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They've been larger-than-life performers for decades, but now Steven Tyler and Joe Perry's songwriting skills are getting the attention. The Aerosmith veterans will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June.music Updated: Apr 11, 2013 19:57 IST
They've been larger-than-life performers for decades, but now Steven Tyler and Joe Perry's songwriting skills are getting the attention. The Aerosmith veterans will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June and will receive the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' Founders Award next week.
Rocking out in long hair and leather when their baby-boomer peers are opting for tracksuits and comfortable shoes, the band-mates attribute the twin songwriting honors to their longevity in the fickle and fractured music business. "I think people are enamored by the music, and I think they're pushed over the top by the fact that we stood the test of time, we're still together and didn't quit," said Tyler, 65, who wore a leather tuxedo coat with tails and repeatedly fluffed his curls during a recent interview at NightBird Studios. "We're still around. We're still in the game and in the fight and have the passion... and it's not a fighter that's gotten knocked out or has wet brain, it's a fight that we still do because we can."
The rockers are so busy, in fact, that they'll miss ASCAP's 30th annual Pop Music Awards ceremony on April 17, where the Founders prize will be presented. Tyler, Perry and the rest of the band will be performing in Australia to support their 15th studio album, "Music From Another Dimension!".
Released last November, the album contains Aerosmith's first new material in more than a decade and was a collaboration of the entire band. They even reunited with the producer of their early hits.
"We decided to keep it close to the vest and all sit in a room all together like the old days and write an old-fashioned Aerosmith album," Tyler said. "This made my heart feel good that ... we were all that band that actually started out in the beginning." During the writing process, they think of how they'd perform the song live, "and usually, if it feels good, we're going to finish the song," Perry said, "The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song," he said. "Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it."
Still, Tyler and Perry never won a Grammy for songwriting. Aerosmith's four trophies are all for performing.
That's why the two men are deeply touched by these latest honors. Past recipients of the ASCAP Founders Award include Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Tom Waits. The Songwriters Hall of Fame includes such artists as Johnny Cash, Marvin Hamlisch, Elton John and Mick Jagger.
"Writing songs is like panning for gold. It's like sifting through life and you look for a little nugget, and if you hit on it, you're really lucky," Tyler said. "It's such an honor to be with those other songwriters. If I can use that as a template, that's where the honor lies."
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California Appeals Court Says Company Can Be Held Liable For Spam It Didn't Write Or Know About
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This is a key point that we've been raising a lot around here lately, as more and more people look to blame third parties, often because it's (a) easier and (b) those third parties have more money. While I recognize that we all get annoyed by spam, a ruling of this nature is completely misdirected. It means that if you want to get a company in trouble, just send spam advertising their stuff to California residents. Now those firms are liable for your statements even if it had no idea that you were doing this. Goldman warns that this ruling will "generate lots more of wasteful profit-seeking litigation."
Both Venkat and Eric in the link above question how this ruling could survive a Section 230 analysis -- which should present a perfectly valid safe harbor for the two firms in question. It's not clear if either firm even raised a Section 230 defense, but even without that, I'm troubled by the fact that the court didn't seem to comprehend that it was blaming a company for actions of someone they have no control over. The court -- incorrectly -- claims that this could lead to "take a more active role in supervising" actions of affiliates, but as Eric points out, the strict liability standard put forth by the court means that no matter how active a role they take, if one spam message slips through, they're still liable. That doesn't lead to a more active role in supervising, it leads companies to dump such programs altogether:
Because of strict liability, even advertisers who undertake substantial efforts to police their affiliate network ARE STILL LIABLE FOR ANY PROBLEMS CREATED BY AFFILIATES. Maybe the court got confused about what it meant to impose STRICT LIABILITY. In reality, many advertisers won't rely on affiliates at all if they are strictly liable for what they do. I bet this court would view that as a perfectly fine outcome, but the it's disingenuous to say that strict liability will ratchet up the policing effort. A negligence standard might have done that; strict liability squashes the endeavor altogether.This is definitely a worrisome trend, as we've seen a growing number of courts get tripped up on ideas surrounding third party liability, not recognizing the consequences of those rulings.

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MEDFORD (AP) — A Jackson County judge says flashing your headlights to warn other drivers about nearby law enforcement is protected as free speech under the Oregon Constitution. Jackson County Justice Court Judge Joe Charter ruled March 26 that a driver on Highway 140 didn't break any law last September when he used his high-beams to warn other driver about a sheriff's deputy in the car behind.
The Mail Tribune reports Christopher Hill, of Klamath Falls was driving a commercial truck near White City while a Jackson County sheriff's deputy drove behind him.
Another deputy spotted Hill flashing his high-beams and radioed the deputy behind Hill, who pulled him over. Hill was cited for unlawfully using his headlights but contested the ticket, saying free speech protected his actions.
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Fresh cod served with steamed broccoli and couscous -- the main course at a lavish New York gala? Nope. It's what Maddox Jolie-Pitt had for lunch yesterday at his private Manhattan school. Bon appétit!
Little Maddox attends the prestigious Lycée Français de New York on the Upper East side. Cameras captured Angelina taking Maddox to school last week, wearing the latest in private school haute couture. C'est magnifique!
Today, according to the school menu, Maddox can expect to dine on vegetable chunks soup, rotisserie chicken, green bean almondine, white rice, and yogurt or fruit. Kinda makes that Hot Pocket you were going to microwave look pretty bad, doesn't it?
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Eastern-Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives supported by UNDP Ukraine came up with a software based on public participation geographic information systems – or PPGIS - and crowdsourcing, which will help bridge this gap. The online platform is intended to provide an avenue for citizens to express their ideas and to provide feedback on projects proposed by the government. It will also enable citizens to develop their own electronic models for the spatial development of territories and cities.
UPlanIT was among the three winning ideas awarded by the jury at the human rights laboratory – or HuRiLab - which had the first Social Innovation Camp on human rights and access to justice, hosted by UNDP. In the month following the social innovation camp, the Eastern-Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives discussed concrete steps to implementing the UPlanIT project.
Eastern-Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives held a seminar on "Open Access to the General Plans of Cities: How to Turn Ideas into Reality" which was attended by over 40 community activists, journalists, bloggers, scientists, and architects from Ukraine, as well as specialists in spatial planning from the United States and Portugal. As a result, a group of practitioners submitted two grant proposals to find funding for the practical implementation of the project which were supported by UNDP Ukraine "Democratization and Human Rights" project. Their efforts have led to collaboration with the city of Severodonetsk, where citizens will use the UPlanIT platform to participate in the developing of their city park.


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April 20, 2011
Dear Mayor,
This year the 20th annual Motorcycle and Scooter Ride to Work Day is Monday, June 20th. On this day over a million workers will commute via motorcycles and scooters to demonstrate the efficiency and other positive benefits of these vehicles.
Your administration and city can support and encourage this popular grass-roots event by issuing an official proclamation. To encourage riding, some cities also announce that on this day motorcycles and scooters may park at municipal ramps and metered spaces without charge. Your city will be joining hundreds of cities, groups and organizations worldwide already supporting the annual Ride to Work Day.
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- Riding is fun and helps make people more alert and engaged.
On an average weekday over eighty million cars and light trucks are used for daily commuting on American roads, and only about 200,000 motorcycles and scooters are a part of this mix. On Ride to Work Day the practical side of riding becomes more visible because a large number of America's 8,000,000 cycles are ridden to work.
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Doris L. (Lillabridge) White, 89, of Asylum Road, passed away November 12, 2012 at home. She was the wife of the late Edward C. White.
She was a daughter of the late Frank Lillabridge and Evelyn (Mahoney) Flanagan. She was a retired inspector for the former Leesona Corp.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Two Kentucky men who say they were sexually assaulted by comedian Andy Dick at a West Virginia nightclub two years ago have filed a lawsuit against the comedian.
The 26-year-old from Ashland and the 35-year-old from Catlettsburg are also involved in a pending criminal case against Dick, their attorney said Tuesday. Dick's trial on two counts of felony first-degree sexual abuse is set for May 1 in Cabell County Circuit Court in Huntington.
Dick pleaded not guilty last summer to charges he grabbed a bouncer's crotch, and groped and kissed a patron while performing a series of shows in Huntington at a comedy club. The alleged acts occurred Jan. 23, 2010, at the Rum Runners nightclub.
Attorney Mike Woelfel said he filed the case earlier this month, seeking unspecified damages, to comply with the statute of limitations, which expired Monday. He said the complaint and the criminal case speak for themselves.
"What I see is a desire by the state and by the victims to assert that there is zero tolerance for sexual misconduct in whatever form it takes," he said.
The complaint says the men were victims of "battery and sexual abuse" and demands compensatory and punitive damages for emotional distress, outrageous conduct, assault and invasion of privacy. The Associated Press does not generally identify the victims of alleged sexual abuse.
The complaint also alleges that Dick, of South Pasadena, Calif., "has a history of sexual misconduct which is serial in nature."
Dick's attorney, Marc Williams, dismissed the accusations.
"This proves what we've known all along," he told the Herald-Dispatch of Huntington (http://bit.ly/nzOvU5). "This was only about getting money from a celebrity."
Williams told The Associated Press in an email Tuesday afternoon that he was too busy to discuss the case further.
Dick has been in trouble with the law several times before.
He's been arrested in California on drug and battery charges, to which he pleaded guilty in 2008, and on charges of being drunk and disorderly in a restaurant last May. A Texas man also sued Dick last year, claiming the comedian exposed his genitals at a Dallas performance.
Dick had a long-running stint in the 1990s on NBC's "NewsRadio." He briefly had his own program, "The Andy Dick Show," on MTV. He also has had roles in several movies, including "Dude, Where's My Car?" and "Old School."
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It looks like even the craters on Mercury have heard of Bob Ross! The central peaks of this complex crater have formed in such a way that it resembles a smiling face. This image is oriented so north is toward the bottom.
This image was acquired as a high-resolution targeted observation. Targeted observations are images of a small area on Mercury's surface at resolutions much higher than the 200-meter/pixel morphology base map. It is not possible to cover all of Mercury's surface at this high resolution, but typically several areas of high scientific interest are imaged in this mode each week.
The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unraveling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. Visit the Why Mercury? section of this website to learn more about the key science questions that the MESSENGER mission is addressing. During the one-year primary mission, MESSENGER acquired 88,746 images and extensive other data sets. MESSENGER is now in a yearlong extended mission, during which plans call for the acquisition of more than 80,000 additional images to support MESSENGER's science goals.
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Having joined a library (yes, I know, cant stop talking and thinking about it), a few thoughts.
Are libraries friends of authors or not? A part of me says yes, because finally authors need to be read to be read. And it is the reading that attracts people to particular styles of writing, which makes you a fan and then you buy "everything that the author writes". So libraries clearly increase sampling - which should be good for authors. It could also work in a different way - enrolling in a library significantly reduces the chance that you will buy pirated books (usually people buy pirated books assuming that the outlay is low and it is worth a risk even if the book is not good). Also for foreign authors and published books, it is far cheaper to read through a library. And then again for people like me, I buy books even after I have read them, especially if I like the book so much. So, libraries are good for authors.
Bad because, some books are unlikely to be bought, especially the very costly ones. But I guess the former will overrule the latter.
Second thought. Can something like Kindle ever have a 'lending' function - that gives books on e-rent? Say, a scheme where you can have a book for a couple of weeks and then it vanishes from your system. Actually it can - just that digital ownership presently assumes that you buy and keep, especially with unlimited storage. And then again, the Kindle significantly reduces the fun you have in swapping books. More reason to stay on with books? I don't know. Havent experienced the kindle just as yet :)
Friday, July 31, 2009
Library and Kindle
Having joined a library (yes, I know, cant stop talking and thinking about it), a few thoughts.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Carpets and work
A nice piece in Forbes India on the model followed by Jaipur Rugs.
When you read through it, you can see that it is an entire ecosystem of work without having to bring workers to a factory. They have quality supervisors, inspectors etc. If you replace loom with computers, it is like working from home. If it can be done for carpets, it can be done for most other types of desk jobs? And if it is not being done yet, why not? I think, that a model like this the future of work.
More thoughts on this...
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Indian board games
As an afficionado of board games I was pleasantly surprised when I spotted IIT designed, India inspired board games recently at a mall. India has a rich games tradition which has been overshadowed by the "imports". Pictionary, Taboo and whole hose of them - no complaints - these games are good. But there are very few Indian games - like the ancient Pallankuzhi, Dayakattam (Ludos precursor) with its rectangular dice that are popular.
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Learning without books
Many years ago, I was enrolled in a Veda class. We were lucky to have a couple of people knowledgeable enough to teach (knowing and teaching are two entirely different things as in most things) us in a city like Bombay (Actually many suburbs had one or two reknowned gurus like this - and not all of them were priests). The method of teaching was "primitive". It followed the ancient Indian oral system. The guru repeats once, you repeat twice. And so on, until the entire shloka is covered over one hour classes each weekday. Simple. And we had no books - I guess that was how it was meant to be. But not everybody was convinced - I mean, in this day and age (in that day and age - 80s), how could we not have had books. Nobody questioned the guruji though.
But one day, somebody got a book - actually couple of students began to get books - and soon everybody got books. But as you might imagine, our learning was not accelerated; it began to get disrupted. The books, like Sanskrit shloka books, had indications for intonations and subtle variations depending on who the publisher was. And as the students began to second guess the teacher - we would look into the books, try to read and not succeed (we were learning devanagri in school - and not proficient in it), got distracted by the books and eventually, the guruji banned the books. He said, "You read the books once you are done with learning it all". Which is what we did.
Note that the way Vedas are taught is different. A sentence is broken up into parts before being recited as a long sentence. I cant think of an analogy here. But suffice it to say that the complete texts were an impediment to the teaching process. (I have heard similar stories even from some people who have learnt music, but since I havent, I will not comment)
As we try to absorb learnings in a web oriented world, a thought on how learning used to happen even prior to books...
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Shared items
Google reader just reintroduced itself into a more "social" avatar. As I follow a few people, I realize that like Twitter or Facebook, reader is another of the ways you can literally "stand on the shoulders of giants" in your own small way. Crowdsourcing, if you will, but I would rather call it smartsourcing.
Since there are people who follow specialised topics on the internet closely, mark items as favourites etc. etc., you get to read the best stuff hot off the shelves (if there be such an analogy). Also, since you cannot obviously read everything, it is smart to depend on others who you follow to track down the latest and greatest.
Many other places can do with a bit of "social"ity.
Restaurants - getting ratings from the last few visitors? Posting stats on most frequently ordered dishes? Libraries on most issued books?
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Rules for rule sake
As I logged into my banks online account, a large banner screamed at me, "Go paperless. Opt for e-statements" or some equivalent. Happy to reduce the spam snail mail, I clicked on it.
Two days later, I get a call for verification. They want among things, my date of birth, my doctors date of birth and my debit card pin (I kid you not on the pin). They also expect me to remember my last few transactions to the last two digits, some other aosduriewr id.
And I asked them, I logged into my id using a secure password and you are calling me on the cellphone provided on the id (not changed for the past many years). Now that you have got confirmation on this, just start sending the statements by mail. In any case, I told them, the statement that you send today by snail mail is hardly secure, anybody can open them, if they want to right?
The response was, "I am sorry sir, but they are our rules."
Absurd, dont you think? Whoever framed these rules is really stupid.
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Plastic bags
Near our kitchen we have a plastic bag which is the mother of all plastic bags to holds all plastic bags that we collect as part of our shopping.
It has always been an easy job to get bags that we later reuse for trash. Suddenly, last week, I saw that we had nearly no bags. Why? Because our mall has started charging a rupee per bag - so we decided to reuse the bags instead of "buying" bags.
And over the last few weeks, we have almost no bags. Now the question is how do we dispose off our waste - surely not by buying trash bags - so that's a problem we need to solve...hopefully without buying trash bags...
A small step taken by a mall in getting rid of plastic bags...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Of a drop in posts and all that
Sorry for the drop in posts. Yes, there are tons of things I need to write about - but there is one major reason why the number of posts have gone down. Make that two. The first is that I joined a library which has a superb plan - a library that goes by the name of Just Books. At 150 bucks a month, you get to take about 2 books at a time for unlimited duration. For a bookworm like me, that's amazing. The cost of buying books is quite high - a book costs anywhere between 150 to 400 rupees. Indeed the last 5 books I purchased average some 300 per book. So, cost wise the library is a smart thing. So, I have been reading.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Careers, Long work hours and family life
Can one have a high flying successful career alongwith a great family and personal life?
Before you jump at me, heres my definition - Join as management trainee, CEO by 38-40 (give or take a few years) types and upward thereafter. The jury is open to "Is this the only definition of a great career", and I would be one of the first to disagree, but assuming that this is the definition of a great career, what happens?
Can you have a career like that without spending long time in work or related to work (networking, golfing, travelling)? And if you did all of that, surely, you would spend lesser time at home? With the partner and kids? Even if you have an excellent support system with armies of servants and inlaws and outlaws - your personal time that you spend with each other and kids would be less?
Therefore, you can be either a good parent or a "great" career oriented person?
Thoughts that came up after an email discussion on Jack Welchs remarks on Career women. If you dissect his remarks, you will see that it is not so much about women, it is more generic and it is really about the choices we make...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
On Mangoes
Our summers were incomplete without mangoes. Goes without saying. Each vacation we spent in Kerala, it was a vacation soaked in Cashew, Cashew-nuts, Jackfruit, Pineapple and Mangoes. Out of all the mangoes, one of them was our favourite.
Before you think Hapus, Banganapalli, Neelam or any of the other exotic varieties, let me introduce you to perhaps the lowliest of all mangoes. It does not find mention in this piece either, afaik.
Now, this mango is of smallish size, very sweet, but to top it - unlike other mangoes has a sourish almost orangy tang to it. The pulp is not completely smooth. It has a stringy feel to it when you bite (which makes it not a good thing for pickles or connoisseurs). The strings, like the fibre of a mosambi, can get get stuck in the gaps between your teeth and as you bite it, it feels like you are biting a closely woven mango nest. That's the best I can describe it. But, worthless as these mangoes were, they were all over our yards. Nobody plucked them - since they were never a choice for pickle. The birds had their fill and left many for us. The adults never bothered, so we found many mangoes and ate our fill.These mangoes are often green when ripe. But its peels are soft and quite edible (works very well for lazy chaps like kids) and if you want to peel it, a little tug with your front teeth makes the peel come off gloriously easily. And, if you do that, it is one gloriously drippy pulpy fruit you have in your hands. I doubt if anybody bothered to give them a name - other than the typical nadan (local) - if you happen to know, please let me know.
The bonus of it is that you can make a mean sambar (yes) and morukootan (yes) with them and that is the second absolutely most delightful thing that can be made IMO to be had with rice. (The first goes to shallot sambar, but that's for another day)
But like many childhood memories are never found in supermarkets, I forgot about these mangoes for a long time. Our ancestral property was sold off and off they went into the recycle bin of memory, until I discovered them again, quite by supreme chance.
We were driving by a farm and found a bunch of mangoes totally unripe. We asked someone and they said, "Oh, that one, that's a local one. It is stringy". We were disappointed hearing that since the only tree we came across with mangoes was this one. But, by then, we had plucked a few, so we decided to take it home anyway. At home, it ripened over time and I happened to taste one.
And that's when all the memories came back...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Whats your excuse?
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Heads, there is a recession. Tails, there is no recession. It is a toss up really. If you believe the stock markets they are swinging like a pendulum. According to them, theres is a recession one day and good news the other. What to do? Who to believe? And in the middle of it all, what should I do? Is this the right time to stay put in my job or try my luck at getting into b-school? On the one hand, enrolments in colleges increase each time there is a recession (in the US) and on the other hand, companies layoff some and many others continue with their jobs.
What if I come out of college and the economy has not recovered yet? Or, worse, what if, the recovery happens now (as per current trends in the stock markets of some countries) and the market stagnates by the time I come out? What if my college does not get all its students placed? Will there be competition from students returning with foreign degrees?
Like a lot of other questions, these are all extraneous factors that, should, of course, be a factor in your decision to pursue your MBA, but you should not drive yourself crazy thinking about these factors. If you are, then, clearly your entire decision process for an MBA needs a re-think.
There are good reasons to do an MBA and there are equally good reasons to not do an MBA. There are good careers that can be had with an MBA and there are some amazing careers that can be had without an MBA. Look around you. For every MBA, you will find a non MBA who is doing well. So, clearly, as a human being, you cannot climb into all the buses. Decide (and I cannot exactly tell you which crystal ball to look into) and then be at peace. All I can say is that for many of us a single bus will not take us to our destination (this coming from personal experience). Just as there is no silver bullet in life. And in any case the MBA (or this piece) is no silver bullet.
Look at your strengths. Look at what you are good at. Ultimately, it is far better to focus on what you are good at and become the best than pick up something you are doing because everybody else is and try to make a living out of it. So, if you are good at technology, try to excel in it. There is a great demand for Technical positions and will continue to be. There are certifications and exams you can take for your entire career. And once you have picked up one platform, really, there is nobody but you who prevents you from learning a second one. If you are very good at communication, look for a specialized job opportunity that makes use of it. There are opportunities of that nature in media, corporate training, journalism - or even online.
But that does not mean you cannot use these inherent strengths to complement your MBA, but neither does it mean that you lose out if you don't do an MBA now. There are many who do an MBA and use it sharpen their skills in these areas like technology or communications. There are others who do an MBA with more than a few years of industry experience under their belt. There is no "single" way to run a career and you will see it all around you, in every career.
There is no easy way to figure out what your strengths are either, but looking at your own life and what you have done well in (honestly, without believing in conspiracy theories) is a good indicator. Write a honest note to yourself in terms of what you want to do and love doing (regardless of what the world is doing) in its most basic terms often gives you the answer. Or, write a note to yourself on what you definitely do not want to do. That may have the answer too...
Many look at the MBA as an option to change their careers. But is the MBA the only way to change careers? Nowadays, companies are open to let their employees try their hand at various types of jobs at a junior level. At a senior level, by and large, job rotations are quite common. And when you use that option once, can you use it again? So, use the MBA-to-change-career option wisely.
Are you trying to get out of a temporary trough at work? And think that the MBA will help? It will, for sure, but it will not insure you from any future troughs. And if that happens how do you plan to get out of that?
The MBA is not an escape route. It is an entry. The degree does not guarantee anything. On the contrary, it increases responsibility. It assumes that the person with the degree has certain positive attributes. (And unfortunately, your predecessors have also given the degree a certain degree of blemish which will be passed onto you and which you will have to do your bit to redeem.)
So, why would you do an MBA? Do an MBA if you are interested in the running of businesses. Do it if you like working on strategy. Do it if you want to start your own business and hence know the nuances of writing a business plan and successfully translating it into a profitable business. Do it to explore the various facets of business. Do it to increase your worldview. Do it, if you see the MBA as a year or two of hard work that will pay you dividends in future.
If you are seeing the MBA as a break from work, well, surely you will have friends in college, but, believe me, breaks are better spent in Goa or other areas for a lot lesser in monetary terms, than in college.
Finally, an MBA is not the only key to riches and El Dorado. That key, ultimately, is with you and will remain with you, regardless of the qualification you pursue.
So if you have decided to pursue the MBA, do it with all your heart...
(An edited version of this piece was published in Advancedge, July 09)
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Federrer - greatest ever?
So, Roger Federrer won the Wimbledon. For the 6th time. And in the process won his 15th Grand Slam. For a lot of people, to read this is somewhat of an epiphany. Is he the greatest ever? Pause before you answer...
We mourned the passing of an era when Bjorn Borg retired. We wept when Jimmy Connors soldiered on. Ivan Lendl retired without winning Wimbledon. The old brigade was unable to withstand the onslaught of the new. And then of course we mourned the passing of an era once again when John McEnroe retired. We clapped for Boris Becker (the NKOTB during our days) and Stefan Edberg and then when they too passed, we said the era of power tennis is in with Andre Agassi. They too retired to greener pastures. In came Pete Sampras and when he retired (OMG, we ARE getting older), we said again that Tennis would never be the same again.
And whose record did Federrer Express break? The venerable Pete Sampras. He of the big serve.
Point being, shows always go on. There is always something or somebody somewhere who is redefining the future. Tommorrow, Federrer too will retire and then it will be someone else!
In another discussion, we spoke about how Google is the epitome of cool companies as is Apple. But we all know GM was once in that coveted position, then IBM and then Microsoft and Toyota in cars. And tomorrow it will be someone else. Its nice that the future cannot be predicted, haan?
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Amar Chitra Katha
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Technology plays a huge role in the fast-moving package delivery market. Package delivery companies that skimp on innovation investments do so at their own risk.
As part of its effort to be the "shipper of choice" for customers, the U.S. Postal Service has invested millions of dollars in Mobile Delivery Devices (MDD), handheld scanners that allow letter carriers to track package delivery in real time via Global Positioning System. Tracking capability, known as package visibility, is essential for USPS to meet market demands.


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Lamb Chops with Creamy Mustard Sauce, Three-Cheese Tortellini, Miso Black Cod, Grain Salad, & Quick-Pickled Carrots
Well, here we are at the end of another week! Anyone throwing a dinner party this weekend? Maybe a spontaneous get together with a few friends? Planned or unplanned, put these lamb chops on your menu — they're classy and easy to make, plus the recipe comes complete with sauce and side dishes. Or pick up some black cod and give this riff on Nobu's great recipe a try. With these or any of these recipes from last week, you really can't go wrong.
- Lamb Chops with Mustard Shallot Sauce, Roasted Tomatoes & Pearl Couscous
- Three-Cheese Tortellini in Parmesan Broth
- How to Make Homemade Tortellini
- Nobu's Miso-Marinated Black Cod
- Ginger, Coconut & Cilantro Cocktail
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Explore the Book Arts! by Anne Bingham
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An exhibit of Contemporary Book Arts is on display in OUGL, first floor north, through October. The exhibit diplays Odegaard resources on Book Arts techniques and includes many examples of Papermaking, Calligraphy, Bookbinding, Paste Papers, Marbled papers, Letterpress Printing, Rubber Stamping, Origami, Weaving, Sculpture and other crafts, all created by Anne Bingham.


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Date: December 11, 2009
The Senate Passes H.R. 4218,
The "No Social Security Benefits for Prisoners Act of 2009"
On December 10, 2009, the Senate passed H.R. 4218, the "No Social Security Benefits for Prisoners Act of 2009." The bill was passed by unanimous consent without amendments. The House passed this provision on December 8, 2009, as described in Legislative Bulletin 111-25. The bill now awaits the President's signature to become law.
• The bill would prohibit the payment of any retroactive Title II and Title XVI benefits to individuals while they are in prison, are in violation of conditions of their parole or probation, or are fleeing to avoid prosecution for a felony or a crime punishable by sentence of more than one year.
• Under the bill, SSA would not pay these retroactive benefits until the beneficiary is no longer a prisoner, probation or parole violator, or fugitive felon. (The prohibition would apply to fugitive felons who meet the criteria for benefit suspense in the Martinez settlement.)
• The provision would be effective with respect to payments that would otherwise be made on or after the date of enactment.


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Starting tomorrow, it will be legal for merchants in most states to pass along swipe fees to customers who use credit cards.
It's thought that the majority of merchants (especially large chains) will not be imposing these fees, but I think it would be informative to share reports of any fees encountered.
A common argument is that this will benefit cash/check/debit customers, because merchants who impose this fee will lower their prices, so it'll also be interesting to find out if that actually happens (place your bets now).
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Winfield Solutions, the seed and crop protection products arm of Land O'Lakes, introduces a new Web-based precision planning tool that allows farmers to get a start in variable-rate seeding and fertility programs.
The R7 Tool uses satellite imagery as a stand-in for actual yield and soil test data. Working with retailer agronomists, farmers used the tool to develop crop plans on millions of acres scheduled for planting in 2012.
"This is an easy, low-cost way for farmers to see if precision ag makes a difference in their fields," says Todd Peterson, precision farming information lead for Winfield. "The success has been extraordinary."
The R7 Tool does not replace sophisticated precision ag software, Peterson says. Instead, it is a tool for farmers without extensive yield and grid soil sampling records to use to get started in precision ag. It also improves Winfield's ability to convey information about crop genetics it gathers from its 200 Answer Plot locations across the U.S.
An R7 Tool planning session first identifies a field in Google Earth. This initiates a search of 20 years of satellite imagery to retrieve a preplant bare soil image, a USDA soil survey map, plus four crop images from two recent wet and dry years. In the Corn Belt, crop images typically are from August, when the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), which measures biomass, is at its maximum and is highly correlated with yield, Peterson says.
Simultaneously, R7 Tool software crunches data from the bare soil and maximum NDVI images to create a composite that identifies management zones. The management zone map then can be used to build variable-rate seeding and fertilizer prescriptions.
A second part of the R7 Tool links to performance data on hybrids and varieties available from Winfield, as well as competitive seed choices. Search options include top performers by location and soil type. The tool also links to in-season photos to help agronomists and farmers visually assess performance.
"Part of the challenge with precision agriculture is to use genetic differences to optimize a farming operation," Peterson says. "Being able to easily access crop genetics information helps make that possible."
Farmers in a variety of situations have found the R7 Tool useful. These include farmers with new ground without field histories, silage producers without grain yield records and crop producers who can't justify grid soil sampling.
Use of the R7 Tool to establish management zones and identify top-performing genetics is free. Retailers charge to develop variable-rate planting and fertilizer prescriptions. Rates are set by individual retailers. More information is available from participating retailers.


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After a lot of brainstorming and community consultation, we've developed a ratings system that takes the best of feedback (i.e. it encourages good behaviour and discourages bad behaviour) and avoids the problems with feedback (i.e. it required full-time staff to settle disputes between pissed off members - which was often a mission impossible). It's called ratings and is fully explained in the Ratings section of the Instructions.
Here are the differences between ratings and feedback:
- Instead of writing comments you rate the member from 1 to 5 stars on four attributes of game behaviour.
- Next to your username will appear a star followed by your average overall rating.
- As with the current feedback system, you will only be allowed to rate someone after finishing a game with them, before the game is archived. However, ratings are not tied to any particular game, so you can update an older rating for someone as your opinion changes over time (provided you complete more games with the member in question).
- Ratings cannot be altered once the game is archived, but they can still be withdrawn.
- To prevent tit-for-tat ratings, new or changed ratings will be hidden until the game is archived because at that point it is too late for the recipient to retaliate.
- "Leave Ratings for:" links now show stars next to the username, grey indicating you still have to rate the player, yellow indicating you already have.
- Ratings are based on members' opinions and Conquer Club staff will NOT review, judge, edit or delete individual ratings.
What happens to old feedback? Since there is no way to fairly translate feedback into ratings, everyone will start off with a blank rating score. Until the ratings system has matured we'll provide a link to view the old feedback on each member's profile. We'll figure out how to drop feedback for good at a later date, in consultation with the community.
Oh, and please be a good sport and earn yourself a decent rating. In the future we will release a tool for members to block those with low ratings from joining their games!
The Wall
Since you can no longer use feedback to leave cute comments for your Conquer Club buddies, we developed a guestbook-type tool for socializing with other players, inspired by Facebook's Wall. Everyone has their own wall on their profile, and anyone can post comments to it! Sounds like fun, eh?
You have complete control over your own wall! If you don't like a comment posted on your wall (or that you posted on someone else's) you can just delete it. You can also block someone from commenting on your wall by making them a foe. Like with private messages, you'll get email notifications for new wall comments (unless turned off from Control Panel -> Board Preferences -> Edit wall settings).
Webmasters: Interested in having a wall on your forum? I've published the code as an open-source phpBB MOD.
Duplicate Start A Game Thingy
Did you know that 48% of public games on the Join A Game pages are duplicates - meaning there are already waiting games with identical settings? Now when you try to start a new public game and there is already an identical public game out there, you'll be presented a listing of duplicates and given an opportunity to join one instead. Hopefully this will trim down the pages of waiting games and make games fill up quicker. You can still start your own game if you insist.
Rule #2 Change
To promote fairness and counter-negotiation, we have changed Rule #2 to encompass all forms of secret diplomacy. That's right, it all has to be done in game chat now. This will require some of you to change the way you do things, but it is for the better of the club. Please take a moment to review Rule #2: No secret diplomacy on the Rules page.
Friend & Foe Notes
As promised in the last update, we've modified Friends & Foes to allow notes. You can attach a note when you add a friend or foe either via the member's profile or via the Control Panel. We also loaded up any notes you had on the old Ignore List to your foes list.
It's not all about score and rank now that we've got 9 game achievement medals for you to collect. Actually, each one is available in Bronze, Silver and Gold so make that 27 medals! Being awarded a medal will earn you the right to display it proudly on your profile and by your forum posts. Check out the medals page to see what you can win. Those of you who already qualify for any game achievement medals will get them after your next win.
Look out as well for our line of contributions medals to be awarded to those who've helped make this website a better place.
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February 7, 2013 — Cardiva Medical Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Premarket Approval (PMA) for the Vascade Vascular Closure System (VCS). Clinical data from a prospective, multi-center, randomized 420 patient trial demonstrated that the Vascade VCS is clinically and statistically superior in both safety and efficacy compared to manual compression, the gold standard for vascular closure for patients undergoing percutaneous procedures through the femoral artery.
"We are thrilled to receive PMA approval for VASCADE," said Charles Maroney, president and CEO. Maroney continued, "We appreciate the effort of our clinical investigators who worked with us to achieve this important milestone and establish a new third generation closure technology. Cardiva is well positioned to bring this technology to the marketplace to increase patient throughput and provide a safer and more effective alternative to manual compression across the United States."
James Hermiller, M.D. of The Heart Center, Indianapolis, who served as principal investigator for the trial said, "I am extremely pleased with the outstanding clinical performance of Vascade and with the extraordinary contributions by over 65 clinical investigators and their staff at over 20 clinical sites in the U.S. and Australia who facilitated the study. With PMA approval, Vascade will now be available in the U.S. to all physicians who need safe and effective vascular closure."
Frank Zidar, M.D., clinical investigator at The Heart Hospital of Austin commented, "Vascade is a new generation of extravascular closure technology that offers significant advantages over conventional closure devices and manual compression. I am excited to be able to provide Vascade to my patients and to integrate it into my practice."
Vascade, an extravascular closure device, utilizes a unique delivery system based on a proprietary collapsible disc technology that provides temporary hemostasis during the procedure, which eliminates the need for an intra-vascular component. Secure and rapid hemostasis is achieved with Vascade by the deployment of a thrombogenic resorbable collagen patch at the arteriotomy of the femoral artery.
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Carnivores: Ice Age Review
For some of us in the icy grips of winter, the release of Carnivores: Ice Age seems appropriate. This iOS remake of a PC game follows in the footsteps of Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter, with all new settings and beasts.
Carnivores: Ice Age is similar to its predecessor in many ways. The story is the same: In the future, a planet is found that happens to mirror one of earth's past periods of time, and the DinoHunt corporation buys it for your hunting pleasure. In this case, it's a planet going through an ice age, populated with cold-climate beasts, from mammoths to wolves to smilodons. This planet offers five locations and nine of these new beasts. There is no survival mode, but the hunting mode is as multifaceted as ever.
After choosing your target animal, location, weapon, and miscellaneous features, you're dropped into an expansive map full of life. If you use tranquilizers, you'll keep it full of life, but if you don't, you can stock up your trophy room.
One step closer to extinction.
While hunting, you must pay attention to the wind direction, the noises you make by crunching through the snow, and the fact that a hunter with a weapon is a frightening sight to some creatures– but an appetizing sight to others. Every animal behaves differently, and it becomes very useful to know if an animal will flee or charge when injured. A feature that we really appreciated is the ability to relocate to anywhere on the map, avoiding the need to jog endlessly across the tundra.
Our major reservation about Carnivores: Ice Age is similar to the reservation we had about its predecessor: steep difficulty and low accessibility. The game starts you out on a point system, meaning that you have to work your way up from shooting at herbivores with pistols before you can hunt more dangerous game.
Sadly, the points accrue very slowly, and hunting requires great patience and strategy. This prevents the game from being easy to pick up and play however you'd like.
For the committed mammoth hunter, Carnivores: Ice Age offers a pretty good experience. It offers a fresh (and freezing) take on the series.


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Anna Eubanks, a founder of the University of Central Arkansas chapter of Students for Life, along with other members of the organization, were once called into an administrator's office after they chalked pro-life slogans on campus sidewalks. "It was the second time in UCA's history that there were so many complaints," Eubanks said. "The other was in 1977 when someone wrote racial words with sidewalk chalk."
It's not always easy being pro-life in college, especially in a public institution. Cases of vandalism of pro-life displays or discrimination against pro-life student groups by university officials are not uncommon. Even just the liberal culture often present can be difficult to encounter, especially if experiencing it for the first time.
"The challenge is when students take classes where professors are very pro-choice and maybe anti-Christian, and they make statements that are directly opposed to what we believe as Catholics and pro-life (people)," said Deacon Richard Papina, director of Catholic campus ministry at University of Central Arkansas. "In a class of 25 or 40 students, there might be only one or two Catholics, and it takes a lot of courage for them to stand up and say something that goes against the majority, and also against the professor. It's like they are the lone wolf in the classroom."
To counteract that, Liz Tingquist, director of youth and campus ministry for the Diocese of Little Rock, invites campus ministries to participate in their pro-life conferences, weekend programs and a training camp where they learn to evangelize their peers.
"Over the years, I have found that our young people are more and more pro-life and more steeply entrenched in their Catholicism," Tingquist said. "They are not afraid to go out there and speak. They have not only head-knowledge but also heart-knowledge, and that includes loving life and being able to stand up for it."
Eubanks, 23, a junior business major from Benton, Arkansas, found her strong commitment to the pro-life cause through her family. Her mother, she said, declined to abort a baby that the doctor said had "something wrong."
"My little sister was born fine and is a healthy 19-year-old girl," Eubanks said. "That influenced me completely."
Maria Lewis' family experience set her heart on fire for life, too. She is one of six children of immigrant parents, who would have had only one or two children if they had remained in their native India.
"My brothers and sisters could have been killed in India," she said. "My parents gave me life, and it's our duty to save our brothers and sisters."
Lewis, of Oakley, California, is a community college student who plans to pursue a degree in law. She is the founder of Pro-Lifers of the Mystical Rose, a nonprofit outreach to middle school, high school and college students.
"We are working on three presentations at colleges," she said. "One, 'Be a Light,' equips people to stand up and be a voice. We also counsel students, one-on-one or in groups, who are struggling with life and death issues. We give them the resources they need and provide them with loving hands. We are helping them through abortion-related issues with absolute love, no hate and no judging. That's the kind of love that Christ had for everybody."
Amanda Conklin, 26, of Gouverneur, New York, felt targeted in high school because of her own pro-life activities. She is now on staff in campus ministries at St. Lawrence University and State University of New York in Canton. Their activities include attending the annual March For Life in Washington, D.C., weekly meetings and being a resource for students seeking information or are interested in starting or joining pro-life activities on their campuses.
"We share what the Church teaches, and sometimes we are there just for support, especially on non-Catholic campuses," Conklin said. "There are a lot of teachers who are not only atheists but definitely pro-choice. The students hear a lot of rhetoric every day, and when you hear something over and over, it becomes ingrained, and it's harder for them to recognize the truth. It's a huge challenge to overcome the cultural noise out there."
Mary Kominsky, who is on the pastoral team at Montclair State University in New Jersey, speaks to students about her own experiences.
"I am a woman who is post-abortive and have been giving my testimony for 10 years," she said. "The students are quite familiar with my story, and I am able to assist them in the negative effects of abortion and the truth of what abortion does to women.
"When many students go to college, they not only become pro-choice, but they also lose their Catholic identities, even at Catholic colleges," she said. "Today when you go to a university, if you believe in God, that's seen as a bad thing. There's a great emphasis on having no faith at all. And unless you are from a family that's extremely active in the pro-life message, the majority of students coming to college really do not believe in life issues. Most of the time, they really don't understand what it means. I can say that I can speak to them from a personal level."
Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller writes from Pennsylvania.
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Sequels "Despicable Me 2" and "Fast & Furious 6" were again the two bestselling DVD and Blu-ray titles for the week that ended Jan. 4, according to Rentrak.
That marks the fourth straight week the animated comedy and the high-octane thriller have earned the No. 1 and No. 2 spots, respectively.
"Despicable Me 2" was the third highest-grossing 2013 movie in the U.S. and Canada, generating $368 million in ticket sales and $568 million abroad for a worldwide total of nearly $936 million.
PHOTOS: Box office top 10 of 2013
The minion-filled feature, with the voices of Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig, opened in theaters in China this weekend to big results. It grossed $14.4 million from 4,500 theaters, giving it the third biggest animated film opening in that country, behind "Kung Fu Panda" and "Ice Age: Continental Drift."
The only new release on the DVD/Blu-ray sales chart is "Don Jon," starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a young New Jersey man who is trying to find true love and intimacy, despite his obsession with Internet porn. The R-rated romantic comedy, which earned generally positive reviews from critics, opened in ninth place.
The comedy "We're the Millers" was the top-ranked rental.
Here are Rentrak's rankings for the week that ended Jan. 4 for sales and Jan. 5 for rentals.
Top 10 DVD and Blu-ray sales
1. "Despicable Me 2" (Universal). Week 4.
2. "Fast & Furious 6" (Universal). Week 4.
3. "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters" (Fox). Week 3.
4. "Man of Steel" (Warner Bros.). Week 8.
5. "The Lone Ranger" (Disney). Week 3.
6. "Elysium" (Sony). Week 3.
7. "The Wolverine" (Fox). Week 5.
8. "Insidious Chapter 2" (Sony). Week 2.
9. "Don Jon" (Fox). Week 1.
10. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" (Warner Bros.). Week 42.
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Top 10 DVD and Blu-ray rentals
1. "We're the Millers" (Warner Bros.). Week 7.
2. "Elysium" (Sony). Week 3.
3. "The Wolverine" (Fox). Week 5.
4. "2 Guns" (Universal). Week 7.
5. "Man of Steel" (Warner Bros.) Week 8.
6. "The Lone Ranger" (Disney). Week 3.
7. "The Heat (Fox). Week 12.
8. "Insidious: Chapter 2" (Sony). Week 2.
9. "The Internship" (Fox). Week 11.
10. "White House Down" (Sony). Week 9.
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AMERICUS - Johathan Brooks scored a season-high 28 points to guide the Georgia Southwestern men's basketball team to an 86-80 victory over Columbus State on Saturday afternoon in the Storm Dome.
GSW wrapped up its four-game home stand with its fourth-straight win and improves to 16-3 overall and 8-2 in the Peach Belt Conference. The Hurricanes remain tied with Montevallo atop the West Division of the PBC. Columbus State falls to 10-7 overall and 4-6 in PBC play.
A 3-pointer from Brooks at the 15:46 mark of the first half gave GSW a 6-5 lead. It turned out to be an advantage the Hurricanes would not relinquish until the final two minutes of the contest.
Southwestern went on a 14-2 run in the middle of the first half to jump out to a 17-point lead (29-12), their largest of the afternoon. The Cougars chipped away at the deficit and trimmed the margin to eight in the closing seconds of the period. CSU had an opportunity to go in at the break down by six, but Brooks came up with a steal in the lane with eight seconds on the clock and found Alan Arnett on a long pass that led to a layup ahead of the horn. GSW led 41-31 at halftime.
CSU was unable to gain any ground on the Hurricanes for the first 12-plus minutes of the second half. A Daryl Davis dunk with 7:41 to play kept the GSW lead at 10 points, 64-54.
After a quick 6-0 run brought the Cougars within four points, Jahmad Saleem took over for CSU and would not let GSW stretch its lead. Saleem scored 10 of the Cougars next 12 points, capped by a jumper that pulled CSU within three, 75-72 with 2:49 remaining. R.J. Sessions connected on a 3-pointer three possessions later to put CSU ahead 77-75 with 1:40 on the clock.
The CSU lead would not last long. Brooks answered with a 3-point play on the ensuing possession after pulling down a pair of offensive rebounds. The Hurricanes forced two CSU turnovers in the final 84 seconds and made 8 of 10 free throw attempts to seal the victory.
Southwestern shot 49.2 percent from the floor in the contest while Columbus State finished at 47.5 percent after a red-hot 60.6 percent effort in the second half. The Cougars were efficient from the free throw line, missing only one of 17 attempts (94.1 percent). GSW knocked down 17 of 22 (77.3 percent) from the charity stripe.
The Hurricanes outrebounded CSU, 36-29, and dished out eight more assists (19-11).
Brooks followed up Thursday's 20-point performance with a season-high 28 against CSU. He connected on 5 of 6 from long range, pulled down a game-high eight rebounds, dished out three assists and blocked three shots. Arnett chipped in 23 points, seven rebounds and five assists. Davis scored 15 and Kevin Burnell added 14.
Saleem paced CSU with 23 points and six assists coming off the bench. Kenney Funderburk sank all eight of his free throw attempts en route to his 22-point performance. Sessions added 14 points.
The Hurricanes hit the road for a matchup with Lander University on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.