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Dell and VMware deliver virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that are fast to deploy and easy to manage. The partnership is built upon a strong history of working together to build, test and implement solutions involving VMware technology and Dell servers, storage, networking and services. With shared strategies, joint engineering and mutual expertise, Dell and VMware have built tightly integrated solutions at each level of the IT ecosystem, and have also developed a strong global services and sales practice. The Dell and VMware alliance has worldwide scope and focuses on a single goal: to help customers change their world with IT that's optimized for agility, dynamic response and value, for a software-defined future-ready enterprise.
Dell and VMware deliver virtualization solutions that reduce complexity and cost, and increase efficiency, control and choice. The combined strength of Dell and VMware delivers significant benefits for small, medium and large organizations across all industries and sectors.
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Dell and VMware's tightly integrated, proven virtualization and cloud solutions enable customers of all sizes to quickly and confidently deploy Dell and VMware architectures into their production IT environments. The vSphere with Operations Management from Dell solution is fast to deploy, easy to manage and powerful enough to run the most demanding applications. Learn more about Dell's virtualization solutions tailored to your needs.
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Leverage the full value of your virtualization investment by taking the next step toward implementing Dell's VMware-based virtualization solution with Horizon. Implementing virtualized desktops (clients) enables you to shift from the traditional device-centric IT computing model to a user-centric computing model: One image, any device. Learn more.
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– Steve Lalla, Vice President and General Manager, Commercial Client Product Group, Dell
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Designed to overcome common performance bottlenecks in virtualized environments, Dell PowerEdge servers feature expanded memory and I/O and Intel Xeon processors to deliver exceptional virtualization performance.
Dell makes storage simple, capable and affordable with offerings that can expand automatically, meet a broad range of needs and utilize existing infrastructure. Dell's diverse storage portfolio, including Dell™ EqualLogic™, Dell Compellent and Dell PowerVault™, meets the needs of companies large and small. Dell EqualLogic was one of the first storage products to leverage VMware's vStorage APIs into its storage arrays, delivering an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-manage, integrated virtualized storage solution.
Dell offers a comprehensive portfolio of services to accelerate virtualization and cloud adoption so you can achieve cost savings quickly, without sacrificing productivity. Dell's extensive VMware experience includes thousands of implementations worldwide, as well as one of the world's largest VMware deployments within Dell IT. Dell can help you develop a strategic approach to virtualization and cloud, with action-oriented plans that deliver high-impact, short-duration projects with predictable and measurable outcomes, or full-scope IT outsourcing or application modernization solutions that help clients implement IT-as-a-Service within their organizations.
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The Dell Consulting Services portfolio is aligned to the progressive journey from virtualization to cloud. Our experts will guide you each step of the way through the virtualization transformation process, from consulting workshops and readiness assessments, through implementation and maintenance, to tips and best practices you can use to accelerate performance.
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Finance Volunteer @ NGO Engaging Communities to Conserve National Park in Uganda (4 - 8 Weeks)
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Review and strengthen their control environment, and update their accounting processes, ensuring that these meet best practice requirements.
Volunteer Accountant @ Environmental NGO Protecting Natural Resources in Honduras (4 - 6 Weeks)
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Welcome Michigan educators
Welcome to the network!
All of us at Achievement Network are excited to partner with you to do right by your students.
As a nonprofit made up of former teachers and school leaders, our only goal is to support you—and over 700 other schools—in your work to provide the best possible education and access to opportunity for your students. We exist to make your work easier and more effective.
The linked brochure provides an overview of our purpose—educational equity—and the main components of our support:
Flexible coaching, adapted to your needs and priorities. Our experienced coaches serve as thought partners to school leadership teams; they offer expertise with data-driven instruction; and they connect schools with ANet's vast knowledge and resources.
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You can follow these links to learn more about ANet:
Contact information for ANet Michigan
Some next steps for our partnership
Videos that provide a lot of context in a little time
Here's our white paper on transitioning to the Common Core
Or, for lighter reading, check out our blog
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Q&A with Outside Hitter Kimberly Carpenter
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The UC San Diego women's volleyball team is off to another outstanding start, winning six of its first seven games entering conference play. Senior outside hitter Kimberly Carpenter has been a big part of the team's success averaging 2.76 kills per set, including being named to the Triton Invitational All-Tournament team earlier this month. Having already faced three ranked opponents, UCSD will host No. 21 Cal State L.A. on September 12, and host a showdown with No. 1 Cal State San Bernardino on Sept. 26. Carpenter recently took time to answer a few questions about being a student-athlete on the UCSD women's volleyball team.
Q- How do you feel about the UCSD women's volleyball team's non-conference performance this year?
CARPENTER- I think that this year we have a great group of girls. On and off the court, we have already forged a really great chemistry, and that shows in our games. I think the best part is that we haven't even hit our stride yet as a team, and we've already done well. It only goes to show that we have nowhere to go but up, and I think we're going to go all the way.
Q- In four of UCSD's seven games this year, the Tritons have lost the first set. What does the team need to do to improve this trend?
CARPENTER- We are a very stable team, as we have shown already. It takes a lot to rock us, and I think we just need to channel that stability into more intensity and aggression on the court.
Q- Your top three collegiate kill totals have come against Cal State L.A. and CalStateSan Bernardino. Do you feel extra motivation when playing stronger competition?
CARPENTER- We definitely try to make each game the same, but of course, it's only natural that having that extra competition gets all of us fired up even more to play the best volleyball we can.
Q- What is your relationship like with the rest of the senior UCSD women's volleyball class?
CARPENTER- Closer than close. These girls are my family, my sisters, and I love them all. There are no other girls in the world that I would rather play this sport with, or share my senior year with.
Q- What do you plan to do with your Aeronautical Engineering degree?
CARPENTER- Well, I plan on possibly going into the Navy but definitely in to the Astronaut Corps. That's my absolute dream job, and I've wanted to do it for years.
Q- What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?
CARPENTER- I actually love writing and drawing. I spend most of my free time writing novels, and drawing in my sketchbook.
Q- What has head coach Tom Black done for your UCSD volleyball experience?
CARPENTER- UCSD Women's Volleyball would not be UCSD Women's Volleyball without Tom Black. He has absolutely made me the best player I could possibly be. His intensity and drive have made this program what it is. He is a great coach, and I am very grateful that I got to play for him for four years.
Q- In your opinion, who has the toughest serve to receive on the team?
CARPENTER- Probably Janessa Werhane or Michelle Torres. They are both great players, and their serves are very tough, because they are very fast, and they tend to float a lot.
Q- How did you spend your summer?
CARPENTER- I spent my summer working at Northrup Grumman, where I am an intern, and going to summer school.
Q- What other sports do you enjoy attending at UCSD?
CARPENTER- I love going to all the sporting events that I can, but I especially enjoy going to Men's Volleyball, Basketball, and Water Polo.
Q- Is there a specific song you like to hear before taking the court?
CARPENTER- Of course! I bump Rage Against the Machine, and I love the song Just Like You Imagined by Nine Inch Nails.
Previous Q&A Articles:
A.J. Kotanjian (Men's Water Polo) September 2, 2008
Peter Akman (Men's Soccer) August 21, 2008
Natasha Belak-Berger (Women's Soccer) August 15, 2008
Jake LaVieux (Men's Cross Country) August 8, 2008
Dr. Penny Rue (Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs) July 30, 2008
Michelle Torres (Women's Volleyball) July 15, 2008
Jon Pascale (Men's Soccer Head Coach) July 1, 2008
Julie Ertel (Athletics) June 16, 2008
Clint Allard (Men's Basketball) June 9, 2008
Jen Myers (Women's Crew) May 27, 2008
Casey Ryan (Men's Track and Field and Men's Basketball) May 21, 2008
Keith Noe (Baseball) May 13, 2008
Liz LaPlante (Women's Tennis Head Coach) April 30, 2008
Sydney Gstettenbauer (Women's Water Polo) April 22, 2008
Sarah Hendy (Women's Track and Field) April 17, 2008
Eric Leserman (Men's Volleyball) April 9, 2008
Danielle Lukk (Softball) April 4, 2008
Chris Franco (Baseball) March 24, 2008
Dan Perdew (Swimming) March 18, 2008
Evan Hsiao (Swimming) March 9, 2008
Eric Rubens (Men's Tennis) February 27, 2008
Melissa Ward (Softball) February 20, 2008
Cameron Sprowles (Fencing) February 13, 2008
Kim Hockett (Women's Water Polo) February 6, 2008
Trevor Decker (Baseball) January 31, 2008
Jordan Lawley (Men's Basketball) January 23, 2008
Jason Spangler (Men's Volleyball) January 5, 2008
Andrew Skewes (Men's Diving) December 26, 2007
Alexis Gaskin (Women's Basketball) December 17, 2007
Aubrey Panis (Women's Swimming) December 2, 2007
Andrew Hatch (Men's Basketball) November 26, 2007
Kevin Klein (Men's Cross Country) November 12, 2007
Kim Adams (Women's Volleyball) November 7, 2007
Ben Miller (Men's Water Polo) October 31, 2007
Alie Avina (Women's Soccer) October 19, 2007
Charity Elliott (Women's Basketball Head Coach) October 15, 2007


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Grab a chair: Congress is about to get as fascinating and powerful as it gets.
In the next two months, the most unpopular institution in America will decide the fates of a president's power, a military strike, defense contracts, the budget, health-care implementation, the Federal Reserve chairmanship, illegal immigrants, and all of us who would be hit by a debt default.
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It will be bitter, ugly, extremely high stakes and in every case wildly unpredictable. "In 33 years, we've never come back from summer break with the number of very critical, important issues that we're going to confront over the next 90 to 120 days," House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told us. "It's an amazing time."
Based on talking to the smartest members and aides we know, Republicans and Democrats alike feel the Syria resolution would not pass today, even after party leaders endorsed it. Immigration reform looks dead for this year and probably next. They think the chances of defaulting on debt are low, but not as low as many think because conservatives are showing no signs of bending. And they see very little hope of any budget deal that allows for major changes to the sequestration cuts.
( See POLITICO's full Syria coverage)
Hoyer said the glut has resulted from "our inability to resolve the issues. They don't go away — they just back up." Top leadership aides in both parties — and both chambers — were generally glum as they walked us through their expectations for the fall. The best-case scenario: just muddling through without a catastrophe. The most fascinating drama to watch – again — will be the GOP leadership versus its rank-and-file on virtually every major fight.
Here's the state of play on each of the mega-issues:
— Syria: House Republican staffers tell us that several key members are unsatisfied so far by the classified briefings from the administration. A top aide said the administration has failed to make a compelling case "beyond spasmodic moral outrage."
"Nobody has really heard how this is going to either improve the situation on the ground in Syria, improve the situation for pro-democracy groups, not play into al-Qaeda's hands, not play into Russia's hands, not play into China's hands," the aide said. "Members felt the administration hasn't made a case about how this is going to stop it from happening again. They're putting a lot of chips on: 'We have to do this for Israel,' or, 'We have to do this because it's unacceptable.'"
( Also on POLITICO: Liberals balk on Syria)
Another House GOP aide told us that President Obama will have to make a better personal case to the public, not just to Congress: If you're going to sell the members, you also have to sell the constituents. Otherwise, the country could watch the amazing spectacle of Congress defeating a war resolution backed by the president and every top elected leader. And Wednesday evening, a top House Republican aide said the measure could actually lose.
— Defense spending: A separate debate, with its own harsh fault lines, could unfold over how to pay for a Syrian attack. House aides think a supplemental spending bill may be needed for an operation of any scale. "How will [increased defense spending] during a time of sequestration make liberals feel?" asked one House Republican aide. "Or does he try to fund the missile strikes out of the hide of current DoD spending? If that's the plan, good luck getting defense hawks on board. There was fat to cut to fund Libya, but that doesn't exist anymore." Hill aides said one possibility that could sweeten the politics for Obama would be to include the spending authority in the war resolution, meaning lawmakers – and the White House – would only have to endure one vote.
— Government spending: With only nine workdays scheduled this month, the House faces a Sept. 30 deadline for a spending bill to keep the government from shutting down. That may be solved with a temporary extension of as little as a month, clogging the calendar later in the year. Shocker.
( Also on POLITICO: Bill Clinton: Improve, don't repeal, ACA)
Republicans say many members are undeterred in their quest to link the continuing spending resolution to defunding Obamacare, despite the obvious futility of that approach, and ugly optics and politics for the national party. Outside conservative groups plan to make a federal case of the issue, making it harder for members to renew the nation's spending authority.
A huge question will be what to do about new sequester cuts that are scheduled for January. Republicans would be game to replace them with cuts in mandatory spending programs. But to go there, Democrats want tax hikes – a non-starter for Republicans.


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JVC camera is very popular among people, it generate high definition videos that can be both MPEG-2 and AVCHD format. Some JVC produce TOD movie, and JVC is also the only supporter of TOD format. TOD is the informal names of tapeless video format used by JVC Everio. Usually people like to import videos shot with their video cameras to video editing software for further editing. But TOD is not compatible with iMovie, so people who use a JVC Everio may meet trouble when importing TOD to iMovie for editing. Commonly iMovie support MOV and MP4, if people want to edit TOD with iMovie, they must convert TOD to iMovie friendly format first. And you may have tried some freeware to convert TOD, but the output video may disappoint you, because the quality reduced very much. And is there some ideal TOD to iMovie converter? The answer is yes, and next I will introduce you the wonderful Mac TOD to iMovie Converter and guide of how to convert TOD to iMovie. Mac TOD to iMovie Converter is a professional video converter specially designed for Mac users. It is easy to use, only need few mouse clicks you can convert TOD to iMovie formats, and the video quality will be contained perfectly. If you want to edit your TOD video with some simple effects, this TOD to iMovie Converter for Mac can also help you, such as rotate, split, merge, extract, control set, adjust, etc. http://www.anymediaeditor.com/imovie/convert-tod-to-imovie.php How to import tod into iMovie for editing on Mac? Step 1:Import tod into TOD to iMovie Converter Install and run TOD to iMovie Converter Mac, click add button or drag the TOD file to the program directly. Step 2:Choose the optimized preset for iMovie like .mov Select "iMovie" as the output format in the format list. The program has already optimized the video settings for iMovie. The output videos could looks great on iMovie. Step 3:Covert TOD to iMovie Hit the "Convert" button to make the conversion, you can import the output files to iMovie (iMovie 11/iMovie 09/iMovie 08/iMovie HD). Step 4:Import converted TOD video to iMovie Launch iMovie, choose Import > movies, Select the converted video files and click "Import", end. http://www.anymediaeditor.com/imovie/convert-tod-to-imovie.php


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ROCKFORD — An early morning surprise greeted employees of Rockford Health System on Friday. RHS President and CEO Gary Kaatz, and other members of the executive team, showed up to greet employees and thank them for their efforts in creating an organization that continually receives awards and recognitions for its quality and patient safety, according to a news release.
Leaders passed out celebratory T-shirts and buttons, and encouraged employees to share reasons they are proud to be a part of the RHS team.
Among the many awards celebrated at the event were seven RHPH primary care facilities becoming nationally recognized this month as Patient Centered Medical Homes from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. For the fourth straight year, Rockford Memorial Hospital made the prestigious U.S. News & World Report list of "2014-2015 Best Regional Hospitals."
Kaatz and other leaders began the celebration at 5:30 a.m. to connect with night shift workers leaving the facility. Leaders also made visits to employees at outlying clinics throughout the day.
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Marken announced that their DTP Home Delivery Services continue to stand out as a burgeoning segment of their business model.
Singapore: As pharma companies and CROs look to boost patient enrollment in clinical trials, Marken announced that their Direct to Patient (DTP) Home Delivery Services continue to stand out as a burgeoning segment of their business model. Marken launched the DTP home delivery division late last year as part of a new business service for the clinical trial market place.
Demand for DTP services is increasing as pharma seeks new avenues to both recruit and retain patients around the globe. Utilizing a specialized supply chain organization like Marken to ship clinical trial materials directly to a patient's home may allow sponsors and CRO's to realize higher patient participation and retention since patients can participate regardless of their proximity to investigator sites. Additionally, Marken adds valuable regulatory expertise allowing sponsors to determine the feasibility per country if they are considering including DTP services in their clinical trials.
Ms Leslie Chaney, Marken's Global Director, Preclinical and Direct to Patient Services, commented, "We have reviewed DTP home delivery requests for over 20 countries since adding the new service plan less than a year ago. As sponsors expand their market scope, they select and rely on Marken as their logistics vendor not only for the DTP home delivery option, but also for our regulatory expertise in navigating through the new global locations which these sponsors are targeting. Having an industry logistics leader who can ease patient recruitment and potentially increase participation rates is invaluable to sponsors."


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I have 3 adult albino cory in a 15 gal (if I can ever find a tall tank I might go a little bigger but I have been saying that for a while). There are maybe 4 adult guppies, 2 small adult guppies, a billion baby guppies, a ghost shrimp, and a couple of small chinese algae eaters (they will be gone soon).
I have 10 albino cory babies (5 weeks old and growing fast except 2 runts). I could add a couple more to the 15 gal. I have a 55 gal corner tank with lots of community fish (1 pleco, guppies, mollies, tetras, 2 cae) but no bottom feeders.
The female in the 15 gal has been laying eggs like crazy (I have maybe 20 on a thermometer moved to a separate tank that were layed tonight). She has layed eggs maybe 6 times in less than 2 months. None have survived except the 10 that were separated. She layed eggs about a week and a half ago and I saw a few when sucking gravel but have not seen them any other time. They seemed to be living in the gravel (as in under the gravel in the cracks) but surely they are too big to be there any more?
So to sumarize, I have a 55 gal corner tank (maybe 22"x22" floor area), and a 15 gal. I have a betta tank (a 1 gal and a 1.7 gal connected but the cory would probably not be able to swim back and forth like the beta does). I figured the betta tank was too small.
I have 3 adult and 10 baby cories, and may have more fry soon.
I can give away any extras. I already plan on giving away the cae out of both tanks and some guppies (probably just put them up on craigs list for free).
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Health Equity and Access Project
With our partner, the Connecticut Health Foundation, WNPR's Health Equity and Access Project strives to create awareness about Health Access and advance Health Equity among Connecticut residents, businesses, the educational community, the health care sector, community leaders, and policymakers.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Tech soccer team was mathematically eliminated from earning a playoff spot Friday afternoon, losing to Southeast Missouri 5-1 in its final home match of the season.
The Tech defense held the Redhawk attack to just one goal in the first 45 minutes of the contest on Friday afternoon. The Redhawks came out firing on all cylinders in the second half, though, scoring four goals in the second half to end the Golden Eagles' post season hopes.
Senior midfielder Jacquie Watkins scored the lone goal for the Golden Eagles, netting one in the 65th minute to bring Tech within two scores. Senior midfielder Kris Cambron earned her fourth assist of the season on the goal. The goal was the first of the year for Watkins and the fourth of her career.
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The Golden Eagles will wrap up the regular season on Sunday when they travel to Martin, Tenn. to take on the Skyhawks of UT Martin in a 2 p.m. tilt. The Skyhawks rank first in the OVC with 6-1-1 mark heading into today's match against Jacksonville State.


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We decided on the kind of truck that we liked."[embedded content]Wild Honey Flower Truck is blooming in Birmingham from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo.When they found a potential truck in Ohio, Sizemore sent her father-in-law to check it out. When it earned a thumbs-up, they had the truck towed to Birmingham."We started the process of really transforming the truck into something that could house the flowers," she said.That meant a paint job, building out the back to carry flower vases and adding an awning.Next came procuring flowers by working with wholesalers, flower markets and other dealers.With the truck ready and outfitted with flowers, the only decision was where to go to sell them."We just sought out the places that we really like to go," Sizemore said.That could mean being outside of the Pizitz building one day and in Woodlawn the next.You can also find Wild Honey Food Truck at the West Homewood Farmer's Market every Tuesday night this summer.The warmer weather and opening of seasonal markets and festivals has made for a busy time for Wild Honey Flower Truck, which started sales in November."This is our first spring and summer season," Sizemore said. "We're really figuring it out as we go. We're trying to have the truck out every weekend."The truck tends to draw a crowd and creates many opportunities for selfies. Sizemore has grown used to the reactions."I think they're pretty surprised," she said. "Most people want to take pictures with the truck. They ask a lot of questions about the truck and how old it is. I think it's a very Instagram-able business, so people really like that. They can make a bouquet and take a picture with it and it helps us spread the word, too."One area of growth the Sizemores see is corporate events. Businesses like having the truck show up and then the bosses buy flowers for employees. She would like to see that side of the busines... https://alabamanewscenter.com/2019/06/28/wild-honey-flower-truck-is-birminghams-florist-on-wheels/
That was pretty cool."The donation came from Pacific Beach resident Thera Storm, who is a grief counselor. Storm said the recent back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, that left at least 31 people dead, prompted her to do something extraordinary."After those two shootings within 13 hours of each other, I noticed the reaction on Facebook was just so scary and negative," said Storm. "The next morning I sat down and thought, 'What could I do that's positive?' Then I had the idea of donating money to a local flower shop."Storm was almost afraid of the reaction she'd get from Cummings, whom she didn't know, when she approached her with her unorthodox plan. But Storm shouldn't have worried."She donated a generous amount at our shop for us to pass out flowers to complete strangers," said Cummings. "She wasn't paying it forward. In her words, 'She wanted to spread kindness to the masses.'"Cummings took Storm's money and honored her request."For two weeks I've been passing out flowers every day to random people walking by of all different ages," Cummings said, adding she wasn't embarrassed about it. "I just said, 'We had a customer recently donate a significant amount of money, and we're spreading kindness and happiness.'"The reaction to Storm's flower donation has been uplifting. "People said that is so nice, we need more of that," said Cummings, adding, "A few people even cried. I began taking pictures (of recipients) and putting them on our Facebook and Instagram pages.""I feel like I had a very small, passive role," said Storm of her gesture. "All of the work has been done by Melissa."It's Storm's practice to take 10 percent of every paycheck and stash it away to do something special at a later date. Asked if being a grief counselor factors into her humanita... http://www.sdnews.com/view/full_story/27660789/article-Petals-by-the-Beach-uses-donation-to-spread-kindness-through-flowers-?instance=bbp
The 26-year-old business, owned by Paul Moore and Nicolas Suarez, is located at 329 N. Chestnut St. in the historic 1897 Victorian home of Thomas Mendenhall, the first professor of physics at The Ohio State University, according to business officials.Bernadette Thomas, the business' designer and marketer, said City Gardener is a full-service florist that creates arrangements using fresh or silk flowers and plants, planters, as well as a variety of gift baskets that can include fruit, teas, chocolates and truffles, tea biscuits, cheese and crackers and more.Delivery is available to homes, businesses, schools, hospitals and funeral homes in various parts of Akron, with a full listing of those areas provided at citygardener.com."We offer creative and quality designs and exceptional service that brings customers back to us," said Thomas. "We are customer driven, and our relationship with our clients is important. We take care of families, from the birth of a child, to graduations, to weddings and in death."The business also includes the Potting Shed, a shop housed in an old barn that offers a wide variety of gardening accessories and furniture, decorative planters, urns, statuary, benches and birdbaths. Also sold are gift items such as jewelry, photography, soy candles, artisan wind chimes and fairy gardens. Some items are displayed throughout a picturesque courtyard.The Potting Shed is open through late fall. For more details, visit gardenerpottingshed.com.In addition, the grounds include an outdoor space like a secret garden, according to Thomas. She added City Gardener & Florist has become a destination site, offering an opportunity to explore the unique 122-year-old home. Thomas added Mendenhall's great, great, great granddaughter is using the site to make a documentary film.Thomas stated City G... http://akron.com/akron-ohio-business-news.asp?aID=41216
O in January.The grandson of founder Hannah Royer, who started the company by selling home-grown flowers in local textile mills, Royer now oversees a company that has 19 locations in Pennsylvania and Ohio and 400 employees. Royer believes Royer's is the largest family-owned florist in the country and sells more flowers than anyone outside of supermarkets.Business Weekly: Did you always plan to get involved in the family business? Thomas Royer: "No, because I had a career in it before I went to college. I worked there so much, and I wanted to try different things. I did that, and you always hear the old adage 'the grass is always greener.' After two years, I was like, 'I'm going back to the flower business,' because the restaurant business was crazy. I could've gone into other businesses, but I always liked the retail industry. So I came back in like 1980, and I've been here ever since."BW: Why did you decide to come back to Royer's? TR: "When I got out of school I lived in Houston and I was in the restaurant business. I always thought that working here was long hours. There was no comparison when I lived in Texas; we were working 100-hour weeks. That's when the oil boom was going on, and Houston was growing by leaps and bounds so there wasn't enough people for all the jobs and we couldn't keep people at our restaurant. It fell back on the manager and assistant manager to open and close."BW: Valentine's Day is just around the corner. How much business does Royer's do this time of year? TR: "Dollar wise, we do more sales at Valentine's Day than any other time. Valentine's Day and Mother's Day are the two big ones. The thing about Valentine's Day is it's such a short timeframe because most people don't want to buy it too far ahead of time. We do so much business in three days. The 12th, 13th and 14th are the three busiest days of the year for us, and we do about 8 percent of our business on those three days. Mother's Day, we do the same number of units of arrangements and plants, it's just that our dollars in s... https://www.readingeagle.com/business-weekly/article/royers-flowers-and-gifts-ceo-talks-about-returning-to-the-family-business


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In March, Iron Man 3 writer-director Shane Black raised alarm among Marvel Comics fans when he said that his interpretation of the Mandarin wouldn't have magic rings, and would instead be closer in spirit to the Joker in The Dark Knight Rises and Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
With Iron Man 3 expected to cross the $1 billion mark by the weekend, most fans have taken to the silver screen to see for themselves how Tony Stark's greatest foe was represented in live-action. The results were perhaps, not what Marvel fans were expecting.
Warning: The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Iron Man 3!
But who was expecting that his Mandarin wouldn't be a villain at all? Reworking Ben Kingsley's Mandarin to be a goofy, toothless figurehead subservient to Guy Pearce's scientist has polarized audiences, with some arguing that the choice is a brave, modern move, while others decry it as sacrilege, not only to the comics but to the previous two movies. We asked Black to defend his version of the Mandarin to fans who found his weakness shocking. Here's Black's argument for Iron Man 3's bold re-imagining, from what we told us during the Iron Man 3 press day:
"I would say that we struggled to find a way to present a mythic terrorist that had something about him that registered after the movie's over as having been a unique take, or a clever idea, or a way to say something of use. And what was of use about the Mandarin's portrayal in this movie, to me, is that it offers up a way that you can sort of show how people are complicit in being frightened. They buy into things in the way that the audience for this movie buys into it. And hopefully, by the end you're like, 'Yeah, we were really frightened of the Mandarin, but in the end he really wasn't that bad after all.' In fact, the whole thing was just a product of this anonymous, behind-the-scenes guy. I think that's a message that's more interesting for the modern world because I think there's a lot of behind-the-scenes, a lot of fear, that's generated toward very available and obvious targets, which could perhaps be directed more intelligently at what's behind them."
Maybe we should have seen the change coming. After all, back when Black was denying that The Mandarin was even in the movie he was saying the character was a racist relic. But could Tony Stark's archenemy have been rehabilitated for the modern age? Sure, there are racially suspect elements to the traditional Mandarin, but surely Black and co-writer Drew Pearce could have trimmed those out.
Perhaps Marvel fanboys are most upset at the loss of The Mandarin's ten rings of power. These extraterrestrial weapons defined The Mandarin for decades, and in the Iron Man movies they've been transformed into only the name of the villain's terrorist network. Perhaps Black could have tried to bring those rings into the film. The Iron Man trilogy has tried to rely on science-based foes, but Pearce's Aldrich Killian could have come up with some sort of nanotechnological spin on the rings.
While it might have been nice to keep the rings, Black's spin on The Mandarin was unexpected and fun. It certainly gave Sir Ben Kingsley the opportunity to open up and have a blast in the role (read about Kingsley's thoughts on The Mandarin here). It also managed to actually surprise fans, who thought they knew every detail of the story going in. It's nice, in this age of endless reboots and sequels and adaptations from well-known source material, to be surprised in the theater once in a while.
What do you think? Is Iron Man 3's media-managed Mandarin an interesting, modern twist? Or were you dismayed that he wasn't a more formidable adversary? Let us know in the comments below.
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Your first mistake, my dear Wreckies, was in being so positive and supportive of yesterday's post that some of you even asked to see some of the posts John *won't* let me publish.
So again, in my defense: you asked for it.
Here's one that's been languishing in my drafts folder for nearly a year, and it still makes me snort-giggle - but I can guarantee there is NO WAY you all will find it as amusing as I do. You just won't. Trust me. You'll think it's cute and adorable and I'm a terrible person for laughing.
Or you'll laugh, too, and then we can nod knowingly at each other from across crowded rooms, as if to say, "Yeah, I'm a terrible person, too. S'all good."
A Minor Oversight:
Sadly, God neglected to add air holes.
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RAYMOND WEIL Announces Official Watch & Timing Partner Status At The 14th Annual Classic BRIT Awards
RAYMOND WEIL, the luxury Swiss watchmaker, today announces that it is to continue in its role as the Official Watch & Timing Partner to the Classic BRIT Awards 2013, the UK's most prestigious Classic Awards ceremony that each year honors the very best of talent within the classical music scene, who will all come together at The Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 2 October 2013.
Now in its 14th year, the Classic BRIT Awards has played a major role in supporting and nurturing talent in both all types of musical talent and styles within the classical world. The event was established in 2000 to honor and recognize all forms of classical music from contemporary to crossover, opera to soundtracks, traditional to theatre.
This years' partnership will once again see RAYMOND WEIL create two unique limited edition timepieces that will be launched on 17 September and that will be presented to all key performers, presenters and key guests backstage at the awards ceremony at The Royal Albert Hall.
Myleene Klass has been confirmed to present the event, which will include performances from the world's most successful contemporary classical pianists, Lang Lang and Ludovico Einaudi, and Australian saxophonist Amy Dickson. The London Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Warren Green, will accompany the evening's performances.
"We are very pleased to continue our partnership with the Classic BRIT Awards, for not only their association with the arts but for the unique way the awards ceremony celebrates both core and crossover classical music. This year, the Classical BRIT Awards is even more special to us due to our partnership with the venue for the ceremony, The Royal Albert Hall. Coming from a true classical music loving family, we can appreciate the overall experience of the event and cannot wait to share it with our customers." – Says Elie Bernheim, Director – RAYMOND WEIL.
In 2012, the Classic BRIT Awards recognized the extraordinary talent of 20 year-old pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, violinist Nicola Benedetti, classical guitarist Miloš Karadaglić and conductor Vasily Patrenko as well as legendary film composer John Williams, tenor Andrea Bocelli and the phenomenally successful live performances and sales of André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra.


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Edge Online has published its annual list of the industry's "hot" developers, a hundred men and women whose names you should know. Topping the list is Rockstar Games co-founder and VP of Creative Dan Houser.
Houser beats out Nintendo's Hideki Konno and Shigeru Miyamoto, both of whom placed in the top ten alongside industry movers and shakers Mark Healey from Media Molecule, Jun Takeuchi from Capcom and Rod Humble of EA's Sims label.
How does Edge quantify "hot"?
It says the primary factor in determining who's hot and who's not is, bluntly, market success. Houser obviously had a good year, market success-wise with Grand Theft Auto IV.
"Critical reception and contributions to the art and craft of development are also weighed heavily" notes edge, which might explain why some developers associated with better selling products have had to give up the top spot to Mr. Houser. (He placed #9 on the list, with BioShock lead Ken Levine securing #1 on last year's list.)
There are plenty of faces that you should be familiar with on the list if you want to appear informed at your next video game cocktail party.
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Find out who's climbing Northeast Ohio's corporate ladder.
Going Places: Dec. 17, 2012
C.C. HODGSON ARCHITECTURAL GROUP: Mark Duluk to senior design architect; George Gatta to design architect/project director.
BEACON MARSHALL COS.: Daniel Pillar to director of marketing.
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: HaeSun Paik to piano faculty. NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY: Sergio A. Garcia to chief of staff; Barbara A. Tobias to director of human resources.
MANNIK & SMITH GROUP INC.: Thomas M. Adams to senior roadway engineer; Steve Tomsic to senior bridge engineer. TECHNICAL ASSURANCE INC.: Dan Jackson to senior roof consultant; Jackie Spencer to database administrator; Matt Walder and Adam McHale to field technicians, roofs; Garrett Moeller to director of spatial solutions; Carrie Ann Tripodo to contracts administrator; Bob Maslanka to field technician.
CHARTER ONE/RBS CITIZENS: Cheri Henson Smith to senior vice president and manager, CRA administration team. LAKE NATIONAL BANK: Amy Cossick to business development officer.
FAIRPORT ASSET MANAGEMENT: Lindsay Suster to client service representative. SS&G: Ross Vozar to associate director; Chad Leikin to associate. SS&G HEALTHCARE: Patricia Baker to billing specialist. WARFIELD & CO. CPAS LTD.: Edwin Repphun to tax consultant; Barbara Benden to paraprofessional; Richard Leach to manager.
MEDINA COUNTY: Anne Murphy to director of community relations, Auditor's Office.
KAISER PERMANENTE OHIO: Dr. Nabil Chehade to president and executive medical director, Ohio Permanente Medical Group. SURGICAL THEATER LLC: Peter R. Brumbergs to chief financial officer.
OSWALD COS.: Barbara Belovich to consultant.
BENESCH: David C. Weiner to attorney, litigation practice group. MANSOUR, GAVIN, GERLACK & MANOS CO. LPA: Andrew C. Geronimo and Justin J. Eddy to associates. PLEVIN & GALLUCCI CO. LPA: David R. Grant to chair, product liability. WALTER & HAVERFIELD LLP: Tyler S. Bobes to partner, real estate law group.
MIDWEST MATERIALS: Kerrie A. Rusnak to logistics manager; Mike Alley Jr. to logistics coordinator. WALLOVER OIL CO.: Patrick G. Nygaard to regional sales manager, Northeast Ohio.
QUEZ MEDIA MARKETING: Jae Sean Davis to administrative coordinator; Holly Mathews to graphic desginer; Tyler Thornton to marketing manager, web.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: Mark Williams to director of artistic planning. ELIZA JENNINGS SENIOR CARE NETWORK: Chuck Viers to director of marketing.
CLEVELAND MEDICAL MART & CONVENTION CENTER: Mike Mangan to chief engineer; Ron Willner to director, event services. PNC FAIRFAX CONNECTION: Collette Appolito to executive director.
DIRECT RECRUITERS INC.: Jonah Weiss to lead recruiter, plastics and flexible packaging practice area.
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The trial of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying or offences against national security, opened and adjourned after little more than an hour Thursday, will resume on May 1, court spokesman Hossein-Gholi Amiri said.
Amiri said earlier that defence lawyers had asked for an adjournment at the beginning of the hearing.
The spokesman for the lawyers had told AFP that they were seeking more time to prepare the case as they had only been given the files on Tuesday.
The Jews, some of whom face the death penalty if convicted of spying for Iran's arch-enemies: the United States and Israel, are tried in secret before a hard-line revolutionary court in the southern city of Shiraz, the press office of the Tehran law courts told AFP Wednesday.
"In line with the decision of the judge of the revolutionary court, the trial will be held in camera and information about its proceedings will be supplied by the court authorities of Fars province", of which Shiraz is the capital, an official said earlier.
In a statement issued in Shiraz on Wednesday, reported Iranian news agency (IRNA), Fars Province's justice department presented some details on a number of
Jews charged with spying, including their full and nick names.
"On February 2nd the suspects were told to appoint defense lawyers for themselves for the court hearing; while only some of them agreed to do so, they did not name any lawyers when the deadline was due.
"Even though it was not obliged to, the court, in a humanitarian move, asked the families of the suspects and the head of Iran and Shiraz societies of Jews to appoint lawyers for the suspects after the announced deadline," said the statement.
but the judge may not respond until Thursday when the hearing opens," told AFP.
Asked about the trial taking place in camera, one of the defendants' lawyers Ismail Nasseri said, "It is the law which requires a trial dealing with state security to be held behind closed doors, and we cannot insist on the opposite."
Nasseri is one of four lawyers appointed by eight of the accused. Two others have had lawyers appointed by the local bar at the request of the court, and the remaining three are reportedly undefended so far.
Amiri said those without lawyers were out on bail, and had failed to select their own. He explained that people who were not in prison were not entitled to state-appointed lawyers.
Asked about the evidence, Nasseri said it included "confessions by the accused and other elements proving the existence of espionage, but without direct contacts with witnesses, and the presence of police officers, we cannot reach a definite conclusion."
The Jews, accused of belonging to a sophisticated, high-tech spy ring, are charged along with eight Muslims who will be tried separately.
Their arrest last March and April was not made public until reported in the Western press in June.
Since then, Iran has rejected international outrage over the charges as "interference" in its internal affairs while Iranian judiciary officials have offered sometimes contradictory statements about the state's case against them.
Earlier this month the justice ministry said only "one or two" of the suspects would be charged with espionage, with the remainder accused of acting against national security -- a lesser charge that carries a maximum 10 years in prison.
On Thursday, The Jerusalem Post reported that Infrastructure Minister Eli Suissa presented Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Wednesday with a personal appeal from Shas's spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to assist the Jews facing trial.
Yosef armed Suissa with a letter which, according to the few individuals who have seen it, has a "pleading tone." Sources close to Suissa said the minister intends to devote the majority of his scheduled hour-plus-long meeting to this issue. He will request that Mubarak initiate contact with the Iranian administration.
Also in support of the their brothers, Some 300 Jews gathered together to pray in the great Rabi Zadeh synagogue in Shiraz on the eve of the trial.
The men all wore the Jewish skullcap, and both hope and fear could be read in their faces, for the accused face serious charges, and some of them even risk the death sentence for spying and actions against state security.
"I shall only be able to talk and comment about it after the trial. For the moment all we can do is place our trust in Islamic justice, which has promised a fair trial," said Nik-Nava.
The southern town of Shiraz is home to some 6,000 Jews, and has had a Jewish community for 2,700 years,
Meanwhile the police chief who arrested the suspects in Shiraz, the center of Iran's 35,000-strong Jewish community, died in a helicopter crash on the same day that their trial date was announced.
Both Israel and the United States deny the suspects were spying for them, and Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy has asked UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to help set the 13 free.
The former chairman of the French constitutional council, Robert Badinter, had announced plans to attend the trial as an observer on behalf of the Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights Leagues – (Several Sources)
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Da Vinci: The Lost Treasure
Da Vinci: The Lost Treasure Previous Broadcasts
KQED 9: Fri, Sep 12, 2014 -- 9:00 PM
Leonardo da Vinci is considered by many to be one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Yet his reputation rests on only a handful of pictures - including the world's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. Fiona Bruce attempts to uncover the story of this enigmatic genius. She begins her journey in Leonardo's birthplace, the small town of Vinci in Tuscany, and follows in his footsteps to Florence, where he was apprenticed to the master painter Verrocchio. In Paris, Fiona is given a private view of the Mona Lisa and learns the secret of how Leonardo achieved the extraordinary effect of the picture on generations of art lovers: by meticulously applying layer upon layer of paint thinly mixed with oil to produce a smoky, mysterious finish. And in New York, she is given an exclusive preview of a sensational discovery: a new Leonardo, thought to have disappeared centuries ago, Salvator Mundi, The Savior of the World.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Life: Mon, Sep 15, 2014 -- 3:00 AM
- KQED 9: Mon, Sep 15, 2014 -- 1:00 AM
- KQED Life: Sun, Sep 14, 2014 -- 9:00 PM
- KQED 9: Sun, Sep 14, 2014 -- 7:00 PM
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Ever since "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," tales of the supernatural have provided a bridge between demographics, offering a way to showcase female empowerment while still keeping the guys interested. So it was only a matter of time before Lifetime got in the game.
Inspired by Melissa de la Cruz's bestselling novel and starring such heavy hitters as Emmy-winning Julia Ormond and Oscar-nominee Virginia Madsen, "Witches of East End," premiering Sunday, moves the network one step further away from its sob-sister niche roots and closer to the mainstream.
In the idyllic seaside town of East Haven lives a witch, Joanna Beauchamp (Ormond), and her two daughters, Freya (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) and Ingrid (Rachel Boston). We meet Joanna, or so we think, as she is up to dark magic/no good in a cemetery while the daughters prepare for Freya's engagement party. Although Freya is plagued by troubling dreams and believes she can read auras, neither has any reason to believe she is not "normal." That is about to change, of course, because whether the magical child is Tabitha Stephens of "Bewitched" or any of the "Charmed" girls, the power will out.
PHOTOS: TV witches -- The funny, the spooky and the ugly
Especially since the man Freya is marrying, Dash Gardiner (Eric Winter), isn't just the local rich boy with the mean mama (Madsen). He's the local rich boy with the mean mama who lives in the house built by a man who oversaw animal sacrifice and ritualistic orgies in his basement. Also, he has a broody-licious brother, Killian (Daniel DiTomasso), who turns out to be the man of Freya's troubling dreams.
More important, Joanna is being stalked by a shape-shifter so malevolent that her sister Wendy (Madchen Amick) breaks their hundred-year feud to warn her. As Wendy reveals what she suspects, we learn Joanna's story: Though she is immortal, her daughters are not.
Or at least, not quite. Every generation they discover their magic and then die. Which is why Joanna decided to keep their heritage secret.
If this sounds silly, it is and it isn't. Throughout both literature and history witchcraft served as a powerful, and often fatal, metaphor for female awakening, sexual and otherwise, and so it is used here. Ormond, with her mournful wise-woman eyes, gives Joanna's curse a physical veracity, a weary determination that reaches beyond the confines of her supernatural circumstance to the concerns shared by mothers in every time and place.
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Indeed, while all the characters have boilerplate for bones — the brainy one, the pretty one, the smart aleck, the tortured hunk — crisp writing and buoyant performances keep the story from trending too trite or too "Twilight."
By contrast the CW's "Vampire Diaries" spinoff "The Originals," debuting Thursday, goes very dark 'n' stormy, though also quite heavy on witches. One of the first vampires ever created, Klaus Mikaelson (Joseph Morgan), has not had a happy life. The product of an affair his witch mother had with a werewolf before she turned her family into vampires (yeah, OK, just keep up), he is feared and hated by pretty much everyone, including his own family. Now apparently, some New Orleans witch is planning his destruction and so he has returned to the town he once ruled to find out why and destroy her.
Things have changed in the Big Easy and not just because of Katrina or increased film production. Klaus' protégé Marcel (Charles Michael Davis) has the witches and mortals under his thumb and he's not happy to see his hybrid creator sniffing around. Klaus' brother Elijah (Daniel Gillies) shows up, hoping the family can be saved and a witch/vamp peace brokered.
New Orleans saturates "The Originals" with a weightiness it may not deserve — it all started here with Anne Rice's still unparalleled "Interview With the Vampire" — but at least we can dispense with self-denial.
As Marcel boasts, in his town no one is trying to pass, which makes "The Originals" less of a ghost story than a political drama. It's "House of Cards," with a werewolf/vampire hybrid instead of a charming but ruthless Southern senator. Which, in these hyper-partisan times, just might work.
'The Originals'
Where: KTLA
When: 9 p.m. Thursday
Rating: TV-14-LV (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 14 with advisories for coarse language and violence)
'Witches of East End'
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When: 10 p.m. Sunday
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Doritos will be crashing the Super Bowl again this year and this time they've brought along a little help: Michael Bay. Not only will you be able to submit your own Doritos ads for Super Bowl XLVII via the Crash the Super Bowl site, but now you can "Pitch-In" and collaborate with others to help create ads. But don't worry if you're not the creative type, because we've got a great Doritos contest anyone can enter.
To help spread the word about Doritos Crash the Super Bowl, and to make sure the Super Bowls ads stay as entertaining as they've always been, Doritos is providing Screen Rant with a 42" HD-TV television to give away. And because television is much more fun while eating Doritos (you know it's true), we got the chip maestros to throw in a case for the winner. That's right, fresh Doritos from the factory to your home. You're welcome, future luckiest contest winner ever.
If you're interested in entering your own ad, check out the information below, where you can read about your chance at winning $1-Million from Doritos. Of course, that's not big enough for Michael Bay, so he will also be providing the winner with the opportunity to work on Transformers 4, which itself comes with a $1-Million bonus. Feeling creative yet? You should be. You can enter your ads using the link below.
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One lucky winner will receive a 42-inch HD-TV and a case of Doritos:
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Following six previous contests, $5 million in prize money awarded and three No. 1 USA TODAY Ad Meter rankings, the Doritos brand is doing the unthinkable for the seventh anniversary of the program — raising the stakes higher than ever before.
In a message direct to fans via webcast , acclaimed Hollywood film director Michael Bay and the Doritos brand announced the biggest, boldest contest grand prize to date: an opportunity to work with Bay on the next installment of the "Transformers" movie franchise, along with a shot at a $1 million bonus. From Paramount Pictures and Hasbro, the next installment in the hit series will be released on June 27, 2014. The webcast is now archived on the Doritos Facebook Page — the main hub of this year's contest.
As in previous years, the Crash the Super Bowl contest invites consumers to create homemade ads for the Doritos brand, with two finalist consumer-created spots ultimately airing during the Super Bowl broadcast. One of those ads will be selected by America's votes; the other by the Doritos brand team. The finalist whose ad scores highest on the USA TODAY Ad Meter rankings will be awarded the grand prize-career opportunity working with Bay. In addition, if a consumer-generated Doritos ad scores No. 1 on the USA TODAY Ad Meter, the Doritos brand will award its creator a $1 million bonus. The Super Bowl XLVII broadcast is set for Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, on CBS.
For the first time in Crash the Super Bowl history, the contest will be run from a Crash the Super Bowl-branded app on the Doritos Facebook Page . There, participants can upload their :30 homemade commercials until Nov. 16, 2012, but the app is designed to engage and socialize with consumers in a much broader way than ever before. New to this year's contest, the app will feature a "Pitch In" collaboration tool that allows fans from all walks of life to interact with each other and assist with the creation of Crash the Super Bowl entries by requesting or offering up props, talent and other items contestants need to create their potentially winning ads. Now, anyone from any background can play a role in the creation of the next great Doritos masterpiece. The app will also house the traditional toolbox where Doritos logos, product shots, music and animations are available for download and use, as well as the gallery of all contest submissions where fans can view submissions and weigh in on their personal favorites.
Five finalist ads will be announced in January 2013. Then it will be up to fans to vote for their favorite consumer-created ad. Each of the five finalists will win $25,000 and a trip to New Orleans to attend Super Bowl XLVII in a private luxury suite at the game, where they will tune in to learn for the first time which consumer ads will compete for the top spot in the USA TODAY Ad Meter before a worldwide audience. Bonus prizing will be awarded, based on how each ad ranks on the USA TODAY Ad Meter:
• $1 million will be awarded for an ad that scores the No. 1 spot on the USA TODAY Ad Meter • $600,000 will be awarded for an ad that scores the No. 2 two spot on the USA TODAY Ad Meter • $400,000 will be awarded for an ad that scores the No. 3 spot on the USA TODAY Ad Meter
Doritos Crash The Super Bowl runs until Nov. 16, 2012, with winners announced January 2013
Super Bowl XLVII will air, Feb. 3, 2013, on CBS
Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Doritos Crash The Superbowl Contest
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Cheat Sheet
Canon EOS 5D Mark III For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Your Canon EOS 5D Mark III is an incredible digital camera with a ton of controls and options. Use this Cheat Sheet to quickly review the controls, shooting modes, menus, and picture styles that the EOS 5D Mark III has to offer.
Shooting Mode Quick Reference for the Canon 5D Mark III
The Canon 5D Mark III has enough shooting modes for photographers of all experience levels. For point-and-shoot photography, set the camera to Scene Intelligent Auto mode and let the camera handle most of the work for you. Choose an advanced shooting mode (P, Av, Tv, M, B, or a Custom mode) to take more control for yourself.
This table gives you some information on each mode:
|Scene Intelligent Auto
|The 5D Mark III's fully automatic shooting mode. Use it to turn
control over to the camera. Great for when you're learning about
your camera and photography or when you need to transfer the
workload to the camera so that you can relax and have fun.
|P (Program AE)
|Think of Program AE (AE stands for auto exposure) mode as a
bridge between Scene Intelligent Auto and the more manual shooting
modes. Although the camera determines the exposure settings, you
have much more control over different functions, such as the AF
mode, metering, and so forth. You can also shift the program by
changing which combination of aperture and shutter speed the camera
uses in a given situation.
|Tv (Shutter-Priority AE)
|In this mode, you set the shutter speed and the camera works
around that setting to get the right exposure. In all other
aspects, the camera is under your full control. Good for sports,
action, and when you are moving.
|Av (Aperture-Priority AE)
|This mode is similar to the Tv Shooting mode except that you
set the aperture. Good for portraits, landscapes, and
|M (Manual exposure)
|You are responsible for all exposure settings.
|B (Bulb)
|This special shooting mode (known as Bulb) opens the shutter
for as long as you hold the Shutter button down.
|These are Custom Shooting modes. They enable you to save camera
settings in any of the three dial positions for recall later.
Menu Categories on the Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Canon includes a number of important menus in its 5D Mark III digital camera. You use these menus to set up the camera, as well as to configure and customize it to shoot the way you want it to. Here are the major categories of menus and what they do:
Shooting: These five menu pages (Shooting Menu 1 through Shooting Menu 5) are dedicated to shooting settings, including image quality, mirror lockup, ISO speed settings, Auto Lighting Optimizer, and Picture Style. Live View and Movie modes each have their own dedicated Shooting menu.
AF: The AF (autorfocus) menu has five pages devoted to listing just about every autofocus option that you would ever want to adjust.
Playback: Playback has three pages of menus. You protect, rotate, erase, print, copy, resize, and process images here, set up slide shows, and more!
Setup: Setup consists of four pages of menus that have various setup options.
Custom Functions: The Custom Functions (advanced options) are grouped together in this menu. They are divided into Exposure, Display/Operation, Others, and Clear categories.
My Menu: The 5D Mark III enables you to create your own custom menu containing up to six items from the camera's other menus. Set it up and use it here.
Canon EOS Mark III: Using Picture Styles
The 5D Mark III has a number of Picture Styles that you can use to process your photos in-camera. Each predefined style has different color, saturation contrast, and sharpening settings:
|In this case, the camera applies the photo style (but not
monochrome) it thinks is appropriate to the scene. Mileage may vary
from photo to photo.
|The default setting, this option promises sharp images with
good contrast and strong colors.
|This mode reduces sharpening slightly (compared to Standard) to
soften skin textures.
|In a nod to traditions of landscape photography, this Picture
Style emphasizes greens and blues and amps up color saturation and
sharpness, resulting in bolder images.
|Use the Neutral style if you want to edit your photos yourself.
The colors are subdued but natural.
|The Faithful style is designed to render colors as closely as
possible to how your eye perceives them in the daylight.
|This setting produces black-and-white photos. You can also
apply four different filters (yellow, orange, red, and green) and
four different toning effects (sepia, blue, purple, and
|User defined 1–3
|You have three spaces in which to save your own styles. After
you create them, select them here.


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There is a votes breakdown on stackoverflow but doesn't appear to be on meta.
How come this hasn't been implemented for meta? I was wondering if there was a specific reason or if it was in the pipeline?
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Boastful chatter among young traders, preserved in digital archives, has come back to haunt Barclays Plc as it defends itself against allegations that it manipulated U.S. energy markets.
"I just started lifting the piss out of the Palo," Ryan Smith, then a trader for Barclays in New York, wrote in a 2006 instant message, allegedly bragging to a colleague that he had raised the price on an energy hub near Palo Verde, Arizona. In another, he used a profane term for a sexual encounter to describe what he had done to the market.
Was fun. Need to do that more often
"Was fun. Need to do that more often," he wrote.
These messages and others have surfaced in filings by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission against London-based Barclays and four former traders. The agency, which has expanded its oversight of energy markets since the 2001 failure of Enron Corp., and its enforcement unit are seeking a record $488 million in penalties from the bank and its traders, which they are fighting.
Messages among employees are "like catnip to enforcement authorities," Craig Pirrong, director of the Global Energy Management Institute at the University of Houston, said in a phone interview. "Traders are typically their own worst enemy. Sometimes they're just shooting off their mouths."
'Manipulative Scheme'
The case is the latest example of how instantaneous electronic communications can cause legal headaches years later. In July, Barclays CEO Robert Diamond stepped down, and the bank was fined a record 290-million pounds (US$455-million), after regulators released e-mails from traders accused of rigging the London interbank offered rate, or Libor. Last week, U.S. and British regulators fined Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc US$612-million after electronic messages from bank traders allegedly showed they manipulated rates.
Under authority expanded in the wake of the Enron case, the FERC can impose fines of up to US$1-million per violation per day for manipulating energy markets. Barclays has vowed to appeal the case to federal court if the commission doesn't relent.
Instant messages and e-mails sent by Barclays' traders, along with data, show the company conducted a "manipulative scheme" from 2006 to 2008, costing other market participants at least US$139.3-million, according to the FERC's enforcement office. The regulator says the traders deliberately took losses in physical markets, where electricity is bought and sold, to benefit swap positions in financial markets.
Traders Bragging
The bank's lawyers rebut that interpretation and say in a Dec. 14 filing with the regulator that the FERC has cherry- picked from more than 160,000 messages to build a baseless case. Neither Barclays nor its traders did anything wrong, and the electronic messages don't line up with market data, according to the filing.
"Junior traders brag," Michael Spafford, an attorney for Ryan Smith with Bingham McCutchen LLP, wrote in a filing. Smith's comments aren't that different from what others on Wall Street say to each other, and FERC should ignore the playful manner of his remarks, according to the documents.
Scott Connelly, a veteran trader by the time he joined Barclays in 2006 to head its North American power-trading desk, recruited several former colleagues — Smith, Daniel Brin and Karen Levine — and allegedly conspired with them to game markets, according to the FERC. Because they had previously worked with Connelly at another company, they were loyal to him, according to an Oct. 31 report the FERC staff prepared for the commissioners.
Other Cases
In an instant message in February 2007, Connelly wrote that a market participant said he would call the FERC after a period of market volatility, according to the agency's staff. "lol," Connelly wrote, shorthand for "laugh out loud."
The FERC has made public 13 investigations of market manipulation since January 2011, including probes of trading units at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank AG, which settled with the regulator for US$1.6-million last month. The Barclays case has drawn attention because the agency has named individual traders as well as the bank.
Brin, Levine and Smith never gamed markets and Connelly never directed them to do so, according their lawyers' filings. All, through their attorneys, either declined to comment or were unavailable for comment, and Mark Lane, a Barclays spokesman, declined to comment beyond previous statements denying wrongdoing. The trading data during the months of the investigation doesn't show any intent or ability to manipulate prices, and e-mails and instant messages have been taken out of context, lawyers for the company and the individuals say in their filings.
'Your Mom'
Connelly's response to the possibility that another market participant might call the FERC about suspicious activity was his dismissal of an unsubstantiated comment, his lawyers said in a Dec. 14 filing. The Barclays trader turned off his instant messaging function "because it was 'mostly trash talking and garbage,'" the attorneys said, citing testimony the former trader provided to the FERC.
"I own the palo markt, BTW," Smith said, using shorthand language in an instant message in November 2006. "Yeah and I own your mom," another trader responded, prompting Smith to write "hahahahahhahahahah."
"This is joking between friends and former colleagues," Smith's lawyers said in their filing. "It is not evidence of fraudulent intent."
FERC Response
The FERC staff rejects such explanations. On Jan. 28, after reviewing responses from the traders and the bank, it upheld US$470-million in proposed penalties for Barclays, the U.K.'s second-biggest bank by assets, and an additional US$18-million for the individuals, including US$15-million for Connelly. Messages between them prove that the traders took losses in one market to benefit their positions elsewhere, the staff said in a report.
"Why you buy index if its gonna tank?" a former colleague not accused in the FERC's probe said in a Dec. 21 instant message to Smith.
"My lil secret," Smith responded. "Tell you about it later."
The regulator says that messages sent by Brin and Levine also point to market-manipulation, which the traders have denied in filings. FERC staff is focusing on one message that Brin sent, according to his attorneys. A conversation between Brin and Smith complaining about Levine not talking to them is evidence that she wasn't conspiring with them, her lawyers said in a filing.
Smith Fired
Brin, Connelly, Levine and Smith now await the commission's final decision on the matter. The agency hasn't given a timeline for its deliberations. Barclays fired Smith in March 2007 for reasons that it says weren't related to the FERC investigation. Connelly, a Canadian, has returned to his home country.
Guidelines for appropriate communications "should be part of an ongoing training for the traders," Miki Kolobara, managing attorney at the Kolobara Law Firm LLC in Phoenix, which specializes in energy-trading law, said in a phone interview.
"I tell them not to say anything that they wouldn't mind seeing on the front page of a newspaper," he said.


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Fred Fehsenfeld
Senior Scientist
Office of the Director
Tropospheric Chemistry
Mailing address:
NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division
325 Broadway, R/CSD
Boulder, CO 80305 USA
Phone: (303) 497-5819
Email: email@example.com
Fred is a Senior Research Scientist with the Cooperative Institute in the Environmental Sciences of the University of Colorado. He is also a Fellow and Associate Director for Environmental Chemistry Division of CIRES. Prior to leaving Federal Service, he was a Senior Scientist at ESRL of the Department of Commerce (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). His major area of interest is atmospheric chemistry, with emphasis on determination of the sources and processes that shape the ozone and aerosol distributions on regional to global scales and the implication for regional air quality and global climate understanding. He has authored or co-author of over 325 refereed publications. His awards include the Department of Commerce (DOC) Silver MetalGroup Award (2004), Presidential Rank Award (2003), DOC Gold Medal (1996), DOC Gold Medal Group Award (1965), Special Act Outstanding Paper Award for Five Years (1967), DOC Outstanding Paper Award (1964, 1970, 1982,1989, 1998, 2000, 2003), DOC/NOAA Administrator's Award (1981, 2000), and his election as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1988).
B.A. in Physics in 1957 from Rice University
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1962 from the University of Texas
- Develop new approaches and instrumentation to make atmospheric observations of hard-to-measure species that can significantly influence the chemistry of the atmosphere.
- Plan and implement measurements of the atmospheric chemical composition from airborne platforms and at the surface in order to elucidate the processes and to identify and quantify the sources that are involved in the formation and transport of photochemical pollution and climate forcing gases and aerosols.
- Gain an improved understanding of the role that the exchange of gases between the surface and the atmosphere plays in shaping regional climate and air quality.
- Plan and implement atmospheric measurements, and diagnostic analyses that characterize the chemical and meteorological processes involved in the formation and evolution of the ozone and aerosol distributions in the atmosphere.
- Undertake field studies that contribute to the evaluation and validation of air quality and climate forcing prediction and forecasting capabilities.
Current Topics
- Participate in planning for the 2010 CalNex field study, a major study that focuses on combining air quality and climate understanding research. The planning is well underway. A CalNex 2010 White Paper for the overall study has been written. The CalNex 2010 Science Plan for the NOAA/CIRES component of the study has been drafted. The documents are now available for distribution to interested scientists.
- Participate in further analysis and interpretation of the data taken during the combined 2006 air quality (TexAQS II) and climate understanding (GoMACCS) studies that were carried out in 2006, as well as, other CSD/ESRL studies involving the TCO group.
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Price vs. Value
The simple comparison is; Price is what you Pay, Value is what you Receive.
The true goal is to find the equilibrium where they both meet. I pay $10 and I receive $10 in value. I guess to break it down to the simplest example, a gift card would be pure equilibrium. You pay exactly what you receive.
However, when you think of a gift card, you don't think of value. You paid for what you receieved. I've never heard anyone bragging or referring friends to buy the $20 Starbucks gift card because the $20 was stretched out into some magic way.
In the service business, the goal SHOULD be to create value. To maintain the quality and integrity of your product or service while widening the Price vs Value gap as far as possible.
I love it when clients say, "I love paying my invoice, because I know that for what I have paid, I have received X multiples more in value." That should be music to any business owner or entrepreneurs ears.
Value cannot however be confused with Volume. Although there are example of Value and Volume colliding (like a Costco Value Pack of Chicken) that's not true value. True value, as I define it is when the product or service, when compared with similar products or services costs the same or less, but delivers relatively more service or product to a customer.
A value pack is more more than bulk pricing. Retailers pass on savings to the customer to drive top line says while maintaining a realtively fixed (but low) gross margin.
So enough technical speak.
Everyone loves it when feel the value vs. price equilibrium slanted towards value.
Equally, everyone hates it when it slants the other way.
Can you think of an example when you paid $10 and received $1 of value?
Can you think of an example when you paid $10 and received multiple times more in value?
What you pay is generally a fixed amount, what you receive is dependant on who is providing it to you and how realistic your expectations are.


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OpenDocument Day at aKademy
This year at aKademy, Tuesday 26th September will be OpenDocument Day. The OpenDocument format (ODF) is a Free document file format for saving and exchanging office documents. KOffice was the first office suite to support OpenDocument and other programs have been following suit. OpenDocument Day at aKademy offers software developers interested in ODF to exchange ideas, build relations and collaborate on all things ODF in an informal setting. Interested parties are being invited from several organisations and companies with an interest in the future of document exchange. For more information see the aKademy OpenDocument Day wiki page.
which one
Akademy or aKademy? for once :)
By Hamster at Wed, 2006/07/26 - 5:00am
In Ludwigsburg 2004, when we first used this code name for the big annual KDE meeting, we deliberately picked the "aKademy" spelling, for various reasons. The most valid one is this:
* it makes the term look more uniq, and therefor easier to differentiate from the more generic words "academy" or "Akademy" (which are valid words in more than one language).
So if someone a bit familiar in KDE parses "aKademy" inside a larger chunk of test he'd know more quickly about the specific meaning of this word. (It's also easier to establish as a "household name" if you use a slightly modified spelling...)
By Kurt Pfeifle at Wed, 2006/07/26 - 5:00am
Re: aKademy!
I don't know... but I'm tired of constantly fixing it back... :)
By Navindra Umanee at Wed, 2006/07/26 - 5:00am
Re: aKademy!
Or shorter:
By funbar at Wed, 2006/07/26 - 5:00am
Re: aKademy!
That sounds more like a weapon to me ;)
By Firetech at Wed, 2006/07/26 - 5:00am
Re: aKademy!
wouldn't that be:
aK6, or aK2006
By Vlad Blanton at Wed, 2006/07/26 - 5:00am
Re: aKademy!
aK + 5 letters
By funbar at Wed, 2006/07/26 - 5:00am
Re: aKademy!
It's also quite tiresome to get two notifications from akregator(RSS) every time because the title has changed :-(
By pascal at Wed, 2006/07/26 - 5:00am
Akademy, aKademy!
YOu may as well have called it aKDEmy for all the fucking sense it makes
By anon at Sat, 2006/07/29 - 5:00am


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