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ITSC-1401-50 - Intro to Computers
Lamar State College - Port Arthur
House Bill 2504
Spring 2017 Course Syllabus
ITSC-1401-50 - Intro to Computers
|Faculty Information
|Spring 2017
|Duhon, Brenda Goates
|(409) 719-1681
|Be sure to check your campus E-mail and Course Homepage using MyLamarPA campus web portal (My.LamarPA.edu). When you've logged in, click the email icon in the upper right-hand corner to check email, or click on the "My Courses" tab to get to your Course Homepage. Click the link to your course and review the information presented. It is important that you check your email and Course Homepage regularly. You can also access your grades, transcripts, and determine who your academic advisor is by using MyLamarPA.
|Course Information
|Course Number
|Course Description
|Overview of computer information systems. Introduces computer hardware, software, procedures, and human resources.
|Course Prerequisites
Class times:
TUESDAY 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
THURSDAY 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
|Required Textbooks
|ISBN: 978-133-7212472 Bundle Carey/Oja/Parsons/Pinard/Romer/Ruffolo/ New Perspectives Microsoft Office 365 & Office 2016: Brief Cengage Learning 2017 Bundle Loose-Leaf Version + MindTap Computing 1 term
|Attendance Policy
Poor attendance is a leading reason for termination from a job in all areas of employment. With this factor in mind, the instructor monitors student attendance daily. In addition, attendance on a regular basis is necessary for proper skill development.
If a student is late to class and a quiz was given at the beginning of the class period and the student missed it, a grade of zero will be recorded for the quiz.
All late assignments will be assessed a 30% penalty. Assignments that are due at the beginning of each class are due immediately upon the start of the class. A student who is late to class and was not able to turn in an assignment at the beginning of the class will be assessed a penalty. Some assignments may be required to be turned in electronically through Blackboard.
Students are responsible for completing all assigned homework and for being prepared for each class meeting. This applies even if you were absent from the previous class meeting. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to check with the instruct for any missed work.
Please note: There are NO makeups for quizzes or exams. If a student misses an exam, their lowest test grade (excluding the final exam) will count twice. If more than one exam is missed, those exams will be given a grade of zero.
|Course Grading Scale
|90 - 100=A 80 - 89=B 70 - 79=C 60 - 69=D Below 59 = F
|Determination of Final Grade
|Assignments/Quizzes 40%, Exams 60%
|Final Exam Date
|May 9, 2017 - 5:00 PM Through May 9, 2017 - 8:00 PM
|Major Assignments
Week 1: Syllabus review, pre-test, Blackboard, Self-Service Banner, and Managing Your Files
Week 2: Review "Managing Your Files"; Word Module 1
Week 3: Word Module 2
Week 4: Word Module 2 (continued)
Week 5: Word Exam; Excel Module 1
Week 6: Excel Module 1 (continued)
Week 7: Excel Module 2
Week 8: Excel Module 3
Spring Break
Week 9: Access Module 1; Excel Exam
Week 10: Access Module 3
Week 11: Access Test; PowerPoint Module 1
Week 12: PowerPoint Module 1 (continued); Outlook Module 1
Week 13: Integration and Semester Project
Week 14: Finish project and review for final exam
May 9 @ 5:30 p.m. --Final Exam
(This schedule is subject to change.)
|Calendar of Lecture Topics and Major Assignment Due Dates
Week 1: Syllabus review, pre-test, Blackboard, Self-Service Banner, and Managing Your Files
Week 2: Review "Managing Your Files"; Word Module 1--Creating and Editing a Document; Writing a Business Letter and Formatting a Flyer; Formatting a Document
Week 3: Word Module 2--Navigating and Formatting a Document; Editing an Academic Document According to MLA Style; Bibliography
Week 4: Word Module 2 (continued); Review for Word Exam
Week 5: Word Exam; Excel Module 1--Creating a Customer Order Report; Excel Formulas and Functions
Week 6: Excel Module 1 (continued)
Week 7: Excel Module 2--Formatting Workbook Text and Data; Designing a Printout
Week 8: Excel Module 3--Performing Calculations with Formulas and Functions
Spring Break
Week 9: Access Module 1--Creating a Database; Introduction to Database Concepts; Creating a query, form, and report; Excel Exam
Week 10: Access Module 3--Maintaining and Querying a Database; Updating Tables and Retrieving Data; Selection Criteria in Queries
Week 11: Access Test; PowerPoint Module 1--Creating a Presentation; Slideshow and Presenter Views
Week 12: PowerPoint Module 1 (continued); Outlook Module 1
Week 13: Integration and Semester Project
Week 14: Finish project and review for final exam
May 9 @ 5:30 p.m. --Final Exam
(This schedule is subject to change.)
|General Education/Core Curriculum Student Learning Outcomes
|Program Student Learning Outcomes
PSLO ALPHA: Reading skills - Demonstrates comprehension of content-area reading material.
PSLO 1. Utilizes basic software development terminology, and concepts.
PSLO 2. Applies a software-development process to develop and troubleshoot a software product.
PSLO 3. Creates computer graphics for inclusion into a software product.
PSLO 4. Demonstrates ethics and professionalism within the computer field.
|Course Student Learning Outcomes
1. Obtains general knowledge of networking and computer terms through content reading material (PSLO ALPHA) measured by pretest/posttest.
2. Describe current technology including hardware, software, and digital media (PSLO 1) measured by embedded test questions.
3. Use current Microsoft Office programs to develop professional results from software use. (PSLO 2) measured with rubrics applied to hands-on projects.
4. Students demonstrate ethics and professionalism (PSLO 4), measured by embedded test questions.
|Academic Honesty
|Academic honesty is expected from all students, and dishonesty in any form will not be tolerated. Please consult the LSC-PA policies (Section IX, subsection A, in the Faculty Handbook) for consequences of academic dishonesty.
|Facility Policies
|Additional Information
|You will need a FLASH DRIVE for this class.
|Important Information
|ADA Considerations
|The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact the Coordinator, Office for Disability Services, Room 231, in the Madison Monroe Building. The phone number is (409) 984-6241.
|Copyright Violations
Some material in this course may be copyrighted. They may be used only for instructional purposes this semester,
by students enrolled in this course. These materials are being used fairly and legally.
No one may distribute or share these copyrighted materials in any medium or format with anyone outside this class,
including publishing essays with copyrighted material, uploading copyrighted material to Facebook or YouTube, or
painting or performing copyrighted material for public display.
Copyright violation is not the same thing as plagiarism. Plagiarism is intellectual dishonesty. Offenses of plagiarism result in lower grades or failing scores, and professors and the college strictly enforce plagiarism rules. There is never any acceptable use of plagiarism. Copyright violation is a legal offense, punishable by large fines and penalties.
Copyrighted material can be used if permission from the material's creator is obtained, or if its use meets the standards of fair use in an educational setting. For example, a student can quote a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet in a report without violating copyright but still be guilty of plagiarism if the quotation is not properly documented.
If you are in doubt about what material can be freely used, ask your professor or contact the Dean of Library Services, at (409) 984-6216.
|Assessment Statement
Assessment is a process by which LSCPA can help you learn better and gauge the level of progress you have made to
attain knowledge, skills, beliefs, and values. It also helps your professors understand how to improve teaching
and testing methods in your classes, and it helps each department understand and improve degree and certificate
Periodically LSC-PA will collect assessment data for research and reporting purposes, including statistical data and sometimes copies of your work. Be assured that all material the college uses for assessment purposes will be kept confidential. To ensure anonymity, your name will be removed from any material we use for assessment purposes, including video-recorded performances, speeches, and projects.
If you object to allowing LSC-PA to use your material for assessment purposes, submit a letter stating so to your professor by the 12th class day. You will still be required to participate in whatever assessments are being done; we just won't use your data.
What's the difference between assessment and grades? The grades you get on papers, projects, speeches, and assignments are specific types of focused assessment. LSC-PA's assessment efforts include class grades, surveys, standardized tests, and other tools.
|Privacy Notice
Federal privacy laws apply to college students. This means that college employees, including instructors, cannot
divulge information to third parties, including parents and legal guardians of students. Even if the students are
minors, information about their college work cannot be shared with anyone except in very limited circumstances.
Anyone requesting information about a student should be referred to the Registrar. Instructors will be notified in writing by that Office about what information may be released and to whom.
Please remember that releasing private information about a student, however innocuous it may seem, can be a violation of federal law, with very serious consequences.
Circumstances under which information may be released:
An adult student may submit, to the Registrar, a handwritten, signed note granting permission for release of
information. The note must specify what information may be divulged, and it must specify the name of the person
to whom the information may be given.
The Registrar's office is located in the Student Center room 303B, and can be reached at (409) 984-6165.
|College-Level Perspectives
This course helps add to the students' overall collegiate experience in the following ways:
|Degree Plan Evaluation
A Degree Plan Evaluation will help you determine which classes you need to complete your program.
All of the classes that you have taken that apply to your declared major will be listed on the right. If you have a class that still needs to be completed, a "NO" will be listed on the right next to the required class.
|This syllabus is part of LSC-PA's efforts to comply with Texas House Bill 2504.


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No Bake Chocolate Chews
60 servings
2 cups granulated sugar
1⁄2 cup unsalted butter
1⁄2 cup half-and-half
1 tablespoon light-color corn syrup
1 cup Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Baking Chips
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1⁄4 teaspoon almond extract (optional)
2 cups quick-cooking rolled oats
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
1⁄2 cup coarsely chopped almonds
- Line two extra-large baking sheets with waxed paper; set aside. In a large saucepan, bring sugar, butter, half-and-half, and corn syrup to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar for 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Stir in Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Baking Chips, vanilla, and, if desired, almond extract. Stir until the chocolate melts and the mixture is smooth. Stir in oats, coconut, and almonds.
- Drop the mixture by rounded teaspoons onto the prepared baking sheets. Let stand at room temperature for about 1 hour or until set.
- Enjoy immediately, refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 1 week, or freeze for up to 3 months.
Prep: 20 minutes
Stand: 1 hour
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After spending his entire life cheering for the Boston Red Sox, Bowdoin College sophomore Chris McCann was so over the moon when the team clinched a World Series spot in 2004 that he forgot an important French exam. Not to worry – his professor was a fan, too, and let him make it up later.
Jennie Chan, a 2009 Boston University graduate, thinks nothing of spending 85 percent of her income traveling to college games – even more, she admits, if you count all the T-shirts and trinkets she's purchased, not to mention the highway billboard touting her team loyalty.
By most accounts, Martha Coakley, the attorney general of Massachusetts, ran a rote campaign in her recent bid for the US Senate, which contributed to her loss to Republican Scott Brown. But in the three-deckers and sports bars around Boston, her defeat is traced to something else – the day she mistakenly identified Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling as a Yankees fan.
How crazy are New Englanders when it comes to sports? How crazy are all of us, for that matter?
While Boston may be a bit manic about its pitchers and parquet flooring, more and more people throughout the United States are expressing a near-tribal affiliation to a particular sport, or, more particularly, to a sports team.
At a time when the economy is faltering, wars are raging, and the future seems worrisome on a good day, many are looking to sports as a source not merely of distraction, but of personal identification. It's gotten to the point where English may no longer be our official language. Sports might be.
We listen to it endlessly on talk radio. We chat about it over the cubicles at work. We push our kids into it when they are still in their Maclaren strollers. We spend vast amounts of money on everything from LeBron James jerseys to greens fees: The National Sporting Goods Association estimates that sports represents a $441 billion industry in the US – the same as the gross domestic product of Norway.
Nor are Americans alone in their passion. Consider any soccer match in Europe. Or the priest in Vancouver, British Columbia, who was asked if he would skip a Sunday mass that threatened to conflict with the US-Canada Olympic hockey face-off. No, said the priest – but he would wrap it up in 15 minutes.
All this is hardly a bad thing. Sports, after all, teaches us about discipline and how to play with others. It gives us a diversion from the mundane aspects of human existence. It makes us less sedate and more communal.
"In a world where most people can't agree on anything, people can agree on a passionate interest in sports," says John Skipper, executive vice president of content at ESPN, the sports network.
Even more broadly, it is one of the few phenomena that can transcend race and class divisions, becoming what Bill Littlefield, who hosts a sports show on National Public Radio, calls a "marvelously easy social lubricant." "It's much easier to talk about that than subjects that require actual knowledge, such as the economy or healthcare packages or whether or not we should be invading more countries," he says. "It's sort of ... a feeling of belonging that is easy to get, easy to achieve."
Sports, in another words, may be the closest thing Americans have to a national hearth. "Sports is one of the most overt and direct expressions of community identity that we have in our society," says Andrew Zimbalist, a sports economist at Smith College in Northampton, Mass.
But has our love affair with sports gone too far? Something certainly is out of whack in a culture when marriages can crumble over obsessive sports worship; when friendships fracture over a clipping call; when hours of productivity are lost to sitting in front of a TV or computer screen, watching games, reading jock blogs, or lingering over online sports sites.
Last fall, an average 19.4 million armchair quarterbacks settled in weekly to watch NFL "Sunday Night Football." An estimated 58.3 million Americans will fill out a NCAA Tournament bracket this year, including our hoopster president, Barack Obama.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines fanatic – from the Latin fanaticus – as frenzied, marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense, uncritical devotion. Another definition might be when too many people want their kids to become a third baseman instead of a molecular biologist, when a society talks about Tiger Woods's return to the Masters more than the Afghan war, when the NFL draft creates as much buzz as draft legislation on financial reform (who, honestly, had even heard of Mel Kiper Jr. just a few years ago?).
In short: Just how sports-obsessed have we become?
It's the economy, sports fans
When America went through its last calamitous economic decline, in the 1930s, baseball and week-long dance marathons helped provide some diversion. With the current economy in the worst shape since the Great Depression, distraction is once again in order.
Ms. Chan is in need of distraction. She has lived with her parents in Washington, D.C., since leaving college. She has applied for 131 jobs in the past year, but has yet to receive an offer better than the one from the Maryland J. Crew store where she works part time.
What little money she does make all goes to one goal: attending as many Duke University men's basketball games as possible in the year before she heads to law school. While she may be broke, she doesn't regret a single cent that she has spent.
"To me, the most astonishing and amazing thing is that despite how bad the economy and job market is, students and fans come out to these games to cheer on their beloved teams," Chan says. "For those 40 minutes, everyone is fixated on the sport, maybe as a distraction from all the outside negativity, or maybe it is all the excitement that the team brings."
What she represents is a variant of the "lipstick effect," the spending phenomenon after 9/11, and it's one reason stadiums continue to draw crowds despite a sullen economy. Following the terrorist attacks, consumers cut back on purchases of luxury goods but increased spending on smaller indulgences. They bought fewer designer shoes, for instance, but stocked up on expensive lipstick. Now, according to Richard Johnson, curator of the Sports Museum, an educational institution in Boston, people are cutting back on exotic vacations and instead taking more "staycations" – including trips to the local ballpark and hockey arena.
Even these relatively cheap alternatives for family getaways are still costly, though: The Team Marketing Report, a sports research firm, found that the average cost for a family outing to a Major League Baseball game last season (which includes four tickets, parking, and the inevitable hot dogs and hats) was $196.89. In New England, the cost of being a fan is even higher: At Fenway Park, those accouterments totaled $326.45. The only place more expensive to catch a game is the new $1.3 billion Yankee Stadium, where family fun consumed $410.88.
"If you're going to spend your money somewhere to be entertained, chances are you're more apt to sit in a ballpark for a game than to take a flight to Cancún," Mr. Johnson says.
That rationale probably extends to other "necessities" as well. "I'm sure the sports TV cable package is the last thing that's being canceled by somebody that's unemployed," Johnson adds. "You would probably be maintaining your health insurance, maybe your car payment, but you're certainly not going to lose your sports package on cable."
Officially, the US recession started in December 2007. It's true that attendance at pro sports games, except for National Hockey League games, has gone down since then, but only by a negligible amount. In 2007, an average of 67,755 people turned out for each National Football League game. In 2009, the league's per-game attendance was 67,509, just a 0.4 percent drop. "In terms of the fans, they need their distractions, so sports are a little more insulated [during recessions] than other industries," says Mr. Zimbalist.
Even if we're not physically at the ballpark, the mental space fandom takes up can ease stress on the wallet. Peter Geller, director of fantasy sports products at Yahoo, says that more than 10 million people play fantasy sports online every year. The time people spend checking scores and updating rosters represents a form of free entertainment. "It's a cheap way to have fun and to occupy your time, instead of spending money at the mall," he says.
Culture of the cubicle
$1.8 billion. That's how much outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., which conducts an annual study on workplace productivity (or lack thereof) during college basketball's March Madness, says employers will pay in wages to unproductive employees between "selection Sunday" (March 14) and the end of the first round (March 19). The firm estimated that during the first week, workers would spend at least 20 minutes a day talking about the tournament, watching games online, or fiddling with their brackets.
(And there's an endless amount of fiddling to be done: If you created a unique March Madness bracket every second, it would take 30 billion years before you ran out of new combinations.) A Microsoft/MSN poll last year found that 45 percent of people planned to participate in at least one office pool during the tournament, so those 20 minutes per person add up to billions of dollars.
The guilty pleasure of watching sports at the office is widespread. CBS Sports began streaming all the college basketball playoff games on-demand in 2008, garnering 4.92 million viewers in the first year and raising its viewership 75 percent last year, tempting 7.52 million people away from their work to watch. And, yes, we know for a fact they were at work: Nielsen's Web ratings show that 92 percent of the site's traffic came from work computers.
Even better: CBS provides a "Boss Button" with its video player. In case of a boss-related emergency (meeting, cubicle check-in), the worker can click on the Boss Button and a spreadsheet will fill the screen, shielding the video from prying managers. The Boss Button's no joke, either: Nervous cubicle lurkers clicked it 2.77 million times during last year's tourney.
The impact of March Madness can be more nefarious than just idle workers. The FBI estimates $2.5 billion is bet annually on the month-long tournament. Experts believe even simple wagers can lead to more dangerous forms of betting. "You always start somewhere, and for sports gamblers, it's NCAA brackets or Super Bowl squares," says Timothy Otteman, a sports gambling expert at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant.
Others, however, see beneficial effects from the water-cooler chats and friendly intra-office pools. They believe talk about the previous night's games may do more to promote office bonding than expensive company-sponsored retreats. "I think people who have fun at work ultimately end up being more productive," says Mr. Skipper of ESPN. "Camaraderie at work only builds team spirit."
Plus, many have pointed out, in response to the Challenger, Gray & Christmas report, that the lines between work life and home life have blurred. With the advent of smart phones and mobile Web capabilities, people can work anytime, anywhere, including while sitting in a recliner in front of a television, watching their favorite team. Inversely, many office workers use company time to shop online, make personal calls, and peruse social-networking sites – and that happens all year, not just in March.
My dinner with Andre (Agassi)
The typical modern American family does not eat dinner seated perfectly around an oaken table like a 1950s sitcom brood. They usually are not talking about who did what in school, or how the day went at Dad-and-Mom's workplaces, or about the merits of China floating the yuan. No, they are often watching television. Sports television.
Maybe it's one of ESPN's seven 24-hour channels, or any of the multitude of specialty networks: New England Sports Network, MLB Extra Innings, Fox Sports, MLS Direct Kick, the list goes on like a Dick Vitale commentary. And what they are eating most likely came from a box that one of the parents picked up in a rush on the way back from Sarah's soccer game, Teddy's lacrosse practice, Joey's pitching lessons, or Mary's basketball tryouts. Sports and family: The new American equation. The family that plays together... well, this family is only sort of staying together.
Teddy and Joey are on their computers, reading about their favorite teams; Sarah is texting her friend about a soccer game; Mary is on her iPhone, talking about basketball hairstyles. Dad is playing fantasy baseball and Mom is wondering if, just once, everyone might congregate at the table.
But when sports aren't co-opting the dinner conversation or dividing rival fans, a shared enthusiasm for what happens on the gridiron or diamond can be a unifying force. "At the end of the day, that's what makes sport so compelling, it's the great common denominator," says Peter Roby, athletic director at Northeastern University in Boston. "Sport can be such a link. It can bring people from such diverse backgrounds, politically, religiously, socioeconomically, ethnically."
Technology has expanded the unifying potential of sports. Fans have always tailgated or painted their faces in bizarre ways to show team loyalty. But now, as cameras broadcast fans flashing their team colors out into the electronic ether, devotees everywhere can identify with their partners in passion. Suddenly, an isolated clique becomes a global fraternity. "It's just how they are able to articulate their passion now to the rest of the world that's totally different," Mr. Roby says.
Mr. Geller, the fantasy sports guru, typifies how technology is creating bonds. He's participates in a fantasy NASCAR league with his 7-year-old son. "It's purely for fun," he says. "I don't really care who wins. I just love the fact that we get to spend the 15 or 20 minutes a week together discussing it and getting online together and picking our drivers."
Sports have also helped Sam Butterfield, a student at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., tighten ties with his family, particularly his father and older brother, both avid sports enthusiasts. "It's a theology all of itself," he says. "It's both a ritual and a catharsis. It allows people who might differ in terms of personality and temperament to pull for one collective set of values."
The kid in all of us
Nowhere is our cultural zeal for sports better reflected than in youth athletics. The "stage moms" of old are now sideline moms and coaches, shepherding little Timmy or Sue to practice every day. More than 60 million kids play youth sports, up from 52 million in 2000 and 46 million in 1997.
But these ballooning statistics raise the question: Are Timmy and Sue being pushed too hard to fill a void in their parents' lives or is playing beneficial to them?
Steve Barr of Little League International, says his and other youth sports groups are there for the children, not the parents. Every child plays in every game, regardless of skill or parental demands. "We have to make sure it doesn't get to the point where it's not a game anymore...," he says.
To do that, experts say, it's important that kids actually participate in sports instead of just viewing them on TV or a computer screen. "I think there's no substitute for participation, no substitute for feeling included and getting an identity," says Dan Lebowitz, head of the Center for Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University in Boston. "Sport at youth levels, middle school levels, high school levels is a space for healthy development, for conflict resolution, for healthy competitive spirit, for cooperation, for all those things that it should be."
Still, the positive experience that kids get from playing sports can be muffled by an overzealous parent. "There are certain individuals, like the parent of an adolescent or a youth athlete, who can get so overinvolved that it can take the fun out of the game for the child...," says Tom Newmark, president of the International Society of Sports Psychiatrists. "Youth sports should be fun."
Sports deities: How much worship?
Whether you bow at the altar of Boston's Fenway Park or think Pesky's Pole is something that props up power lines, one thing is certain: Sports are here to stay.
Since the era of the Roman gladiators, fans have lined up to see athletes perform. Today, whether it's David Ortiz ripping a pitch into the gap, Tyson Gay running 100 meters in less than 10 seconds, or Serena Williams sizzling an ace past her opponent, people crave seeing their athletic idols perform seemingly superhuman feats.
Zimbalist says that sports are "a manifestation of the ability of humans to transcend or come close to transcending the human limitations and boundaries of human excellence and importance." "Just like the Greeks had demigods who performed magical acts and had powers and were able to transcend their mortality, athletes do that," he says.
Johnson calls sports "the ultimate reality experience." Fans are voyeuristic, living and dying with teams' successes or failures, taking players' performances personally. "They're wearing a uniform with the name of your hometown or where you come from, so you have a connection to that," he says.
Well, maybe. Some sports aficionados caution that players switch teams so often today that we don't – or can't – develop real loyalties. "I mean, how many teams did Curt Shilling pitch for before he wound up pitching in Fenway Park?" asks Mr. Littlefield, the radio host. "In a way, a friend of mine says, we root for the laundry – whoever happens to be employed and wearing a Red Sox jersey, we root for them."
Johnson argues that player loyalty doesn't matter – it's the devotion to the sport and its heroes that make the fan experience irresistible. "Not everybody has gotten on a stage and given a speech or performed in a play, but just about everybody tried out for a Little League team or ran a race or threw a football," he says. "We can connect to the activities these people are engaged in on a spiritual or visceral level."
But the question is, when does the visceral become a vice? David Barash, a psychology professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, says Americans obsess over sports the same way they do over reality TV shows. He says when a local team wins, people think "we" won. He says that's an illusion. It's not "we." It's "they" – the team – that won. People would be far better off, he argues, if they would spend less time and money on tickets and cable TV packages and more on experiencing life for themselves.
"They should go out and participate in sports, they should go for a walk, listen to music, talk to their kids, play with the dog ... anything that's real," he says.
More broadly, some critics argue our überemphasis on sports shows a skewed set of priorities. Murray Sperber, a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education, notes that many public universities pay football coaches far more than school presidents.
John Gerdy echoes that point. "LeBron James is much more important and valued by society than some Nobel Prize winner or someone on the brink of a major discovery in cancer research," says the professor of sports administration at Ohio University in Athens. "And there are consequences for that, because we are telling our children that this is what we value."
Still, there might be a middle ground in all of this. Mark Beudert, director of opera studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, has three arts-obsessed children. The key, he says, isn't valuing a cellist over a shortstop. It's striving for excellence in anything we do.
"There has to be a view that people in both sports and the arts – in any area of achievement – have the same motivation to excel and interface with society in a certain way," he says. "The motivation is the same if you're playing football or playing the violin; the individual just chooses a different way to express that motivation."
Chris McCann's French professor would probably agree. So might Jennie Chan. And most likely Martha Coakley now knows that Curt Schilling is not a Yankees fan.
• Kase Wickman, Scott McLaughlin, and Tom Lakin are Boston University journalism students. This article was written for a class taught by Prof. Elizabeth Mehren.


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My Friend Teddy Bear
- Letto da: narratore sconosciuto
- Durata: 13 min
- Categorie: Audiolibri per bambini, Crescita e fatti della vita
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Teddy is a sweet teddy bear who lives with his mum and dad in a little town buried between the mountains. Chris, on the contrary, is a quite arrogant little boy; he lives in a beautiful house, he has many toys, but not a single friend. Teddy hates him, he can't stand his arrogance and bullying, he does not like playing with him, but on a winter night Chris decides that he wants the bear, and reluctantly Teddy has to keep him company. But that night won't be like any other night for the two friends/enemies, because something unpredictable will force Chris to change his usual attitude. Suddenly, the unpleasant and spoiled boy turns into a different person, more generous and kind, that Commits himself into saving poor Teddy who is in danger.
Chris, with the help of the animals who live in the woods, strives to save the teddy bear, and thanks to a bit of luck succeeds in finding Teddy, but most of all he understands the importance of a friendship he does not want to give up anymore. It's not easy to have a friend when you are bullying, unfriendly, when you always want to be right; there must be understanding and respect between two friends, and mutual help if needed. Chris now knows; he has learnt that a friend is more precious than a hundred, a thousand toys; Teddy is not just a teddy bear anymore, but his dearest fellow, his best friend...
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Girlpool Sign To Anti, Announce New Album Powerplant
The FADER, who recently featured Girlpool on their magazine cover, are saying it "hits like a bag of bricks; it's proof of the specific magic that happens when their voices come together." Powerplant is available for pre-order now and due out via ANTI- Records on May 12th.
Watch the video at The FADER: http://www.thefader.com/2017/03/06/girlpool-123-video-powerplant Pre-order Powerplant: https://lnk.to/girlpoolpowerplant
The band has also announced a full US tour. All dates below.
5/23 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
5/24 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
5/25 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
5/26 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
5/27 - Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore
5/31 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
6/1 - Iowa City, IA @ The Mill
6/2 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
6/4 - Detroit, MI @ El Club
6/5 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
6/6 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB
6/7 - Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
6/9 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
6/10 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
6/11 - Washington, DC @ Rock + Roll Hotel
6/13 - Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
6/14 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (Hell Stage)
6/15 - New Orleans, LA @ Republic
6/16 - Houston, TX @ Walter's
6/17- Austin, TX @ Barracuda
6/20 - Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge
6/21 - San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe
6/22 - Pomona, CA @ The Glass House
"Raw, minimal, yet emotionally fierce... loaded with moments of offhand intimacy and caustic wit." - Rolling Stone
"Brims with a mysterious power, a charged and palpable sense of hope and awe." - Pitchfork
"When Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker harmonize, it's like a lightning bolt to the gut." - NPR
"The rawness and vulnerability of their lyrics, combined with their social and political consciousness, both transcend and reflect their youth." - Grantland
"It almost doesn't matter what they're singing about. The sound of their voices together contains it all." - NY Times
"Equal parts radical and sentimental... bristles with the crackling, wistful energy of change and approaching adulthood." - LA Times
Life has been a whirl for Girlpool since the release of their acclaimed 2015 debut Before the World Was Big. Shortly before the record came out, Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker relocated from their hometown of Los Angeles all the way across the country to Philadelphia, where they quickly became embedded in the local D.I.Y. scene. "Before BTWWB, I was just out of high school, living in my old neighborhood," recalls Cleo Tucker. "Then we started touring in a way we'd never done before. I really started to experience the duality that was beginning to exist in my life: tour/not on tour." After a chaotic and informative year spent floating around the East Coast, both bandmates moved home to California at the start of 2017. Girlpool have been seemingly everywhere at once, exploring all the world's offerings with open minds and notebooks. All the lessons they learned, about the earth and about themselves, are gathered together in their sophomore record and ANTI- debut, Powerplant.
Over 10 days in August 2016, Girlpool holed up at Los Angeles' Comp-ny studios to record and mix Powerplant with Drew Fischer. For the first time, Harmony and Cleo were joined by a third performer, drummer Miles Wintner, a friend who easily meshed with the tightknit duo. The decision to add percussion came as a natural decision for Harmony and Cleo; "Cleo and I just were driving down the New Jersey turnpike when she mentioned that it might be exciting to expand our sound for the new songs," says Harmony. "The songs we were writing had the potential of getting really climactic," adds Cleo. "I think percussion adds a new part of the musical dynamic that we want to explore."Girlpool's eagerness to evolve should come as no surprise; in the same way that there were little traces of their self-titled EP on BTWWB, on Powerplant, the pair shed their old skins with more eagerness than before. "In some ways I feel more courageous and mature and in other ways I feel smaller and softer, sometimes even more fragile than ever," says Harmony, adding that while the inner self is always changing, ultimately the end is a closer self-truth.
The 12 tracks that compose Powerplant grow and burn with greater fire than the duo have possessed heretofore. Both bandmates were heavily inspired by Elliott Smith, the Cranberries, the Cocteau Twins, Brian Eno, Arthur Russell, and Graham Nash; the influence of each appear in the record's deliberate and intricate guitar work ("Fast Dust," "She Goes By") as well as its embrace of dissonant noise ("Corner Store," "Soup"). Though they were living apart for most of the writing process, the pair still managed to write all but four songs together, another testament to their dedication to Girlpool and each other. Now 21 and 20, Harmony and Cleo confront projections, despondency, apathy, romanticization, love, and heartbreak with a more devastating emotional pragmatism than before. "Looking pretty at the wall is my mistake in love installed/While the moth doesn't talk but in the dress the holes you saw," they sing on opener "123," perfectly refracting the truth. More humorous (but still heavily symbolic) lines are delivered with equal poignancy, like Harmony's disclaimer on "It Gets More Blue," "The nihilist tells you that nothing is true/I said I faked global warming just to get close to you."
Both bandmates believe that radical vulnerability and honesty are essential to discovering oneself. "I see vulnerable softness as a place where the honest self can come forward," Cleo explains, saying that on Powerplant, Girlpool aimed for sincere expression. "As a society I feel that we perceive softness and vulnerability as traits that are 'weak,' and people emotionally disconnect themselves in order to avoid going through everything they feel," Harmony adds. "I think what is most important right now is empathy, and in order to have empathy we must first feel what we, ourselves, feel." Perhaps what really makes Powerplant a home run is that Girlpool understand exactly how to use their incisive lyrics, soft textures, hushed harmonies, and soaring hooks for maximum emotional impact. In these moments, when Harmony and Cleo's voices join together to deliver transcendent transmissions straight from their hearts, Girlpool become a league of their own.


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Fowler ready to contribute on and off the field
Charitable center fielder finds a home in Houston after December trade
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Dexter Fowler could have been anything in life. He's a self-described computer geek, he was a standout basketball player who could have played in college and he has aspirations of being a sports commentator, or even a model.
He drew the attention of Ivy League schools, including Harvard, before he graduated from high school in the Atlanta area. Three days before Fowler was set to leave to attend the University of Miami -- his dream school -- on a baseball scholarship, he signed with the Rockies.
"Baseball called," Fowler said.
Fowler's decision to pursue a career in baseball was rewarded when he reached the Major Leagues two and a half years later. He soon became a fixture in Colorado's lineup with his speed and athleticism and the ability to get on base at a good rate.
After five years with the Rockies, Fowler was traded to the Astros on Dec. 3 for pitcher Jordan Lyles and outfielder Brandon Barnes, giving him a new outlook on baseball. It was only a month later that his Iranian-born wife, Aliya, gave birth to the couple's first child, giving him a new outlook on life.
"A lot of new things, a lot of different changes, but at the same time you've got to take a deep breath," said Fowler, who was introduced to his wife by a friend in 2010. "That's part of life and whatever life has for us, you have to roll with it."
Astros manager Bo Porter had known Fowler for years before he came to Houston and knew he would provide leadership on and off the field.
"His track record of success on the field and, even more importantly, what he brings to our ballclub off the field, will be advantageous as well," Porter said.
Fowler, 27, will hit leadoff and play center field for an Astros team that made him their first big acquisition of a busy winter. He hit .263 last year with 12 homers, 42 RBIs and 19 stolen bases for the Rockies, with an on-base percentage of .369.
As soon as Fowler was acquired, Porter said the outfielder would hit before former All-Stars Jose Altuve and Jason Castro. The Astros struggled to find a leadoff hitter last year, using eight guys, including Robbie Grossman 55 times, Jonathan Villar 36 times, Altuve 33 times and Barnes 23 times.
"Dexter Fowler has established himself as a quality, above-average Major Leaguer, and it's a great acquisition for us," Porter said. "I believe that him being a catalyst at the top of our lineup with Altuve and Castro coming behind him, we have three high productive offensive players we can run out there each and every day."
Fowler has a .365 career on-base percentage, including .389 during his most productive year in 2012. The Astros' .299 on-base percentage last year ranked 29th out of 30 teams, so having Fowler get on base frequently will fill a need.
"Batting leadoff and playing center, that's familiar to me," Fowler said. "I've been doing that my whole career, either hitting first or second. Houston will be a different ballpark and a new area, and we're looking forward to it. The fans have been awesome to us. We're definitely going to miss the fans in Denver, but we'll definitely embrace the fans in Houston."
Fowler and his wife certainly embraced the community while they were with the Rockies and at their home in Salt Lake City. They are both active in charity work, and last offseason he used Twitter to raise about $15,000 for an organization that renders civil legal aid to those in need, such as battered women, homeless veterans and seniors without retirement.
The strong values Fowler believes in are a product of his upbringing to an educator mother who stressed academics and a father who traveled the world as sales rep for Kimberly-Clark. The elder Fowler is now the chief executive officer and president of his own supply company in Atlanta.
"My parents brought me up just to work as hard as you can, get your grades," Fowler said. "I had to get my grades before I could play or do anything."
A devout Christian, Fowler practices tithing, which is giving 10 percent of your salary to the church.
"Our family strongly believes in that," Fowler said. "That's not going to change. Anything I can do to give back, I feel like that's what we're here to do. We're here and put on a platform to do exactly that."
That's true even though he's making $7.35 million this year, he said.
"I believe it's God's before it's anybody else," Fowler said.
In his first week in an Astros uniform, Fowler has looked as comfortable in blue and orange as he did in Rockies black and purple. He carries himself with an easy demeanor and has a contagious smile. It's clear he's at home on the baseball field.
"Every time I get out there, it puts a smile on my face," Fowler said. "My mom used to tell me all the time, she said, 'You have no energy to do anything, but when you get on that baseball field, you're running around.' I live life with no regrets."


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Gibson mum on D-backs' batting order
Goldschmidt is a lock for three-hole, otherwise manager will be flexible with lineup
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- If D-backs manager Kirk Gibson is not well-rested come Thursday morning, you can blame the media for asking him lineup questions following Wednesday's workout.
After numerous questions involving different possible lineup combinations, Gibson had enough.
"Yeah, well, you guys shut up about it," Gibson said with a smile. "I don't need to be waking up at 2 [a.m.] thinking about it."
The Arizona lineup has a lot of flexible pieces and interchangeable parts, which can be a definite positive over a long season.
However it can also lead a manager to go a little nuts trying to find just the right combination, especially with all the statistics now available to teams.
"I know that there are comments made about me changing my lineups in the past, but there's some really good teams that do it and do it for the right reasons," Gibson said. "It makes sense to do it."
Indeed, teams like the A's have used flexible lineup pieces to build platoon advantages. The trick is balancing the benefit of an ever-shifting lineup with the need for players to have an idea of when they're going to be playing and where they will be hitting.
"Overall, we want to be flexible, we want to be able to move guys around," Gibson said. "At the same time, it's good if you can get a set lineup. I understand that."
There are two certainties when it comes to the D-backs lineup. One, Paul Goldschmidt will hit third. Two, the pitcher will hit ninth.
Past that and the fact that Gibson does not like to hit lefties back-to-back, well, you can mark the rest of the lineup down as to be determined.
The D-backs do not have a prototypical leadoff hitter and it could be left for some combination of the right-handed hitting A.J. Pollock and the lefty-swinging Gerardo Parra to man the spot.
"We'll get there," Gibson said of not having a traditional leadoff man. "I've been on teams before like that. Like the '84 Tigers, we had Lou Whitaker leading off and he was far from a leadoff hitter, and we won. We'll figure that part out."
Aaron Hill seems to be the natural fit in the second spot in the order given his production there during his time in Arizona.
"I think that's probably been his best spot for a while," Gibson said. "And by the way, he's swinging the bat very well. I watched him this morning in the cage and he came out and took early live [batting practice]."
With Goldschmidt hitting third, the D-backs could put slugger Mark Trumbo behind him in the fourth spot, or Gibson could elect to split up his powerful righties by putting Miguel Montero fourth and Trumbo fifth.
"I'm not going there," Gibson said when asked about the cleanup spot. "Just not going there. We'll have a lot of discussion about that. We have a lot of good baseball people and we'll talk about it. We'll start to get that together."
Some combination of Montero and Trumbo in the four/five slots leaves the No. 6 spot possibly for third baseman Martin Prado and then seventh being some combination of Pollock and Prado with whoever wins the shortstop battle conceivably hitting eighth.
Of course, if Cody Ross starts in right instead of Parra, or if Parra shifts to center for Ross to start, well then, it's anybody's guess how it will shake out.
In fact, Gibson at one point turned the tables on his inquisitors Wednesday.
"You guys can all submit your lineup," he said, telling the media to leave their lineups on his desk. "Just make sure you put your name on it."


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Finland Welcomes the UN Technology Innovation Lab to Aalto University in Finland
Press release 206/2017
29 Nov. 2017
The establishment of the first United Nations Technology Innovation Lab (UNTIL) will be launched on Thursday 30 November in a Slush side event, co-organized by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and the Office for Information and Communication and Technologies of the United Nations. The first lab will be housed at Aalto University campus, in A Grid, the new centre for growth companies. Two more labs will be launched in 2017 in Asia and Africa, and the global network continues to grow in 2018.
The side event will debate the role of technology in advancing progress towards the UN's 2030 Agenda. There will also be a panel discussion in which keynote speeches will be held by Kai Mykkänen, Minister of Trade and Development of Finland, and Ilona Lundström, Director General of Enterprise and Innovation Department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.
The first lab location in Finland has been selected in partnership with the Government of Finland and it focuses on the thematic areas of circular economy, education, peace and security, and health. Each of the global UNTIL labs will focus on different thematic areas that are central to the need of each individual lab's specific geolocation. UNTIL labs create a platform for problem-solving between the UN, private sector, academia and civil society, with the help of start-ups.
Inquiries: Sinikka Antila, Ambassador; Senior Adviser, Trade and Development, +358 295 351 329
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In paris, you could get a lot of free stuff if you know where to look. And fortunately for me, free stuff found me instead of the other way round. :))
1st of all, if you're a student and you happen to bring along a passport, the Mona Lisa and all the treasures of the Louvre can be admired for 0 euros.
And its also free to enter Notre Dame, although you won't see Quasimodo anywhere. Maybe you have to pay to see him.
And of course, the French aren't so greedy as to charge you for taking pictures of the Eiffel tower and the Arc du Triomphe. Although at le tour eiffel there are lots and lots of souvenir sellers, keychains dangling from their whole arm. Tip: if they don't give you a good price, run away. They'll be selling stuff for peanuts.
So that constitutes the whole of my 2nd day in Paris, and covers pretty much all of the famous attractions. Check.
That can also be free. I got a metro pass for zones 1-3, so the marginal cost of 1 more journey is? Yes, 0. But don't fret if you lost your ticket or you didn't buy any, the Paris train system is perfect for people like you, and I meant that in a good way :) 1stly, there is nobody guarding the ticket gates. 2ndly, you only need a ticket to go in,while the exit is just a door you push, unlike the cheat-proof london underground. What we did when one of us damaged his ticket was:
- leaving the ticket behind for the next person, after you pass thru the gates.
- pushing the exit door open so that person can come through
We're naughty naughty children.
And lastly, eurostar gives out tonnes of free stuff, and that's like winning the lottery. But that's a story for later ;)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
In paris, you could get a lot of free stuff if you know where to look. And fortunately for me, free stuff found me instead of the other way round. :))
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Its good to be back in London, home of the English-speaking population.
But its even better to be back after everything that happened.
But we'll get to that later.
Right now i just need some sleep.
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Gotta hate the white stuff
The second day in Paris was a somewhat memorable one. We woke up, looked out the door, and woooosh, it was snowing! Snow, that beautiful, fluffy, slushy, wet,slippery, horrible white stuff. Sure, when you've never seen snow you're all yahoo!s. But once it becomes the daily weather, -.-
But let's jump to the happy parts first. We travelled to Paris and visited Musee du Louvre, as seen in the Da Vince Code. As is normal for teenagers (young adults, alright alright) the ultimate reason for visiting places like these is to take photos and say 'I've been to the Louvre, and I have photos!' regardless of how priceless your art collection is.
And then we had snowball fights, my first ever. How cool is that? Other people might say 'The first time i played snowballs was in my backyard', i'll say 'the first time i played snowballs, i was at the foot of la pyramide inversee, flanked by priceless art collections and a Mona Lisa'. Apart from being my first snowball arena, the Louvre is a massive museum with all sorts of amazing antiquities which makes your mouth go wide, and your cameras go click. And there's the Mona Lisa, which i until now am still unable to appreciate its value, but since its so famous now i can say 'i've seen the Mona Lisa upfront'.
And then we went to the Notre Dame cathedral, home of Quasimodo. I tried looking everywhere, but couldn't find him. Now I don't believe in Disney movies anymore.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Parlevous Anglais??
Why don't the French speak bloody English??
I didn't understand a bloody word when we got off the Eurostar train at Gare du Nord. And we just depended on Ms. Fatine Nabile to get the Metro passes, l'hotel, blablabla.
As it turned out, our package (115 euros) was like this:
- Metro 3 day pass for zones 1 to 3
- Hotel in zone 4
Hahahaha. Fell for it. But it isn't that bad though. Except for the fact that the red line going to Boissy Saint Leger is on strike. Perfect timing messieurs *swear* so we had to take a different train to Creteil Prefecture, and another 20 minutes bus ride to Boissy. But the bus was like 30 minutes away, and the cold was biting into the bones, so we decided to take a taxi, even those of us who normally eat 40p Tesco breads everyday. The things we do when desperate :P
And then searching for a taxi, we stumbled upon a Carrefour (waaaaa..macam Malaysia) and bought some foodstuff. And then i lined up and paid. As soon as i showed the cashier a Euro note, did i realise the line was supposed to be for paying by card. And the cashier was babbling at me in French. And i didn't understand a bloody word. I was gaping, eyes wide. Even if she was saying the worst swear word in the world, i would just stand there and say 'Pardon? Pardon?' Coz that's the word they use when barging into people on the Metro train. Lesson no.1 : Learn some French.
And then we asked some people where to find the taxi. One of them said 'zero section' which we took to be the ground floor. Urgghhh. In the end we got a cab, but that was the worst part.
The taxi started its rate at 11 euros. Shite. And it was a timed meter, which means it goes up every few seconds (or every few milliseconds if u ask me). That's right. Just like your blood pressure. So i covered my eyes with my bag, because the taxi driver was literally holding a knife to our throats. Ok, lesson no.2: Don't ride cabs. Darn those workers on strike.
But at night, after a much needed sleep, we searched around on Google maps (so tomorrow we'll know where the bus is) and found a KFC!!! wooohooo!!! Someone told me that KFCs in France are halal, so we walked 15 minutes to the place. Believe me, it was so cold your nose might fall off if you jentikked it.
KFC never tasted so gooooood. You don't have to speak English, having a halal KFC is good enough :)
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Dawn Paine to leave Nintendo UK
MCV's reporting this morning that Nintendo UK marketing boss Dawn Paine is to leave the company.
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3DS ads will be seen by 85 percent of UK population, says Nintendo
As the marketing blowout begins, Nintendo's said that over 85 percent of the UK will see TV ads for 3DS before its launch later this month.
3DS pre-orders nearing 100,000 in the UK
Nintendo UK sales director, Andy Yates, has said that pre-orders for 3DS are nearing the 100,000 mark in the country, which is " in line," with the company's target.
Nintendo planning Mario push for 2011
Nintendo's said it has a massive year planned for Mario in the UK.
"No plans" for more Brain Training, says Nintendo
Speaking to MCV, Nintendo UK marketing boss Dawn Paine has admitted there are currently no plans for any more Brain Training games from Nintendo."The idea behind More Brain Training is that people can move across to it once they have played the first one, and vice versa, and are looking for new challenges and training […]
Nintendo UK ready for "explosive" April
Nintendo UK's marketing director Dawn Paine reckons Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii are going to set Wii on course for a massive April likely to further expand the machine's user-base."We think Wii Fit is a very catalytic title for us and we think it is the next chapter in the true broadening of the […]


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Rogers reported that net income in the period dropped 13 per cent to $307 million or 57 cents per share from $353 million or 68 cents per share a year earlier.
On an adjusted basis, the results missed analyst expectations, coming in at 66 cents per share, four cents below the average estimate of 70 cents per share, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
Operating revenues were relatively steady at $3.02 billion, marginally below the $3.03 billion reported in the comparable year-earlier period.
Executives outlined several reasons for the stagnant growth.
"There were really no iconic devices," Rogers president Rob Bruce told analysts on a conference call.
"The (Samsung Galaxy S5) launch fell into the second quarter."
But that was only one factor contributing to weakness in the quarter, as the wireless division came under pressure from price changes in its phone packages.
On average, a Rogers customer paid a wireless bill of $57.63 a month in the latest period, about $2.05 less than a year earlier, mainly because of reworked monthly packages and lower-priced roaming charges.
Wireless revenues — by far the biggest part of its business — dropped by two per cent to $1.73 billion. The division has been stung by a move by the federal government to shorten the length of cellphone contracts to two years from three years.
Rogers reported 2,000 net additions to its post-paid wireless subscriber base in the quarter, which is thousands of subscribers lower than a typical quarter.
Chief financial officer Anthony Staffieri told reporters on a media call that, at least for now, regulatory changes for contracts have lowered the "churn" rate, an industry measurement of customers who cancel their services with a specific provider.
"We continue to get our fair share in what we believe in the short term is a smaller market," he said.
"What you see is less switching than you might've seen a year ago amongst all of us."
Rogers also faces challenges from its television division where it reported a net loss of 25,000 subscribers in the three months, which was a slower decline than a year earlier.
Chief executive Guy Laurence, who took the role in December after leading U.K.-based telecom Vodafone, plans to meet with the company's board in the coming weeks to lay out his priorities. He said many of his changes to improve the business' performance will be long-term plans.
"There is always low hanging fruit when you come into a company, but I think that it may be relatively modest," he told analysts.
"More of the upside will come from things that may take a longer period to change."
Rogers has been focused on strengthening the results of its wireless operations as competitors Bell (TSX:BCE) and Telus (TSX:T) grab a larger piece of the market.
Canada's largest cable TV and wireless operator has also been bulking up its sports entertainment assets to help differentiate itself from competitors.
Last fall, Rogers signed a $5.2-billion deal for the Canadian rights to all National Hockey League games, including the playoffs and Stanley Cup final, which it plans to offer on all its platforms in both English and French. The company also owns the Toronto Blue Jays.
Rogers also made a $3.3-billion purchase of wireless spectrum earlier this month, which it says will help it better handle increased traffic on its network from services like Netflix and allow users to stream video of NHL games on their mobile devices.
RBC Dominion Securities analysts Drew McReynolds and Haran Posner described the results as mixed, saying in a note that wireless EBITDA margins had been better than expected (45.7 per cent versus an expected 44.7 per cent) offset by lower cable margins (47.6 per cent versus 49.3 per cent).
Among their "key takeaways" from the company's conference call was that the payoff from implementing a new operational plan would only be realized over time, that the company is altering tactics and reducing the level of wireless promotional activity and that management is not interested in large merger or acquisition or international expansion as growth strategy.
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User Integration in Agile Software Development Processes: Practices and Challenges in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (2016)
HCI and CSCW research as well as practice has strongly indicated the value of integrating (end) users in software development processes. Such integration can help address actual needs and wants, to avoid undesirable developments and to strengthen the User Experience of a product. A user-focused approach to software development has some conceptual overlap with agile software development practices, such as quick and iterative (user) testing. However, out in the wild, organisations seem to have difficulties actually mapping user-centered development with agile processes for a variety of reasons ranging from organisational or hierarchical aspects up to financial issues. This problem seems specially prevalent in Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) where such constraints can be even tighter than in larger organisations. To help understand those problems and to identify possible solutions, we turned to three quite different German software SMEs, varying in size, market focus and organisational structure. By way of qualitative field studies, we were able to identify key roles and tools as well as methodological, organisational and analytical practices and challenges in integrating (end) users into agile software development.


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Florida officials have told beachgoers in the Sunshine State to take heed: There's a surge of flesh-eating bacterium that has killed ten and hospitalized dozens over the course of the past few years.
Sure, it doesn't quite have a sizzle as evocative as man-eating sharks, but vibrio vulnificus can be caught in the water or by consuming nature's version of 4 p.m. sushi.
As Florida Department of Health Deputy Press Secretary Pamela Crane explained to the New Times of Broward County, which has had five cases and two deaths since last year:
A person can contract the virus by eating tainted raw shellfish and oysters. And people who swim in seawater who have open wounds are also vulnerable to the bacteria."
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…ergo propter hoc.
The above line is the title of the second West Wing episode of the first season and translates roughly to "after it, therefore because of it." This line keeps running through my head when people bring up one specific reason for Miller's streak of average play.
Some of those "in the know" are theorizing that Miller's marriage is the cause of his less than spectacular play of late; that his thoughts are with his sweetums back in California instead of focused on the ice in Buffalo. The "after the wedding, therefore because of the wedding" explanation for his poor play is a joke. I mean, unless his wedding ring is somehow giving him flesh eating disease or he's indebted to Russian gangsters as a result of the festivities, what happens in his personal life shouldn't be used as a justification for poor play UNLESS MILLER CHOOSES TO MAKE THAT EXCUSE. And, he hasn't. The "woman equals bad" argument also becomes even more ridiculous when those "in the know" point out that he was playing so well in the 2010 Olympics. Well guess what, he was dating his now-wife while playing some fantastic hockey.
Call Miller out for his hockey performance (or lack thereof), but leave his wife out of it until she's done something to deserve the press. The end.
Before I fall off my soapbox, in case you want to see the "post hoc ergo proper hoc" scene from The West Wing, you can watch it here. It's worth the viewing, just for Richard Schiff's impish little grin.


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[Intro: Heems]
Shoutout to Keepaway
[Verse 1: Heems]
I ain't wavy, man, I'm an ocean
Basic unit of life, Heems is a photon
I'm Don King, I gets my promote on
I'm smooth, you rappers need lotion
I'm amazing, people laugh at my jokes
And hand me they smoke with blunts in the same bag
Pre-rolled, they roll, that's how we roll
All 'cause we rap about weed
I don't do that, dog, I rap about me
And I ain't splashy, I am the sea
I spark grapes, I am the tree
I'm stickball, manhunt, salugi
I'm fourteen, puffing on loosies
I'm nineteen, smoking on loosies
I'm twenty-four, burning these loosies
Used to play basketball, then we started drinking
Used to be thinkin' like a young Dave Dinkins
Like a young Abe Lincoln, in a cabin, I be singin'
You can't smell me? I'm stinkin'
I'm Hindu Kush, I'm Hindu Thug
I'm drugs, I'm drums, I'm dubs, I'm love
So catch the vibe, ride with it
Kids do like fences with our shit: they pick it
Get it? Stick it to the man
Riding with a caravan a mans that's from Pakistan
[Verse 2: Kool AD]
I'm in the future in Hawaii ghostwriting for your favorite rapper
Eating red snapper with grouper
Hanging with Mr. Cooper, opening credits, hopin' you get it
Oakland is proud, look at the dark clouds
Hard, loud, soft and bulbous
Faster mascara snake wet generous
The kid could share a lake, Ellen DeGeneres
Type rug, munchie with a scrunchie
Lotta haters wanna punch me, like a donkey
I'm Eddie Murphy in Shrek I'm complex
I'm Kanye in whiteface on the cover of Complex
Magazine, is Lady Gaga a drag queen?
I'm Sage Francis on the cover of Beyond Race
Pee on face of any R. Kelly groupie
Type-rage against machines on a spooky night
Kookie light do the right thing like Mookie might
Yo! MTV Raps cards on the spokes of my hooptie bike
Others is dookie type, me, I'm loopy type
Living the juicy life; Howser, Doogie-like
Younger brother, I'm in the jungle, mother
I'm in the jungle, Mama
[Hook: Kool AD]
It's really happening
You can see me rapping and stuff
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Break: Lakutis]
With the old Nautica jacket from '96 or something
This shit is fly though
I got the—the white racing stripe only on one side
Get 'em, 12-year-old me
[Verse 3: Lakutis]
All cross color scheme, all across colors teams
Jerseys, you heard me? Timbos all butter bean
Butterface, but her waist move like a snake do
Chetton Hill, salad, three steak dude
I don't wanna snake you
I just wanna copy and paste you
Take you and bathe with you, taste of you
Wait, are you able to give of the flesh like Abel do?
Not able? Cain'll do (True)
Under dig, a feign'll do
(Just like, pretend you know what I'm talking about, you know)
Rock, yabba-dabba doo, cut, swagger dagger do
Swing, Vance, Bagger do, good, pig, that'll do
Captain of this Kangaroo
OG commander of the starship, Pike before Kirk
Life before birth
Light before night, sight beyond sight
Eye of Thundera
Fire burn better, Negra Modela, cardiac arrest-ah
Best of the best, of the best, of the best, of the best-ahhhh
(Best of the best)
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The Techno 293 East Coast Championships and US Nationals took place in Vinyard Haven last week. 15 races were run over 3 days in perfect racing conditions! Jean Sebastian from Quebec, Canada took the top spot, with Raz Sayre and Chris Waldo finishing behind him.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Techno 293 2010 US National Championship
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- James Douglass said...
Woo hoo! Looks like a great event. Big congrats to the competitors and big thanks to the organizers. :)
- August 9, 2010 at 8:02 PM
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Support Iceshanty...Get some great gear and forum goodies...Join The Iceshanty Hardwater Militia
I advocate that the Bull Trout is not an endangered species, it is being used as a way to eradicate other non-native species just because there is a cynical group that feels that all streams, rivers and lakes in the West and mountains should be reverted back to total natural environments for their fishing pleasure.
His manager said they don't generally stock brook trout west of the Divide because they will interbreed with bull trout. The former fisheries manager said "Did you ever hear the one about the horse and the barn door?"
try not being so self serving and viewing the world how it somehow makes your own world better...jokes on you..all the crap you b***h about is your own judgement.
just cause you can't catch and eat a certain species to your liking..you wanna destroy 1000's of years of natural balance
f off..its a part of a balanced ecosystem...native species deserve repect
With all due respect CCC, we live in a democratic republic in which our viewpoints are supposed to drive policy. So yes, I will happily express my viewpoint when appropriate and will smile and point to the First Amendment in my defense. You seem to imply that we must accept the viewpoints of those in power...I imagine Jefferson, Adams, Washington and the like would have something to say about that. You call it a "spiel," I call it responsible citizenship. Please re-read my original post. Not once did I advocate the destruction of "1000s of years of natural balance." In fact, I wanted clarification regarding the protection of the bull trout and why our state's policies appear to be contradictory in that regard. The post is literally about the stocking of bull trout after all. And yes, I prefer to eat perch over rainbow, but again, you're woefully off-base regarding my palate. I'm fortunate enough to live and fish in an area where we can harvest one bull a year and find them to be absolutely fantastic table fare. I'd love for them to restored, I merely wanted to know why our approach to their restoration appears half-a**ed. Your beloved Georgetown is plum full of non-native species. Are you showing the natives "respect" by promoting the destruction of the kokanee, brook trout, and rainbows?
Here is a brief run down of the officers.TU National President Christopher Wood has donated to Democratic Senatorial candidates and was a member of President Obamas 2008 Department of Agriculture Transition Team. The Associated Press reported that Wood, a high-ranking policy staffer in the U.S. Forest Service during President Bill Clintons time in office, was initially favored to be President Obamas nominee to head the USDAs Natural Resources Conservation Service. Wood was reportedly denied the post because he was a registered lobbyist from 2002 through 2007. (Obama had pledged not to nominate lobbyists to government posts.)TUs Vice President for Western Conservation, Robert Masonis, previously worked for the environmentalist group American Rivers; TUs head lobbyist, Steve Moyer, previously worked for the environmentalist National Wildlife Federation.Trustee Walter Minnick served from 2009-2011 as a U.S. Representative from Idaho as a Democrat.Trustee Kai Anderson is a lobbyist for Cassidy and Associates, representing several solar energy firms, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the environmentalist Resources Legacy Fund. Before joining Cassidy, Anderson was Deputy Chief of Staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada.Trustee Michael Dombeck was Director of the United States Forest Service during the Clinton administration; Wood was his communications aide.Other trustees, including Nancy McKinnon, Valerie Colas-Ohrstrom, and Paul Doscher, have worked for or served on the boards of environmental groups including the Nature Conservancy, the Black Rock Forest Consortium, and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.
A conservation organization is comprised of and funded by people with experience in conservation, outdoor recreation and environmental activism? OMG...Im SHOCKED. Are you suggesting that those funding oil, gas, logging and mining interests in opposition to conservation are not employed by and/or invested in those industries? And, the latter is okay but the former is not?
without getting into politics...which have been explained here very well by others.. my point was that each side of government has its own agenda and lobby and the manipulate the perception of the public to support the agenda no matter the side of the issue....my point is all life has meaning...in balance....my response about the bull trout was not based on political issues..just my opinion that life is needs to be respected..whether its rainbows.....bulls...p erch... we messed so much stuff up..no we have overpopulations of envasive species...management issues...yes the earth's resources are blessed..they build our homes and feed our families....but all needs to be harvested and viewed with the fact that its all connected and our actions matter....finally..... . i guess i could have initially said bull trout are fish too....apologies for that....being buzzed makes the words come out with a little added snark and without buffer...
RuralMT: Next time you see biologist friend, maybe ask him if it's politics, logistics, finances, or fear of an misinformed public that keeps the state from experimenting with bully stockings.
somewhat founded fear that if fishing opened up in certain areas, people might get the idea that the fish have recovered everywhere
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The patrol
This is the moment of either letting go or ... not at all.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Toto Sapore
Here is one of the many hundreds (and hundreds, and hundreds!) of designs I did back in 2001-2002 for an italian film called "Toto Sapore", produced in Torino by Lanterna Magica and directed by Maurizio Forestieri.
This was the king's castle and palace, with all the colorful flags a royal from that time (1700's) would have like to have and display.
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Following trouble
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
This is getting serious
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
In the meantime
For the sakes of variety, here comes an illustration I did some time ago (-the graphic novel adventure to be continued very soon!-). I had been working on a Cintiq for a while back then and I was discovering how amazing this tablet can be. I couldn't recommend it more. Nowadays any tool that lets you work fast, correct fast and edit fast is definitely more than welcome!
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(HIMSS, Booth #2711) - MobileAccess, a global provider of enterprise wireless solutions, today announced that its in-building wireless solutions are deployed across more than 350 healthcare facilities, including more than 160 new installations in 2009. The company's continued traction in the healthcare industry has been fueled by customer need to better support mission-critical radiofrequency (RF) services and upgrade the patient experience with mobile applications that rely on indoor coverage.
The new 2009 deployments include both existing customers expanding their MobileAccess distributed antenna system (DAS) deployments, as well as new customer installations. Recent customer wins include: Denver Health (Denver, Colo.), Trinity Health (Novi, MI), and All Children's Hospital (St. Petersburg, Fla.) These facilities join hundreds of hospitals – such as Florida Hospital, Clarian Health and Northwestern Memorial Hospital – which have already been using MobileAccess' DAS solution to improve patient care, reduce the likelihood of medical errors and upgrade the family experience.
"The main impetus of our decision to invest in the MobileAccess system was their ability to support our plans for house-wide patient monitoring telemetry," said Lee Castiglioni, Senior Enterprise Architect, Trinity Health. "The most advanced in-building wireless technology for a healthcare facility, the MobileAccess DAS is both scalable and manageable. In addition to supporting multiple cell phone carriers, two way pagers and radios, it's the best fit to support our patient monitoring telemetry solutions."
Healthcare facilities are embracing a broad array of wireless solutions for both personal and medical use, ranging from medical telemetry, digital health records and wireless security access to personal smart-phones and push-to-talk devices, making indoor wireless coverage a necessity. However, the nature of hospitals' dense construction often blocks carriers' signals from entering the building, rendering many devices useless.
The cornerstone of today's wireless hospital environments, MobileAccess DAS solutions enable healthcare leaders to take full advantage of the latest wireless technologies. Successful delivery of these solutions is supported by an extensive partner network, including Alcatel-Lucent, Cellular Specialties, Inc., Coleman, GE Healthcare, and Henkles & McCoy, which will also be exhibiting at HIMSS.
The MobileAccess infrastructure enables a variety of mobile services and applications critical for the healthcare industry, including:
- Cellular services for BlackBerry and other devices from multiple operators;
- Wireless medical telemetry from providers such as GE;
- Un-tethered clinical devices and applications such as Patient Keeper data management system and Alaris wireless IV pumps;
- Integrated third-party WLAN capabilities that enable advanced location and VoIP applications, including support for Vocera badges and Cisco 7921 VoIP phones;
- Paging, private two-way radio and public safety radios;
- 900MHz-based sensor applications for temperature measurement and other applications.
"Wireless technology is profoundly changing the healthcare industry, and the need for consistent signal delivery throughout an entire campus or facility is going to increase exponentially as 4G and other new technologies are introduced," said Ron Kaiser, Chief Executive Officer, MobileAccess. "Our strong partnerships with the many healthcare CIOs and the world-class VARs who serve and lead this industry keep improving our ability to stay ahead of customers' increasing demands."
MobileAccess at HIMSS
MobileAccess will showcase its in-building wireless solutions for medical applications at HIMSS booth #2711.
About MobileAccess
MobileAccess is a global provider of reliable wireless coverage solutions for all indoor wireless environments. MobileAccess' solutions platform delivers wireless connectivity in enterprises of every size, and has become the industry standard in the healthcare, hospitality and higher education markets. MobileAccess' legacy of innovation and proven architecture set the bar for indoor wireless peak performance, ensuring customers can meet current wireless demands as well as easily expand with future applications and services. Thousands of organizations worldwide rely on MobileAccess including: Clarian Health, the Comcast Center, M Resort Spa Casino, Ford Field, GAN Tower (Paris), Grand Lakes Orlando, the Dutch Parliament building (Netherlands), Hearst Corporation, Melbourne Australia Airport, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Royal Dutch Shell and the University of Phoenix Stadium. MobileAccess is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, and has offices in Europe and the Middle East. For more information, please visit: www.mobileaccess.com .
# # # Media Contact:
Maria Krinsky
Kickstart Consulting
(415) 509-0498
MobileAccess partners exhibiting at HIMSS include:
Alcatel-Lucent, Booth #8055
Cellular Specialties, Booth #7670
GE Healthcare, Booth # 7039
Henkels & McCoy, Booth #2710
Coleman, Booth #8543


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Advocacy in Surinam
WoW travelled to Surinam, to give a training on the use of misoprostol for safe abortion and to discuss the possibility of a harm reduction model to provide information about misoprostol for safe abortion.
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The last moment press conference was received well. There were approximately 10 journalists including television news chanels. At least 6 media outlets reported on the press conference One of the news papers even quotes the whole misoprostol instructions for abortion!
The registration of maternal mortality in Surinam is incomplete but is estimated to be more than 100 per 100.000 live births. Approximately 10% of the population lives in the interior of the country with very little access to health care in general and maternal health care. In surinam 90% of the approximately 10.000 births take place in the hospital, the rest of the births take place in the interrior without trained personnel. The amount of illegal abortions is between 8000 and 10.000 per year.
Availability of misoprostol
Before the training we researched the availability of misoprostol. We went to approximately 6 pharmacies but they only sell misoprostol with a doctors prescription and all know it is used for abortion. We also went to the black market and it is available for 200-300 SRD for 4 tablets, this makes the amount needed for a safe abortion very high and as high as the costs for a gynaecologist.


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The Momenta Quartet joins with friends for a fascinating evening of games, visions, and sublimities. From Teheran comes Idin Samimi Mofakham's transcendent Mirage, a slowly unfolding apparition for percussion and trio, while Eric Nathan's vision for the quartet is heard in the compelling Four to One. Impossibilities are ever-present in Michalis Paraskakis's Not Yet II, in which a clarinet's subtle microtonal bendings, blendings, and bleatings challenge the quartet. Oboe and percussion join the fray for Daniel Moreira's Das Nein-Doch Spiel: a persuasive take on the unwinnable children's game of yes and no. While Guy Barash's ambitious String Quartet poses its own challenges. The evening closes with a new work from MATA's own Alex Weiser.
Michalis Paraskakis (Greece): Not Yet II (2012-14), WP
Daniel Moreira (Brazil): Das Nein-Doch Spiel (2011, rev. 2012), AP
Guy Barash (Israel / USA): String Quartet No. 1 "Wrong Ocean" (2012)
Alex Weiser (USA): New Work for Clarinet and String Quartet (2015), WP
Eric Nathan (USA): Four To One (2011)
Idin Samimi Mofakham (Iran): Mirage (2012)