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FROM THE NOMINATION: Cuyahoga County in 2011 experienced marked change when a new government was put in place, and an experienced human resources professional was needed to make sense of the sprawling changes coming down the pike.
That's where Elise Hara fits into the equation.
Prior to Ms. Hara's hiring, not a single human resources professional on the county's payroll was certified. But believing in the value of an experienced team, Ms. Hara incentivized her staff with pay increases if they obtained the proper certifications.
"She believes that the first step to improving morale at the county starts by providing professional and expert HR support," the nomination stated.
Ms. Hara also was responsible for revamping much of the human resources team, with more than 30% of her 62-person staff being new hires. The new staff members, according to the nomination, were hired "because of their level of expertise, education and field specific certifications."
Moreover, under Ms. Hara's leadership, the human resources team organized the county's first mandatory supervisory training, which is conducted quarterly to ensure consistent messages and directions are delivered across the county's various departments.
"To date, the sessions have served as the building blocks to a unified evaluation process, clearer communication skills and education on the implementation of various policy changes," the nomination said.
Additionally, because of County Executive Ed FitzGerald's plans to regionalize services throughout the county, he asked Ms. Hara to offer her team's services to mayors throughout the county who don't have the resources to hire a full-time human resources staff.


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We know that JaMarcus Russell didn't live up to the hype in Oakland and that he never really got a fair shot with the rotating coaches in Oakland.
With that said and the recent arrest on the cough syrup found in his Alabama home, Is JaMarcus the biggest bust in NFL history?
I say yes because the Raiders had an opportunity to make him a star and to use him in inventive ways if they tutored him and helped him get a more suitable body. However, after all the millions of dollars and after all of the reporters around the NFL saying JaMarcus didn't put in the time nor effort to be the franchise quarterback, it appears JaMarcus was destined to fail.

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This paper is an early draft of the first chapter in a forthcoming book, Law in American History: Volume One, From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War. Two or three more volumes are planned. The book seeks to find that elusive middle ground between specialized monographs and works in American legal and constitutional history that are designed for general audiences. This chapter attempts to be revisionist as well as synthetic. I would welcome any comments.Image credit.
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G. Edward White, University of Virginia School of Law, has posted Law in American History: Volume One, from the Colonial Years through the Civil War. As the abstract explains:
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- Alfred Brophy said...
Thanks for this, Dan. This is a very exciting project. The first chapter has White's characteristic insight, breadth, and elegance. I'm really looking forward to seeing the rest of the book.
- September 22, 2009 at 9:20:00 AM EDT
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Financial advisors and institutions continue to boost their interest and client assets invested in alternatives.
Nearly 65% of advisors allocated between 6% and 20% of their clients' portfolios to alternatives, according to a recent Morningstar report, and 15% anticipated allocating more than 20% over the next five years. Only 4% of advisors said their typical client had no money in alternative investments, down from 17% in the research firm's 2008 survey.
Plus, 56% of financial advisors say that alternatives are as important, somewhat more important or much more important than traditional assets, namely due to diversification.
Morningstar conducts its alternative-investment survey each year in cooperation with Dow Jones and Barron's, and the most recent poll, conducted in March, included input from 471 advisors and 235 institutions.
More than 20% of institutions, compared with 17% last year, said they expected alternative investments to make up more than 40% of holdings over the next five years, while 43% allocated 10% of less to alternatives.
In addition, Morningstar reports that all seven of its alternative mutual fund categories have seen inflows over the past five years. These categories include nontraditional bonds, multi-alternative, market neutral, managed futures, long-short equity, currency and bear market.
Alternative-themed mutual funds saw inflows of $19.7 billion in 2012, while Morningstar estimates that among funds in its database, $7.6 billion flowed out of single-strategy hedge funds.
Among the five alternative categories attracting inflows, nontraditional-bond mutual funds have gathered the most assets, though long-short equity and multi-alternative strategies are also gaining momentum.
Fund firms with products in the managed-futures and multi-alternative mutual fund categories launched 22 and 17 new funds, respectively, in 2012.
Alternative ETFs have received net inflows of $41 billion since 2010, according to Morningstar.
Advisors clearly want income-producing alternatives, the research firm point out, and advisors ranked private real estate as their top strategy when planning future investments in alternatives for clients.
In addition, master limited partnerships (MLPs) drove significant portfolio growth over the last five years, advisors said. Also, in response to investors' search for income, funds in the nontraditional bond category experienced 2012 inflows of $5.9 billion.
Managed futures, however, have seen their appeal drops among advisors and their clients. Though commodities are the most popular alternative ETF category, advisors moved away from managed futures in 2012 — after citing them as their top pick in the two previous surveys.
Performance may have been a factor, as managed-futures ETFs and managed-futures mutual funds lost 15.6% and 7.4%, respectively, in 2012, where were levels similar to losses reported for these groups in 2011.
The survey also found that advisors and institutions are unhappy with the undisclosed performance fees that managed-futures funds frequently charge.
Long-short equity strategies, however, are among the most widely used, with inflows of $6.1 billion in 2012.
For the second year in a row, institutions ranked these strategies as their top choice for increased allocation; the strategy ranked second for advisors. While 61% of institutions said they accessed long-short strategies via hedge funds in 2010, only 26% indicated that they used hedge funds for that strategy in 2012.
More than 45% of institutions said they access long-short strategies via mutual funds in 2012 versus 38% in 2010. In addition, institutions are considering primarily long-short equity (and private equity) for increased allocation over the next five years.
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Don't see red. Manage your cash flow!
I don't have a budget, but I, like most budget-less Americans, manage to make do. Still, this make-do approach just won't cut it in the world of business. The stakes are much higher, and not tracking cash flow could spell financial disaster.
"Budgeting is another word for profit planning," says Rick Caro, president of Management Vision Inc., a consulting company dedicated to the club industry. "If you don't have a budget, you tend to play off last year's results."
This isn't very wise. Why? This year's marketplace may be different, your physical plant may need changes, your programs may need an overhaul, and your staff has definitely changed.
* Think of your budget as a one-year plan. Break it down by month, and then by department, so employees can get a handle on the specifics in their particular area.
* Use basic information that is available to you. "You should understand where your numbers are coming from," says Caro.
Personal training is a good example. "If you pay trainers different amounts, figure out the most realistic average and use that rather than assuming you'll pay out at the lowest rate," says Caro. "In fact, most sessions are administered by trainers who are more experienced and get a higher percentage of the fee."
* Set aside some quiet analytical time while you draw up your initial budget. Close the door to your office or go off-site. Caro recommends a two-month time frame in which you think through your budget. Revise the numbers if they don't add up. "You may need three or four drafts before your budget is acceptable," says Caro.
* Start with what you're trying to accomplish. Last year you may have offered 30 exercise classes per week. This year you plan to increase membership by 10 percent and add four or five new classes during busy months. Once you add in the average costs of insurance, you can start building a new class schedule.
* Look at industry averages. IHRSA publishes a range of averages for everything from salaries to fixed expenses, which can serve as a good jumping-off point. Or share data with colleagues at other clubs.
* Predict sales. "Some expenses are dependent upon sales and some will be the same whether you have 500 members or 5,000," says Charley Swayne, owner of Valley View Fitness, in La Crosse, Wis. Among the factors to consider when predicting sales are:
- Current and anticipated level of competition. This should be based on the number of new clubs opening in your area and the number going out of business.
- Attrition rate. How many members do you project you're going to lose over the next year? Based on past experience, what types of new programs will you need to retain members?
- Projected number of new members. This will be based on the competition and on promotions you plan to run, as well as your recent history.
- Planned price adjustments. Will fees stay the same or go up or down?
- Other sources of income, such as personal training or physical therapy.
* Look at the past. "In any given month, something will break," says Caro. "Build in numbers that give you some contingency." To do this, list unexpected problems that arose in the past and forecast problems that may occur. And ask other owners, "For a club of your size, what do you average in maintenance and repairs?"
* Develop a sound operating budget. This relates to day-to-day club operations and should be broken down into fixed, variable and contingency expenses.
Fixed expenses, which are set in stone, include rent, debt costs, leasing costs (for fitness or office equipment), and real estate taxes.
Variable expenses, which vary monthly or seasonally, include advertising and promotion; supplies; utilities; salaries; repairs and maintenance; subscriptions; professional fees (for, say, lawyers or accountants); printing and postage; and any licenses you have to pay for.
* Don't forget your capital budget. This budget should cover expenses for big-ticket items - those that have more than a one-year life-span and a value over a certain amount. (Most clubs pick an arbitrary number such as $500 or $1,000.) Generally, clubs earmark about 6 percent of their revenue for capital items. Capital expenses include new fitness equipment, computers, carpeting, etc.
* Tie senior salaries to performance. Swayne says a small club owner should pay himself "whatever is left over at the end of the month which can be anything from nothing to 10 grand."
Caro notes that a big trend in the club industry is incentive pay, which ties some compensation to performance and results. Where the base may have been 95 percent of overall compensation, it may now be closer to 80 percent or 85 percent. "The difference is related to what the individual does to make a difference in the success of the business," says Caro. (If you can't afford competitive salaries for staff, offer other goodies such as flexibility in work time, appreciation for a job well done, etc.)
* Turn to outside sources for assistance. Don't overlook computer software programs that will help you budget and track your operating expenses. When in doubt, bring in an outside consultant to help you get your budget off the ground. And consider having your payroll handled by an expert or a payroll service to make sure your payroll taxes are being paid accurately and on time. "Payroll taxes can have tremendous interest and penalties, and the power of the state or the IRS to get their money is awesome," says Caro.
* Tweak as needed. "You have to make adjustments every month especially when things don't go the way you thought they would," says Swayne. "There are always bumps in the road: A new competitor may unexpectedly open; a business may close; or utility costs may rise."


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Andrea Kuhar and Aubrie Williams are the one-two-punch-in-the-chops that make up Philly comedy tour-de-force Local Holiday Miracle. At Aubrie's suggestion, LHM and I sliced it up at Lickety Split, and we talked about Ninja Turtles, Pizza on English Muffins, and their show Thursday August 4th at the Shubin Theater, at 8:30 PM. If you've ever wondered about how pizza works into the LHM magic, read on:
Pizza Pal Joe Moore: How much do you like pizza:
Andrea Kuhar – I live in Philly for a lot of reasons, Pizza is one of them.
Aubrie WIlliams – I consider it a religion and practice it… religiously!
PPJM: What is your favorite slice in Philly:
AK: I'm partial to Lorenzo's, but if I'm feeling fancy – Pizzeria Stella!
AW: I'm gonna say Lorenzo's cause there is so much cheese on a single slice, and the more cheese the better!
PPJM: How often do you eat pizza?
AK: If English Muffin pizza counts, weekly.
AW: Anywhere from 4-7 times a week. It's my go-to pre-rehearsal, pre-show eat.
PPJM: Are you into plain pizzas or toppings? which toppings?
AK: Every veggie – no black olives!
AW: I enjoy both plain and toppings equally. MY favorite toppings are mushrooms and olives.
PPJM: Favorite use of pizza in Film, TV or Music:
AK: Das Racist – "I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell"
AW: NINJA TURTLES (movies cause I always want to eat it straight from the screen)
PPJM: Did your family have a pizza day, what day was it?
AK: Yes! Way back, we got pizza on Friday and then watched TGIF! "Step by step, day by day…"
AW: It was always Friday night, and Friday at school was also pizza day… so Friday was a great day all around
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More posts of this quylita. Not the usual c***, please
AFAIC that's the best answer so far!
Oh yeah laugh, rela and undo the top button I've heard Brad Stine, got his live DVD Put a hemlet on , what a great time and a lot of truth in with the gut busting laughs.Sign me up for a laugh night and loose the ties guys!


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Posted: Tue 23 Oct 2012, 19:41
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Weird Graphical Glitching after installing Precise Puppy
So far I've liked installing Precise Puppy 5.4 but now I've been experiencing some weird graphical glitching. I wish that I could take a screen capture to show you what I'm talking about but it would be very difficult since part of the glitching are icons that have just square boxes for fonts. And the icons on my desktop are now just upside down red triangles with the same small box shape objects for fonts.
Has anyone else experienced this yet. Maybe someone can upload a screen capture so you can see what I mean.
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Posted: Sat 03 Nov 2012, 11:07
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Same here.
I just installed puppy (grubconfig doesn't work as it can't find stage1, grub4dos works) and used the package manager to install clementine afterwards.
During the installation of clementine, all characters changed to boxes.
After a restart, all icons turned invalid, too.
Left me with a completely useless system.
Oh, and i took a "screenshot".
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Posted: Sat 03 Nov 2012, 12:12
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julakali wrote:
Same here.
I just installed puppy (grubconfig doesn't work as it can't find stage1, grub4dos works) and used the package manager to install clementine afterwards.
During the installation of clementine, all characters changed to boxes.
After a restart, all icons turned invalid, too.
Left me with a completely useless system.
Oh, and i took a "screenshot".
Don't post images over "600" in size.
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Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
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Posted: Sat 03 Nov 2012, 12:42
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which graphics cards are you using
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Posted: Sat 03 Nov 2012, 16:54
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Sorry for the image beeing to wide.
I don't think it has to do anything with graphics card.
It's an Pentium M based Notebook with Intel onboard graphics.
I just tried again, installed puppy - everything works - installed exaile this time - same bug.
Did i mention i'm using retropuppy 5.4?
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gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders has an empty output on that broken system, while it lists many loaders on a working system!
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Posted: Sat 03 Nov 2012, 18:07
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julakali wrote:
Did i mention i'm using retropuppy 5.4?
No. This version is advertised as strictly experimental. As a Puppy beginner, you would be better off starting with established versions.
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Posted: Sat 03 Nov 2012, 18:39
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The thread for "Precise" bugs already exists;
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gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
Restart X and reset your wallpaper. Report back.
As far as I know, a similar command is run in only /etc/rc.d/rc.update. I disagree with how it's handled in rc.update and change it for Slacko versions.
At some point the system starts looking for
. If that happens then looaders.cache becomes a broken symlink. This is because
is actually a symlink to
# pwd
# ls
loaders loaders.cache
# readlink loaders.cache
# cd ../../../../etc
# pwd
# ls
Nothing in /usr/etc. I don't know at what point the system starts looking in i386-linux-gnu but I do know creating the actual file instead of a symlink is a solution [with the command I posted above].
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Posted: Wed 14 Nov 2012, 04:19
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to fix that bug on your linux retro precise puppy
just make a symbolic link directory of pango and gdk-pixbuff-2.0 into /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
#ln -s /usr/lib/pango /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pango
#ln -s /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuff-2.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuff-2.0
and then restart, also dont forget to change your wallpaper
well it works for me...
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Posted: Thu 06 Dec 2012, 01:08
Post subject: Weird Characters and Icons after downloading VLC Player
Subject description: Square Boxes instead of characters, Triangles instead of Icons
I am very new user, only 1 week old .. I have been running Precise Puppy Ver 5.4.2 on a SD Card for the past week and all worked very well.
Only extra programs I had loaded on the SD card were Firefox Browser and VLC Player.
I decided to install on Hard Drive and it worked fine until I downloaded VLC Player when near the end of the package download the screens displayed square boxes instead of characters.
I closed down the package manager and rebooted the machine only to find that now all the icons have changed to Triangles.
I have started from scratch again .. did a full re-load onto HD and did same downloads ie Mozilla FireFox ..Ok ... however VLC Player all squares again.
The machine works fine with the SD card however not with HD ??
I have read this Thread about making a symbolic link , however don't have a clue what that means .... pity !!
Can anyone help
I am using a Aspire One laptop
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Posted: Thu 06 Dec 2012, 11:28
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Hi Repip,
Welcome to the forum.
Repip wrote:
I am very new user, only 1 week old ..
Repip wrote:
I have read this Thread about making a symbolic link , however don't have a clue what that means .... pity !!
Since it sounds like you may be new to entering commands in a terminal window, I'll try to provide enough detail. Forgive me if I tell you things that you already know.
Normally you would open a terminal window by clicking on the desktop icon labeled "Console", but you can't read those labels at the moment. On most Puppies, that icon is in the top row on the far right unless you relocated it. Try clicking that icon and a window named "urxvt" should open.
(If that doesn't work, you can use the "Urxvt terminal emulator" item in the menus, usually in the Utility sub-menu.)
In order to help us troubleshoot this problem, it would be very helpful if you would report the output from a couple of commands in your next post. The best way to enter suggested commands is to copy and paste them. Pasting in the terminal window is probably different from what you may be used to in other applications. Once you have copied one line from the "Code" box below, go to the urxvt window by giving it a left-click, then paste by clicking your middle mouse button. (If you don't have a middle mouse button, hold your Shift key and press your Insert key.) Finally, press Enter to execute the command.
Repeat for the other command.
(If copying and pasting don't work for you, you can always type the command. Please note that there are no one digits ('1') in the following commands, only lower case L's ('l').)
What output do you get for these commands?
ls -ld /lib/i386-linux-gnu
ls -ld /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
This will tell us if those items are still symbolic links, as they should be, or if the installation of VLC Player changed them to directories or removed them entirely.
Once we know what has happened, we can provide further advice.
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Posted: Thu 06 Dec 2012, 19:57
Post subject: Weird Graphical Glitching after installing Precise Puppy
Hi npierce,
Whatever you tell me is all new ... so please treat me "gently" ... ha ..
I found urxvt and typed in the commands, tried to Copy/Paste results Ctrl-C to a text document to attach to this email however that obviously doesn't work in Linux, so wrote the results down , here they are.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Nov 29 11:28 /lib/i386-linux-gnu->./
next command returns this
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 6 14:32 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
strange that everything works Ok if I boot up on the SD Card ?
Is it possible to get the system / applications that I want onto the SD Card and then merely "copy" all that onto the Hard Drive ie without doing a "install" onto the hard drive? or doesn't it work that way ?
Thankyou for the help, I am really keen to learn a little about Puppy and migrate from Windows, Puppy appears so far to be so much faster and simpler.
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Posted: Fri 07 Dec 2012, 01:50
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Hi Repip,
Thanks for reporting the results of those commands.
Yes, although copying and pasting with Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V works with many applications in Puppy, copying and pasting to and from the urxvt window requires another method. To copy, just highlight the text with your mouse and left button, like usual, but don't press Ctrl-C. To paste, left-click on the window that you want to paste to, then click the middle mouse button -- nowadays that button is usually a scroll wheel (in this case, press it, don't spin it). If you have no such button or scroll wheel, you can click both left and right buttons simultaneously, but that usually requires a bit of practice to get it right -- at first it can be a little frustrating. Alternatively, pasting into the urxvt window can be done with Shift-Insert, but that doesn't work going the other way (pasting text from the urxvt window into another application).
Anyway, your hand copying worked fine. The results indicate that installing VLC Player didn't affect /lib/i386-linux-gnu, but did change /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu from a symbolic link (or "symlink") to a directory. (The 'l' at the start of the output for /lib/i386-linux-gnu indicates that it is still a link; the 'd' at the start of the output for /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu indicates that it is now a directory.) (If you are unsure of what a symlink is, feel free to ask.)
You are not the only one who has run into this problem. By providing that output, you have helped bring us closer to tracking down the root cause of the problem.
As you say, it seems strange that this works fine with your SD card. But Puppy does things differently internally depending upon what mode it is running in, so a bug that shows up in one mode may not appear in another.
It will help if we know what mode your Puppy is running in, and how the DISTRO_ARCHDIR variable is defined. Please report the results of these two commands:
grep ARCHDIR /etc/DISTRO_SPECS
grep PUPMODE /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE
Of course I know that you also want to get your icons and their captions back, and not just report results of various commands. These commands may do that:
mkdir /root/temporary_vlc_libs
cp -a -f /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/* /root/temporary_vlc_libs/
rm -r -f /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
ln -s ./ /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
These commands will save some of the files that were installed with VLC Player in a temporary directory, then remove the directory that was created, and recreate the correct symlink.
After running these commands, save anything you are working on and restart the X Server by going to the menu and choosing
Restart X Server
from the
submenu. I think that may restore your icons and their text. If not, try rebooting the PC.
Please, let us know if that works.
If it does work, you may then be able to get VLC Player to work after executing the following command. Since VLC Player worked for you when installed on your SD card, I don't anticipate any real danger here, but if you have saved anything that you don't want to loose, it might be a good idea to back it up before running this command, just in case.
cp -a -f --remove-destination /root/temporary_vlc_libs/* /usr/lib/
This copies the library files that you previously saved in the temporary directory, and puts them where the applications can find them.
Repip wrote:
Is it possible to get the system / applications that I want onto the SD Card and then merely "copy" all that onto the Hard Drive ie without doing a "install" onto the hard drive? or doesn't it work that way ?
Well, in theory, yes. But knowing what to copy is the hard part. When a package is installed, a list of its files is saved in /root/.packages. But if the packages caused dependency packages to be installed, and if the dependency packages cause more dependency packages to be installed, and . . . Well, you might have to chase down a lot of files. And then with some packages there are install scripts that you would need to examine. So, yes, it can be done. But with any luck we can solve this problem and you won't have to resort to doing that.
Repip wrote:
Thankyou for the help, I am really keen to learn a little about Puppy and migrate from Windows, Puppy appears so far to be so much faster and simpler.
You're welcome. It seems that you have already learned quite a bit.
Good luck.
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Posted: Fri 07 Dec 2012, 03:15
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Subject description: Restore Icons
Thankyou Session Icons restored, by the way i am not too concerned at this stage about any 'glitches' with the Laptop as i haven't loaded any personal stuff on it yet, just Puppy and Mozilla and VLC Player.
I have other computers to work with so at this stage I will just experiment with Puppy until I am confident with it then load personal stuff on.
It really is a simple quick exercise to completely reload Puppy anyway so I am willing to try anything at this point.
So the results are ... unfortunately I couldn't copy/paste into a text doc because the characters were all squares so I didn't know what button etc to press to save etc.
So i had to write the results down ...
multiarch distros , such as Ubuntu, will leave this, ex:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu, so DISTRO_ARCHDIR = i386-linux-gnu DISTRO_ARCHDIR=' '
next command results ....
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A 27-year-old mother of two young boys (eight and nine years of age) is being charged with assault after nearly beating a community coach to death for allegedly molesting her sons. "I asked my son, 'Did he touch you bad, did he touch you down there?' And my little boy said 'Yes,' and I said 'Was it just you?' And he said 'No, he touched some more kids,'" Richmond told a local news station.
Richmond's concerns were heightened when she received a phone call from the head coach of the community football team, located in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday requesting a meeting with the coach who allegedly molested her sons. As she made her way to the meeting, Richmond spotted the alleged child molester, Coach Red, during her commute. "He was running away," said Richmond. "I didn't say anything to him I just blinked out. When I saw him, I saw my kids being hurt, that's it."
Neighbors saw Richmond chase the coach down the street to a neighbor's carport and beat the man with a bat. "There was blood splattered all over my carport," said a neighbor Jackie Woods. "She beat his head open, split his head." Richmond says she did call police to report the coach but everything happened quickly. "I was hoping the police made it to him before I did," said Richmond. "He was saying he didn't do it and he was sorry. If you didn't do it why are you saying you're sorry? What are you sorry for?" Neighbors don't believe Richmond should have been taken to jail for beating the coach.
"They're suffering, they toss and turn at night, and they really just ain't been sleeping because they've been scared. They were even scared to tell me. I mean I'm their mom," stated Richmond. "If I don't protect them then who will?"
Dr. Boyce Watkins appeared with Steve Perry and Jawanza Kunjufu in the popular film, "Hoodwinked," which explores the experience of black males in America. Dr. Watkins says that there is a broad, untold story about young men who are abused by so-called "male mentors" when their single mothers aren't looking.
"People have to understand that this is an epidemic," says Dr. Watkins, whose father was the head of the Crimes Against Children Unit in his hometown. "Mothers must be diligent in protecting their children before-the-fact, since most kids aren't going to say a word about abuse until they are cursing your name 20 years down the road."
Dr. Watkins is an advocate for mothers being thoughtful about the men in their lives, both before and after pregnancy. He also says that with growing incarceration rates in the black community, there has been a rise in cases where single mothers are seeing their children victimized by boyfriends, coaches, and other seemingly innocent male mentors who take their sons under their wing.
"I tell my daughters, 'if a man is not going to be a good father, then don't let him inside your body or inside your life. Also, after that baby is born, don't assume that every nice man who comes into your life doesn't have some dark s-xual secret that he isn't hiding from you. It happens far more than you can imagine, which is why we must work extra hard to keep our families together in the first place."
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What did you all do yesterday?
If you are like most people, you work and/or go to school during the week. Maybe you are studying for your CDL test, maybe you are teaching some fourth graders fractions, maybe you helped deliver a baby after you had been on shift for 18 hours, maybe you folded 928,656 sweaters at Old Navy and youre going to fold 928,656 again tomorrow, maybe you retired a few years ago but you still had shit to do around the house. You worked. You did things.
Normal people like you and me work.
But what does a DI Fellow do every day?
I dont know about you all, but Ive always really wondered what Casey Luskin does all day. I mean, Dembski and Behe are employed by outside organizations, but Luskin works for the Discovery Institute.
Hes a lawyer, but he doesnt stop DI fellows from stepping in legal shit.
Hes got degrees in geology, but he doesnt do any science.
So what does he do all day?
Well, like Dembski, evidently he just plays on the internet. Except instead of cruising for... ummm... Luskin is trolling for anyone talking about intelligent design in a negative way so he can spring into action as DIs attack dog.
Sometimes its just irritating, like a toy poodle attacking a pit bull, like when he went after Carl Zimmer or Chris Mooney.
I also wasnt particularly amused at his 'defense' of Behe.
But then sometimes Caseys internet hit jobs are not funny at all. Normal people, minding their own business, wake up to find out they are the current DI target.
His attack on KU astronomy student 'Angry Astronomer' was completely out of the blue-- Jon only knew about it because of Technorati.
And now Casey is attacking retired professors.
Les Lane is a retired virology professor at the University of Nebraska. He also just so happens to be one of the gentlemen in Nebraska Citizens for Science who mentored me into the pro-science-chick I am today. Les maintains a Geocities webpage-- its nothing exotic, but its a great collection of links and information for pro-science people. Heres what he found in his inbox yesterday:
Dear Mr. Lane,
Greetings. At http://www.geocities.com/lclane2/luskin.html you have a copyrighted photo of me to which I own the copyright. I do not give you permission to post it on your website. Please remove the picture from your website.
Also, you write that I have "dubious credentials." At present, I leave it up to your conscience to decide whether the sources you cite on your website are informed or accurate, or whether the claims you make are accurate, but for your information, I am an attorney in good standing in the State of California (see http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=238124 ) and I hold a B.S. and M.S. in earth sciences from UC San Diego, having done about 4 year's worth of scientific research at Scripps Institution for Oceanography and published a scientific paper out of some of that research. (You seem aware of that paper because you seem to cite it elsewhere on your site.) I continue to do scientific research and am currently preparing some research I have recently done for submission for publication. In any case, at present, I'll let your conscience dictate how you proceed from here regarding whether you now continue to retain on your website the false claim that I have "dubious credentials."
Casey Luskin
Yes, you read that right. After the DI wailed about Dembskis theft being a 'witch hunt' and 'petty', Casey Luskin is demanding photos of himself are taken down from random websites because 'he owns the copyright'. I mean there is nothing 'offensive' on Less page. He even links to Caseys webpage!!!
Im really, really getting sick of this joke, but:
OMG! DI NOT RESPECTING ANYONES COPYRIGHT BUT *THEIR* COPYRIGHT!I dont even know how he found Les's page, unless Casey just sits around Googling himself all day... Anyway, Les is nice, and he took the pic down. However, remember he is one of the reasons 'I am the way I am'-- he had to sass back**:
I have removed the picture. I consider scientists' attitude toward science an important aspect of their credentials.
Casey used that as an opportunity to talk about himself-- Note the lack of question marks in Les's reply above:
Thanks for that reply. Since you inquired about my attitudes towards science, I suppose it might be helpful for you to know that I believe that all science should be based upon the scientific method, that evolution is science, that evolution should be taught in schools, and that evolution should be taught as a science that is open to critical scrutiny and not as a dogma that cannot be questioned.
I likewise believe that evolution shouldn't be taught dogmatically. However I also believe that to promote to science students what hasn't survived scientific peer review, to suggest to them that "incompleteness" discredits science, or to encourage them to substitute rationalizing for science, risks intellectual dishonesty.
LOL!! SLAM! LOL!! Poor DI attack dog, cant win against puppies, cant win against the retired pit dogs, sure as hell cant win against the dogs in their prime. Poor poor Casey!
**Please note, Les uses apostrophes appropriately. That did not rub off on me. :P


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Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority offers free tax preparation
Published: 01/17/2013 12:35:00
Tax Season is upon us and with it the anxiety that often accompanies venturing into the complex world of tax forms and regulations. This year there's an extra level of help available for people though. The Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority is offering free tax preparation as part of a larger Financial Literacy program that they've developed. Dawn Wesley, a Financial Skills Specialist with the Housing Authority, provided details.
VIDEO: Voluntary Income Tax Preparation Site is part of larger financial literacy training program. (Image: THRHA)
"We have a voluntary income tax preparation site that we went and found a grant for to get the computers together to do the program; it will provide services to clients through the intermediate level meaning that we can't do anything that's self employment or really difficult taxes, it's really aimed towards the earned income tax credit clients.
They actually come to our building at 5446 Jenkins Avenue which is our Tlingit Haida Regional Housing building; downstairs we have a large conference room which is great for the program. We will be open for service ten to one on Saturdays starting January 26th through April 13th, the 13th falls on a Saturday so we'll probably do a Sunday depending on how much traffic we have. We're also going to have what's called a self assisted site, and that is where a client could come in and try and do the taxes themselves with a preparer who's just there to answer questions, they won't prepare the taxes, and that will be here we will have one here at the housing authority on Wednesday's between one and 4:30, where the computer will be set up and somebody could come in and do their taxes online and we would have somebody there if they had questions.
Our new CEO here, Ricardo Worl at the Housing Authority is really pushing the empowering of individuals in Southeast Alaska, and through that we found that the financial literacy is a big issue that needs to be addressed, and so that's how we've come around and put in the VITA Site, the financial literacy classes, and even going and talking to the youth about financial literacy."
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Earlier this month, heavyweight bank JP Morgan Chase announced it had lost at least $2 billion on a single trade — a figure that could grow as the firm struggles to unwind its position. The event has prompted a public airing of many questions: What went wrong, and why didn't JP Morgan recognize the problem sooner? Should the bet be regarded as a risky proprietary trade, or a hedge designed to offset potential risks on other trades? And what will it take to prevent future blowups like this? MIT News spoke about the issue recently with Andrew Lo, the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Lo, an expert in financial markets, was recently named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine.
Q. You've suggested that to properly learn from financial mishaps, and properly regulate the industry, we need a financial equivalent of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which investigates airplane accidents, among other things, and has helped make flying safer. At this point, how much do we know about this JP Morgan trade?
A. I think there's a lot more we need to learn about what happened, for a couple of reasons. I'm a firm believer in the need for financial regulation, so I'm not in the camp that says, "Let markets run wild." But it's tremendously costly to implement any new regulation, never mind the existing ones, so before we propose new rules, we really want to make sure we know what we're doing. One of the interesting things about what the NTSB does and why it takes so long to put together a definitive accident report is that they spend tremendous effort not only in figuring out what happened, but also in ruling out all sorts of other possible explanations, so that in the end, they arrive at a single narrative of what actually did happen. I could rattle off three or four different narratives about what may have happened at JP Morgan, and one of them may even be true, but if we're going to make rules in response to this event, we have an obligation to the American people to get it right. And that's where accident investigation becomes essential.
Q. Some people have wanted to ban proprietary trading by banks that collect regular deposits — the so-called "Volcker Rule." A central question about this JP Morgan incident is whether it was a proprietary trade, or strictly a hedge against potential losses in other trades — or if we can even make such a distinction. Limited though our knowledge is, how do you assess this issue?
A. I think the answer is very simple: Yes, we can tell the difference. And this shows how important having the right information is in being able to come up with the right narrative. There is one very simple question that you can ask — which has a definitive answer — about the small number of individuals who were responsible for managing this group at JP Morgan and putting on the specific trades that lost these large amounts of money. That question is: How were they compensated on an annual basis? Were they paid a salary and a bonus, and was the bonus a function of the profitability of the group, or was the bonus a function of the hedging ability of the group? If you can answer this question — and it definitely has an answer to it; it's not a metaphysical question — you will have your answer as to whether it was proprietary trading or hedging. I don't know the answer, but I know the answer exists, and I know that certainly the government can get that answer with a single phone call.
Q. What does this episode tell us about the limitations of risk management generally, at JP Morgan or elsewhere? And what can be done to improve risk management?
A. This goes to a much broader question about modern capitalism: How can any small number of individuals manage a $100 billion company? The answer is the same one we give for many complex tasks, which is that we have to build technology allowing us to leverage our human judgment in much broader contexts. The question is whether we want to or not. Right now we don't have that level of commitment. Maybe after this JP Morgan fiasco, we will.
Clearly, risk is a complex set of issues in an organization like JP Morgan; I don't think it can be reduced to a single number in any set of circumstances. In large, complex organizations, technology can play a critical role in tracking, aggregating, monitoring and communicating the entire gamut of risks that exist so that decision-makers can make well-informed judgments. The portfolios JP Morgan deals with are highly complex and highly dynamic, meaning they can change rapidly from day to day. My conjecture is that the senior management of this particular unit at JP Morgan did not have timely access to the risks they were being exposed to. … I believe [JP Morgan Chase CEO] Jamie Dimon has acknowledged as much.
Another part of the challenge is incentives. Risk management is not a profit center; it's typically a cost center. At the same time, CEOs and CFOs make decisions based on what they think shareholders want right now, and what shareholders usually want is price appreciation. When you invest in a serious risk-management effort, you spend a lot of money in the short run, and won't necessarily be able to identify the blowups you avoided because of that effort. That's why we need to change our culture.
It's like fire codes. Putting sprinkler systems and fire alarms and extra exits in buildings is expensive, and the benefits are hard to detect unless there is a fire. In the United States, we had to experience a really serious loss of life, in New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, before we decided as a society that all commercial buildings are required to have fire protection — that's the law, no more debate, end of story. We have to have that same attitude about risk management, and decide that to continue growing our economy, all corporations need to structure their governance so that risk management is a separate function that reports directly to the board, and that the chief risk officer is compensated and incentivized to identify risks and create financial stability for the company. Unless we do that, we're going to be constantly subjected to this endless cycle of fear and greed, fear and greed, fear and greed.
June 1, 2012
I think there is a lot to be learned about risk management from fields like aviation and nuclear weapons safety. However, the financial markets are loath to accept any systems management approach that in any way restricts profit, such as the federally mandated redundant systems in airliners, and even they have problems. For a further discussion on the nature of risk in complex systems, please see 'Hedging the Apocalypse' at: http://somewhatlogically.com/?...
Richard M Stallman
June 4, 2012
The NTSB does more than study accidents. It has the power to order airlines to do maintenance work and to stop airplanes from flying.
In order for an NTSB for banks to be effective, it would need comparable powers.
Thomas Cooper
June 4, 2012
Is there any evidence that the NTSB has made flying safer?
June 6, 2012
+1, good sir. Show me the data.
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In this Guest Post, FELIPE SPERANDIO updates us on Brazilian Superior Court's interesting decision holding that once an arbitral tribunal is in place, it shall have the exclusive jurisdiction to grant any interim measures.
A recent decision of the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice ("STJ") has ruled, for the first time, on the issue of the concurrent jurisdiction of national courts and arbitral tribunals with respect to the making of interim measures (Itarumã Participações S.A. v Participações em Complexos Bioenergéticos S.A. – PCBIOS, Resp no. 1,297,974-RJ). The decision is significant in shedding light on a topic not addressed by the Brazilian Arbitration Act. It also reassures the view that, where there is an arbitration agreement, the national courts may only intervene – in exceptional circumstances – to support arbitration.
Itamurã Participações S.A. ("Itarumã") entered into a joint venture agreement with Participações em Complexos Bioenergéticos S.A ("PCBIOS"). This aimed to build and implement a fuel production project through a newly constituted company: Complexo Bioenergético Itarumã ("CBIO"). The contract was subject to arbitration seated in Brazil, but also provided for the possibility to resort to national courts in case of urgent matters. PCBIOS requested an interim measure (relief) from a Brazilian lower court for suspending its own rights and obligations as a shareholder of CBIO, based on alleged breach of contract by Itarumã. PCBIOS argued that the interim measure was crucial to guarantee the effectiveness of a future award in arbitral proceedings yet to be commenced.
The lower court denied on the merits PCBIOS' application. PCBIOS appealed that decision to the Rio de Janeiro Court of Appeal ("TJ-RJ"). In its reply to PCBIOS' appeal, Itarumã informed the TJ-RJ that after the lower court's ruling on the interim measure but before the judgement of the appeal, the parties had by that time signed the arbitration's terms of reference and appointed the tribunal. Therefore, the arbitration had been commenced. Itarumã furthermore argued that the subject matter of the ongoing interim measure request was subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal. Accordingly, the appeal should be dismissed.
However, the TJ-RJ found that it had jurisdiction to decide the issue and, in turn, overturned the lower court's decision and granted the interim measure requested by PCBIOS. The TJ-RJ reckoned that the parties agreed to resort to the national courts in case of urgent matters, and reasoned that the arbitration agreement does not prevent national courts from deciding urgent matters via interim measures. The TJ-RJ opined that, despite the arbitration agreement, the parties retain the faculty to apply to a national court for any interim measures. The decision also affirmed that deciding otherwise would be to deny a party its right to access to justice. Itarumã appealed the TJ-RJ's decision to the STJ.
The STJ granted leave to appeal, and presented the question for consideration as whether a national court has the jurisdiction to make interim measures after the constitution of the arbitral tribunal. Reversing the TJ-RJ`s decision, the STJ ruled that it is only in temporary circumstances, for example where the arbitral tribunal is unable to act or has not yet been constituted, that national courts may interfere with disputes subject to the jurisdiction of an arbitration tribunal. In addition, the STJ held that by the time those temporary circumstances cease to exist, the application for interim measure shall immediately be referred to the arbitral tribunal that is eventually constituted.
The STJ further ruled that any arbitral tribunal, upon receiving the application for interim measure from the national court, shall re-examine the interim measure granted (or denied), in order to decide whether to uphold, amend or revoke the national court's decision. Furthermore, the STJ's judgment suggested a "best approach" to be taken by the Brazilian court judges in deciding applications for interim measures of the sort concerned in this case. The recommended method includes that, at the time of referring the case to the arbitral tribunal, the court should highlight that a decision on interim measures is a preliminary ruling conditioned to the arbitral tribunal's ratification. And, if not ratified, the decision becomes ineffective.
The Legal Position
This is the first instance where the STJ, Brazil's ultimate authority with respect to legal issues arising from arbitration, scrutinized the boundaries separating the jurisdiction of the Brazilian courts and of arbitral tribunals to rule on interim measures. It is significant that the STJ's reasoning results in the non-existence of a concurrent jurisdiction. Instead, the STJ emphasized that the national courts may only have jurisdiction to grant interim measures in exceptional and temporary circumstances. And this jurisdiction shall be neither extended nor concomitant with the arbitral tribunal's jurisdiction. The court's reasoning has already been followed in a more recent case (Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. Petrobras v Tractebel Energia S.A, STJ, Ag Rg MC no. 19.266-MS).
The precedent set by the STJ has particular importance for international arbitrations conducted in Brazil. The authorisation (or express order) given to an arbitral tribunal to review a national courts' decision deals with the presumed hesitancy of foreign parties to arbitrate against Brazilian parties in proceedings seated in Brazil. The guarantee that, in due course, the tribunal shall have exclusive jurisdiction to rule on interim measures removes the concerns some may have had of the local courts favouring Brazilian parties.
Also, depending on the relief sought, seeking the national courts directly for interim measures, before the constitution of the tribunal, may be more efficient than applying to the emergency arbitrator. Brazilian courts have the innate power to grant ex parte interim measures; while the emergency arbitrator provisions provide for the need to listen to the other party before granting such measures.
The Brazilian Arbitration Act, enacted in 1996, is vague with respect to interim measures. Fortunately, the STJ has helped to overcome the legal uncertainty by rendering a series of decisions addressing the issue. This particular ruling confirms the STJ's pro-arbitration stance, and guarantees the exclusive jurisdiction of a duly appointed arbitral tribunal with respect to the grant of interim measures. The ruling seems to be the last missing brick in the framework for such measures in Brazil. This is a significant step forward to encourage foreign parties to arbitrate in Brazil.


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Rimini Street Reports Record Results for Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2012
Largest Sales Quarter in Company History with 61-Percent Invoicing Growth; Annual Revenue Growth Exceeds 30 Percent
LAS VEGAS, January 14, 2013 - Rimini Street, Inc., the leading third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) software and Oracle Corporation's (NASDAQ: ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database and Hyperion software, today announced results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full fiscal year ended December 31, 2012. Highlights of the Company's fiscal fourth quarter results include a record number of new client transactions closed, resulting in the largest new sales quarter ever in the Company's history. Rimini Street's full fiscal year 2012 results include record highs in revenue, deferred revenue, average sales price, sales transactions over one million U.S. dollars, sales bookings and sales bookings backlog.
11 Consecutive Record Quarters and Continued Strong Annual Results
Rimini Street continued its fast-paced growth in the fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal 2012, achieving many new all-time company records.
For the fiscal fourth quarter, the Company surpassed all of its sales targets with more than $100 million added to sales bookings backlog and total invoicing of $26.6 million, a 61-percent invoicing increase over the year ago quarter. The Company also recorded $11.97 million in revenue, a nearly 30-percent increase on a year-over-year basis and a new company quarterly revenue record.
For the fiscal year 2012, the Company exceeded $43 million in revenue, a more than 30-percent increase on a year-over-year basis. Sales bookings backlog increased from $394 million to $558 million, a 41-percent increase on a year-over-year basis. Deferred revenue also increased more than 51 percent to nearly $44 million as of December 31, 2012, when compared on a year-over-year basis. The Company also reported continued strong client retention and exceeded its renewal targets, with a record number of clients executing multi-year renewals.
Large Organizations Are Fastest Growing Client Segment
Rimini Street has signed more than 550 total clients, including numerous large public and private sector organizations. Counted amongst Rimini Street's signed private sector clients are 69 of the Fortune 500 and 15 of the Global 100, which includes eight Fortune 500 added in the fiscal fourth quarter alone, and 17 Fortune 500 and two Global 100 clients added in fiscal 2012. Large public sector clients added in 2012 include a major agency of the U.S. federal government. The Company currently supports client operations in nearly 80 countries, with the capability of supporting clients in nearly 200 countries. Rimini Street has 245 employees throughout North America and subsidiaries in South America, Europe, South Asia and Asia-Pacific regions.
Strong Sales Across All Product Lines, Including Newly Launched Oracle Hyperion Support
For the fiscal fourth quarter, the Company reported a record 40 new client transactions worldwide and strong sales across each of its product lines, including SAP and Oracle's E-Business Suite, Database, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel products. The Company also reported closing its first support agreements for its newest product line, Oracle Hyperion, which was launched in October 2012, and far exceeded sales targets for its other newer product lines - Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Database.
Fiscal fourth quarter transactions set several additional records: a record number of agreements in excess of one million U.S. dollars, record average sales prices for each product line, and a record number of contracts featuring multi-year, non-cancelable service periods.
Rimini Street also accomplished the following notable achievements in 2012:
- Announced tripling in sales for Rimini Street Support of Oracle applications in April 2012
- Announced tripling in revenue for Rimini Street Support of SAP applications in May 2012
- Expanded the Company's global workforce and global support capabilities with additional staff in the U.S. and Europe, launch of new subsidiaries and operations in India and Brazil, and the opening of innovative new facilities including Rimini Street Labs in Hyderabad, India and a Rimini Street Technology Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Won several notable business and industry awards, including the Stevie® Award from the 2012 International Business Awards for Outstanding Customer Service and the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Americas award for the leading private companies in North America
- Named to CIO UK's annual hotlist of top tech companies, "20 Companies to Watch in 2012," ranked number one Business of the West for 2012 by Business Leader magazine; named one of the Inc. 500/5000 fastest-growing private companies in the country for the second consecutive year by Inc. magazine; and named one of the top 200 technology companies by Lead 411
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Dear Torah Portion Reader,
I am very excited that the Spring Feasts are just around the corner! Mark and I are hosting the Lighted Way Ministries Passover/Unleavened Bread retreat from April 1-8, 2018. During this time, we will be broadcasting presentations on Sanctified Living, godly Marriage and family, God's Amazing Star Secrets, Bible Prophecy, and much more... We invite you to join us on Livestream, during the scheduled broadcasts!
Over the next few days and weeks, my husband and I are working (and praying) to prepare for this exciting spiritual retreat. We are writing presentations on Powerpoint. I am also completing (prayerfully) my book on God's Amazing Star Secret, preparing a children's program (VBS-style), cooking for the retreat (freezing the casseroles for two meals per day) and much more...
As a result, I will not be able to take the time to write a Torah portion commentary over the next few weeks. I will begin writing the commentary again on April 15, 2018... But, between now and then, you need not get behind in your Torah reading or Statute studies. The following is the schedule for this week:
WEEK OF February 18-24, 2018
Torah Reading for the week: Genesis 32:4-36:43
Statute Studies for the week:
To view the completed worksheets for these statutes, go to http://www.lightedway.org/html/torahworksheets.html
and look for these completed statutes on the list (on the left-hand side of the web page).


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Tigers Finish Second in Opening Tournament
Prattville, Ala. – The Tigers cut five strokes off of their first day score and finished with a second place finish at the Alabama State Fall Classic. The Par-72, 7,477-yard Senator Course on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course in Prattville, Ala. was played under mostly sunny skies, a slight breeze and 88 degree conditions. TSU (305-300=605) shot a 12-over, 300, but were unable to track down Alabama State who shot a 2-under as a team on Monday.
Andrew Warner paced the Tigers with an even par 72 and was followed by James Stepp who scored his second consecutive 2-over, 74. Codie Welborn and Dallas Hill each carded a 5-over, 77 over the final 18-holes. Shane Sampair was a stroke back, with a 6-over, non-scoring 78.
Warner (75-72=147) notched birdies on seven, 11, 15 and 18. On the par-3, 7th, Warner used an 8-iron off the box from 170-yards out to within 3-feet to set up a tap in birdie. The senior was able to hit 10 of 14 fairways, 11 greens and used just 25 putts today.
Stepp (74-74=148) found nine fairways and 10 greens on Monday as he repeated his score from day one. Stepp reached the green in two on the par-5, 8th giving himself a long-putt opportunity for eagle. He was able to two-putt for his first birdie in round two. The junior nearly chipped in for eagle on 17, but just missed and settled for a tap in birdie. Stepp picked up a birdie on 12 as he used an 8-iron to within 6-feet of the hole to set up the makeable putt.
Wellborn (79-77=156) marked his lone birdie on eight. The senior hit his second shot into the green side bunker and blasted out to four feet to set up the birdie putt. Welborn hit nine fairways and seven greens, while using just 28 putts.
Hill (81-77=158) rebounded from yesterday's play despite hitting just half of his fairways. Hill picked up a pair of birdies via the long putt. The junior sank a 20-footer on eight and a 35-footer on 11 to get himself pack into a comfortable position. On his second to last hole of the day, the par-4, 3rd, Hill stuck an 8-iron to about 5-feet away to set up his third birdie of the final round.
Sampair (77-78=155) dropped birdies on the 8th, 11th and 15th. The junior was 4-of-10 in up-and-down opportunities and used 31 putts as he found 10 fairways and eight greens.
TSU will take a couple weeks off before playing in the National Black College Hall of Fame Tournament in Atlanta, Ga. on Sept. 28-29.


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by Tom Utescher
In contrast to recent seasons, there was a healthy degree of parity within the Philadelphia/Suburban Women's NCAA Summer Basketball League this year, but when it came to playoff time, there were no upsets. The two teams that looked to be the strongest coming out of the player draft at the end of May made it through the semifinals last Tuesday and squared off in the championship game two nights later.
In the role of player/coach, former Girls Inter-Ac League star Katie Kuester (Academy of Notre Dame) led her Team Hunter Green to the 2013 title, thanks to a 58-50 victory over Team White in Thursday's final.
A St. Joseph's University graduate, Kuester is now Director of Basketball Operations at Lehigh University, where the incoming freshman class includes 2013 Germantown Academy grad Kiernan McCloskey. McCloskey played in the NCAA League this summer, as did fellow GA alumni Monica Schacker (Philadelphia University '15) and Fran Sweeney (Emory University '17).
Mount St. Joseph grads Elle Hagedorn ('09), Bridget Higgins ('12) and Maddie Kohler ('12) made it to the league semifinals as part of Team Gold, which was coached by Elle's father, Ted Hagedorn. His last three summer squads, which included Kuester on the roster, won the 2010-2012 league titles.
With only his daughter Elle back on the roster for the 2013 campaign, Coach Hagedorn picked up some good players in the draft, but overall the squad was not as strong as his previous outfits, which included a number of ladies who had played AAU basketball together for years. Third in regular-season play with a record of 9-3, Team Gold advanced through the quarterfinal round of the playoffs on August 1. They saw a halftime lead disappear in last Tuesday's semifinals as second-seeded Team White rebounded to seize a 70-64 victory.
White came into the playoffs with an 11-1 record just like Hunter Green, but Hunter earned the top seed by claiming a six-point victory when the two teams met in regular-season competition. Hunter's sole loss came to Team Gold, which suffered setbacks against the White, Red, and Navy Blue ensembles over the course of the summer.
Emerging as the best of the Division II summer squads (DII and DIII athletes are allowed to play with their college teammates, which NCAA rules prohibit for the Division I women), Team Maroon landed the fourth seed with an 8-4 mark and advanced out of the quarterfinals in the playoffs. In the other semifinal on Tuesday, they battled Hunter right down to the wire, but fell, 60-54.
Maroon is largely composed of students from The University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, and there were other summer squads largely made up of players from Philly U. (Team Black; ninth at 4-8), Holy Family University (Team Kelly Green; eighth at 5-7), and West Chester University (Team Sky Blue; seventh at 6-6). USciences, Philly U., and Holy Family all compete in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference along with Chestnut Hill College, which had no players in the league this summer.
Last Tuesday, the semifinal game that was expected to produce the largest margin of victory was the one matching up the number one and number four seeds, and during the middle minutes it seemed like the conventional wisdom would be borne out on the court. Team Maroon kept it close until a little over eight minutes in, trailing just 13-9, but then Hunter Green scored 16 straight points.
Dana Wieller (who just graduated from Bloomsburg University), while not as well known as some of Hunter's other three-point shooters, had the target locked in during much of the first half. She bagged four of the long-range buckets in the first dozen minutes, and ultimately teammates Erin Shields (Archbishop /St. Joseph U. '14) and Kuester would accumulate four treys, as well.
The top seeds still had a comfortable lead at 33-15 with five minutes left in the first period, but outside shooting from Nazareth Academy alum Jessica Sylvester and penetration to the hoop by Brianne Traub (both USciences guards) fueled an 11-3 Maroon run to close the first half with a 10-point gap, 36-26.
Hunter's Shannon Shields (Erin's younger sister and currently a rower at the University of San Diego) hit two early three's in the second half while the team's lone six-foot-plus player, Lauren Crisler (a 2013 North Penn grad headed for American U.) did some damage inside. A little past the midpoint of the period the league leaders had the gap back up to 18 points at 52-34.
Maroon, with a few more players available on the bench than their rivals, pushed the pace and made a dramatic late run. Hunter was still ahead by nine points (53-44) with two-and-a-half minutes remaining. A lay-up and three free throws by Traub contributed to a 7-1 spurt by Maroon to make it 54-51, now in the final minute.
Hunter's Erin Shields hit two free throws, but Traub found the hoop from the left corner for a 56-54 count with 24 seconds to go. Maroon had to keep fouling to keep Hunter from running out the clock, and two more trips to the foul line by the steady Shields capped off a six-point victory for the top seeds.
She came away with 22 points for the winners, followed by 13 apiece for Kuester and Wieller. Traub deposited 14 points in Maroon's losing cause.
In the other semifinal, all of Gold's first 17 points came from St. Joseph's players Sarah Fairbanks (11) and Natasha Cloud (six), while White kept close with better-balanced scoring.
The point spread never reached double digits, but Gold enjoyed an eight-point advantage late in the half, 36-28. White's Catherine Carr, a former Holy Family luminary, tightened the score to 36-33 at the break with a transition lay-up followed by a three-pointer with 10 seconds to go.
This definitely provided some fodder for the halftime talk by Team White coach Keith Wood, whose daughter Ashley (Spring-Ford High School) is a member of the team and is a newly-minted graduate of Kutztown University.
White's late spurt in the first period proved to be the beginning of a 14-0 spree that spanned the two halves. Carr kept going and Ashley Wood and former Upper Dublin standout Shira Newman joined in on the scoring. White was also defending well, allowing just three points by Team Gold (from Fairbanks) over the first nine minutes of the second half.
Later on, down 59-47 with under five minutes to play, Gold began its final rally with a lay-up and made free throw by Hagedorn. A jumper and a lay-up off a steal by Cloud, followed by Hagedorn's coast-to-coast romp, rounded out a 9-2 charge that made it 61-56 with a minute to play.
White was already in the one-and-one bonus, though, and while its foulshooting in the final minute was not flawless, the nine-for-12 effort at the line was good enough to hold off the Gold. The lead was back up to nine points, 70-61, before Cloud canned a three-pointer at the buzzer.
She had 19 points for the night, which positioned her between Fairbanks (22) and Hagedorn (10) for Team Gold. After that came Mackenzie Rule (an incoming St. Joe's freshman) with five points and Higgins with four, while Jessica Jowdy (Swarthmore) and Michelle McCaughern (La Salle) added two points apiece. Carr cranked out 20 points for the White, which also received nine points from her old Holy Family teammate Meg Gibson and 11 from Jasmine Elum (Bethune Cookman).
To shorten the league season at a time when players want to enjoy a little R & R before school resumes, the league went to a single-game final this year, instead of the traditional best-of-three series.
Team White was making its second straight appearance in the league's last round, having lost in the 2012 series to Coach Hagedorn's Lime Green ballclub (Game One: 85-54, Game Two: 66-56).
White center Emily Leer (Abington High/Villanova '15), who missed the semifinals, provided inside scoring as Thursday's 2013 final got underway, and the guards took turns filling in around her. Hunter called a time-out with 11:54 left in the first half, trailing 16-8. When play resumed a jumper by White's Nya Daley (formerly of Holy Family) widened the gap to a full 10 points before Hunter Green recovered.
Three-point missiles from Shannon Shields bookended a 16-0 run that moved Hunter into the lead (24-18) over the course of six minutes. White regrouped and put an end to the rampage, eventually working back to a 25-all halftime tie thanks to a follow-in by Kira Ogden (Cheltenham High/Manor College '14) at the buzzer.
The eldest of Hunter's three Shields sisters from Archbishops Carroll, Kerri, had been one of the game's leading rebounders in the first 20 minutes (at 5'9", this was down to her anticipation and hustle), but she'd contributed a modest three points on the scoreboard.
Her second trey of the night opened the scoring after the interval, and she would go on to give an all-round MVP performance, netting a game-high 20 points that included six three's. The 2013 Boston College grad certainly made the most of what would be her final stateside game of hoops for some time; she's won a scholarship from the Sports Changes Life Foundation, and will study, play ball, and mentor at-risk youth at the University of Ulster.
Carr and Leer led White back to a 31-28 advantage two minutes into the new half, then Hunter went ahead for good on back-to-back triples by Kerri Shields and sister Erin. Kerri Shields would hit all five of her second-half three-pointers over the initial nine minutes, and a little later even the 6'2" Crisler chimed in from the perimeter, as her trey from the top of the key made it 51-37 with 9:51 remaining in the game.
More than halfway through the final minute of the affair, Hunter was ahead 58-44, but in the final 16 seconds Team White brought its deficit back down into single figures with three-pointers by Gibson and 2012 West Chester grad Allison Hostetter.
Complementing Kerri Shields' game-high output were her sisters Erin (10 points) and Shannon (six), and Crisler notched seven points. White was powered by double-digit scoring from Leer (15) and Carr (12).


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SIXE- bio
Instrument: Violin
Cecilia Bernardini was born in 1984 in the Netherlands and has a Dutch/Italian nationality. She studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Jan Repko, Vesko Eschkenazy and Ilya Grubert before furthering her education at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno. She received tuition on the baroque violin from Lucy van Dael, Rachel Podger and Pavlo Beznosiuk.
She was granted various scholarships to take part in music courses in Holland, St.Petersburg, California, Cornwall (Prussia Cove, open chamber music) and Baden-Baden at the Carl Flesch-Akademie where she was awarded the Ruth-Flesh-Gedachtnispreis) in 2003.
Cecilia has won first prizes at various national competitions and was a finalist at the Andrea Postacchini international violin competition with a special prize for the interpretation of the Debussy sonata. In 2004 she was awarded the prestigious Dutch Anton Kersjes scholarship and in May 2005, she won the second prize at the Oskar Back national violin competition where she also made her debut in the main hall of the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. Additionally, she won a prize for her interpretation of Bach at the Leopold Mozart competition in Augsburg in 2006.
Cecilia has performed as a soloist and as a chamber musician in the Netherlands and abroad (London, Paris, Rome, Bucharest, Abu Dhabi, Athens, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Guatemala, Nicaragua) and has recorded for the Dutch broadcasting company several times.
As a baroque violinist, she frequently plays with ensembles such as Zefiro, La Serenissima, Collegium Marianum and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Her many recordings include Mozart Divertimenti with the ensemble Zefiro for Sony Classics.
She enjoys playing chamber music particularly with the pianist Mirsa Adami with whom she has given numerous concerts in Holland and abroad. In March 2003 they won the Vriendenkrans competition of the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam; they recently made their debut recital in this hall.
Cecilia now plays on a Santo Serafin violin and a Tourte bow, which has been kindly lent to her by the Dutch National Music Instrument Foundation.


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By request, the Yogurt Wound:
Fortunately, the wound is not on my pointing hand. I could have been out of commission for weeks.
By request, the Yogurt Wound:
Fortunately, the wound is not on my pointing hand. I could have been out of commission for weeks.
Here it is:
"Cut myself on yogurt."
Yes, yogurt. Not the container, the actual yogurt.
And not just cut myself. Made myself bleed.
It takes a special kind of person to cut themselves on a thixotropic food product; apparently, I am that kind of person. I don't know how I feel about that. It's not exactly the most manly thing I've ever done. On the other hand, how many others can claim such a distinction? I'm thinking not very many. Ever. So I have that going for me.
A couple of things:
* This is my now obligatory "I've caught with all my e-mail for the last couple of weeks so if you sent me something and wanted a response but didn't get one, send it again" notice.
* This next week is likely to see Whatever on an abbreviated schedule of some sort, on account that I have some work to catch up with, there's a major holiday at some point in the week (I think near the end of it; I'll have to double-check) and because at some point I am traveling to Los Angeles to do the Loscon thing. Which is to say, hey, I'll be busy in the real world. I expect you might be too. But to help make up for it, I'm posting a Big Idea two-fer this Tuesday. Yes! Two Big Idea pieces for the price of one! And now you have a reason to live, at least through Tuesday.
Thank you for your attention. You are now free to go on with your lives.
As advance warning, this entry might be douchebaggishly egotistical, but, well. You should be used to that by now.
Take as given, if you will, that I am a person with a certain level of notability online, both as an author and as a blogger of long standing: I am famous enough that a) I and/or my work are not entirely infrequently discussed online, and b) when I show up to comment on someone else's blog, either as a consequence of being a subject of discussion or just because I want to comment, it sometimes freaks people out, sometimes happily and sometimes not.
(I am not so famous that c) people simply refuse to believe that I am me when I comment, or d) pretend to be me on other people's sites, which suggests to me at least that my fame is of the distinctly "micro" level, which is, as it happens, just about where I like it.)
Without commenting on whether this level of notability is a positive or negative state of affairs or whether I should actually merit such a level of notability, if one is in the position I am in, one does recognize that at a certain point you have to decide how to handle showing up and commenting on other people's sites, particularly if one (or one's work) is being discussed at the time. Here's how I personally handle it:
1. By and large I don't comment when I or my work is the subject of discussion on someone else's site.
2. But sometimes I do.
In the first case, it's because there's the recognition that just because people are talking about you or your work doesn't mean they actually want to invoke you, and, converse to this, just because you can comment doesn't mean you should. Most of the time I would have nothing to add to the conversation other than being a disconcerting presence, and there's no need to do that. This is particularly the case when people post reviews of my books, and particularly when they're negative: I think in a general sense people should be able to say "I thought this book was crap" without having the author show up to explain in detail why and how they are in fact completely wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. I've noted this before.
In the second case, sometimes I just want to comment. Why? Well, sometimes it's because I think the conversation is interesting and, in fact, I do have something more substantive to add than merely my presence. Sometimes it's because someone is speculating about my motivations for writing and/or doing something which I know are incorrect, and I think it's worth giving them additional data. Sometimes people are asking a specific thing about my writing and/or me that I can answer authoritatively. Sometimes I just want to drop in a witty/funny/snarky comment. And sometimes I just like to screw with people's heads, because there are days when I'm just that way.
(Also, there's the small matter of, microcelebrity or not, I'm also just this guy who likes doing the same things everyone else does online, and who thinks people occasionally freaking out over his presence is silly. You know, I have to live with me every single day. I can say pretty authoritatively that I'm really not worth the freakout.)
If I had to guess the percentage of times I comment at someone else's site rather than just reading without commenting, I'd guess that it's something less than one percent of the time. If you write about me, there's a very good chance I'll know about it — my egosurf matrix of search engines is highly developed and tells me of an appearance of my name and/or a link to the site, usually within minutes, because I have just that much OCD — but generally I don't do anything about it. Highly developed egosurf matrix or not, I don't have the time, or as noted above, generally the inclination. Yes, that's right, by and large I'm a lurker.
Likewise I'm more likely to comment on some sites than others. What raises your chance of me commenting at your site? Well, if you're a friend of mine already, but that doesn't really count in regards to this formulation, since my friends couldn't give a crap about whatever celebrity I might have. Likewise, if you're someone who comments here, I suspect you'll be less likely to be weirded out if I comment on your site. People in online or real-world communities I'm part of, the same thing, because even if we don't know each other, we know some of the same people. Finally, if I don't know you, but have commented on your site before, it ups the chance I might comment again.
Now, I want to go back to a comment I mentioned earlier, which was that just because someone's talking about you doesn't mean they're intending to invoke you, and in fact may regard your sudden presence in their comment thread as an intrusion. I'm of two minds about this. First, well, sure. That makes sense, and people being discussed need to be sensitive to that. Use your judgement. This is a major reason why I don't comment, nearly all the time.
But second, this goes both ways: folks should not be entirely surprised that talking about someone in a publicly accessible online forum might attract that person's interest, and that this person might feel free to respond, whether the original conversants intended or desire them to. I recently told someone who thought it was rude that I had popped up in a comment thread in which he was talking about me that I considered talking about me an implicit invitation for me to participate in the conversation. I am, after all, the leading expert in that subject. I didn't think it was rude to offer my perspective.
Somewhat related to this, someone else mentioned to me that the appropriate way to respond to someone discussing you online was to respond privately, but my response to this is: well, no. You can, if you like, but if you're being talked about online and publicly, it's not in the least unreasonable to respond equally publicly. Suggesting a person should respond privately to a public discussion of them is an explicit marginalization of that person, especially when no one else is being told to go private.
All of this, of course, is couched in the usual standards of etiquette when you visit someone else's site: be polite, move on when asked, and so on. Be that as it may, look folks, it's pretty simple: If you're discussing someone online, notable or otherwise, in a place that is publicly accessible, you run the risk of them showing up and responding, and it's not unreasonable for them to do so. That's how Teh Intarweebs work.
And in my specific case, I certainly reserve the right to show up and comment, even if I usually don't, and typically won't. I think that's sufficient notice to all and sundry.


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Arts & Culture
Hocus PocusBy Margaret Eby
The Karpeles Manuscript Museum in Charleston is housed in an old Methodist church, a grandly columned Greek Revival building with a rusty front gate and a pipe organ still intact in the back. It's home to a revolving series of manuscripts culled from the private collection of real-estate magnates David and Marsh Karpeles, a couple with very eclectic and expensive taste in papers: in any given season the glass cases wedged around the pews and pulpit contain anything from pages of Roget's original thesaurus to Sir Ernest Shackleton's sketched map of the Antarctic. The February afternoon I visited, a gregarious man with a low-country accent and a flair for displaying pamphlets announced the winter exhibit with pride: "The letters of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, an odd pair if ever there was one."
The dozen or so letters and scraps of free-written scrawl were from Conan Doyle and Houdini's brief but spectacular relationship, one that was founded on and destroyed by a shared interest in the possibility of contacting people in the afterlife. It began, as friendships often do, with a book exchange. Read More


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How Hitler Could Have Won
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War
Hitler invaded the Soviet Union at 0400 hours on June 22, 1941. By June 23, the Wehrmacht had destroyed the entire Soviet air force. By June 26, the Soviet commander of the Western front had lost radio contact with Moscow. By June 28, German troops had entered Minsk, the capital of Soviet Belarus. And on the morning of June 29—just a week into the invasion—Stalin failed to appear in the Kremlin.
Until that moment Stalin, though stunned by the attack, had appeared to be more or less in control. He had not yet made a public statement—Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's foreign minister, was the one assigned to announce the invasion to the Soviet people—and Khrushchev later said he had looked, throughout that period, like "a different Stalin, a bag of bones in a grey tunic." Still, he had been stable enough to order the rapid evacuation of the western regions of the country, once his generals convinced him that the invasion really was something more than a diabolical provocation.
But the fall of Minsk, less than a week after the start of the war, seems to have left him in despair. "Lenin left us a great inheritance and we, his heirs, have fucked it all up," he told his entourage, before disappearing to his dacha. When he failed to show up in Moscow the next day, the Politburo members tried to call him. "Comrade Stalin's not here and is unlikely to be here," his secretary responded. He didn't appear the day after that either.
Worried, the Politburo met in secret, and determined to approach Stalin themselves. Nervously, they made their way to his "Blizny" or "Nearby" dacha, in a wooded area outside of Moscow. Anastas Mikoyan, one of Stalin's inner circle, later described the scene:
We found him in an armchair in the small dining room. He looked up and said, "What have you come here for?" He had the strangest look on his face, and the question itself was pretty strange too….1
Mikoyan implies, and others have since asserted, that Stalin assumed they were coming to kill him. He was wrong: they had decided to set up a committee that could make rapid decisions during the war, bypassing the rest of the government, and they had come to tell Stalin that they wanted him to be its leader. Stalin, wrote Mikoyan, "looked surprised, but made no objection." If there was a low point in Stalin's career, surely it was this moment. He believed that the war might be lost—and that his hitherto docile subordinates were about to murder him as a result.
Four and a half months later, on November 7, 1941, the world would see a different Stalin: standing on a tribune beside Lenin's mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square, defiantly marking the anniversary of the October Revolution with the traditional parade. The Germans were, at that precise moment, only a few dozen miles away, and their artillery could be heard throughout the proceedings. The soldiers marching…
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Technology buffs have already begun descending on San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood for the annual conference celebrating all things Mac -- and all things Apple.
This year, organizers of the Macworld Expo, which is in its 27th year, have shaken things up by renaming the event Macworld/iWorld, by shifting the focus to products beyond the Mac, and by adding music and film events to the programming.
The conference has new programs that organizers say cater to the dynamic lifestyle of Apple consumers, such as the "Music Experience," which consists of on- and off-site musical performances during and after the show, and the Film Event, which includes screenings of film and TV programs created on the iPhone and iPad.
The expo takes place Thursday through Saturday at the Moscone West convention center on Howard Street at Fourth Street.
Although Apple itself stopped participating in the event after the 2009 Macworld Expo, it is also the first expo held since Steve Jobs' passing in October of last year.
The event is run by IDG World Expo, which is owned by IDG, the parent company that owns Macworld magazine.
Information on ticket prices and schedules can be found at www.macworldiworld.com.
Patricia Decker is a reporter for Bay City News