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It was not the way the Colorado Rapids wanted to start the preseason, but then again, it was only the first preseason match.
The Rapids dropped their preseason opener 3-1 to the Portland Timbers on a cold and windy morning at the Kino Sports Complex in Tucson, Ariz. Portland received fantastic goals from Diego Valeri and Kalif Alhassan on each side of the half before Jose Valencia put the game out of reach. Rapids rookies Dillon Powers and Kory Kindle then set up fellow draft pick Deshorn Brown who headed in Colorado's only tally late in the match.
Not the result we wanted, but we'll continue to work at it and better ourselves..Let's keep going!#Rapids #OneClub— Drew Moor (@drewmoor) January 29, 2013
The first good chance for either side didn't come until the 23rd minute, when Rapids goalkeeper Matt Pickens sent free kick that was flicked into space by Atiba Harris. Kamani Hill let the ball bounce one, and, after his mark slipped, hit a dipping first-time shot from outside the arc that clanked off the crossbar.
Portland saw their first chance four minutes later and converted. Newcomer Diego Valeri, from a few yards from the left side of the box, curled in a free kick to the back post for the opening goal.
Both teams changed their entire starting 11 to begin the second half, and the young Rapids side quickly had a few chances on goal through the efforts of Andre Akpan and Deshorn Brown. But the player who stood out the most was trialist goalkeeper Jimmy Maurer, who made several acrobatic saves throughout the final 45 minute, despite surrendering two goals.
Hoy se perdió el juego contra portland,pero seguiremos trabajando fuerte y corrigiendo errores para llegar a un 100% al torneo— hendry thomas (@buchuca) January 29, 2013
Portland stretched their lead to 2-0 in the 63rd when Kalif Alhassan got on the end of a lose ball just inside the left corner of the box and hit a dipping shot over Mauer to the far net.
Valencia made it 3-0 in the 79th when he picked off center back Shane O'Neill's outlet pass and tucked in a shot passed the diving attempt by Maurer.
The Rapids SuperDraft picks then combined to draw one back in the 87th. Dillon Powers took a short ball from Andre Akpan and sent Kory Kindle down the left side. Kindle's cross to the far post was met by first pick Deshorn Brown, who leaped high to head in his first goal of the preseason.
Colorado's next preseason match is on Thursday against the Houston Dynamo.
Scoring Summary:
POR - Diego Valeri 28'
POR - Kalif Alhassan 63'
POR - Jose Valencia 79'
COL - Deshorn Brown 88'
Colorado Rapids lineup: Matt Pickens (Jimmy Maurer 46), Brian Mullan (Chris Klute 46), Drew Moor (Shane O'Neill 46), Diego Calderon (Nathan Sturgis 46), Anthony Wallace (Kory Kindle 46), Hendry Thomas (Nick LaBrocca 46), Pablo Mastroeni (Dillon Powers 46), Martin Rivero (Cesar Romero 44, Dillon Serna 46), Kamani Hill (Walter Martinez 46), Tony Cascio (Andre Akpan 46), Atiba Harris (Deshorn Brown 46)
NOTES: Brian Mullan started at right back...Marvell Wynne was held out with an ankle injury...Pablo Mastroeni played his first competitive match since March 18, 2012...Martin Rivero limped off the field late in the first half; we will provide an update on ColoradoRapids.com when we learn more.
Good to get the1st game under the belt! 1st step of a long journey!#teambuilding #oneclub #coloradorapids— Kamani Hill (@Kamani11) January 29, 2013


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A British businessman, who bought the Segway company less than a year ago, died after riding one of the scooters off a cliff and into a river near his Yorkshire estate.
Jim Heselden acquired the Segway company from its U.S. inventor Dean Kamen in December 2009.
According to the British media, Heselden, 62, plunged into the River Wharfe while riding a rugged country version of the two-wheeled transporter on Sunday.
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"Police were called at 11:40 a.m. yesterday to reports of a man in the River Wharfe, apparently having fallen from the cliffs above," a spokesman told The Daily Mail.
A Segway was recovered from the scene. "At this time we do not believe the death to be suspicious," the spokesman added.
Heselden was worth around $265 million and ranked 395th on the Sunday Times Rich List.
Leading philanthropist
On Sept. 18, the Yorkshire Post reported that Heselden had donated $36 million of his fortune to charity, making him one of Britain's leading philanthropists.
Most recently, he gave $15 million to the Leeds Community Foundation, which helps disadvantaged parts of the north of England city.
Heselden himself came from poor beginnings in Leeds and left school at the age of 15 to work in the mines.
He got his break in 1990 when he invented a concertina design for wire cage walls, which are used by the military to protect bases and also for flood protection. The headquarters of his firm, Hesco Bastion, is a short distance from Heselden's childhood home.
Heselden was appreciative of his good fortune, but always remembered his own tough beginnings.
"There are a lot of families out there who are struggling and a lot of youngsters who have grown up without role models and who can't get jobs," he told the Yorkshire Post.
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Jordanus Nemorarius
Born: 1225 in Borgentreich (near Warburg), Germany
Died: 1260 in At sea
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Jordanus Nemorarius is also called Jordanus de Nemore. He is someone who has been the subject of considerable research without any definite conclusions being reached about his life. Perhaps the most significant fact is a very negative one, namely that Jordanus de Nemore's name does not appear in any list of clerics so it is generally assumed that he was a layman. On the positive side we note that Richard de Fournival, who was Chancellor of the Cathedral of Amiens, made a list of works which were desirable for the Cathedral library in 1250 and four works by Jordanus appear.
There are two things which research has discovered which are controversial. One is a marginal note written on a manuscript which states:-
This is enough to say for the instruction of the students of Toulouse.This was, for quite some time, thought to have been written by Jordanus so proving that he taught at Toulouse. However Thomson, in [14], discounts the manuscript as being written by Jordanus and in this case there is no reason to associate him with Toulouse.
The second controversy among scholars regarding Jordanus is whether Jordanus de Nemore and Jordanus de Saxonia are the same person. It is known that Jordanus de Saxonia was the first successor to Saint Dominic as the Grand Master of the Dominicans. Jordanus de Saxonia:-
... was renowned in Paris for his secular knowledge particularly in mathematics and, it is said, wrote two very useful books ...This is fair evidence that the two Jordanus's are the same person but it is far from conclusive. Hughes (see for example [3]) does not believe that the two are the same.
What we do know of Jordanus is his works, many of which have survived. These show that he was someone of considerable importance in the development of mathematics and science. Hughes writes [3]:-
Jordanus de Nemore was, and is, recognised as one of the most prestigious natural philosophers of the thirteenth century. His activities encompassed the field of mathematical physics. In particular, he laid the foundation for the entire area of medieval statics. At a more elementary level, his mathematical works on arithmetic, both logistic and specious, and algebra were copied and printed many times, well into the sixteenth century.Jordanus was the first to correctly formulate the law of the inclined plane. He wrote several books on arithmetic, algebra, geometry and astronomy. He also used letters to replace numbers and was able to state general algebraic theorems but this early use of algebraic notation was not used by subsequent writers. Let us look in more details at his mathematical work.
There are six mathematical treatises written by Jordanus. The Demonstratio de algorismo Ⓣ gives a practical explanation of the Arabic number system. It deals only with integers and their uses while, on the other hand, the text Demonstratio de minutiis Ⓣ deals with fractions. A theoretical work on arithmetic which became the standard source of Middle Ages texts is De elementis arithmeticae artis Ⓣ. Geometry is developed in the work Liber phylotegni de triangulis Ⓣ which is an excellent example of a Middle Ages Latin geometry text. The Demonstratio de plana spera Ⓣ is a specialised work on geometry which studies stereographic projection. Perhaps the most impressive of all is the De numeris datis Ⓣ which is the first advanced algebra to be written in Europe after Diophantus. It [3]:-
... is recognised as the first advanced algebra composed in western Europe.In De numeris datis Jordanus gives results on solving quadratic equations similar to those given by al-Khwarizmi except general forms are given rather than the numerical examples of the earlier text. The proofs given by Jordanus, like those of al-Khwarizmi, are by the method of completing the square. Let us give an example of one of the problems (using the translation given in [3]):-
If a given number is separated into two parts such that the product of the parts is known, then each of the parts can be found.The solution illustrates the use of letters by Jordanus:-
Let the given number a be separated into x and y so that the product of x and y is given as b. Moreover, let the square of the sum of x and y be e, and the quadruple of b be f. Subtract this from e to get g, which will then be the square of the difference of x and y. Take the square root of g, call it f. Then h is also the difference of x and y. Since h is known, then x and y can be found.What Jordanus has done, of course, is to use the fact that (x - y)2 = (x + y)2 - 4xy. After the general result he then gives a numerical example of the method he has just explained:-
The mechanics of this is easily done. For example, separate 10 into two numbers whose product is 21. The quadruple of this is 84, which subtracted from the square of 10, namely 100, yields 16. Now 4 is the root of this and also the difference of the two parts. Subtracting this from 10 to get 6, which halved yields 3, the lesser part; and the greater is 7.In astronomy Jordanus used letters to denote the magnitudes of stars (not unrelated to his use of letters for algebraic notation). He wrote a treatise on mathematical astronomy called Planisphaerium as well as Tractatus de Sphaera. On statics he wrote De ratione ponderis which contains results such as:-
If the arms of a balance are proportional to the weights suspended, in such manner that the heavier weight is suspended from the shorter arm, the weights will have equal positional gravity.We can compare this result on statics with a result from De numeris datis Ⓣ which illustrates a possible motivation for the algebraic results in the latter text:-
If the ratio of the two parts of a given number is known, then each of them can be found.Jordanus visited the Holy Land and, on the return journey, he lost his life at sea.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
List of References (17 books/articles)
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Mathematicians born in the same country
Additional Material in MacTutor
- A page from De Numeris Datis (1879)
Cross-references in MacTutor
- Chronology: 1100 to 1300
Other Web sites
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- The Catholic Encyclopedia
- MathSciNet Author profile


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It came from Universal Home Entertainment. They had an idea of releasing a video version of Galactica in the fall. It had done well on DVD in the release of its seasons. We weren't going to broadcast season four until spring of '08, so it made sense to have a BSG release in the fall. They would broadcast it once on Sci Fi and release it within a week on DVD. It quickly came about. We ended the third season on a cliffhanger, so that didn't make sense to tie that in – we had to go back in time and do a story before the cliffhanger. We decided to revisit some aspect of the Pegasus/Admiral Cain storyline and see the original attack on the colonies and from Pegasus' point of view with the original Cylon attack. The writers kicked around story ideas and went through it at my house. We have 10-15 minutes more on the DVD, including young Adama and the first Cylon War. There is more footage with young Helena Cain as a child during the first Cylon War, plus extended version of other scenes. It doesn't predate the series. It just happens to take place around the original Cylon war – it skips around chronologically.
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Some people believe that what happens at RT (Romantic Times Convention, stays at RT. But seriously, what fun would that be for you guys? I mean . . . you wouldn't want to miss out on all the fun, would you?
So here are the highlights. Lots of great writers, just to name a few: Karen Rose, Lori Foster, Lori Wilde, Kate Douglas. Lots of old friends to visit, lots of new friends to make. Lots of readers running around looking for their favorite authors. Lots of workshops to give. Lots of great food to be had at many different restaurants. Lots of booksellers to shout out to. Lots of good wine to be savored while eating great food. Lots of creative energy floating around the hotel from so many writers.
Too many late nights spent giggling in bed—it's like a spend-the-night party when you have a girlfriend rooming with you—especially after a couple of glasses of wine.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT was well represented in the New England Football Conference post-season awards released by the league. Freshman Justin Wallace (Palatine, Ill.) was recognized for his outstanding first year with the Engineers as the NEFC Boyd Division Offensive Rookie of the Year, becoming the first MIT player to be named to that honor. Senior Tyler Wagner (Bel Air, Md.) was named the Hal Chalmers Senior Student-Athlete of the Year, the fourth consecutive year the award has gone to an MIT student-athlete, with six other Engineers earning NEFC Boyd Division All-Division Honors.
Earning first team All-Boyd Division honors was junior offensive guard Ethan Peterson (Rutland, Vt.). Named to the second team were senior tight end Justin Kresz (Tarpon Springs, Fla.), sophomore linebacker Jake Laux (Dousman, Wis.), sophomore defensive lineman Joel Santisteban (Lawrence, N.Y.), sophomore defensive lineman Derek Vaughn (Goodlettsville, Tenn.) and Wallace.
Wallace had an outstanding first season at MIT, leading the Engineers in rushing with 981 yards and averaging 109.0 yards per game. He rushed for 100 yards four times, with a high of 190 in MIT's 23-0 win over Nichols. Finishing fourth in the NEFC in rushing, he was second among all freshmen nationally in Division III in yards per game. A second team all-division selection last season, Peterson helped led the way for Wallace and the rest of the MIT rushing attack that finished seventh in the NEFC in rushing and 10th in total offense.
Kresz closed out his career in fine style, finishing second on the team in receiving with 29 catches for 382 yards and two scores, all of which represented career highs. One of the top tacklers in the NEFC, Laux led MIT with 90 stops and was second among all defenders in the NEFC with his average of 10.0 tackles per game. Santisteban and Vaughn anchored the defensive line for MIT all season, with Santisteban totaling 34 tackles, including a team-high 11 for a loss, and Vaughn registering 27, with six of his stops coming behind the line of scrimmage.
Wagner is a National Football Foundation 2011 Scholar-Athlete nominee and was a New England Football Conference All-Academic pick in 2010. He finished the 2011 season second on squad among defensive linemen in tackles with 32 and recorded a career best 4.0 tackles for loss. Selected as a Paul E. Gray researcher at MIT, he received funding for MIT's International Genetically Engineered Machines competition team.


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NINGBO, CHINA (March 19, 5:05 p.m. ET) — The slowing Chinese economy put a dent in high-flying injection molding machine maker Haitian International Holdings Ltd., keeping profit and sales flat for 2011. But the Chinese firm reported that surging exports offset the tougher situation at home.
The Ningbo-based plastic equipment manufacturer said March 19 that 2011 sales were 7.027 billion Chinese yuan (US$1.11 billion), about even with 2010's record high, with profit of 1.103 billion yuan (US$175.2 million), up 4 percent from 2010 and setting a new record.
It's a big change from 2010, when the company saw sales and profit rise at least 80 percent as China's economy boomed to the point of overheating. But Haitian said it was satisfied with the 2011 results considering the global economic problems.
Haitian, China's largest press maker and one of the world's largest, said that while markets are volatile, its economic outlook is improving from a low point in late 2011. It attributed that in part to the People's Bank of China stepping back from its tight monetary policy and indications of a financial bailout for the Greek government.
"It is unrealistic to expect that the European sovereign debt crisis, the Chinese tightening monetary policies and looming concerns over the growth in [the] global economy can be entirely eased in the short-term," Haitian said. "However, we already note some positive signals from the market in the beginning of 2012. … Our order level is gradually picking up from the trough of the end of 2011."
Haitian said its domestic Chinese sales for 2011 dropped 7.2 percent, to 4.854 billion yuan (US$771.2 million), while export sales rose 17.3 percent, to 1.992 billion yuan (US$316.4 million).
It sees strong potential for continued export growth and is beefing up support for overseas markets, including setting up a team dedicated to multinational customers.
As well, the company said it plans to introduce new versions of its Mars, Venus and Jupiter models in the second half of 2012.
Haitian sold 27,000 injection machines in 2011, compared with 30,000 in 2010, but said the average selling price in 2011 increased 10 percent to 253,000 yuan (US$40,200), reflecting an increase in sales of medium- and large-tonnage machines and more technologically advanced presses.
Sales of its Mars machine, which has become its mainstay product, grew 7 percent overall to 5.163 million yuan (US$820.3 million), while sales of its newer, all-electric Venus models grew 77 percent, to 305.2 million yuan (US$48.4 million).
In general, the company claimed it weathered the difficult 2011 conditions in China's market better than industry peers, and said it continues to focus on research and development.
For example, it launched a MuCell micro-cellular foaming system in China with American firm Trexel Inc., and won two second-prize Chinese National Science and Technology Progress awards for developments in 2011, the highest awards the company has won in its history. That marked the first time that award was given to a plastic injection molding machinery maker in China, Haitian said.
Haitian officials also said they have purchased 3.7 acres of land in Germany to expand their Zhafir Plastics Machinery subsidiary, which is headquartered in Ebermannsdorf, Germany, and are proceeding with an expansion of Zhafir's production in Ningbo, which will increase production of the Venus machines from about 80 a month to at least 120.


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SAN FRANCISCO — The latest Bluetooth spec update will improve consumer usability and developer access while paving the way for new devices, according to Bluetooth Special Interest Group officials. In addition, the group is preparing the way for Bluetooth to more deeply support Internet Protocol.
Bluetooth 4.1, officially released today, builds on the current low power consumption model to produce data that's more visible on mobile devices. The updates improve usability with increased coexistence support for LTE and data exchange, and empower developer innovation, said Errett Kroeter, director of global industry and brand marketing for Bluetooth SIG.
"We want to make sure Bluetooth is central to the implementation and development of the Internet of Things," Kroeter said in an interview with EE Times. "New features work seamlessly with mobile technology like LTE so there's no signal interference."
The update also allows for maintenance of connections with less frequent manual intervention, while expanded time intervals will give product or software developers the ability to choose how long they want devices to search for each other.
Improvements over 2010's Bluetooth Smart release include the ability for bulk data transfer between Bluetooth devices using the existing low energy feature. Kroeter foresees the technology being used to easily transmit data serially, in real time, in smart homes, heart monitors, and fitness equipment.
"Essentially it allows developers to create all kinds of different scenarios around efficiency of data transfer and creating more flexibility for a scenario where a collector can gather information for period of time and offload it," Kroeter said. "Information can be stored in a fitness monitor for a whole run, and you can come back and the monitor will be running in the background."
Data could then be transferred to a smartphone, tablet, or other hub device to be pushed directly to the cloud for sharing.
A key change in Bluetooth 4.1 is the ability for devices to simultaneously act as a sensor and hub device, much as a smartwatch would. With proper software updates, Kroeter said a smartwatch could act as a peripherial and a hub, connecting to a smartphone for text updates and to data from a fitness monitor.
In addition to wearable technology, BT 4.1 can also be used for other small form factor "appcessories" and HID accessories, such as slim smartphone or tablet styluses and small advertising beacons which determine how fast it's possible to create a connection, a CSR release stated. The upper limit of fast advertising interval in BT 4.1 ranges from 20 milliseconds to 10.24 seconds.
The SIG also created a dedicated channel that can be set up to carry IP traffic, a necessary precursor to implementing Bluetooth communication through IP. Kroeter said engineers are still working on encoding and how packets will be carried and transmitted on the channel.
"We created the railroad track and still need to engineer the train on how it's going to carry the traffic," he said. "We know people are interested in using Bluetooth to carry IP traffic natively. It's not necessarily a limitation today…but we want to provide another option for the next generation of technology."
Kroeter added that SIG sees Wi-Fi as a "complementary technology" efficient in the 2.4 GHz range, and unaffected by low cost narrowband WiFi options over 900MHz.
"We see us as the primary link between low power devices, especially edge devices, and whatever hub is in the area. We see WiFi as a transport mechanism," he continued. "Our strength is in creating connections at edge of the network, especially those that are extremely power sensitive."
Kroeter expects continued growth of Bluetooth Smart devices in the coming years, with 2.5 billion implementing BT Smart in 2013 and 3.5 billion devices expected to ship in 2014. ABI Research projects approximately 1 billion Bluetooth Smart device shipments per year beginning in 2016 and increasing from there, while the installed base of Bluetooth-enabled devices will grow to almost 10 billion by 2018.
In addition to major corporation-backed development, Kroeter said that, as of the third quarter of 2013, 84%of projects on crowdsourcing sites Kickstarter and Indiegogo utilize Bluetooth technology.
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The best drive thrus run like machines. Simple goals are met over and over: Orders go out quickly, the food is delivered fresh, and the right orders get to the right cars. But in the drive thru, pressure can run high and the smallest mistakes can prove catastrophic, backing up lines and spelling disaster for both customers and the restaurant's bottom line.
With so much stress to deliver on metrics like speed and order accuracy, some employees might be tempted to forget about a seemingly secondary goal like customer service. After all, it's hard to quantify, difficult to spot, and tough to teach. But experts say genuine customer service can encourage diners to come again, while a bad service experience could be enough to convince a customer to never return.
For now, it would appear customer service is one of the last drive-thru components that is in need of significant improvement. Quick serves have invested heavily in all other areas, with pre-sell menuboards helping to speed up the process, order-confirmation boards preventing the confusion and disappointment caused by incorrect orders, and suggestive sells increasing the average ticket price.
Those operational improvements are reflected in brands' performance. Though volatile year over year, metrics for speed and accuracy have generally improved over time in QSR's Drive-Thru Performance Study. The seven benchmark brands studied this year completed orders with an average service time of 180.83 seconds. Accuracy rates for the seven brands for the most part hover just below 90 percent.
Strong customer service, however, remains elusive. In this year's Study, only 33 percent of visits to benchmark brands resulted in a "very friendly" customer-service experience, with 40.3 percent coming in as "pleasant." But industry insiders say it's hard to understate the value of giving customers something special by way of customer service—a warm welcome, a friendly smile, or a kind word.
"It's not a transaction. This is an experience," says Adam Noyes, chief restaurant operations officer for Checkers/Rally's restaurants. "They want to drive away feeling good about their three minutes. ... Having that connection with your guests is what I think really makes the difference in being able to steal share from your competitors."
Operators say that smart hiring and training—and retraining—are the best ways to ensure that guests receive exceptional service. Checkers/Rally's implemented a new automated hiring system that can detect customer-service skills early on. An online learning management system ensures that employees stay sharp. The two brands also offer bonuses to all employees, not just management. In addition to rewarding strong sales, speed, and accuracy, those bonuses offer incentives for meeting service-related benchmarks.
In the last six years, Noyes says, Checkers/Rally's has reduced service times, as well as improved overall guest satisfaction, which includes metrics like staff friendliness. Ultimately, he says, drive-thru customers want it all.
"Guests lead very busy lives," Noyes says. "This, many times, is an escape from work, or sometimes home. They want to be able to count on the fact that they can get their food quickly and hot. But you can't just stop there. You've got to provide that friendly service, too."
Some customers may be turned off by a drive thru that operates too robotically. But too much focus on speed can also hurt a drive thru's quality and accuracy, says Scott Boatwright, Arby's senior vice president of operations. "I don't think the customers want to be herded through like cattle," he says.
Boatwright says the roast beef chain puts quality first, not speed. But he adds that there's no ignoring the role of good service. That means every drive-thru window needs an employee with a friendly personality and positive demeanor.
"I want to hear a smile through the speaker post," Boatwright says.
That's where hiring becomes key, because genuine friendliness just can't be taught, he says. Some may be able to fake it for a while, but only up until something goes wrong.
"It's a pressure cooker at lunch and dinner," he says. "In those moments, you revert back to your natural tendencies and who you really are."
Rob Savage, chief operations officer at Taco Bell, says building great customer service in the drive thru does indeed begin during the hiring process.
"We had a franchisee a few years ago at a conference tell us that you need to hire cheerleaders and teach them to make tacos," Savage says. "We pay particular attention to selecting people who like to engage with people. That might sound like a no brainer, but in a world of these personal devices and game players, you don't always find people that like to interact with others.
"We bring them in with that raw skill, and then we teach them our ways of doing it through our learning zone," he adds.
Savage says that, several years ago, Taco Bell studied other top companies about tactics they used to empower employees and teach them great customer service.
"It's not easy. We all look at it and say, well, couldn't you just put a friendly person there," he says. "Well you know what, first, finding that person; second, building their capability; and third, reinforcing that and rewarding that as part of our recognition culture, all of those are important elements to bringing it to life. So you really can't take it for granted."
There are some experts who still debate whether customer service is crucial at the quick-service drive thru. Some think that customers will forgive an employee's bad attitude so long as their order is delivered hot and fast, while others hold hospitality up along with the quality of the food. But everyone believes that great service can build loyalty, and loyalty increases the likelihood of repeat business.
"I think you build a little more loyalty to a specific store, but I think you also realize if you're on the other side of town or in another town, that you're still going to get that same level of hospitality and service," says Thom Crosby, CEO of Pal's Sudden Service, a Kingsport, Tennessee–based regional burger chain.
Pal's has grown to something of a legend in the quick-serve arena; stores can move a car through the drive-thru window every 18 seconds under full pressure. And the Pal's Business Excellence Institute works to help an array of companies improve their performance. But for all its speed, service remains a focal point at Pal's.
"All businesses are built around human beings," Crosby says. "And the sales transaction is based around hospitality and providing good food. I think it's vital in building repeat businesses and building relationships with your customers."
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As budget director, Nixon has led the charge for strategic technology investments.
Michigan Budget Director John Nixon was honored by Governing magazine today for rebalancing the state budget while making strategic technology investments designed to make the state government more efficient and effective.
Nixon — director of the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget — is one of eight Public Officials of the Year for 2012. The annual award program, run by Government Technology's sister publication, recognizes leaders from state, city and county government who exemplify the ideals of public service.
Nixon joined the administration of newly elected Michigan Gov Rick Snyder in 2010, after serving four years as budget director for Utah. During that time, Utah was named the best managed state in the nation by the Pew Center on the States.
In Michigan, Nixon heads an agency that oversees financial and technology functions across the state — a role that's let him make a significant impact on how the state views technology spending. For instance, Nixon closed a $1.5 billion budget deficit during his first year on the job in 2011, but he still found funds to promote small, high-impact technology projects.
In 2012, Nixon locked an extra $47 million into the annual state budget for technology projects. That funding will continue for five years, pumping close to a quarter billion dollars into new IT infrastructure for the state. In addition to new IT spending, Nixon has forged a particularly effective partnership with state CIO David Behen, and he enjoys strong support from Snyder, a former Gateway executive who branded himself "one tough nerd" during the gubernatorial election.
Earlier this month, Michigan earned one of only two "A" grades awarded in the Center for Digital Government's Digital States Survey. And the state's combination of smart management and tech savvy will continue to make Michigan a force to be reckoned with over the next several years.


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Progressive revealing. When implemented well, progressive revealing gives interactive forms a head start over traditional paper forms. When asked a particular question in a form it may be the case that, depending a users response, they are asked a set of specific sub-questions, or alternatively routed to the next appropriate section of the form.
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Every year Microsoft selects a handful of Xbox Live Arcade games it considers the very best the platform has to offer and releases them once a week as part of the Summer of Arcade promotion. With Ubisoft's From Dust and Fuelcell's Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet making the cut this time around, we're in for one hell of a summer.
I'll try to ignore Fruit Ninja for Kinect and focus on the bigger and brighter games, like the innovative From Dust, the gorgeous Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Supergiant's action role-playing game Bastion, and Toy Soldiers: Cold War.
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In a dramatic show of unity, AAFP leaders joined with their colleagues from other physician specialty organizations in pressing House and Senate members for a permanent Medicare payment solution during a series of Jan. 31 meetings on Capitol Hill.
AAFP Board Chair Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A., left, describes the impact of the sustainable growth rate on physician practices to Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho.
AAFP Board Chair Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A., of Waco, Texas, and AAFP President-elect Jeffrey Cain, M.D., of Denver, along with representatives from the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), and the American College of Surgeons (ACS), met with several key Republican and Democratic members of the House and Senate to push for a repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. Leaders from the AAFP and the other physician groups divided into two teams, making it possible for a physician representative from each organization to attend each meeting with legislators and their staff members.
Among those the teams met with were Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., all of whom expressed an understanding of the problem and a desire to repeal the SGR. In their various meetings with House and Senate members and staff, the leaders of the AAFP and the other groups urged congressional members to repeal the SGR by using excess funds assigned to the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) accounts to pay for the cost of the repeal.
- In a series of meetings with House and Senate members on Jan. 31, the AAFP and other physician groups called on Congress to repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR).
- The AAFP and the other organizations delivered a unified message: Repeal the SGR by using excess funds assigned to the Overseas Contingency Operations accounts to cover the cost.
- The Capitol Hill meetings marked the first time the AAFP and the other physician groups have joined forces to seek an SGR repeal from House and Senate members.
"I think we made history today in the sense that we had four of the largest physician groups in the country who represent physicians who take care of Medicare patients -- the AAFP, the AOA, the ACP and the ACS -- all on Capitol Hill with a unified message to fix the SGR," said Goertz.
The SGR has called for steep reductions in the Medicare payment rate during the past several years -- reductions that only have been avoided by last-minute action by Congress. In late December, Congress approved a bill that postponed for two months a 27.4 percent SGR reduction that was scheduled to take effect Jan. 1. Without congressional intervention, however, physicians will face a 27.4 percent cut on March 1. The AAFP has repeatedly called on Congress to repeal the SGR, and continues to urge its members to contact their representatives and senators in Washington via a Speak Out Action Alert.
The Capitol Hill meetings took place as a House and Senate conference committee meets in Washington to reconcile differences in House and Senate bills that would postpone the Medicare payment cut beyond the March 1 deadline. Accordingly, the AAFP and the other organizations specifically targeted members of the conference committee, meeting with eight of them and driving home the message that physicians are united in advocating repeal of the SGR.
In the various meetings, Goertz, Cain and the representatives from the other groups stressed that the conference committee has a unique opportunity to solve the long-standing SGR dilemma. The willingness of House and Senate members to meet with the AAFP and the other groups demonstrates how important the SGR issue has become on Capitol Hill, Goertz said.
AAFP President-elect Jeff Cain, M.D., second from the left, tells Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., head of the table, why the SGR must be repealed during a Jan. 31 meeting with the senator. William Mayo, D.O., a member of the board of trustees for the American Osteopathic Association, is on Cain's left.
"We met with as many conference committee members and staff as we could possibly fit into one day -- both Republicans and Democrats," said Goertz. "That is a successful advocacy visit."
In particular, Cain met with conference committee members Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., and Reps. Greg Walden, R-Ore.; Henry Waxman, D-Calif.; and Sander Levin, D-Mich. He also met with the staffs of Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., who also is on the conference committee, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., among others.
Goertz, meanwhile, met with conference committee members Sen. Michael Crapo, R-Idaho, and Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., as well as with House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp, R-Mich., who also is chair of the conference committee.
In addition, Goertz paid a visit to the office of Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill.
"We had unanimous agreement across the aisle that the SGR is broken," said Cain. "Both parties said they are trying to fix it."
However, congressional members do not agree on how to pay for an SGR repeal, which has prevented Congress from fixing the flawed payment formula. In their meetings with congressional members and staff, Goertz, Cain and the representatives from the other organizations explained how the SGR undercuts the practice of medicine by making it difficult for physician practices to plan for the future and to improve how they take care of their Medicare patients.
Cain pointed out that 95 percent of family physicians provide care to Medicare patients, making a 27.4 percent Medicare payment reduction devastating to family physicians. Cain also noted that Medicare rates determine TRICARE rates, meaning the SGR has an impact on uniformed services members, retirees and their families who are enrolled in TRICARE. Most of the House and Senate members were unaware of the relationship between Medicare and TRICARE, said Cain.
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With only two days of rain so far in February, the Bay Area remains way off the mark when it comes to monthly rainfall.
San Jose has only received .11 inches of rain for the entire month; the only two days of rain were on Feb. 7 and 8. The average rain for this month to date is 2.01 inches. So, Tuesday's rain storm is not considered a major one, any rain is a big deal at this point.
Showered developed during the early morning commute and pockets of rain continued through the afternoon.
With a decent amount of uplift in the atmosphere, there should also be a slight chance of thunderstorms and small hail in the forecast through Tuesday night. In addition, Tuesday temperatures will also be quite cold. After hitting the 70s last week, most areas will experience upper 40s for daytime highs.
Wednesday should start off very cold - in the 20s and 30s, and may have lingering low bay Area levels of snow to 1,500 to 2,000 feet. A rain-snow mix may go as low as 1,000 feet over the South & East Bay hills.
California Department of Transportation traffic cameras showed snow on the ground in the Sierra Nevada.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the central and southern Sierra, where some areas could see as much as a foot of snow. A winter weather advisory was in effect further north. Ski resorts around Lake Tahoe could get up to 8 inches of snow.
The cold system from the Gulf of Alaska is also expected to drop snow at much lower elevations before moving out by Wednesday.
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Gala evening for the FF at the Italian embassy in Berlin with Ministers Frattini and Westerwelle as special guests. Germany one of the countries with highest demand for the new Ferrari V12
Berlin (Germany), 17 June – Germany has always been Ferrari's most important market in Europe, as well as the second in terms of sales worldwide, and the introduction of a new model is always an occasion for an impressive turnout of local clients and collectors as was proved at yesterday's gala evening for the launch of the FF, the new Ferrari 12-cylinder, in the Italian embassy in Berlin.
The FF's official debut on the market, which accounts for 10 per cent of production from the manufacturer in Maranello, was held in the presence of Ferrari Chairman, Luca di Montezemolo, the Italian Ambassador Michele Valensise and two special guests, German and Italian foreign ministers Guido Westerwelle and Franco Frattini, together with over 250 enthusiastic Ferrari clients.
During the evening Montezemolo underlined the FF's huge success, confirming that this year's entire production and a good part of next year's have already been sold. Germany is one of the countries with the highest demand for the FF thanks to the car's numerous virtues, including its extraordinary versatility. In fact, thanks to the patented 4RM system, this Ferrari four-seater can be used under the most extreme grip conditions, such as on icy or snowy roads.
Warm applause from the guests and flashlights from the cameras accompanied the entrance of three FFs into the embassy's garden recreating the Italian flag with their green, white and red liveries.


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Forrest Knapp of Edwards celebrates winter's early onset atop Vail Mountain last Sunday.
Far be it for me to fall into the category of denier when it comes to climate change, but this wild and wintry month of November in the Colorado Rockies has me wondering if the phenomenon formerly known as global warming might actually be better for skiing as we know it. In the absence of a nanogram of scientific research, hear me out.
Let's start by noting that for one of the few times in the past quarter century or so that ski resorts have been marketing Thanksgiving as a skiing holiday, their marketing teams actually have something to sink their teeth, and tips, into this season. Vail Mountain is looking at one its best openings ever, offering more than 1,300 acres of virtually wall-to-wall frontside skiing just five days into the season with legitimate potential to open a portion of the Back Bowls by Black Friday. Just over Tennessee Pass, little old Ski Cooper is opening 100 percent of its terrain more than two weeks ahead of schedule on what they're cleverly calling White Friday (Nov. 28).
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Getting started on managing Functions with custom domains using C#
Azure App Service sample for managing function apps.
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Emmy Awards 2010
I thought the open was really good. And two Canadians represented too – both Cory Monteith and Nina Dobrev were invited to join in the Springsteen Glee homage led by Jimmy Fallon and almost stolen by Jon Hamm's amazingness. As for Fallon as host, well, it was a strong beginning and then the singing fallback got a little tired. Non? Duana didn't think so. Duana thought overall that the show was solid. I thought overall, and maybe it's because I was watching on a laptop and not on a proper television, that the show was underwhelming.
In an auditorium full of people who are supposed to sparkle, you know who sparkled the most?
Temple Grandin. Jumpy claps for Temple Grandin.
Everyone else though just seemed ...underwhelming. Especially George Clooney.
Having said that, big ups to the Academy for finally making it interesting, for voting for fresh faces, new names, for actually making it somewhat suspenseful, a real race. There is new blood in the game. That should only make the game better. Oh but Matthew Fox wanted it so badly, did you see?
And so it should be, I guess. That quality and content are dominating on television. That interesting characters, especially for women, are constantly being introduced, that the Academy is rewarding those achievements and encouraging more, perhaps, hopefully, in an effort to curb the takeover of reality television? This might be a wishful stretch.
As for the business of style – there were certainly a few notables, and we'll highlight some of those, but there were no spectaculars either. Nothing made me fall down and die from love, nothing made me jump up and shout with loving hate. And Rita Wilson doesn't count. Because we want our flops to come from the prime targets.
A few Emmy selections are below.
Look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please do email me. I may not be able to write back, but I read every message.
Also, on the liveblog we all agreed – Betty White fatigue.
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I gave it 24 hours of sole use, and I just couldn't gel with it. I had been using the last Gnome release of Ubuntu.
So I decided to start looking around, and despite looking far and wide, I seem to have landed not too far away from where I started, with XFCE (Xubuntu 12.10).
I am loving its simplicity and light weight. I have decent hardware, so lightweight wasn't a priority, but XFCE does what it says on the tin, and is certainly a truckload prettier and smoother than it was years ago.
Early on (RH 3.x etc) I really liked Kubuntu, maybe because it was an easier transition between that and Windows 95/98. Gnome had been my go to in recent years.
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When reffering to the school days, people often say
中学校の時. Even though this may not be wrong, they are shortened forms of relatively complex (redundant) structures. Thus, they are close to the expressions:
'when the school that I used to attend was an elementary school'
'when the school that I used to attend was a junior high school'
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The detail of the natural world is a constant source of inspiration and as a result I spend an inordinate amount of time crawling about in flowerbeds staring intensely at miniscule objects.
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Ciad Mile Failte - A Hundred Thousand Welcomes await you. Nova Scotia is Latin for New Scotland and nowhere is this more evident than on Cape Breton Island. This picturesque excursion takes you to the very Heart of the Island. The route includes some of the Island's most dynamic scenery, weaving a route through rugged countryside, touching the shores of the famous Bras d'Or Lakes. Known as the Great Inland Sea (the lakes are salt-water) the Bras d'Or region is a major breeding ground for the bald eagle and other exotic wildlife.
As your tour progresses, you'll stop at the geographical center of Cape Breton Island, Hectors' Point, Iona and visit the Nova Scotia Highland Village, a 50-acre historical site overlooking the Bras d'Or Lakes. Take a chronological journey through 180 years of Cape Breton's Scottish architecture, hosted by costumed staff trained in conversational Gaelic and local history. Here you will view a full-size replica of a Scottish Blackhouse, the original one-room structure occupied by the first Scottish settlers in the region, and the only one of its kind in North America. A hilltop panoramic view offers a beautiful blend of land, sky and water. Enjoy tea or coffee and oatcakes before returning to your ship.


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Guide to New Nations: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia
Former Yugoslavia
by David Johnson
| Slovenia
The former Yugoslavian republic of Slovenia declared its independence on June 25, 1991. The Serbian-led Yugoslavian army, briefly attempted to keep Slovenia from seceding, but after brief fighting withdrew its forces. The European Community recognized Slovenian independence in 1992.
| Croatia
The second-most industrialized area of Yugoslavia, (after Slovenia), Croatia declared its independence on June 25, 1991. A bloody six-month long civil war ensued, as the Yugoslavian army sought to keep Croatia from seceding and to protect the majority-Serb population in the Croatian regions of Krajina and eastern Slavonia.
A cease-fire was declared in 1992, and United Nations peacekeepers were sent to Croatia. In 1994, the Croatian army recaptured areas under Serb control. In 1998 the U.N. returned Eastern Slavonia to Croatia. Since then, Croatia has sought to rebuild its economy and resettle thousands of refugees displace by the war.
| Bosnia and Herzegovina
Of all the new nations to break away from the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia, none has had as difficult a time as Bosnia and Herzegovina. Vicious ethnic warfare and an intervention by the Yugoslavian military have left tens of thousands dead and created one million refugees, nearly one-third of the population. After a 1992 referendum ratified Bosnian independence, Bosnian Serbs, backed by the Yugoslavian army, began an aggressive campaign to create a "Greater Serbia," and eliminate Muslims from areas under their control.
With Bosnian Croats, Serbs, and the Muslim-dominated government all forming armies, thousands of people were killed, many massacred because of their religion. Serbs ended the siege of Sarajevo in 1994. The 1995 Dayton Peace Accord partitioned the country along ethnic lines, creating the Muslim/Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serb Republic. NATO troops remain in Bosnia to keep the peace as the government gradually rebuilds the country and revives the shattered economy. Meanwhile, Bosnia depends heavily on billions in foreign aid.
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An autonomous republic under the former Yugoslavia, Macedonia declared its independence on January 17, 1991. More than a year later, six European nations recognized Macedonia's independence. Later, the U.N. and the U.S. recognized Macedonia. Greece slapped an economic embargo the new nation, objecting to its use of the name "Macedonia." The embargo was lifted in 1995. The country is officially known as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.


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The Big Walkabout with Sailing (Start Sydney - From Apr 2019)(Multi Share,Start Sydney, End Uluru)
About Ayers Rock, Australia
- Sydney Sightseeing Tour inc. Mrs Macquaries Chair, Opera House, Ferry to Watsons Bay.
- Spend afternoon at Bondi Beach
Sydney Day 2
- Visit the Majestic Blue Mountains
Sydney to Byron Bay
- Included Flight: Sydney to Byron Bay
- Included Surf Lesson
Noosa Everglades to the Whitsundays
- Included Flight: Noosa to Airlie Beach
The Whitsundays Sailing
- Whitsundays Sailing
The Whitsundays to Cairns
- Train: Airlie Beach to Cairns
Cairns Day 2
- Tjapukai - Dreamtime walk with Damper plus Tea
- Warradjan Cultural Center
- Hike to see the Aboriginal rock art at Nourlangie Rock
Kakadu to Darwin
- Ubirr Lookout Hike
Darwin to Uluru via Alice Springs
- Included flight Darwin to Alice Springs
- Indulge in a BBQ 'Big Brekkie'
- Day trip to Kings Canyon
- BBQ Dinner
Uluru Day 2
- Sunrise at The Rock followed by The Olgas Kata Tjuta and the Valley of the Winds Walpa Gorge
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20 Years at a Glance
20 Years At A Glance
177 court programs have received the Kleps Award since its inception in 1991. Programs that were revolutionary at the time—family law courts, automated juror reporting systems, self-help centers, and form filing systems just to name a few, are now common practice.
Presented below is a small sampling of the Kleps Award programs through the years. To see a comprehensive listing of all Kleps Award submissions and recipients since the program's inception in 1991 click here.
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|Event Title:
|Event Description:
|Court Services Unit
|Superior Court and Justice Courts of Trinity County– In 1988, the Superior Court and the justice courts consolidated their staffs into one unit, resulting in a central counter that offered faster, more efficient public service. California voters passed a constitutional amendment providing for voluntary unification of superior and municipal courts in each county into a single, countywide trial court system. By January 2001, all 58 counties voted to unify their municipal and superior courts.
|Traffic Interactive Payment System (TIPS)
|Los Angeles Municipal Court — In 1992, over 50,000 traffic tickets were issued monthly in L.A.. Most were paid in person at the courthouses. The court developed TIPS so people could pay their fines via a Touch-Tone phone. TIPS got great reviews from customers and from court clerks, who were able to offer quality service to customers in person. Court customers can still use TIPS, but most now pay their fines online at an average of $2.1 million in traffic fines per week.
|BIC Technology — Achieving the Future Today
|Superior Court of San Diego County — In the 90s, over 4,000 cases were filed in California against the manufacturers of silicone-gel breast implants. These cases were coordinated into one master case. The court used technology to let users instantly retrieve any documents filed and allowed the 400 attorneys to view communication from the court as soon as they were posted. The San Diego County court managed this case cost-effectively and became a model for civil case coordination.
|Cross Filing and Payment Acceptance Program
|Superior Court and Municipal Courts of Riverside County — Cross-court filings and payments began so that people could go to any court regardless of the type of case, jurisdiction, or location, increasing operating efficiency of the court and giving the public greater access to the courts. Riverside pioneered and demonstrated the benefits of consolidation and coordination. Within several years, other counties had begun to follow the Riverside courts' lead.
|Santa Clara County Courts Treatment Court
|Superior Court and Municipal Courts of Santa Clara County — Treatment Court substitutes for the expensive and time-consuming criminal justice model in dealing with criminal offenses of addicts. The offender is assigned to a monitored, year-long treatment program. The rate of recidivism among participants has been greatly reduced—with significant cost savings. Santa Clara now has four drug courts. Statewide, there are presently more than 200 drug courts; nationally, there are 2,450.
|Simulated Courtroom Clerk Training
|San Diego Municipal Court — In 1994, the Court began using a simulated courtroom to train court clerks using recordings of actual court sessions, finished calendars, and completed dockets, until they can perform at a pace that matches the recording. Simulated training has been adopted as one of the methods taught by the California Court Clerk Training Institute, which works with clerks from courts throughout California, who then return to their own courts and train new clerks.
|Forms Automation System
|Superior Court and Municipal Court of San Bernardino County — The old method of requesting, printing, transporting, and storing forms required hundreds of staff hours. Printing them on-demand enabled employees to provide faster, higher-quality service and yielded an annual savings of $154,000. Today, almost all legal forms for all courts in California are available on the California Courts website. Court users can access a form, fill it out online, print and send it to the appropriate court.
|Domestic Violence Registry Central Orange County Municipal Court
|Central Orange County Municipal County — The Domestic Violence Registry captures all domestic violence cases orders in local and statewide electronic databases, making them available to courts throughout the county and to the sheriff's main dispatch center. Before, many orders were never entered into any electronic database, meaning that the protected party had to provide the original restraining order when necessary, often delayed enforcement. The Orange County registry is a model for CCPOR.
|Unified Family Court
|Superior Court of Yolo County — The Unified Family Court consolidated all family, probate, guardianship, and juvenile cases for one family in front of one judge. This "one judge, one family" approach allowed for holistic solutions to the multiple needs of a single family and made more efficient use of court resources. A number of courts have adopted many of the practices of the unified model; yielding better communication among courts serving members of one family.
|Sara Berman Adoption Saturdays
|Superior Court of Los Angeles County — To accelerate the adoption of children in foster care, in 1997 the court brought all parties needed to complete adoptions together on a Saturday, including volunteer attorneys and court personnel. Held three or four times a year, Adoption Saturdays soon became very popular. In November, 2000, the Alliance for Children's Rights held a National Adoption Day, based on the model. Since 2007, all 50 states have participated, with events in 300 cities.
|Court Outreach Program
|Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District — Justices and court staff travel to different high schools to answer questions about the appellate process and hold oral arguments in actual cases at the school. By 2011, events had been held in 20 of the 23 counties in district. The program has served as a model for other appellate courts—and for the California Supreme Court, which holds outreach events each year for hundreds of high school, university, and law school students.
|On My Honor Law Education Program
|Superior Court of San Diego County — On My Honor educates children about the legal system and how courtrooms operate. Originally for 4th and 5th graders, the program expanded to middle schoolers. The program features classroom curriculum and a court visit where students participate in a mock trial presided by an actual judge. The program served as the model for California On My Honor. To date, more than 59,000 students and 580 teachers have participated in various court outreach programs.
|Interactive Community Assistance Network (I-CAN!)
|Superior Court of Orange County — I-CAN! is a network of web-based legal services and interactive kiosks. A litigant can find legal forms and answer questions that then populate them. The litigant can then print and file the forms with the court. In 2011, I-CAN! began offering e-filing for parties involved in small claims cases allowing for quicker access to documents for the court. The web-based version of I-CAN! has been adopted by the California courts self-help website.
|Self-Help and Referral Program (SHARP)
|Superior Courts of Butte, Glenn, and Tehama Counties — SHARP provides legal assistance to self-represented litigants and offers small workshops featuring legal information and assistance from the staff attorney, both in person and via videoconferences, enabling residents of the three rural counties to participate from a location close to their homes. Response among users has been very positive. Legal forms are now filled out more accurately; reducing requests to the clerks for help and helping to better prepare litigants for hearings and trials.
|Superior Court of Los Angeles County — In 2004, the court created JusticeCorps in collaboration with local universities, nonprofits, and AmeriCorps. The program recruits and trains 100 college students a year to work in self-help programs at courts throughout the county. Litigants express a high level of satisfaction with the help and judges note that court users are better prepared. JusticeCorps is in nine counties serving 48% of the state's population. Since 2004, over 1000 recruits have provided more than 240,000 hours of service.
|Appellate Self-Help Clinic
|Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District — Started in 2007, the Appellate Self-Help Clinic guides indigent, self-represented litigants through the appeal process. It is the first and only self-help appellate clinic in California. The clinic is operated by Public Counsel, in collaboration with the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, and an attorney helps self-represented litigants understand and navigate the appeal process, assists them with paperwork, and, when appropriate, refers them to pro bono attorneys.


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RIM's been battling for survival for the last few years after it was caught off-guard when iPhone and Android took over the smartphone market.
With BlackBerry 10 and new smartphones it's planning to unveil later this month, RIM is aiming to challenge the dominance of Apple's iPhone and Android-based smartphones and regain the relevance it once had in this market.
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Here's a brief list of features RIM hopes will distinguish BlackBerry 10 from iOS and Android:
- The interface is largely gesture driven, taking advantage of swipes from the outer bezel towards the screen from all four directions. There's no home button.
- The multitasking interface is presented in a grid layout with app cards that show live previews of what's going on in an app. The interface lives on one of the pages of the home screen of the phone, unlike iOS where the multitasking tray is present below the home screen.
- A notification center, named BlackBerry Hub, that collects notifications from all apps and a companion preview window that can easily be accessed by a swipe from the bottom.
- A mobile browser that beats even desktop browsers in HTML5 compatibility tests.
- The keyboard is context aware, and suggests words based on the current sentence
- The camera takes a bunch of pictures before and after the image is clicked, letting you go back or forward in time to select the perfect shot.
- A Siri-like voice control feature that has a dedicated button on the side of the device.
Here's the two part video overview of BlackBerry 10 (it's in German, but you shouldn't have a problem following it as the captions are in English):
RIM is seeing a lot of developer interest—an essential requirement for the success of a platform. RIM recently reported that more than 14,000 apps were ported to BlackBerry 10 in an app porting marathon organised by the company.
The company plans on introducing a wide variety of hardware targeted at different segments of the population with all-touch phones, phones with physical keyboards, and phones at different price points. Here are the two phones that have leaked so far:
BlackBerry Z10
This seems to be RIM's answer to top-of-the-line phones like the iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S3. It has impressive specs:
- 4.2" 1,280-by-768 display
- 1.5GHz dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor
- 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage
- NFC support
- 8MP rear camera and 2MP front camera
BlackBerry X10
This is the device targeted for the loyal BlackBerry user, who still prefers the physical keyboard. Not a lot of information about this phone has leaked, but rumors say the phone sports a 720-by-720 pixels display at a pixel density of 330ppi, along with NFC and of course a 4-row physical keyboard.
BlackBerry 10 seems to be getting positive reviews from tech sites so far, just like Windows Phone 8. But as we've seen with Microsoft's mobile OS, a well-designed product isn't enough to succeed in the market. There are folks who still swear by BlackBerry phones, but they are a depleting species. Most enterprises have expanded their IT policies to include iPhones and Android phones, and BBM—once a popular feature of BlackBerry phones—can now be replaced with third party apps like WhatsApp and Hike.
In the next few months, RIM will finally know if being three years behind the competition is a mistake that can be rectified, and more importantly if a v1.0 will compete effectively with four iterations of Android and six iterations of iOS.
Via: Fortune
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Henry Aymé
Date: ca. 1816
Remarks: He became an assistant surgeon in the New York Volunteers in 1862 during the Civil War. In February 1864, he was appointed surgeon. Discharged for disability in Novermber 1864. He married Elizabeth Geraldine Fitzgerald. Portrait of him by Charles G. Crehen.


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located within Little Sarasota Bay Watershed
Dryman Bay is a tiny bay bounded by Little Sarasota Bay, Blackburn Bay, the community of Osprey, and the island of Casey Key. Just to the south is Oscar Sherer State Park and South Creek. An interesting feature is the rotating bridge across the bay at Blackburn Point Road; fishing is popular at the park near the bridge. This bay is part of the Sarasota Bay National Estuary Program study area and enjoys the protection of the Outstanding Florida Water designation.Learn more about what constitutes a bay or estuary »
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Bay Condition Reports give a quick assessment of the water quality in a bay during a particular year by examining three important indicators of nutrient pollution: chlorophyll a, nitrogen and phosphorus.
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This water resource is monitored by 6 sampling locations, which have collected a total of 16,156 samples ranging from 1/11/1971 to 12/4/2019. The sites sampling this water resource are:
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|Station ID
|FDEP Historic Data from Legacy STORET
|Mote Marine Historic Data from Legacy STORET
|Mote Marine Historic Data from Legacy STORET
|Sarasota County Environmental Services Department Sampling Data
|Sarasota County Historic Data from Legacy STORET
|Sarasota County Historic Data from Legacy STORET
|Surface Area
|169 acres
|Little Sarasota Bay Watershed
|27° 10' 25"
|82° 29' 29"
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Dryman Bay is located within the Little Sarasota Bay Watershed.
Specific drainage basins within this watershed include:
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FWCC, Division of Boating Safety
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FWCC, Fish Kills
|General Concerns/Complaints
Sarasota County Contact Centera
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FDEP State Watch Office
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FWCC, Wildlife Violations
|Shoreline Alterations, Wetland Impacts
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FWCC - Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
FDEP - Florida Department of Enviromental Protection
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