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Has anyone else noticed that the 33 gal. orange bags seem to be thinner/ weaker lately? (7/1 - 7/10) They have been ripping more often lately when I stretch them over my 33 gal container edges. They are already almost too small and weak to use in the normal sized plastic trash cans, but if they start making these so thin that they rip every time, this is not acceptable. Maybe the mfg process was poor on the recent batch, as it rips on the "seam". If anyone else is noticing this we'll need to call the supplier and get this fixed. The cans hold about 1/2 the volume if not stretched over the edge of the full can. That about doubles the cost and is a Pain to use! Hope it's just a bad batch of bags and not someone's great idea on how to save another 1/2 cent/ bag :( If you've seen this, pls speak up.
As an owner of a small space business and a recent non-resident after 25 years I would like to continue to take my boxes to the dump. I have nowhere to store them and I really don't like them on the sidewalk downtown. I would like to see our parking permit (business owners) be allowed to use that as entry to the dump. Please consider this. Thank you, Karen Roller - North Coast Too!
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, baby Brody was already busting out of his bassinet, says Brantford, Ont., mom Stephanie Dailey. "He was bumping into the sides and waking himself up," she says.
Shirley Park, a mom of two in Winnipeg, had the same experience at that age with her daughters, Alexandria, now four, and Seraphina, two. "Both of my girls are really tall, so by about three months they were growing out of the bassinet and had to be transitioned to the crib," she says.
Parents of bigger-than-average babies tend to ponder the move to a crib first, says Michelle Ponti, a paediatrician in London, Ont. "But even when baby gets too big for his bassinet, it's best to keep him close to you, in a safety-approved crib ," she says. The Canadian Paediatric Society recommends little ones sleep in the same room as their parents until six months to promote nighttime breastfeeding and reduce the risk of SIDS by having mom and dad close by during the night, so you're more easily alerted to any problems with your baby.safety-approved crib nighttime breastfeeding
Not every master bedroom is spacious enough to easily accommodate a crib, though, which can complicate things. "Sometimes parents put a mattress on the floor in the nursery for themselves as a transitional step, or they can make the crib fit in their room by rearranging or removing some of the furniture," says Ponti. Park says they lucked out: "All I had to do was move my nightstand and the crib fit between my side of the bed and the wall." This allowed each of her kids to stay beside mom until the six-month mark.
Once your baby reaches six months , you don't have to kick her out on her own right away, though. Even if she's still in a bassinet, if she's not sitting up or rolling over yet, she's safe to stay there a little longer. You should also consider how well you're all snoozing in the same room. "If things are going smoothly and everyone is sleeping there's no rush," says Ponti. There's also no point pushing the transition if you're about to go away on a family vacation , are introducing a new caregiver or making any other changes to the routine, since babies do better with one big change at a time. But, if you're feeling cramped because you squeezed the crib into your bedroom, or baby has yet to fall into longer stretches of sleep at night, the move might be what you all need. "Sometimes it helps everybody sleep better because you're not playing off each other's movements and noises through the night," says Ponti.
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Competition, while often seen as beneficial, can escalate into destructive conflict. This occurs, for instance, when athletes sabotage each other or when rival executives get caught up in a career-derailing fight. These escalations into conflict are especially likely among status-similar competitors, who are fraught with discordant understandings of who is superior to whom. We examine the link between status similarity and conflict as well as the conditions under which this link holds. We find that status-similar Formula One drivers are more prone to collide, especially when they are age-similar, perform well, are embedded in a stable role structure, and feel safe. Our inquiry deepens our understanding of when violent conflict emerges and can guide conflict prevention efforts.
This article investigates the factors that escalate competition into dangerous conflict. Recent sociological theorizing claims that such escalations are particularly likely in dyads of structurally equivalent people (i.e., actors who have the same relations with the same third parties). Using panel data on Formula One races from 1970 through 2014, we model the probability that two drivers collide on the racetrack (an observable trace of conflict) as a function of their structural equivalence in a dynamic network of competitive relationships. Our main hypothesis, that the likelihood of conflict rises with structural equivalence, receives empirical support. Our findings also show that the positive association between structural equivalence and conflict is neither merely a matter of contention for official position nor an artifact of inherently hostile parties spatially exposed to each other. Our analyses further reveal that this positive association is concentrated in a number of theoretically predictable conditions: among age-similar dyads, among stronger performers, in stable competitive networks, and in safe, rather than dangerous, weather conditions. Implications for future research on conflict, networks, and tournaments are discussed.
Competition, although often viewed positively as a contributor to social welfare, can escalate into destructive conflict. The classical sociologists Park and Burgess ( 1 ) discussed the escalation of competition into conflict much as one might describe a phase transition: as heat converts water to steam, a shift in social context can turn dispassionate competitors into warring enemies. Well-known cases range from Thomas Edison bullying and slandering Nikola Tesla in the "war of the currents" to Michael Tyson biting Evander Holyfield's ear in the boxing ring. Gould ( 2 ) theorized that such escalations of competition into conflict are especially likely in dyads of structurally equivalent people; that is, two people who have the same relations with the same third parties ( 3 ). In Gould's theory, such dyads are particularly conflict-prone because they are fraught with discordant understandings of who is superior to whom. Unlike those in obviously hierarchical relations—manager and subordinate, for example, or professor and student—for whom norms of deference are fixtures of the social background, dyads marked by structural equivalence are susceptible to ambiguous conceptions of their relationship and thus to incompatible rules for interaction. Competition for deference and status may then escalate dangerously, as when one young man ends up killing a near-peer in the wake of a "little ol' argument […] over nothing at all." (ref. 4 , p. 59).
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text: What would Superman drive? Poor Superman. Sent from another planet to save ours, he possesses superhuman powers of strength, speed, intelligence and vision. And he can fly. But, he doesn't have a bombastically, heroically overwrought car. He hasn't got a Super-mobile.Step forward Ram Trucks - part of Dodge - who decided to deck out a Hemi-powered truck with a little light detailing befitting of the strongest man in the world.Starting with a standard 'Power Wagon', Superman's ride gets a dark ceramic grey paint job with a high-gloss black roof and red anodized grille accents - using 14 coats of paint - together with forged aluminium, satin-black 17in alloys wheels, Superman logos on the front grille and rear tailgate, and a custom vehicle wrap 'inspired by the crest and texture of Superman's suit'.Inside, you'll find custom mesh seat inserts, leather seats, red paint trim accents on the doors, steering column, radio cluster and seats, and of course, Superman's logo on the headrests. The underneath remains the same, so it's still a 5.7-litre V8 powered Hemi with 383bhp and some 542Nm of torque. Even in the hands of Kal-El, that's pretty terrifying in a truck that weighs more than Krypton.Obviously, Superman is not real. Thus, this car has been built for some kind of cinematic release we are totally unaware of, and will be auctioned off for charity later this year.But, it got us thinking. How on earth - literally, how on earth - do you build a car for Superman? Let us know your thoughts in the space below. And no, you can't just repaint a Batmobile in red and blue. That's cheating. Vijay Pattni 07 June 2013 What would Superman drive?

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Bulldogs Look for Spot at National Team Indoor Championship
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – This weekend the No. 28 women's tennis team will travel to Oxford, Miss., to compete in the ITA Kick-Off Weekend, a nationwide event that features 60 teams competing across 15 host sites.
The Bulldogs enter the tournament as the No. 4 seed in Oxford and will play host team No. 19 Ole Miss in the first round. On the other side of the bracket, No. 2 seed Illinois (ranked No. 27 nationally) will face No. 3 Vanderbilt, who ranks No. 25 nationally.
The Bulldogs' first match of the weekend will be the second of the season for both them and their opponents, who fell to an unranked William & Mary on Jan. 22. Yale won its opener with ease, defeating Delaware State 7-0 on Jan. 20 in New Haven. While the Bulldogs boast three ranked singles players in No. 31 junior Blair Seideman, No. 42 senior and captain Elizabeth Epstein and No. 90 freshman Madeleine Hamilton, the Rebels' roster carries the highest ranked player competing in Oxford, No. 30 Caroline Rohde-Moe. She is Ole Miss's only ranked singles player.
Like Yale, the Vanderbilt squad includes three nationally ranked players, while the Illini can claim only two. Yale features the deepest doubles lineup of the tournament, with two pairs (No. 49 Sarah Guzick/Annie Sullivan and No. 53 Amber Li/Hanna Yu) in the top 60. Illinois has one ranked doubles pair; Ole Miss and Vanderbilt do not have any.
The winner of the Ole Miss-Yale match will play in the championship game against the winner of Illinois and Vanderbilt, while the other two teams will meet in a consolation match. Yale's first round match is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. Both the consolation match and the championship will be played on Monday, Jan. 28. All matches will be held indoors at the University of Mississippi's Gillom Sports Center.
Should the Bulldogs win both of their matches, they will join fourteen other site winners and the tournament's host, the University of Virginia, for the ITA National Women's Team Indoor Championship in February.
To view the ITA Kick-Off Weekend's website, click here. Results will be posted on this site and on Twitter –follow @ITATennis for live updates.
Report by Joe Giammittorio '15, Yale Sports Publicity


text: Hunting: Recipe Recipe Posted 05-22-2013 Chipotle Turkey Bacon Sandwich (Recipe) By: DirtyGourmet.com Permitted use provided by: DirtyGourmet.com Chipotle Turkey Bacon Sandwich Yield: 4 sandwiches Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 5 minutes Ingredients: 4 bagels, halved 1 8-ounce container of cream cheese 8 slices of turkey meat 6 slices of bacon, halved 1 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce, sliced 1 avocado, sliced Tools: Can Opener Knife Cutting Board For Bacon- Camp Stove Skillet Fork Paper Towels Method: Heat up skillet on camp stove. When the skillet is hot, lay bacon slices down and let them brown, turning them over periodically. Cook until crispy. Remove bacon from skillet and place in a paper towel to absorb extra grease. Set aside. Spread out halved bagels on flat surface. Take cream cheese and knife and spread a generous amount on each half. Set the 4 bagel tops aside. With the same knife, spread the sliced chipotle pepper and the adobo sauce on the bottom bagel halves. Use more chipotle pepper and adobo sauce if you like it spicy! Next comes bacon (3 pieces/sandwich) and turkey (2 slices/sandwich). Top it all off with sliced avocado and seal the deal with the top bagel half. http://www.dirtygourmet.com/chipotle-turkey-bacon-sandwich Tried this recipe? Share your comments below using Facebook! Share This Story Next From Recipe Crush Recipe: Mini Elk Meatloaf Related Field To Fork with Julie Golob - Game and Meat Recipes : Posted 04-05-2013 Open-Faced Bagel with Venison (Recipe) View Adventure : Posted 01-23-2012 Summer Salad with Baked Red Onions (Recipe) View Fishing : Posted 01-23-2012 Thai Salmon Salad (Recipe) View Miss Homemade - Game and Meat Recipes : Posted 06-15-2011 Pulled Wild Boar Sandwiches (Recipe) View Comments Categories News Stories Recipes Tips Gear Videos Photo Galleries Viewer Photo Galleries Features Deer Season Outdoors 365 with Lynn Burkhead Everything Deer with Jeremy Flinn Short Stories by Larry Potterfield Opening Days Live Hunts Hunting Check Out All The Photos Explore the United States. Find information about and activities within your state. Get Started


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Massey Energy Company (NYSE: MEE) is America's 4th largest coal producer by revenue. Operating in the Central Appalachia region, which includes West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky, Massey Energy mines, processes, and sells low-sulfur, high-quality coal for a variety of industrial uses, including electricity generation and steel making.
Massey owns 2.3 billion tons of coal reserves and has 68 million raw coal tons of annual processing capacity, making it the largest coal producer in Central Appalachia by a wide margin. As an energy provider, and specifically a provider of nonrenewable energy, Massey is very sensitive to the world's demand for energy, and the growing global trend toward cleaner energy sources.
In January 2011 it was acquired by a Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) for $7.1 billion. When the combination is complete (late 2011) the new company will have 110 active mines, rank first in metallurgical coal production, first in coal reserves (5.1 billion tons). Synergies of operations will save the company about $150 million a year.
Massey Energy produces, processes, and sells bituminous coal of various steam and metallurgical grades, primarily of low sulfur content, through 23 processing and shipping centers.[1] At January 31, 2010, the Company operated 56 mines, including 42 underground mines (two of which employ both room and pillar and longwall mining) and 14 surface mines (with 12 highwall miners in operation) in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. The Company produces coal using four mining methods: underground room and pillar, underground longwall, surface and highwall mining. In April 2010, the Company completed its acquisition of Cumberland Resources Corporation.[1]
Massey sells two main types of coal: steam coal, which is used by utility companies to generate electricity; and metallurgical coal, which is used to produce coke, a key component in steel production. MEE sells the highest-valued steam coal in the United States, and Massey's metallurgical coal is exported around the world due to its high quality and environmental friendliness (low sulfur content).
Second Quarter 2010 Results (ended June 30, 2010)[2]
For the second quarter of 2010, Massey Energy reported a net loss of $88.7 million or $0.88 per share. Massey generated $693.1 million of produced coal revenue in the quarter from the sale of 9.8 million tons of coal. By comparison, Massey reported net income of $20.2 million on produced coal revenue of $603.2 million in the second quarter of 2009 from the sale of 9.4 million tons of coal.
Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine had been cited hundreds of times for safety violations before it exploded in April 2010, killing 29 workers. Massey Energy blamed the deadly explosion on a natural event that could not be prevented. Mine safety experts and federal mine safety officials are dismissing that theory as 'self-serving and unlikely.' Massey Energy is basing the theory on elevated methane gas readings inside the Upper Big Branch mine well after the April 5th blast. There were methane readings inside the mine 2.5 times above normal. It has been theorized that the rush of methane came from a large crack in the mine floor.[3]
The Upper Big Branch disaster has tainted Massey's safety record and could subject the company to government oversight and further safety regulations.
In many situations, coal is a viable substitute for oil as a source of energy. Oil prices have been rising in recent years, as the supply from oil-producing regions such as the Middle East has been restricted. Even with the frenzy of oil exploration and production in the U.S. recently, Central Appalachia's coal reserves still represent the energy content equivalent of all proved oil reserves in the United States. Massey controls 1/3 of the reserves in Central Appalachia, and stands to profit from the rising oil prices, which will push up demand for coal.
As the largest producer in the Central Appalachia region, with 2.2 billion tons in reserves, Massey may be the only firm in the region with the reserves to continue operations for the next decade without needing to move into higher-cost reserves or pursuing acquisitions. The growing scarcity of new reserves benefits companies such as MEE that have the potential to continue supplying in the future.
As the threat of global climate change looms, nations and private companies have sought ways to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. One solution has been to use coal that emits less sulfur, an environmental hazard, into the environment. The so-called Clean Coal Movement has spearheaded a trend towards increased demand for high-quality, low-sulfur coal, such as that produced by Massey, for both industrial and metallurgical uses.
With the rise of rapidly-developing economies such as those of India and China, the global demand for energy has been rising rapidly. Rising global demand for energy positively affects Massey, as demand growth has outstripped increases in supply, leading to shortages of energy sources and higher profit margins for energy companies. China and other areas of Asia have significantly increased their demand for coal specifically, demanding more coal than other sources of energy because coal is generally lower in cost, although it can be less clean. Furthermore, as oil supply diminishes, more companies around the world will turn to coal for their energy needs, which will give Massey a larger potential market.
The global eco-friendly trend has spawned legislation in many countries in favor of renewable energy. For example, the U.S. enacted the Energy Policy Act of 1992, which introduced the Production Tax Credit (PTC) to independent power producers. This hurts nonrenewable energy companies such as Massey, which must compete with the government-subsidized renewable energy forms. However, Massey's low costs of production, relative to its coal-producing competitors, means that Massey will suffer less than competitors, and the regulations may end up helping Massey by eliminating its competing coal producers.
Massey is the fourth largest U.S. coal company in terms of revenue, behind Peabody Energy (BTU), Arch Coal (ACI), and CONSOL Energy (CNX).
MEE also competes with a wide variety of coal producers located outside of the U.S., notably companies in Australia, Canada, Columbia, Russia and Venezuela.
Massey is the largest producer in Central Appalachia by a wide margin, producing about 35% of the region's production and approximately twice as much as the nearest competitor.


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Digger40P needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 151 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
SBO7 ("SBO" "Seven")
Consulting firm to small business owners.
Small business owners & key employees (VPs, office managers, etc.)
- Design color logo that also displays/prints well in B&W.
- Design must be simple and powerful.
- Design & selected colors must convey competence, trust, action, & simplicity.
- Design elements are the letters "SBO" (all CAPITAL letters) and the numeral "7" (seven). This represents "Successful Business Owner's Seven," our representation for "the seven steps to business success."
- Design must be "extensible" in the sense we will use it not only in its original form, but also to denote subsets of our products. For example, we will use it to depict "SBO7" subscript "Legal Protections," and "SBO7" subscript "Marketing," etc. In other words, we will use the basic logo "SBO7" as well as "SBO7 subscript 'Marketing.'" We use the word "subscript" to indicate the secondary nature of the word and NOT necessarily a literal subscript below the baseline.
- The design submitted must feature at least one of the examples in the previous section (Legal Protections, Marketing).
- This is our first logo contest, so please be sure to let us know immediately if you require more information or explanation.
- Thanks much for your contribution!
ADDED NOTE: The attached graphic is a VERY rough draft of ONLY ONE direction this might go. I am not a graphics designer (obviously), but I think something along these lines might work best. HOWEVER, I am open to other concepts that meet the criteria above.
ADDED NOTE: The colors I used in my ROUGH draft are NOT directive but rather intended to show color differentiation between the basic graphical elements. Again, the draft I provided is only representational and I'm looking for your creative implementation.
- Again, please recall the colors I used in my ROUGH draft are NOT directive and you may use colors and shades other than the red, blue, and black in my example.
- Please incorporate a "TM" and ® "Circle R" (Registered Trademark) symbol in your presentations since this logo will be trademarked and each symbol will apply at different times.
- Clarification of "black & white:" This means a grayscale version of the logo to represent how it will appear when printed in black ink on white paper.
- Subscript Issues (very important):
- Subscripts are not intended to form part of the basic logo graphic concept. Think of them as specifying separate subject areas gathered under the basic umbrella created by the basic logo. For example, we will have subscript variations such as SBO7(subscript: Marketing), SBO7(subscript: Legal Issues), SBO7(subscript: Operations), SBO7(subscript: Office Management), etc. Clearly the basic logo concept cannot accommodate many of these subscripts within the boundaries of the basic logo.
- On the other hand, the subscript must relate graphically to the basic logo concept and not appear "tacked on" or "band-aided."
- Each subscript variation will have only one subscript at a time, not several or all at the same time.
- Note that the example subscripts provided above represent only a portion of the total number of subscripts I will use and each has a different number of characters. Your design must accommodate this variable-length subscript. Many of the designs submitted so far work well with the word "Marketing," but the proposed implementation will not accommodate longer or shorter subscripts.
- Please do not submit concepts that attempt to capture the subscript wholly within the basic logo perimeter as the variable lengths of the subscripts make this design element untenable.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Rozner and Spiegel. Spiegel mentioned that he got the info from someone "very close to the team" and wanted to share it. Prefaced it with saying how he normally doesn't do something like this, and he's not a guy that has sources or info very often, but felt that this part of the story was important to pass along.
Mentioned several specific things too:
- Early in the season Robin wanted to allow young players to have their girlfriends on the team charter and AJ was furious over it and would tell anyone who would listen.
- Mentioned that AJ felt like the veterans should get special treatment, while Robin was trying to treat all the same.
- Talked about how Coop and Parent both disliked AJ and didn't want to even talk with him at times.
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- Said pitchers didn't want to throw to AJ.
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MADISON, Wis.—Experts in treating mental illness say it remains difficult to understand and will cost the state more money and more lives if not treated.
The testimony came during the first meeting Wednesday of a new bipartisan Assembly task force examining mental health issues.
Experts in the field say one out of four people in Wisconsin is associated with certain types of mental illness such as paranoia and depression. They say that could expand to half of the state's residents.
Experts say the complexity of mental illness has left it underestimated and underfunded.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos created the task force to study mental health issues in Wisconsin and if they are related to violence.


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Businessnes across the Derbyshire Dales can learn how best to utilise social media at a series of free events.
The workshops will take place at Derbyshire Dales District Council's Matlock Town Hall HQ on Tuesday, June 10 and Tuesday, June 17.
The sessions will be run over two days and are aimed at beginners or those with some basic knowledge of social media. To book a place, visit www.ebusinessclub.biz


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Title: T. G. Alford papers, 1887-1919
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Arrangement: The items are arranged in chronological order.
Subjects: Purdue University--Faculty
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Preferred Citation: MSF 14, T. G. Alford Papers, Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives & Special Collections Research Center, Purdue University Libraries


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LAWRENCE, N.J. (AP) — A truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn on a New Jersey highway before crashing his vehicle into an SUV carrying a Pennsylvania family was charged Saturday in the deaths of a woman and her two young sons.
The crash between the truck and the SUV carrying five people happened at around 6:30 p.m. Friday on Route 1 in Lawrence, Mercer County prosecutors told The Times of Trenton (http://bit.ly/18Uempv).
Killed in the crash were 25-year-old Jamella Tisdale, her infant son, Jaden, and her 9-year-old son, Jaevon Durante, all of Levittown. The infant's father, Shaqwan Tisdale, and the woman's 8-year-old daughter, Mellady Durante, remained hospitalized Saturday in stable condition.
Emergency responders found the SUV wedged under the bed of the tractor-trailer, and crews had to stabilize the truck's bed before they could extricate the passengers. It took several hours to free the victims from the wreckage, Trenton Battalion Chief Robert Tharp said.
The truck driver, 45-year-old Richard Williams, of New York City's Brooklyn borough, was charged with three counts of death by auto and was being held on $100,000 bail. It wasn't immediately clear if he had retained an attorney.
Information from: The (Trenton, N.J.) Times, http://www.nj.com/times


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AICPA Expands ThisWaytoCPA.com to Include International Students
The American Institute of CPAs has recently expanded their website, ThisWaytoCPA.com, to allow international students to become members. The website, designed to educate college students and CPA-exam candidates about the path to becoming a CPA, now contains information to help international students understand the process of registering for the CPA exam and becoming a U.S. CPA while living overseas.
The U.S. CPA exam is administered internationally as a service to foreign nationals, as well as in response to escalating international demand for U.S. CPA licensure. In 2010, the last year before international administration, more than 10,000 international candidates traveled to the U.S. to take the U.S. CPA exam.
"As international candidates continue to sit for the CPA exam in greater numbers, we want to offer a resource to them which not only provides information and tools regarding the process for registering and studying for the exam, but also shares information with them about the exciting career opportunities being a CPA offers," said Scott Moore, AICPA senior manager, college and university initiatives. "Expanding our award-winning This Way to CPA site to allow international students to register is a logical way to accomplish that goal."
Additional features of ThisWaytoCPA.com are:
· Journals by individuals who recently passed the CPA exam explaining what they did to prepare for the exam
· Mock job interviews and resume tips
· A forum where students and exam candidates can post questions and interact with peers
· CPA profiles that detail the day-to-day activities of real life CPAs
· An exam timeline that maps out the process of taking the exam
· A list of more than 100 scholarships available to accounting and business students
· Information about career paths and jobs
· Information on specialized credentials available to CPAs.
ThisWaytoCPA.com is a companion to the AICPA's popular website,StartHereGoPlaces.com, which educates high school students about the accounting profession.
With the recently announced Exam Prep App, AICPA has made preparing for the Uniform CPA Exam easier for candidates on the go. The free app, which is available for both Apple and Android devices, syncs up with the user's This Way to CPA account. The app includes a customizable personal timeline, tips and a link to This Way to CPA's online forum, so exam-related questions – including those about the international exam – can be posed to a 30,000 – member community. Download the Exam Prep App at https://www.thiswaytocpa.com/exam-licensure/cpa-exam-aid/mobile-app/


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Trying again to post photo
If this works, you will see a photo of the previously mentioned breads I tried today...
If this works, you will see a photo of the previously mentioned breads I tried today...
I guess it didn't work :(
Let's see if I can help you in any way...
Click on the camera icon, in the box where you type your message in.
Screen1: Now, you'll see a box which has, among other things, a button called Upload. Clich this button.
Screen2: A new screen comes up. Type in a Title. Then on the second line click Browse. This will open a Choose File box, where you can select your picure you want to uplad. Make sure your picture is Jpeg or maybe a Gif. I don't know if BMPs work!
So click on the picture you want and click Open.
Now we are back to Screen2. Scroll down to the bottom and you will see a button called Submit. (U could also click preview to see if it's going to work)
Screen3: Now you'll see a box saying "Your Image was created." Here click "Insert".
That's it!!! You should see a picture in your message editor. Now all you have to do is to post the message!!!
Hope it works!!!
The same happens to me. Just a few minutes ago I tried to post a picture and a message here in reply to Srishti and I see my photo ended up in another place on this site. I want to post a picture and a message in the thread I'm reading but can't. I can't understand why.
And Srishti, what is my message editor? Do I have to do anything with the the boxes on the Properties page where is says SIZE and LINK and INSERT MODE. Do I have to make choices there and how do I know what I want? Sorry for asking so many questions. There is no one here to help me with this. weavershouse
Camera: upload from your own computer
Tree: link from a remote location.
This site now supports simple BBCode too, so you can insert images hosted elsewhere that way.
Strange, your picture is there on the top of the page now, it wasn't there before... Also, it could have something to do with a pop-up blocker sort of a thing as dstroy mentioned below....????
I fixed the one at the top. It had a img tag inside of an href tag inside of an href... I'm not quite sure what happened, but the HTML was all messed up. I cleaned it up and now it shows.
I, also, am finding it impossible to put a photo in this thread. I hope I haven't put 50 photos somewhere else while trying. When I click on the camera a little popup window opens that says Image Assist at the top. I have managed to put 4 photos in there. When I double-click on a photo, another pop-up opens that starts out "Properties:" I assume that the Size, Link and Insert Mode items are correct as is. When I click on the Insert button, the window disappears and nothing happens. Any thoughts, anyone? I'm getting as frustrated as these other folks. I can bake bread but I can't insert a photo...
Thanks for any assistance.
SD Susan
That's weird! I was seeing your images show up in the feed for new modes so they're definitely showing up on the site - though it sounds like the problem isnt finding the pictures up there once they are loaded but getting them to stick in your comments and replies.
It works for me when I try it. Test:
yep - worked for me!
Is there any chance you've got some sort of pop-up blocker on your browser? I'm using the latest Firefox what about you?
I use Safari as my browser for my Apple computer Max OS X. Could that make a difference?
What made Susanmarie's photo show up?
Finally, an answer to my problem. I was beginning to feel so dumb. I'm downloading Firefox as I write this. Thank you, thank you. And thanks to dstroy too. I'll have to bake tomorrow and take some pictures. Hope it works.
By the way Susan, your bread is awesome!
Thanks, Lorie, for the kind words. I've had a lot of fun and produced a lot of bricks while baking sourdough, but one my biggest aha! moments was baking under a 4L Classic Pyrex bowl. The dough just pops up like crazy, and I get to watch it all. Great fun! It certainly limits the size and shape of my bread, but there are only the two of us, so it works out okay. I was feeling awfully dumb, too, about the photo thing. Now that I can do it, here's a boule under a bowl in the oven. I've even stopped using my baking stone and just use one of the oven trays. That cuts way down on preheat time. Hope Firefox works for you, and I am checking into Floyd's suggestion of Camino.
TinyMCE, the WYSIWYG editor I'm using, doesn't have good support for Safari. I just made a change so that now Safari users should be warned about this. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I'd also recommend Camino, which is a Mac-only browser. It is based on Firefox's code, but is stripped down and simpler. I do the majority of my work (coding) in Firefox, but the majority of my personal browsing in Camino.
another one...: trying to do it all at one timetest bread photo upload: test photo upload
added by setting thumbnail and link options. (Using IE6)
Baked Boule
Thanks for the hint about Firefox, Dstroy. It worked when I switched to Firefox from Safari. Now I don't have to be the only one who can't submit photos!!!!
SD Susan
wow...that's a gorgeous Boule Susan!
The secret is baking it under a classic 4L Pyrex bowl! Works every time. It's almost too easy. I've been upping the hydration lately, so they are not quite as ball-like, but bigger holes. The crust is sooooo good. I love sourdough.
I tried following the steps described by Srishti, but got nothing. When I click the camera icon, a window opens to tell me no images are found, and then I click on 'upload'. I browse to select the file I want, click 'preview' and wait while it does its thing. Then it ends (?), but all I'm left with is an empty message box telling me to fill in the form below to upload a new image. And what is the 'my images(0)' dropdown box supposed to point to?
I feel like I'm back working again! yecch! I use Windows XP and Firefox. I want to include a picture in a reply to a thread, not to enter a photo in the Images section.
mse1152, I can't seem to upload any photos today, either, and am running into the same problem you describe. Have tried Firefox and Camino today, to no avail. Will try again tomorrow. Something somewhere is just glitchy...
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In the Holy Qur'an, we read it that Allahu Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says:--
"What! did you think that We created you only for sport,
and that you would not be returned to Us?" (al-Mumineen, 115)
"What, does man reckon he shall be left to roam at will?" (al-Qiyama, 36)
These 2 Noble Ayats remind us all to get our acts together and call ourselves to account before the Divine Judgement cathes up with us. In this regard, the Prophet, Sallallahu alaihi Wasallam, said:- "A mindful person is he who takes his lower self [ego] under control, and erforms good deeds for the world to come. A foolish person is the one who expects something good from the Almighty in vain, while following the desires of his lower self." [Tirmidhi, Qiyamah 25; Ibn Majah, Zuhd 31].
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It all comes together. Movies shipped. People all seem to love it. And feedback on press is just perfect too. Check our Press Section for all lattest Articles. Printed and Web
Yes we are shipping. And yes we are shipping world wide. 24hr / 7 days a week. Big thanks to Mama Paskowski
I want, all people in the World like MWO. But a good indicator surly is Maui. The place were the Who is Who of Windsurfing lives. Marcilio and Caitlen were so kind and orginised a MWO screening in Cafe Mamboo. The feedback from the Screen are amazing. Here a few: Goya "Wow, It was amazing!! Was like watching everything that I ever dream off and more, also so important seeing the top guys pushing each other and exploring what is possible along with their friendships and traveling to the different cultures. Really amazing, great job guys!! Thank you and please keep it going!!! Robby Swift: " The best sailors in the world, the best spots in the world and amazing cinematography. Every time I watch it I want to go sailing! John Skye: "Amazing. Four Dimensions has been my favourite "go sailing" movie since it was released and I didn't think the new one would match it. However not only did it match it, but blew it out of the water. Minds Wide Open has just become the new favourite!" Antoine Albeau "very good movie, i liked it a lot, some much action and big waves, I like also a lot the real image of the europeen condition with black sky.
nice job !!"
We got it. The movie is in the house. Now we start shipping all our PreOrder and Shops. If you order on www.mindswideopenmovie.com you will get your own movie Poster.
Finally. I am back on the water. almost 2 years. Lots of fighty, lots of crys and lots of pain has passed and it was not much different then before. Great feeling
Due to some strange Blood Test i left Hamburg for Brazil. Not a bad exchange. I used the time to host the Brazil Premiere at Club Ventos. It was one of this very spezial nights which made me totally happy and feel good. Thats why I am doing movies and thats why this wont be the last one.
Premiere in Kiel. Thanks to Ingo and Windsurfers.de / They have orginised our Kiel showing. This was the first time people saw the final movie. Feedback from this show is very good. Now we move on for final steps to starting printing copys.
After Sylt Kauli took some time to spent on Editing with Basti. There will be one chapter on the movie which will have a private, big wave, CapeVerde Session with Kauli as all the rest of the team already left home. It is good to see that the riders really do care of how the movie looks like.
After Sylt we are back now in Editing modus. Working on our 2nd Indo Section which will be a EXTRA. Looking insane the waves we got. LIKE
With Minds Wide Open we had the vision also the capture every trip on Foto. Sumsi did a amazing job here. We now have 8 high quality canvas prints in our shop section. 6 of them we give away on sylt for charity. we could collect little over 2000EUR for the 6 canvas and donated that money for cancer sick children. To check out the canvas prints: www.mindswideopenmovie.com
After 1.5 years of working we finally showed the first 60% of the movie at the Sylt World Cup. We rented same cinema as on Four Dimension. Tickets were sold out in 2 Hours. Feedback from all Pro Riders and "normal" Pulic was amazing. Good last injection of motivation for the final 40%. Now back to Editing, Editing, Editing. Andre
We just return from Klitmöller. Big results for the Team and the movie. Before Klitmöller we had 6 riders and 5 world champions. No we got 6 riders and 6 world champion. Philip won his first ever world title but sure it was not his last. His Jumping and Riding was outstanding. Also Ricardo (2nd), Victor (3rd) and Kauli (5th) showed amazing performance. Marcilio was the unlucky one. He could not show his full level due to a broken mast. Congrats to ALL. We also catched some amazing Jumps on Tape whish we will put into the movie - last minute. / Andre & Team
Trying to get ready for 5 days Lake Garda with my Mum and Dad. Finish to capture the Gollito footage from Lake Garda, cleaning the desc and then 3am starting to drive. Website and Store running good so far. Andre
Finally some little time to calm down. We were a little surprised with the run on our Trailer, the Website and the PreOrder Option. But looks like it all runs nice. Just want to say thanks to all viewer and supporters for the great feedback!!! We are now working on the main movie end hope we show a major piece in sylt and come out with the movie just short after. Thanks again to all, Andre & Crew
Me and Gollito just returned from Lake Garda. What a sick trip. I saw so many people I missed for a long time. On top it was amazing weather and the Italien atmosphere is just so cool. I felt really nice. We also went to film a little Garda Segment for the movie. Me and Sumsi were scared of not getting any wind as we had most of the time 30 degrees and more. But surprisingly we got conditions almost every day. Did not checked any footage yet. Lets see tomorrow. Driving for 12 hours straight was little hard - time to sleep!
We just received pictures from Sumsi and footage from Basti and checking it all out. Looks great, just as I hoped it would. It feels like exactly this was missing, something totally new and exciting. We just started the trailer and website production as we want to be live on the 15th of August.
Got 2 SMS this morning from Sebastian tell:ing "It is great, filming plenty, waves are up and also we got wind. All good!" So I assume everything runs well and we are scoring.
Just got a phone call from Sumsi with bad news. Emirates Airlines wanted to charge him first 3700 EUR excess and then, after hard negotiations reduced it to 2300EUR. Should he fly or not? No question he has to, as Kauli, Ricardo, Victor and Basti are already in the air and Sumsi has all the camera gear with him. Nothing we can do about it. At least the wave forecast is looking sick.
Pozo has been absolutely on fire. We saw real waves, witch is not happen to often and really strong winds. Sumsi had a massive job to do. Lots of filming and organising to get every set up. Our team as well scored massive on the PWA Contest with all 5 riders in the top 7. Next stop is already planned and booked as well. Indo! That's going to be killer. Just lets pray for waves and wind again.
We got some sick sailing in Egypt. At first Gollito was not really on it as he was pretty disappointed with his 4th place at the low wind contest in Podersdorf but then he gained motivation and celebrated some really big moves. We got it all! Sumsi is now getting ready for Gran Canaria. Here we will focus on our jumping hotshot Philip Köster together with Victor and Ricardo.
Time to change. After filming waves for a while now it is time for more freestyle. Sumsi just came back from Maui and will have just short time to meet up Basti to fly out to Egypt. In the meantime Gollito is finishing his contest in Podersdorf to meet them in Dahab. We are planning several trips to new spots.
Sumsi and Basti scored some nice days of waves. Conditions are not easy. Sometimes very strong winds, clouds, rain so getting the right footage takes more time then expected. Basti will return to Hamburg next week to start editing and capturing while Sumsi stay 3 more weeks so we do not miss any great conditions.
Due to my negative Health Development i had to make a decision and as we scored such great footage in Cabo Verde it was clear that we have to continue with the movie. Changed some plans so Basti will take over the filming together with Sumsi. They are flying out tomorrow and expect a great line up of swells, which could even see Jaws potential.
The Cabo Verde trip has been sick for all of us. The last day we scored some of the best conditions we have ever seen. Kauli was on form and sail all north shore spots. Returning to Hamburg where we ad just little time before going to Maui. Our flights were booked. I just went to check my blood with some doctors and it seems I have to do last years process one more time. So far not sure what that means but it is a sad development. I am not sure how things will develop ...
We are on Cabo Verde since a couple of days and conditions have been really on fire so far. All riders have arrived in time, except for Philip Köster. He lost his connection and could not make it in time. We are looking at one more week with hopefully great conditions.
Finally! Checking the forecast this morning. On magicseaweed and surfline it looks like we can give it a try. Forecast predicts good wind, waves and sun. Already sent an email to all riders and crew and we try to go in 5 days. Some riders got little trouble. Philip has to be 3 days after already in Australia also Marcilio who just went from CapeTown to Maui has to go back to Africa. But we are sure that conditions will pay off. More news coming up soon. Now it is time to pack equipment. So excited. My first trip since one year. / Andre
We run into a little bit of trouble during the last days. Red Bull who is a supporter of our Movie informed us that we could not use the name "Second Life" for our movie because of some leagal problems. We run a short pricegame on our Facebook page and we now decided to switch names to "Minds Wide Open". A perfect name for a windsurfing movie, as we belive. Our minds should be wide open!
We are in Hamburg for some time now and working on some Cabo Verde rough cuts. Excited for the next trips lining up. Plan is to go back to Cabo Verde to get some more great stuff on film. So far planning for February but really need to wait for the forecast and do a last minute call. Crossing fingers. / Andre
Last week Basti, Sumsi and Andy returned from Cabo Verde. 4 long weeks with high expectations ended with frustration. November normally offers great wind and wave conditions. But 4 weeks long almost zero! Anyway, we all agreed that Cabo Verde is a must have for us as it is probably one of the best waves in the world. So we decided to come back next year on standby. Lets cross fingers that we are more lucky next time. / Andre
We just started the production of Second Life. A great forecast during the PWA Event in Denmark was reason enough to move to Denmark for 5 days. We all filmed during the event. The best stuff we got filming in Hanstholm, which is 15 minutes from Klitmöller. Strong winds plus waves offered a perfect playground for jumps. This was the first stop. Many more to come!
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The House Republican leadership has given the go-ahead to proceed with a contempt citation against Attorney General Holder over his refusal to comply with a subpoena for information about DOJ's Fast and Furious program. A draft contempt resolution reportedly is being prepared.
The subpoena at issue calls for the Justice Department to produce approximately 80,000 pages of material regarding Fast and Furious to which the DOJ Inspector General had access. To date, the Justice Department has produced only about 7,000 of these pages.
The effort to obtain the documents has been led by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a member of both House committees with jurisdiction for the investigation — the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Judiciary Committee. Chaffetz says that Holder is "is leading us down a path where we have no other choice" but to initiate contempt proceedings. Rep. Trey Gowdy, Chaffetz's colleague on the Oversight Committee, has stated that if Holder didn't fully respond to the subpoena by Memorial Day, May 28th, the contempt of Congress proceedings will begin and the Justice Department could see a cut in funding.
Congressional contempt proceedings against the Executive are a rarity, but House Democrats did find Joshua Bolton and Harriet Miers in contempt during their investigation of the firing of U.S. Attorneys during George W. Bush's second term. The House then sought a declaratory judgment and injunction ordering the two to comply with subpoenas. A federal district court ruled in favor of the House, and a compromise was reached.
There's always political risk when congressional Republicans take drastic action against a Democratic administration, for example by the kind of retaliatory funding cut Rep. Gowdy contemplates. Here, however, the scandal – Fast and Furious – is so egregious and potentially explosive that the House Republicans seem to have the upper hand. As Chaffetz says:
You have a dead U.S. Border Patrol Agent, you have thousands of weapons that were knowingly given out by the Department of Justice to the bad guys. We gave them to the criminals. We have nearly 300 dead in Mexico and a host of questions that that the Department of Justice has never, ever answered.
The Justice Department is using a tactic familiar to all attorneys who have faced obstruction during fact discovery – it is talking about what the information it has been willing to provide. For example, a Justice Department spokesperson cites Holder's numerous appearances to testify before Congress.
But cooperation on one front doesn't excuse failure to cooperate on another. To perform its investigative task properly, Congress needs access to the same documents DOJ had available for its internal investigation. If DOJ won't provide them, then contempt seems like an appropriate last resort.


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"We decided to remove the coach from his post," Roma director general Franco Baldini announced on Saturday. "This was the only decision we could make. We evaluated the situation and, knowing the players, this is the best decision to make at this moment."
It is difficult to argue with the conclusion that they had been left with no other option but to part company with Zdenek Zeman, with Baldini's use of the words "knowing the players" particularly significant. It effectively confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in Serie A: Zeman had lost the Giallorossi dressing room. That nearly always fatal development, coupled with a dismal run of results in Serie A, made Zeman's dismissal sadly inevitable.
In truth, given the notoriously cut-throat nature of Italian football, it was something of a surprise that the colourful Czech had even been allowed to take charge of Friday's abysmal 4-2 defeat at home to Cagliari. The Roma board had called an emergency meeting after yet another dreadfully disjointed display in last weekend's 3-3 draw at Bologna. In the end, Zeman survived, but it proved merely a stay of execution.
No doubt Zeman will feel hard done by. "I won't resign because of one bad game," he declared in the aftermath of Friday's defeat. Unfortunately for Zeman, though, the Cagliari capitulation was just the latest in a long line of bad results. Indeed, they have not won a single Serie A match since the turn of the year.
Zeman's coaching career
|He has coached Roma twice, having previously sat in the Stadio Olimpico hot seat between 1997 and 1999.
|Zeman has claimed three trophies, leading Licata to the Serie C2 title in 1985 before winning Serie B with both Foggia (1991) and Pescara (2012).
|His longest stint with a club was the five years he spent at Foggia before leaving for Lazio in 1994.
|Zeman has had a total of 18 jobs since starting his coaching career as youth team boss at Palermo.
However, Zeman admitted afterwards that his side had tried to sit on their lead "and we don't know how to do that." But the truth was that Zeman's Roma didn't know how to defend. Full stop.
The Czech is many things, chief among them an admirable advocate of free-flowing attacking football. However, he is also frustratingly stubborn. His sides only know how to play one way, with a high-pressing 4-3-3 formation, and that is just the way he likes it. He holds a frankly ridiculous disregard for the defensive side of things. And it has ever been thus, and while Zeman is undeniably one of the most iconic and compelling figures in the history of Italian football, he is not a winner. He has never lifted a trophy of note, with all due respect to Serie B.
Zeman can perhaps claim with some justification that his career was somewhat hindered by his long-running feud with Juventus, the most powerful force in Italian football. "I had been able to work peacefully as a trainer until 1998. All of my troubles started when I reported Juventus' use of doping. They played me off as an idiot and in the meantime Luciano Moggi was preventing clubs like Bologna and Palermo from signing me with his influence. I was one of the best European trainers, and that man willfully ruined me."
However, the fact remains that he failed to win any silverware during a total five-and-a-half years at the Stadio Olimpico, having spent three seasons with Lazio before crossing the city divide in 1997 to take charge of Roma for the first time. Furthermore, he had a glorious opportunity to prove his worth with the current Giallorossi squad. One could easily argue that Roma have a better panel of players than not only the two sides currently occupying second and third in the standings, Napoli and Lazio, but also the two Milanese giants.
Zeman admitted as much himself before the season began. "I have a squad that covers every position with two players," the 65-year-old stated. "Then it depends on their fitness levels and my decision on which ones I use."
Presuming their fitness levels are not the problem (there were the usual reports last summer that Roma's new boss was working his players too hard in pre-season), the only logical conclusion to draw is that Zeman has erred in his team selections.
Certainly, his treatment of Daniele De Rossi was ridiculously ill-advised. An infamous disciplinarian, the Czech clearly felt the need to impose his will on his players right from the off, but consigning one of the best midfielders in Europe to the role of bit-part player always felt like a case of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.
Baldini, of course, repeatedly denied that there had a falling out between coach and vice-captain but even after De Rossi had returned to the starting line-up to play a crucial role in the stunning win over Milan, Zeman could barely bring himself to sing the praises of the Italy international: "De Rossi had a decent performance, although after the break he too struggled and was unable to catch his man."
It was a similar story with Maarten Stekelenburg. Zeman described the Dutchman as one of the best goalkeepers in Europe before the season began. However, by the time of his dismissal, he had restricted the former Ajax man to the role of a second-choice shot-stopper. That Stekelenburg's replacement, Mauro Goicoechea, made a dreadful error in the defeat at home to Cagliari that ultimately sealed Zeman's fate seemed somehow apt.
Up in Smoke | The Czech's second spell with Roma has again ended in failure
Zeman is his own man. He makes no apologies for who he is or what he believes in. He is never afraid to speak his mind. He stands up for old-fashioned values and his philosophy fits in nicely with that of Danny Blanchflower, who argued: "Football is about glory. It is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom."
One thing Zeman certainly is not is boring. He should also be commended for standing up for the little guy and championing 'the beautiful game'. However, as he himself has admitted, "Football has become an individual sport. You see these kids with their headphones on, listening to their music. In the past, they used to talk. Football has become primarily business and politics these days and much less sport."
Essentially, the game has changed. Zeman, for better or for worse, refused to change with it. Consequently, his stubbornness has ultimately cost him his job at Roma. Again.
One thing Zeman certainly is not is boring. He should also be commended for standing up for the little guy and championing 'the beautiful game'. However, as he himself has admitted, "Football has become an individual sport. You see these kids with their headphones on, listening to their music. In the past, they used to talk. Football has become primarily business and politics these days and much less sport."
Essentially, the game has changed. Zeman, for better or for worse, refused to change with it. Consequently, his stubbornness has ultimately cost him his job at Roma. Again.


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NEW YORK (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty in New York to engaging in drug dealing in support of Colombian terrorists has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison.
Federal Judge Barbara Jones sentenced Harouna Toure (huh-ROON' TOHR'-ee) on Thursday. Federal sentencing guidelines called for a 15-year prison term. The judge says Toure deserved leniency because he was interested only in making money and didn't have ideological reasons.
The judge announced the sentence after Toure sobbed as he pleaded for leniency.
Toure says he wants to return to the African country of Mali to care for his wife and two children. He already has served nearly three years in prison.
Prosecutors say he agreed to transport cocaine through West Africa to support al-Qaida and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.


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One thing seems clear about next months election: Western Colorado will elect a Fort Lewis College graduate to Congress.
U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, faces state Rep. Sal Pace, D-Pueblo. Both earned degrees in political science Tipton in 1978 and Pace in 1999.
The two men come from different generations and have followed very different paths in life, but their college years spurred an interest in politics that has put them on a collision course.
They arent the only two in the race. Unaffiliated candidate Tisha Casida, Libertarian Gregory Gilman and write-ins Jaime McMillan and Dale Reed also are running. But in practice, third-party candidates are hardly ever elected.
So its a safe bet that a Skyhawk will be on Capitol Hill.
Pace: Early campaigns
Pace got his start in politics in the cutthroat battles of student government in the late 1990s, which made the Legislature seem nearly tame in comparison.
Pace served in the student Senate and, at the end of his junior year, he ran for vice president of the student body.
The student Senate disqualified him because his running mate was a credit shy of being a full-time student.
They protested and got reinstated, but then were disqualified all over again.
Needless to say, I had the votes, he said.
He ran for president the next spring but lost.
Pace witnessed a better example of politics when he served on the search committee for a new FLC president. (The school hired Kendall Blanchard.)
He remembers disagreement among the committee members about what kind of candidate to pick.
Pace credits the experience with showing him important skills: Building relationships with the other committee members, earning their respect, doing the hard work and the research. We got over 100 applications, and I read every single one.
Pace says he will bring that same spirit to a Congress mired in partisan warfare.
After graduation, Pace went to work for John Salazar when he was a state representative and stayed with him when he was elected to Congress.
He was working for Salazar when he met Marlene Valdez, who has century-long roots in Colorado. They married in 2006.
Pace also acquired an arrest record while at Fort Lewis.
In 1996, he was caught breaking into a dormitory vending machine and charged with third-degree larceny. A year earlier, he was cited for public urination the first of two citations for the charge. The second one came after graduation, in Denver in 2003.
I was young, and I was dumb, Pace said. It was before I was married, before I had kids. Certainly, Marlene would never let me be that stupid today. The hardest part was calling up my parents and telling them about it. Today, I know its going to be something Ill have to explain to my kids.
He paid for the damages to the candy machine and did community service.
Tipton: A serious student
Tipton was the first in family to attend college.
He came to political science because of his parents, who were committed Republican activists.
The campus in the late 1970s was very different than the one that looks out over Durango now. Noble Hall had just been built.
Tipton lived off-campus at the Stagecoach Motel, where he tended the front desk to pay for his rent.
You had a bed. There was no kitchenette. We found a spot on Main Street in Durango where you could to go in and eat for $4. There would be a little steak. We were regulars, Tipton said.
Scott Smith of Telluride met Tipton in a political science class and developed a classroom-based friendship with the future congressman.
I cant recall ever running into him at any of the parties around campus. Fort Lewis is known for parties, but he was a serious student, Smith said.
Tipton was an early Ronald Reagan Republican, while Smith voted for Jimmy Carter but changed his mind about politics while studying under the same political science professors as Tipton.
Tipton never served in the FLC student government. Instead, it was a sophomore-year trip to Washington, D.C., that intensified his interest in politics.
He listened to Carters State of the Union address, and then-Sen. Gary Hart took the class to visit the Senate cloakroom, on the other side of the Capitol dome from where Tipton now serves in the House.
During college in 1976, Tipton got elected as a delegate for Reagan to the Republican National Convention. He was the youngest delegate in the country, and he would return to GOP conventions in 1980, 1988 and 1996.
But Tiptons real focus was on business. Its a contrast he frequently draws between himself and Pace.
I wanted to get out and start a business, and I didnt care what it was, he said.
He and a friend started Mesa Verde Pottery. His friend died a year later, and Tiptons brother, Joe, became his business partner.
Tipton was thinking about going to law school when the pottery business took off.
A few years later, two young women walked into his shop. One of them the future Jean Tipton was a substitute teacher from St. Louis, looking for full-time work in Colorado.
He sold a pot to her, and in 1982, he married her.
Its the most expensive pot Ive ever sold, he said.
Fort Lewis College in D.C.
For FLC, having a congressman is more than just a point of pride. The college is looking for serious help from the federal government in paying for out-of-state students who use the Native American Tuition Waiver one of only two programs nationally that gives free tuition to Native Americans.
The state government picks up the tab now, but legislators are chafing under the $13 million annual cost.
Three years ago, Pace and Tipton cooperated to beat back an effort by other legislators to reduce state payments to Fort Lewis for the tuition waiver.
Salazar sponsored a bill on the topic, and Tipton picked it up in 2011.
But the bill is stuck because of the paralysis in Congress, so its likely that the next congressman either Tipton or Pace will have work to do for his alma mater next year.


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Senate Bill 733 (PDF), the so-called Louisiana Science Education Act, was unanimously passed by the Louisiana Senate on April 28, 2008.
With drastically different House and Senate versions of what was once the same antievolution bill in the Florida state legislature, it remains uncertain whether antievolution forces will be able to devise a compromise bill to be sent to the governor before the legislature adjourns on May 2, 2008 -- especially with a host of other issues crowding the legislative calendar.
At its April 24, 2008, meeting, the Texas Higher Education Coordination Board unanimously voted to deny the Institute for Creation Research's request for a state certificate of authority to offer a master's degree in science education through its graduate school, recently relocated to Texas, as the Houston Chronicle (April 24, 2008) reported [Link broken].
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Presentations are now available to members and attendees to download.
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|08.30 - 8.45
Welcome and introduction to The Open GroupChris Parnell - Director Membership and Service
(Presentation in English)
|8.45 - 09.00
Business Development by Enterprise ArchitectureLars Lundgren - Manager Biner
(Presentation in English)
|09.00 - 10.00
The attack of the unexpected – When the future beginsMagnus Lindkvist, Trend spotter and futurologist
The attack of the unexpected – When the future begins
Magnus Lindkvist, Trend spotter and futurologist (presentation in Swedish)
We live as prisoners of the present with our minds preoccupied by headlines and deadlines. Yet a progressive future depends on our ability to create, not just compete. Architects are, by nature, long-term thinkers and this talk will focus on some thinking tools as to how the world changes, how we can navigate in turbulent times and how we can create, not just compete, for a better tomorrow.
Magnus Lindkvist is a trendspotter and futurologist based in Zürich. His bestselling book "Everything We Know is Wrong" (2009) has been translated into ten languages including Chinese, Korean, Spanish and German. His latest book is "When The Future Begins" about how to think long-term in a world stuck in the present.
Magnus is one of the world's most sought-after speakers on trends and future-thinking. He was selected as Speaker of The Year in Sweden in 2010.
(Presentation in Swedish)
|10.00 - 10.30
|Coffee Break
|10.30 - 11.20
Architecture - An integrated part of our business strategy and developmentCharlotte Frank, Enterprise Architect Corporate & Åsa Lundin - Business Developer, Folksam
Architecture - an integrated part of our business strategy and development
Charlotte Frank, Enterprise Architect Corporate & Åsa Lundin - Business Developer, Folksam (Presentation in Swedish)
Architecture - an integral part of the transaction planning and development . A journey of change that addresses a specific case where the architecture is established in collaboration with business-driven initiative and gradually integrated with other frameworks and governance processes within the organization. The continued establishment of the architecture has become a group-wide support to coordinate the transaction requirements for locomotion.
Intended audience : Business Developers , Business Managers , CIOs , Enterprise , Business and Information architects
Charlote Frank - involved most of my career at the intersection of business and IT. The focus has been the practice and governance processes within organizations to establish support and control of the business activity and IT development. My current role is Chief Architect with responsibility for Folksam's business architecture and in the process has worked in close dialogue with the business and development of business strategies and business plans. My responsibilities include leading Folksam's business architects to establish a liaison with the business units and central units to support the management and coordination of the deal of change and the continued establishment of architecture capability.
(Presentation in Swedish)
|11.20 - 12.10
The role of architecture in setting requirements in buyer organizationMalou Järgården - Business Architect
The role of architecture in setting requirements in buyer organization
|12.10 - 13.00
|13.00 - 13.45
Kick-start your EA work - A Pharmaceuticals Industry Case StudyTobias Ivarsson- Senior Enterprise Architect, Biner Consulting
(Presentation in English)
|13.45 - 13.55
Sponsor Highlight
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|13.55 - 14.40
The road to Architecture Maturity in a highly federated multi-regional Architecture LandscapeMax Fischer, Chief Enterprise Architect, Nordea
The road to Architecture Maturity in a highly federated multi-regional Architecture Landscape
Max Fischer, Chief Enterprise Architect, Nordea (presentation in English)
Nordea did embark a focused road to maturing architecture during 2011, now 2 years later there are some conclusions and learnings ta share and also a clearer way forward.
Max Fischer has working as an enterprise architect and manager of architects for the last 8 years, with task as Head of EA Implementation and Chief CRM Architect in TeliaSonera, Enterprise Business Architect in SEB, Head of Business IT Architecture and Lead EA in Nordea Group Functions, and latest Chief Enterprise Architect and process owner of Architecture and IT Strategy in Nordea. Max has always strived to make architecture tangible and always architect with the consumer in mind, focusing on simplifying a complex world. Max is reporting to the CTO in Nordea.
(Presentation in English)
|14.40 - 15.10
|Coffee Break
|15.10 - 15.55
Enterprise architecture to the boardroomHarmen van den Berg, Manager BiZZdesign
Enterprise architecture to the boardroom
Harmen van den Berg, Manager BiZZdesign (presentation in English)
Enterprise architecture provides direction and substance to changes in strategy and business operations. The enterprise architect is operating in a network of related disciplines like strategic management, requirements management and portfolio management. The added value of enterprise architecture is to interrelate these disciplines in a consistent manner. This added value is consolidated in better models, analyses and recommendations for adjusting policy and projects in order to reach the desired organisational goals. However, it is non-trivial to translate models and analyses into recommendations for management.
We show how enterprise architecture models, expressed in the ArchiMate language, form the basis for portfolio management, and how they support strategic decision making. Portfolio management is integrated with enterprise architecture by defining portfolios as views on the architecture. We demonstrate, based on examples from various organizations, how such an architecture-based portfolio management approach leads to precise, yet highly flexible portfolios. Based on a consistent set of models, we derive both quantitative (e.g. cost analysis) and qualitative (e.g. impact of change) information that addresses stakeholders' concerns. Visualisation of this information is done in dashboards that are aligned with responsibilities and concerns of stakeholders.
Dr. Harmen van den Berg is a partner and co-founder of BiZZdesign. BiZZdesign offers complete and integrated solutions (tools, methods, consultancy and training) to design and improve organizations, from enterprise architecture to process management.
Harmen van den Berg studied mathematics at the Utrecht University, and did his PhD at Twente University. He was an assistent professor at Twente University, and scientific researcher at Telematica Instituut. At BiZZdesign, Harmen developed methods and techniques for business process engineering and enterprise architecture, and applied these as consultant at various organizations. Harmen is now responsible for Enterprise Architecture and training development. He has authored several publications on EA and BPM, and is chair of the Dutch ArchiMate Usage working group. He is ArchiMate-certified, and trainer of ArchiMate courses. Harmen is a speaker at many EA-conferences, like LAC, EAC, EAM, and The Open Group.
(Presentation in English)
|15.55 - 16.40
The largest EA project in the world?Mats Gejnevall, Enterprise Architect Combitech
The largest EA project in the world?
Mats Gejnevall, Enterprise Architect Combitech (presentation in English)
The goal of the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) program is to completely overhaul the European airspace and its Air Traffic Management (ATM). Contrary to the United States, Europe does not have a single sky, one in which air navigation is managed at the European level. Furthermore, European airspace is among the busiest in the world with over 33,000 flights on busy days and high airport density. This makes air traffic control even more complex.
The EU Single European Sky is an ambitious initiative launched by the European Commission in 2004 to reform the architecture of European air traffic management. It proposes a legislative approach to meet future capacity and safety needs at a European rather than a local level.
With a budget of more than 2 billion euros and around 300 projects it can be seen as the largest enterprise architecture project in the world right now creating an enterprise architecture and a roadmap for implementing the new ways of doing ATM cross Europe.
The presentation will explain how such a large EA project is organized, performed and measured. It will also show how it relates to TOGAF and ways of using TOGAF in an agile way.
Mats Gejnevall from Combitech has been working with enterprise architecture for the last 15 years helping organisations setting up EA capabilities, leading and performing enterprise architecture projects in various sectors as telecommunication, government and industries.
(Presentation in English)
|17.00 - 19.00
|Networking Reception with Refreshments


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The recent jump in cotton prices could be either an intricate house of cards that collapses tomorrow, or the start of a real market rally that settles cotton futures around the 80-cent level for the next five years. Both scenarios are equally plausible says Bob Goodman, agricultural economist at Auburn University.
With that in mind, Goodman's hopeful cotton growers are taking advantage of the market's amazing skyward movement, and selling their 2003 cotton crop.
"The cotton market has made some really big moves in recent weeks, but just because cotton prices are going up doesn't mean the market has to continue this upward trend." Goodman says. "Just as recently as last week we were all relatively happy with 70-cent cotton, and yesterday the December futures market hit 80 cents. This rally has caught everyone by surprise, and I just hope cotton growers are taking this opportunity to price cotton, and are selling into this rally."
He says, "I don't believe in putting all of your eggs into one basket, but I would sell aggressively into this market and begin thinking about marketing next year's cotton crop."
The New York Futures cotton price recovery was at least partly triggered by China's recent purchase of almost 500,000 bales of cotton. "China says they've had a crop failure, and that seems to be what set off the market rally. In reality, no one knows the market's future, and no one really knows what size crop China's got. It may turn out to be all smoke and mirrors," Goodman says.
Market fundamentals, as reported by USDA, really haven't changed much in recent months, but these same fundamentals have pointed to the need for higher cotton prices throughout the 2003 growing season, according to Goodman.
"We've been waiting all year for higher prices, but by the end of August we still hadn't broken the 60 cents mark. December futures contract fluctuated between 52 cents and just under 60 cents all year, until we began seeing movement in the market in September," he says.
Although economists and growers alike were growing weary waiting for a market rally many industry experts believed was overdue, the fact that it came at all is welcome news to cotton growers.
"We've been inspecting improvement in the cotton market all year long and wondered where it was hiding, but it seems the log jam has finally broken," Goodman says. "Most cotton growers are having a good production year with a healthy crop of cotton and a good market to sell it in. All I can say is that it's about time."
So how high could the cotton market go?
Looking strictly at fundamentals in the market, Goodman says, the market is already above the level justified by USDA's crop numbers. "The market doesn't listen to me, though, and anybody that tells you they know where the market is going is either a liar or a fool," he says.
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