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Taking the BS out of Sage BI Tools

If you are like me you have heard the word BI or Business Intelligence tools but you are a little confused about what this actually means.? BI has been around a long time, according to Wikipedia, the term Business Intelligence was first used in 1958 by IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn.? So it?s not a new Buzz Word.

In my terms it?s a simple as this? ?using automated techniques to get info out of your ERP system in a way and format that you can use and understand?.? I smiled today when one of our consultants explained it to me ?you let excel do all your gymnastics?.

Sage ERP has a number of BI Tools available and you will need to make a decision about which tool you wish to use. All three tools give you the benefits of your familiar Excel interface as well as report templates that automatically pull and refresh data from Sage ERP.

Which tool you use will ultimately depend on your requirements and you may in fact use one or more of these tools.? Below I have listed some pros and cons of each.

The three modules available for Sage ERP are:

? Financial Reporter

? Intelligence

? Insight

?

Sage ERP Financial Reporter

Pros

-?????? Great for easily and quickly accessing General Ledger Data

-?????? Drill Down available to source documents

-?????? No additional Purchases required

-?????? Lots of samples supplied

Con

-?????? Only Accesses General Ledger Data

-?????? Drill down only from Report writer

-?????? Utilises a Sage Licence

?

Sage Intelligence

Pros

-?????? Easy to use report templates

-?????? Can access all modules not just restricted to General Ledger

-?????? Dashboard Data View

-?????? A Single User Report Manager Licence Included ? allow you to author new reports, filter and aggregate data, and set

security for reports

-?????? Report Viewer licences available for those who just wish to run reports

-?????? Can consolidate data from multiple companies, or connect external data from other sources via ODBC. (only if you
own a Report connector Licence)

-?????? Using the Analysis add-on you can create? OLAP cubes that enable multi-dimensional analysis of large volumes of

data, and overcome? Excel row limitations. (additional Purchase)

-?????? Its only limited by your imagination and what you can do in Excel

-?????? Comes with ready-to-use data cubes that enable multi-dimensional analysis of your data.

-?????? Insight into your business through multi-dimensional analysis of your data

-?????? Multi-currency and multi-company capabilities to give you the competitive edge to succeed in today?s fast-paced

global marketplace

-?????? Comprehensive security at variable levels, protecting your important business intelligence from unauthorized

access or manipulation

-?????? Easy it is to import and export reports.

-?????? Allows you to report on Database Tables, Views, Stored Proceedures and SQL Query Statements.

-?????? Scheduling of reports via email or saving to specified paths.

-?????? Easy drill downs on GL Codes

-?????? Ships with lots of standard report templates

-?????? Reports security is high, can specify user access to certain reports

-?????? Allows you to create your own report parameters

Con

-?????? Need Connector Licence to add to Containers

-?????? Licence seat and workstation specific

-?????? If you don?t use a standard template you need an understanding of how to link tables to add fields

Sage Insight

For enterprise-level organizations needing automated report distribution; strong security measures to protect sensitive data; and complex budgeting and consolidation this is your tool.

Pro

-?????? Powerful Data Warehousing

-?????? Can produce large amounts of data quickly without affecting performance of Sage ERP

-?????? Enables remote distribution and collaboration of data

-?????? Insight reports can be published to the web

Con

-?????? Complex to use

-?????? Cost can be prohibitive

In Short it seems like Sage Intelligence is the way to go for most clients, I just have to brush up my excel skills and let go of Financial reporter. I guess the best bit is that you have a choice and you can choose the option that best suits you.

Source: http://www.ebsol.com.au/taking-the-bs-out-of-sage-bi-tools/

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Fight giants, slay dragons in college? Students play 'Skyrim' for class

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Winda Benedetti , NBC News

If you love playing the epic fantasy-themed game?"The Elder Scrolls V:?Skyrim" then?right now would be a great time to be a student at Rice University in Texas.

After all, if you take the English course being taught by instructor Donna Beth Ellard, then you'd be playing the enormously popular video?game for homework ... not to mention?for credit.

Ellard is?an instructor in the private university's English Department. She specializes in medieval literature, and starting next spring?she'll be teaching a class she's created?called?"Scandinavian Fantasy Worlds: Old Norse Sagas and Skyrim."

Up to 19 lucky students will have a chance to partake in this junior-level class which will have have them reading?selections from Old Norse and Old Icelandic sagas while they play different quests within the game.

Though Ellard told me this is the first time she's used a video game in a class, she is part of a growing number of college instructors who are incorporating games into university-level?course work. At Wabash College in Indiana, "Portal" was made required "reading" for all students. Meanwhile,?World of Warcraft has been?used at Mercyhurst College in Pensylvania?as part of the?intelligence studies program.?And at the University of Texas at Brownsville, one instructor is using PlayStation 3?video games to teach physics.

I had a chance to talk to chat with Ellard???who, perhaps?surprisingly,?does not consider herself an avid gamer ??about the class, what she hopes playing "Skyrim" will teach her students and?why fantasy is so important to our modern?lives.?Read on...

Q.?Can?you tell me a bit about yourself?

Ellard:?I?m an Anglo-Saxonist, which means that my research deals primarily with literature that spans from about 700 to 1150 (although those dates are very flexible). This literature is written in Old English and Latin.

Although my research field is the early medieval period, I am deeply committed to thinking about its connection to later periods. To these ends, part of my work focuses on the role that Scandinavian literature played in the development of my field, Anglo-Saxon Studies, during the late-18th and early-19th centuries.?

This period???from the French Revolution to the end of the Napoleonic Wars???was a time when England was at constant war with France, a time when it was busy expanding its colonial territories, and a time when its antiquarians and historians were engaged in writing Anglo-Saxon history.?

Where does Scandinavia fit in to all of this? During the late-18th century, very few Old English texts were known or readily available, while Scandinavian poetry had been circulating popularly in England since the mid-18th century. Aided by the dim understanding that Anglo-Saxon England was populated by tribes from northern Europe (including Scandinavia), Scandinavian literature and history became a critical source for early Anglo-Saxon Studies.

In other words, Anglo-Saxon Studies developed during a period of war in which England was struggling to define itself as a nation and as an empire. And Scandinavia came to function as a ?fantasy? culture that was folded into Anglo-Saxon history. Its pagan warriors from which Anglo-Saxons descend and against which they fought (read: the Vikings) became figures that allowed the English to address modern questions of nation and empire.

Q.?How do video games fit into your life? Are you an avid gamer?

Ellard:?I am not an avid gamer. I had heard of the Elder Scrolls series, but it?wasn't?until I saw someone playing "Skyrim" last year that I became really taken by the game. I started playing it myself not only because I found it beautiful but also because its investments in a fantasy world of dragons, draugrs, trolls, and magic (concepts that are not exclusive to but relate extensively with the sagas) are coupled with a politics of national identity and Empire that resonate intimately with those of late-18th and early-19th century England.

Q.?How?did you come?up with the idea to use 'Skyrim' in the classroom? What inspired you?

Ellard:?I had wanted to teach a class on fantasy for both theoretical and historicist reasons. For one, fantasy is probably one of the most important components of our daily psychic lives (how many times do we catch ourselves daydreaming?). Likewise, I believe that it?s critical for undergraduates to understand the high level of interactivity between medieval and contemporary literature and culture.

Because my field (English) organizes literature according to historical period, undergraduates can be led to believe that their survey of 18th-century literature doesn?t have anything to do with, say their survey of 20th-century literature. And in this paradigm, you can imagine how remote and unrelated medieval literature could seem to those of later periods. A course about fantasy seemed like an effective way to bridge medieval and modern literatures and cultures.?

I?didn't?have to choose "Skyrim" for the class. I could have paired Scandinavian sagas with modern fantasy fiction (e.g. Tolkien) or with contemporary film (e.g. '13th Warrior'); however, 'Skyrim' seemed like the most logical choice. Not only would it allow us as a class to think about the immediate cultural and political implications (both national and imperial) of why this particular game is so incredibly popular but it would also enable us to have conversations about the critical role that video games (unlike other media) play in reshaping medieval fantasy.?

Q.?What do you hope your students will ultimately take away from this class?

Ellard:?I hope that they leave with a basic understanding of how fantasy works as a psychological concept. I hope that they are introduced to medieval Scandinavian literature and its relevance to modern culture. And I hope that they learn about the politics that percolate below the surface of our Scandinavian fantasies.

Q.?Do you expect all of your students will be gamers? Or do expect to have some non-gamers join?

Ellard:?I really don?t have any idea. The students I know who plan to take it in the spring are interested in medieval literature, but I can see that it would appeal to gamers as well. I might limit it to folks who have some experience playing the game, but I?m not sure.

Q.?Can you give me an example of what a homework assignment will look like?

Ellard:?I?m still working out the class, so I don?t know yet. As the primary materials are Norse and Icelandic sagas and theoretical readings on fantasy, most homework will be text-based. For me this is a very experimental class, so I don?t know to what extent 'Skyrim' will be a participant in regular assignments. I have thought about structuring reading units around different quests, but I?m not sure.

Q.?You said this is the first time you've used a video game in the classroom???does that present any unique challenges for you as the instructor?

Ellard:?Anytime you teach a new class the learning curve is pretty steep, but I don?t have a pedagogical model for discussing a video game in a classroom especially in relation to textual materials. It?s not like a film clip, which can be viewed in class and then discussed.

Video games are interactive, personal experiences. You?re a player only when you operate the controller, and in 'Skyrim' the quests you experience in the game are contingent upon the choices you make.

Q.?I have noticed video games appearing more and more as part of college-level course work. Do you have any thoughts about why games can be a successful teaching tool?

Ellard:?Personally, I don?t see "Skyrim" or any other game as a teaching tool. I see it as a ?text? just like film and television are texts, just like visual and performing arts are texts. Each engages with and refracts contemporary culture.

As a medievalist, I?m not interested in advocating video games in the classroom; however, these games are as integral to popular culture as other ?more respectable? art forms and should be acknowledged as such.

One might pause for a minute and recognize that it wasn?t so long ago that film wasn?t considered worthy of study, and film studies departments are now part of most university arts and sciences programs. The same thing could be said for studying fantasy and science fiction in English departments. Twenty-five years ago undergraduates weren?t reading Tolkien in university, and now no one thinks twice about it.?

Q.?Is there anything else?you'd like people to know about the course you're teaching and why you decided to use Skyrim?

Ellard:?I?d just like to press ... that this is not a class about playing video games. It?s not even a class about Skyrim. It?s about medieval fantasy and about acknowledging the very important role that it plays in the recreational pursuits and the serious politics of contemporary culture.

To dismiss fantasy and to ignore the impact of the Middle Ages on modern psychic life is to remain unaware of how and why we structure some of our most basic belief systems.

Winda Benedetti?writes?about video?games for NBC?News. You can follow her tweets about games and other things?on Twitter?here?@WindaBenedetti?and you can?follow her?on?Google+.?Meanwhile, be sure to check?out the?IN-GAME?FACEBOOK PAGE?to discuss the day's?gaming news and reviews.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/ingame/fight-giants-slay-dragons-college-students-play-skyrim-class-1C6690402

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Inland's Newest Non-listed REIT Begins IPO | Commercial Property ...

October 25, 2012

By Scott Baltic, Contributing Editor

Inland Real Estate Income Trust, Inc., Oak Brook, Ill., a non-listed company, has begun selling $1.5 billion in common stock in connection with its initial public offering, Inland announced Wednesday. The IPO is pursuant to a registration statement declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 18.

Inland Income Trust was formed in August 2011 and is sponsored by Inland Real Estate Investment Corp.

The trust is offering up to 150 million shares of its common stock for sale at $10 per share and up to an additional 30 million shares of common stock for issuance under its distribution reinvestment plan at $9.50 per share. The trust is offering the shares of common stock on a ?best efforts? basis through Inland Securities Corp., the offering?s dealer manager.

The trust intends to use the proceeds from this offering primarily to acquire, directly or through joint ventures, a diversified portfolio of commercial real estate throughout the United States. The prospectus states that the trust intends ?to acquire retail properties, office buildings, multi-family properties and industrial/distribution and warehouse facilities,? with a focus on core assets.

The trust might also invest in real estate?related equity securities and/or CMBS.

The prospectus notes that there will be no internalization fee, nor debt financing fees, oversight fees, development fees or disposition fees. Excessive fees, of course, have been one of the bad raps against non-listed REITs

Almost exactly a year ago, on Oct. 10, 2011, Commercial Property Executive reported on a then-nascent trend toward non-listed REITs that focus on providing shareholders with more transparency, improved liquidity, better redemption options and in some cases lower up-front sales commissions and ongoing management fees. <www.cpexecutive.com/in-print/radical-departure-the-latest-non-listed-reits-offer-enhanced-liquidity-transparency/>

As to a liquidity event, the prospectus states that the Inland Income Trust board does not anticipate such an event until at least 2017.

Although the prospectus notes that the trust qualifies as an ?emerging growth company? under the JOBS Act of 2012, freeing it from certain reporting requirements and disclosures, it adds that this status is not expected to have a significant effect on the business.

Finally, the prospectus gently touts Inland?s track record, noting that in its more than 40 years of acquiring and managing real estate assets, Inland Real Estate Investment Corp. has completed 437 programs: eight public funds, 419 private partnerships, nine 1031 exchange programs and one public REIT. ?No completed program has paid total distributions less than the total contributed capital to the program,? according to the document.

Source: http://www.cpexecutive.com/regions/midwest/inlands-newest-non-listed-reit-begins-ipo/

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Realtor Good Neighbor Award Winners Strengthen Communities ...

WASHINGTON ? October 23, 2012 (Realtor.org) Realtors? work tirelessly to strengthen the communities in which they live and work, as well as improve the lives of their neighbors. For the past 13 years the Good Neighbor Awards program has recognized Realtors? who do just that. The five individuals named as this year?s REALTOR? Magazine Good Neighbor Award winners value service above self and are committed to helping those in need.

The 2012 Good Neighbor Awards winners are Rocco ?Rocky? Balsamo, The Rocky Balsamo Real Estate Group/Long & Foster Real Estate Inc., Princeton Junction, N.J., for cofounding the Center for FaithJustice; Michael Campbell, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Tucson, Ariz., president of The Hearth Foundation; Regina ?Ginger? Dowdle, Sunrise Realty & Development, Statesville, N.C., founder of The Shepherd?s Watch Ministries; Ortrud ?Trudy? Harsh, Long & Foster, Fairfax, Va., founder of The Brain Foundation; and Sally Rudloff, Kane & Associates, Alameda, Calif., former president of the Alameda Boys & Girls Club.

?The Good Neighbor Awards reminds us that a strong community is integral to a person?s quality of life,? said National Association of Realtors? President Moe Veissi, broker-owner of Veissi & Associates Inc., in Miami. ?Realtors? strongly believe in this philosophy and work tirelessly to build successful communities. Despite their busy Realtor? careers, this year?s Good Neighbor Award winners have sacrificed their time, money and effort to improve the quality of life for others. I am honored to recognize them and help them grow their efforts so they can help even more people through their selfless work.?

NAR?s REALTOR? Magazine presents the Good Neighbor Awards, which have been granted annually since 2000. Winners receive a $10,000 grant for their charity and a $2,000 Lowe?s gift card, and are profiled in the November-December issue of REALTOR? Magazine. The recipients will be presented with crystal trophies on Saturday, November 10, at the 2012 REALTORS? Conference & Expo in Orlando; 21,000 Realtors? and guests are expected to attend the conference.

Balsamo is founding board member and volunteer executive director for Center for FaithJustice, a nonprofit that promotes volunteerism among teens and young adults. CFJ runs summer day camps and sleep-away camps, as well as other year-round workshops for schools and churches. Last year, more than 900 teens volunteered more than 20,000 hours in local charities and spent a similar number of hours in education classes.

Campbell is president of The Hearth Foundation, which provides transitional housing for low-income families, typically women with young children. He is credited for reorganizing and stabilizing the organization, strengthening the board, and creating effective partnerships with other organizations to provide services to the residents. Under Campbell?s leadership, the organization applied for and was awarded a $720,000 grant from the Arizona State Department of Housing, which will allow the organization to make much-needed renovations to their apartments.

Dowdle and her husband founded The Shepherd?s Watch Ministries, which hosts a summer camp for children in the community, as well as a year-round residential program for at-risk youths in foster care, on their 60-acre farm. The residential program focuses on teens who will likely age out of foster care without being adopted. The goal is to teach these youths much needed skills to help prepare them for independent living. The Dowdles have foster-parented more than 20 youths since 2005, adopting two boys with another adoption in process.

Harsh founded The Brain Foundation in 2003 to address the growing need for affordable housing for mentally ill adults who might otherwise be homeless. The foundation has since purchased six homes that house 24 adults with brain diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or chronic depression. She has formed a successful partnership with another nonprofit to provide residents with services that allow them to live independently. Her model has been copied in Florida and she frequently mentors others who are trying to create similar programs.

Rudloff, former president of the Alameda Boys & Girls Club, is credited with incredible growth that allows the club to expand from serving 1,200 children to a capacity of 3,000. Rudloff led a $10 million capital campaign that built a new 25,000-square-foot youth center. She also launched a dental clinic for uninsured children, recruited math teachers for a new tutoring program, and created partnerships that provide family counseling. In addition to being a Good Neighbor Award winner, Rudloff also won the most votes in an online Web Choice contest, earning her an additional $500 Lowe?s gift card.

In addition to the winners, five Realtors? have been recognized as Good Neighbor Award honorable mentions; they will each receive $2,500 grants and a $1,000 Lowe?s gift card. They are Charlene M. Brennan, Strano & Associates Real Estate, Fairview Heights, Ill., for Rotary District 6510?s Belizean Children?s Program; Georgia L. Butterfield, Legacy Real Estate & Associates, ERA Powered, Fremont, Calif., for Adopt An Angel; Geoffrey W. Lavell, Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate-Desert Properties, Henderson, Nev., for Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation; Patti M. Miller, Tierra Antigua Realty, Sierra Vista, Ariz., for Real Wishes Foundation; and Kathleen Peck, All in One Realty Group, Inc., Naples, Fla., for Lighthouse of Collier, Inc.

REALTOR? Magazine?s Good Neighbor Awards is sponsored by Lowe?s and HouseLogic. Nominees were judged on their personal contribution of time, financial and material contributions to their cause. To be eligible, nominees have to be NAR members in good standing. For more information about the Good Neighbor Awards, visit REALTOR.org/gna.

With fiscal year 2011 sales of $50.2 billion, Lowe?s Companies, Inc. is a FORTUNE? 100 company that serves approximately 15 million customers a week at more than 1,745 home improvement stores in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Founded in 1946 and based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe?s is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the world. For more information, visit Lowes.com. Lowe?s is a proud partner in NAR?s REALTOR Benefits? Program, bringing Realtors? exclusive benefits to help build relationships with their customers, generate referrals and expand their client base. The benefits program is featured on www.LowesRealtorBenefits.com.

HouseLogic, www.houselogic.com, is a free source of information and tools from the National Association of Realtors? that can help homeowners make smart and timely decisions about their home. With content covering home improvement, maintenance, taxes, finance, insurance, and even ways to get involved in and enrich their community, HouseLogic can help homeowners increase and protect the value of their home by helping them make confident decisions.

The National Association of Realtors?, ?The Voice for Real Estate,? is America?s largest trade association, representing 1 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.

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Tough decisions: vote makes my head hurt ? Sports Journalists ...

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In this greatest year in the history of British sport, the choice of who should win our coveted SJA Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year titles ? the Daddy and the Mummy of sporting awards ? has never been more challenging.

It?s given NORMAN GILLER quite a headache

Bradley Wiggins: the Tour de France winner pays keen attention to what the papers say, even French ones

When Bradley Wiggins became the first Brit to win the Tour de France ? followed almost immediately by an Olympic gold medal ? the men?s prize at this year?s SJA British Sports Awards seemed nailed on for him.

But, innocent as I am sure he is, how saddled is he with the fall-out from the shaming of dope pedaller Lance Armstrong? The strain is bound to tell on Wiggins: yesterday?s launch announcement in Paris for the 2013 centenary Tour was dominated by questions about Armstrong, who earlier this week was stripped of his seven Tour de France victories.

Cycling is in crisis to the point where double decathlon Olympic gold medallist Daley Thompson is calling for the sport to be thrown out of the Games.

It is as bonkers as Boris Johnson dangling on a zip wire over the Olympic Park. Track and field has been heaving with athletes taking the steroid to paradise for years.

Discussing this with another Express expat, Randall Northam ? publisher, SJA Treasurer and athletics writer ? he summed it up perfectly. ?It is an entirely ridiculous, stones-and-glasshouses suggestion coming from someone from a sport that has given the world Ben Johnson, Marion Jones and Linford Christie,? he said. ?If you are going to ban cycling from the Olympics because of drug cheats, then athletics, weightlifting and swimming would be next in line. Where would you stop??

Kicking cycling out of the Olympics is not the answer. No, cleaning up the sport is the only way, with zero tolerance and instant life-long disqualification for anybody caught cheating.

Thanks to the cycling charlatan Armstrong, it seems to me that Bradley Wiggins has as much chance of becoming Sportsman of the Year as Victoria Pendleton of winning Strictly Come Dancing. That means it is not out of the question, but he is certainly not, as seemed likely, going to waltz to the title.

In any other year Andy Murray?s triple whammy of Wimbledon final, Olympic gold medal and then US Grand Slam would have assured him the award. But there?s the Olympic double of Mo-Mo Farah to consider, the plain sailing of Ben Ainslie, the velodrome victories of Sir Chris Hoy and the whizzing wheelchair deeds of David Weir.

Olympic boxing gold medal-winner Nicola Adams is one of a number of outstanding candidates for the SJA?s Sportswoman of the Year title

The women?s race is nearly as tight, with heptathlete Jessica Ennis a hot favourite but under pressure from smiling assassin Nicola Adams, clean cyclists Pendleton. Laura Trott and Sarah Storey, and coming up on the outside incredible Paralympian swimming sensation Ellie Simmonds.

And why do I refer to the SJA?s British Sports Awards as the Mummy and Daddy of sporting awards? A quick history lesson to show why the BBC?s Sports Personality of the Year award will always be playing catch-up?

The first Sportsman of the Year award was introduced by my old paper the Daily Express, and it was a cyclist who was the inaugural winner back in the London Olympic year of 1948. Reg Harris, silver medallist in the sprint, pedalled to first place.

The Sports Writers? Association (now the SJA) followed with their award in 1949, but lacked the publicity, muscle and money of an Express then selling 4.2 million copies a day.

BBC sports boss Paul Fox decided the Beeb should get in on the act in 1954, and to avoid being seen as a complete rip-off from the Express or the SWA, they called their award the ?Sports Personality of the Year?. It was first featured in their midweek flagship Sportsview programme.

In a postcard poll, Chris Chataway pulled in 14,517 votes to beat Roger Bannister into second place. This was a complete nonsense in the year that Roger not only became the first man to break the four-minute mile barrier but also won the Empire mile title ? in the ?Race of the Century? against Aussie John Landy ? and the European 1,500m gold medal.

It demonstrated, even then, the power of television: Chataway benefited from beating Vladimir Kuts in an electrifying 5,000m race, shown live on TV from London?s White City just two months before the award was announced. With all the new technology and progress in presentations, nobody has been able to beat the way Chataway and Kuts were picked out in a spotlight as they raced neck and neck on the final lap in their floodlit thriller.

The Daily Express and the Sports Writers? Association got it right that year, and awarded their trophies to Roger Bannister, who should have been a mile ahead in the BBC poll. The judgement of our fellow members, the sports journalists, have been as reliable ever since.

The awards project used to be the biggest thing on the Express budget when I was in the sports team in the 1960s and ?70s. Sir Max Aitken, son of Lord Beaverbrook, was sports mad, and encouraged a glittering ceremony at which he used to make the main presentation. First man to hand over the BBC?s trophy to Chris Chataway was their own presenter, Peter Dimmock.

Roger Bannister en route to the first sub-four-minute mile: not good enough for the BBC award in 1954, he was the sportswriters? Sportsman of the Year

Now the BBC awards show has grown so big they use our TV licence money to hire a major indoor arena for an evening of back-slapping (and some back-stabbing), while the Express does not even manage a whisper. This year?s SPOTY is coming live from the Excel Arena on December 16 ? 10 days after our awards ? in front of an audience of 15,000, and a spectacular show will be anchored by Gary Lineker, Sue Barker and the unstoppable Clare Balding.

The SJA ceremony, into its 63rd year, has settled down into a much-acclaimed lunch event, with the Sportsman, Sportswoman and Team of the Year winners chosen by members? votes. Our distinguished President Sir Michael Parkinson will make the main presentations this year at the Tower of London in front of an audience of around 500 media colleagues, as well as many leading sports figures and other celebrities.

We have been recognising the exploits of our sportswomen with an individual award since back in 1959, when long jumper Mary Bignal was the winner. She won it again five years later as Olympic champion Mary Rand.

To their everlasting embarrassment, the BBC last year managed to have a shortlist without a single (or married) woman on it. They blamed it on ?Fleet Street?, because it was the all-male sports editors who proposed the runners and riders.

No chance of a repeat this year. The shortlist for viewers to choose from has been increased from 10 to 12, and this time it will be decided by a mix of a dozen experts under the supervision of director of BBC Sport Barbara Slater, daughter of ex-Wolves and England footballer Bill Slater.

Joining Slater on the panel are Paralympic luminary Baroness Grey-Thompson, Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Denise Lewis, broadcaster Eleanor Oldroyd, sports journalist Sue Mott and UK Sport chair Baroness Campbell.

They will be joined in their deliberations by Sir Steve Redgrave, BBC?s head of sport Philip Bernie, programme editor Carl Doran (between them, the two men responsible for delivering SPOTY), and trio of newspaper sports editors Mike Dunn (The Sun), Matthew Hancock (The Observer) and Lee Clayton (Daily Mail). You will notice no female sports editor. That, chaps, should be an appointment waiting to happen anytime soon.

Now excuse me, I have a voting form to fill out. Pass the aspirin.

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Sheerlund Forests ends retail business

Courtesy of Courtney H. Diener-Stokes Sheerlund Forests closed its retail operations. The owners are siblings Jane Reese, from left, George Sullivan and Sue McCain, who have been running Sheerlund Forests since 1995.

Amid the hustle, bustle and commercialization of the Christmas season, Sheerlund Forests Christmas tree farm, Cumru Township, managed to preserve the experience of an old-fashioned holiday. A destination for many families in Berks County, the tradition was deep-rooted.

But Sheerlund Forests, which has been owned and operated by the Sullivan family since the early 1950s, announced it made the painful decision to cease its retail operation. The family plans to keep its wholesale business.

"All good things must come to an end," said Jane Reese of Alexandria, Va., who is part of the third generation running the business.

Since 1995, Reese and two of her siblings - George Sullivan, also of Alexandria, and Sue McCain, who lives in a home on the Sheerlund property - ran the operations.

A fourth sibling, Peg McShane, Reading, is not involved in the business.

The magical experience for customers of heading out in wagons to cut down their tree, walking through the ornament barn illuminated by decorated trees, and eating complimentary cookies and hot cocoa while waiting for a turn with Santa is no more.

Customers were notified of the news by mail or on Facebook.

"I can't tell you how many messages we have received," Reese said. "They have all been very nice and understanding."

She pointed out some of the more memorable messages posted on Facebook by long-term customers.

"Thanks for all the wonderful family memories," one said. Another read, "I have never been so saddened to learn a business was closing."

The decision to end the retail business came after the family was notified by the manager of 12 years, Jon Paul Pierre, that he would be heading to Texas to pursue graduate studies.

"Sue and I are in our 70s and George is approaching and we met with the next generation," Reese said.

The next generation wasn't in a position to take over the business, Reese said.

"This is our first step for planning for the future," she said.

Reese, McCain and Sullivan regarded Pierre's work very highly.

"I loved working there," Pierre said. "It was hard to leave."

"Part of the reason I looked forward to Christmas so much was because I knew I would be able to experience the magic that took place there," wrote one of the employees in the ornament shop to Reese.

Despite the practical nature of the new business path, it was not decided upon without emotional anguish.

"It's sad and it has been a difficult decision to make," Reese said. "We are very much invested in the farm - we have grown up there."

Reese and her siblings were responsible for expanding the operation by adding the wagon rides, Santa and ornament shop.

"We tried to make it a wonderful place for families," Reese said. "I guess we did because they are all telling us how much we meant to them."

At present, the wholesale portion, which involves selling balled and burlapped trees to landscapers and garden centers, still will be in operation.

Reese said last year was financially the best they have ever had in the history of the retail business.

"We are sort of going out on a high," she said.

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Swell Apple Store manager extends return period for remorseful iPad third-gen buyers

One San Francisco Apple store has extended the return period from 14 days to 30 days for those that are kicking themselves for buying a third-generation iPad so close to Apple's announcement of the iPad 4. Apparently this policy change is on a store-by-store basis however, so don't get your hopes up too high for some Apple-wide policy change for the launch of the new iPad. The Stockton Street Apple Store manager also said that the usual 14-day return stretch would stay in place if there was significant wear and tear, but seriously, how badly could you bang up an iPad 3 in under a month?

I checked in with a few Apple stores in my area. In Ottawa, it didn't sound like they were budging on the two-week return period, while the Toronto store said that they're flexible about this kind of thing at launch time, though they have made any solid changes just yet. If you do end up calling your local Apple Store, leave a comment and let us know what's up. Any third-gen iPad owners in this boat? Would you otherwise go out of your way to upgrade, or are the differences with the last iPad too slight?

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Apple 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro hands-on!

Apple just introduced its second Retina display MacBook: the 13-inch MacBook Pro, which starts at $1,699 and is shipping today. Just months after the 15-incher was gifted with a display that packs more pixels than your existing HDTV, the 13-inch sibling is receiving similar treatment. Unveiled today in San Jose alongside the iPad mini, the intensely dense 13-inch MBP is true to the rumors -- there's a 2,560 x 1,600 panel, a pair of Thunderbolt ports, a full-size HDMI socket and a MagSafe 2 power connector. Unfortunately, those yearning for a Retina-equipped MacBook Air won't find their dreams fulfilled just yet, but you can bet that holdouts will most certainly give this guy a look.

For starters, it's wildly thin. No, not manilla envelope thin, but thin enough to slip into most briefcases and backpacks without the consumer even noticing. Outside of that, it's mostly a shrunken version of the 15-incher let loose over the summer. The unibody design is as tight as ever, with the fit and finish continuing to impress. In my estimation, this is Apple's most deliberate move yet to differentiate the 13-inch MacBook Pro from the 13-inch MacBook Air. On one hand, power users longing for a highly portable laptop can rejoice; on the other, this could be seen as reason for Apple to restrict the use of Retina displays to its Pro range for the foreseeable future.

Compared to the 1,280 x 800 resolution of the non-Retina 13-inch MBP, the new display is particularly stunning. Text has never looked more crisp, and colors are stupendously vibrant. Of course, apps, websites and graphics that haven't been optimized for Retina still look like utter rubbish, and as more Apple machines transition to these panels, the outcry is going to get even louder. But, hopefully, it'll light a fire under developers to get with the program.

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Adopting a New Approach to Nonprofit Technology | Riche Zamor

It is generally understood that nonprofit technology is 5 years behind industry, but that gap is quickly diminishing. ?Lack of sufficient funding prevented nonprofits from purchasing enterprise-level software in the past, but the lower costs of SaaS products and philanthropic efforts of major technology companies has lowered the barrier to entry for any sized organization. Though most technology platforms available to nonprofits perpetuate this concept that organizations should be doing online advocacy, there are also a number of new nonprofit technology vendors sprouting up that offer tools that allow for more than just creating online forms and sending emails. Most organizations now have access to the technology they need to support their programs and build integrated technology infrastructures that span their organization.

The gap between the sophistication of technology use within the corporate and social sectors is diminishing, but the gap still remains in the mindset that comes along with that. There is a big movement within corporations to adapt their business models to the digital times. More and more brands are building digital experiences that facilitate their interaction with consumers, from both an engagement and transactional standpoint. While fun Facebook apps are great ways to build your brand, apps that facilitate business functions are what build meaningful, lasting relationships with consumers. Apps like HBO GO and Domino?s Pizza mobile apps are perfect examples of how brands have grown their business by recognizing that today?s consumers are constantly plugged in and companies should be doing business with them where they are.

Nonprofits should take note of this growing trend and adapt the way their organizations operate to changing consumer behaviors. There are great examples of how organizations are building products and platforms for social change; tools that allow them to deliver services directly to their constituents or solve some aspect of the social issue(s) they are trying to address.

I am not advocating that all nonprofits jump into product development. I do think there is call for a shift in the way that the social sector think about and approaches technology. Technology is not just a mean to an ends, but an end in itself. It is an enabler that can greatly improve the way organizations operate and deliver services to constituents, not just support one aspect of an organization?s operations.

When we focus on technology as the end, as an actual solution to social issues and/or organizational challenges, we can then start to adopt the mindset and key approaches from industry in technology development:

1. Technology development should be an iterative process, launching a minimal viable product or platform, and further developing features over time.
2. The needs of your users, both internal and external, should drive future development of your technology solutions.
3. Build technology to be disposable; if it isn?t working, throw it away and start all over.
4. Buy-in from all areas of the organization that the technology touches is key to it?s success and adoption, both internally and externally.

l would love to hear your thoughts on this approach. Where do you think the nonprofit technology sector is headed?

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Google Wallet Website Hints At Multi-Platform Support

Google is starting to tease an all new version of its Google wallet service over on their official website. What is interesting about this specifically is that the service might actually start rolling out to non-Android device soon as well. The reason we are led to believe this is because upon requesting an invite on their website, you are then prompted to answer whether you are using an Android device, an iOS device, or some ?other? device. As you can imagine, that could mean things like webOS or even the Windows Phone platform. Of course, this isn?t confirmed yet, but it is just a guess as to what ?other? could mean. It will really be interesting to see the Google Wallet versions for iPhones, Blackberry devices, or even Windows Phone.

It is no surprise that Google wants to expand their service to other platforms with the Isis mobile payment system starting to roll out and such. As I reported earlier today, I did mention that Isis was really trying to compete with Google Wallet, and Google would need to do something to combat this. So, here we are folks, Google is starting to expand their service to other handset platforms as well. It would be nice to see Google Wallet come to other countries besides the United States as well, but again, there are legal issues behind that, so we may not see that any time soon. Of course, that is unless Google hasn?t been working on a way to enable that somehow. Which would actually be pretty cool, Google Wallet becoming more widespread sounds like a nice idea, no?

All of that said, this will essentially allow you to bring your Google Wallet to to other devices. The upcoming Windows 8 phones from both HTC and Nokia will have NFC (Near Field Communication) capabilities as well, although this is going to leave the newly released iPhone 5 out of the tap-to-pay game at this moment. Who knows though, Maybe Google Wallet for the iOS platform will help a lot with shopping online, or even replace the Passbook apps? ticket collection function. Who knows what will happen, Google definitely knows what they are doing though, and as for most of their products, we can expect it to be something really awesome. Wouldn?t you agree?

Then again, Google could just be trying to ring up some statistics for the interest of the service on different platforms. It?ll be interesting to see how things move forward after this, especially getting Google Wallet on iOS. We all know how they feel about Google Maps, and we?re sure they wouldn?t want Google Wallet?interfering?with their Passbook users.

We?ll make sure to keep you updated if anything else surfaces in the next couple of weeks.

Anyone interested in Google Wallet coming to other platforms like Blackberry, iOS, and webOS even? Would it be something that you would use on a regular basis if it was on your platform of choice? Let us know in the comments below!

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'Argo' is one of the best movies of the year.

Argo has that solid, kick-the-tires feel of those studio films from the 70s that were about something but also entertained. Only it's as laugh outright amusing as it is sobering.

The movieland satire is laid on thick, but it's also deadly accurate. Schlock has never seemed so patriotic, and Arkin and Goodman have rarely been so good.

Argo is a rollicking yarn, easily the most cohesive and technically accomplished of Affleck's three films so far, but a part of me wishes the director hadn't cast himself in the lead role.

If nothing else, it proves that every so often, the CIA can pull something off - and that yes, Canadians are just about the nicest people on the planet.

The film is a whopper of a tale, one designed for Oscar nominations, Best Picture and Best Director among them.

Affleck's seamless melding of intense thrills in Tehran and biting humour in California makes for a wholly satisfying movie.

The use of dramatic licence in the finale is too obvious but aside, Argo is a solid dramatic thriller that is informative, entertaining and gripping.

The film has heart and brains as well as balls, the screenplay delivering a clear and strong story without sacrificing either political or personal context

As a real life human drama, it is extraordinary. As a thrilling movie experience, it is unmissable

A thoroughly enjoyable, well put together movie that flies by, works well and largely succeeds at what it is trying to accomplish. Also one of those movies where it feels like "I should LOVE it - but don't."

It's okay to take a few liberties in the name of a good story

A funny trip to Hollywood and gripping escape from Tehran.

The scenes involving Goodman and Arkin are ribald and laugh-out-loud funny. You couldn't ask for two more expert actors to play these jaded movie veterans.

If there's one lesson to be gleaned from director Ben Affleck's relentlessly tense, painstakingly detailed Argo, it's that we should consider the possibility that our history has been manipulated more than many of us would care to admit.

Argo smacks of being another dreary Oscar contender but in actuality it's destined to be one of the fall's most purely enjoyable films.

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... a crackling good suspense thriller ...

I was literally in tears for parts of Argo, a purely physical reaction, not an emotional one, to deal with the tension... That isn't only some serious movie magic, it's a downright master class in suspense filmmaking from director Ben Affleck.

Under its own terms as an upscale mainstream thriller, it's a total success. This is classy moviemaking, from its well-observed performances to immaculate eye for period detail.

a crackerjack based-on-a-true story thriller that finally allows actor/director Ben Affleck to demonstrate his behind-the-camera muscles in a location other than his native Boston

[A] perfectly lovely, immensely watchable, intermittently shallow, and slightly bloated thriller.

Successfully manages to be respectful about the turbulent events and function as an exciting Hollywood spy thriller.

As the suspense intensifies, it becomes increasingly obvious that many of these suspense-laden plot points are simply made up. The story turns into a standard Hollywood formula and it loses credibility because of that.

Argo feels like a proper old-fashioned 70s thriller, the kind Alan J Pakula used to make: taut and lean, but with dialogue to die for, plus character and attitude to spare.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) ? George McGovern was an unwavering, often unrequited advocate for liberal Democratic causes. He pursued those goals in plainspoken, usually understated, Midwestern style. He was a dedicated, decent man, a devoted Democrat even when the party establishment turned away from him in defeat.

He wasn't good at political gamesmanship. He suffered his worst blunders when he strayed from straight talk in his doomed 1972 presidential campaign. It didn't fit the man and it shook the credibility he treasured.

McGovern was a partisan without the poison that increasingly infected American politics. In his career-long quest for programs to feed the hungry, in the U.S. and worldwide, he worked in partnership with Bob Dole, a former Republican leader of the Senate, where they'd both served.

During his years of political retirement ? he lost his South Dakota Senate seat in 1980 ? McGovern remained active, lecturing, teaching and writing. He even waged a token presidential campaign in 1984. He'd also run briefly for the 1968 nomination after the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

In his 2011 book, "What It Means to Be a Democrat," he summed up his credo:

"Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ..."

That was the essence of his program during four terms in the House, three in the Senate, and a doomed and crushed presidential campaign in 1972. By the time he was nominated for the White House, McGovern had been marginalized by rivals in his own party, who argued that he was too far left to be elected. That probably was so, but President Richard M. Nixon was the overwhelming favorite against any Democratic challenger.

McGovern got just 37 percent of the vote to Nixon's 61, carrying only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Embittered, he considered whether to even stay in politics, especially as other Democrats made him a symbol of what ailed them and kept him off their stages. McGovernite became a label for losers. But he went back to the Senate, and within months he could joke ruefully about his landslide loss.

"I opened the doors of the Democratic Party and 20 million people walked out," McGovern later joked of his reform commission, which had broadened the nominating process, driven out the old party bosses and ultimately made the presidential primaries the arenas for choosing nominees of both parties.

There was nothing strident about McGovern; even when his words were harsh, his delivery tended to be bland. As a young man, he had been a warrior, and a heroic one. As a senator, he opposed U.S. involvement in Vietnam from the beginning, in 1963. Arguing in 1970 for legislation to cut U.S. war spending and force troop withdrawal, he offended his colleagues by telling them, "This chamber reeks of blood," vehement words delivered in the matter-of-fact McGovern style. His 1972 presidential campaign proposals included withdrawal from Vietnam, amnesty for draft evaders and steep cuts in the Pentagon budget.

For a time, he also advocated a $1,000 tax grant to every American to replace complex welfare and income support programs, saying the needy could spend it and the wealthy would pay it back in taxes. It came with no numbers, no estimate of the cost, although McGovern claimed, against arithmetic and logic, that it would balance out at zero. He dropped that idea, but the Republicans never did.

That spoke to one of his chronic political problems. He was an idea man, not a manager. Witness the uncontrolled chaos of his nominating convention, dramatized when assorted Democratic interest groups spent so much time talking that McGovern did not get to deliver his own acceptance speech until 2:48 a.m., long after the TV audience had gone to bed.

But one of his best-remembered, and most unfortunate, lines came later ? after his unvetted selection of Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri as his running mate turned into a political disaster with the disclosure that Eagleton twice had undergone electric shock therapy for depression. McGovern said he was "1,000 percent" for Eagleton and wasn't dropping him from the ticket. But he had to. Then he had to shop for a running mate, with five Democrats declining before Sargent Shriver finally said yes.

So if there'd been any doubt about his outcome against Nixon, it was erased before the fall campaign even began. McGovern was frustrated because Nixon stayed at the White House and seldom campaigned at all. McGovern called him the most corrupt president in American history, as The Washington Post published a succession of Watergate disclosures. Nixon just denied it all.

The political pain would ease. More devastating was the death in 1994 of his daughter, Teresa, who had suffered mental illness and alcoholism, and froze to death in a snowbank near a bar where she'd been drinking in Madison, Wis. "You never get over it, I'm sure of that," he said. "You get so you can live with it, that's all." McGovern and his wife Eleanor, who died in 2007, had four daughters and one son.

McGovern wrote a book, "Terry," about his daughter's life struggle, the family impact and his own worry that his political preoccupations had somehow contributed to her troubles. He used the proceeds to open the Teresa McGovern Center in Madison to help others afflicted by addictions.

As a candidate, McGovern had to fend off conservative claims that he was weak on national defense, a naive peacenik ? that he had, according to the far right, shirked combat, which was a lie. He was a decorated World War II pilot with 35 combat missions in B-24 bombers.

It could have been a campaign asset, but he talked little about it. He did in a Labor Day speech: "I still remember the day when we were hit so hard over Germany that we were all ready to bail out. So I gave this order to the crew: 'Resume your stations. We're going to bring this plane home.' I say to you and to people everywhere who share our cause: 'Resume your stations. We're going to bring America home.'"

That last line became the standard closing of his campaign speech. But he didn't repeat the details of the mission that won him the Distinguished Flying Cross for safely landing his crippled B-24. Perhaps he should have said more about his service, he said later, "but I always felt kind of foolish talking about my war record ? what a hero I was."

That he did not was typical George McGovern.

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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Walter R. Mears, who reported on government and politics for The Associated Press in Washington for 40 years, covered George McGovern in the Senate and in his 1972 presidential campaign.

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A drastic turn in Yahoo?s future could be announced tomorrow as the search engine company releases its first quarterly earnings report since it brought on Marissa Mayer as CEO. The former executive at Google has made some moves during her short tenure as the leader, but Reuters is reporting that the next announcement on the revival of the struggling search engine will be on Monday when it reports its quarterly results.

For years, the company has become enamored with content creation, signing deals with ABC News,?CNBC, and DailyMotion?to share content, among others. But with the hiring of Mayer, the company is changing things up in order to restore the company to its former glory. And that means that it?s faced with its most complex decision in recent history: does it abandon media-sharing and content creation in favor of building out a more social product?

Yahoo needs to find something that will bring people back to its network of sites and engage with the content more. Reuter?s says that?Yahoo has been criticized for allowing these sites to ?stagnate? ? there?s not much appeal to them and nothing will drive people back to it. Its CEO wants to make it more interactive, adaptable, and useful on the myriad of devices out there, including tablets and mobile devices.

To that end, is abandoning its content sharing partnerships entirely the smart move for Yahoo? In its 2011 annual report, Yahoo recognized that their stiffest competition is going to come from Facebook, Microsoft, AOL, and, naturally, Google, all of whom offer a variety of Internet products that rival the search engine. Not only that, but advertising networks are helping to make it difficult for the company to compete for a share of advertiser dollars.

With Mayer?s product-oriented background, Yahoo could find itself going after Facebook and Google to reclaim its honor. The company has acquired a lot of companies over the past 18 years, but has yet to fully integrate them into the fold. This new direction presents a 180-degree shift in direction set forth by Mayer?s predecessors and, as Reuters notes, could pose some risks, specifically abandoning media partnerships that have given the company incredible traffic, something championed by former CEO Ross Levinsohn.

Earlier this year, there was an inkling about Mayer potentially taking the payment from the company?s sale of its Alibaba stake?and using it to go after acquisitions of smaller companies, something that Google has been doing over the years. That plan never happened and the money went back to investors. Nevertheless, the opportunity for Yahoo to move and start acquiring small startups to build out its Yahoo social network is ripe for the taking.

Just making improvements to Flickr to compete with the capability of Facebook and Picasa could be a great start to shift the company to a more social business. Other Yahoo-owned companies that could be folded into a potential social play include IntoNow, Dapper, Upcoming.org, and many others. And with Yahoo suing Facebook alleging patent infringement (and who ultimately settled), this could be?the company firing its opening salvo across the bow of Facebook letting it know it?s here to compete.

But with more advertising and media startups that it acquired over the years such as BlueLithium, Interclick, Associated Content, and others, it?s going to be interesting to see how Yahoo can move past its traditional monetization strategy of being all about content, not to mention search and email.

We?ll find out more tomorrow as the company releases its quarterly earnings.

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Source: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/22/yahoo-stays-social-or-stays-a-media-company/

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