoc Committees, etc., and to advise and aid the Executive Committee in its decisions.
- Provide programs for continuing education by means of speakers, workshops, symposia, and courses.
- Provide for the opportunity to recognize members for their services to the Institute and/or profession.
- Provide a forum for members to interact and exchange ideas.
- Provide opportunities for field trips, technical presentations, and social events for all attendees.
- Present National Awards.
AIPG National Headquarters:
- Has exclusive authority for all financial decisions and commitments including all contracts.
- Will set the actual dates and venue for the Annual Meeting, but in consultation with the host section.
- Will negotiate all hotel contracts.
- Will provide programs and meeting registration packets.
- Will manage all aspects of registration including all financial transactions.
- Will organize and conduct a formal marketing program to procure financial sponsorships for each event and for the overall meeting.
- Will create a specific meeting website.
- Will develop advertising, sponsorship forms, exhibitor forms, and registration forms for the meeting.
- Will send out a call for abstracts and maintain abstract submittals. Notify authors of technical review committees accept/reject decisions.
- Will organize the program within the hotel.
- Will develop all meeting lists and badges.
- Will arrange for all transportation as it relates to field trips and social events including negotiating contracts and paying deposits.
- Will manage on-site registration including the distribution of badges, registration packets, and processing of on-site payments.
- Will organize all AIPG business meetings and awards ceremonies.
- Will have final authority on all decisions.
The Host Section will:
- Create a list of possible field trips and field trip leaders for showcasing the geology in their area.
- Create a list of possible guest field trips and field trip leaders.
- Suggest possible social events.
- Work with National AIPG on creating a theme for the meeting including technical session topics for the Call for Abstracts.
- Assist in identifying volunteers to serve on the Technical Session Committee which includes reviewing submitted abstracts, the program and proceedings.
- Work with National on creating short courses and volunteers to instruct the short courses (AIPG can issue CEU's).
- Have the Section President serve on the national steering committee or have the Section President appoint a section member to serve on the committee. This person will have the authority to make commitments on behalf of the host section and to implement steering committee decisions on the section level. In addition to this person, identify 5-7 volunteers to assist national with various small tasks.
- Promote the meeting on the section level and to the geologic community at large.
- Assist National in identifying and procuring sponsors and exhibitors.
- Work with AIPG National to identify a state level/regional level listing of societies or associations whose members will be invited to participate.
- Work cooperatively with AIPG National and take no actions independent of National.
- Receive 50% of the sponsorship and exhibitor profits after all expenses and a minimum revenue of $13,000 is collected.
- Receive a percentage of the profits due to AIPG after all expenses and revenue sharing with other partners according to this formula:
-Section receives $500 for AIPG profit share between $5,000 to $10,000.
-Section receives $1,000 for AIPG profit share between $10,001 to $15,000.
-Section receives $1,500 for AIPG profit share between $15,001 to $20,000.
-Section receives $2,000 for AIPG profit share between $20,001 to $25,000.
-Section receives $2,500 for AIPG profit share between $25,001 to $30,000.
-Section receives $3,000 for AIPG profit share between $30,001 to $35,000.
-Section receives $3,500 for AIPG profit share between $35,001 to $40,000.
-Section receives $4,000 for AIPG profit share between $40,001 to $45,000.
-Section receives $4,500 for AIPG profit share between $45,001 to $50,000.
AIPG Field Trip Leaders will:
- Provide HQ with a brief description and pictures of the trip to be included in TPG and on the AIPG website (advertising piece) by March 1st of the meeting year.
- Identify any special equipment that attendees will need or be required to bring and any special information the attendees will need (i.e. the trip will be strenuous, 1 mile hike etc.).
- Provide a field trip guidebook within three weeks of the trip for copies to be made at AIPG National (not required). Any additional charges for field trip guidebooks, etc. copied or made someplace other than National will be taken out of the section profits.
- Provide a detailed trip route for the transportation company, including directions and stops within three weeks of the trip.
- Arrive at least 30 minutes prior to the field trip departure time in order to group participants together.
- Take roll call on the bus.
- Not have to pay for any portion of the trip, including transportation, lunch, snacks, water, park entrance fees or daily registration. However, field trip leaders planning on attending the entire conference will have to pay registration fees and hotel room charges unless the field trip is overnight, in which case, they will not pay hotel room charges during the trip.
- Not be paid Honorariums.

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Shaving Off a Few Strokes From Your Driver
Since the late 19th century Americans having being fascinated by a sport that is essentially about using a stick to hit a tiny ball as far as you possibly can. Golf began to become more commonly popular through the 1920's. Nowadays you can see everyday individuals, celebrities, and even rock stars out still trying to find that magic of how to hit a tiny ball as far as they can. One of the best ways someone can find that magic is by learning to use their driving club properly.
A driver club is one of your most important tools, and takes more skill to use properly because of all the clubs they have the lowest loft or angling that allows for control when hitting the ball. When you use a driver have the ball teed up and you will want it sitting more forward in your stance. Once the ball is positioned correctly forward, make sure you have more weight on your back leg, and lower your back shoulder to achieve a cleaner more fluid swing.
The speed with which you hit the ball will be important as well because this is what will give it the distance you are looking for. For greater speed make sure your grip is lighter, the club should feel a little heavy in your hand. Having a slightly looser grip will allow your body and the club to move more freely, which will give you the momentum you want to create that killer swing.
A few tips from Golf Info Guide about hitting with your driver are:
• Tee the ball a little higher.
• Make sure your feet are a little wider than your shoulders.
• The ball should be sitting opposite from your left heel.
• When swinging, try to turn until your back faces the ball.
• Make sure to transfer your weight properly through the drive.
Taking individual golf lessons is really important too. There are some basic skills you can learn by reading books, watching video and such. But everyone will have their little nuances that can create bad habits like how they stand, lack of follow through, not keeping their head down, and even more personal behaviors that can only be corrected by a professional who is watching and working with you.
The reality is you will spend hundreds of dollars for new clubs, and maybe as much in green fees and it can all be a waste of money and time if you are just playing with the same bad habits over and over. A private lesson can give you 30 minutes to an hour each time with a pro, and can cost as little as $25. It is worth the money in the long run to get it right in the beginning.
Once you have the mechanics down you can really enjoy a good game of golf. You can also use sites like American Golf to find new and engaging courses to play on. Like Arnold Palmer once said, "What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive."
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, everybody's second-favorite Korea, hasn't won any new medals since we last checked in. But that hasn't stopped the state-run news agency from reporting breathlessly on their Olympic success.
Today's coverage tends toward the meta—first, an article on how the world media is covering North Korea.
Athletes of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have become a focus of world media for their good results in London Olympiad.
Reuters, BBC and other media of UK and media of China, Russia, the United States, Japan and other countries have introduced DPRK athletes' achievements in the Olympic Games.
Those media said that the secret of the DPRK athletes' victory is deep concern of leader Kim Jong Il and strength, courage and deep trust from the dear respected Kim Jong Un.
I don't remember saying that.
The second article is just rubbing it in, comparing pre-games medal forecasts with North Korea's impressive haul.
The U.S. newspaper USA Today, Australian newspaper Herald Sun and other Western media guessed that only Kim Un Guk among DPRK athletes would snatch a silver medal in London.
But, the DPRK garnered three gold medals as of today, one in women's judo and another two in men's weightlifting.
Media of south Korea and the world said that the world's attention is focused on the successes by the DPRK delegation of 56 athletes and they are making a rush of wind in the London Olympics.
Their successes represent the inexhaustible strength of the DPRK, which can never be gauged by the Western view of value and criterion.
I think we all just got told.
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It feels as if I already critiqued "Ice Age: Continental Drift" a few weeks ago in my review of "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted." Like that animated sequel, this film is burdened with the excessively recognizable voices of celebrities, overdone morals, and a dire amount of repetition.
Granted, "Ice Age" has persisted to be a much funnier, more charming franchise than "Madagascar." After four films and countless millions though, it may be time for this ten-year-old series to go extinct.
"Continental Drift" picks up with Ray Romano's Manny the mammoth, John Leguizamo's Sid the sloth, and Denis Leary's Diego the saber-toothed cat living a peaceful life in their frozen world. Manny and his mate Ellie, voiced by Queen Latifah, are having trouble accepting the fact that their teenage daughter Peaches, voiced by Keke Palmer, is not a little mammoth anymore. Peaches wants to chill with the cool mammoth crowd, but instead finds herself hanging around a nerdy molehog voiced by Josh Gad. Sid meanwhile has received custody of his 80-year-old, delusional grannie, voiced by Wanda Sykes. Ellie's possum brothers are also in the mix as is Scrat the Squirrel, who still can't hang onto an acorn.
As you can probably tell from that lineup, this movie has more characters than it knows what to do with. The names listed above don't even make up half the cast of virtually expendable characters. But as the old saying in the animation industry goes, "The more cute animals on screen, the more plush toys we can sell!" That's essentially what "Ice Age: Continental Drift" feels like, a ploy to sell merchandise rather than advance a narrative.
Manny is separated from his wife and daughter when the continents begin to separate. Stranded on a piece of ice, Manny, Sid, Diego, and Grannie set out on a journey at sea to get back home. They hit a road bump however, when they are taken hostage by a band of pirates. The crew is lead by the always-entertaining Peter Dinklage as the deliciously evil Captain Gutt, a prehistoric ape. Diego also finds a potential love interest with the captain's first mate, a female sabre-toothed cat provided with the thick Puerto Rican accent of Jennifer Lopez. The ensemble for this McDonald's Happy Meal just keeps growing.
The story is pretty much on autopilot from this point on with an occasionally amusing, though not particularly inspired, action sequence and references that won't exist for another couple centuries. There are also some attempted lessons about parents letting their children grow up, kids respecting their elders, and the virtue of family. To the film's credit, these are commendable messages to pass onto young audiences. But they've simply become worn-out by vastly superior films. Pixar's "Brave" basically encompassed all of the same morals that "Continental Draft" does. But that film handled the material in a much more sincere, meaningful, timeless fashion. Here, it's kind of tacked on.
The highlight of "Ice Age: Continental Drift" is the opening short staring Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare." It's a fun five-minute cartoon done entirely without dialog as the infant Maggie attempts to save a butterfly from a merciless baby with one eyebrow. Maybe "Ice Age" should take a page from "The Longest Daycare" and limit the series to short subjects from this point on. It's always a joy to see Scrat the Squirrel open a movie with his escapades. "Ice Age 5" on the other hand, is less than called for.
Nick Spake is a college student at Arizona State University. He has been working as a film critic for the past seven years, reviewing movies on his website, NICKPICKSFLICKS.com. Reach the reporter at email@example.com


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MTrack is a tool, which detects, tracks, and measures the behavior of fluorescently labeled microtubules imaged by TIRF (total internal reflection fluorescence) microscopy. In such an in vitro reconstitution approach, stabilized, non-dynamic microtubule seeds serve as nucleation points for dynamically growing microtubules.
MTrack is a bi-modular tool. The first module detects and tracks the growing microtubule ends and creates trajectories. The second module uses these trajectories to fit models of dynamic behavior (polymerization and depolymerization velocities, catastrophe and rescue frequencies). It also computes statistics such as length and lifetime distributions when analyzing more than one movie (batch mode).
- Click Help ▶ Update....
- Click the Manage update sites button.
- Select the MTrack update site in the list.
- Click Close and then click Apply changes.
- Restart Fiji.
- Launch the plugin with Plugins ▶ MTrack.
Module 1 - Microtubule Detection & Tracking
A typical dataset consists of a single two-dimensional (2d) image of the non-dynamic microtubule seeds followed by a 2d time-lapse of the dynamically growing microtubules (Note1). The file format can be any format readable by Fiji/Bioformats (.tif, .nd2, … ). To run the tracker select Plugins › MTrack › Tracking
The welcome panel will open.
Choose Mode
For a first analysis of your data, we suggest using the simple mode, in which we have pre-selected a number of parameters. In case you are unsatisfied with the outcome of the tracking you can use the advanced mode(MTrack) to fine-tune settings. When analyzing more than one movie, you can select batch mode(MTrack) and run many movies simultaneously. However, before running the program in batch mode, you have to at least run the program once in single or advanced mode to select and save the required parameters. The following intro is on simple mode.
Select Movie
Next, the user selects the movie. The movie to be uploaded in the original movie coming out of the microscope. Object recognition of Microtubules requires a preprocessed movie and such a preprocessed movie is only used for locating where the microtubules are in the image and not for end-points detection, which is always performed on the original image. The user has the option to either perform a flat-field correction and apply a median filter of chosen radius or user can also upload their own preprocessed movie. (Read more about Preprocessing(MTrack)). For the movie type choose one of the three supported options:
- Two channel image as hyper stack (both channels in one image)
- Concatenated seed image followed by time-lapse images
- Single channel time-lapse images
Please choose an output file name and directory. The trajectory files will be written as .txt files. By default trajectories will be saved in the current working directory with the name of the movie.
Microscope Parameters
The program automatically reads the metadata shown as pixel size (micrometer in x and y) and frame rate (in seconds). If the metadata could not be read properly, the user can change the values. In addition, the user is asked to enter the Sigma(X) and Sigma(Y) of the Point-Spread-Function (PSF) of the microscope in pixel units see here for more explanation. For your convenience, our software comes with an inbuilt PSF analyzer tool, which can optionally determine the PSF of your microscope from bead images by fitting a Gaussian function.
As mentioned before, for recognizing microtubules in the image, preprocessing is essential, we provide the user with an option to do pseudo-flat field correction and to apply a median filter of certain radius (e.g. r=2 pixels). Optionally user can load their own preprocessed movie. Please note that this blurring will not be used during subsequent tracking.
Press Next to proceed, and 3 screens and one panel will open. They show the original movie, the preprocessed movie, and the "active image", which representing the seeds and is typically the first frame of the movie. Every successfully recognized seed will be marked with a red ellipse.
MSER parameters
The default algorithm to identify the seeds as objects is called Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSER) [1].Read more about MSER parameters. If seeds are not recognized or two very close seeds are recognized as one, the user can change the MSER parameters using the adjustable sliders. The effect will be displayed live on the "active image". Once most seeds are correctly recognized as objects, click "Find endpoints" to detect the ends of each seed with sub-pixel accuracy.
The end-points will be displayed as green circles and a "Next" button appears on the panel which allows the user to flip to the next panel.
In this panel the user will see some options before starting the tracking. They are described in this section
Deselect and select ends
Before starting the actual tracking of the dynamically growing microtubules, the program will give you several options. Before choosing endpoints to remove or add you check all frames of the movie by moving the slider in the "Deselect and select ends" dialog. Select or deselect ends. If an end was wrongly recognized or two points are too close to each other you can deselect an end by left clicking on it in the image (will appear as pink circle instead of green). The program will remember and allow to re-select this end by clicking left click again near to the end point of interest (the pink circle becomes green again). In case an end has not been recognized or a randomly nucleated end has to be selected, use Shift + left click to select a user defined end (orange circle will mark the end). Making a left click near the user defined seed end deselects it and marks it as red, the user can make as many clicks to select the ends they want to. Read more on microtubule polarity and (+) end vs. (-) end tracking.
Select time
The tracking is performed from the first frame till the end frame by default, if the user however wishes to alter the start and the end frame of tracking they can do so here. The tracking will then be performed from the user chosen start frame till the user chosen end frame.
Click on confirm seed ends and track button to start the tracking. The program displays yellow ellipses showing the marked seeds that are being tracked, red ellipses mark seeds, which won"t be tracked. Green circles mark ends to be tracked. Orange circles mark user defined ends and will be tracked. The actual tracking is performed "live" (progress bar will show the current time in relation to the end time-point). A crosshair will show the current position of the found end on each marked microtubule end. A faint grey line is also drawn along the detected track enabling the user to ensure the correctness of the tracks obtained by the program.
At the end of tracking a Log file will appear with the message to inform the user about the end of tracking and about the text files written with the track information. The results are also displayed as two movies, the "Track ID" movie, which can be used to link the trajectories to individual microtubules and an "Overlay movie", in which the user can recapitulate the tracking. The trajectory of each end is individually saved as .txt file and numbered according to the track ID.
Save parameters
After successful tracking, the user has the option to save the program parameters, so that the movie can be run (again) in batch mode. This choice can also be made without doing the tracking after just making the parameter selection. Clicking on this button triggers the close of the program and saves the program parameters in IJ.log file of FIJI, this close of program is done to ensure that the log file is properly updated by FIJI.
Click here for some example tracks.
Module 2- Microtubule dynamics
Microtubules show a dynamic behavior known as dynamic instability, which is characterized by four parameters (1) polymerization velocity (vp, nm/sec), (2) depolymerization velocity (vd, nm/sec), (3) catastrophe frequency (fcat, sec-1), and (4) rescue frequency (fres, sec-1). Using the trajectories created in Module 1 (The .txt file contains frame number, total length (in px and μm), track ID, x and y position (pixel and μm) and the length increment from the previous frame (px and micrometer). Module 2 derives these dynamic parameters by fitting models using RANSAC. (Read more on MTrack-RANSAC models).
If not forwarded by Module 1, Module 2 can be selected by Plugins › MTrack › Rate Analyzer
The panel that opens will allow the user to select individual files containing trajectories displayed as length versus time plots on which RANSAC fits a model of microtubule dynamics using the default parameters. Read more about the MTrack-RANSAC parameters. If the default parameters work well, the user can save the estimated dynamic parameters of the microtubule, which will appear as a results table.
After the user has gone through certain files in the table shown in the panel below they can click "compile results till current file" in which case average growth/shrink rates and a count of each growth and shrink event along with catastrophe and rescue frequency for each trajectory is computed and stored in the current directory. Program creates two files labelled "Allrates.txt" and "Allaverages.txt", in the first file it contains the information about the start and end time and rates of each growth and shrink events along with the trajectory filename for easy identification of to which movie does the computation belongs to. In the second file it contains the averaged rate and frequency information of each trajectory analyzed up to then.
If the user wishes to use the same parameter selection for all the files and obtain the "Allrates" and "Allaverages" text files without individually selecting the parameters for each they can then simply click "Auto fit and compile results" button, which would do the Ransac fits on all the trajectory files listed on the table and save the two results file in the current directory.
After completing the analysis for one directory of trajectory files the user can again select another directory and all the tracker generated files will be updated in the table. Now the user can repeat the same process as above for analysis of these set of files and continue to compile results for as many directory of files as they wish to.MTrack-Ransac fits.
- ↑ Robust wide-baseline stereo from maximally stable extremal regions, J Matas, O Chum, M Urban, T Pajdla Image and vision computing 22 (10), 761-767.


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Got my 2011 RT listed in cycle trader.com and craigslist. (baltimore)
Its been an "interesting" lesson in the fine art of internet weirdos, freaks and scammers, sprinkled in with a few legit LOCAL dudes, who low ball me of course.
Now i got a "nice" guy on the hook from CHICAGO...he wants the bike for my price, he even had a local bike guy come look at it who liked it too.
Now comes the matter of him actually getting the bike...He's got to have to get it shipped from Baltimore (he pays)...BUT obviously he's gotta pay me before the bike ships.
He wants to do escrow.com...(money is held by 3rd party until everyone is happy) i dont like it, reviews are not great, but i guess people use it. (for a fee about $200 he pays)...good news is he's not insisting on PAYPAL or Western Union
Just seems too complicated, simplest version is i want him to send me a $16K check, and when it clears he can have the bike.
BEST CASE: First one with a bag of cash wins bike!
He appears to be legit, but as you might expect, he has trust issues too!
This bike selling aint so easy.
Maybe i just answered my own questions... cash only and local
Any thoughts?
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Jake Hooker and the Outsiders will be back and swingin' this year at Bob Wills Day, this will be their 5th year in Turkey, Texas, and we couldn't be more excited to have him back. They will be performing on Friday night, from 9-12. Don't miss it.
Jake Hooker
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Jake Hooker was born listening to the sounds of traditional country music through his father's west Texas country band. Jake began playing the bass at the age of seven and practiced diligently until he mastered the honky tonk sound. Jake formed his own band at the age of 14 and began performing. By the age of 18, Jake was playing bass and singing full time. He spent some time at South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, studying music and theory. Jake moved to the Fort Worth area in 1998 where he quickly became the local favorite. Jake signed with Southland Records that same year and began recording. Jake's popularity continues to grow. His love and passion for traditional country music never ceases. He feels it is necessary to relay that love to the fans who are so dedicated to it as well. There is no doubt that Jake is strongly influenced by the sounds of Ray Price, Johnny Bush, Farron Young, Curtis Potter, Leon Rausch and Darrell McCall. He spends much of his spare time studying these artists' music in depth. Jake is consumed by his dedication to the music and his hobbies include playing the drums and learning the steel guitar. Jake's graceful and professional image on the bandstand, along with his voice and talented band, make his show unbeatable.
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Rick Price was raised on "real" country music. He was born in Niagara Falls, NY and from his earliest recollection his father always had the radio on, was playing records or just pickin' the guitar. Through his father influence he started playing steel guitar at the age of 16. Soon he was playing with local bands on week-ends. After a two year stint in the Army Rick moved to Nashville in 1969 and within a week was hired by Stonewall Jackson. Two days later he made his first appearance playing on the Grand Ole Opry. Rick was also privileged to be a part of the first "live" album ever recorded at the Ryman auditorium, the original home of the Grand Ole Opry (Stonewall Jackson Live at the Grand Ole Opry). While in Nashville, he also worked a year with the famous Dave Dudley. Rick moved to San Antonio in 1972 and began working with Johnny Bush and the Bandoleros until 1981. Since then he has worked with many great artists across the state of Texas including Moe Bandy, Darrell McCall and Justin Trevino. Rick has also recorded with many different artists and singers. Rick brings many positive and professional attributes to the band - we are very lucky to have him on our team!
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At age six, Jess Meador 'found his calling' when he started fiddle lessons with world champion fiddler Dale Morris, Sr. When Jess was about ten he fell in love with the Western Swing Music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys and the honky-tonk sounds of greats Ray Price, Johnny Bush, and Faron Young. This sparked his desire to not be just a 'breakdown player' but to 'play in a band'. Luckily he was given this chance. At age 10 Jess got his first band job with Aris Cook. Needless to say he was the smallest band member but held his own and hasn't missed a beat since. When Jess was about 12 he also began playing with Bill Gilbert and 'The Boys' at Bill's famous Wednesday Night Jam. This jam was the 'icing on the cake' to further his love for playing swing and the oldies and is what stirred his interest to play jazz. No doubt all these experiences in his early playing years contributed to the successful career that he has today. Now, about twelve years from his first lesson, Jess is a favorite among the honky-tonk and dancehall crowds in the North Texas area and is noted for his versatility, ability to improvise, and also to play twin fiddle and two- and three-part harmony. Jess has been a regular band member for Tommy Hooker, Landon Dodd, Johnny Bush; Dan Roberts; Kinneth Doyle; Dave Alexander; and the Texas Tumbleweeds Swing Band. Plus he is a fill-in for many others including Tommy Allsup and the Texas Playboys, Durwood Strube, Jerry Webb, Bubba Cox, and Chad Rueffer. He has made duo and trio appearances with greats Devon Dawson, Randy "Snuffy" Elmore, Rich O'Brien, Buck Reams, and others. In addition to the four-string and five-string fiddle, Jess plays the electric mandolin and guitar. He also does session work. Jess has won many awards and honors including Texas State Junior Fiddle Champion, Junior World Fiddle Champion, the Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering Champion Fiddler, and the Cowtown Society of Western Swing' Rising Star Awards. Needless to say, he is a REAL asset to the Outsiders and we are so excited and proud to have him on board!
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John knew at the age of nine that he had a huge interest in the drums. He began his career by pounding out Bob Wills "Bottle Baby Boogie" on his mothers decorative Indian drums. Although his tempos weren't exactly right, he knew he liked what he heard! Growing up John choose to surround himself with some of the best musicians in Texas such as Jody Nix, Jason Roberts, Robert Weeks, Rocky King, Jake Hooker and the BEST drummer ever, John "Smiley" Reynolds. These gentlemen showed John "The Rules" of REAL country music. It did not hurt that he was a third generation drummer. John's Grandfather, Pete Jenkins, as well as his parents, Terry and Emma Jenkins have been long supporters of Johns talent and interest in music. John feels that people like his uncle, Brad Jenkins, The GWZ Band, and the Dancehall Cowboys guided him and helped pave the way for him to become an Outsider. John's hard work and dedication has paid off – he is finally where he needs to be and Jake and the boys are very proud to have him as part of the band


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Laura Mericer Under Eye Perfecter
The Laura Mericer Under Eye Perfecter intrigued me, its marketed as "a unique cream designed to help conceal, awaken and provide complete coverage for even the most intense dark eye area".
I had not seen any reviews of the product when I bought this, but this did not stop me ordering it online having never seen it (you'll see this a common occurrence with a lot of my purchases).
It's the same size as the secret concealer and the colour is a pigmented warm peachy rose. The texture is smooth and not overly creamy so it doesn't go into any lines. To say I had my doubts is an understatement; as soon as I opened it I questioned my motivation for buying something called Mauve/Rose, in fact if I had to describe the worse sort of colour to exacerbate the darkness under my eyes this would probably be spot on.
So for your viewing delight I have taken a sequences of pictures for you, the first picture is with nothing on, the second with the eye Perfecter on one eye, the third with it blended in a bit and then the fourth picture with a normal coloured concealer placed over the top of both eye areas.
I would like to say at this point that it was not my intention to scare you and I do apologies if you have nightmares tonight of many eyes staring at you!
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Not much difference? Honestly I'm not really seeing an improvement; I've had this product for a while now and have tried putting on a tiny amount as well but still nothing. If you have this and I'm applying it incorrectly please let me know, otherwise I'm going to concede that this is a dud for me.
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Hmmm....it's not easy to see how this colour is supposed to work. From your pictures of it on and blended in it certainly adds colour but nothing lends itself to neutralising darkness. It's very strange. I think this is a dud and I would be very tempted to feedback to Laura Mercier.ReplyDelete
However, I do really want to know which concealer you have on in the final picture. That looks the biz!
Jane x
Im guessing you would have to be olive skinned or yellow toned (or yellow undereyed lol) to make this one work!ReplyDelete
Hmmm a toughie.. i dont see how that shade is supposed to help. Wish you could take it back and get something else!! xx
I think since it's a pinkish colour, it's supposed to neutralise blue or green undertones, which are often the undertones of people's undereye circles. But seeing as yours are quite pink, I would assume that you would need something greenish instead, to counteract the pink. Hope that helps.ReplyDelete
all I can say is that last picture, your undereyes are concealed so well, something's working! xxReplyDelete
Totally agree with Em, the last picture is great, wonderful concealing technique! Will tell you tomorrow if I get nightmares from your Replica-ting eyes!!!! Only got one LM thing in London... xxReplyDelete
Hi Jane,ReplyDelete
I did wonder to contact LM to ask if there was some magical technique but seems their contact stuff is US only.
I wearing my By Terry concealer in the last one, really like it but need something with more coverage.
Hello Tali,
Me too, I'd be interested to know if this shade does work for anyone, it would probably look better on the lips :)
Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for that, that does make sense, I've never thought to use a green corrector under my eyes and thinking about it Armani make one....
Hi Em,
Thanks ;) I just need more coverage really, I'm sure my circles always look worse because my skin is so light.
Welcome back Anna!!
have missed you, seems a long time, I can't wait to hear about what you bought. Thanks for the kind comment I just use a MAC 224 to blend it in x
Yep, I agree with Em and Anna.ReplyDelete
And I might be in the minority here, but I think that the eye with the LM product on looks perhaps slightly more "evenly" smooth. Although, it kind of defeats the purpose as you wanted something with more coverage, not to simply add a step to your routine...
Oh, and rest assured that I will sleep like a baby tonight :-)))
Nina x
PS Re green concealer, try (if possible) before you buy. I have battled redness all my life and have very rarely had success with green. It's rather tricky and if the consistency isn't JUST right it can have a very weird effect...I personally find yellow to give a better result if matched correctly.
Hi Nina,ReplyDelete
Thanks, I guess it might abit, although I wonder if that eye was better than the other eye to start with? Your spot on with it adding another step to my routine, I think it may have to go in the bin!
Thanks for the concealer tip,wouldn't want to look odd, best I stick to more yellow toned ones for eye areas x
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Oh please don't bin it, I'd love to try it out if it's just going to end up in the bin otherwise!ReplyDelete
As for the Green or Yellow correctors, Armani do both those shades and I can personally recommend them. They're amazing and last absolutely ages.
As daft as it may sound, just to test out which colour improves your undereye area the most, you could try a matt pale green or yellow eyeshadow? Just to see the effect the colour has.
Hi Naz,ReplyDelete
Thanks, I might look into the Armani yellow one, that eyeshadow test sounds good, although don't think I have a yellow shadow :)
I think I may give it another try but if its no good will let you know.
I honestly adore the Armani correctors, they're fab. Do let us know how you get on with it if you try it out! I don't have the green or yellow anymore (apricot is best for my skin) otherwise I would have sent you a sample or something.ReplyDelete
That's really sweet of you, thank you. Definately have a play around with it, I'm sure there is some way you could make it work! If not, let me know and I'm sure there is something I could get my hands on for you =)
wow, I don't know why you can't see it, but I see a huge improvement! the last photo, the eye with the Laura Mercier corrector has absolutely NO dark circle! your skin looks like it is the same even color everywhere. it looks perfect - in fact, when I run out of Bobbi Brown corrector I am getting this LM one. take a look at the photos again dear, the difference is there :)ReplyDelete
Hi Ashley,ReplyDelete
Thanks,I'm still not seeing it :) I wonder if the eye I used the LM on was not as bad as the other eye to begin with ? If you do get it please let me know as I'll be interested to know if it works for you x


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Ashley Judd could be one of the more annoying of the celebrity super-fans. It is adorable when famous people are so vocal about their teams, but screamin' Ashley just tends to overdo it a bit.
We get it. You love Kentucky. You wear tight shirts that say Kentucky across your boobs. Now stop yelling so much.
Moving on.
Judd went on the Dan Patrick show today to give the Calipari hire her blessing and the relayed a story about how she once almost broke an NCAA violation rule when she almost gave Tayshaun Prince's mother a ride.
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"I once offered Tayshaun Prince's mother a ride somewhere and someone came running up to me afterwards saying "Honey, you can't do that."… She's the most precious woman, she drove the public bus in the Nashville Public Transit System and didn't get to see Tayshaun play very much at at all…and I was going to be going over to the Kentucky game at the University of Tennessee, I offered her a ride and Sandy Bell, our NCAA officer…she just hustled her rear end right up to me and said "Babe, you cannot do that."
In the movie remake of this, Tayshaun Prince's mother will have some skeletons in her closet that the unassuming Ashley Judd won't find out about until it's too late. Sandy Bell will be played by Morgan Freeman.
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Building on the previous, add question 15: Does your team only hear what they want to hear? I'm assuming these are questions where the correct answer is 'no.' If I'm incorrect (e.g. there's a good reason to not pay close attention to the answer and move quickly to the next question) I'd enjoy hearing further explanation of the point.
Agree with David's observation - the questions need to be re-worded. Also, this article does not effectively address the need to assess your relationship with the buyer and influencers in the organization. Perhaps this is assumed to be a part of the intell gathering process. The survey should specifically address an organization's relationship with the agency.
A yes answer to two of the questions would appear to be a negative rather than a positive. ■Are you not paying close attention to what is being said and giving answers little thought and quickly moving to the next question? A yes answer here seems bad to me. ■Is your team forever gathering intell but never executing on it? It also seems that a yes to this would be negative.
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Kenya trained at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington DC from 2002 to 2006 on a full scholarship. He continued his training in 2006 at John Cranko Ballet School Academy. The following year, he undertook a professional training programme at Ellison Ballet in New York. In 2002, Kenya won the third prize at the Youth America Grand Prix and in 2004, won the third prize at the International Competition in Vienna. He was also awarded the Award of Encouragement at the World Ballet Competition in 2007.
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Mohaqiq remarks against national interest: Senate
Mohaqiq remarks against national interest: Senate
KABUL (Pajhwok): A number of Meshrano Jirga or upper house members on Sunday came hard on second deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq for supporting Afghans fighting in Syria.
According to reports, Mohaqiq during his visit to Tehran, the capital of Iran, in a meeting praised Gen. Qasim Sulaiman, a leader of Lashkar-i-Fatimyun in Syria and soldiers including Afghans fighting in that country.
Sulaiman is one of the founders of Fatimiyun Brigade in Syria and he has encouraged Afghan refugees in Iran to take part in Syrian war.
"I thank all the warriors who cooperated in these wars from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other parts of the world, who attended the wars. In fact it was the war of Islam against infidelity and against the conspiracies of the world arrogance," Mohaqiq had said.
However, senators during Sunday's session criticized the deputy CEO for his statements.
Senator Mohammad Hanif Hanafi said Mohaqiq's statements were against the national interests and Afghan politicians should not encourage their people into fighting in others' wars.
He said the remarks could produce bad consequences and the Afghans should not be dragged into foreign wars.
Senate chairman Fazal Hadi Muslimyar said: "I did not hear Mr. Mohaqiq's statements, but I was affected when Hanafi talked about it, the deputy CEO has really made a mistake."
He said Mohaqiq had encouraged the Afghans to fight in the Syria war which he called dangerous than cancer.
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I've mentioned this before, but when it comes to wine gadgets I only review those products that I can see myself using in real life. I'm sure that the magnetic ring that goes around the neck of a bottle will align my chi properly, but personally, I'm not interested. However, this item piqued my curiosity...
I got a chance recently to try out the ChillinJoy, a specialty bag for chilling, cooling, or simply insulating a standard 750mL bottle of wine (or any similar-sized bottle containing the beverage of your choice). Inside the bag are three pockets that hold blue freezer gel packs, and the gel packs can be removed so you don't have to put the entire bag in the freezer.
You can use it to chill a bottle of wine, but where it works best is maintaining a constant temperature of a cool wine. Think picnics, think concerts in the park, think keeping that white Burgundy at the right temperature en route to a dinner party (and through the appetizer and soup course, allowing it to be perfect with the smoked trout). It should also be noted that during the weekday you can use it to keep a bottle of water, tea, or your soft drink of choice cool while you're at work.
The ChillinJoy is made out of real Neoprene--the same thing quality dive suits are made from--and it features a handy detachable shoulder strap. Additionally there are two Velcro-enclosed pouches on either side that allow for storage of various wine gadgets, bottles of bitters, whatever you need to pack for a trip. But all that aside, my favorite feature is the hole in the top that allows the neck of the bottle to protrude. This has a negligible impact on temperature, but does permit you to pour and serve the wine without removing it from the bag. While this doesn't allow you to show off the label to your friends, it's not really an issue for the casual whites and sparklers you might enjoy on a hiking trip, for instance.
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Donny Schatz won his fifth Knoxville Nationals Saturday night at the 51st running of the top sprint car event in the world. Schatz dominated the last half of the 50 lap race and took home the $150,000 top prize.
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Strategic Collapse at the Army War College
If you know your enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
This famous maxim by the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is familiar to every student of military science and strategy. His counsel is simple: understand your enemy, understand yourself. Nearly eight years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, however, important segments of our military infrastructure dedicated to training and educating the next generation of military leaders have woefully failed to heed Sun Tzu's advice. Two recent blog posts by Washington Post military correspondent Tom Ricks related to policies and publications by the U.S. Army War College give evidence to this strategic collapse in the War on Terror.
Two weeks ago, Ricks reported on a new publication by Army War College research professor Sherifa Zuhur on Hamas and Israel that informs readers that Hamas has been misunderstood due to the misreporting by "Israeli and Western sources that villainize the group." Zuhur concludes that Hamas isn't so bad after all, so we all just need to get along and embrace the terrorist group through negotiations -- a view apparently endorsed by the Army War College when it published her defense of Hamas.
A second post last week, "Fiasco at the Army War College: The Sequel," records an exchange between Ricks and defense expert and author Mark Perry. Assessing the academic state of affairs at the War College, Perry informed Ricks:
It's worse than you think. They have curtailed the curriculum so that their students are not exposed to radical Islam. Akin to denying students access to Marx during the Cold War.
This is hardly the first complaint that the military has failed to investigate and assess the strategic writings related to radical Islam and Islamic war doctrine. William Gawthrop, former head of the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the Defense Department's Counterintelligence Field Activity, says in a military intelligence journal article that:
As late as early 2006, the senior service colleges of the Department of Defense had not incorporated into their curriculum a systematic study of Muhammad as a military or political leader. As a consequence, we still do not have an in-depth understanding of the war-fighting doctrine laid down by Muhammad, how it might be applied today by an increasing number of Islamic groups, or how it might be countered. ("The Sources and Patterns of Terrorism in Islamic Law," The Vanguard: Journal of the Military Intelligence Corps Association, 11:4 [Fall 2006], p. 10)


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Liam Neeson has said that he recorded a cameo as Qui-Gonn Jinn, which was to feature in a scene with Yoda, further explaining the concept of a Jedi communicating from beyond the grave. In the script, the dialog (in which Qui-Gonn is heard, not seen) appeared in the scene in which Yoda is meditating on the secret asteroid base just before Bail Organa informs him of Obi-Wan's return with Padme. The scene does not appear in the deleted scenes section of the DVD, nor does it appear in any known release of the film.
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Objectives: This activity supports the development of one of The Five Leadership Practices®: Encouraging the Heart. Participants must truly experience Encouraging the Heart in order to understand it and, therefore, this is not an intellectual exercise of PowerPoint demonstrations and talking heads. Rather, this is very hands-on. I like using this activity toward the end of a The Leadership Challenge® Workshop as it leaves people, just before they depart, squarely in the place of their hearts.
This activity is designed to help participants:
- Practice story telling
- Practice listening for strengths and giving strength-based feedback
- Learn things about their co-workers they would never have learned otherwise and, as a result, strengthen the relationships forever!
Audience: All audiences. Particularly suited for colleagues, teammates, co-workers and any group of people that works together.
Time Required: One hour -1 ½ hours depending on the number of people in each small group. Plan for approximately 10 minutes per person.
Materials Needed/Setup: Mailing labels (blank, adhesive-back, peel-off; one full sheet per person); one piece of colored paper per person.
Process: Set up small groups of five to seven people. Individual participants within each group are asked to reflect on one success in their life (e.g., a success with people, in relationships; an interest such as sports, music, or hobby; a project, task, or event that is work or volunteer related). After five minutes of reflection, one person in each group begins to tell his or her success story. The others in the small group listen for strengths underlying the story and write down those strengths on the mailing labels provided (one strength per label; a minimum of three identified strengths/three labels per person). When the storyteller has finished, each listener in the group-one by one-provides positive strengths feedback. The storyteller places all completed strengths labels on the colored sheet of paper. The process is repeated with the remaining members of the group as storyteller.
Debrief: Five minutes in small groups discussing what each participant learned from this exercise about Encouraging the Heart, followed by five minutes as a large group reviewing and considering some of the themes that surfaced as a result of the small group discussions.
Facilitator Tips: The facilitator needs to model this activity by telling a success story, asking the group to listen for strengths underlying the story, and then hear a sampling of a few strengths the group heard.
Instructions for this exercise need to be followed exactly. Everyone needs to complete the exercise-both receiving and giving strength-based feedback.
It is a good idea to ask one person in each of the small groups to be a time keeper: five minutes for each storyteller and five minutes for the group to provide positive feedback.
Variations: none
Lillas Hatala is a coach, author, and leadership development facilitator with Integrative Leadership International Ltd.


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EVERETT — As a pastor, he has been present to others for countless transitions in their lives.
Baptisms and preschool chapel times, marriages and ministries at elder care facilities, Pastor Jack Richards has presided over many milestones since being ordained 36 years ago.
Those aren't always joyous times. Once, Richards said, a congregation member asked if he would be there when an elderly parent was asked to permanently give up driving.
Richards, 62, is retiring this month as pastor of Everett's Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, where he has served since 2007. His final services as pastor at the Eastmont area church will be Sept. 22.
Before coming to Prince of Peace, Richards spent 14 years as pastor of Marysville's Bethlehem Lutheran Church. For three previous years, he was chaplain at Bethany at Silver Lake, a senior care facility. And from 1976 to 1990, he served at Lutheran parishes in rural Minnesota and North Dakota.
"I've had the privilege of being in urban, rural and suburban settings," he said Thursday.
A new pastor, Gib Botten of Fremont, Neb., will soon take over at Prince of Peace, which has a membership of about 300. The church was built in 1958, when the Eastmont neighborhood was new.
Richards isn't about to quit serving in other ways. He is part of the Everett Police Department Chaplaincy Program, volunteering as an on-call chaplain. He plans to continue that work.
There are about six volunteer chaplains in the police program. "We'll get called out when there's a tragedy, at the officer's discretion," Richards said. "We're there for the officers, too."
In retirement, he will have more time for his wife, Joneen, who worked as a Spanish teacher in the Shoreline district, and for his children and grandchildren.
His transition out of full-time ministry coincides with another church milestone. Prince of Peace Preschool, part of the church complex, is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Prince of Peace Preschool's first classes were held in September 1973. There were 50 children and one teacher. By 1974, the preschool had a waiting list.
Michelle Nilsen has been Prince of Peace Preschool's director six years. For 30 years, that job belonged to Sue Baxter. A 40th anniversary preschool open house is scheduled for Oct. 5.. Nilsen hopes to see anyone who attended over the past four decades, and former teachers.
Today, Prince of Peace Preschool has six satellites at area churches, with about 350 students in all. Other established church preschools — including Everett's Central Lutheran and Marysville's Bethlehem Lutheran — began as satellites of the Prince of Peace program.
Nilsen, 55, said that with today's emphasis on academics in the early grades, preschool matters more than ever. "Kindergarten isn't kindergarten anymore, it's more like first grade," she said.
At Prince of Peace Preschool, 3-year-olds "are just learning how to learn," she said. Four-year-olds learn the alphabet, numbers, and much more.
As pastor, Richards has gotten down on the floor with 3-year-olds at chapel time. That has happened on days when he also visited a dementia unit at Bethany. It's all part of a pastor's life, which for Richards began when he was a lay minister in Minneapolis 40 years ago.
Raised in the Elgin-Dundee area near Chicago, Richards graduated from Augustana College, a Lutheran school in Rock Island, Ill. He went on to Northwestern Lutheran Seminary in St. Paul, Minn.
He laughs when he recalls being "a city kid" as a young pastor in rural Minnesota. Once when he visited a farmer from his church, he found the man in a barn. Richards was pressed into duty — helping as a cow gave birth.
"Anyplace I've been, I've received much more than I've given," Richards said.
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Prince of Peace Lutheran Church Pastor Jack Richards is retiring. His last services as the church pastor will be at 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sept. 22; those services will be followed by an 11:30 a.m. potluck reception.
Prince of Peace Preschool is celebrating its 40th anniversary. An open house is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Oct. 5 in the church's Fellowship Hall. All students, former students and staff welcome. Prince of Peace Lutheran Church &Preschool is at 9320 Meadow Way, Everett. Information: www.pplc.org


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By Carol Hildebrand
By now it's clear that migrating IT workloads to cloud databases can be a good move. Even small, incremental shifts can deliver real payback in terms of provisioning speed, performance, and costs, which helps explain why companies like GE are aggressively moving to the cloud.
But what does "moving to the cloud" look like for a company like yours? From Oracle's experience, it's a multistep process that begins with quick-win use cases. These can provide immediate benefits, but just as important, help your company develop expertise in moving workloads to the cloud.
Here are three first-step use cases for Oracle Database Cloud that we see companies using, and that you can try now:
Oracle Database Insight Forum: Learn about the future of your database, on premises and in the cloud.
In a world where 87 percent of enterprises update or release mobile apps every six months or less, speed matters. Oracle constantly hears from IT department leads who can no longer provision new environments fast enough for lines of business that want to test new applications and introduce new functionality. Cloud database services let those companies provision databases in minutes instead days or weeks.
Moving dev-test to the cloud lightens IT's burden in other ways. Automated backup and maintenance provided by the cloud vendor frees up DBA time, and elastic capacity lets developers easily add more storage or computing power as needed. Developers can then devote more time where the company needs it: to tech innovation. In one recent case, Zamil Industrial Investment Company's move to Oracle Database Cloud Service freed the equivalent of two full-time IT workers from database maintenance and backups. The company now has two more IT experts to focus on business goals like streamlining business processes or integrating important business applications.
With such clear benefits, Oracle's leaders are betting that the trend toward dev-test in the cloud will continue. Oracle CEO Mark Hurd predicts that 100 percent of software development-testing will be cloud-based by 2025.
Each release of Oracle Database contains a substantial amount of new technology.
Maria Colgan, master product manager for Oracle Database In-Memory, says the cloud is a low-risk way to try new technology. (0:35)
You can try it out by building an on-premises 'sandbox' environment to explore the new software, but that means purchasing a license to software that the company may or may not deploy—essentially pulling the trigger on an investment before you know whether you want it or not.
Using the cloud to build a sandbox exploratory environment obviates the costs and risks involved with an on-premises version, and simultaneously introduces developers to cloud-based database services. For example, Surdell and Partners created a sandbox on Oracle Cloud to learn to use multitenant databases to manage many databases as a single unit.
"This gives organizations the ability to test specific features, such as multitenant or in-memory, by trying them out in the cloud for a month or so," says Maria Colgan, master product manager for Oracle Database In-Memory.
"A lot of our customers are getting ready to do the migration to Oracle Database 12c," says Colgan. "By being able to try a pilot project in the cloud, their commitments in terms of time and resources are a lot less, and it gives them faster access to the latest release," she says. "This ultimately results in faster, more effective deployment across the company."
A lot of our customers are getting ready to do the migration to Oracle Database 12c. By being able to try a pilot project in the cloud, their commitments in terms of time and resources are a lot less.
—Maria Colgan, master product manager, Oracle Database In-Memory
Moving data to the cloud is "a great opportunity to try out and adopt a new technology like Oracle Database In-Memory by doing it in the cloud," says Colgan. The benefits of in-memory analytics, she says, center on speed of analysis. "Reports that once took hours and days to run can now run in minutes or seconds."
This blink-of-an-eye performance is made possible without having to funnel data to a separate database or make any changes to your current business applications. "Without changing one line of code in your applications, you can see what it's like to be a real-time business," says Colgan.
With these three quick-win use cases, and many, many others, database as a service is widely regarded as a high-growth sector—with 451 Research expecting the market to reach $1.8 billion by 2016, and an expected enterprise adoption rate of more than 70 percent.


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Blake Lively's girl drama cost her a job
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I've heard the term "winter fish kill." What is it and why does it happen?
Linda – Stockbridge, MI
A winter fish kill occurs when your pond or lake becomes uninhabitable for aquatic life and a large number of fish pass away. Winter is the most common time for a fish kill because the long, harsh conditions of the season deplete the oxygen content of the water.
Prolonged ice cover on your pond or lake seals off the water from the air and prevents oxygenation of the water. Ice and snow cover also prevent sunlight from reaching your pond plants. Pond plants normally produce extra oxygen for your pond via photosynthesis. Finally, decomposing organic matter in your pond releases toxic gases that can't escape from under the ice.
Eventually the competition for the limited supply of oxygen in the pond becomes too great. The fish suffocate and a winter fish kill occurs.
The good news is that winter fish kills are preventable. There are many things you can do as a pond and lake owner to maintain proper oxygen levels in your pond. First and foremost, invest in a good Aeration System. Aeration is the process of circulating air through water and it's critical for overall pond health. A second option is to add beneficial bacteria products like MuckAway™ or PondClear™ to your pond or lake before the winter season. Beneficial bacteria digest accumulated decomposing organic matter in your pond and convert it to a harmless, odorless gas.
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Jose has 'plan C' if Rooney pursuit fails
Jose Mourinho says that "nothing has changed" in Chelsea's pursuit of Wayne Rooney, but that the club have a "plan B and C" if Manchester United remain steadfast in their refusal to sell.
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The Portuguese coach has pursued Rooney all summer and openly talked about the prospect of the transfer, but was a little less willing to discuss other potential targets.
Chelsea sources have informed ESPN that the club are interested in Samuel Eto'o -- despite the fact no formal contact has yet been made -- and Galatasaray's Buruk Yilmaz.
It is understood that there is an increasing acceptance at Stamford Bridge that United will not sell Rooney, but Mourinho admitted they are still interested.
"Nothing changed," the coach said, as he was then asked why the club keep chasing a player despite two previous bids being rejected.
"It is the same reason why other clubs do the same with our players. When you think that you'd like to have one player and the market is open and the official bids are not forbidden, official bids are always accepted in an ethical way, you try because nobody forbids you to try. Of course the players' owners can do exactly what we did with David Luiz and Barcelona. It's simple."
When questioned on whether he has a "plan B", Mourinho quickly stated "and C". Those are understood to be Eto'o and Yilmaz.
He said: "We trust a lot in our project. But we have conditions to try and improve our team with one more player and we will try until the end."
The Chelsea manager also said he agreed with Newcastle boss Alan Pardew's comments that the transfer window is open for too long.
He added: "At a certain point I agree with what Pardew was saying yesterday, that the transfer window goes too far, into the third and fourth fixture of the season. I agree that it's too much but it gives everybody a chance to be in the market while we are still winning or losing points."
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The Business Advisory Board
Ambassador Raymond Flynn
Ambassador Flynn was educated at Providence College, where he was an All American basketball player; He served the people of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives from 1971 until 1978, and the Boston City Council from 1978 until 1983. From 1984 until 1993 he served as the most popular Mayor in the history of Boston. He also served as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Mayors Committee on Hunger and Homelessness.
In 1993 President Bill Clinton appointed him as United States Ambassador to the Holy See. Since the completion of his term as ambassador in 1997, he worked tirelessly to encourage and foster responsible citizenship through appearances on local and national radio and television, and in the press. Ambassador Flynn is a public relations advisor to Stemtech in matters of social responsibility.
Spencer M. Reese, Esq.
Mr. Reese graduated from Colorado College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and worked in the insurance industry before attending the Washington University School of Law. Graduating with a J.D., he began his legal practice in the areas of environmental law and commercial litigation in Boise, Idaho.
Mr. Reese is a member of the Utah, Idaho, Colorado and Missouri bars, and is an active member of the Direct Selling Association's Lawyers Council and the Government Relations Committee. He has served as in-house counsel in the Direct Selling industry and has advised many companies in the industry. Mr. Reese is a Stemtech legal advisor in matters of Direct Selling laws and DSA regulations.
A. Wes Siegner, Esq.
Mr. Siegner is an attorney with Hyman, Phelps and McNamara, having received his B.A. degree from Brown University and Masters degree in biology from the University of Minnesota, prior to receiving his law degree from Cornell University.
He has served as legal counsel and public relations spokesperson for dietary supplement trade associations and as a registered lobbyist on federal and state legislative issues. Mr. Siegner is a Stemtech legal advisor for FDA and FTC compliance issues.


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Pave paradise? Greenbelt trail asphalted
The city is spiffing up the Greenbelt trail near Riverview Park, but not everyone loves idea of a mile's worth of asphalt along the Rivanna River.
"It wasn't my first choice," says Woolen Mills resident Peggy Van Yahres. "I liked it the old way. It looked natural."
Neighbor Kay Slaughter also preferred the old trail, which was tar-and-gravel. "I wanted it improved enough so that people can use it," says Slaughter, "but keep it natural."
City parks official Pat Plocek says the old trail was breaking up and was no longer handicapped-accessible because of potholes. "This is a safer surface," he says.
The $111,000 paving project, which began March 22, will cost the city $11,000 after a $100,000 state trails grant.
"We bid it out last fall and got a $200,000 bid because pavers were backed up from all the rain," explains Plocek. "We saved over $100,000 by waiting."
The original section of Greenbelt stretches from Riverview Park to Free Bridge. Another unimproved half-mile of trail stretches north of the bridge to the VFW Lodge on River Road, and neighborhood development chief Jim Tolbert says a federal Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) grant is in the works to pave that as well.
Plocek met with Woolen Mills residents, who nixed the idea of a 10-foot wide asphalt trail, although that would have met federal standards. "There are parts that would have to stay eight feet because of the rock ridge on one side and the river on the other," concedes Plocek.
Trail frequenters like Van Yahres and Slaughter are resigned to their freshly paved paradise. "Over time, it will mellow," predicts Van Yahres.
"Once it's flooded a couple times and has sand on it, this stuff is likely to break up," says Slaughter.
She points out that the resurfaced trail will be good for people who like to rollerblade. Will the former mayor take up rollerblading? "No," says Slaughter, who decries improvements that "don't actually improve."
Plocek, however, doesn't think the asphalt surface detracts from the park-like setting along the river and the view of the ducks. "It's picturesque," he says.


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spewing wntjng Accounting August Robert E. Wailes, Jr. (Birmingham) Junior high school students meeting sponsored by IRS and Alabama CPA Society, Birmingham. "Business Organization and Accounting." September James L. McGregor (Executive) American Management Association seminar on international accounting problems, New York. "National Variations in Accounting." Bennett S. Robinson (Los Angeles) California CPA Society, West Valley chapter, Tarzana. "Rule 58." October E. Robert Billings (Executive) North Carolina CPA Association, Greensboro. "Business Combinations." Francis P Carolan (Philadelphia) University of Pennsylvania tax conference, Philadelphia. "Accounting Elections- Old and New." Hugh M. Eggan (Executive) Financial Executives Institute, Jacksonville. "The New Accounting for Business Combinations and Goodwill." EmmettS. Harrington (Executive) Pennsylvania CPA Institute and Pennsylvania State University, University Park. "Important Issues Being Discussed by the Accounting Principles Board." Norbert J. Janis (San Juan) Puerto Rico CPA Institute, San Juan. 'Accounting Principles Board Opinions 16 and 17—Business Combinations and Intangible Assets." Jerry W. Kolb (Chicago) Illinois CPA Society, Western chapter, Rock Island. "Business Combinations and Goodwill." November Richard C. Drayson (Honolulu) Rotary Club of Kahului, Maui, Hawaii. 'Interim Financial Reporting." Thomas Y. Hartley (Columbus) Ohio University graduate school seminar, Athens. "The Public Accountant and the SEC." Auditing April John E Utley (Executive) Public Utilities Fortnightly, April 23, 1970. 'Yet Another View of Interest During Construction." August John D. McClellan (Executive MAS) Public Utilities Fortnightly, August 27, 1970. "The Ups and Downs of Weather Adjustments." September Kenneth W Allen (Chicago) American Management Association, Inc., course for staff auditors, Chicago. 'Cooperation of Internal Audit Staff With Public Accountants—Area of Savings." Loyd E Armstrong (Houston) Texas CPA Society, Fort Worth chapter. 'Purchase, Sale and Liquidation of a Corporate Business." Clyde F Brennan (Houston) The New York CPA, September 1970. 'Planning Your Client's First Audit." Robert E Dickey (Chicago) Joint convention of American Industrial Bankers Association and Federated Council of Sales Finance Companies, Montreal. "Effective Lending to Finance Companies." Wallace E. Dolliver (Los Angeles) United California Bank in-bank training program, Los Angeles. "The CPA and His Clients' Financial Statements." Jack L. Elliott (Memphis) The Practical Accountant, September- October 1970. "Preparing a Cash-Flow Forecast." William P Ewens (Los Angeles) Discussion leader, California CPA Foundation for Education and Research, Los Angeles. "Medicare Cost Report." William B. Mansfield (Denver) South Dakota Nursing Home Association, Mitchell. "Reimbursable Cost Reporting by Nursing Homes in the Title XIV Program of South Dakota." Harry R. Steele (Los Angeles) California CPA Foundation for Education and Research, Los Angeles. "1970 Medicare Workshop." Kenneth W Stringer (Executive) American CPA Institute annual meeting, New York. "Conceptual Aspects of Internal Control Evaluation." October Geddings R Barber, Jr. (Houston MAS) Association for systems management, Houston. "Haskins & Sells Auditape System." Peter Geleta (Philadelphia) Panelist at Pennsylvania CPA Institute second annual conference on local government auditing and accounting, Harrisburg. "Operating and Financing Authorities." Joseph P Healy (Philadelphia) Reliance Insurance Company bond training program, Philadelphia. "The Role of the Independent Auditor." Richard A. Johnson ( Richmond) Virginia Commonwealth University Accounting Club, Richmond. "Auditape— Key to the Computer." John E. Kuhn (Baltimore) Maryland CPA Association, Baltimore. 'Generally Accepted Auditing Standards." Fred M. Oliver (Salt Lake City) Pennsylvania CPA Institute local government auditing and accounting conference, Harrisburg. "A CPA Looks at Governmental Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting." John S. Pavlik (New Haven) New Haven College Accounting Club, West Haven. "Auditape—The Key to the Computer." Kenneth W Stringer ( Executive) Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co. seminar 1970, Brighton, England. "Statistical Sampling." November Harry L. Cramer (Jacksonville) Institute of Internal Auditors, Jacksonville. 'Haskins & Sells Auditape System." Taxation January Thomas J. Graves (San Francisco) Professional Responsibility in Federal Tax Practice, Chapter 8, January 1970. 'Responsibility of the Tax Adviser." March Richard V Leighton ( New York) The New York CPA, Federal Taxation Column, March 1970. "Step-Up in Basis and Reorganizations." May Richard V Leighton ( New York) The New York CPA, Federal Taxation Column, May 1970. "Possible Investment Credit Claim for Refund." Also "Non- Deductible Penalties Added by Tax Reform Act." Also "Planning for Basis Preservation in Satisfying Subsidiary Indebtedness to Parent in Step-Up Liquidation." June James H. Hinkle (Washington) New York State CPA Society, AICPA estate planning seminar, Syracuse. "Estate Planning for the Owner of a Closely Held Enterprise." Rudolph J. Niehus (Duesseldorf) TAXES—The Tax Magazine, June 1970 'The New German Merger Law."
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