For those who will be renewing certifications, chapter volunteer hours count towards Continuing Development Units (CDUs)!
Please contact info@austin.iiba.org for more information about any of these roles!
Meetings are held quarterly on Saturday mornings (Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct), and otherwise on the second Wednesday of each month.
This role is expected to require 2-3 hours per month (i.e., CDUs!) and reports to the Chapter President.
The time reqiured for this position is variable by month and is heaviest in the two months prior to the event.
Help the Chapter and earn two hours of CDU time! We're looking for volunteers to help with meeting preparation and check-in. This will take about an hour per month, plus you'll get free admission to the Chapter meeting that you work!
We have data from Constant Contact about our members and from the IIBA about area CBAPs. We're looking for a volunteer who will help organize the raw data into information that we can use to better reach people who would be interested in our offerings. The primary sources of data will be metrics from Constant Contact and information from the IIBA organization, and you're welcome to use any tools for which you have a license.
The number of hours needed for this will vary by month and will result in CDUs.
We have Chapter collateral that could use some cosmetic love. If you have an eye for design (or want a chance to develop a new skill), please let us know!
The time would count towards CDUs. With the variable tasks, this could take an hour or many hours, depending on the approach taken.
This takes about an hour a month of CDU time, once you have the hang of the applications.


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Q: "Name * not defined" in nested python comprehension I have gathered information in a dictionnary of this form:
dico = {
        'key1': ('el1', 'el2', 'el3'),
        'key2': ('el4',),
        'key3': ('el5', 'el6'),
        }

I wish to iterate over it in such a way that this would produce:
>>> for i in gen:
...    print(i)
('key1', 'el1')
('key1', 'el2')
('key1', 'el3')
('key2', 'el4')
('key3', 'el5')
('key3', 'el6')

So here is how I build gen:
gen = ((key, value) for value in values for key, values in dico.items())

But this throws a NameError:
NameError: name 'values' is not defined

What is wrong? How should I do?

A: Reverse the order so that the names resolve:
gen = ((key, value) for (key, values) in dico.items() for value in values)

The for loops should be in the same order as if you'd write:
for key, values in dico.items():
    for value in values:
        yield key, value

A: You need to list the loops in the order you'd nest them, from left to right. You swapped that order.
This works:
gen = ((key, value) for key, values in dico.items() for value in values)

which corresponds with how you'd nest those loops in a generator function:
for key, values in dico.items():
    for value in values:
        yield (key, value)

A: You have to reverse the order of gen generation code.

dico = {
        'key1': ('el1', 'el2', 'el3'),
        'key2': ('el4',),
        'key3': ('el5', 'el6'),
        }
gen = ((key, value) for (key, values) in dico.items() for value in values)
for i in gen:
    print(i)

>>> ================================ RESTART ================================
>>>
('key1', 'el1')
('key1', 'el2')
('key1', 'el3')
('key2', 'el4')
('key3', 'el5')
('key3', 'el6')
>>>

How bellow code is eveluated:
gen = ((key, value) for (key, values) in dico.items() for value in values)

step 1: for (key, values) in dico.items()
step 2: values of step 1 will be input for bellow code:
        for value in values
step 3: then for every value it will store the key, value pair in gen
dictionary.

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The "LA84 Foundation Youth Sports Survey" will help to increase participation and inclusion in youth sports across LA County.
Inactive children in LA County by gender, race and ethnicity, region, and age.
27 percent of girls were inactive in LA County compared to 11 percent of boys.
More children of racial minority groups were inactive compared to white children.
North LA has the highest youth sports non-participation rates, while the Metro area has the lowest non-participation rates.
Children aged six to eight were the most inactive age group.
The EXPO Center, built for the 1932 LA Olympic Games, hosts a variety of youth sport programs, including Kids in Sports.
Gender, household income and skateboarding highlight the "LA84 Foundation Youth Sports Survey"
In October, the LA84 Foundation released an unprecedented research survey on youth sports participation in Los Angeles County. Despite ample research demonstrating the positive relationship between sports and youth development, the "LA84 Foundation Youth Sports Survey" found that 18.5 percent of children are inactive in the county.
The LA84 Foundation, a legacy of the 1984 Olympic Games, is a non-profit organization supporting youth sport programs, education and development throughout Southern California. While based in Jefferson Park's historic Britt House, the Foundation is a nationally recognized leader in promoting youth sports. For over 30 years, the Foundation has granted an excess of $225 million, impacting more than 2,200 non-profit organizations and 3 million children.
The positive relationship between sports and youth development has been well documented, including demonstrated physical, social, emotional and academic benefits. For example, the California Dropout Research Project has proven a positive correlation between youth sports involvement and higher graduation rates.
Using the findings of its survey, the Foundation aims to increase participation and inclusion in youth sports throughout Southern California. While a lack of interest explains why some children don't play sports, barriers to participation, such as money, resources and accessibility, inhibit many others who want to be active.
The Foundation's LA County survey confirmed national findings that children who come from lower-income households are less likely to participate in sports. According to the research, 22 percent of inactive children came from households making less than $50,000 per year, while only 4 percent of children were inactive from households making more than $100,000.
Kids in Sports (KIS), an LA84 grantee, is one non-profit organization working to provide affordable youth sports opportunities in South LA. The organization offers leagues in soccer, basketball, football and volleyball for as low as $25. However, the program's cost is not a barrier to participation. "If there is somebody who wants to play and can't afford to do so, then [we allow] them to play," said KIS Executive Director Monique Brandon.
Additionally, Falcons Youth and Family Services (FYFS), a former-LA84 grantee, is another non-profit organization emphasizing affordability for its South LA tackle-football program. While some tackle-football programs in LA can cost as much as $350 to participate, FYFS's cost is only $150, according to Keith Johnson, the organization's executive director.
Another major finding of the survey showed disproportionate gender non-participation rates. Compared to 11 percent of boys, 27 percent of girls were reportedly inactive.
The Foundation will make an increased effort to address girls as an underrepresented group, according to Wilson. KIS' "Girls In Recreation, Leadership & Sports" (G.I.R.L.S.) program is one example of the Foundation's current effort to target young women athletes.
In addition to studying the demographic makeup of youth sports participation, the Foundation's survey also discovered LA County's most popular and most frequently played sports among active children.
LA's most popular sports were soccer, swimming and basketball, according to the survey. However, the sport played most frequently by active children in LA County was none of those- skateboarding.
Hyman is referring to arguably the biggest barrier to youth sports in LA County: field space. For example, despite soccer being LA's most popular sport, there are only four public soccer fields in the county per every 100,000 residents, according to the LA County Parks & Recreation Needs Assessment.
LA County's lack of public park space serves as large barrier to youth sport participation.
Limited public park space is also a problem in Jefferson Park.
Per every 100,000 residents, LA County has only four public soccer fields.
While field access is already scarce in LA County, safety concerns of gang and community violence make finding play space even more challenging.
"There are certain people within the community who won't go to a particular park because there is a gang associated with that park or around it," Keith Johnson said.
In response to safety concerns from parents, Johnson moved FYFS's practice facilities from a public park to an LAUSD field a few years ago. Consequently, Johnson was forced to pay nearly $3,000 more per season just for practice space.
Coach Rogers of Falcons Youth and Family Services runs a blocking drill at a tackle-football practice.
Now that the lack of public park space is known to be a problem, youth sports organizations will have to find a solution.
Small businesses in Jefferson Park provide essential services for the community. Their presence is rooted in maintaining residents' culture and identity.
Hear from educators of all backgrounds-- including private school, public school, and non-profit programs--share their experiences in the neighborhood.
They own shops, restaurants and local businesses, but not many people know they're Salvadoran. Here's a look at the community that's shaping Jefferson Park and the internal issues they face.


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The Captain's Daughter by Delamere
London, 1879 When a series of circumstances beyond her control leaves Rosalyn Bernay alone and penniless in London, she chances upon a job backstage at a theater putting on the most popular show in the city. A talented musician and singer, she feels immediately at home and soon becomes enthralled with the idea of pursuing a career on the stage. That is, as long as the shadows from her past don't catch up with her.
The Captain's Daughter
by Jennifer Delamere
After a hand injury forces Nate Moran from his army regiment in India, he returns home to London, a place that holds bitter memories. He agrees to fill in temporarily as a stagehand while his brother recuperates from a broken leg, but Nate is counting down the days until he can rejoin his regiment. His future is decided—until he meets a beautiful woman who has found a new lease on life in the very place Nate yearns to leave behind.
I decided to step out of my regular book genre again. Sometimes I just need something completely different than what I normally read.
This is the first book in "London Beginnings Series."
I'm a fan of historical fiction. Jennifer Delamere is a new author for me. The historical setting of the story is 1879 London- and the historical characters of Gilbert and Sullivan that feature with their musicals made the story's setting delightful.
The story is based off of three girls who become orphans after the death of their parents and end up in George Müller's orphanage. Then focuses on Rosalyn the eldest eventually finds work as a housemaid. You find yourself skipping 6 years in the future and Rosalyn is accused of stealing and the unwanted advances of her employer's new husband. She flees to be with her other sister to Bristol.
This was an easy read. I found the character interesting and likable. Not a lot of depth with the character but, there is a lot of action to keep the book interesting. The book wasn't predictable and it did leave you wanting more depth with the characters.
I'm not going to give away the story so you will have to read it for yourself. Overall, this was a fun read that I had a hard time putting down.
ReneeK is a sweet tea addicted mamma who loves to cuddle up to a good book. She blogs at Little Homeschool on the Praire and writes about family, homeschooling, having a special needs child, and about whatever else tickles her fancy.
This book was provided by the publisher via Litfuse Publicity as a review copy.
The Ebb Tide by Lewis
Oh, to see the ocean, Sallie thought. And to spend the summer as a nanny. She shook her head in amazement. This seemed too good to be true, but she really must talk it over with Dat and Mamm, especially since she'd be gone so long. And after I promised Mamm I'd take baptism classes this summer . . .
by Beverly Lewis
Sallie Riehl has dreamed of traveling at least once before settling down to join church, so she is thrilled at an unexpected summer opportunity to nanny in Cape May for a well-to-do family. However, saying even a temporary good-bye to Paradise Township means forgoing baptism another year, as well as leaving behind a would-be beau. Yet the weeks in Cape May soon prove unforgettable as Sallie meets a Mennonite young man whose friendship she quickly begins to cherish. Has she been too hasty with her promises, or will she only find what her heart is longing for back home?
Beverly Lewis has a wonderful way to make stories come alive within the pages of her books. Every time I finish a book or a series I'm sad to see it come to an end.
Sallie is not the typical Amish girl and wants to explore places before she joins the church. After her first trip to a faraway place by airplane doesn't happen she is give an opportunity to see the ocean for the summer. Her intent is to return home and join the church. Life isn't always laid out in a neat package. Sometimes God has different plans for us and Sallie has to find out which path God is leading her on.
This is just a beautiful story that is so descriptive in the details of Sallies surrounding and of her heart. You can't help but not to be swept away in her dreams. Not to mention that this is a page turner to the very end.
All of Beverly Lewis books have such intriguing characters and plots. Most of all a message about our Christian walk. This story I see waiting on God to direct our paths and not trying to please others but, letting go and let God direct our way.
I'm not going to give away the story. I enjoyed this story and look forward to more books from Beverly Lewis.
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
The Newcomer by Woods Fisher
In 1737, Anna Konig and her fellow church members stagger off a small wooden ship after 10 weeks at sea, eager to start a new life in the vibrant but raw Pennsylvania frontier. On the docks of Port Philadelphia waits bishop Jacob Bauer, founder of the settlement and father to ship carpenter Bairn. It's a time of new beginnings for the reunited Bauer family, and for Anna and Bairn's shipboard romance to blossom. But this perfect moment cannot last.
The Newcomer
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
As Bairn grasps the reality of what it means to be Amish in the New World – isolated, rigid with expectations, under the thumb of his domineering father – his enthusiasm evaporates. When a sea captain offers the chance to cross the ocean one more time, Bairn grabs it. Just one more crossing, he promises Anna. But will she wait for him? When Henrik Newman joins the church just as it makes its way to the frontier, Anna is torn. He seems to be everything Bairn is not – bold, devoted, and delighted to vie for her heart. And the most dramatic difference? He is here; Bairn is not. Far from the frontier, an unexpected turn of events weaves together the lives of Bairn, Anna, and Henrik. When a secret is revealed, which true love will emerge?
This is the second book in the Amish Beginnings Series. Overall, this could be read without the first book in the series. The first book in the series is Anna's journey to the new world. You will miss some of the character interactions and some of the history behind the individuals. Suzanne Woods Fisher's books always does a good job laying the ground work on a series in each book. I love stories that are historical.
The story picks up when they arrive in the port of Philadelphia after they crossed the Atlantic Ocean. They are preparing to make the journey in the wilderness were Jacob Bauer has secured some land for the community.
I find it intriguing the Amish coming to the New World to create a community to worship God without persecution. The details of the era and the worked needed to create a community was intriguing and made for an interesting read. The courage and faith of the individuals kept the group going despite the difficulties they faced.
All the characters have a lot of depth about them to make you feel almost part of the story. I love all the history put into the pages and the individuals you meet.
I look forward to the next book in the series.
Historical Fiction, Romance & Chick Lit, The Golden Reviewer
Slender Reeds by Gregory
This is a story of the Hebrew people living, in slavery under the rule of Pharaoh Ramas, struggling to hold on to God's promises and a mother's hope to save her infant son from sure death by the hand of an Egyptian soldier.
Slender Reeds
Jachebed's Hope
by Susan Gregory
Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Jachebed is a young Hebrew woman, living with her mother Elisheba, married to Amran, a godly man who believes in the one true God of the Hebrew people. These people are living in slavery under the cruel rule of Pharaoh Ramas.
Shephrad is the daughter of the High Priest Nege. Nege is an evil priest and very cruel to his daughter. After a severe beating, she runs away from home. She is found, near death, by Jachebed and her mother. They befriend the young girl, teaching her to be a mid wife.
Ramas is concerned about the large Hebrew population and orders his solders to kill every male child up to the age of three years. Jachebed has a young son she has been hiding. A lot of the Hebrew mothers have lost sons and she is afraid someone will tell the solders about her son. She is a weaver of reed mats and baskets. She will make a water proof basket and send her son adrift on the Nile River. She has observed that Pharaoh's daughter and her ladies bathe daily near the reeds. This will be a good place to place her son. Hopefully he will be discovered by Princess Meril and not eaten by the crocodiles that inhabit the Nile River.
A very interesting read. This is the first book I have read by Ms. Gregory, but look forward to reading more in the future, Highly recommend the book.
Mary Asher, the Golden Reviewer, is a founding book blogger for BookGateway.com and has generously provided this review. She describes herself as "an 86 year young great-grandmother and an avid reader."
Historical Fiction, Myra Ovalle, Romance & Chick Lit
The Lassoed By Marriage Collection
March 4, 2016 Myra Ovalle	Leave a comment
Nine relationships started after saying I Do
by Bell, Breidenbach, Carter, Connealy, Jepson, Lillard, Welborn, Y'Barbo, Zediker
Lassoed by Marriage is a collection of short stories about unwilling marriage. Start a journey with all the characters that start off in a situation that forces them into marriage. Walk with them as they try to overcome obstacles and try to start a relationship. See them try to overcome their fears and reservations and strive to help better their relationship. Follow Cynthia and Lord Elliot Carlyle struggle to get past her sister's deceptions and work to make their marriage work. Observe Katie as she strives to keep her son by marrying George her son's uncle. See as she fights to break the stigma that follows her as she is the mother of a illegitimate son. Root for Penny as she fights to keep her family's land by marrying a prisoner. Watch her try to teach her husband forgiveness for past wrongs done to him. Watch Coral and Hiram try to break the family feud despite being virtually forced to marry each other. Witness as a lord without title preform act of mercy as he rescues a widow and her land from people that threaten her. But both have secrets they are keeping from each other will they drive them apart or bring them together. Notice as a new minister offers sanctuary to Molly who was in a desperate situation. But will her outlaw brother drive the m apart? Laugh at Hattie's antics that land her married to the town sheriff. Watch Maila fight to free herself and her husband from Rose the first wife. Observe as Tanner discover Debba after 4 years of isolation.
This book is filled with so many different elements its impossible to get bored.
Myra Ovalle is your average typical girl. She loves to read. Her favorite types of books are historical fiction, biblical fiction and action adventure fiction. She would love to share her love of books and all the wonderful books she have read with you. Check out her new blog: From a Book Worm To You
Whispers in the Reading Room by Gray
Can a man with a mysterious past and naive librarian work together to solve a murder.
Whispers in the Reading Room
Shelley Gray
Zondervan Fiction
Lydia is fascinated by the handsome mysterious stranger that visits her library every day. Not knowing who he is or having ever spoken to him she feels puzzled when he rescues her at the lobby of a prestigious hotel. She discovers his name and the fact that everyone in the city is either afraid or intrigued by him. After rescuing her at the Hartman Hotel they ensue a fragile relationship. Sebastian Marks is intrigued by the quiet librarian but is hesitant to form any kind of tie to her due to his secrets. After peering into her seemingly happy life he discovers that she is penniless, with a demanding mother hounding her to marry anyone for money. On the other hand Lydia knows nothing about what he does and demands that he take her to his establishment. When he finally agrees to take her to his establishment things take an unexpected turn. A gentleman's murder puts both of them in danger. Sebastian afraid that because of him Lydia will get hurt tries to break off their blooming relationship. Will Sebastian and Lydia realize their feelings for each other and find the murder?
I loved the book it was mysterious and hard to put down. I loved how much detail was put into the book and the perfect balance of mystery. I will probably read the rest of the series as soon as I can. I would recommend this book to historical fiction lovers. Get ready to be blown away by this book.
A Spy's Devotion by Dickerson
C an two people who seemed to be destined to be apart work together to stop a traitorous plot?
A Spy's Devotion
The Regency Spies of London
By Melanie Dickerson
Waterfall Press
Julia Grey is an orphan that grew up in the charity of her uncle's home. Growing up in upper society she was never let forget that fact she was not up in the social class. With a small dowry her hopes of landing a good match are slim. She and Phoebe her cousins have grown up as close as sisters, so when Phoebe is enamored with Nicholas Langdon and asks Julia's help to land him she willingly agrees. Nicholas Langdon is a second son who needs to marry someone with a good dowry. Back from the army due to an injury he tries to fulfill a promise to a dying man to deliver his diary to someone at the War Office. When he gets mugged and the journal stolen he gets pulled in to the spy game. After being brought up to date his mission is to get as close as possible to Robert Wilhern who is suspected of treason. Using Phoebe as his way in, he meets Julia Grey who captures his attention and feelings. Having been burned by his past fiancé who left him for a much older richer man he decides to be cautious. Julia is trying her best to get Nicholas to notice Phoebe but soon realizes that she has growing feelings for him. After being continuously reminded by her aunt and uncle that she is the poor relation and should stay away from Nicholas she starts to see things more clearly. So when Nicholas reveals that he is a spy and asks for her help she agrees. As danger mounts and sparks fly will they be able to stop a traitorous plot and figure out their feelings?
This book was very hard to put down. It had mystery intrigue at every flip of the page.
@ashertopia, Fantasy, Historical Fiction
Black City Saint by Knaak
Nick saved the world years ago in an event humans know as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Unfortunately, another "opportunity" has come his way.
Black City Saint
by Richard A. Knaak
Pyr
This is a fascinating setting: Chicago in the 1920s, the height of prohibition with bootleggers and gangsters warring for turf, and very few electronic devices. [SPOILERS] Nick even humorously ponders about how great it would be if there were such things as portable devices to contact people from their automobile, among other things. [END SPOILERS] The two gangs and name dropping of some real gangsters gave readers something to connect with in such a foreign world. A detective noir set in this world isn't so much of a stretch, but adding in magic, fantasy creatures and more makes this very different from most books. But not all.
Fans of the Dresden Files by Butcher wont be able to miss the obvious parallels. [SPOILERS] An out of time detective that only solves fantasy problems, with fantastical, and not always trustworthy sidekicks, tied to a ruling council from another, hidden world, tries to stop the big bad from using their magic to destroy a Chicago. [END SPOILERS] As a fan of Dresden, more is usually better. But Knaak's Nick isn't the same as Butcher's Dresden, though for one very big reason: the addition of Christian characters into the mythology.
I was introduced to Knaak in my adolescence via his contributions to the Dragonlance saga. Legend of Huma is a favorite all these years later. One thing a Christian who loves fantasy has to do is to distinguish between fantasy "gods" and the real "God." I dislike (very much) when an author takes real Christian characters and changes them and their theology/ the theology they represent to fit the fantasy of their world. This was a real concern for me when [SPOILERS] Nick turns out to be Saint George (who fought the dragon), who believes in the real God, but also fights to keep the realms of humans and faeries separate. Faeries aren't allowed to enter churches, holy water and blessed items hurt them, Saint Michael/ Michael the Arch Angel shows up possibly, and so on also conflate the issue. While I'm not usually a fan of this, Knaak did a good job walking a line here of being respectful to the characters while integrating them into the mythology. Nick Medea, for instance, is grounded even by his name – he is named after the real place of St. Georgius' death, Nicomedia. [END SPOILERS] But the main issue for me still exists: the Christian characters have been merged with fantasy characters and included and treated like mythology. As a Christian, and acknowledging that the battle between St. George and the Dragon is very likely legendary, I prefer that Christianity not be included as just another source for mythology, because to me it isn't.
This is a fast paced, fun fantasy noir that fans of both genres will enjoy.
Scott Asher is the Editor-in-Chief of BookGateway.com. His personal blog is AshertopiA – a land flowing with milk and honey… and a lot of sticky people where he turns real life into stupid cartoons, writes on Christianity, Zombies, and whatever else he wants and posts Bible studies from his classes at church.
Calico Spy by Brownley
Can a Sheriff and Pinkerton agent work together to catch an elusive murder and work out their feeling for each other.
Undercover Ladies #3
by Margaret Brownley
Shiloh Run Press
Katie Madison, a Pinkerton operative, is sent undercover as a waitress to Calico Kansas. Her new assignment is to investigate the murder of two Harvey House restaurant waitresses . Branch Whitman as the town's sheriff is mad at the fact that a Pinkerton is sent to solve the case. He is stunned at the fact that the beautiful waitress that frequents his thought is the Pinkerton operative sent to help. When a secret from the past threatens to tear away what the sheriff holds dear he must decide to trust Katie or risk losing it all. As they face challenges together they can feel the growing attraction between them and don't seem to know what to do about it. Will they be able to work together and catch the elusive murderer and figure out their feelings for each other?
The Calico Spy is the third book in the Undercover Ladies series. I really enjoyed this book. Once I started it I had a hard time putting it down. I loved the vivid description that brought the story to life. The descriptions of the waitress protocol had me cringing and feeling sorry for Katie while laughing during the funny parts. It had me guessing what was going to happen throughout the whole book. The characters and their antics were very refreshing. The author wove the western, mystery and romance elements beautifully. I would highly recommend this book to historical romance lovers or someone who loves a good mystery. I will definitely read the rest of the series.
Blessing by Lyn Cote
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Can two seemingly opposite people unite together to face the danger that seems to lurk everywhere?
Quaker Brides #2
by Lyn Cote
Tyndale House Publishers
A chance encounter at the Seneca Falls women's suffrage movement leaves Blessing Brightman and Gerard Ramsey hoping to never cross paths again. Blessing is the Quaker widow of a difficult man whose death left her with wealth and a high standing in society. Gerard Ramsey is the son of a wealthy Boston family who craves independence and respect from his father. As Gerard's best friend decides to court Tippy, Blessing's best friend, he decides to dissuade him and moves to Cincinnati. There he gets to know Blessing for who she is. A simple Quaker woman with a passion to help those nobody deems worth helping. As he decides to enter in a business venture that will seemingly give him the independence he seeks from his father, nothing is as it seems. Someone wants to ensnare him with deceit, while the past Blessing has tried so hard to overcome seems to come back and taunt her. Things start to escalate as racial tensions start to give way to violence. As they fight their way through everything the feel themselves falling for each other but their past and their need for independence get in the way. Will they work their way through their problems and feelings?
This was historical masterpiece. It explored two of the major movement of that time, women's suffrage and the anti-slavery movements. It also brought a sense of intrigue and danger I was not expecting. The book was well researched and was masterfully written. The author wove the historical, intrigue, and romance elements together very beautifully. I loved it and will recommend and read the rest of the series.
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D-VoiS - Broadband Pvt. Ltd — Fleecing and false promises of service.
Internet ServicesD-VoiS Communications Fleecing and false promises of service.
This popular affordable internet service provider in Navi Mumbai is worst in service. They try to push a whole year package down your throat since no body would like to renew that again.
First practice is systematic cheating, the package that you pay for is not what you actually get so 1 Mbps is 512Kbps suddenly, a 512 Kbps is 200 Kbps and all these complaints go unheard.
Second is service of this ISP, they do not even care to show up to check what is the problem. Customer care is paid so they enjoy talking and misleading you since you're paying. technicians would close your request without even informing you.
This is a cheap cheap service, do not go for it . Look for alternatives.
[Sep 29, 2013] D-VoiS - Broadband Pvt. Ltd customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.
how poor is their service!
at the end, over 30 days of plan, we used only 24 days.
renewal!! (is the option AutoRenewal meaning some to you fellows?).
so they suspended it...without advise.
and with such a poor company policies.
They are just interested to get money first, then f* customers.
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The worst ever customer service experience. The customer care number:[protected] is just for the sake of having it. Normally average time for them to respond or to resolve a complaint is minimum of 3 working days and 10-15 FRUSTRATING CALLS. Kopar Khairane, Navi Mumbai.
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Q: Movie with line "Remember the word Yahoo" Does anyone remember the name of a movie where there are two guys that are friends in the present and one had a family and was struggling financially. The friend goes back into the past (don't remember how or why) and while he is there meets his other friend as a young boy and tells him to "remember the word Yahoo".  When he gets back to the present his friend has invested in Yahoo stocks and done well.  It was only a side story of the real story but all I can remember about the movie.

A: Frequency released in 2000 has this as a quote, and it's given to a friend so that he can invest.

"I want you to remember this word, okay? It's kind of like a code word: Yahoo. Can you remember that?"

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 It revolves around a radio that reaches 30 years into the past to talk to his dad, and is used to help solve a serial murder.


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An English professor wrote the words : "A woman without her man is nothing" on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.
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On the last day of kindergarden,all the children Bought presents for their teacher.
"That's right !"shouted the little boy.
"That's right !"shouted the little girl.
The next gift was from liquor store owner's son. The teacher, Held it up and saw that it was leaking. She touched a drop With her finger and tasted it.
"Is it wine ?" she asked.
"Is it champagne ?" she asked.
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This entry was posted in cool, Informative and tagged Informative, professor, student on August 13, 2009 by pradeep.
"The golf balls are the important things – your God, family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favorite passions – things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
"The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car.
"The sand is everything else–the small stuff.
"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
"The same goes for life.
"If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
"Take time to get medical checkups.
"Take your partner out to dinner.
"There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.
"Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter.
The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked.
This entry was posted in Informative and tagged professor, student on October 22, 2007 by mysqld.


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Happily Ever After?
By TIME Staff	Monday, Jan. 24, 2000
How big was it? In Northern Virginia on Friday night, Jimmy Lynn, an AOL marketing executive, got an inkling that something was happening. I usually go to the Redskins games with a guy from the mergers and acquisitions group, Lynn explained. When the friend canceled--for the Redskins' first playoff game in seven years--Lynn knew it was not just something, but really something. In downtown Manhattan early Monday, the 7:30 a.m. daily research call emanating from the fifth-floor conference room of Merrill Lynch headquarters was handled by analysts Henry Blodget and Jessica Reif Cohen. Traders who had nearly run off the road when they had heard the news on their car radios crammed the room; 1,000 more around the world were connected by telephone. Like everyone else on Wall Street, Blodget and Reif Cohen had been taken totally by surprise. They used words like brilliant and huge--but they were at a loss to explain to their colleagues what it actually meant.
It was on Tuesday afternoon, the day after the deal was announced, that the influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist Roger McNamee summed up the object of all this attention: Let's be clear, he said. This is the single most transformational event I've seen in my career.Just what exactly was transformed? America Online, the newbie-friendly smiley face of the Web that just three years ago was an operational mess, had engineered the largest merger in American corporate history. Time Warner, the immense media conglomerate that had sprung from the loins of the magazine you are now reading--having failed to beat the Internet upstarts with its own efforts--had decided to surrender to them for the best price it could get, about $162 billion in AOL stock. The companies valued the combination at $350 billion.
For Time Warner chief executive Gerald Levin and AOL boss Steve Case, the common experience of groping through a rapidly mutating economy made this deal in some ways inevitable. In AOL, Case had built a brand, a customer base and (by Internet standards) healthy profits. But he faced a future that may see Internet access become a commodity, and he lacked access to the leading source of broadband--the fat, fast pipes of cable television that could carry vast amounts of Internet content. And Case didn't have much in the way of content either. Time Warner's cable-television system, the country's second largest, owned plumbing aplenty to distribute AOL's services. The company also had the proprietary content--magazines, books, movies, music, programming--to send down the pipes.
Yet Levin's company had remained inextricably mired in its own past, a dinosaur lurching its way through a world that would soon belong to swifter creatures, almost pathetically unable--like all the major media companies--to make the Great Leap Forward into the new Internet economy. The company's stock price had plateaued in a year in which Net stocks soared, and there was little excitement about the plans being developed in its recently hatched digital division, despite projected outlays this year of $500 million. We had a big uphill job as a corporation to catch up with the established Internet players, notes Time Warner vice chairman Ted Turner. Levin was even contemplating an internal takeover of CNN to make it the company's digital division, separate from the rest of the Turner networks.
When Time Inc. announced its betrothal to Warner Communications in 1989, the men in the front of the room were an odd match of Hollywood glitz and suburban Connecticut golf club. In 1995, when Levin and Turner proclaimed their deal, it was Earth meets Mars. But last week the two dealmakers actually seemed to speak the same language and perceive the same future.
Both Case and Levin were faced with what corporate strategists call a make or buy dilemma. Case must have contemplated that at some point Wall Street would come to its senses and that AOL's helium-supported Internet valuation would be punctured and deflate. Better spend those Net-flated dollars now--buy. Levin, with his stock price sputtering, didn't have the currency to pay the price of admission on the Internet. The company, in fact, could neither make nor buy, which left it with but one option--sell.
Case and Levin began their mating dance at a meeting of the Global Business Dialogue in Paris last September. Two weeks later they continued their global flirtation at a lavish FORTUNE magazine event (FORTUNE is also owned by Time Warner) in Shanghai--one of those blurred events, part journalism, part meet-greet-and-deal, that make press critics howl. But the active courtship didn't begin until early October, when Case called Levin, proposed merger outright and--significantly--said he wanted Levin to be CEO of the combined company.
The gritty details of negotiating corporate marriage, in particular who gets the top jobs, began in mid-November, when AOL vice chairman Ken Novack, a Boston lawyer who is Case's closest professional confidant, traveled to New York City with senior vice president Miles Gilburne to meet with Richard Bressler, the former Time Warner CFO who had recently been placed in charge of the corporation's digital efforts. How do you puzzle out a high-tech-meets-media merger? On large sheets of paper. The three men scrawled out a crude vision of a combined company and posted the pages all over the muted gray walls of Bressler's imposing Rockefeller Center office. Gilburne took the rolled-up sheets back to AOL's Dulles, Va., headquarters, where senior executives examined them the way archaeologists examine the runic traces of an early civilization.
That it somehow remained secret was remarkable. The only clue was so outrageously bold that it went unnoticed. When AOL board member Thomas Middelhoff, CEO of the Bertelsmann publishing empire, visited with Time Inc. editors in early December, he was asked if he thought AOL should buy Disney. No, Middelhoff replied with the sort of smile that announces a joke is coming, I think [AOL] should buy Time Warner.
Levin had also come to that conclusion. He then had to come up with a price. Ten years ago, when Time Inc. acquired Warner Communications, he was harshly criticized for agreeing to a share-exchange ratio that allowed Warner's stockholders to become majority owners. Over the millennial weekend--watching 100 hours of CNN, he says--Levin mulled the numbers. Conventional valuation methods, which look at a stock's price history as well as its potential, wouldn't work. In December 1998, for instance, Time Warner was worth more than AOL. By December 1999, AOL was worth 2.5 times more than Time Warner.
Levin reasoned that Time Warner without an Internet connection was still valuable, but its value to an Internet buyer was greater. So he arrived at 1.5 AOL shares to be exchanged for each TWX share. In real money, that was 70% more than Time Warner's $65 price the Friday before the deal was announced, but it would still give AOL shareholders 55% of the company. Conversely, Time Warner was providing 80% of the cash flow. Says Levin: If some people think that AOL has been sold at too much of a discount or Time Warner has been sold at not a high enough premium--if we get those disparate reactions--then we've probably done the right thing. Although both companies have done handsprings to portray the combination as a merger of equals, Wall Street has since made it clear that it considers AOL more equal than Time Warner.
The deal finally became real on the night of Jan. 6 at a dinner for Case, Levin, Novack and Bressler at Case's northern Virginia house. What began with a bottle of 1990 Chateau Leoville-Las Cases (dazzling concentration, as well as fine acidity--wine critic Robert Parker) in the living room and ended with chocolate mousse at the table became semiofficial when Case and Levin broadly agreed to a merger. They also agreed to sleep on it, and after midnight Bressler and Levin flew back to New York on a Time Warner jet. Novack and Bressler spoke at 9 the following morning, checked in with their respective bosses and had a deal at 9:15. As one of the supporting actors put it, At a certain point they had to swallow hard and jump off the cliff together.
Whether they'll land on their feet depends on whether the two companies can mesh their organizations, persuade Wall Street that the deal makes sense and endure the federal regulatory reviews and potential legal challenges of the next several months.
The first task will probably be the hardest. In many ways, the pre-deal Time Warner was less an operating company than it was a stock price, the financial expression of a series of disconnected assets. Unlike other media megaliths like Disney or News Corp., where a nearly totemic central figure--Michael Eisner and Rupert Murdoch, respectively--conceives the strategy and orders it into place, Time Warner under Levin has been an extremely successful dysfunctional family. Six powerful executives, ranging from Roger Ames of the music group to Terry McGuirk of the Turner networks, run six huge businesses, and their rivalry with external competitors often consumes less energy than their alpha-male, intramural head butting. When the cable division wanted to brand its high-speed cable-modem business Road Runner, the Warner Bros. marketers--with straight faces--tried to extract a billion-dollar licensing fee from their corporate brethren for use of the cartoon bird. If any one thing has made Levin a success, it is his long-range strategic vision. But his willingness to let his managers run their businesses as they see fit--as long as they deliver double-digit earnings growth--runs a close second.
It is precisely this combination of decentralized structure and a desperate hunger for Wall Street-pleasing growth--especially necessary for a company whose balance sheet includes $17.8 billion of indebtedness--that propelled the sale to AOL. Time Warner's stuttering, stumbling, ill-managed attempts to score on the Internet (in which I and several of my Time Inc. bosses have participated) have foundered on the inability of the various divisions to work collaboratively and on the relentless bottom-line pressure that discouraged investment in the distant future when there was a quarterly target to meet.
AOL, of course, has had no such problem. Ever since Case fought off the awful negative publicity surrounding the late 1996 fiasco in which customers couldn't access the overburdened servers, the company has been rocketing from one success to another. The number of AOL zillionaires has multiplied with each upward ratchet of the stock price, and the atmosphere in Dulles sometimes feels like it's ready to combust. The unnamed Time Warner executive who told the New York Times that merging the cultures would be easy because the AOL people are laid-back latte drinkers would do well to re-examine what's in those cups.
While Case plays the statesman and AOL president Robert Pittman deploys the substantial charm of a born salesman, the next few levels of management harbor a cadre of killers and cutthroats, says a former analyst intimately familiar with the company. AOL's laid-back latte drinkers took early retirement (I just didn't want to sit in on any more screaming matches, says one), while the real sharks, believing themselves invulnerable because of their vast wealth, continued to swim the halls in Dulles. The piped-in music may be the Eagles, and the furnishings may look as if the Ikea catalog had been redesigned by Antonio Gaudi, but deep down, AOL is about as New Age touchy-feely as a hammerlock. Sure, it used to be ponytails, tattoos and surfboards, recalls Mark Walsh, a former senior vice president of AOL who now runs the business-to-business e-commerce site VerticalNet, but AOL became the most aggressive company in the Internet business--and, as a result, the most successful.
The typical Time Warner manager, especially in its entertainment divisions, would never be mistaken for St. Francis of Assisi. But the deal-a-minute, scream-until-you-win culture of AOL is not likely to tolerate the stately pace of a company whose decision-making arteries are often clogged with consultants and task forces. California venture capitalist Jennifer Fonstad anticipates that the slightest whiff of old-economy culture in the halls of Dulles will create a huge opportunity for headhunting. I can't underscore how excited many of us are at the prospect of getting good AOL executives and engineers out here.
Winning over Wall Street will require a prolonged process of--pick your noun--either education or spin. Music-business executive Danny Goldberg, a former head of Warner Bros. records, says the merger both validates the Internet and validates the value of content. But it also forces the invention of a new currency to reflect it; as the AOL and TWX stock prices yo-yoed up and down last week, it was clear that investors had no idea how to put a price tag on something that was neither an Internet highflyer nor an old-economy cash-flow locomotive. AOL lost about 20% of its value before recovering to $63. Time Warner leaped 58% on the news, then settled at $82, up 26% for the week. In the nobody-knows-anything world of Wall Street, one analyst was predicting a 50% increase in AOL's stock price between now and next fall when the deal is expected to close, another was predicting a continuing slump, a third meaninglessly narrowed the medium-term price target to between $55 and $90, and the last little analyst cried all the way home. The Street has no historical reference, says one of the dealmakers.
Finally, there will inevitably be personnel and turf issues to unravel some nerves, as already seems to be happening to some Time Warner executives suspicious of the sudden omnipresence in the media of Case's agile No. 2, the 45-year-old Pittman. Himself a former Time Warner executive, Pittman is the highest-ranking manager in either company who made his bones in both the entertainment business and the digital world. Within hours of the deal's announcement, the corporate handicappers had tabbed him as Levin's successor. He had better be patient. According to an investment banker who knows both men, recalling the 1992 blitzkrieg with which Levin deposed his predecessor, N.J. Nicholas Jr., betting against Jerry Levin in a boardroom struggle would be a big mistake. Especially when, as in this case, it would take a 75% vote of the board--to consist, initially, of equal numbers of Time Warner directors and AOL directors--to dump the CEO.
Along the way, there's business to be done. New media buccaneers refer to their easiest challenges as low-hanging fruit, and in the merger announcement the two companies listed a series of efforts that would launch immediately: programming featured on AOL services; AOL discs stuffed into Time Warner product shipments; cross-promotion of Warner Bros. movies on AOL-owned MovieFone. If none of these seems especially delicious, that's because low-hanging fruit rarely is.
Within a year expect major initiatives in broadband, where AOL visionaries see their eventual future, and in recorded music, an area that has been less gold mine than minefield for Time Warner in the past few years. We can change the way people interact with music, change the distribution medium, says Jonathan Sacks, the senior vice president who supervises the main AOL service. Contemplate a music company that no longer has to bother manufacturing or shipping CDs, or sharing revenue with retailers--one that distributes its music directly from its hard drive to yours.
For consumers, the combination represents, in its barest terms, the potential for getting whatever they want--books, movies, magazines, music--whenever they want it, whatever way they choose, whether on a TV, a PC, a cell phone or any of the myriad wireless devices that are hurtling toward the marketplace. They can even get it on--drum roll--paper. Is there a compelling reason that one company has to provide all of this? No. It will be up to AOL Time Warner to prove its case to consumers.
That's the tantalizing potential of the AOL-Time Warner merger, the notion that two very different companies can combine to create something unimaginable only yesterday. Ten years ago, a Time Warner manager went to one of the company's senior executives with a proposition. This small but promising online business on whose board he sat, run by this terrific guy Steve Case, was in desperate need of cash. For $5 million, Time Warner could own 11% of it. If we did that, the boss replied, meaning if he conceded that the digital distribution of content was going to succeed, then everything we have done here since 1923 could be thrown out the window.
To see that, he may have been a wise man, though a horrible stock picker (that $5 million would be worth $15.6 billion at Friday's market close). But that was then, and this is tomorrow.
With reporting by Maryanne Murray Buechner, Adam Cohen and Emily Mitchell/New York, Michael Krantz/San Francisco and Chris Taylor/Dulles