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"I know." She took his hand in hers and kissed his fingers gently. She wanted to tell him she'd be all right, not to worry, but hollow promises always sounded to her like lies.
"I fear for you," he said.
"I know," she repeated. "I'm afraid too, for both of us. For all of us." She kissed his fingers again.
"You have sacrificed so much already," he said, stroking her hair back from her face. "Please do not sacrifice more for us. For me. Stay here, and give me someone to return to."
"That's not playing fair," she said gently. "And it won't work. You have everything to come back to, you don't need me here for that." He started to speak, but she stopped him with a finger to his lips. "Don't fight me on this anymore, Boromir, please," she said, meeting his gaze and holding it. "You'll break my heart, and you still won't stop me."
He cupped her cheek in his hand, and she leaned into his touch. "Why are you so determined?" he asked.
She was quiet for a long time, thinking about it. Finally, she spoke.
"When I was about twenty-four or twenty-five," she began, "my mom told me about something that happened when she was small. A terrible thing that happened." She paused, remembering her mother, remembering the sun on her mother's hair, and her blue eyes. "A terrible disaster," she went on after a moment, "that killed thousands of people. And she told me that while it was happening - because it wasn't instantaneous, people had time to get reporters there, and rescue personnel, and to think about it - she was listening to reports from the scene, and they were talking to a woman who was trying to get to where the disaster had happened." Maggie hesitated, remembering, tears coming to her eyes. Her voice was thick when she continued. "They were talking to this woman, who was crying, and they were asking her why she wanted to get there, why she wanted to go into this terrible destruction, and she said her husband was inside. She said," and Maggie's voice broke. "She said, 'what if he's hurt and I can't help him? What if he's dying and I can't hold his hand?'" Her breath hitched in her throat, and she said, "I think that she would have given anything just to be able to touch him, just to be able to be with him, whatever had happened, even if it was just to hold his hand while he died. Anything. Anything to be with him."
She paused, and reached up to wipe the tears from her eyes, biting her lip and trying push the memory away to where it always lived in the back of her mind. "I wish I could tell you it was some noble reason, like, 'because it's the right thing to do' or something," she said, not looking at him, "but the truth is, that's it. When that woman's husband left that morning, no one could have imagined how the day would end. But I know how this might end. And I really, honestly would rather risk dying than ever have to think of -" but she couldn't follow the thought to its conclusion. She took a deep breath, and let Boromir pull her into the circle of his arms.
"I wish I knew whether her husband had lived," she said softly. "My mom never knew."
He held her to his chest, his arms around her, stroking her hair, and they lay like that for a long time.
When she started towards the Houses of Healing, plush dog in hand, the sun was just casting its rays over the walls of the City. Boromir had left their bed before the sun was up, and Maggie had dozed, lingering in the warmth left by his body. He had said he would meet her on the field if they did not encounter each other at the Houses of Healing, where they both had people to see, and so here she was, feeling - as usual - slightly out of place. Her clothing set her apart again, no longer in the leather leggings and tunic but in her own jeans and boots, cotton shirt. She wore her leather coat less as protection against the slight chill in the air than as armor against her own fear, and she pulled it close, inhaling the familiar scent. The Glocks and her body armor were still in her chambers, but within the coat she carried the small pistol she'd taken from her bedside table, and The Way Of The Samurai was stowed in one of the pockets. She shivered slightly with the knowledge of what she'd chosen to do - ride willingly towards death when home waited only a flicker of reality away. She wondered again how she had come to lose her sense of self-preservation so fully.
Then she smiled to herself and said softly, quoting, "'The Way of the Samurai is in desperateness. Ten men or more cannot kill such a man. Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate.'" She chuckled. "'Insane and desperate.' Hell yes. Make decisions within the space of seven breaths, be determined, and advance.' Let's hear it for the Hagakure." She entered the Houses of Healing still smiling to herself.
By now she knew the way without asking, and soon was at Faramir's door. It was slightly ajar, and voices came from inside.
"...troubled by her stubbornness?"
"No," Boromir said cautiously, and Maggie froze at his tone. "Or, perhaps. Faramir, I do not intend to lose her, but.... I am unsure how to... to manage her."
She took a breath.
Faramir laughed. "Manage her? She is neither one nor the other, is she, Boromir?"
"She is both," Boromir responded with a chuckle. "The woman obeys me, Faramir," he said, "but the warrior, the warrior does not, and it is the warrior who must."
"She has spirit."
"You sound like our Rohirric friends discussing a skittish mount."
Three more breaths, feeling more panicky than she had when she realized they were riding into certain death - because certain death was days away and this was on the other side of a door - and she tapped softly. Faramir answered, "Come."
She slipped inside.
"Maggie," Faramir said with a smile. "Come and sit."
She glanced from one to the other, and could tell that they wondered how much she had heard. "I brought you a present," she said to Faramir, holding up the dog, and handing it to him as she reached the bedside.
His eyes widened and a smile spread across his face. "A noble animal," he said, and held it to his face, inhaling softly.
Maggie and Boromir both laughed, and she felt some of her tension ease, if only slightly, at the sound their voices made together. "That's almost exactly your brother's reaction when I gave him his," she said.
Faramir grinned. "They are not wrong who say we are much alike," he said, glancing at Boromir and settling the dog in his lap.
Boromir stood and took Maggie's hand, drawing her toward the chair he was vacating. "I must see to my men," he said as she sat, then he leaned down and kissed her cheek, his hand lingering a moment too long on her hair, a gentle caress. "On the field, then, Maggie. Do not tarry overlong."
"I'll be there," she replied softly.
Boromir turned then and embraced Faramir, whispered something in his ear. Faramir smiled, and said something softly back. Then, "Return to me, brother," and he gripped Boromir's hand firmly.
Boromir smiled. "Only death could keep me from you, and I do not intend to die." With a quick nod to each of them, he turned and was out the door, his footsteps echoing away down the hall.
After a moment Faramir said, "Boromir tells me you ride with the army after all. I will be sorry not to have your company here," and he cast an inscrutable gaze across her.
She shifted slightly, not meeting his eyes. "I have to, Faramir," she said. "Every time I think about not going, I get this image of him lying there on the battlefield hurt, needing someone and no one there."
Faramir nodded. "I was a grown man with men of my own to command before I stopped seeing that same image every time my brother rode out of the City."
"Then you understand."
"Not entirely," he said, and glanced at her. "I think there is something more here than the love you bear my brother."
She frowned, and hesitated. Had she spent so much time with Faramir that he could talk to her about this? "Like what?" she asked warily.
Stroking the plush ears of the dog, he said gently, "I see something in your eyes when you look at Boromir that is not ... simple affection." He paused, and when she didn't answer, he went on, "Some months ago, one of my men became lost in Ithilien. We had been tracking the movements of the Enemy, and a sudden storm came. He became separated from his comrades, and was injured in the storm. Disoriented and hurt, he lost himself in the forest, and for three days we could not find him, nor he us. The eyes he turned on me when I found him at last are the eyes you turn on Boromir. As though you have been lost, and have longed for a captain, and have found one. Or have been found."
"And? Is there something wrong with that?" she asked softly, still not looking at Faramir.
"No," he replied, "for Boromir is a fine captain, and he does love you. But he is your lover, and your captain, and he told you to stay, and yet you ride with the army. I question it."
"You're not really in a - " but she bit back the rest of the retort. Given what she had heard, it seemed he was indeed in a position to know. Still not looking at him, she felt his gaze on her. "He's not my captain," she muttered. "I haven't signed anything."
Faramir chuckled. "Oh, but he is, lady, that is clear. He both is, and is not, and I fear things will become difficult if that remains so."
"Why?" she asked, scowling. "Why can't I just - do what seems right to me?"
"An army is not built of a thousand men each doing as he sees fit," he replied, "and lovers are not meant to command each other's lives. Yet, you are both soldier and lover to him."
"I just - I - " and she stood and paced to the window, then turned slightly to look at him. He watched her calmly, his eyes never leaving her face. "I don't know how to do anything else," she said finally. "I can't stay."
Faramir nodded. "That much I do understand," he replied. "But if you and my brother both return from this war, and if, in the end, we are victorious and you choose to remain here rather than return with your people, I would have you think carefully about the nature of things between Boromir and yourself. You cannot be his lover and his soldier for long."
She turned to him and crossed her arms. "And how is this your business anyway?"
"What concerns Gondor concerns me," he answered, unperturbed. "Boromir is our Captain-General, the Captain of the Tower Guard, and if the king maintains the position, he will be Steward." Faramir smiled wryly. "He is Steward until the king is crowned. It concerns me."
Maggie brought a hand to her face and turned back to the window. The morning was growing later, and soon the army would ride for Mordor. Chip and Paul were seeing to the vehicles, Tank and Mira organizing squads, though Tank would not be going with them. Boromir and Imrahil and, she supposed, Aragorn were all doing whatever it was commanders here did before riding off to hopeless battle.
"Right then," she murmured finally. "Right."
"Maggie," said Faramir softly. "Come here."
She turned, and he gestured to the edge of the bed. "Come here, sit."
She did, and he took her hand.
"This is all so new for you," he said. "So different from what you are accustomed to." He shook his head, his gaze searching her face. "In your world, you can lead or follow as you please. You can command or step back from it as suits you. Not so, here."
"How do you know what I'm used to?" she asked irritably, trying to reclaim her hand, but he did not release her, and he chuckled, stroking her wrist soothingly.
"There are many of your people here in the Houses of Healing," he said. "And they are not shy, nor reticent. I have learned much."
Startled, she almost laughed. "Yeah, well," she replied, "they're not - they're - " and she hesitated. "Okay," she said finally. "You're right. They're right. It's different."
He nodded. "I would not want those differences to come between you and my brother."
"Or between your brother and himself," she said.
Faramir smiled. "You are also perceptive."
"Do you think he's unsure of me?"
"Not of you," he answered. "Not of your affection, nor of his. But of his command of you? Perhaps."
"Do you mean of whether he should," she asked, "or whether he does?"
He looked at her and his fingers stilled on her wrist. "Both."
She hesitated. Boromir doubted her, and she learned it from eavesdropping and from his brother. "Ah," she said with a nod, and when she pulled away this time he let her.
"Maggie," Faramir said softly, and touched her chin, turned her to face him. "What you and my brother share brings you both strength, and I am glad of that. But I think you fear losing too much of yourself. You desire his command in one arena, yet refuse it in the one in which he must demand it. It is a difficult balance, yet it is one you must strike. Maggie," he said when she didn't answer. "Do not fear losing yourself. You will not."
Irritated, she said, "How do you know?"
He paused, then shrugged. "I suppose I do not know," he answered, "but I believe it. You have a strong mind, and a strong will, or you would not be here. Boromir will not subsume you, but you must learn to trust him."
She started. "Trust him?" she said sharply. "I do trust him. I trust him more than I've ever trusted anyone."
Faramir held her gaze for a long moment, long enough that she felt herself wanting to shy away from him, but before she did, his eyes softened, though his tone when he spoke was firm. "You will obey him in the field, Maggie."
After a moment, she replied, "Not if he tells me to stay here. But anything else, yes."
Faramir made a sound, and sat back. "You cannot pick and choose, do you not yet understand that?"
"No," she said sharply, "I don't."
"You do," he replied sharply, "you only refuse to accept it." She started to stand up, but he took her hand in his and with a strength that surprised her he pulled her back down, and again turned her to face him. For a long moment his eyes searched hers, and if she could have torn her gaze from his she would have. Finally, his expression softened and he said, "Then since you will go, I shall endeavour to be glad that my brother has one as stubborn and devoted as you at his back. Do not let him fall."
"If I do," she replied, "it'll be because I fell first."
She met Mira on the field as the olive-skinned woman was returning to the city, Tank beside her, using a cane but with his arm still around his companion. Mira leaned in to kiss Maggie's cheek when they met, and said to Tank, "Go on up. I'll meet you."
Tank nodded, then grinned at Maggie and said, "Helluva world this is. Wish I was coming with you."
As his footsteps receded, Mira turned to Maggie and said, "I'm staying here with Tank. Paul too. If things get bad, if your army loses and things get bad, Janet'll send us home."
Maggie nodded and said, "That's good, that's good," even though her heart clenched. "I don't want you to get hurt, Mira." She fixed her eyes on the other woman's and said, "You know I love you, right?"
"I love you too," Mira replied, and her eyes were wet with unshed tears. "I just don't understand."
"I know. I - maybe when I get back I'll be able to explain it better."
"You'd just better get back."
Neither the men nor the horses seemed pleased with the low growl of the vehicles, but since the horses seemed somewhat more skittish than the men, Chip kept the trucks and HumVees well away from the cavalry. In the trucks rode the thirty men and women who had agreed to come on this venture, and Maggie was surprised that so many had turned up. Chip had laughed when she mentioned that to him, and said only, "Have some faith, Mags."
She didn't want to ask him what she should have faith in.
Chip had made Gus squad leader in Tank's place, and Michael his own second in command, as he had once been Michael's. Michael seemed pleased with the changed roles, and had fallen into it quickly. Maggie walked beside him for a time, the two of them keeping pace with one of the armored trucks. Finally, Maggie said, "So, isn't it weird, being Chip's second when he used to be yours?"
Michael shrugged. "Chip's a good man, and I trained him. He knows what he's doing."
"Yeah," Maggie said, nodding, "but I mean, is that all? it's just whether he's good?"
Michael glanced at her. "What are you getting at, babe?"
"I'm not sure," she said, frowning. "It's just - how do you go from being in charge to not being in charge and not feel weird about it?"
He laughed. "You just do, y'know? I mean, if you trust someone to lead you, then what does it matter whether you're doing the leading or they are?"
"Not everyone thinks that way," she said.
"No?" He slipped an arm around her shoulder and hugged her briefly. "You're thinking about your Captain guy, aren't you? Is he giving you trouble?" Michael glanced at her with a quick grin. "Want me to kick his ass?"
She chuckled, and shook her head. "More his brother, really. He thinks there might be trouble because Boromir is used to being in charge and - well, it's just not clear where the lines are between the two of us."
"'Cause you're used to being in charge of you, and here you're sort of in charge of you and sort of not?"
"Mm. You got it." She leaned down and plucked a blade of grass, turned it between her fingers as they walked. "It's like I'm - like an adjunct. Not one of his soldiers and not one of Chip's, but not really a free agent either."
Michael chuckled. "You're a splinter cell," he said, and she punched him lightly in the arm. "Have you talked to him about it?" he asked.
She shook her head. "Not really. Not exactly. In so many words."
"Good," he said, and laughed at her startled expression. "Guys hate talking about this shit! Come on, you just - just be who you are." He hugged her again quickly, then with a quick ruff of her hair dropped his arm. "Just be who you are and it'll all come out right. Trust me."
They walked together in silence a while longer, Maggie trying to get used to the strange sound and smell of the trucks, which had seemed normal enough at home but surreal and out of place in the landscape around them. After a long time, Michael said, "Do you trust him?"
She looked at him. "Of course I do."
"I mean to lead you."
Maggie didn't answer at first, thinking. And the more she thought, the more she realized, she didn't know. If she trusted him to lead her, why was she here?
And if she didn't, why was she here?
"Goddamn it," she muttered.
"You don't know, do you." It wasn't a question. "Y'know," he said, "that's okay. You don't have to know. You just have to do. And you're doing."
"What I'm doing could get me killed. Could get you killed, could get all y'all's people killed."
"Ah, no," Michael replied, waggling his finger at her. "No. You're responsible for you, not for us. You didn't hold a gun to anyone's head. You provided an opportunity. We took it. And not exactly for free, either, Miss 'I've got a farm and I'm living in fucking New Washington.'"
She chuckled. "Okay, fair enough."
"So they're thinking six days to get there, right?"
"More or less."
"And then we kick ass, loot the city or the castle or whatever it is, and haul our happy butts back home, yes?"
"Something like that," she said with a wary smile. "I'm not sure about the looting part."
"Eh, we'll figure it out. First order of business is to kick some ass." He glanced at her, then smiled. "Don't worry, Chip didn't lie about our chances of winning. We figure the trucks'll outrun the bastard enemy, though, so even if we lose, we can still kick it back to Minas Tirith and home. Always know your escape route," he said. "Never go into a place you don't know how to get out of. We're good. We'll be fine."
It was nearly midday before they got close enough to really see it, but when the sun emerged from behind the clouds it lit the scene before them with a silvery flame, and two dozen outworlders who walked beside the trucks stopped in their tracks, shading their eyes and gaping.
The trucks crawled to a stop and the men and women inside clambered out, while around them the army marched on, oblivious.
"What the hell is that?"
Maggie stood beside Michael and Chip, Chip's troops gathering around them, the murmur of their voices rising.
"That's not what we're supposed to attack, is it?"
"Geez - six days, fuckwit. No, it isn't. But what the hell is it?"
Maggie shook her head. "It must be Osgiliath."
"Osgiliath. Boromir told me about it. It used to be the capital, but they abandoned it a long time ago except as an outpost."
The rays of the late morning sun sparkled on the stones of the city that lay before them, a white jewel in the green and brown landscape. Domed towers rose into the sky, gold and silver glittering on them but no more brightly than the white stones themselves, and far to the east the lowering clouds that brooded over Mordor seemed stark and forbidding, as though they reached out heavy-fingered hands to grasp it.
"Damn. I thought Minas Tirith was the prettiest thing ever. Why'd they abandon it?"
"I can't remember," she answered. "Something about five hundred years ago it was over-run by orcs, and the guy Boromir's named for took it back, but I guess it was," she hesitated. "Ruined, or too dangerous or something. Then about six months ago the enemy took the eastern half of the city."
A restless murmur. "Think they're still there?"
Someone laughed, and said, "They won't be for long."
But nothing moved in the white city except the army, and after the soldiers and cavalry had crossed, one by one the trucks rumbled over the rebuilt bridge into East Osgiliath. Around them, voices of the Gondorian and Rohirric soldiers muttered about the state of the place. Crude drawings and words in a language Maggie had never seen were scrawled on the walls, and detritus and offal littered the broad thoroughfare and the streets leading off it.
"Be nice to come back here and clean it up," said Chip at one point, walking beside Maggie.
"Yeah," she said, nodding, looking around. "It makes me think of home."
He chuckled, and she grinned. "Yeah, except at home you have to get a permit to wash someone else's building."
Some five miles past Osgiliath the army stopped, and Maggie stayed with Michael while their small company set up camp. She had watched the horsemen ride off to the east and had felt her stomach lurch wondering where they were going. She wanted Boromir beside her. Wanted at least to know where he was. Instead, she wandered and listened to the conversations of the people around her, overheard their mild confusion about where exactly they were. "So is it earth?" she heard one low voice mutter to another, "or something else?" and the other voice answered, "Earth or something else, I don't know or care. I want to do our job, get home, get paid, and get to work on that asshole in ash town."
Puzzled, Maggie sought out Chip. "What's ash town?" she asked.
"Hmm?" He glanced up from the rifle he had partially disassembled on the ground. "Oh, that's Black City. Some of the guys started calling it that after our first little foray, 'cause the whole thing is fucking covered in this sooty black ash. It's why it looks black from a distance."
"Where's the ash come from?"
Chip shrugged. "Not sure. Smells strange, though. Not like something burned. Sort of," and he hesitated, frowning, groping for a word. "Sort of musty, and metallic," he said at last. "Like old books and rusty iron."
Another day and night passed before Maggie saw Boromir. She rose at dawn on their third day out from Minas Tirith, along with the rest of the army, and as she was pulling on her boots she felt a shadow fall over her. Looking up, she saw him silhouetted against the sky, and with a smile she zipped her boots and stood. "Hiya," she said.
He kissed her cheek, then took her hand and led her a little ways away. "I dislike being so far from you as we get closer to Mordor," he said quietly.
She nodded. "Yeah, I was trying to figure out how I could invite myself along to ride with y'all at the front, but I didn't want to be presumptuous."
He laughed, a short sharp sound. "You presumed enough to come, why not a step more?" She cast him a wary glance but he was looking towards where Chip had the hood of one of the trucks up and was examining something. "Your people would not take it amiss?" he asked.
She glanced towards their small encampment and shrugged. "They're really more Chip's people than mine. Most of mine are in Minas Tirith or back home, except for Michael, and he's really Chip's too." She looked back at Boromir. "I'm sort of betwixt and between," she said. "I'm not their people, I'm not your solider, I'm just here."
"You may not be one of Gondor's soldiers," he answered, catching her gaze and holding it, "but you must needs be placed, and I shall place you with me. Go and gather your things."
She hesitated. "Won't someone think it's weird, me being with you? I mean, will it upset anything?"
"It is for no one else to judge," he said.
"Yeah, but they will anyway," she replied.
He took a breath. "It is not your place to question my decisions where it regards my command," he said quietly, but there was steel in his tone, and she hesitated, surprised. His eyes searched her face. "Maggie," he said softly, "an army is made of commanders and those they command. There is no place for you if you are neither, and I will not be parted from you now that danger looms ever closer. My men will not question me, and I have no superiors in this company - only allies and soldiers. Aragorn is not yet king, Imrahil is Prince of Dol Amroth and subject to the Steward, Éomer is ally and friend, but does not command me. So you see?" he said with a small smile. "All that is well. But I should not have to explain my every request to you before you will comply." She opened her mouth to answer but he stopped her with a finger to her lips. "Go," he said, "and gather your things."
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NUI Galway Editors Publish Book on Crisis in Poetry
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
A new collection of essays, Crisis and Contemporary Poetry, edited by Anne Karhio, Seán Crosson and Charles I. Armstrong has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. This collection addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society. The essays included discuss a range of issues from the Holocaust, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and their aftermath and the war on terror to the ecological crisis, poetry's relationship to place and questions of cultural and national identity. The essays also ask the questions: "What are the means available to poetry to address the various crises it faces, and how can both poets and critics meet the challenges posed by society and the literary community?" "How can poetry justify its own role as a meaningful form of cultural and artistic practice?" The volume focuses on poetry from Britain, Ireland and the US, and many of the poets discussed in this volume are among the most acclaimed contemporary writers, including for example Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Louise Glück and Alice Oswald. Crisis and Contemporary Poetry will be launched by Professor Sean Ryder in the Moore Institute Seminar Room at NUI, Galway at 5.30pm on Tuesday, 1 March, 2011. More information on the collection is available at http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=399783.

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I come by my love of Solitaire honestly.
It is fair to say that I am one of the leading experts in the type of card game known as Solitaire (in the US), or Patience (in the UK and elsewhere). I have been working with Thomas Warfield at Goodsol Development for more than a dozen years, and in that capacity I have implemented literally hundreds of different Solitaire games on various platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, and iPad.
However, one would be very mistaken to assume that I had to learn about Solitaire back then, or even that these were my first Solitaire software products. In fact, I have been a Solitaire enthusiast for more than 40 years (easily predating my first access to a computer), and I have been writing programs for playing Solitaire for 30 years. That is why it was such a good match when Thomas and I started working together; he is also a renown expert, with a very successful Solitaire game, Pretty Good Solitaire, and there is not another company on the planet with more Solitaire expertise from which to draw.
I first learned to play Solitaire from my father when I was about 5 years old. He taught me a traditional form of Klondike (which many people just call, “Solitaire”), and I clearly remember the first time he watched me deal out the tableau on the stone hearth in front of our fireplace. I played that a lot over the years, as well as a few other games I picked up. My neighbor taught me Pyramid, which I really liked, and “Clock” (PGS: Travellers Clock), which had an appeal due to the elegance of play and the physicality of the the cards, but got boring quickly because of the lack of choice. My mother taught me “Idiot’s Delight” (a name used to describe many different Solitaire games), which in this case was a purely mechanical version of Aces Up. When I was sick, rather than comic books, I just wanted a couple decks of playing cards and, perhaps, some word search puzzles. 🙂
In the early years of elementary school, I had a couple of friends with whom I had discussions (and disagreements) about the rules of Klondike. We spent time debating whether one should be able to build Aces to the tableau and, if so, whether Kings could be built on Aces, whether one was allowed to pull cards from the foundations (which I now know is called “winnowing back”), how many cards were dealt from stock to waste, and if there was a limit to redeals. These are the same kind of game design discussions I still have now as we implement more games.
I also spent a great deal of time working on designing my own solitaire games, the rules of which, alas, were never written down and have been lost forever. I recall that much of my focus was on small tableau games, those which could be played, ideally, with just one or two piles, making them easier to play in a car. I also recall at least one with a unique mechanic, based on Go Fish, where the player would declare a selected card, and the play proceeded based on whether (or where?) the nominated rank appeared. Of course, it is fair to assume that none of my inventions were as compelling as the traditional Solitaire games; otherwise, I probably would still be playing them.
During middle school, an acquaintance (friend of a parent) taught me an unnamed Solitaire game, which had two mechanics I had never seen before: movement of card groups regardless of order (as seen in Yukon) and a “hand” of up to 4 arbitrary cards (like the 4 cells in FreeCell). This game had a greater degree of calculation and planning, and was less reliant on the luck of the deal, so it was very appealing to me. Around the same time, I also learned how to do a “bridge” shuffle, so I tried to wear out my hands practicing the two together. A variant of this game is implemented in PGS as Scorpion Head.
By this time, I was already programming computer games, and the idea of playing Solitaire on a computer was never far away. My first proper (read: finished 🙂 ) implementation was a text version of Aces Up on my Commodore VIC-20. The program would shuffle and deal the cards, and one would play with simple keypresses for activating a column (i.e., discarding the top card or moving it into an empty space). As I recall, my friend and I were the only two who ever actually played this game, but we started wondering about the chances of victory with the implemented rules, so I wrote a computer player that would play a hand using a specific heuristic (n.b., not a comprehensive solution search). Once debugged, I ran the program overnight and the consistent result was that victory was achieved in just about 5% of the games. (Clearly, a search would have done better… and taken much longer.)
Many other computer implementations followed. Our friends showed us a game they called “Canasta Solitaire” (similar to Thirteen Packs, which has nothing in common with Canasta), and at their request, I wrote a version of that for the IBM PC (which, incidentally, became the scene of my biggest computer crash disaster 🙁 ). I wrote very nice DOS (EGA) versions of Pyramid and other games around 1990, and I was working on the Windows/DirectX versions of the these near the end of that decade, when I also worked (in a non-Solitaire capacity) with MVP Software on some other card game packages.
In 2001 (one suit of years ago), the Goodsol Development years began. My first project was implementing a comprehensive display library, allowing the original Pretty Good Solitaire [for Windows] more options, including more than 2 decks per game. The second project was Pretty Good MahJongg, which includes 55 original Solitaire games played with MahJongg tiles, followed by Action Solitaire, including (now) 75 Solitaire games played against the clock, and Most Popular Solitaire, my interpretation on the most popular games in PGS, as well as one (Crazy Quilt) that was the first Goodsol version of that game. Add Mac and iPad versions of Pretty Good Solitaire and Most Popular Solitaire and a Mac version of Pretty Good MahJongg, as well as other products: Goodsol Solitaire 101 (Windows/Mac/iPad), FreeCell Plus (Windows/Mac/iPad), and A Little Solitaire (iPad).
Counting only Goodsol products (not different SKUs) on each platform (including bonus games), it appears that I have implemented 2639 Solitaire games! More is definitely yet to come, as Thomas is already up to 840 and counting (with PGS), so I am still trailing by 290 games (on Mac and iPad, as well as an internal Windows project).
Of course, with the implementation of so many games, there is a focus on rules. Due to my love of Solitaire (and games in general), I began collecting books of Solitaire rules. The first game I learned from a book and really loved was La Belle Lucie, which I played with the merci (draw) rule, implemented in PGS as Three Shuffles and a Draw. Since high school, I have amassed around two hundred books of traditional game rules, dozens of which have Solitaire games. An informal survey of my current bookshelves shows 20 books dedicated solely to Solitaire, dating back as far as 1883 (because my copy of Lady Cadogan’s Illustrated Games of Patience is a reprint of the original 1875 book).
So, while Solitaire may be a simple pastime to most, keep in mind that a few of us really know (and appreciate) these games inside and out. When you want to buy a computer Solitaire program lovingly crafted by the leading experts in the field…

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PORT McNEILL—Dancers from across Vancouver Island will take the floor next week when the Mount Waddington Highland Dance Association hosts its fifth annual Highland dance competition.
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Tickets are $5 for adults and entry is free for children. Event programs will be available for $3.

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Fine Arts Quartet: 55th & Final Season #1
- October 8, 2017
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- Peck School of the Arts
The Fine Arts Quartet celebrate their 55th and final season at UW-Milwaukee with three concerts – October 8, January 27, and January 28. Timothy Noonan will host a pre-concert talk beginning at 2PM.
Haydn: String Quartet in B Flat major, Op.76, No.4 (“Sunrise”)
Barber: String Quartet, Op.11 (1936)
Beethoven: String Quartet in C# minor, Op.131
Series ticket subscriptions still available at the Peck School Box Office.
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Agis D. Tsouros will talk about insights and lessons learned from his career with WHO, focusing on answering four key questions: What are the imperatives of public health in the 21st century? What are the challenges facing public health in making an impact today? How can policies at all levels of government be shaped and informed on evidence of what works? How can public health be reconfigured for a new age?
Agis D. Tsouros, International Advisor on Health Policy and Strategy; Former Director, Policy and Governance for Health and Wellbeing at WHO Europe; Former Director of the Healthy Cities Program at WHO Europe; and Visiting Professor, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London

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Company vs . Personalized Credit rating:
Personalized – Individual credit rating developing commences when an personal offers their social protection variety and applies for their 1st credit rating card. At that position a credit rating profile is started out with the individual credit history reporting agencies in the area of the place in which they reside. This profile, also frequently known as a “credit rating report”, is constructed with each and every credit score inquiry, credit rating software submitted, alter of deal with and work adjust. The information contained in the report is typically described to the credit bureaus by individuals businesses issuing credit rating. At some point, the credit history report is seen as a assertion or report of an individual’s capacity to pay out again a personal debt, and is the essential device to access and grant credit rating.
Organization – When a company issues another enterprise credit history, it is referred to as trade credit score (credit history from vendors or suppliers). Trade, or business, credit history is the solitary largest resource of lending in the world, but it typically not noted to the company credit organizations by most small businesses. The info regarding trade credit rating transactions have to be submitted and then is accumulated by the enterprise credit bureaus to develop a enterprise credit report employing the business identify, address and federal tax identification quantity (FIN). The credit bureaus use this knowledge to generate a historic report about a company’s enterprise credit score transactions and payment background. Typically, the businesses issuing credit history count on the business credit history report to establish the credit rating they are inclined to grant and the volume of the credit rating limit. Moreover, many organizations (suppliers/vendors) will post credit rating reference applications to the key suppliers of the enterprise as a strategy to get payment styles as component of the credit score granting process.
The key credit history bureaus are:
Dun & Bradstreet
Enterprise Credit Usa
Tiny Enterprise Equifax
The data presented to the organization credit bureaus (mostly D&B) is sent in voluntarily, as firms are not required to report. As a result, credit score bureaus might never receive any info about the enterprise transactions on credit and a business could go for years accumulating organization history without currently being reported to the credit history bureaus and establishing a good organization historical past of audio credit procedures.
Establishing Enterprise Credit score Historical past:
Enterprise credit history scores selection on a scale from to one hundred with seventy five or more deemed an superb score. Individual credit score scores, on the other hand, selection from 300 to 850 with a score of 680 or increased considered superb. With today’s tighter credit history scrutiny the increased the credit rating rating, the a lot more most likely an specific or company is to receive credit and at much more favorable phrases (interest charge and contract size).
Although it is important to know that there are several factors http://www.myfico.com that affect a credit score score it’s dependent on more than just whether you pay out your expenses on time (nonetheless very crucial). The credit score will be influenced by the amount of offered credit you have on lender lines of credit score and credit history cards, the length of time you’ve experienced a credit rating profile, the variety of inquiries made on your credit score profile, spending the payments on time, personal bankruptcy, as properly as other factors.
The common American buyer credit report receives two to three credit history inquiries for every 12 months and typically has 11 credit history obligations – usually broken down as seven credit playing cards and 4 installment loans. Company owners are not your typical customer, because they have equally individual and organization credit rating. This usually doubles the variety of inquiries created to their private credit profile and the variety of credit obligations they carry at any provided time, all of which negatively affect the private credit history rating. Moreover, due to the fact company inquiries and private inquiries are not separated on the personalized credit history report, the individual credit history scores are negatively impacted. As mentioned previously, employing the individual credit score history to get credit rating for their enterprise, businesses are not in a position to build their business history/rating, all of which could support achieve essential company credit history in the foreseeable future.
A essential blunder many company proprietors make is employing their individual data to apply for business credit history, leases and financial loans. This apply has the resultant impact of potentially lowering their personalized credit history score, even though not constructing a company credit score heritage and company credit rating rating.
A essential to establishing credit rating for the organization and a profile and score is to uncover firms (UPS, FEDEX, etc.) or your key supplier and distributors that will grant credit history for your company with no using your individual credit history information and then report the payment encounters to the business credit score bureaus. By reporting the data to the suitable credit rating bureaus, these companies will assist the enterprise establish a business credit history profile and score.
The 7 Actions to Achievement:
one. Business Authorized Construction – The enterprise have to be a legal entity unto alone in order to build business credit rating. For that reason, it is recommended to kind a corporation (C Corp) or LLC (examine with your CPA the benefit/drawbacks of a C Corp compared to LLC) as opposed to structuring your business as a sole proprietorship or partnership. Development of a sole proprietorship or partnership, dictates that personalized credit score details could be integrated on the company credit score report. In addition, as a sole proprietor or companion in a partnership, you are personally liable for the money owed of the company and all your personalized belongings are at risk in the celebration of litigation.
Businesses and LLC’s, on the other hand, provide the enterprise proprietors liability defense, and can create a business credit rating profile that is different from the individual credit history profile. As a result, use for credit beneath your business’s title and uncover organizations will to grant credit without a personal credit score examine or guarantee.
2. Sign up with Organization Credit Companies – The greatest known organization credit history bureau is Dun & Bradstreet. Dun & Bradstreet has a procedure on their net web site to build a D-U-N-S amount (a certain nine digit amount connected to your company) and recommendations how to establish a organization credit rating. It is strongly recommended that you speak to D&B and stick to their approach to set up business credit score. The subsequent is from the D&B internet internet site:
How do I get started out with D&B? With our unsurpassed world-wide knowledge collection technique, D&B continually gathers the info that initiates the generation of business credit score profiles on new companies. A lot of types of pursuits can set off a profile on a new firm, such as incorporating your enterprise, applying for a bank loan, receiving a organization phone number, using out a lease on business office room – even just when yet another business seeks data from D&B about your enterprise. Even now, a new business might not have a full company credit score profile. Acquiring a D-U-N-S Amount from D&B – the around the world regular for enterprise classification programs – is an important component of helping you set up your business credit score profile and will make certain that when a business seems to be you up in the D&B database they will discover you. In some cases, a D&B D-U-N-S Quantity is so a prerequisite for undertaking enterprise some entities, this sort of as the US federal government.
You need to make confident you have a D&B company credit profile if:
You are arranging to acquire a organization loan
You require to purchase or lease tools
Your funds stream is tight
You want to guarantee you are acquiring a honest offer from creditors in comparison to your opposition
You want to pay out internet thirty days instead of COD (Funds On Supply)
You are spending curiosity at primary additionally 1, or even higher
You program to do company with entities that need a D-U-N-S Quantity, e.g. the US Authorities
These problems and dozens other like them can be tackled by obtaining a powerful enterprise credit rating profile. A good rating provides you with the monetary independence to consider the methods you need to have to grow, and is a easy, unbiased strategy for other companies to assess your amount of threat when thinking about having you on as a creditor. A poor credit score rating is a specific barrier to progress and good results, protecting against you from acquiring sufficient funding on truthful phrases.
Communicating right with D&B will assist set up your company credit rating in less time. If you are a new business, D&B can aid you create a total organization credit rating profile from the ground up if you have been in operation for a even though, you will want to increase and/or defend your enterprise credit history profile. Find out far more about how to build, keep track of, boost, or shield your company credit history.
three. Credit Industry Specifications – Firms must meet all the demands of the credit score market in get to have a larger probability of credit score approval, as not currently being in compliance with the credit score industry can “deliver up sign flares” with equally credit rating bureaus and likely grantors of credit.
Some of the “signal flares” contain:
not possessing a business license,
not being registered with the Secretary of Condition for a certificate of very good standing,
functioning below your social security amount relatively than a FIN or EIN,
not having a mobile phone line (land line) that is listed in the cellphone listing in the specific enterprise lawful identify,
no internet site, or
not obtaining a business electronic mail tackle (not AOL or gmail, but a distinct URL for your business).
4. Tiny Enterprise Credit history Lines – Examine and identify a bare minimum of five businesses (distributors/suppliers) prepared to grant a modest organization credit score with no private guarantees and will report the payment encounters to the business credit score bureaus. This will help your business to establish a credit rating report and build a financial credit history foundation for the organization. Find firms ready to grant credit history that report to the credit score bureaus this kind of as marketingoncredit.com, UPS, FEDEX
5. Organization Credit Playing cards – Receive a few organization credit score cards (Sam’s Club Discover Enterprise card), that are not connected to you personally and that report the enterprise credit rating to the reporting agencies. Then be positive to usually spend your payments on time!
6. CREDIT SOLUTIONS , Company Plans and Mortgage Offers – These paperwork are typically needed by many credit score grantors as portion of their mortgage application procedure. CxO To GO is a nationwide specialist solutions company that has assisted several company with their fiscal statement preparation and organization strategies. In addition, CxO To Go has deals these kinds of as PowerPlan and PowerPlan2 for organization programs, PowerPuncher for govt summaries, CFOCast for financial projections and BankSell for lender proposals so loan providers and bankers will get motion. It is important to observe that sixty one% of all businesses are turned down for a bank loan due to a bad bank loan bundle, nonetheless with BankSell the loan company bank loan package will get final results and moves the applicant to the leading of the listing for review and credit score committee approval.
7. Credit card debt administration – Be a smart money supervisor and deal with the debt amounts to ensure they are not too burdensome and can be compensated back with current cash movement. Do not incur credit card debt that will over leverage the company and result in missed or late payments.
Keith McAslan is a Partner with CxO To Go a nationwide professional providers company headquartered in Denver, Colorado that offers on-desire C-Stage skills and best techniques to customer businesses on a element time, versatile, and inexpensive foundation. Keith is sought soon after to provide advisory solutions as the Trusted Advisor to Proprietors and CEO’s. By employing his comprehensive encounter as a profitable fiscal and operational C-amount government, Keith brings a results pushed management design to complex situations.

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Getting hurt at work is an unfortunate possibility that all employees could be affected by. If an injury occurs while you are working, workers compensation can help. There is no need to add extra stress to your situation by having to worry about missing work and where the money will come from. Let AZ workers compensation lawyers help you get your work-related injury sorted out so you can get yourself on the road to recovery.
About Workers’ Compensation
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How Does Workers’ Compensation Work?
Everyone knows that getting hurt on the job can be stressful and frustrating. The point of AZ workers compensation is to make it a little less stressful so that the employee can focus on recovery instead of worrying about missing work and not making any money. In 2013, an average of 8 days of work were missed by U.S. men and women who had suffered work related injuries and a total of 917,100 work related injuries and illnesses resulted in employees missing work. These employees, just as any employee who has been injured on the job, are eligible for workers’ compensation to help them stay financially stable while they work on their healing processes. The Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted a National Compensation Survey in 2010 which stated that workers’ compensation costs represented 1.6% of overall employer spending. In 2010, benefit payments under workers’ compensation programs totaled $60.2 billion. In 2011, the payments increased by 3.4%, paying out $60.2 billion. One of the greatest aspects of workers’ compensation is that it pays 100% of the medical costs for employees who were involved in an occupational injury. It also pays cash benefits for missed work days after a three to seven day waiting period. The compensation costs are covered by wages and salaries, which makes up about 70% of the payment. The remaining 30% is covered by benefits. File a workers compensation claim whenever you are injured on the job, and let the benefits ease mind as well as your healing process.

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OU Football: Sooners Wallop The Wildcats Behind Westbrook's Big Day
For the first time in its last three home matchups with Kansas State, No. 19 Oklahoma was able to take care of business against the Wildcats, beating Bill Snyder’s boys 38-17 inside of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
“It’s a good win, I feel like we’re starting to play a little more consistently and that’s what we’ve been after,” Head Coach Bob Stoops said. “Still can be better and we’ll keep pushing for that, but again I thought it was a good, solid win.”
Despite a minor injury to star running back Samaje Perine in the first quarter, the Sooners’ offense racked up 510 total yards on the Kansas State defense, a group that came into the game ranked No. 17 in the nation and first in the Big 12.
A big chunk of OU’s success came compliments of the Sooners’ other star running back, Joe Mixon. The redshirt sophomore was a force in every aspect of the game, and helped give the Sooners an early 14-0 lead after taking a shovel pass from Baker Mayfield and hurdling a K-State defender on his way to the endzone.
A man of many skills, Mixon got the job done through the air as well. After taking a handoff in the second quarter, Mixon was able to freeze the KSU defense before slinging a beautiful pass to a wide-open Dede Westbrook for a 26-yard touchdown that put the Sooners up 21-7.
“Joe [Mixon] was sensational running the football, making a good defense miss him on a number of occasions and get extra yards.” Stoops said. “[He] ran tough in a lot of instances, caught the ball well, had a big kickoff return, then goes and throws a touchdown pass.”
Along with Mixon, who finished with 88 rushing yards and 34 receiving yards, Mayfield had a tremendous afternoon leading the OU offense. The quarterback connected with Perine for a 25-yard touchdown on the first drive of the game to get things going, while he was a steady force the rest of the way for the Sooners, finishing with 346 yards passing and four touchdowns.
Mayfield continued his dynamic chemistry with his favorite receiver Westbrook, who totaled 184 yards and three touchdown catches on the game, with his final score coming from 88 yards out to seal the OU victory.
“Dede’s doing a lot for us, similar to what [Sterling] Shep was doing for us last year but in a different way,” offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley said. “Shep’s were more over the middle the short stuff, where when Dede gets one-on-one he can win down the field.”
While the offense was thriving, the Oklahoma defense was doing just enough to get the job done. The Sooners held Kansas State to only 335 yards of total offense and set the tone early in the game with a three-and-out on KSU’s first possession.
“I just feel like they were more aggressive than us, and just hats off to their defensive coordinator,” KSU running back Charles Jones said. “They sent a lot of blitzes and we didn’t take advantage of all the opportunities that we had.”
Safety Steven Parker led the Sooners in tackles with eight while Jordan Thomas added seven of his own. Both Matt Romar and Ogbonnia Okoronkwo each recorded a sack as well.
“Overall, I thought we played pretty well,” OU defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said. “There’s some things we can improve on, but we’re getting better. We’re starting to build a little more consistency in what we’re doing, but we still have a ways to go.”
As for a Perine injury update, Coach Stoops said Perine only had a slight pulled muscle and could’ve played if he felt they needed him.
Oklahoma has now won three straight games after starting 1-2, and will be back in action next Saturday when they travel to Lubbock to take on Texas Tech.

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Captain Phillips Director: Paul Greengrass
Screenwriter: Billy Ray
Cast: Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdi Columbia Pictures
Rated PG-13 | 134 Minutes
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Directed by Paul Greengrass (United 93) and written by Billy Ray (The Hunger Games), Captain Phillips is based on the book, A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea, by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty.
The film is an examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. The story focuses on the tense relationship between the Alabama’s commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks), and Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse (Barkhad Abdi), his Somali counterpart.
Few directors have the ability to evoke a harrowing, real-life event like Greengrass – if you’ve seen United 93, you know exactly how affecting his films can be. Captain Phillips is an expertly crafted, documentary-style film with impressive performances from Hanks and Barkhad Abdi, who makes his film debut here. Hanks delivers some of his best work in years, playing the Hanksian Everymanâ„¢ – an ordinary guy who, despite insurmountable odds, survives and becomes a hero.
Abdi, however, threatens to steal the film right out from under Hanks with his portrayal of a desperate man with nothing to lose. A skinny man with wild eyes and a wide grin, Abdi’s Muse and his crew attempt to hijack ships and take hostages in hopes of receiving a large ransom.
After successfully raiding Phillips’ container ship, Muse and his fellow pirates take the New England captain into a lifeboat and make their way to the Somali coast in hopes of negotiating with the U.S. Navy and receiving $10 million in exchange for Phillips.
Of course you know how this story plays out – but it’s the way Greengrass tells it that keeps you invested in the events unfolding. Tense and gripping, Captain Phillips is a realistic recreation of heart-rendering events – a high stakes story set on the high seas.
The film was shot off the coast of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea where Greengrass and his crew spent nine weeks aboard an actual container ship. Hanks didn’t meet the Somali actors playing his captors until they stormed the Maersk Alabama and pointed guns at him. As a result, the performances captured appear genuine – when the pirates begin screaming their lines in Somali, Hanks is as confused and scared as we are.
Captain Phillips feels tailor-made for Greengrass’ kinetic style, combining the exhilarating action of The Bourne Ultimatum and Green Zone with the documentary-style realism of Bloody Sunday and United 93. It’s a powerful film that manages to be both thrilling and suspenseful even though we all know how it ends.
While it isn’t the cinematic spectacle that Gravity is, Captain Phillips will no doubt be nominated for acting, directing, writing, editing, and cinematography awards – and it just might land Hanks his third Academy Award.


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Yum, yum and yum. I read about this somewhat waist-friendly carnitas recipe on seriouseats.com. I made them the night before so they were ready in a flash, just broil to crisp them up.
Here's the recipe, slightly modified by me:
- 1 medium onion
- 3 pounds boneless pork butt (shoulder), rind removed, cut into 2-inch cubes
- Kosher salt
- 1 orange
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 cinnamon stick, broken into three or four pieces
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 275 degrees. Split onion into quarters. Set aside. Season pork chunks with 1 tablespoon of kosher salt (cut in half if using table salt) and place in a 9 by 13 glass casserole dish. The pork should fill the dish with no spaces. Split orange into quarters and squeeze juice over pork. Nestle squeezed orange pieces into casserole. Add onion quarters, 4 cloves garlic, bay leaves, and cinnamon stick to casserole. Nestle everything into an even layer. Pour vegetable oil over surface. Cover dish tightly with aluminum foil and place in oven. Cook until pork is fork tender, about 3 1/2 hours.
2. Using tongs, remove orange peel, onion, garlic, cinnamon stick, and bay leaves from pork. Strain the liquid from the pork. Once de-fatted, you can use the liquid as a base for a sauce. Transfer pork back to casserole dish. Shred pork into large chunks with fingers or two forks. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
3. Broil until brown and crisp on surface, about 6 minutes. Stir to expose new bits to heat, and broil again for 6 more minutes or until crisp.
Serve them on tacos, or like I did with rice and black beans and a little mango-cilantro salsa.


American Messaging Acquires Paging Assets of Critical Alert System
American Messaging Services, LLC announced that it has acquired the paging assets of Critical Alert Systems, LLC and its affiliated entities.
EU Selects BroadWay for a Pan-European Interoperable Broadband Public Safety Communication Network
PSCE announced that the European Commission selected BroadWay to implement a pre-commercial procurement project with the purpose to develop innovative technologies that will enable a pan-European Interoperable Broadband mobile system for PPDR.
State of Tennessee Selects Everbridge as Critical Event Management Partner for all State Departments
Everbridge, Inc., today announced that the State of Tennessee has selected Everbridge as its partner to power daily communications for both operational and emergency-related events for all state departments and agencies.
Santa Barbara Awards Public Safety Radio Replacement project to Federal Engineering
The County of Santa Barbara, California has awarded Federal Engineering, Inc. (FE) a contract to provide consulting services in support of the County’s Public Safety Radio System replacement project.
Zetron Will Demonstrate Broadband PTT Interoperability at IWCE
Zetron will be demonstrating their MAX-Dispatch and ACOM Command and Control console system’s operation with the two major carrier’s network-integrated broadband PTT solutions.
IWCE's Product Showcase Displays Modern Critical Communications Technologies
Innovative technologies will be on display in the Product Showcase within our Exhibit Hall.
IWCE is the pre-eminent convergent communications systems event for the working world.
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Critical Communications Russia
The 6th federal conference " critical communications Russia 2018 innovative digital technologies for national, social and business security"
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People who oppose abortion rights wage their war on every conceivable battlefront. In their zealous efforts, they often interfere with the orderly flow of business that is, for the most part, totally unrelated to their issue.
An obvious example of this obstructionism is being played out in the budget battles now raging on Capitol Hill in Washington. Most of what we read about the budget efforts involves the political differences between Republicans and Democrats and between Congress and President Clinton. But there is another issue that is stymying the two houses of Congress from reaching agreement on at least four of the 13 appropriations bills that make up the final budget.
That issue is abortion. The House of Representatives has inserted in budget bills language that would prohibit abortions in hospitals operated by the Department of Defense and the District of Columbia, prohibit federal employee health insurance from covering abortions and cut family planning programs operated by the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Senate should not give in to the extremists in the House on this issue. Abortion is a legal medical procedure in this country. Therefore, a decision regarding an abortion made by a woman and her doctor is no more of the government's business than a patient-doctor decision to have an appendectomy or heart bypass surgery.
If the anti-abortion forces want to outlaw abortion, they should introduce a bill and have an up-or-down vote on that issue. Holding the budget hostage makes Congress look incapable of governing and further undermines the public confidence in the federal government.


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VOL. 36 | NO. 50 | Friday, December 14, 2012
Governor, Nashville mayor compete in food drive
NASHVILLE (AP) — Gov. Bill Haslam and Nashville Mayor Karl Dean are engaging in a food drive competition that is part of an effort to provide 10 million meals during the holiday season.
The governor and mayor are scheduled to appear at the Second Harvest Food Bank in Nashville on Monday to announce whose office collected the most food between Nov. 28 and Dec. 14.
Last year's friendly "food fight" was won by the governor's office. The competition collected a total of more than 62,000 pounds of food, enough for nearly 49,000 meals.
The event will feature a display of all the food collected by the two offices between Nov. 28 and Dec. 14.


The band announced on its website on Friday that its delayed sixth studio album will be released on September 25. No Doubt's last rendezvous behind the glass resulted in Rock Steady in 2001. "We are incredibly excited to share the new music with you. Ear candy coming your way!" the band wrote. "Thank you all so much for your support over the last 25 years. We'll be posting a lot of updates between now and September as we shoot the video and start rehearsing to perform the new songs live for all of you." It's hard to believe they've been together that long. Front woman Gwen Stefani doesn't look a day over 29.


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What can Business Intelligence (BI) do? Can it measurably improve company performance? Investors say yes. In a report by ATKearney, 60 percent of executive managers found BI to positively impact shareholder value and give their firms an edge in Return On Equity (ROE) twice that of their competitors.
Can BI help managers peer into the future? Yes, according to statistics by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Averages of BI-driven data forecasts by non-experts outperform 96 percent of economic forecasts by individual industry experts.
Can BI help the average manager internalize market wisdom? This one is a bit trickier. BI can change business reality, but only when managers fully understand what the data is trying to tell them. Data speaks its language; the best translator is a well-planned data visualization. With the right storytelling approach applied at the formation stage, data visualization has a proven ability to turn lifeless charts and figures into motivational models that impel action.
Visualization vs BI Visualization
There are two common forms of business analysis tools:
- Front-end solutions (commonly referred to as visualization solutions) and
- End-to-end solutions (commonly referred to as business intelligence visualization tools or simply BI visualization tools)
Visualization tools create visuals and dashboards. BI visualization solutions involve a platform backend that consolidates, syncs, and cleanses data from multiple sources in a central repository. BI visualization solutions can share real, actionable insights.
Visualization tools are restrictive—they are limited by the number of aggregations you can input in each formula, as these solutions focus on reporting data instead of analyzing it. Pre-calculations, such as summarizations, are necessary before launching calculations. For example, sum and average calculations cannot be done simultaneously—each needs to be done separately, saved, and then considered together.
On the flip side, BI visualization offers data + insight. It’s an end-to-end solution that consolidates, syncs, and cleanses data from multiple sources. It allows for needed pre-calculations to be automatically compiled, so users can immediately obtain their needed data.
The bottom line: don’t be fooled by the dazzle of a pretty visualization face when selecting a solution. It may not represent the best way to handle your data requirements. BI visualization, where all data is fed into one central database, removes the gritty background stages of data preparation and data joining, as these tasks are automatically done for you. In other words, BI visualization enables you to get comprehensive, confident, and actionable insights from your company’s data.
Implementing a BI System
Aside from identifying Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and how they should be presented in dashboards and reports, a BI implementation project that consolidates data in one central location (aka a data repository) should include data cleansing and a solid process for syncing new data. This often includes redefining the data hierarchy and formulas. An essential focus of the implementation should be a robust backend that can handle large amounts of complex data from various sources.
BI Implementation Phase 1
As a first step in implementing a BI system, it’s important to identify your KPIs and the overall level of business intelligence needed. Aligning to business requirements is key. This includes ensuring the KPIs reflect the company’s objectives and having all the data you need to calculate the KPIs.
Identifying the purpose of the BI system is key. Is your BI system for finance only, or will a supply chain management component also be needed? And what functional areas of the business will be integrated into the project? It’s significant to clarify the scope up front, as KPIs for manufacturing, for example, can be vastly different from finance due to different business models.
BI Implementation Phase 2
After vetting through the business need, requirements need to be collected to build a proof of concept prototype. This includes identifying the functional requirements of the tool, as well as specs regarding report and dashboard design. Here, it’s important to consider who will access the BI tool and assess their needs.
For example, a dashboard for management will be very different from detailed reports for an analyst, which will be more time intensive to design. Once all is identified, a detailed concept is shared with a system integrator to implement. At this point, a proof of concept is key, as it allows both the developer to understand the requirements and gives stakeholders a means to view and test the solution design before a full system integration.
BI Implementation Phase 3
After a prototype is approved, the BI solution is implemented. Ideally, the solution is released in phases, the first should contain all needed management dashboard functions and some reporting requirements. Additional data and KPIs are then included in subsequent releases.
Data Visualization and Goal Setting
With the backing of a robust BI visualization solution in place, your company can implement insights to drive more intelligent business decisions. Before they kick off any collaborative business project, a management team is far more successful when they hammer out a shared vision of what they want to accomplish at the end. Data analytics can come into play at every stage of a SMART goal-setting process. SMART goals are those that meet the following criteria:
- Specific – target a specific area for improvement.
- Measurable – quantify or at least suggest an indicator of progress.
- Assignable – specify who will do it.
- Realistic – state what results can realistically be achieved, given available resources.
- Time-Related – specify when the result(s) can be achieved.
While this more traditional approach to team alignment has proven motivational and effective in some verticals, managers in every department at Google use a modified version called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
OKRs differ because the emphasis is on the data-related aspects of the K.R. portion. Each team member has three to five objectives, and each objective should be measured with three key results. Objectives tend to be short, personal (addressing assignability), and simple (emphasizing realism).
Measuring the results
In defining their objectives, managers are encouraged to be ambitious and come to terms with uncomfortable uncertainty. “The most difficult goals produced the highest levels of effort and performance,” according to a comprehensive review of academic goal-setting research.
The key results to be measured for each objective are highly important. Identifying these results before project commencement, and monitoring them throughout the process, makes the stakeholder feel personally accountable for its success. This translates to action on their part to ensure goals are met.
This shifts the emphasis from intent to measurable steps toward the goal. It’s a data-first mode of thinking that enables more strategic business decisions and helps managers see their next steps more clearly.
This is part of a larger trend in business of eliminating IT from the chain of data to information to knowledge to wisdom. Data visualization has proven to be key for effective BI. The best BI data visualization software in the hands of a data storyteller can transform the most non-technical manager into a data-driven specialist.
Translating Data Into Action
The vast majority of people need a model to visualize the results of data analysis to absorb the essential information quickly and convert it into profound knowledge about the findings. The wisdom piece emerges from recommendations on how to apply that business knowledge in making more prescient decisions.
BI data visualizations, beyond simple charts and graphs, can hold the viewer’s interest long enough to grasp the subtleties in the data. They allow decision-makers to (often literally) connect the dots to see patterns, trend lines, interrelationships, stacked dependencies, and growth opportunities.
The secondary benefit is that BI data visualization more closely aligns with the collaborative nature of modern distributed teams, condensing what used to be covered in a time-intensive face-to-face meeting into an instantly communicative image. These images are easy to share and distribute to team members across time zones and devices. The data dashboard has taken on the role of the modern data visualization staging area.
Elements of BI-Based Data Dashboard Design
In the old days, managers or their assistants would select a collection of data points in Excel and run the chart wizard. Three-dimensional bar graphs or elevated pie charts were the primary data visualization tools at the corporate level, and they were easy to cut and paste into a 50-slide PowerPoint.
Companies that depended on consuming their data that way has, for the most part, tended to languish or fade away in the face of more agile, global, mobile competition.
BI-based data dashboards, customized to the priority concerns of each stakeholder, communicate urgency and make it clear which steps can help redirect the business’s course. Building those data dashboards is an art, however. C-level visualizations and dashboard arrangements will have a thoroughly unique look and feel to those of a frontline manager or active data analyst.
Whether the team chooses to work from SMART goals, OKRs or some other form of KPI management, the dashboard will serve as both a trusted digital advisor and a central command center where business leaders can hold stakeholders accountable for achieving their goals.
Data Visualization and ramifications
Within the framework of the dashboard, data visualizations require another sort of artistry. Even minor variations in the presentation of data can end up telling radically different stories to the viewer. Data visualizations emerge not from the data itself, but the actions the viewer will be impelled to take when they understand the ramifications. The most successful data visualizations begin with the viewer’s goals, indicate the best option for moving forward, tell the story personally, and then offer the viewer a way to drill down deeper into layers of detail.
The augmented manager, combining expertise in the field with the wisdom of a BI dashboard, is a living symbol of the future of work. Data visualizations will be the life support system that managers will rely on to swim in the sea of data that defines this new reality.


According to Massachusetts State Police, the incident happened on British Airways Flight 213 from London to Boston.
An officer pulled over a Google self-driving car because of its speed.
Parking tickets can be paid with donations of canned food instead of cash during a monthlong “Food for Fines” program in Kentucky.
City officials said the pumpkin broke free from a Halloween display promoting a local party.
An unmanned Army surveillance blimp broke loose from its mooring in Maryland and floated over Pennsylvania for hours Wednesday.
One of the most well-known bridges in Columbus is being taken over by thousands of 8-legged squatters.
Officials had their hands full after a car ended up on top of a home.
Two people are in jail after police say they smashed in another driver’s windows with pumpkins following a road rage incident.
Alicia and Alicen Kennedy are proof that two heads are not always better than one, at least according to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Officials have uncovered footage of the quirky wildlife management moment.
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office says the man dangled from the Brandon Township shop’s ceiling for about 11 hours.
A new mural was painted outside the new Garner Police station but on Friday it was defaced with this message: “Kill A Cop, Save A Child.”
Police say they tried to make contact with the people inside for about 45 minutes.
U.S. Right to Know, a consumer rights group, had petitioned the FTC to ban the use of the term “diet” because it was “deceptive, false and m…
The controversy started with a picture posted to the WAVY Facebook page.


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They say what happened in 2017 should stay buried in the past, but not when it comes to Quahog…. Yup history is repeating itself as a host of characters and costumes make their comeback in the latest event to hit our games, Best of 2017.
Yes, the festive frolics of Christmas are but a distant memory and it’s time to go a little Russian as the latest event is live. I’ll get the LIVE post up as soon as possible. Until then you can throw caution to the wind as there is NO timed NEW content. However this weeks returning characters are only available for one week as the 2nd week will see a new batch available. But the good news is Mrs Giant Chicken will be available to unlock until the end of the event on 17th January.
Yes let me repeat the good news, Mrs Giant Chicken is not timed so go ahead and purchase the Giant Chicken Coop to start working on unlocking her.
~ Russian Tigger