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About Seitel
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Seitel is a leading provider of seismic data and related geophysical expertise to the petroleum industry. Our main focus is to provide high quality seismic data in the onshore, offshore and transition zones of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. We have one of the largest seismic data libraries in North America.
Robert Monson
President, CEO, Director
Marcia Kendrick
CFO, Exec. VP – Treasurer
Richard Kelvin
CTO, Exec. VP – Marketing & Business Development
Randy Sides
President of Seitel Data
You can demand a lot from us in all matters of sustainability, because we demand even more from ourselves. From workplace improvement to HSE to community outreach, we are dedicated to conducting ourselves safely, responsibly, ethically and compassionately. It's a culture that fully encompasses our values and aligns with your goals.
Fostering Childhood Literacy
Every year, Seitel helps young students at Panda Path School experience the joy of reading and storytelling by presenting The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss as a fun and spirited play, and gifting each child with their very own Dr. Seuss book. During the holidays, Seitel Santa and his elves purchase gifts and delivers them to the children at the school.
Promoting Health & Wellness
Fitness, Nutrition, Personal Safety
Our employees assist the Spring Branch Independent School District in its annual Student Health Fair. We host a blood drive at our headquarters for the Gulf Coast Blood Center. We also support the Houston Food Bank through donations and volunteering to help prepare and serve meals.
Spring Branch ISD Middle School Mentoring
Walking with our community
Seitel was instrumental in establishing a relationship between Spring Branch ISD and Big Brothers/Big Sisters, bringing the mentoring expertise of BBBS into the SBISD system. This resulted in Seitel employees establishing mentoring relationships with SBISD middle school kids during the 2019/2020 school year. While the mentoring program has been halted by covid, Seitel looks forward to re-establishing this vital community program for the 2021/2022 school year.
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Mr. Monson has been President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Seitel since December 15, 2004. He previously served as Seitel's Chief Financial Officer from May 10, 2004 until December 15, 2004 and served as Secretary from August 31, 2004 until December 15, 2004. Mr. Monson has over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, including over seven years in the international seismic industry. Prior to joining Seitel, he served in various financial capacities with Schlumberger Limited ("Schlumberger"), a New York Stock Exchange, Inc. listed company, since 1985. Most recently, Mr. Monson served as business segment chief financial officer for Schlumberger Well Services and the worldwide controller for Oilfield Technology Centers. Prior to this, he served as worldwide director of human resources for financial personnel of Schlumberger Limited. From 1998 to 2000, he served as chief financial officer of Schlumberger Oilfield Services-UK. From 1985 to 1998, he served as either treasurer or controller to other Schlumberger entities, including assignments in the New York headquarters and various international locations.
Ms. Kendrick, CPA, became Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Seitel in October 2009. She served as Secretary from October 2009 to February 2012 when she became Assistant Secretary. She has been Treasurer of Seitel since May 2005. Ms. Kendrick previously served as Chief Accounting Officer and Assistant Secretary of Seitel from August 1993 to October 2009 and Senior Vice President of Seitel from September 2001 to October 2009. She also served as our interim Chief Financial Officer from December 2004 to July 2005 and from June 2002 to May 2004. Prior to joining Seitel in 1993, she was employed by Arthur Andersen LLP, where her last position was Director of Finance and Administration.
Richard Kelvin
Mr. Kelvin is responsible for company-wide seismic data processing, data management, software development, and sustainability. Previously he has been President of Seitel Data Processing, Vice-President and Business Unit Manager of Seitel Solutions. He joined Seitel in 2002 and led the offshore seismic processing group. Before joining Seitel he worked for Ensign Geophysics (US) as Seismic Data Processing Manager. Mr. Kelvin is a graduate of the University College London with a degree in Exploration Geophysics and a Masters in Information Technology. Mr. Kelvin is a member of the GSH and the SEG.
Mr. Sides became President of Seitel Data, Ltd. in July 2009. He joined Seitel in July 1996 as Manager of Onshore Operations for Seitel Data, Ltd. In November 2002, he was promoted to Vice President—Onshore Operations for Seitel Data, Ltd. and in January 2005 he was promoted to Senior Vice President—Operations for Seitel Data, Ltd. He served as President of Seitel Canada Ltd. beginning in May 2007 until June 2009. Prior to joining Seitel, he was a geophysical analyst with Western Geophysical, Inc. from 1991 to 1996.


Special promotion of Cinema City festival took place on Monday, 27th April in Superspace Gallery in Belgrade. Press conference on the festival was held in fantastic atmosphere with the number of guests from the world of music and film, journalists and co-workers who were attending it. Cinema City party followed the conference, and the high point of the musical part of the event was provided by E-Play, a band from Belgrade, and DJ Filip with his brilliant performance.
The programme of this year's festival was presented at the conference, as well as the co-operation with Sarajevo Film Festival, and the film Technotise Edit and I by Aleksa Gajic, whose première will be at the Cinema City festival.
After the conference, there was a concert in which the third studio albumI'm Glad We Met by E-Play was presented as the official soundtrack of Cinema City festival. Numerous directors, actors, musicians, and journalists contributed to the great atmosphere at the party, where they all had an opportunity to socialise with Cinema City team.This promotion marked the official beginning of the campaign of Film and Media Festival Cinema City.


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Wallace Family Medical Care Fund
It's Anonymous!
Scott Redovian
Karl Sigel
Jeffrey Wallace is organizing this fundraiser.
When you're a high school English teacher, you get to know your students—what their lives are like at home, and what they want their lives to be like in the future. In my time here at Woodmont High School, I've gotten to know the Wallace children—Ryan, Amanda and Kendra. I've taught Amanda and Kendra in my IB classes, and I've gotten to know their mom Colleen, an Inclusion/Educational Support teacher here as well. I've learned what struggles this family is facing, and I'm determined to do whatever I can to help them now.
Jeff Wallace has a very rare disease called Severe Combined Immunodeficiency. It's a diagnosis with many tracks and patterns, all of which are terminal, and when he was originally diagnosed in 2004, he was given 6 months to live. He's fought that diagnosis with everything he's got, through significant infections, a bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy, the loss of his teeth, and the loss of his sight in one eye. He's done that with the support of his wife and family.
Jeff and Colleen met in Florida when they were 15 years old at Disney on vacation. Colleen got Jeff's address and wrote him a letter, but she never heard back from him. The letter was actually delivered 10 years later, dirty and torn, and Jeff called her mother's house looking to tell her about it. They were married in Vegas in 1999. Ryan, Amanda and Kendra were babies when Jeff was diagnosed, and the family moved to Simpsonville from Massachusetts in 2008 for the weather that would be easier for Jeff to navigate.
Jeff began his career as a chef, and he actually worked at Disney World, for the country group Alabama, and in restaurants from Boston to California, until his illness forced him out of the professional kitchen. He's is an avid Steelers fan. The Wallace household is decorated in so much memorabilia that the Simpsonville Sentinel has covered it in the paper. Even though Jeff's illness and treatments have left him unable to eat solid foods, enjoy the outdoors, unable to do so many of the things he once loved to do, he still watches every Steelers game.
He's still fighting.
He wants to be able to watch his daughters graduate from Woodmont and go to college like their brother. Amanda wants to be a doctor. Ryan wants to work for the Steelers organization. Kendra wants to own a bakery, to be a chef, like her dad. As a teacher, and as a parent myself, I want Jeff to see these dreams come true as well.
With the money raised here, Jeff will be able to pay bills that have collected around insurance shortfalls. He's also hoping to have dental surgery that would allow him to eat solid food again, which would boost his energy and his morale. So he can keep fighting.
Mr. James Scott
Woodmont High School
Jeffrey Wallace

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Q: Image Icon null I'm trying to create an animation, and I'm creating an ImageIcon them setting it as an Icon for a JLabel. However, when I run the application, I get a run time exception that says my Image Icon is null  Heres my code:
public class Threader extends JFrame implements Runnable {
    Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
    int width = ((int) tk.getScreenSize().getWidth());//length of screen
    int height = ((int) tk.getScreenSize().getHeight());//height

    int x = width / 2;
    int y = height / 2;
    int bounce = 1;

    ImageIcon icon;
    JLabel ball;
    JPanel panel;

    public Threader() {
        super("Eph Studios Presents");
        icon = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("ball.png"));
        ball.setIcon(icon);
        panel = new JPanel();
        ball.setLocation(x / 2, y / 2);
        panel.add(ball);
        add(panel);
    }

    public void run() {
        panel.remove(ball);
        ball.setLocation(x, y);
        try {
            Thread.sleep(1);
        } catch (Exception e) {}
        if (x >= width || y >= height) {
            if (bounce > 4) {
                bounce = 1;
            } else {
                bounce++;
            }
        }
        if (bounce == 1) {
            x++;
            y++;
        } else if (bounce == 2) {
            x++;
            y--;
        } else if (bounce == 3) {
            x--;
            y--;
        } else if (bounce == 4) {
            x--;
            y++;
        }
        panel.revalidate();
        panel.repaint();
    }

}

And the error message:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at main.Threader.<init>(Threader.java:22)
    at main.Animation.<clinit>(Animation.java:6)

My image is in the same package as the class so
where am I going wrong?

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Joseph Lewis (11 June 1889 – 1968) was an American freethinker, and atheist who was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
[Atheism] believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.
A precept claiming infallibility should certainly possess the universality of the law of gravitation and the perfection of the arithmetical table. If it fails to possess these undeviating qualities, its imperfection is self-evident and its value either greatly diminished or useless.
If Atheism writes upon the blackboard of the Universe a question mark, it writes it for the purpose of stating that there is a question yet to be answered. Is it not better to place a question mark upon a problem while seeking an answer than to put the label "God" there and consider the matter solved? Does not the word "God" only confuse and make more difficult the solution by assuming a conclusion that is utterly groundless and palpably absurd?
Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.
As superstition is the weed of the brain, it grows perfusely, once started.
Of the ten crimes which Biblical Hebrew law punished by stoning, nine have ceased to be offenses in modern society.
Imagine using as an authority in the matter of marriage the opinion of a celibate priest!
On too many occasions, especially in matters concerning purported conversations and messages from gods, mystery has been employed by charlatans to hoodwink the people.
Changing a rod into a serpent and the serpent back into a rod may be clever magic, but how does such a demonstration prove that Moses spoke to God? If the only thing necessary to prove the truth of an extraordinary claim were to demonstrate an ability to bewilder, there would be no more mysteries to solve.
If a person claims that he can bring the dead back to life, and in proof of that power pulls a rabbit out of a hat, that is hardly a demonstration of the truth of his claim; it is merely an example of his ability in the art of deception. If he claims that he can fly without wings and without the use of mechanical help of any kind, and in proof of his ability pulls another rabbit out of another hat, that is not proof of his ability to fly, but of his ability to lie, and he will without much hesitation be condemned as a faker. The demonstration of one thing has absolutely no bearing in proving the truth of the other, when there is no relationship between them.
Their commodity is fear. They blackmail their parishioners with threats of hell and damnation. These poor deluded people give them their hard earned money to save them from a hell that does not exist, and from eternal torment that was invented by the perverted minds of priests to rob the living and in addition, they are exempt from taxation! Insult to injury!
Let me tell you that religion is the cruelest fraud ever perpetrated upon the human race. It is the last of the great scheme of thievery that man must legally prohibit so as to protect himself from the charlatans who prey upon the ignorance and fears of the people.
The penalty for this type of extortion should be as severe as it is of other forms of dishonesty.
With this recognition of the finality of death, no one should willingly withhold acts that would bring benefits, joy or happiness to others.
Quoted from Talreja, K. M. (2000). Holy Vedas and holy Bible: A comparative study. New Delhi: Rashtriya Chetana Sangathan.
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SHENGELIA, TORNIKE
Laboral Kutxa Vitoria 7 Forward
Height: 2.06 Born: 5 October, 1991 Nationality: Georgia
@tokoshengelia23
Totals 24 23 517:17 227 65/148 8/35 73/89 41 75 116 21 15 32 16 15 51 78 249
Averages 24 23 21:33 9.5 43.9% 22.9% 82% 1.7 3.1 4.8 0.9 0.6 1.3 0.7 0.6 2.1 3.3 10.4
11 * vs Anadolu Efes Istanbul 22:02 7 2/8 1/1 3 4 7 1 1 1 1 1 7
12 * at CSKA Moscow 19:06 11 3/5 0/1 5/9 2 3 5 1 2 6 12
13 * vs Nizhny Novgorod 27:21 12 2/7 0/1 8/10 3 5 8 1 1 1 8 19
14 * at Olympiacos Piraeus 18:05 10 3/6 0/2 4/4 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 7
15 * vs EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 19:52 6 1/6 4/4 2 4 6 2 1 2 2 2 4 12
16 at Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul 14:19 11 4/6 0/1 3/3 1 1 2 1 1 3 3 8
17 * vs Unicaja Malaga 26:52 12 3/5 1/2 3/3 2 2 4 2 1 1 3 5 17
18 * at Anadolu Efes Istanbul 21:11 4 2/4 2 4 6 2 3 2 2 7
19 * vs CSKA Moscow 20:04 2 1/3 0/2 3 3 1 3 2 3 1 -1
20 * at Nizhny Novgorod 32:10 11 2/9 1/2 4/4 4 4 8 2 2 2 2 5 16
21 * vs Olympiacos Piraeus 21:56 5 1/6 1/1 1 4 5 2 1 3 2 3
22 * at EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 25:43 14 5/6 0/1 4/4 1 5 6 1 2 1 1 3 20
23 * vs Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul 21:15 5 1/4 0/1 3/4 2 4 6 1 2 1 2 4 6
24 * at Unicaja Malaga 17:25 9 4/6 0/1 1/2 3 3 1 2 1 8
14 Totals 307:21 119 34/81 4/16 39/47 29 43 72 10 9 19 8 8 28 45 141
Average 21:57 8.5 42% 25% 83% 2.1 3.1 5.09 0.7 0.6 1.4 0.6 0.6 2 3.2 10.1
1 * vs Neptunas Klaipeda 23:07 12 2/3 1/2 5/6 1 6 7 1 1 2 3 19
2 * at Olympiacos Piraeus 22:46 11 3/9 1/3 2/2 1 1 2 1 2 3 2 2 4 5
3 * vs Galatasaray Liv Hospital Istanbul 18:00 6 2/5 0/3 2/3 1 3 4 2 2 1 2 4 6
4 * at Valencia Basket 25:00 20 5/12 2/5 4/7 1 3 4 1 1 2 1 5 15
5 * vs Crvena Zvezda Telekom Belgrade 34:32 20 6/14 0/1 8/9 2 3 5 1 1 2 2 4 5 18
6 * at Neptunas Klaipeda 13:10 4 2/6 1 1 2 -1
7 * vs Olympiacos Piraeus 28:10 14 3/5 0/3 8/8 1 6 7 3 2 2 2 1 6 26
8 * at Galatasaray Liv Hospital Istanbul 7:20 4 2/4 1 2 3 3 1 1 3 -1
10 * at Crvena Zvezda Telekom Belgrade 12:47 2 1/3 1 4 5 2 1 3 1 2
Average 20:59 10.8 46.3% 21.1% 81% 1.2 3.2 4.4 1.1 0.6 1.3 0.8 0.7 2.29 3.3 10.8
#8 in Offensive Rebounds (29)
#9 in Blocks against (8)
#13 in Free throws made (39)
#17 in Games Started (13)
#17 in Total Rebounds (71)
#7 in Free throws attempted (42)
#13 in Games Played (10)
Index rating 37 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz vs. Fenerbahce Istanbul 1/9/2020
Points 31 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz vs. Maccabi Tel Aviv 11/14/2019
Offensive rebounds 6 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz vs. CSKA Moscow 1/7/2021
Defensive rebounds 12 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz vs. Khimki Moscow Region 3/1/2018
Total rebounds 15 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz vs. Khimki Moscow Region 3/1/2018
Assists 7 Olympiacos Piraeus vs. Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 1/30/2020
Steals 4 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz vs. Fenerbahce Istanbul 11/9/2018
Blocks 3 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz vs. Fenerbahce Istanbul 1/9/2020
Minutes 37 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz vs. Fenerbahce Istanbul 1/9/2020
Grew up with Valencia CB (Spain) juniors.
Made his debut with Valencia CB Main team during the 2008-09 season, also playing with Valencia 2nd team.
Played with both teams also in the 2009-10 championship.
Moved to Belgium for the 2010-11 season, signed by Verviers-Pepinster.
Signed for the 2012-13 season by Brooklyn Ntes.
Also played with Springfield Armos, NBDL.
Played wth both teams till January'14.
Signed by Chicago Bull in January'14.
Moved to Spain for the 2014-15 season, signed by Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Moved to Russia for the 2020-21 season, signed by CSKA Moscow.
Won the 2010 EuroCup with CB Valencia.
Named to the 2017-18 All-EuroLeague First Team.
Named 2017-18 EuroLeague March MVP.
Named 2017-18 EuroLeague Round 14 and 24 MVP.
Named 2019-20 EuroLeague Round 4 and 6 MVP.
Won the 2019-20 Spanish National Championship with Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Member of the Georgian National Team.
Played at the 2011, 2015 and 2017 European Championships.
Has been member of the Georgian U-16, U-18 and U-20 National Team.
Played at the 2007 European U-16 Championship.
Played at the 2008 European U-18 'B' Championship.
Played at he 2009, 2010 and 2011 European U-20 'B' Championships.
2011-12 Belgacom Spirou Charleroi 9 75 8.3 24/48 50 4/14 28.6 15/22 68.2 39 3 9 1
2014-15 Laboral Kutxa Vitoria 24 227 9.5 65/148 43.9 8/35 22.9 73/89 82 116 15 21 16
2015-16 Laboral Kutxa Vitoria Gasteiz 9 82 9.1 23/41 56.1 7/14 50 15/22 68.2 34 7 11 5
2016-17 Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz 24 258 10.8 78/154 50.6 13/24 54.2 63/81 77.8 101 18 33 7
2017-18 KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz 33 451 13.7 154/251 61.4 15/46 32.6 98/144 68.1 200 26 72 18
2018-19 KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 20 229 11.4 71/135 52.6 11/28 39.3 54/102 52.9 85 23 33 8
2019-20 KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 28 444 15.9 136/232 58.6 34/87 39.1 70/91 76.9 156 28 81 13
2020-21 CSKA Moscow 20 199 9.9 57/123 46.3 14/48 29.2 43/68 63.2 104 16 44 2
Totals 167 1965 11.8 608/1132 53.7 106/296 35.8 431/619 69.6 835 136 304 70
Averages 167 1965 11.8 608/1132 53.7 106/296 35.8 431/619 69.6 5 0.8 1.8 0.4
2008-09 Pamesa Valencia 1 4 4 1/2 50 0/0 0 2/2 100 2 0 1 0
2009-10 Power Electronics Valencia 3 9 3 4/5 80 0/4 0 1/2 50 5 3 1 1
Totals 4 13 3.3 5/7 71.4 0/4 0 3/4 75 7 3 2 1
Averages 4 13 3.3 5/7 71.4 0/4 0 3/4 75 1.8 0.8 0.5 0.3
2008/09 Valencia 6 20 3,3 8/13 61,5 0/1 0 4/5 80 10 3 3 1
2009/10 Valencia-2 21 330 15,7 104/193 53,9 20/69 29 62/129 48,1 168 19 39 22
2010/11 Pepinster 32 206 6,4 67/136 49,3 6/27 22,2 48/77 62,3 115 26 19 9
2011/12 Charleroi 41 345 8.4 111/228 48.7 17/59 28.8 72/113 63.7 184 36 42 12
2012/13 Brooklyn 19 30 1.6 9/21 42.9 1/2 50.0 9/16 56.3 23 3 3 1
Springfield 10 243 24.3 72/124 58.1 15/41 36.6 54/80 67.5 82 23 40 10
2013/14 Brooklyn 16 25 1.16 11/18 61.1 0/6 0.0 3/8 37.5 14 2 12 0
Springfield 4 53 13.3 16/26 61.5 1/5 20.0 18/22 81.8 20 2 6 5
Chicago 8 4 0.5 2/4 50.0 0/0 0.0 0/0 0.0 2 1 2 0
2014/15 Laboral Kutxa 31 309 10.0 92/173 53.2 17/47 36.2 74/92 80.4 124 16 32 11
2015/16 Laboral Kutxa 19 165 8.7 51/88 58.0 9/30 30.0 36/48 75.0 69 12 17 9
2016/17 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 31 325 10.5 106/196 54.1 12/37 32.4 77/111 69.4 150 30 39 14
2017/18 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 41 612 14.9 189/311 60.8 35/100 35.0 129/180 71.7 220 40 70 13
2018/19 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 25 334 13.4 111/175 63.4 19/45 42.2 55/96 57.3 120 32 61 7
2019/20 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 29 462 15.9 138/254 54.3 28/95 29.5 102/142 71.8 177 36 82 10


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In the cutthroat world of modeling, every aspiring beauty needs support, guidance and sometimes a nudge down the runway.
On Making a Model with Yolanda Hadid, premiering Thursday, February 14 at 19:30 on SABC 3, former model and television personality Yolanda Hadid brings her expertise to the forefront as she coaches aspiring teen models to succeed on and off the catwalk.
Former model and television personality Yolanda Hadid knows what it takes to be a big name in the modeling business as the mother agent to fashion's "IT" girls Gigi and Bella, and model son Anwar.
Model Moms brings Yolanda and her expertise to the forefront as she coaches aspiring teen models to succeed on and off the catwalk. Yolanda, along with her trusted team of experts, will put the girls and their "momagers" through an intensive eight-week training program, focused on the physical, mental and emotional wellness that it takes to build a sustainable brand.
The eight-episode series follows six young aspiring models and their mothers as they travel to New York City, shack up under one roof and pursue their dreams of becoming a supermodel. Each week, Yolanda puts the girls and their moms through a series of lessons and assignments designed to not only test their modeling agility, but also the strength of their mother-daughter relationship. With a $5,000 weekly prize on the line to put towards their future careers, only one girl will be left standing to win a management contract with Yolanda's company and the potential opportunity to be represented by IMG Models in New York. Yolanda's daughters Gigi and Bella Hadid, designers Tommy Hilfiger and Nicole Miller and supermodels Devon Windsor and Alek Wek make special appearances through the season.
Making a Model with Yolanda Hadid is produced by Hudsun Media for Lifetime. Michael Rourke, Christopher Spry, Sean Rankine and Yolanda Hadid executive produce. Mary Donahue and Mioshi Hill executive produce for Lifetime.


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Technology|As Medical Charts Go Electronic, Rural Doctor Sees Healthy Change
As Medical Charts Go Electronic, Rural Doctor Sees Healthy Change
By MILT FREUDENHEIM APRIL 10, 2009
In Washington, the Obama administration is promising to spend billions to make health care more efficient, but Jennifer Brull, a family doctor in rural Kansas, is already a step or two ahead.
A year ago, she switched her 3,000 patients from paper charts to electronic health records, a core feature of most plans for healing the nation's ailing health system. Now, working with computers and printouts, her staff of part-time nurses and shared front-office workers has more time to help her meet the needs of patients.
"I'll never go back to the old system," said Dr. Brull, 37, who runs a solo practice in Plainville, Kan. "I can always look at the records by Internet, whether I am seeing patients at the nursing home or a clinic or the hospital, or even when I'm as far away as Florida. The change has been tremendously beneficial for my productivity."
Patients are appreciative, too. Kagay Wheatley brings her 97-year-old neighbor, Charlotte Hayes, to Dr. Brull for blood tests every few weeks. "We do not have to sit and wait while the nurses search for the records," said Ms. Wheatley, a retired school board aide who is also a patient of Dr. Brull's. "They find the information right there on the computer, and when we leave, we get a printout of what we did and what she said."
About 42 percent of active family doctors have installed some type of electronic health records, according to surveys and estimates by the American Academy of Family Physicians, a professional and advocacy group. One in four said they did not plan to purchase an electronic system, and many said they could not afford the $30,000 to $50,000 in start-up costs. The academy has 94,600 members, including about 60,000 in active practice.
Medical centers like the new 24-bed critical-access hospital in Plainville, connected by a walkway to Dr. Brull's office, are also rapidly adopting electronic records.
"The use of electronic health records and being able to transmit X-rays allows us to be in contact with the whole world," said Chuck Comeau, a hospital board member who is chief executive of Dessin Fournir, a national furniture design company that moved its head office to Plainville from Los Angeles.
Even so, 8 in 10 of all American doctors still labor in a world of paper. And some doctors said they encountered upsetting setbacks when they tried to switch to electronic records.
Dr. Jennifer Brull with colleagues Lynn Fisher, right, and Dan Sanchez, foreground, checking his tablet PC. Credit Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times
Michael Ferris, a 33-year-old emergency medicine physician in Parsons, Kan., said he had to give up his solo practice after he had invested $38,000 in software for systems that kept crashing and thwarting his attempts to send out electronic bills. "I was spending as much time trying to fix the computer and the billing as actually seeing patients," he said, "and neither process was generating any revenue for me."
Now, as director of the emergency room at the Labette County hospital in Parsons, Dr. Ferris said, "I get paid by the hour and don't have to worry if the software is down." But he said he expected that some day he would have to help the hospital make the transition to electronic records. "I know it is coming."
Information technology for health care is a $20 billion section of the $787 billion economic stimulus package President Obama signed last month. But only part of the new I.T. financing will help individual doctors who convert to electronic health records, said Dr. Steven Waldren, director of the center for health information technology at the academy of family physicians. Those in rural and underserved areas should benefit the most.
"For the vast majority of physicians, there is not going to be upfront money to purchase electronic record systems," Dr. Waldren said.
Dr. Brull, who grew up in Grinnell, Kan., a town with 250 residents, has been an advocate of electronic records since she was in medical school at the University of Kansas in the 1990s. Seven years ago she moved to Plainville, where she rents space in a community-owned medical office building and shares a receptionist and bookkeeping staff with two other family physicians, Dan Sanchez, 45, and Lynn Fisher, 34.
They have 8,000 patients in all, including some from neighboring counties. The three doctors together cover a lot of ground: delivering babies, performing colon cancer checkups and staffing the emergency room at the hospital. They refer patients who need intensive care or a specialist to the Hays Medical Center, 23 miles away. Trauma patients are flown to Wichita, a one-hour helicopter ride. Specialists, including a cardiologist, come to Plainville to provide follow-up care.
The three are the only doctors in Plainville, a city of 2,500 in Rooks County, a wheat farming and oil-producing area midway between Kansas City and Denver. "We are it," Dr. Brull said.
Dr. Sanchez is a deputy coroner and the ambulance service director and is taking a turn as hospital medical director. Each doctor is a solo practitioner with a separate tax ID. "At the end of the day, our paychecks come from our own business, our own patients," Dr. Fisher said.
They are informal partners, and cover each other's patients. "We do everything on a handshake," Dr. Brull said.
Dr. Michael Ferris had a different experience with electronic records: his $38,000 system kept crashing. Credit Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times
It took five years for her to persuade the other doctors to make the switch to electronic records. "Dan was our holdout," she said.
Dr. Sanchez explained that, at first, "I was not sure I saw the benefits. Now I'm a very big proponent of it. I've gotten to the place where I prefer to get an electronic chart over a paper chart."
Costs, like those to have his dictation transcribed, are down 75 percent. "The volume of paper flowing around has dropped dramatically," he said. "That alone paid for half the cost of the software in the first year."
They selected a medium-priced system (from e-MDs, based in Austin, Tex.), obtained private financing and invested $45,000 in software. Dr. Brull said she paid "the lion's share for the equipment — $40,000 or $50,000 for hardware," which they also share. Staff members were sent out for training, and last March they closed the offices for two days of instruction. When they reopened, a trainer stayed to help.
The electronic system helps Dr. Brull with just about every part of her practice. She keeps close watch on 250 patients with high blood pressure and 180 who have diabetes. She pays special attention to people who have both problems, summoning them for blood tests every six weeks
The computers make it easier to keep track of them. "We can run a computer report on diabetics who haven't had appropriate lab work, or people who haven't had a wellness exam in 10 months or did not have a flu shot," she said.
When she leaves the office to see patients at a nursing home, she said: "I have access to my notes on each one on the laptop. It takes out the guesswork." For people who pick up their pills at Walgreens or Wal-Mart, the software forwards an electronic prescription. "We are working to persuade the mom-and-pop pharmacies to get on that system," she said.
Dr. Brull said she expected to recoup her investment in five years, perhaps sooner. It did not hurt that two other family doctors left the community last April. "All of a sudden, three or four thousand patients had no doctor," she said. "We took on a large volume. If you work harder, you get more money."
Still, she said she shared the frustrations of many physicians who say the insurance companies often seem to use delaying tactics to avoid paying for care, even when the bills are delivered to them by computer. "I feel like I spend a lot of time justifying what I do and chasing the dollar," she said. But despite such concerns, she said, she is too busy to have much time left for complaining. "I am not a very good pessimist," Dr. Brull said.
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In this special topics course, a group of students from Temple University's Department of Journalism in the Klein College of Media and Communication spends a full semester reporting on addiction solutions. Click here
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Guest Speaker Reflection- Dr.Joseph
By Solmaira Valerio February 28, 2019 226 Views
Joseph D' Orazio is the directer at the department of emergency medicine, division of medical toxicology and also works in addiction medicine. Dr. Joseph talked about the overdose crisis from the perspective of an emergency physician. He grew up outside of Philadelphia but is familiar with population and how the epidemic has grown. Dr. Joseph has been working at Temple Hospital since July 2016 and has a board certification in addiction. He created a process for people who get admitted to the hospital due to infections from injection. He runs a program that gets people started on suboxone and they also have the opportunity to get linked to a methadone program. Dr. Joseph has also contributed to an existing program, the Temple trust clinic family medicine office is a now a methadone clinic. I thought it was really important that Dr.Joseph pointed out that its not just about emergency medicine but addiction medicine as well as to how it is treated.
Dr. Joseph also brought up how language matters and how many people who work in hospitals actually do not use the right terms or language when they come across a person with a substance use disorder. It was very disheartening to hear Dr.Joseph talk about how he can overhear people who work in the hospital talk about people who use drugs in a degrading way, on a daily basis. He mentioned how patients come in and let him know how they hear nurses and other people talk about them and how they're are aware that people think they are ¨pathetic¨ or ¨ losers¨. I don't really understand why people in the medical field are not trained and educated on this topic and I think it should definitely be a requirement. Considering the fact that Dr. Joseph mentioned how 4 times as many people die from drug overdose as they do from homicide. Which is interesting because Dr.Joseph pointed out how there is a whole trauma center full of resources with lots of outpatient services but there is just one person on campus for drug overdose, which is Dr. Joseph himself.
I thought it was GREAT how Dr.Joseph compared two cases, one being a patient with diabetes and the other a patient with a substance use disorder. He explained how taking care of diabetes requires a person to take medication and monitor their diet. 60% adhere to medication regimen and 30%adhere to diet/ behavioral changes. Sometimes people come into the emergency room because they are not taking care of themselves by following their regimens which causes them to lose control of their health. This case would be treated normally and the person would be provided with the care and treatment that they need. However, when a case is brought up about someone who is using, people tend to look at it as if they are weak and like its an ethical problem. I thought it was a perfect example and also thought it was important that he mentioned how a person with a substance use disorder should be treated just like a person with diabetes or asthma would be treated.
I also thought it was really important how Dr. Joseph explained that addiction is a disease not a choice. He explained how in the brain, the frontal lobe is for problem solving, judgement, impulse control, and reasoning. While the nucleus accumbens is for reward, euphoria, pleasure, and preservation. When someones frontal lobe is not properly functioning the nucleus accumbens takes over, it is what helps us survive. This is the part of the brain that ultimately forces a person to use again when the frontal lobe is not functioning properly. Dr. Joseph explained how sometimes when people come in right after using, he could have sat down with them to make a great plan to help and treat the person. However, if the person ends up getting in a fight, is hungry, or is going through withdrawal, the frontal lobe will stop functioning which is when they go back to using. He also explained how some people have a genetic predisposition and others underlying problems such as anxiety depression, while other people who are exposed to the drug will develop it throughout time. I think that this specifically is also something that people should be required to know, especially those working in the medical field. Understanding the root causes of addiction and how it affects a persons way is only one of the keys to help solve this epidemic.
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Japan is an archipelago country located in eastern Asia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of China, Russia and the Korean Peninsula. It is made up of four major islands and consists of more than 6,000 islets. Japan is the third largest economy in the world, excelling in the manufacture of high-tech products, including cars, electronics, and robotics, just to name a few. It is also known as a country with a long history and unique traditional culture, which is a part of the Japanese lifestyle today. For a long time, Japan had been closed to the outside world under the country policy (Sakoku) in order to strictly control foreign trade and influence. Japan opened up to western trade at the end of the 19th century. This would lead to its modernisation and economic progress throughout Japan called the Meiji era.
Following this period, Japan declared war on China and Russia, and the victory gave Japan a foothold in new territories like Korea, Manchuria and Sakhalin. During the First World War, it took a position against Germany and conquered its Pacific islands. In the Second World War, Japan changed sides and was aligned with Nazi Germany.
The fight in the Pacific during the Second World War was a brutal and protracted one. For four years, the US and Japanese navies and air forces combatted for each island. On August 15, 1945, just a week after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (200,000 dead in 4 days), Japan was the last country to surrender and put an end to the deadliest war of all times.
The country was administered by the US between 1945 and 1952. With a heavy investment plan like the Marshall Plan in Europe, Japan recovered at record speed and became the second largest economy in the 1980s. Japan has been able to maintain a balance between traditional elements of culture and a resolute modernity. In the span of 30 years, Japanese goods and cultural icons, from pokémons to CD players, have penetrated pop-culture and western households. Japan's economy has slowed down after this 40-year-old boom, it remains the leader on more subjects than it can count, whilst conserving the millenary magic that makes the cherry trees blossom each year with the same beauty.
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Japan is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, a zone covering the land bordering the Pacific ocean that has exceptional geological and volcanic activity. Nippon is exposed to numerous and powerful natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, eruptions, typhoons and tornadoes.
In 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck northeastern Japan and a subsequent tsunami caused the meltdown of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant. This is the single greatest nuclear catastrophe in the history of humanity. This position has strengthened the importance of coal in Japan's energy mix. Today, coal plants provide one-third of the electricity on the archipelago.
Japan spans 3,000 km from North to South. Its climate varies according to the latitude, elevation and exposition to the elements. This makes for an incredible variety of ecosystems. Mount Fuji's sacred silhouette looms untouched for hundreds of years, whilst other places like Nara (the deer-city) or Okunoshima, the bunny paradise are full of life.
Japan is possibly the country that has withstood the most natural disasters in its existence. It has developed in the process a very high savoir-faire in the fields of adaptation and prevention of risk. Modern skyscrapers are equipped with springs and hydraulic counterbalances, whilst the population is extremely educated in emergency response to these phenomena.
Despite this experience, many observers have deemed Japan's Paris targets insufficient to curb its own footprint and help others do better in the field of adaptation. It is also responsible for a large amount of e-waste and plastic based pollution, essentially due to its leadership in the tech industry. Japan is the fifth largest greenhouse gas emitter, and it has the potential to bring solutions to many of the tragic consequences of climate change. Gotta manage 'em all!
The World Bank classifies Japan as a high-income country. To understand Japan's position in the fight against climate change, it is useful to observe its history of carbon emissions and exposure to climate risk. The following plots provide an overview of Japan's historic greenhouse gas emissions in perspective with global emission levels, as well as the country's climate action and sustainability performance.
Japan Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Japan's timeline of total GHG emissions and the percentage change from 1990
Between 1990 and 2000, Japan's emissions increased by 8%, which is faster than the world's average annual emissions growth of 6%. Despite moderate reductions in its emissions between 2000 and 2009, Japan's emissions were back on the rise and surpassed 2012 level (increased by 13% from 1990 to 2012)
The energy sector is responsible for the largest share (91%) of Japan's emissions. This is primarily due to a high dependence on fossil fuel energy generation (accounting for over 90% of Japan's energy supply in 2015). Deployment of nuclear technologies led to a stable GHG emissions trend and 2010, but after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, GHG emissions showed an increasing trend.
In 2012, Japan produced over 1,400 million tonnes of CO2 eq. GHG emissions. This is equivalent to the amount of CO2 being absorbed annually by 7 million km² of forest (nearly three-quarters of the size of China). Being one of the world's top ten GHG emitting countries, Japan has a tremendous opportunity to curb emissions (particularly in their energy sector) by transitioning into renewable technologies. (Source: WRI 2018; World Bank, 2018)
Japan Sustainable Development Goals Index (SDGI)
Japan's performance on sustainable development
The SDG Index describes a country's progress towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGI combines indicators of climate action with other socio-economic development measures that contextualise a country's environmental performance with the rest of its challenges and reality.
The global SDG Index score can be interpreted as the percentage of achievement of the goals.
Each dot in the plot represents a country and its score (y-axis). Countries at the bottom score lower on the index as the countries at the top. Sweden currently scores the highest at 85 and the Central African Republic scores lowest at 38.
Japan's score of 79 is among the best performing Asian countries towards achieving the SDGs. Despite being the front-runners in adopting the SDGs, Japan still falls short of addressing some aspects of sustainable development. This is mainly because Japan performs poorly on measures like reducing energy-related CO2 emissions, addressing fish population decrease and biodiversity loss, and changing unsustainable patterns of consumption and production. (Source: SDGI, 2018)
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NZ Governemnt asked to act on immigrant student issues
Immigration, New Zealand, Study Overseas, Visas
immigrant student issues, new zealand
The Government of New Zealand has been asked to act on immigrant student issues. The Labor party is looking for ways to punish overseas education agents who furnished deceptive documents for student visas.
Supporters and immigrant rights advocates campaigned at the Auckland's Unitarian Church. They demanded that the new government fulfill its promise to address immigrant student issues.
Students from India had been deported in February. This was because their agents based in India had submitted false documents.
Priyanca Radhakrishnan the Labor party Member of Parliament said that the earlier governments had failed to address the issue. They had failed to streamline overseas agents and the new government would do this, she added.
Ms. Radhakrishnan said that the overseas agents who act unethically and illegally are a concern. They do many things without the knowledge of students and are responsible for their trouble, she added. The MP refused to comment on the current deportation cases. This was because the investigation by the Ombudsman was underway.
Iain Lees-Galloway the new Immigration Minister would comment on the issue, said Ms. Radhakrishnan. This would be once the findings are released she added. Students who could prove that their agents acted illegally would have favorable consideration of their cases, said the MP.
A regulation was urgent to address the issue of immigrant students said Anu Kaloti spokesperson for a Migrant Workers Association.
Priyanca Radhakrishnan said that the objective is to bring the students back. The reason is that the students have done nothing wrong. They have been victimized, added the Labor party MP. But prior to taking any action, the entire issue needs to be investigated by the government said, Ms.Priyanca Radhakrishnan.
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It is a well-known fact that the movie "The Martian" was considered to be one of the most accurate movies scientifically. In fact NASA themselves have been impressed with the accuracy of details expressed in the movie. NASA has even gone to the extent of using the movie as a marketing campaign for the 2030s actual manned mission to Mars. That's how impressed they are.
The movie is based on the book written by Andy Weir and is considered close to perfect. The director of the movie requested NASA to check the film and make their corrections. Here are a few science based concepts from the movie.
The storm of dust that starts up the movie is not right. Mars is thought to have dust storms but because the atmospheric pressure is very low the wind produced becomes minuscule. The dust however is considered very harmful.
The most accurate of them all is the accuracy of time travel between both the planets. The movie talks about spaceflight where it would require about 8 months to get to mars making use of all the modern technology.
The movie has it that the actor lands on Mars and is able to grow potatoes. The mineral and chemical content of Martian soil may make it possible for plants to grow and therefore this concept is accurate too.
There is a high possibility of developing radiation related disease when one is exposed to high radiation for an extended duration of time. The movie shows the astronauts spending a lot of time on Mars whereas in reality the astronauts stay within the Earth's magnetosphere.
The tornadoes are tear up the surface in the movie and one may wonder how can this be possible if the atmosphere is thin. But it seems true that there is a possibility of tornado formation in the form of whirlwinds that take up the debris on the surface. Though they might not be as dramatic as in the movie, they do exist.
The actor in the movie has no problem moving about and he in fact moves just like he would on Earth, however since the gravity of Mars is only about 30% as of Earth, the movement will be different.
The habitat used in the movie is an inflatable one and this is something that is being considered in reality. Though with the thin atmosphere a habitat with earth like environment might have too much pressure within, this is not an idea to be dismissed easily.
For many years now, James Dean, even in his death, has captivated and stirred curiosity of many people. The great films he has been part of has stricken the world with his charm, forever immortalizing him in movies. The late actor who perished due to an unfortunate event still stands as one of the best actors of all time. Though there have been a good number of biopics of the actor, an upcoming Dean movie gives a different perspective and approach to the life of the famous actor. You can learn about some of his past life events, and what drove him to become the famous actor who left an impression on thousands of lives.
In some past works James Dean's sexuality was the subject of rumors. Whether he was gay or bisexual has been the main question of the past few years. However, the news about the late actor's gay acts has faced scrutiny. Perhaps he engaged in homosexual acts only to give his career a boost, but then again, this has faced a good amount of debate. Even though people have been saying that the actor himself was gay, it is commonly known that he was at most a bisexual, as he was a popular ladies man.
James Dean was undoubtedly a talented young actor who's life has been taken away at such an early age. Who knows what we could have seen his career bloom into, but it certainly would only improve his legendary status. Though this actor only had 3 films, 'Giant' with co stars Elizabeth Taylor, 'East of Eden' and 'Rebel Without a Cause' in the year 1955.
The upcoming Dean movie shows a different side of James Dean to feed the audiences curiosity of his sexuality. The film was directed and written by Matthew Mishory entitled, 'Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean'. Unlike the many other Dean movies, 'Joshua Tree' gives a different and very unique approach to the life of the charming actor. This film gave a fairly different and very striking take that has grabbed the attention of many people.
Actor James Preston from ABC's 'The Gates' stars in the role of the brilliant James Dean. He is joined by the 'L Word' actress, Erin Daniels and 'Queer as Folk' Robert Gant. This Dean movie talks about the life of the late actor before he gained his popularity in Hollywood.


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Hey Bulldog Sheet Music by The Beatles. Paul McCartney , John Lennon. The Beatles. Sony. ATV Music Publishing. English. 0-7935-1832-6. Solero. Guitar Tab. Vocal. Chords. Sheep dog standing in the rain Bullfrog doing it again.
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WHERE'S MY WALLET
Title WHERE'S MY WALLET
Brand COMMONWEALTH BANK
Product / Service CARDLESS CASH
Category C05. Financial Services, Commercial Public Services, Business Products & Services
Entrant M&C SAATCHI Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Entrant Company M&C SAATCHI Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Advertising Agency M&C SAATCHI Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Media Agency IKON COMMUNICATIONS Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Ben Welsh M&C Saatchi Executive Creative Director
Andy Flemming M&C Saatchi Creative Director
Michael Andrews M&C Saatchi Creative Director
Gustavo Vampre M&C Saatchi Art Director
Becca Duggan M&C Saatchi Art Director
Rowan Bancroft M&C Saatchi Art Director
Josephine Phillips/Geoff Reid M&C Saatchi Copywriter
Sharon Lewis M&C Saatchi Executive Producer
Anthony Harca M&C Saatchi Senior Producer
Jacinta Karras M&C Saatchi Digital Producer
Roger Chapman M&C Saatchi Head of Technology
Stuart O'Connell M&C Saatchi Senior Software Engineer
Ticiana Andrade M&C Saatchi Software Engineer
Richard Smith M&C Saatchi Design Director
Cameron Johnson M&C Saatchi Digital Designer
Eithne McSwiney M&C Saatchi Group Head
Hayley Mathews M&C Saatchi Senior Account Director
Alex Roper M&C Saatchi Strategy Director
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Brief Explanation
CommBank's new Cardless Cash technology, available in the CommBank app, allows customers to withdraw money from a CommBank ATM without their card. CommBank is the first in the market to introduce this innovation. We created a digital promotion to launch this new technology and hid 100 wallets in the largest photograph ever taken of Sydney (125 Gigapixels) for people to find and redeem cash prizes. Winners received a code to their smartphone to claim $200 using the new Cardless Cash technology. Of course, the prize was only redeemable by first downloading the CommBank app. The promotion lasted 2 weeks, Monday-Friday from 6am to 6pm.
Cardless Cash is a safe and reliable innovation to help customers through a nerve-wracking time like losing your wallet. Yet extracting cash from an ATM with only smartphone code was a totally foreign experience for people. The challenge was to educate people about the new technology and make them feel comfortable withdrawing money without their card. Therefore a promotion that drove demonstration and trial of the technology itself was perfect. The activation drove traffic to download the CommBank app, and those clever enough to find a wallet got to experience the new technology first hand.
Describe the success of the promotion with both client and consumer including some quantifiable results
The 'Where's My Wallet?' promotion increased daily visits to the product page by 117%, while app downloads increased by 15%. During the 10 days of gameplay the site received 43,000 unique visitors, spending on average 12 minutes on the site, while winners took on average 64 minutes to find a wallet. On the 9th day, the average was 133 minutes! The game generated the highest level of positive social media engagement that CommBank has received. And in the first few months the campaign resulted in more than 420,000 Cardless Cash transactions - more than $40 million withdrawn without a card. Preference for CommBank for day-to-day transactions also rose above campaign norms by over 10%.
Explain why the method of promotion was most relevant to the product or service
We created a multi-platform, interactive game, hiding 100 wallets inside the largest panoramic shot ever taken of Sydney (125 Gigapixels), for people to find for cash prizes. Once a wallet was found, winners received a code to their smartphone to claim $200 using the Cardless Cash technology, thus trialing the new service itself. The promotion ran for 2 weeks, Monday to Friday, starting at 6am to target commuters. We hid 10 wallets a day, giving away $20,000 in total. Clues to the wallet locations were released throughout the day, on the site and social media. We used radio to further promote the campaign and achieved front-page news on high traffic online news portals. The campaign evolved whilst live, as engagement was higher than anticipated and wallets were being found too quickly. The difficulty of the game was increased and the clues delayed to make the game more challenging.
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The No. 25 Arizona State Sun Devils women's tennis team closes out its regular season schedule this weekend as they head south to Tucson to take on the Arizona Wildcats on the road. The Pac-10 match is the final match of the season before the Pac-10 Championships begin on April 27 in Ojai, Calif. The Sun Devils are currently owners of a 12-8 record (3-4 Pac-10) and sit in a tie with the Wildcats for fifth place in the Pac-10 standings.
The Arizona Wildcats enter the match ranked No. 35 by the ITA with a 12-10 overall record and 3-4 conference record. They were also swept by Cal and Stanford at home last weekend, The Sun Devils won the first matchup of the season with the Wildcats within the friendly confines of the Whiteman Center, 5-2, on March 25. The Sun Devils lead the all-time series 34-14 and are looking to sweep the season series for the second straight year.
The Sun Devils lost both matches last weekend, taking on California and Stanford. The Devils fell to the No. 11 Golden Bears 5-2 at home on Friday before the defending champs downed them 6-1 on Saturday. Kady Pooler earned a Pac-10 Player of the Week nomination for her singles win on Friday and her part in a huge upset doubles win on Saturday.
The Sun Devils will travel to Ojai, California for the Pac-10 Championships on April 27-30.
Season Natl Rank Ovr. Record Win Pct.
In this week's Fila ITA poll, ASU fell to No. 25 after dropping two last weekend. It marks the 17th straight poll in which the Sun Devils have been in the top 30 and their 14th straight in the top 25.
With her two singles wins and two doubles wins against the Washington schools, junior Rebecca Rankin won her 21st singles match and her 20th doubles match to become the second Sun Devil on this year's squad to record 20 victories in both categories, joining junior Roxanne Clarke.
The Sun Devils are without a doubt playing one of the toughest, if not the toughest, schedule in the country this year, combining a difficult non-conference slate with the powerhouses that form their schedule in the Pac-10 South. The Sun Devils have played six matches against top 10 teams (1-5) and 10 matches against the top 25 (4-8). Against ranked opponents this year, the Devils are 7-8, having only played five unranked teams.
Junior Roxanne Clarke was again honored by the Pac-10, this time for singles, as the Conference's Player of the Week for March 20 - 26. No. 98 Clarke defeated Arizona's No. 54 Danielle Steinberg, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7-5). This was Clarke's first Pac-10 Player of the Week honor on the singles court and second weekly honor all-time for Arizona State. Clarke and her doubles teammate, Kady Pooler, were named Conference Players of the Week as a doubles team on Feb. 27.
The Sun Devils have two ranked singles players currently and one ranked doubles team. Roxanne Clarke has been ranked No. 74 in the last poll (down from No. 59) and Sabrina Capannolo fell to No. 120 (from 116). Roxanne Clarke and Kady Pooler are currently ranked No. 19 in doubles, moving up 24 spots after knocking off No. 1 on Saturday.
Coach Sheila McInerney enters her 22nd season at the helm of the Sun Devil program, the seventh longest tenure of any head coach at ASU, after leading last year's team to its 18th consecutive appearance in the NCAA tournament. In her 21 seasons, McInerney has led her team to 20 berths in the tournament. Prior to last year's exit in the second round, McInerney had led eight straight teams to the Sweet 16. She holds a career record of 332-210 and has posted three 20-win seasons in her career. ASU has finished in the top-10 of the nation an astounding 13 times under McInerney's tutelage.


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the fabulous berlinettes
Author: Roy Smith
The berlinettes were fragile, beautifully designed, lightweight road rockets. For the first time, Alpine Renault enthusiasts around the world can read the complete history of them in English.
This book is not just for owners of Alpine Renaults, but for all those interested in rallying and its spectacular period of rapid development in the late 1960s and early '70s. Hear from the men who built the cars, some of the great drivers who became famous driving them, the team manager, the Redele family – creators of the car – and the mechanics who kept the cars going. The story covers the concept, the first cars, the early road cars, and their entry into competition on the European rallying circuit, with full charted documentary details.
The Alpine A110 berlinette was a car born to compete, born to win. This is its story.
Roy Smith retired from business in 2003, and with a lifetime passion for motor sport entered the world of motoring writing. He was not new to this field, having written in the 1960s for several club magazines. A 40-year business career developed an attention to detail that is crucial to writing works such as this. He is an award winning member of the Guild of Motoring Writers. Roy has also had work shortlisted for the Historic Motor Sport Publication of the Year. He regularly writes specialist articles for websites and magazines in the UK and internationally.
Illustrations: 380 color photos
Size: 9.84 in x 9.84 in x 1 in / 249.94 mm x 249.94 mm x 25.4 mm
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Alpine Renault Ultimate Portfolio 1958-1995


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