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Kronos Extends Use of Autonomy Cardiff LiquidBPM
Autonomy Cardiff Apr 09, 2007
Customers Benefit From Advanced Integration of Business Process Platform for Automating Manual Processes
VISTA, California, March 12 - Cardiff, a division of Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) and leading provider of intelligent document solutions, today announced that Kronos Incorporated has selected the Cardiff LiquidBPM platform for expanded use as the foundation for the delivery of industry-leading business process capabilities to its customer base. Kronos, a global provider of human capital management solutions, empowers organizations around the world to effectively manage their workforce.
Cardiff's LiquidBPM is a robust and easily embedded business process management (BPM) software development kit (SDK) that brings advanced process management capabilities to existing applications and systems. Ideal for independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs), the LiquidBPM SDK is designed from the ground-up for rapid and tight integration with enterprise and vertical applications. The Cardiff platform delivers embeddable components in key areas related to BPM including process modeling, process orchestration and real-time process management and reporting.
"Kronos enables organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and ultimately enhance the level of service they provide. Delivering a seamless integration of Cardiff's world-class BPM platform enables the repeatable execution of best-practice processes for our customers in all industries," said Peter George, Kronos'chief technology officer.
"Cardiff's LiquidBPM is fundamentally designed to be integrated as an embedded component of leading solutions like Kronos' Workforce Central suite," said Mark Seamans, Cardiff's chief executive officer. "Kronos has taken full advantage of LiquidBPM and has seamlessly incorporated BPM capabilities into its platform in a manner that is intuitive for its customers and includes powerful Kronos-specific tasks and information links."
The integrated workflow and business process management capabilities are available now as part of Kronos' Workforce Central suite.
About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos Incorporated empowers organizations around the world to effectively manage their workforce. At Kronos, we are experts who are solely focused on delivering software and services that enable organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and ultimately enhance the level of service they provide. Kronos serves customers in more than 50 countries through its network of offices, subsidiaries, and distributors. Widely recognized as a market and thought leader in managing the workforce, Kronos has unrivaled reach with more than 30 million people using a Kronos solution every day. Learn more about Kronos at www.kronos.com
About Cardiff
Cardiff (www.cardiff.com) is a leading provider of software for intelligent document solutions that unify people, paper and process. Cardiff enables organizations to capture information from paper and electronic sources and to manage the process behind the form by embedding intelligence and enabling better visibility and control. As a result, businesses reduce operational costs, provide a rich customer experience and ensure compliance to organization and government regulation. Cardiff serves more than 8,000 customers worldwide, including many in the financial services, pharmaceutical, healthcare, education, government and manufacturing industries. Cardiff is an Autonomy Group company (LSE: AU. or AU.L)
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions, rich media management, compliance and litigation solutions and security applications, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.
Autonomy's customer base comprises more than 16,000 global companies and organizations including: 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft Foods, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Autonomy also has over 300 OEM partners and more than 350 VARs and Integrators, numbering among them leading companies such as BEA, Business Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Stellent, Sybase, Symantec, TIBCO and Vignette. The company has offices worldwide.
The Autonomy Group includes: Aungate, specialist in real-time enterprise governance; Virage, a visionary in rich media management and security and surveillance technology; etalk, award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact center products and Cardiff, a leader in content capture and business process management solutions.
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Dubai: Qatar's national carrier Qatar Airways signed a letter of intent on Sunday to order 50 Boeing 777-9X at a cost of $19 billion (Dh69.8 billion).
Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways, said the order showed "confidence" in Boeing, adding that the 777 is a flagship aircraft, at a press conference held at the Dubai Airshow, a major biennial aerospace event in the region.
Qatar Airways also announced on Sunday an order of five Airbus A330-200 Freighter aircraft, and eight options, with a total list value of $2.8 billion. The first delivery of the aircraft will be in 2014.
"It will be two next year and three soon after that," Al Baker said. "This new cargo aircraft …will eventually be the backbone of Qatar Airways' freighter fleet," Al Baker added.
The new order is aimed at replacing old mid-sized freighters.
"Al Baker is very focused on ensuring that Qatar has the most efficient fleet to support the airline's growth strategy," John Strickland, director of UK-based aviation advisory JLS Consultancy, said in an emailed statement.
Qatar Airways has 80 Airbus A350s and A320 Neos on order, as well as 13 Airbus A380-800s and one Airbus A320.
"With this new order, we will further cement our relationship with Airbus," he said.
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Congratulations to all sequester survivors!
Congratulations to all sequester survivors! I know it was tough getting through the 2.2 percent cut in growth of �non-essential� government �services,� even with one fake Washington snow day thrown in.
Quick, what day was it that federal workers took off? Could you tell?
Many citizens did not understand sequestration. Nearly half of all Americans thought it meant the removal of sequins from Ryan Seacrest�s rhinestone jacket.
Try as they might, President Obama and his zombies in the media were unable to make good on their threats to inflict as much pain as they could with the sequester he created.
Since the sequester vote, Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid say they have done much �soul searching.� Perhaps with enough federal stimulus money, they might actually find one. They have been the Nancy Grace of politics, making wild assertions about how spending cuts will hurt and hoping that something they say actually ends up being true.
To be fair, sequestration was bipartisan. (The two wasteful wars we are in also had overwhelming �bipartisan� support.) Now each party claims it was the other side�s idea, and a bad idea at that. The word �bipartisan� means an extreme sleight of hand is being perpetrated on citizens by both parties. Be eternally fearful when politicians all agree on something.
Obama, who tries to glom onto the Clinton aura when it benefits him, did try to reach out to some in the GOP when he could not get his way. He was pushed to the precipice of actual pleasantness. He wants to inflict pain on the country by making these minimal cuts in growth of government seem severe. Clinton and Obama both set out to screw as many as possible, but each had a radically different interpretation as to what that meant.
In one act of petulance, Obama cut the $74,000 weekly cost of White Hours tours for kids during Spring Break. Yet the trip Obama took to Florida to play golf with Tiger Woods cost $1 million. Obama has three White House calligraphers making $277,000 in combined salaries. And Michelle Obama is hiring Adele and Beyonce to sing at her White House birthday party.
All this decadent spending comes from a president who assails the �greed of the rich� in America at a $50,000-a-plate campaign fundraiser.
Instead of sitting down with Republicans in good faith to hammer out a deal, Obama goes into campaign mode. Since taking office, he has spent one out of every 10 days visiting colleges. He has much in common with college students: In his fifth year of eight, he has run up more debt than he can pay and has created no job prospects. And like most immature male college kids, Obama has a really odd obsession with remote-operated airplanes.
Democrats like to claim the moral high ground. Aside from scandals involving Jesse Jackson Jr., Jon Corzine, John Edwards, Charlie Rangel, Bob Menendez, Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer and Al Gore (according to DNC bylaws, they have all committed crimes punishable by getting a show on MSNBC or CNN), Democrats have the worse argument on spending. Is it moral to spend money we do not have (42 percent of which we have to borrow) on growing a government we do not want, that burdens our kids with more than $16 trillion in debt? Which is more selfish, continuing to spend on ourselves or cutting spending so we do not go broke and can provide basic services in the future?
In the most naked power grabs by Democrats since Gore�s last hotel room massage, the insatiable Obama tried to usurp the House�s constitutional right to raise the debt limit while Reid tried to limit the right of senators like Rand Paul to filibuster.
Obama took his campaign message of blaming Republicans to West Virginia. When a Washington politician is in West Virginia, it is either an election year or his plane crashed. One political party complaining about the other is like a burglar complaining about a pickpocket.
What Obama and big spending Democrats do not want you to realize is that we can withstand this budget �cut� and a whole lot more. We have awakened to their corrupt stewardship and incompetent management of our money. We can only hope that this is just the beginning. I think we have them on the run.
Ron Hart is a syndicated op-ed humorist, award-winning author and TV/radio commentator. Email him at Ron@RonaldHart.com or visit www.RonaldHart.com.


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Pride & Prejudice & Zombies and alternative Valentine's Day movies
Jason Palmer February 12, 2016
Valentine's Day is almost upon us and that means romantic movies are everywhere! Watching a well-loved film with your other half is one of the nation's favourite pastimes, especially on Valentine's Day. There's plenty of choice out there too, with romantic dramas, comedies, weepies, and epics all ready to be devoured.
Everyone loves the greats, be it golden era gems like Brief Encounter, Roman Holiday and Casablanca, 80s & 90s stalwarts Dirty Dancing and Pretty Woman or modern classics like Titanic and Romeo and Juliet. But if you are looking for something a bit different this Valentine's Day, where do you go?
Check out these five films – they are all great, all a bit different and crucially, they are all centred on true love. With a current theatrical release in the mix and some classics to enjoy on home entertainment platforms like Sky, Netflix and Amazon Prime, there's never been a better time to catch a slightly offbeat love story with your loved one!
This current cinematic release takes the classic traits of Jane Austen's seminal book and adds a sense of decomposing danger! The Bennet sisters are on the look-out for eligible husbands but also have to keep a keen eye out for brain-eating Zombies who are terrorizing 19th century London. However, all of this takes a backseat to burgeoning romantic tensions and courtship woes, especially between Lily James' headstrong and confident Elizabeth and the dashing but mysterious Mr. Darcy, played to perfection by Sam Riley. A film that stays centred on love even through mass zombie killings.
This forgotten gem from 2011 stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt as star-crossed lovers destined to be apart. But this is Matt Damon we are talking about, so he fights the system to be together with the woman he loves – even though mysterious suited beings are doing their utmost to keep them separated. Co-starring Anthony Mackie, John Slattery and Terence Stamp, this is a wonderful story, coupled with sensational performances from both Damon and the gorgeous Emily Blunt.
From all outward appearances, this 2009 effort from director Marc Webb and writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber is your typical rom-com. But as the opening voiceover bluntly states, this is not a love story. What follows is a modern classic – a film bursting with invention and style that perfectly captures the lifecycle of a relationship. Crucially, it also focuses on the male perspective and delivers a film that resonates with anyone caught up in similar situations. Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have also never been better in this outstanding study into modern affairs of the heart. Having an amazing soundtrack also doesn't hurt!
What's wrong with a man falling in love with a mannequin? This 80s classic is a rom-com in the traditional sense, but having one half of the couple be a store dummy certain changes things. Teen comedy legend Andrew McCarthy falls for Egyptian princess Emmy (Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall), after her mannequin magically comes to life. The only trouble is he's the only one who can see her alive. Zany 80s laughs, James Spader playing a creepy store manager and a cracking soundtrack featuring Starship's anthemic 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now' makes this an off-beat Valentine's classic.
The Karate Kid
Easily one of the most romantic movies of the 80s, young Ralph Macchio gets beaten up, run off a hill and literally has sand kicked in his face all for the affections of the stunning Elisabeth Shue. It's a fair deal if you ask me. The story may be remembered for its wax on, wax off training montages and fantastic finale but it's also a brilliant tale of young love, with a popular girl falling for a regular guy from the wrong side of the tracks. As Peter Cetera's title track to the sequel proclaimed, he 'did it all for the glory of love'.
What are your favourite alternative Valentine's Day movies? Let us know in the comments below.
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January 6, 2022 January 1, 2022 by americanpost
The CDC is going to modify the rules for the use of masks against Covid
Babies born to vaccinated mothers are less likely to be hospitalized with Covid, according to CDC
The CDC warned that the risk of contracting Covid on cruise ships is very high, regardless of vaccination status.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) They warned this Thursday to people to avoid traveling on cruise ships regardless of their vaccination status, following the recent increase in positive Covid-19 cases on board ships, at a time when the highly contagious Omicron variant is spreading across the globe.
CDC increased their travel warning for cruise ships to the highest level, as the agency is investigating dozens of ships that have presented coronavirus outbreaks.
Cruise ships operating in U.S. waters reported to the CDC about 5,000 cases of Covid-19 between December 15 and 29, which represents a large increase compared to the first two weeks of the month, in which 162 cases were registered.
"It is especially important that travelers who are at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19 avoid traveling on cruise ships, including riverine, around the world, regardless of their vaccination status," the agency said.
The CDC recommendations represent a further blow to a cruise travel industry which was devastated during 2020 after the start of the pandemic.
Related: California registers record of lines of cargo ships in its ports waiting to enter merchandise
The CDC warned that Covid is easily transmitted between people in confined spaces on ships and the chance of contracting the virus on a cruise ship is very high even for people who are vaccinated and have received a booster dose.
In addition, the CDC advised people to decide to go on a cruise get vaccinated before their trip and receive a booster dose if they are fit for it, in addition to wearing masks in shared spaces, and passengers who are not fully vaccinated must be under care for five days after the trip.
The CDC also recommended that people going on a cruise should be tested one to three days before departure, and three to five days after their trip, regardless of vaccination status or symptoms.
Following the news, Norwegian Cruise Line and Carnival shares fell more than 2% while Royal Caribbean fell 1.93%.
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Uber hires Eric Holder to investigate sexism allegations
Updated: 6:52 PM CST Feb 20, 2017
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Uber is scrambling to repair its image after a former engineer published bombshell allegations of sexism within the company. Now, it has hired one of the nation's most well-known attorneys to investigate the claims. CEO Travis Kalanick sent a company-wide email on Monday, which addressed the allegations published the day before. He said Uber hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Tammy Albarran, both partners at law firm Covington & Burling, to probe the claims. Uber sent a copy of the memo to CNNTech. " will conduct an independent review into the specific issues relating to the work place environment raised by Susan Fowler, as well as diversity and inclusion at Uber more broadly," Kalanick wrote. "Joining them will be Arianna Huffington, who sits on Uber's board, Liane Hornsey, our recently hired Chief Human Resources Officer, and Angela Padilla, our Associate General Counsel." On Sunday, former engineer Susan Fowler published allegations of blatant and systemic sexism at the company. These include a supervisor propositioning her for sex, and the company's human resources department ignoring multiple complaints about inappropriate behavior. Kalanick said he opened an "urgent" investigation into the matter after she posted her story. The CEO also told employees he plans to publish a diversity report. Uber is one of the largest tech companies that has not released statistics about the diversity of its employees. Kalanick said women make up 15.1% of Uber's technology teams. (Google's tech workforce, for comparison, is 18% women.) Fowler's story went viral in the last 24 hours, renewing calls to boycott the ride-hailing company. The allegations of sexism follow a wave of controversy surrounding Kalanick's association with President Donald Trump. Earlier this month, Kalanick resigned from Trump's business advisory council following a #deleteuber campaign. Though Fowler's allegations shocked many people, they serve as a reminder that the culture at tech companies is often sexist. Just last week, a former Magic Leap vice president filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against the company. And according to a 2016 study, three out of five women who work in Silicon Valley say they have experienced unwanted sexual advances.
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Uber is scrambling to repair its image after a former engineer published bombshell allegations of sexism within the company. Now, it has hired one of the nation's most well-known attorneys to investigate the claims.
CEO Travis Kalanick sent a company-wide email on Monday, which addressed the allegations published the day before. He said Uber hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Tammy Albarran, both partners at law firm Covington & Burling, to probe the claims.
Uber CEO orders 'urgent' investigation after sexual harassment allegations
Uber sent a copy of the memo to CNNTech.
"[They] will conduct an independent review into the specific issues relating to the work place environment raised by Susan Fowler, as well as diversity and inclusion at Uber more broadly," Kalanick wrote. "Joining them will be Arianna Huffington, who sits on Uber's board, Liane Hornsey, our recently hired Chief Human Resources Officer, and Angela Padilla, our Associate General Counsel."
On Sunday, former engineer Susan Fowler published allegations of blatant and systemic sexism at the company. These include a supervisor propositioning her for sex, and the company's human resources department ignoring multiple complaints about inappropriate behavior.
Kalanick said he opened an "urgent" investigation into the matter after she posted her story.
The CEO also told employees he plans to publish a diversity report. Uber is one of the largest tech companies that has not released statistics about the diversity of its employees. Kalanick said women make up 15.1% of Uber's technology teams. (Google's tech workforce, for comparison, is 18% women.)
Fowler's story went viral in the last 24 hours, renewing calls to boycott the ride-hailing company. The allegations of sexism follow a wave of controversy surrounding Kalanick's association with President Donald Trump. Earlier this month, Kalanick resigned from Trump's business advisory council following a #deleteuber campaign.
Though Fowler's allegations shocked many people, they serve as a reminder that the culture at tech companies is often sexist. Just last week, a former Magic Leap vice president filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against the company. And according to a 2016 study, three out of five women who work in Silicon Valley say they have experienced unwanted sexual advances.
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There were nearly 45,000 suicides in 2016. Middle-aged adults -- ages 45 to 64 -- had the largest rate increase, rising to 19.2 per 100,000 in 2016 from 13.2 per 100,000 in 1999.


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Q: How to customize colorbar in Seaborn Heatmap with text labels I'd like to create a colorbar legend for a heatmap, that instead of numbers has text.
For example, suppose I am going to show the people distribution who traverse between some cities. But in colorbar, I want to have three texts "Low population", "medium" and "High" instead of number which shows the range of the population.
It is not professional at all but my code to address this issue is in the blow:
ax = sns.heatmap(Matrix_of_Population, cmap='viridis', cbar_kws={'label': 'Low      Medium    high'})

But the number of population is also besides these texts.

A: You can specify labels for specific ticks in the colorbar:
import seaborn as sns
import numpy as np

a = np.random.randn(20,20)
ax = sns.heatmap(a, cmap='viridis')
c_bar = ax.collections[0].colorbar
c_bar.set_ticks([-2, 0, 2])
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Every driver on the road knows that the primary cause of car accidents in the US is distracted driving. Distractions are everywhere, such as cell phones, loose objects in the car, kids in the back seat, and even a great song on the radio. However, there are some causes that you can't blame on distractions. Not every crash is avoidable, but here are a few causes you can avoid simply by taking good care of your car.
It is essential that you take good care of your tires. Your tires are obviously an incredibly important part of your vehicle, but due to the expensive nature of tires, many drivers delay replacing them. Did you know that you should be rotating your tires? This can help you prolong their lifespan, and save you from having to buy tires as often. When you do replace your tires, you should also have them properly aligned, so that your vehicle continues to run smoothly. If you don't take pay attention to your tires, you may end up with a flat, or a total blow out while driving, which is a common cause for accidents.
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Norman Music Festival starts on Thursday and it's time to start planning your schedule for each day of the fest! Every day of this free festival has so many great artists I'm sure you want to see them all like we do. Unfortunately it's not possible to see every single act, but here are our opinions on the ten acts that are absolute must-sees at Norman Music Festival this year.
Every Tuesday, The Spy adds new music to its rotation. Here are the adds for the week of April 9th, 2019. This playlist includes Fitz & the Tantrums, Strumbellas, Silversun Pickups, & many more. Give the tracks a listen below!
Fitz & the Tantrums "Don't Ever Let 'Em"
The Supreme Court will review a challenge to the citizenship question on the U.S. census. We look ahead to what's at stake.
A bill allowing optometrists to practice in big-box stores like Walmart is quietly making its way through the state legislature. It may look familiar to Oklahoma voters, who defeated a similar state question last fall.


Sabrina Dhowre (L) and Idris Elba attend "The Mountain Between Us" premiere during the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on Sept. 10, 2017, in Toronto, Canada.
The Valentine's Day celebrations have started a bit early for one Hollywood couple.
Idris Elba is engaged to girlfriend Sabrina Dhowre after popping the big question at a movie theatre in London.
"Another @riocinema first!" the venue shared on Twitter when confirming the news Saturday morning. "Still 5 days to Valentine's Day but @idriselba went down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend live on stage this morning before a preview of his film #Yardie."
The venue added, "She said yes and there was much clapping and cheering."
Other guests attending the screening would also share their congratulations on social media. One even captured the romantic moment on video.
Back in September of 2017, Idris and former Miss Vancouver made their red carpet debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. The pair posed for photos together before attending the premiere of Molly's Game.
And while the two tried to keep their romance private, some may be surprised to find out Idris made such a big step in the relationship.
"Am I ever gonna get remarried? I don't think so," the actor told Essence magazine in July. "Yeah, I don't think so. Marriage is an institution of sorts. And I've done it. It's not for everybody. It's not my life's calling."
Perhaps someone has had a change of heart.
"When you're the brains in the relationship and he's the beauty," Sabrina recently joked on Instagram while posing with her man. "@idriselba #justjoking."
Congratulations to the couple on their big news!


Who doesn't love cupcakes? I know I do. Cupcakes are a favorite for the kids and I in this house and we love to bake them as much as possible. I decided that I needed to make some stuffed cupcakes with caramel icing. They were a HIT! So yummy. I couldn't get over how well they turned out and how easy they were to make!
The cake is so fluffy and airy and beautiful and it pairs very well with the caramel as well! Together, the cupcakes and icing create a flavor explosion that can not be beat! Let's just say after I made these, I had some people knocking on my door to try them, and once they had, they came back to see if i made more soon after. I started to feel like a cupcake factory, which is fine by me as I love to bake, so heck, I will bake some more!
What surprised me was, Husband, who isn't really much of a cake lover even gobbled these up and asked when I would be making more! Seriously, delicious!
The good thing about these cupcakes, is that they are generally easy to make but they taste like you baked all day! I really couldn't get over how wonderful the icing was either. If you are a fan of caramel, then you will love the icing!
I am going to make an apple bundt cake one day and use the icing while it is still warm as a drizzle over top. The possibilities are endless with this icing!
So, let's get baking! I hope you enjoy them. Come back and let me know what variations of ingredients you used and what you used to stuff these cupcakes with!
A wonderful melt in your mouth chocolate cupcake, stuffed with your favorite caramel chocolate and topped with a creamy caramel icing.
Preheat Oven to 350 Degrees. Place cupcake liners in tin.
Stir first 4 listed ingredients together in a mixing bowl and set aside.
Place the chocolate pieces in a large mixing bowl. Slowly add the boiling water. Let sit for 3 mins. Using a whisk, whisk the water and chocolate mixture until it reaches a smooth consistency. Add the butter and the eggs, vanilla and sour cream and whisk until well combined and smooth.
Gradually add the sugar mixture, making sure to whisk until smooth.
Fill cupcake liners 1/2 full with batter, Add Chocolate bar piece, cover with rest of the batter until batter is equally distributed among the liners.
Bake for 15-20 Mins or until center feels firm.
Add brown sugar, butter, milk and salt to a medium sized pot, bring to a boil. Stir frequently. Reduce heat and boil for 2 1/2 mins. Stir often.
Remove mixture from heat and place in refrigerator, allowing the mixture to cool completely.
Once Cooled Stir in icing sugar and vanilla and beat on low speed until mixture thickens enough to spread on cupcakes.
Ice cupcakes and garnish with piece of chocolate.
This was a really great, moist cake recipe combined with a fantastic icing and stuffed with your favorite chocolate. I chose a chocolate bar that has some caramel inside it because it pairs well with the caramel icing.
Can you imagine paired with apple cake? delicious!
Mmm, Apple Cake with Caramel Icing Drizzle, Could use the caramel icing while it's still warm instead of cooling it and use it to drizzle over an apple bundt cake…. Hmmmm… Thanks for the Idea!
These will be an awesome after diet "reward!" Thanks for the Pin!
Oh my gosh – these look delicious! Now I want a cupcake for breakfast. There's no better combo than chocolate and caramel.
I would love to if I could figure out how to keep them tasty and send them! Yay to being pregnant! I remember the cravings… I didn't crave anything too specific, or weird, but I ALWAYS wanted to eat.
They were super! I Love chocolate too!


Former Major League pitcher and 1995 World Series champion with the Atlanta Braves, Greg McMichael joins Brian for a fantastic episode on the pro baseball grind, the mental game, and life after sports.
The extreme adversity that Greg overcame to reach the Major Leagues.
An amazing story about how Greg thought his career might be over, but he continued to pursue his goals and ended up being an integral part of the '95 World Series champion Atlanta Braves.
Greg's unique perspective on the mental game.
The #1 way Greg measures success today… his answer will likely surprise you.
So I think I have a much higher standard than just trying to be the World Champion or just trying to be the best relief pitcher ever. I'm required to dig way deeper than that because I've seen plenty of people who were the best but all other areas of their life were in shambles. I want to be that person that succeeds in way more than just what the stats read. I want to be more well rounded. I think by doing that I'm going to be the best in multiple areas and not just one area.
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Cain: Hey, how are you doing? This is Brian Cain, your Peak Performance Coach, with the Peak Performance Podcast, and today our guest is a 1995 Major League Baseball World Series Champion and a pitcher with a career 3.25 ERA. His name? Greg McMichael. Greg went to the Webb School in Knoxville and then went on to the University of Tennessee and had a great career before being drafted by the Cleveland Indians and spending the better part of eight seasons in Major League Baseball. Greg, thank you for taking the time out of your hectic schedule here to sit down with us and be on the podcast.
McMichael: Yeah, no worries. Thanks for having me, Brian.
Cain: If you would, Greg, could you kind of catch our audience (which is going to be mostly coaches and athletes), kind of give them a snapshot of your journey from going to the Webb School and kind of how you got into baseball all the way up to where you are now in your position with the Atlanta Braves.
McMichael: Sure, I'd be glad to. So my journey kind of starts back when I was about 13 and I was diagnosed with a rare cartilage disease called osteochondritis dissecans. At the time I think it was pretty rare. I think there were only like two cases in Tennessee. I've recently have had students in the last 10 years that have had it and it's more common today because kids are growing faster. So basically what had happened is I grew like six inches in one year and the cartilage in my knees had died, so they had to go in and start taking it out. They tried to repair it, which kind of like the micro-fracture nowadays, they went in and they drilled holes. Back then it didn't work. So I had three surgeries before I got out of high school and at a very young age they told me I'd never play sports again.
Coming from a kid that played basketball, football, baseball, swam, I ran track, I played tennis – I did everything that you could possibly do – to all of a sudden doctors saying you can't do anything anymore. So for two years I was in a pretty dark place. I started hanging out with seniors. Started doing drugs and drinking and stuff. It just was not a good scene at all because baseball was my life – or sports were my life and competition – and that was taken away and I really didn't know what to do. But I got to a point where as a sophomore in high school I just said I've got to go do something.
I tried to pitch and the doctor just said, "Well, you can try but it's going to hurt and it's going to be hard to run and do all that kind of stuff." So I figured pitching was the one thing where you didn't have to run a lot, didn't have to do much, that I could try. So I pitched and I did pretty well my sophomore year. My next year I got a little stronger. I pitched and played first base. I played quarterback on the football team. Then by my senior year, I had received a full ride to Tennessee. We won the state championship in baseball. I went on to the University of Tennessee and pitched for three years. I didn't do really well my first couple of years just because adjusting from a small school like Webb (that you talked about) to SEC Baseball was a big jump. So it took me a couple years to adjust, but I got better and better and by my junior year the Indians drafted me in the third round. I was the #1 pitcher at Tennessee. I did pretty well in the SEC.
I went on and then that's when my career really started taking off, because I think at that time all the adversity I had gone through I realized that I was a quick learner. I realized that one of my gifts was being coachable and then adapting with things around me, seeing what others were doing, implementing it into my skill set. So I was able to learn and succeed pretty quickly. I went through the Indians organization very quickly and by the very first year we played, we won the Carolina League Championship. I was the starting pitcher on the team. We won the championship and then the next year we set the record for wins in Double-A. We won another championship. Then I was real up close to the big leagues when I got hurt again.
The Indians knew of my history of knee problems. I had surgery and they said, "You know what – you're going to have to retire, you need to shut it down, we don't think you're going to make it." So they released me after just cruising through their organization. So I went back to the scout who had signed me and he was now with the Braves (his name is Roy Clark), and I went to him and I said, "Hey, they just released me." He's like, "Why did they release you?" I said, "Well, I had surgery and they didn't think I was going to make it back." So I went to a little tryout with him and he looked at me and he says, "You know what? I still see what I like about you and I think you're still in a good position." So he got me signed by the Braves. I had to start back over in A-Ball.
Then I went through their organization pretty quickly and actually made the team out of spring training in 1993. I had signed with them in 1991, made the team in 1993, and by the All-Star break I was the closer for the Braves. They had been in the World Series the last two years and then two years later we won the World Series.
What's interesting about that story is not only is it a God story – what He did in my life in bringing me from those very dark times – but the guy who released me with the Indians who told me that I should hang it up came over and shook my hand in 1995. He was the first person I saw when he walked in the clubhouse after we beat the Indians in the World Series. He shook my hand and said "Congratulations!" So pretty – I wish I could take credit for the whole thing but I worked hard. I stayed at it. I didn't give up even though plenty of times I wanted to.
Cain: One of the things that we hear a lot of our guests on the podcast talk about is at some point in their life they had to kind of draw a line in the sand and make a decision that they weren't going to become a victim of adversity but they were going to become a victor and make adversity their advantage. That sounds like you had to do that in high school with the injury, you had to do it again with kind of a lifestyle change from hanging out with the wrong crowd to the right crowd in high school, and then again when you had surgery in 1993 and the Indians released you. Is that something that you learned or is it something that was just a part of your DNA? How do you learn to make adversity your advantage as an athlete?
McMichael: I think that you know that it's a part of the game. I think that's what so great about athletics, is when you decide to be an athlete and play, it just comes with the territory and you've got to learn to deal with it or you quit. You give up.
I've been teaching for the last 15 years and I tell my students all the time – you called it "drawing a line in the sand" – but there will come a time where you've got to decide am I going to keep moving forward or am I just going to quit and run away? It happens at some point in time. I call them "gut checks." Some kids today, especially in the Atlanta area where I am, the competition is so fierce – it comes at 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade – where that coach says, "You know what? You're not good enough, we've got too many guys here." I see it all the time. I say that's going to be the point in time where you decide if you really want to be a ball player. Do you really want to pitch or are you just doing it because you have nothing else to do or are you doing it because you're passionate about it?
I'll tell you just one quick story. I had a student years ago that was cut his freshman year and he came to me and he says, "I really want to pitch in high school but I just got cut." So we worked the whole year and his sophomore year he got cut again. He worked a whole year and he went to junior tryouts and he got cut again. I looked at him and I said, "I love you but maybe it's time to either go to a different school or find something else you're passionate about." He said, "No. I'm going to pitch at my high school, I'm going to pitch for my high school." I said, "Well, that coach doesn't like you, he doesn't like something or you're not good enough or he's got too many good athletes." He goes, "I don't care. I want to work." So we worked another year and he made it as the 11th pitcher on his staff. He goes on to get full ride, college, goes on to play independent ball. So a great story.
There was a gut check for him and he just said, "No, I am passionate about this" and he kept moving forward. We all face those, whether it's life, whether it's college, whether it's career, whether it's sports. So it's just a great story for me. But yeah, I agree with you.
What gave me the strength to do that? I think it was my relationship with the Lord because I wanted to quit, but I also knew that this was something I was good at and that I was passionate about it. So I think those factors all played into that if I quit I had nowhere else to go. I had to keep moving forward.
Cain: If we can, let's kind of jump forward a little bit to the 1995 season World Series. You're a World Series Champion. What's the – and you were a closer on that team? Is that right?
McMichael: I was the setup guy by that time.
McMichael: I closed earlier in my career but I was a setup guy.
Cain: Was Rocker the closer on that team?
Cain: Wohlers. Okay. Fantastic. So talk a little bit about kind of the mental game of baseball for you as a pitcher, whether it was coming in to close a game or coming in as a setup guy. I'm sure your career at some point you were a starter. What's kind of the mental game of baseball to you as a guy who has played and had success at all levels, a World Series ring? What's the mental game of baseball, Greg?
McMichael: Pitching is an interesting job because you have to have (as my wife would say) water off a duck's back. You have to be able to have the ability to get beat one night and come back and believe that you're going to succeed the next night, and so it's really a series of tiny battles throughout the whole season. The season is a marathon but yet pitching as a reliever is a sprint, which is an interesting dynamic because those are two different mental games.
Running a marathon versus a sprinter – they're two different situations. As a reliever you have to have short-term memory loss. You have to keep having confidence even though maybe the fans don't have the confidence in you or the coach doesn't have confidence in you or sometimes you don't have confidence in yourself. You've got to find a way to keep going out there every night. The season starts around February because you're going to spring training and you have a month to prepare, six weeks to prepare, then between April and September you're competing night in, night out. Even though you might not be in a game (I think the most I wasn't in 81 games which is almost half the games) you're warming up in another third of the games, so you're preparing to go in.
So there's a physical grind, but there's a mental grind because you know that at any second that phone rings, you get up, you prepare, you go in, and you've got to compete at a very high level at the very first pitch.
As a starter you have time to prepare five days in advance. You go out, you warm up very slowly, you prepare for a marathon type of game. As a reliever you have to throw your very first pitch, the first pitch, because if you come in with bases loaded, nobody out, or a man on first, two outs – the game you've got a one-run lead and it's the 8th inning – you can't relax. Your first pitch has to be as good as your last. As a starter you can make a few mistakes early on and recover because it's for seven innings. But as a reliever if you make one bad pitch, you're out of the game or the game is over. That kind of edge that you're living on is very intense and you have to be perfect right away.
So doing that night in and night out, you're going to fail. It's just the numbers work out that way, but you're also going to have a lot of successes. The key is how do you stay even keeled, how do you balance yourself out night in and night out and not get too high and not get too low? So that is kind of a mental marathon, whereas physically you have to be ready to sprint every night.
Cain: So what are some things that you did to keep you on that even keel and be consistent from a routine standpoint, or what were some of kind of like your daily routines and things that you use to be consistent?
McMichael: So I think from a personal level I had my relationship with the Lord, kind of the spiritual component of my life that kept me even keeled. Then from a family perspective I had to be grounded. My wife was good at helping me stay grounded. She wasn't all into baseball. She didn't talk about baseball. So I had a family life that was very balanced, which was good.
Then from an athletic standpoint, coming to the field there was a routine that I had to get into. I teach this to my students. You've got to have a routine. The world looks at baseball players and they are called superstitious. You put your socks on the same way. But I call that a pattern. What I've seen is that when I have a pattern that I'm comfortable with that I can repeat day in and day out, then it allows me to repeat as an athlete. I warm up the same way. I dress the same way. I eat similar. I have routines throughout the day that I call patterns that I try I repeat. So it's playing catch with the same person. It's working.
And of course this kind of evolves over the course of your career because you find things that work and things that don't work, but it could be as simple as how I step up on the mound, how many warm-up pitches I have, do I throw a sinker first, do I throw a slider first, do I throw change-ups first, what am I thinking about, how do I pray? There is just that whole pattern that you try to develop as an athlete. I think that's the biggest thing that allows you to compete.
Remember, pitching is about doing 100 times the right way and thinking the right way, physically doing the right way. Ultimately that's impossible to do because we're human and we're flawed, but when you have the mentality that you're going to repeat the right pitch, the perfect pitch the right way every time, whether it's in practice or warm-ups or in the game, then you've created a pattern that you can have the best success on going out there and doing your job.
Cain: I love that concept of the patterns and repeating and getting into a routine from the way that you eat and how you dress and your warm-up and who you're playing catch with. I'd imagine that even now today, working in alumni relations with the Braves after your baseball career is over, that you probably still have routines in the sense of kind of how you attack your day. Is that accurate?
McMichael: That is. It's probably – it's funny because I'm dealing with a lot of guys that have retired and passed from playing to now just being a dad working in a second career. I'm on my third career now. I tell alumni all the time you're going to have multiple careers. The key is finding a new pattern (like you said). It's very – I was depressed for a whole year after I quit because I thought there is no way I can go from doing what I'm doing to now carpool and dad every day, dinner at home. The pattern looks a lot less exciting than what I was doing before and I thought I just don't think I can do it. I don't think I can create a new pattern. But you do.
Again, you've got to find what works and you've got to adjust into a new career. So I'm doing something that I love and I wouldn't go back. It's just a new phase in my life. But you're absolutely right. You have to find a way. You're trying to be successful at what you're doing now so you've got to do the same thing.
I tell you what – it's harder the older I get. Sometimes I'm less motivated. I'm a little flabby around the midsection and my kids are going like, "Dad, really were you an athlete?" you know. But it's fun. But yeah, I think it's probably more important now because it doesn't come as natural as it did. I played baseball from 7 years old all the way up till I was 34 and in the big leagues, and that was something you repeated every year and it just got better and better and better because you repeated so much. Then all of a sudden you change careers at 35 and now you don't have all that – I don't know if it's called an aggregate or you don't have that kind of building upon year after year like you did.
You see guys go – and I did this – into the business world and you don't have that knowledge and that experience that's built up for 30 years. You're starting fresh into a business and boy, that's a recipe for disaster for a lot of guys because you think, "Oh well, I was successful at this so I can walk into this arena and I can be just as successful." You can get blindsided so easily because you don't have that cumulative knowledge that you did before and it's just a real scary thing, but you've just got to keep your eyes wide open on that.
Cain: Let's talk a little bit about that kind of retirement and career transition that I'm sure you see and help a lot of players through, because as an athlete or as a college coach, you play and all of a sudden somebody says – very few people retire. Most people either get injured and they're done or they get cut and they're done. A lot of my friends that have done that or guys that I've worked with in college, they go on to play in pro, then they kind of go into (like you said) those dark years. Or college coaches, that this is what they've always done. They're a head coach. They get fired and now they have a really hard time getting another college coaching job. I think there is that retirement/career transition. What are some of the things that you see with the people that you work with, with the former players, that they struggle with – like all of them in that career/retirement or transition – and then what advice do you often give them consistently?
McMichael: With these guys, I see a lack of confidence. If you think about how baseball works, you're told what to wear, when to be on the field, when to eat, when to pitch, when to hit, so you are truly – you're almost a company guy, a movement worker. I mean there is no really thinking outside the box. There may be some small things on how you train in the off-season but for the most part you're pretty much, everything is dictated to you what you're going to do. Now when you leave that and you're asked to come up with a different career, it's really hard for these guys to think outside the box.
One of the things that I've offered in the past is, I've said, "Okay, we need to get you tested, we need to find out where your skills lie outside of being a pitcher or a hitter, we need to get you a coach and we need to help you transition to another career." Literally, I see a lot of guys frozen – not knowing what to do, how to do it, and then lack the confidence to step out and do it. That's where I've tried to step in and say, "You know what? I know you have a skill set, I know you have other passions. We need to find out what those are and you need some help to do it and there are professionals out there that can do that." So I've encouraged them from that perspective.
A lot of guys go right back into the game because that's what they know, so it's easy to transition from player to coach or player to scout. Outside of that it's a little scarier and I haven't seen as many people transition. I think the players from 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago did a great job of transitioning because in the off-season they had to work. They couldn't just train. My generation of players made enough money where they could just train in the off-season but then it hurt them on the backside because when it was time to retire they had no skills. They had no skill set. So I think you look at the guys back from the 70s and the 80s – when they retired, they just went right into working with AT&T, they had internships, they did all this kind of stuff. So they seemed to be a lot healthier in their second career than my generation of players who all became instructors.
It's not that – I love teaching. That's part of my passion. But I do it because I want to, not because I have to. A lot of these guys transition into teaching and coaching and scouting because they don't have any other choices, so therefore they don't do it as well because they're not as passionate about it.
The one thing I do try to encourage them to do and if they need help – and I know the Player's Association has talked about this a little bit, but being on the ground here with the alumni with the Braves, I think I have a lot better feel than somebody who is sitting up in New York trying to talk about what is going on around the country. I know in Atlanta the 62 guys that I deal with here and then there are 250 nationwide that I kind of communicate with, but at least the 62 guys here in Atlanta I've got a really good feel for what they need and how to transition them. But it is a scary thing. I think the biggest thing is you've got to start with getting yourself tested, find out where your skills lie, then you've got to get a coach and have somebody help you find an internship into that arena.
There was a lot that happened in high school and college that was very positive. Obviously, there are always personal choices, life choices, but I think what kind of transcends all those areas, all those time frames in my life, is probably just a couple factors. I think, one, I would tell myself at 18, 22, 30, that every decision that you make today is going to have an eternal impact and it's going to have a daily impact, it's going to have a weekly impact, it's going to have a monthly impact. So the decisions that you're making today are going to affect you from now until eternity.
So I think take every thought captive. Take your work seriously. Think about that you're not only building and looking for success today but you're looking for long-term success. Sometimes it's easy to believe the lie that you're living in a bubble, that your decision right now only impacts you right now. I think that should be a way of life for you no matter what age or stage of life you're in.
Because like we talked about, as an athlete, number one, we have an accumulative effect. So the things you work on today are going to be the skills developed tomorrow and next week and next month – but also the work ethic that you're building, the personal choices that you're making with your girlfriend, with your fiancée, with your wife, the personal choices that you're making when you're out with your friends, the time that you have to work on your skills as a pitcher in practice when nobody is looking, when you're just sitting around in the outfield and your mind is wandering, or you're playing catch with your buddy before practice. Use those times to create good, positive decisions that are going to make you a better pitcher, make you a better employer/employee, make you a better husband, make you a better friend, all those decisions that you're making.
So that would probably be the biggest advice I would tell myself at 18, 25, 35, even today. I'm turning 50 next month. It doesn't change. I still have to talk to myself the same way. I still have to say, "You know what? Decisions I'm making now with my kids, with my wife, with my job – they're going to impact me when I'm 60. They're going to impact me when I'm 55. They're going to impact me when I'm 70." I just don't think you ever get away from that. I think it's just a good word. We always want a better work ethic. There are things that I'm branching out into now that I want to see come true in a year or two years so I have to stay focused on that. I don't think that changes from 18 to 49.
The #1 thing I've learned in my personal life over the last probably 25 years is that, do I look at my wife and is she happy? Is she content? Do we have a good relationship? So #1, do I see a harshness in her life or do I see joy and do I see a special relationship? I can honestly say that that hasn't always been the case, but I can say today that we have as good or better a relationship than we've ever had. So to me that's the #1 way that I judge success because that is just a foundational issue in my life, that I could be the best alumni director in the world, I could have all the World Series Champion rings, but if I walk home and there is somebody there that hates my guts or somebody there that's just a miserable relationship, I've seen those and that just has to be the worst thing ever. So I'm very thankful for that. That's the first way that I measure success.
Outside of that, I look to see am I working hard? I've got to leave it out on the table. I know that stats – I was in a career that measured me by stats. That's a very difficult thing because one question we always used to ask each other is that if you're only meant to be a .150 hitter, if you're only good enough to be a .150 hitter in the big leagues, are you going to be satisfied with it? Are you going to be okay with that? Ultimately there can only be one champion. There are very few guys that bat over .300 for their career. There can only be one Cy Young Award winner. If that's the thing you're always chasing, to be the best, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
I know that that's not always a popular view, that you could say, "Oh, you've got to strive to be the best, you've got to be this." To me that doesn't evoke in my life, me being the best. I don't always get the best out of myself when I set myself up to be the #1 person. What does bring out the best in me is when I say, "Did I leave it all on the table mentally, physically, spiritually, relationally? Did I work as hard as I can in all of those areas and did I leave it all on the table? Did I strive to find ways to leave it on the table better?" To me that always brought out the best in me so that's how I measure success in my own life. Am I doing everything that I know possible to be the best I can be? Ultimately I don't have to answer to my stats. I have to answer to my Lord and Savior. He requires me to be the best because He created me for so much more.
You've probably heard me say "Do a little a lot, not a lot a little." A great way to do that is by following me on Twitter, liking my Facebook page, or adding BrianCainPeak on Snapchat where I'm posting daily mental game reminders for you.


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And, there's some government agency that enables said capitalization.
For example, take U.S. patent No. 7,000,180. While it was originally filed back in 2001 (well before AJAX became the "acronym du jour"), it was finally granted this Valentine's Day by the beloved U.S Patent Office … and it could well screw up web technology innovation as we know it, as it's broad enough to (potentially) require any AJAX-like technology to pay a license fee back to the patent owner.
Brilliant … just bloody brilliant.
Patent everything. Then, even if you have no success yourself, you can stifle everyone else's.
Technology isn't about thinking outside the box. It's about who has the most legal paperwork on file.
Woof. For the second time this year (once last month, and now this month) a predicted "wicked snow storm that will blanket the Twin Cities with at least 6 inches of snow" … never happened. Last month, the storm missed us by a few dozen miles to the north. This time, a few dozen miles to the south … and all they really got was "a dusting".
Man … I'm in the wrong line of work: You get paid, yet are consistently wrong.
On the other hand, they got the temperature right … once again, Minnesota temperatures are more what we all expect up here this time of year: low double-digit, single-digit, or any-digit as long as it has a '-' in front of it.


Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures—most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them—often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer's block.
Sociologist Howard S. Becker has written the classic book on how to conquer these pressures and simply write. First published nearly twenty years ago, Writing for Social Scientists has become a lifesaver for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. Becker's message is clear: in order to learn how to write, take a deep breath and then begin writing. Revise. Repeat.
In this new edition, Becker takes account of major changes in the computer tools available to writers today, and also substantially expands his analysis of how academic institutions create problems for them. As competition in academia grows increasingly heated, Writing for Social Scientists will provide solace to a new generation of frazzled, would-be writers.
Howard S. Becker lives and works in San Francisco. He is the author of several books, including Outsiders, Tricks of the Trade, and Telling About Society.


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