Tammy Crownover.(Brief Article)

Bullseye Database Marketing, Tulsa, Okla., has named Tammy Crownover as business development director. Bullseye develops and …

SHEN'S 'PRIMARY' VS. 'SECONDARY' PARENTS.(Capital Region)

The Shenendehowa Central School District, one of the largest in the Capital Region with nearly 10,000 students and an annual budget of around $95 million, is trying to save money on postage, $2.50 at a time.

As a result, at least one father is feeling nickel-and-dimed. "You want to be involved in your children's educations and then they make it difficult," said Kevin Dillon, a Halfmoon contractor whose two children attend high school in the district. Dillon is divorced, but shares 50-50 legal custody of two children with his ex-wife. Still, since the district listed his ex as the "primary" parent, and Dillon as the "secondary," it means that when it comes to report …

THE FRENZIED WORLD OF POLITICS BY B. JAY COOPER.(MAIN)

WASHINGTON -- OK, let me get this straight. A wealthy California Republican bankrolled a campaign to recall the duly elected governor and when he succeeded, he exited the race he thought he had bought because he didn't have a chance to win.

And, in the last two weeks, the media have been in a frenzy because the leading candidates for two of the top three political jobs in America are guys they never would have bet on a year ago -- Howard Dean for president and Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor of California.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Scratch that. If DiMag were alive someone would be pushing a write-in campaign for him. Scratch that, too. Someone …

TEAMSTERS APPROVE EARLY END TO FEDERAL RESTRICTIONS.(Business)

Byline: John Lippert Knight-Ridder

The Teamsters Union, chafing under federal restrictions that require prior approval of minute items, such as the souvenirs and menu for a "women's lunch" for 3,000 spouses, voted Monday for an early end to those restrictions.

But the 1,911 delegates still faced handcuffs of another sort at their convention and these came from their own union.

Every time delegates enter the convention floor, their credentials are scanned and their presence is logged onto a computer. If they're absent too often, they won't be paid for travel and other expenses.

The extreme controls, however, could not contain the delegates …

April Fool!: Google calls itself 'Topeka' for day

As an April Fools' gag, Web search giant Google changed its name on its U.S. search page Thursday to "Topeka."

The daylong gesture was a nod to the Kansas capital, which unofficially changed its name to "Google, Kan." for a month to try to persuade the company to test its planned super-fast fiber optic network there.

Visitors to the company's home page, http://www.google.com, were greeted by the name "Topeka" in Google's familiar multicolor typeface. Below it was a link to a lengthy blog posting by Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt explaining the move.

Topeka, Schmidt said, took …

Beltran Supplies Power As Mets Rout Braves

ATLANTA - If the New York Mets keep playing like this, they won't have to worry about coming up short again to the Atlanta Braves. Carlos Beltran homered twice, Orlando Hernandez allowed only three hits in eight innings and the Mets buried their old nemesis a little deeper in the NL East, routing the Braves 11-3 Saturday.

Hernandez didn't give up an earned run - Atlanta took advantage of two New York errors - and he also picked up the first two RBIs of his career during a seven-run sixth that broke open a 3-all game.

Beltran capped the big inning with a three-run homer off Chad Paronto, who had just replaced starter Tim Hudson. The Mets center fielder also hit a two-run …

The big picture. (Collaborative Design).

One hallmark of collaborative design is the ability to share design information interactively and, ideally, synchronously. If multiple participants--design partners, or other stakeholders in the design process, such as customers, suppliers, manufacturing or marketing departments, and so forth--are to engage in a meaningful collaborative-design process, they must be able to share common, compatible views and navigational paths through representations of design data and have common or comparable abilities to query and annotate, if not actually edit and/or contribute to, the design. This is an intentionally broad and technologically agnostic definition of collaborative design.

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For example, members of a project team huddled over a set of blueline prints unfurled on a conference table are synchronously engaged in a common view of the drawing (a graphical representation of model-design data), with equal access to navigational paths (flipping to other sheets in the set) and to query/annotation tools (red pencils, yellow markers, sticky notes, and the like). Note that the only "technology" involved is stuff such as graphite and ammonia, but certainly nothing digital. This kind of face-to-face (f2f) collaborative-design process is familiar and well understood, but requires the physical presence of all participants in the same place at the same time. For small enterprises, or larger ones that are both vertically integrated and geographically centralized, f2f collaborative design remains viable. However, the structure of most manufacturing enterprises or construction businesses is neither conducive to nor tolerant of the trade-offs necessary to accommodate f2f as the …