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Extensions for Huntington, Hurdle offer a chance to reflect on Bucs' success
The Pirates were putting the finishing touches on their 15th consecutive losing season in 2007, when team owner Bob Nutting put some new guys in charge. At the time, he was criticized for calling it the "the best management team in baseball, maybe in all of sports."
Well, look who's laughing now. That's what Saturday was all about. In announcing contract extensions through at least 2017 for general manager Neal Huntington and manager Clint Hurdle, the Pirates guaranteed themselves the kind of organizational stability they haven't always had.
In doing so, they took a moment to reflect on how far they've come in 6 1/2 years. Back then, the Pirates were about as low as a franchise could get. Not only were they losing at the Major League level; they were losing all the smaller battles as well.
That is, their farm system was in bad shape, and home attendance was poor. Worse than fans being angry about the Pirates, they were apathetic -- and that's a condition that can take years to overcome.
Here's what's really important and what might be a lesson for every team owner: These 6 1/2 years haven't been the smoothest of rides. The Pirates had terrible finishes to both the 2011 and '12 seasons, and Nutting was under enormous pressure to clean house again.
Instead, he stayed the course. He believed in his guys in 2007, and he continued to believe in them when the rebuilding hit some tough speed bumps. So did team president Frank Coonelly.
Coonelly is critical in all of this, because he was the first guy Nutting brought to the organization in Sept. 2007. Coonelly was the guy who stuck by Huntington when virtually no one else in Pittsburgh did.
He understood that the Pirates were going to be doing things a certain way. They could not spend their way back to the postseason. Rather, Huntington had to rebuild the franchise through trades, the First-Year Player Draft and by sorting through the free-agent bargain bin.
Huntington was going to have to take some chances on players who were either coming back from injuries or had worn out their welcome elsewhere -- players like A.J. Burnett, Francisco Liriano, Jason Grilli, Mark Melancon and Gaby Sanchez.
Huntington missed on plenty of guys, too, but that's the nature of the beast when the free-agent marketplace is played at that level. In the end, though, Coonelly believed in his guy, and Huntington believed in himself.
Few things that happened in baseball last season were sweeter than the Pirates winning 94 games and returning to the postseason for the first time since 1992. Nothing -- and I mean nothing -- was more inspiring than the scene before the National League Wild Card Game, when PNC Park was rocking with a packed house and a tidal wave of emotion.
Hopefully, there will be other special days ahead. The Pirates have a good team in 2014, and Baseball America just named their farm system the best in the game. But if you ask any player or coach or team executive, they almost certainly will always go back to that moment before that Wild Card victory over the Reds as the defining moment that announced to the world that the Pirates were back.
Huntington is a process guy, someone who attempts to insulate himself from the back-and-forth nature of public opinion. If there were times he doubted that it would end up like this, he never said so.
For him, there were two finishing touches. One was the hiring of Hurdle after the 2010 season.
Hurdle is a large man with a large presence. He speaks loudly and forcefully and has the ability to make you believe as much as he believes. That's what he has done with the Pirates. He made the players look him in the eye and tell him they believe that a franchise down in the dumps for so long could do great things.
In some cases, he got rid of guys who didn't believe as much as he believed. But he found a core group of guys willing to follow, especially the great Andrew McCutchen, one of the game's three or four most exciting players to watch.
When third baseman Pedro Alvarez struggled, it was Hurdle who took him aside and told him, "You just have to trust your ability as much as I trust it."
He did that up and down the roster -- trusting Grilli to be a reliable closer and Sanchez and Burnett and others to resurrect their careers.
Hurdle also moved to Pittsburgh. If the club was recruiting a free agent, he wanted to look the guy in the eye and tell him it was a great place to live, and he thought so much of it he moved his family to the area.
He began having regular conversations with a homeless man near PNC Park, telling him these new Pirates were not the same old Bucs, and that he needed to get on the bandwagon while there was still time.
Down the stretch last season, Hurdle took note of the changing scene at places like school carpool lanes. Suddenly, there was Pirates gear all over the place. He knew then that the apathy was no more.
On the first day of Spring Training, Hurdle gathered his players and told them the job wasn't finished, that going to Game 5 of an NL Division Series against the Cardinals wasn't the ultimate goal.
He told them that they'd accomplished plenty, that they had reasons to be proud. "But," he said, "there's more there."
"Our guys believe that," he said later. "They believe there's more there. That's what we're focused on."


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Breast meat is lean and cooks fast. Diced, it will cook in a hot pan in about 4-5 mins. Try and get some colour on the outside, as it all adds to the flavour. It can be grilled on kebab sticks or added to sauces, stews and curries, cooking through in about 10 mins. Always make sure there's no pink left in the middle before serving.
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I am trying to determine what a full charge of a top quality I-Glide battery is. It is a 24 volt battery, but the charger output is marked 28.8 volts, and the Nimh cells full charge could add up to as high as 32 volts unless restricted.
So has anyone checked the voltage of their battery on any of these chairs? I want to switch chemistries but am reluctant until I have more data. I won't use the Panasonic charger as it is set up for Nimh. Thanks for reading.


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Face-to-face arrangement
The shorter span between effective bearing centres makes face-to-face arrangements less suitable to support moment loads compared to bearings in a back-to-back arrangement.
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If misalignment cannot be avoided between the bearing positions, face-to-face bearing arrangements are recommended. They are less sensitive to misalignment than back-to-back bearing arrangements.
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No Jobs at Apple, Inc.?
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To be or not to be, that is the question! Will Apple survive the absence of Steve J0bs?
Before I share my thoughts on this topic, I'd like to mention that the timing of the announcement was superb; only Apple could have done it.
I'm sure this has been in the works for some time, and it is possible that because of his poor health, SJ did not show up in NYC for the launch of the Verizon iPhone. It has also been rumored that of late, he has been coming to 1 Infinite Loop only about twice a week, having lunch in his office rather than at the company cafeteria, etc. It is quite probable that Tim Cook has been running the entire Apple operations, behind the scenes, for some time.
Announcing his indefinite medical leave on a stock market holiday in the US gave investors time to mull over the impact of Apple without SJ, and with Tim Cook running the company. While Apple stock in foreign markets dipped almost 10% on the day of the announcement, it was down only by less than 2% in the US at the end of the first post-announcment trading day. I have no doubt it will regain its value soon.
The timing was also perfect as it was the day before the 2011 Q1 results announcement, where Apple was supposed to blow past the WS expectations, and it did.
Would Apple be the same without SJ? Probably not. Would AAPL sink or not grow as much as it has been in the recent past? Also, probably not.
SJ is the kind of individual who appears amongst us only once in a long while. The greatest genius of SJ is his instinct to foresee the needs of consumers down the road, even when they themselves, or Apple's competitors, may not be aware of it. As SJ himself said, it is better to be where the puck (of ice hockey) is going to be, than to be where it is now.
iPad is a good example. In 2005, Bill Gates announced that within the next five years, most of the computing would be done on tablets, but his wish wasn't granted. It took SJ, and Apple, to create a third mode of computing while the mobile computing (in laptops and netbooks) was still flourishing, despite being criticized for creating just a bigger iPod Touch which is not capable of replacing the PC. The sales were predicted to be dismal.
Besides his vision, SJ is also a charismatic speaker, and his passion for his products is obvious. In addition, the attention to detail he gives to these devices as well as the quality of Apple's merchandise gives confidence to the buyer. As of now, while Mac is only 9% of the entire PC market (used to be 2-3% in 1990s), it commands 90% of the $1000 and above segment.
In mid-1990s, an AAPL share used to be in single figures, and the company's annual earnings less than what they are every quarter now. The stock is trading over $300 now and Apple is the biggest tech company in the world, and the second firm largest in the US, with a market cap over 300B.
iPod is another great example of his foresight and tenacity. The criticisms of it were greater than of the iPad. Who's going to spend $400 to buy a MP3 player? Even though the sales have dipped a shade over the last year, the iPod is still in the lead, capturing over 70% of the MP3 player market.
But the iPod story also shows us a side of SJ that will be hard to replace: his negotiating skills. Only SJ could have managed the coup de theatre that had the music industry agree to sell single songs, rather than only albums, on iTunes for 99¢ each. Later, they dropped the DRM requirements as well. Today, iTunes is the biggest store selling music and its sales top that of even the CDs. This coup de grace to the Big Albums could only have been given by SJ.
The other thing SJ is famous for is his ability to say no. When he came back to Apple in 1996, there were over two dozen models of Mac PCs; he slashed them to just four. This speaks of the confidence he has in his vision, and the sales of Macs have risen ever since. He also nixed the Newton, the granddaddy of all PDAs, although a lot of its technology was advanced to build touch-enabled devices like the iPhone and the iPad.
Finally, this confidence of saying no and flying against the wind has had a big impact on several industries, and has often changed them. As Henry Ford famously said that if he he had asked his customers, they would have wanted him to build a faster horse. The iPad and the iPod are obvious examples, but so is the iPhone.
Before 1997, when the iPhone debuted, all phones copied BlackBerry. Even the first Android was rumored to look like the BB8700. Since then, however, all phones try to look and behave like the iPhone. Flip phones that were all the rage, like the Motorola StarTac and Razr, are so passé now.
The iPhone changed the whole mobile paradigm. I remember having WiMo and Palm devices, and then the BBs. While they were great, the iPhone brought the whole new meaning to 'mobile computing' with a real mobile web browser and then apps. While Android is catching up fast, it still is behind the iOS eight ball. The first iPhone was about five years ahead of the competition, but is only about six months or so ahead of an Android device now. With Verizon carrying the iPhone now, however, I am sure the Android OS will suffer.
(An interesting aside: the Verizon homepage lists three kinds of phones they carry – the Feature phones, Smartphones and the iPhone! It was Google that wanted to call the Nexus a 'Superphone'.)
Besides the iPhone, Apple has spurred on industries by being the first to use USB as their only I/O port and the first to use Wi-Fi in all their computers. It has also killed, by eliminating in it's products, the floppy drives (both 5.25 and 3.5). All these, any many more changes, were met with initial resistance, but are industry standard now. I fear for the extinction of optical and hard drives in the next few years, as Apples discontinues their use.
Not widely known is his involvement with movies, another industry SJ changed. Having bought Pixar for a mere $10,000, its first animated movie – Toy Story – won accolades and awards. This was at a time when computer animation was in infancy and ignored. All of the movies from this studio have been box-office hits since. SJ even had Disney agree to have Pixar as a co-brand on all movies and merchandise. He is now Disney's largest shareholder, owning 7% of the stock.
Certainly, it is not possible to have all these qualities is a single individual. However, I am certain that the executive bench at Apple have most of these qualities in committee. It is also certain that the company has been preparing for a succession for some time.
Furthermore, SJ is only the public face of Apple. He would not have succeeded without the industrial design genius of Johnny Ive or the inventory management expertise of Tim Cook. There are many others who add to complete the experience that is Apple. So Apple is prepared, IMO, to bear the brunt of SJ's departure.
Nevertheless, while design, quality, and deliverance of new and exciting product may be assured from Apple going forward, with or without SJ, the biggest hit the company will take is the force of personality SJ brings to the negotiating table.This would be very important for Apple going forward as the company wrestles with media, print and video, to enlarge and solidify its ecosystem to provide for the iDevices and its foray into the living room with Apple TV and the rumored Apple HDTV.
In addition, no one else at Apple will have the authority and decisiveness to say no or yes to any major decision. Like the military, great corporations are not democratic.
Perhaps that is why SJ has retained the title of CEO while on medical leave, and has indicated that he will have a say in all tactical decisions at Apple, while Tim Cook runs the day-to-day operations.
All good things come to an end and it has been painfully obvious that companies deteriorate when founders leave, as it happened with HP and MS. On the bright side, there are companies, like Disney, which have maintained the vision and vigor of their founder.
Apple is now a big cap company but still acts like a startup. Companies like this don't grow 71% year-over-year, as Apple has reported on the 18 January Conference. In addition, SJ has been notorious at keeping teams small, about a hundred or so. That is why there are delays often, as the same teams work on all OSes, from iOS to OSX. However, this is good for the Mac platform as a whole, because the same people carry over experiences from one side to the other, unlike at MS.
The management structure at Apple will be studied in business schools for decades to come. There are never more than two or three layers of managers, so each worker has an easier time to share his idea/work with the top layer.
(Another interesting aside: Messrs. Hewlett and Packard introduced the concept of 'coffee break' to the American workplace. The idea was to have all levels of employees, from workers to managers, gather at one spot to share ideas; the company provided the coffee and doughnuts. Other H&P innovations: retirement plans, share in the company and flexible working schedule including work from home.)
It is a surprise that a $300B company employs only about 50,000 workers worldwide.
In conclusion, I see no danger to Apple or AAPL in the short or medium term. Who knows where we will be in 10 years?


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While you don't need to use International Sushi Day as an excuse to enjoy sushi, Koi has put together another tasty delicacy that was created just for this day, upcoming June 18th. While all the classics are still on the Koi menu for you, the Sunfire Roll will make this an extraordinarily memorable day for you and it will leave you hoping that it takes up permanent residency at Koi.
Koi has become the iconic Japanese restaurant of Los Angeles since opening in 2002 and Executive Chef Robb Lucas intends to keep it that way. With an always inventive menu and new creations for every occassion, he really pulled out all of the stops with the Sunfire Roll. The Sunfire Roll is prepared with snow crab, lobster, cilantro and cucumber and is topped with mango and avocado, then wrapped with soy paper and served with wasabi yuzu dressing. It certainly sounds like a wide variety of ingredients and flavors and you might wonder what flavor is going to hit you first. The greatness of this roll is that while the snow crab comes through the most in this dish, the rest of the dish just gradually flows through your taste buds. If you did not know the ingredients you would likely have a hard time guessing what they were because you really taste the subtleness of each flavor as they play off each other. The Sunfire Roll simply put is really what sushi is all about.
While it is International Sushi Day, Koi is having their own celebration that they are sharing with you. Koi is celebrating their 10th anniversary and in honor of their signature crispy rice, they have added some new versions to the original versions. The two that really struck me and I will hope to see them become mainstays are the kobe beef and the diced avocado versions. Kobe beef was seemingly made to be paired with the crispy rice with all of the richness and tenderness of the meat coming out with each bite and it only enhances the perfectly prepared crispy rice. The avocado with the smoothness and clean flavors makes for a lighter pairing but with it being avocado season you are finding the perfect time to try this combination.
A dish that might not be here for much longer, so I would suggest you don't waste anytime making your way over to Koi, is the seared tuna with foie gras and black truffles. If you enjoy seared tuna you will be hard pressed to find a better version than the one at Koi, but that was not enough for Chef Lucas. He added the foie gras on top of the tuna and sprinkled truffles on top of the foie gras to create delectable trio of flavors. Every fish dish on the Koi menu is as fresh as possible and you can't go wrong with any choice, but the Salmon Carpaccio is another memorable item that you will want to try. The thinly slice salmon takes on a new personality once it is plated with citrus sauce and covered black truffles. The flavors all marinate into the salmon and draws those flavors right in, giving you less of a salmon flavor but more of just a very light and rich slice of fish. Even if you don't enjoy salmon I would be pretty confident that you would still really enjoy this dish.
Food alone does not make Koi what it all that is, there is so much more to the experience. Koi is a stunningly beautiful restaurant that has a natural aura about it that really encompasses all that a fine dining experience should be. A staff that is knowledgeable and never a step behind, you can't go wrong with any server, but I will say if Angelo is handling your table, you are in for a treat. Charming, timely, funny and I would say he knows the menu as well as anyone at Koi. He makes your evening at Koi a memorable one and if he makes a suggestion, I would say take it. From the time you walk into Koi to the time you leave it truly is a first class experience.
International Sushi Day is a fantastic time to get out and try some new sushi or grab one of your all-time favorites that you have not ordered in a while. I would also recommend if you know someone who is a little apprehensive about trying sushi use this day an opportunity to get them to give sushi a try. Koi is the perfect restaurant for this as they have such a wide ranging menu that you are bound to come across something that even the most faint of heart would be willing to try and once you have them in Koi, they will be hooked.
Koi Los Angeles is located at 730 North La Cienega Bouevard. To make reservations call (310) 659-9449. For information on all Koi restaurants, visit: www.koirestaurant.com


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Immigration committee right to back off from harsh recommendations
RALEIGH (Dec. 6, 2012) — America needs a just, fair and humane immigration policy that keeps families together. We Are NC is pleased to hear that the House Select Committee on the State's Role in Immigration Policy has backed off its plans to pursue harsh immigration laws in North Carolina.
The report's release comes the same week as former President George W. Bush reiterated his support for reforming our broken immigration system; as a bipartisan Illinois state Senate voted in favor of undocumented immigrants' access to driver licenses; and as House Speaker Thom Tillis stated that he has no interest in a sweeping anti-immigrant bill in North Carolina. While Rep. Harry Warren originally wanted to use this committee to explore harsh and vindictive legislation, like shutting off heat and utilities for undocumented immigrants, today's report shows that public pressure has convinced the committee to pursue a new path.
Poll after poll shows that Americans still hold the values this country was based on, including the belief that we need a common sense immigration process that recognizes the contributions of people moving here, reunites families and creates a roadmap to citizenship for new Americans who aspire to be citizens. America deserves nothing less.
We hope, as the committee recommended, that the state's congressional delegates in Washington, DC take leading roles in shaping a just, fair and humane immigration policy that keeps families together, protects workers and supports businesses.. We also support the Committee's clear recommendation that the 2013 General Assembly "solicit input from a wide array of interested stakeholders" and that North Carolina take a pragmatic approach to immigration policy.
We Are NC does not support all of the committee's recommendations. Public safety suffers when you turn local law enforcement into the long arm of immigration law,, and the problem of border security is solved through policy changes and not with wasteful spending on new fences and drones. If the state is to have any role at all, it should be to keep our communities together, to protect our state's workers, and to educate all of our state's children regardless of their immigration status.
We Are NC is a coalition of organizations and individuals working to shift the debate on immigration in our state. We are raising awareness about the efforts of some state legislators to enact discriminatory and harmful new laws that target the people of North Carolina. We believe in the contributions of all communities, including immigrants and refugees, who have worked hard to make NC what it is today.
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The best places to do business are also the best places to live. At least that's how many states market themselves to the public. CNBC's Top States for Business study found quality of life is among the most frequently mentioned selling points in state economic development campaigns. That's why quality of life is one of the most important categories in our study of America's Top States for Business, worth 350 out of 2,500 possible points.
Sure, quality of life is in the eye of the beholder. Some people would rather live in the city; others prefer the country. Some love sunshine year round, others like four seasons. But there are plenty of objective measures most of us can agree on when it comes to a quality place to live.
We scored the states on several factors, including local attractions, the crime rate, as well as air and water quality and pollution. We looked at access to recreational areas. And we looked at health care including facilities, insurance coverage and outcomes.
Because the quality of life category carries such heavy weight in our study — tied with cost of doing business and workforce as the top-weighted category — states that do well here have a big jump on the competition.
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Just a few more days and then I am off work until January 3rd. I CAN'T FREAKING WAIT. This last month has totally burnt me out.
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2. Party my face off at least twice, not counting New Years Eve. I need help, because right now there are no plans in place to do this.
3. Eat and blog about it. I've neglected What's for Lunch BC and I have a few places that need to be experienced.
4. Go to the Vancouver Aquarium. I bought a membership for myself and some family members and I don't think anyone used them. That was a waste. I love it there and I'm going to see all my favourite things.
5. Cooking. I'm going to cook a bunch of yummy things in large batches and freeze them so that there will be zero excuse to eat crappy food when we're pressed for time.
6. See some people who I like but don't generally get to see because they live far away and/or are in school. Call me, we'll chill by the Telus Optik TV fireplace.
7. Wash my lunch bag. It looks gross.
Please help me obtain my goals of eating, being social and partying. I can probably swing the reading thing while I'm hung over. I just realized that I can order my groceries online and have them delivered to my house, and same for liquor to my office. Divide and conquer, I will get this stuff done by Friday.


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Patricia M. Wendler, of Brooksville, FL and formerly of Liberty, NY, passed away on Saturday, August 31, 2013 in Spring Hill, FL. She was 62.
The daughter of the late Hal Porter Tipton and Leva Mae Heiser Tipton, she was born on January 24, 1951 in Holyoke, MA.
Patricia was retired from the Monticello Central School District, where she was a cook for many years at the Dr. Duggan Elementary School in White Lake, NY.
She is survived by her husband of 32 years, Bruce Wendler, at home; a son, Brian Wendler and his wife, Lisa of Brooksville, FL; a daughter, April Sisselman of Parksville, NY; brothers: Daniel Tipton and wife, of Texas, David Tipton and his wife, Annette of Illinois; sister, Peggy Marlett of Kansas City, MO; four grandchildren: Lexi Sisselman, Zoe Sisselman, Logan Wendler and Briannah Wendler, and several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.
Burial of Patricia's Cremains will be held on Saturday, September 14th at noon at Laurel Hill Cemetery in White Sulphur Springs, NY. Rev. Kenneth Rodgers will officiate.
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For me, the summer's actually the busiest time.
Hello everyone!
Dear teachers! Do you have a "dead season" in summer? If you have what do you usually do? How do you feel?
For me, the summer's actually the busiest time.
Really? Why?
For me it's opposite.I have more spare time as most of my students go on holidays. I also travel two time a summer. But I keep on working.
Though a lot of my colleagues (in Moscow, I mean) have holidays three months!!!! (June, July and August). It's because of educational system, all schools in Russia have holidays during these three months.
We get lots of students coming to the UK to do postgraduate courses, and many come for English courses first, which I teach, so though it is the university holiday time, we are busy.
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Summer is "ante portas" here in Greece.At last!It's been a really tiring school year.Many classes,many young primary school children,and full commitment lead to a deep sigh of relief.My deck chair,and the relaxing,refreshing,mediterranean sea of Chalkidiki are waiting for me This -in no case- is a "dead season".
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I'm going to do my TEFL course in August. What are the conditions like working in Russia? Is work reasonably easy to come by?
Same here. We run ESL programs during the summer months that combine classroom study with outdoor activities (river rafting, mountain biking, etc.) so July and August are our high season.Originally Posted by tdol
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) —The staff at Portico Healthnet was all set to start signing people up for coverage through Minnesota's new health insurance exchange on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the exchange wasn't ready for them.
After a delay of several hours so that officials could make sure the state's new online health insurance marketplace, MNsure, was secure and connected to the federal system, it opened for business.
As exchanges across the country opened Tuesday morning, many experienced problems due to intense demand or technical glitches that prevented users from shopping for health plans. That was the case in the 36 mostly Republican-led states that deferred to the federal government to set up and run their exchanges. But several state-run sites, such as Minnesota's, also had problems.
Mitch Grussing, a 27-year-old self-employed music teacher from St. Paul, said he was anxious for the new exchange to open so that he could look for a plan better than his current one, which charges high premiums and deductibles.
"I'm really interested in getting coverage through MNsure, but if the rollout is delayed, that doesn't really bother me because coverage doesn't start until January. But I am eager to get on there and see what coverage they have available," Grussing said.
Minnesota's exchange got off to a smooth start with high volume, said MNsure executive director April Todd-Malmlov, who activated the system just after 3 p.m. Tuesday.
"We are very happy and pleased to be open," Todd-Malmlov told reporters in a conference call. "There have been a few bumps in the road … but we are tracking those, addressing them and fixing them as they come up."
More than 500 accounts were created in the first hour, Todd-Malmlov said. More than 100,000 visitors came through the first day, and there were up around 3,000 users at the same time, she said.
The system's debut was the second-highest website volume the state has ever had, Todd-Malmlov said. Despite the high volume, the system did not crash, she said.
Although Minnesota's exchange eventually opened Tuesday, consumers who needed help navigating the new system would have to wait at least one more day to talk to one of the state's certified advisers, or "navigators." MNsure officials said Monday that it wouldn't be able to post its official list of certified navigators until Wednesday, in all likelihood.
At Portico, which has been working since 1995 to help low-income people get publicly funded health care through programs like Medicaid and MinnesotaCare, workers were itching for the exchange to launch.
"Portico's been focused on this day for well over a year," said Robert Larson, the group's vice president of development and communications, explaining how the group has spent many months raising money to build, train and equip its staff. "We're quite prepared to take this on. … We're pretty excited about it because we think we can have a real impact on people's health."
Fifteen Portico employees went through the certification process to navigators, and once given the go-ahead by the state, some will fan out to Twin Cities community centers, food shelves and other area locations to help people find the right health plan for them.
"This is an opportunity that we've never seen the likes of before," said Deb Holmgren, the nonprofit's president.
Community outreach is a critical component of the federal health care law's success, as up to 300,000 uninsured Minnesotans are expected to buy insurance through MNsure. Portico will continue to enroll eligible people in Medicaid and MinnesotaCare and will also help those who have insurance find better deals through the exchange.
MNsure plans to deploy about 5,000 navigators statewide, but like its counterparts in many states, it is behind in certifying navigators.
Minnesotans can shop for insurance plans through MNsure, open accounts, determine if they're eligible for financial assistance and sign up for coverage that will take effect Jan. 1. While the Affordable Care Act mandates that individuals must have health insurance, there will be no penalties for people who sign up during the inaugural open enrollment period, which runs through March 31.
Sen. Michelle Benson, a Ham Lake Republican who has been one of the leading critics of Minnesota's decision to set up its own exchange, said Tuesday that MNsure "built up a tremendous amount of performance pressure" by insisting all along that it would be ready the morning of Oct. 1, and she said that the launch delay made sense.
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Lyndsey Fry netted a goal and two assists in a 4-0 win over Colgate Saturday (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Clinging to a one-goal lead heading into the third period, the No. 9 Harvard women's hockey team netted three insurance goals, including two in the first minute of the period, to top Colgate, 4-0, Saturday at Bright Hockey Center. The shutout is Harvard's (12-6-1, 9-4-1 ECAC) second against Colgate (8-16-1, 3-10-1 ECAC) this season, as the Crimson won the first game in the series, 2-0.
After two periods of play passed with a multitude of penalties and just one goal, Harvard cleared its throat and gained significant breathing room in the opening minute of the third. Lyndsey Fry carried the puck behind the Colgate net and handed it off to Jillian Dempsey. The junior proceeded to slip a pass to Gina McDonald, and the sophomore's shot bested goalie Kimberly Sass for a 2-0 lead just 17 seconds into the period. Before the crowd was finished celebrating, Harvard scored again, with Dempsey sneaking a shot past Sass on an unassisted effort 15 seconds later.
Both teams took a pair of penalties down the stretch in the third, but Harvard would add one more before the final buzzer. Josephine Pucci jostled the puck away from a Colgate skater and fed Fry who sped down the ice and into the Colgate zone. Fry got the puck back to Pucci on a well-timed pass and all Pucci had to do was redirect the puck into the open net to cap the 4-0 final.
The Crimson defense was rock solid early, holding Colgate without a shot through the first 12 minutes of the contest. Harvard managed a few chances on Sass but came up empty, even on an early power play. It looked as though the teams would enter the first break in a 0-0 deadlock, but the hosts broke through with just over a minute to play in the first period.
Kalley Armstrong gathered the puck near the penalty box and worked down the boards until she was even with the faceoff circle in the Colgate zone. Armstrong whipped the puck back to a charging Marissa Gedman, and while Gedman's shot was turned away by Sass, Fry was there to put home the rebound for a 1-0 lead at 18:56 of the first.
The Crimson racked up four penalties in the second period but the penalty kill unit was flawless, keeping Colgate out of the offensive zone and even creating a few looks on the Raider net. Colgate was whistled for a pair of penalties as well in the second, but the puck stayed out of the net and Harvard took its 1-0 lead into the third.
Fry finished the game with three points on a goal and two assists, while Dempsey also tallied a multi-point game with a goal and a helper. Laura Bellamy turned away 20 Raider shots for her third shutout of the season and second in the past four games. For the game, the Crimson outshot the Raiders, 35-20.
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mdy necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 7 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
We have a social network site in which members can land spots on TV. Each person who creates a profile can apply to one or several TV shows and friends, members and family can cast a vote to up your rankings and possibility of landing an audition
We need 3 or 4 different VOTE FOR ME buttons or widget if you want to call it that. The member can then copy and paste some code and place these buttons on their personal homepage, facebook or myspace. We would like to button/widget to pull out the member default photo (we use mysql and php) If possible one of the larger buttons might show the most recent shows a member has applied to. If you view any profiles on our site you can see what shows that member has applied to. We would love to list maybe the last two inside the largest button and if someone applied to another show and the page refreshes it could pull out latest shows.
- I am not 100% but you can see an example by looking at gotcast.com and view a member profile to see the widget.
from my developer" what we need from you guys
is the flash object or html which we will embed onto 3rd party web
pages. The data which populates that control (in terms of the urls to
the user's images and urls to the user's casting calls) will be
provided by us in whatever format you need."


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This story appears in the June 1998 issue of HomeOfficeMag.com. Subscribe »
Typically, purchasing a computer for an employee means selecting a model that's ideal for performing specific tasks. It also means finding one that complements the computer resources you already have. For Warner Weiss, owner of Sugars International LLC, an Englewood, Colorado, homebased software development and consulting business for the sugar industry, the answer was the Hewlett-Packard Brio 8177.
Weiss was already using one of Hewlett-Packard's Vectra models for software development. What he needed was a PC for his part-time accountant to keep the books on, and one to back up software used by clients in the field. For Weiss, the Brio 8177, which contains a 233 MHz Pentium processor with MMX technology, 32MB RAM, 1MB VRAM and a 4GB hard drive, filled the bill. "We were looking for a machine that stepped up the speed and performed better backup. So far it's worked really well," says Weiss, 55.
At a price of $1,689, the Brio 8177 comes loaded with Microsoft Word and other business productivity software. This was attractive to Weiss because he needed a PC with software that would allow his accountant to create letters and other correspondence. Weiss added Hewlett-Packard's 7110 rewritable CD-ROM drive to back up accounting and client data, software and more.
For Weiss, the Brio 8177's strong communication tools have been a real plus. This model comes with a 56 Kbps modem, which he uses for speedy Internet access; he also finds it handy for sending and receiving large files via e-mail to and from his many international clients. Weiss is also using the Brio 8177 to create a Web page for his business.
Visit Hewlett-Packard's Web site at http://www.hp.com/go/smallbiz for details.
Fine Print
Sales and marketing materials usually call for the professional look of laser printing. At $349, Mita's DP-580 laser printer is an affordable solution that could bring your homebased business into the world of high-quality printing. This 1,200 dpi laser printer outputs halftones and graphics clearly, making it a strong choice for printing the charts, graphics and visuals included in most business materials. At six pages per minute, its speed is also quite good.
The DP-580's compact, lightweight design works well in tight quarters. It has a top-loading 100-sheet paper tray and a single-sheet bypass tray for inputting special paper on the fly. The versatile DP-580 accommodates up to 24-pound letter- or legal-sized paper, as well as envelopes, letterhead, labels and transparencies. The printer also collates automatically.
The DP-580 comes loaded with 10 TrueType fonts and 35 Intellifonts. It also has a single cartridge imaging unit and a 2MB memory capacity. Go to http://www.mita.com for more information.
Copy Cat
Most people think moving from the corporate life into the entrepreneurial world means having to live without perks like a high-quality copier. Canon's PC 430 personal copier ($369), however, provides a flexible, affordable solution that will likely meet most homebased business requirements.
The PC 430 copies letter-sized documents at a fairly swift clip: 4 copies per minute (cpm). This versatile copier accommodates legal-sized documents as well; however, output speed in these cases is reduced to 3 cpm. Unlike the laborious single-sheet feeding feature that some copiers have, the PC 430 also contains a 50-sheet multi-stack tray for continuous copying.
Additional features of the compact PC 430 copier include a single cartridge system for easy maintenance and an energy-saving auto shut-off feature that powers down after 51¦2 minutes if the copier is not used. For more information, visit http://www.canon.com
Just In Case
Carrying cases for notebook computers are old news. But carrying cases for personal digital assistants (PDAs), handheld PCs and mininotebooks? Now that's news. Targus recently introduced a full line of carriers that prove handy for storing a handheld PC or PDA and all its accessories when you hit the open road.
One product to consider: the Targus PDA/Handheld PC leather organizer ($79.99). This organizer holds a PDA or handheld PC that's up to 9.5-by-5-by-1.5 inches in size. It's also roomy enough to accommodate extras like PC cards, a cellular phone, spare batteries, disks and more. For details, check out http://www.targus.com
Cross Reference
When you're the only employee on staff, getting organized means everything. Smith Corona's Work Ready TelAssistant TA-2632 can help. The TA-2632 combines the features of a phone and an electronic organizer into one unit, so there's more synergy between your phone communication and organization tools.
The TA-2632 is a two-line speakerphone with multiple speed-dial lists for quick access to your most frequently used numbers. It also has useful electronic organizer features. A 128K electronic phone book holds up to 2,000 card files with contact information that's shown on the phone's LCD display. The TA-2632's pager-notification feature forwards a caller's phone number to your pager, keeping you up-to-date while you're out of the office.
Wireless infrared data transfer allows easy transfer of files to Smith Corona's portable TelAssistant products, such as the PTA-632 pocket electronic organizer, so you can take your contact information with you. The PTA-632 has a 128K electronic phone book for storing contacts, a calculator, a monthly calendar and a to-do list. You can also set an alarm to alert you at a specific date or time of an important event. Together, the two products cost $199; purchased separately, the TA-2632 sells for $149 and the PTA-632 costs $69. For more information, call Smith Corona at (607) 753-6011.
ontact Sources
Sugars International LLC, fax: (303) 770-2831.


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From R. G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art (with thanks to David Pierce, who recommended me the book):
This is not because (as Oscar Wilde said, with his curious talent for just missing a truth and then giving himself a prize for hitting it) 'all art is quite useless', for it is not; a work of art may very well amuse, instruct, puzzle, exhort, and so forth, without ceasing to be art, and in this ways it may be very useful indeed. It is because, as Oscar Wilde perhaps meant to say, what makes it art is not the same as what makes it useful.
Of course, G. H. Hardy's famous saying immediately crosses mind:
The 'real' mathematics of the 'real' mathematicians, the mathematics of Fermat and Euler and Gauss and Abel and Riemann, is almost wholly 'useless'.
Now, rephrasing of Collingwood's maxim for mathematics is obvious:
What makes it mathematics is not the same as what makes it useful.
A paper by Paul Andrews The curricular importance of mathematics: a comparison of English and Hungarian teachers'
espoused beliefs, J. Curriculum Studies 39 no. 3 (2007), 317–338, shows that English school teachers of of mathematics emphasise that mathematics is useful:
Their number work is extremely important and that's just fundamental. … If they can't use numbers then how can they go on to use anything else? And how can they see how things happen? I think just putting everything into a practicalsense so that they know they can measure dimensions. They know, if they're going to put up wall-paper or whatever, that they can estimate how much they're going to need. Estimate, being able to estimate, is important. How much is it going to cost me, roughly, that sort of thing.
But Hungarian teachers put emphasis on mathematics for its own sake, emphasising, for example, problem solving aspects of mathematics:
I think it is very important to make children realize that mathematics is actually solving problems. … So I find it really important to help them collect what they know in connection with the problem, what conditions they know, what knowledge they have, and how they can order it to create a solution. … You can't be sure they always get to the solution, but it's still good if they can find a way where, or how, they can look for a solution. The other important thing is that … children have the right to make mistakes. They have to learn that when solving a problem, if they make an error, it doesn't matter. It's a part of solving the problem … and goes with any kind of problem-solving, particularly in mathematics. And if they get this experience in mathematics, it helps them get through problems in life too. … It's very important for children to understand that a problem is solved when they have … checked it and are sure that there are no other solutions; and if there are other solutions, then they have found them all.


text: ItsJoeTurner Posted January 8, 2012 Hello fellow FM lovers, I'd basically just like to introduce myself on here as I like to do with every community that I join, my name is Joe Turner and I'm from Blackpool. I support Blackpool and was gutted to see them get relegated back to The Championship last season. Then again, who wasn't? I have been on these forums before, a few years back but was a little bit of a teenage idiot. You know the type. I've had a good few months off Football Manager now and I'm ready to get back into it after getting a new MacBook. I was a BETA tester for 2010 and 2011 so you could say that too much of the game was the reason for falling out love with it. I'm 17 and I'm a programmer for a travel company. If you'd like to follow me on Twitter (@ItsJoeTurner) and just let me know your from this forum then I think this would help the whole 'getting to know the regulars' process. I'm currently in the middle of installing the game and then plan to start a game with Blackpool, as usual. I was wondering what league's people usually start with? I'm into my scouting and I like looking into all sorts of countries and finding a real gem of a player and training him to play the way I want him to play.. I usually begin with Brazil, Argentina, Chilli, Spain, Holland along with the default choices and a large database. Looking forward to meeting the community, Joe 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Johann Jakob Balmer
Born: 1 May 1825 in Lausen, Basel-Land, Switzerland
Died: 12 March 1898 in Basel, Switzerland
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Johann Balmer's father was also named Johann Jakob Balmer and he was a Chief Justice. Johann's mother was Elizabeth Rolle Balmer. Johann was the eldest of his parents sons. He attended his first school in Liestal, a town which had just become the capital of the half canton of Basel-Landschaft. Then, for his secondary education, he studied at a school in Basel where he excelled in mathematics and decided to study that topic at university.
For his university studies in mathematics Balmer attended the University of Karlsruhe and the University of Berlin. His course of studies led to a doctorate which he received from the University of Basel in 1849 for a dissertation on the cycloid.
Balmer taught in Basel all his life. From 1859 until his death in 1898 he was a school teacher of mathematics at a secondary school for girls in the city. From 1865 until 1890 he was also a university lecturer in mathematics at the University of Basel where his main field of interest was geometry. He married Christine Pauline Rinck in 1868 when he was 43 years old and they had six children.
However, despite being a mathematics teacher and lecturer all his life, Balmer is best remembered for his work on spectral series and his formula, given in 1885, for the wavelengths of the spectral lines of the hydrogen atom. This was set out in one of only two papers which he wrote on spectra of the elements, the second being in 1897. It is surprising to realise that Balmer was sixty years old when he wrote the paper for which he is famous on the spectral lines of the hydrogen atom and that he was seventy-two when he wrote his only other work on this topic. But for his work on what amounts to a problem in physics, Balmer would be unknown today within the history of mathematics since he made no contribution to geometry of special significance despite it being the topic of interest throughout his life.
The major contribution which Balmer made, however, depended much more on his mathematical skills than on his understanding of physics, for he produced a formula which gave the wavelengths of the observed lines produced by the hydrogen atom without giving any physical explanation. Balmer's famous formula is
λ = hm2/(m2 - n2).Putting n = 2 and h = 3654.6 × 10-8 cm, the wavelengths given by the formula for m = 3, 4, 5, 6 were correct to a high degree of accuracy. Previous attempts had looked for formulae of quite different types and had failed to come up with anything which matched the experimental evidence. Putting m = 7 gave Balmer a predicted value for the next line and indeed a colleague at the University of Basel was able to tell Balmer that this line had been observed and the wavelength agreed with a high level of accuracy with the one Balmer's formula predicted.
In his paper of 1885 Balmer suggested that giving n other small integer values would give the wavelengths of other series produced by the hydrogen atom. Indeed this prediction turned out to be correct and these series of lines were later observed. The reason why the formula holds was not understood in Balmer's lifetime and had to wait until the theoretical work of Niels Bohr in 1913.
Balmer's formula led to more general formulae for the spectral lines of other atoms. Others who, basing their ideas on those of Balmer, were able to achieve such results included Rydberg, Kayser and Runge.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
List of References (4 books/articles)
A Poster of Johann Balmer
Mathematicians born in the same country
Honours awarded to Johann Balmer
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Cross-references in MacTutor
- Famous Curves: cycloid
Other Web sites
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- zbMATH entry
- ERAM Jahrbuch entry


text: We have bought a 1935 home with beautiful hardwood planks throughout the first floor except for the back hallway, 1/2 bath, and 13' x 9' kitchen. In those areas, the owners in 1985 laid 4" industrial strength ceramic tiles over a plywood subfloor. There isn't one crack in any of the tiles, no squeaks, a very solid floor. Unfortunately, we want to replace all the tiles with hardwood. From this board I realize that we will have to take the tile off because even though it is solid, a floating hardwood floor would add another inch to its height. From my initial inspection, it's going to be a big job to get the tiles up and then scrape off the cement used . Would you suggest that this is the way to go--get the tiles up and use something (don't know what) to get the cement up)? or somehow get the plywood floor up? (We know that there was vinyl tile put on in the '60's but don't know what it was put on.) Or other suggestions? Thanks in advance.