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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / October 2005Excel Routine: FREEZE.PANES?
Howdy all. I'm gonna face my secretary with some naughty things she has been doing with her hours and maybe even some of the $$$ we receive this year, and before I do, I want to be able to use my old PowerBook 145 to automate the clinic spreadsheet (Mardan). I'm using MicroSoft Excel 4.4 for the Mac and I'm about 3/4 of the way there (this weekend was HELL, on me, on my wife, on the kids). But, I have no choice: the store bought routines compatible with Quebec stuff are 2000$ and up. So I have to have something if she bolts. Since my PB 145 is s l o w to say the least, I want to be able to freeze the screen as it travels across the files filling in the numbers. It is also gonna do some snooping into what she does with the cash payments, but I don't want her to see that it is doing it. That is the problem: I can't get FREEZE.PANES to work. It takes a logical value (TRUE/FALSE) and a column and row arguement. I've tried many combinations and they don't work. Does anybody know how to make that function work? Or, is there another way to freeze the screen? Thanks SP  SignatureTake out the TRASH to reply >Howdy all. I'm gonna face my secretary with some naughty things she has >been doing with her hours and maybe even some of the $$$ we receive this [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >Or, is there another way to freeze the screen? Not sure I understand what you want to do from your description but the Freeze Panes function works by highlighting the row or column under or to the right of the one you want to freeze and then hitting Window ->Freeze Panes. If that isn't what you want then describe it better! Sp, I am familiar with Microsoft Excel, Excel VBA and Powerpoint applications (IBM compatible). I am not familiar with the Mac products. Maybe you can show some of your code? I am not understanding what you need exactly. Sue Sue: Sue: whether I find you and d kill you or not, MicroRats XL works almost exactly the same on the Mac and the Windoze Box; it just makes less smoke and fire on the Mac. I figured it out: =SELECTION (A1:G49) =FREEZE.PANES( TRUE, 5,1) then I do my dirty work, and then` =FREEZE.PANES( FALSE) How are you at 4th Dimension (or 4D)? I want to use it to develop a data base and fool the insurance servers into thinking that I have one of the four dedicated accounting programs that they deign to support. What I am doing is not illegal: The Mad Dogs that are moving in are doing the same when they bill the government. As long as I am paying my user fees, they can't stop me, unless what I'm doing is f---ing up their servers. I just don't feel line shelling out the three or four thousand $$$ that the big four are asking: I'm a one man operation with a soon to be on strike staff of one pirating secretary, assistant (and accomplice) and one hygienist fresh out of school and who is being corrupted by the other two. This is why I'm in such a rush to get these routines finished: So I can run the little shop of horrors by myself while I find some new staff. Thanks SP How are you at 4th Dimension (or 4D)? To SP: Actually I really like the 5th Dimension... I am going UP, UP and AWAY in my beautiful balloon as we speak... (I mean writed). ........The 4th dimension is for wusses. Sue P.s. You will not be able to hunt me down and kill me.... I am tooooo high for you to reeeeaach.... Sue P.s. You will not be able to hunt me down and kill me.... I am tooooo high for you to reeeeaach.... ------------------------ ..... So it would seem. I am not the one to find and kill you: _They_ are. SP 6. StovePipe Oct 6, 8:35 pm show options Newsgroups: sci.med.dentistry From: "StovePipe" <stove99p...@yahoo.ca> - Find messages by this author Date: 6 Oct 2005 17:35:57 -0700 Local: Thurs, Oct 6 2005 8:35 pm Subject: Re: Excel Routine: FREEZE.PANES? Reply | Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Remove | Report Abuse Sue P.s. You will not be able to hunt me down and kill me.... I am tooooo high for you to reeeeaach.... ------------------------ ..... So it would seem. I am not the one to find and kill you: _They_ are. SP ------------------------- Forgot to say: Now I know that Sue SomeBody MedTronikx knows Diddley Squat about 4thDimention Web-enabled relational data base. It is OK. I do not hate this individual enough for it to matter. I do not know where I will get said information, but I shall get it, and I shall not pay more that the price of the second hand 4thD App to connect to the insurance and government shysters. So decreeth the Pipe, while scratching his beard. SP > 6. StovePipe Oct 6, 8:35 pm show options > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > SP have you tried: alt.comp.apps.databases comp.infosystems.www.databases comp.sys.mac.databases have you tried: alt.comp.apps.databases comp.infosystems.www.databases comp.sys.mac.databases ----------------------------------------- No, I thought maybe there'd be dentists who have done the same kinds of thing. Thanks for the suggestions SP > have you tried: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Thanks for the suggestions > SP Sp Wrote: when I face her with the overestimated hours, along with picking _one_ example of her overestimated net pays, she will bolt. She will do this because she cannot make ends meet with the salary I'm supposed to be paying her. I just hope she hasn't poisoned the other two beyond repair. Sp, Why don't you just fire her instead of allowing her to "bolt" unnoticed? In front of the others have her clean out her desk and and then escort her out the door..... Wouldn't this be enough to shake up the others .. so they are no longer poisoned beyond repair? IMHO, Letting her bolt unnoticed will only allow her to get away with it and she will do it again to someone else. ...or is this a bad idea... Are you thinking of charging her with theft? -Sue Sue MedTronix said: IMHO, Letting her bolt unnoticed will only allow her to get away with it and she will do it again to someone else. -------------------------- She won't be: it is just that I feel she deserves a chance to explain in private. If for some cockeyed reason she is not in the wrong, I won't have come across as the heavy. I'm planning to play dumb and ask her caually about _one_ incedent of overestimated hours, and _one_ incident of 100$ tacked on to her net pay. These happened in Sept., and I told them I wanted to take the paybook and the cheque register home to see about computerizing them (which is true: I'm gonna automate the pays and _all_ the outgoing $$$ and do 'em myself from now on). This I will do casually at dinner or supper time when we are at least three people in the kitchen/consult room. If the other two are in on it, I'll know pretty damned quick. If they _all_ decide to bolt, I'll still be able to turn around and operate the little shop. If she skates when I ask about those specific things, well, then I can show her my calculations for the whole year; in front of the other two. ...or is this a bad idea... ------------------------------ No, it's quite good if done right. Are you thinking of charging her with theft? --------------------------------- If I have to, yes. It's either that or she pays me back a reasonable estimate of the money she has taken, and I control the front desk with my computer. One mustn't lose sight of the fact that none of the others (including myself) know how to fully run the front desk. We can learn, of course, but it's gonna rock the little boat a lot. -Sue -------- BTW: I used to play beach Volleyball in the Gym (P.E.P.S.) in the winter and ouside in the summer. Good fun. SP.... Gawd, this Googling on the Wife's Windoze box is getting on my nerves.... > 6. StovePipe Oct 6, 8:35 pm show options > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > SP Relax SP, I was out the door to play volleyblall. I did not have time to answer your question. One word of unsolicited advice.. spending too much time trying to figure out bugs in routines and subroutines can make you crazy. Step away from it once in awhile. Speaking from experience, one needs to reserve a life outside of computer programming languages! As far as a databasing goes... my background is not in databasing. I have developed a few "databases" using crude tools like Excel VBA.. but this was without any formal training in databasing. Most of my data handling experience involves understanding of and knowledge of tools to perform: statisitcal analyses, data transfer from analog to digital records, applications to develop graphical represention of data for internal and external poster and oral presentaions, manuscripts and the like. The tools I use include SAS, matlab, Visual C++, the Microsoft tools (EXcel VBA, PP etc.), ANCIENT Dos-based research programs (not developed by myself however)... stuff like that. However I just happen to on the road to learn more about relational databases! Medtronic is paying for me to take the courses necessary to develop these skills (starting with Access and Oracle) .. so that should be should be fun. However it will be awhile before I can actually answer any of your questions, I would presume. So perhaps I can be of some help in the future. I will let you know what I am up to as I proceed. -Sue PS 5th dimension info: http://home.infionline.net/~jforberg/index.html Sue MedTronix blew her own horn: Most of my data handling experience involves understanding of and knowledge of tools to perform: statisitcal analyses, data transfer from analog to digital records, applications to develop graphical represention of data for internal and external poster and oral presentaions, manuscripts and the like. The tools I use include SAS, matlab, Visual C++, the Microsoft tools (EXcel VBA, PP etc.), ANCIENT Dos-based research programs (not developed by myself however)... stuff like that. --------------------- This would have been relevant when I was doing the Master's in Neuro. We had to do a lot of that stuff ourselves. We had no secretary or research associates trained like that. At that time, we were using Excel 1.5 on Mac Plus, and some in-house graphics routines on the Apple IIe. Go ahead and laugh. We did some good presentations at NeuroScience in California, though. Cheers SP > Sue MedTronix blew her own horn: > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Cheers > SP Sp, I am sure you did some great presentations. I am not laughing at that!. I am also sure that you did not mean to be insulting by assuming that my role at Medtronix is limited to secretarial work and/or support functions only. lol. That is what I really like about medtronix.. the sky is the limit for everyone! There is no room for unfounded egos based only upon formal credentials and/or longevity. Please do not take offense, because I KNOW you were not being insulting at all. However your assumptions reminded me of a PhD's comments at Medtronix that I once worked with. The first time I presented my OWN research at our 15th annual Science and Technology Conference I walked away with the award for exceptional poster presentation (One award given out of ~300 presentations by PhDs, scientists, MDs, engineers etc. and lo and behold lil ol me). This PhD had been presenting for a few years and had never gained much notice. His comment to me was that I knew how to put together "pretty colors." Perhaps he did not think much of my research... oh well. A slew of 10-12 Bakken fellows thought that my presentation was exceptional. I prefer to believe them rather than one grumpy scientist. Lil ol boys club and ego does not work at Medtronix. Another example. A friend that I went to college with (female) was offerred a position that that some old timer thought he should have gotten. His comment was: I wondered who she slept with to get that position. lol. She is a materials scientist and our scanning electron microscope expert. Thsi other guy had been running SEM at a smaller facility for years and thought he should have gotten the job. I ahveno idea why.. but they recruited Sue (my friend) for the job.. not him. So sad, too bad for him.... HEy- she has a lot of intellgience and drive. She does not sit around expecting things to come to her... and she definitely does not sleep her way to the top. Geesh. oh well. Sp, At Medtronix, one is rewarded based upon ability, attitude and hard work.. some curmongeons just think they deserve certain positions and awards because of their titles (PhD or what not) and their longevity. The title of my poster that won that silly reward so long ago in 1996 was "Serum Creatinine Kinase, Creatine-kinase-MB, and Troponin-I Levels Following Ventricular Radiofrequency Ablation" Oh and what happend to that PhD? Unfortuantely he lost his job at Medtronix about 3 years ago and then went through a nasty divorce. YIKES. So sad. I really liked the guy even though he gave me a hard time about my abilities. I really hope he is doing well now. -Sue PS Everything I said above is true. PS I am not sure why I am so bent on trying to toot my own horn when it comes to Medtronix. Perhaps that is an indication that I am actually fairly insecure about that right now. Sorry to get off on a tangent! I had best stick to Medtronix work & not get too involved in dental topics or interfering here. Robert Morien had some helfpul advice. Good luck SP. I appreciate the conversation. I will keep my future chattiness to a minimum. Sue >PS I am not sure why I am so bent on trying to toot my own horn when it >comes to Medtronix. Perhaps that is an indication that I am actually >fairly insecure about that right now. For those who may care ....... I have been amazed at the high level of discussions with Sue, in physiology and other areas of basic science. If I did not know better I might think Sue is really a Ph.D. or M.D. who does not want to disclose her true identitiy. Joel >Sorry to get off on a tangent! > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Sue > >PS I am not sure why I am so bent on trying to toot my own horn when it > >comes to Medtronix. Perhaps that is an indication that I am actually [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Joel Well, then if she is doing research, she should at least arrange to get PAID for it with an academic degree. 'Specially at the Masters' level, that should not be hard to do: A published literature review, One series of experiments, whether they work or not, A published article on that series of experiments, and A conclusion. I think she has the stuff inside the head already to do it. The biggest impediment is sticking to the plan, and leaving what would be nice to do to a future project. SP Sp, My husband (Kirk) wants me to do that too. But I am rather old (48). I am not sure I want to work that hard any longer either. Kirk wants to retire in 3 years. He hopes I will keep on working and working for years! (just kidding.. he just wants to see me reach my potential here) :-) :-) :-) Thanks for the pep talk. I am in the process of writing up my 5 year plan... so if MEdtronix agrees... perhaps I will go for a masters. My friend Sue said that it was REALLY difficult to do while working FT though... it almost killed her.... so I guess I am nervous. I don't want to be miserable for the next 4 or so years. I am not sure if all the expense is worth it to the company at this point either... as I am nearing the end of my career here.... they may reject the idea at this point anyway. Just thinking out loud, Processing this stuff in my mind.. THANKS!!! Sue PS You wrote" "The biggest impediment is sticking to the plan, and leaving what would be nice to do to a future project. " Reply. Precisely. You have me pegged there. Life is too short.... Is cutting out so many other activities worth it.... actually... maybe it is... Afterall I cannot cont. playing VB! ..lol. Take Care. > Sp, > > My husband (Kirk) wants me to do that too. But I am rather old (48). So??? Next year you will be 49, and it will be that much harder to make the move... Face it Sue, you will be 49 soon ANYWAYS... And then you will say: But I'm rather old.... might as well get paid academically for what you are producing. Maybe you will do it in five years to lighten the load... So what? MedTRONix gets one extra year of free publishing outta you, and you don't die or go insane. I > am not sure I want to work that hard any longer either. Yes, you are sure. Kirk wants to > retire in 3 years. He hopes I will keep on working and working for > years! (just kidding.. he just wants to see me reach my potential here) [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > though... it almost killed her.... so I guess I am nervous. I don't > want to be miserable for the next 4 or so years. They will be the best five years you have ever had. You will work hard, laugh, cry, go hungry, be tired, and at times the only thing that will keep you going is the feeling that: Hey; I'm really into what I'm doing... So you choose what is for you a real project and not a bullshit one. >I am not sure if all > the expense is worth it to the company at this point either... as I am > nearing the end of my career here.... they may reject the idea at this > point anyway. What a winning attitude.... > Just thinking out loud, That's why I'm blocking my ears. Think hard SP > Sp, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > actually... maybe it is... Afterall I cannot cont. playing VB! ..lol. JME wrote this: For those who may care ....... I have been amazed at the high level of discussions with Sue, in physiology and other areas of basic science. If I did not know better I might think Sue is really a Ph.D. or M.D. who does not want to disclose her true identitiy. Joel This comes from one who is probably the most intelligent dentist here... What the F--- MORE do you want as endorsement, Sue? Get off UseNet, get off yer butt, and get to writing a decent research proposal. _They_ will refuse it at least three times before _They_ relent. Thus sayeth the Pipe. > Take Care. Do the Do SP Wow. Thank you. I will. No more goofing off. It is fun at the timne, but then I always feel badly later later when I realize I was just wasting time goofing off. BTW I never used to be this way (at my job). I used to be able to remain focused!! I am not sure what happened to me. Thank you for the advice. I will seriously cut this out... except for after hours to check in to see what everyone else has been is up to. I agre with what you have said abotu Joel. I relaly enjoy his intellect and humor. He is an extemporaneous thinker.. and I enjoy following his tangents. Just one more question (and this is serious): Above you said: "What a winning attitude" Is that a saracastic comment or serious. Often people tell me that I need to look out for #1 first and foremost. Forget them! (menaing eveyrthign and eveyrone else) I agree to some extent...as I know I am the only one who is REALLY going to look out for me... ...but I have found that for me, working within the boundaries allotted (for the most part...i.e remaining honest and forthright) as well as always trying to look at the big picture.. and what is best for all involved .. seems to work better for me. Is this the way to look at things or not.. Is this sort of thinking allowing others (like the corp) to take advantage of me? Should I be more cut-throat? I have found MEdtroniX has given me so much... I have given them so much in sweat too... but it has been mutually beneficial. Money has never been the motivating factor for me, except in the very early years when it was imperative that I make more money. Then it was very important motivating factor. I had to make more money.. I would have not survived on peanuts (mentally that is). I wanted to feel secure and comfortable. Now I am comfortable and secure. More money does not mean much to me. OK. Anyway. I had better go now. Thank you again! I am meeting with my new manager in 1 minute! Sue > Just one more question (and this is serious): > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Is that a saracastic comment or serious. It is seriously sarcastic; as in: How can you even decide if you want to do a Masters' when you are so apologetic about your very existance to your all mighty MedTRONiX task master? Gawd, it is _you_ putting the whip in their hands and giving them permission to strike you with it. They will _not_ wish to support a fourty-eight year old snivelling snail wearing her heart on her sleeve (where ever THAT is...) during her Masters' thesis. They _may_ decide to partially support a square-shouldered SONOFABITCH of a hard-a.s go-getter fire breathing fourty-eight year old who has taken it upon herself to go out and get an operating grant and a research proposal all by her self like one o' the big boys.... They may even be afraid that said hard-a.s with a tooth pick dangling from her lips will decide to take her project (and half of MedTRONiX' secrets with her) over to Merck Laboratories, or worse: Japan or Singapore. < The Pipe wipes the foam off-a hiz mouth> > Thank you again! I am meeting with > my new manager in 1 minute! S/he is a one minute manager in both senses then... Enlist his or her help in your project. And when you stand up in front of _Them_ to talk money, DO NOT wear white sox... If your new Camel Driver will not help you, offhandedly ask for his or her address and casually show him or her your newly acquired Glock .38 Short hand gun, sort-a sticking out-a your purse... which is made of real shark skin. Now go have a draft beer at the stand-up bar ("...and, Bartender? Put it in a dirty glass..."). Start showing up to work in the Morning on a vintage Harley Davidson 1200cc motor cycle: the one with the stick shift jutting up-side the gas tank. Make sure you have grease on your face as you walk in, and spit into the bushes before you climb the steps. Spit only once. Ya don't wanna overdo it.... > Sue When you finish your Masters', sell the bike, have another beer. <The Pipe wipes his forehead> OK... Gotta go see how the secretary altered the pay book now , and empty the bullets from her Beretta that she thinks is still hidden under her desk, beside the magazines she reads "on the sly"... One day, we'll all sit around the camp fire, and I'll tell youse how that story ends... I'll be the one with the beard, the pipe, the wooden leg and the Clint Eastwood cowboy hat with the brim folded up in front, held in place with a safety pin, pluckin' an outta tune Gee-Tar. I will start by sayin': "... Yup,,, it were in Eighteen 'n fourty-NINE...jest after the big drought,,, an' Bessy was a wobblin' real bad...." .... And half the ya-hoos a-settin' thar will get up and leave, and then we'll cut the bullshit and I'll tell youse about po-LICE accusations of stealing,,, and fraud,,, and unabashed brazen GALL, coupled with such abject STUPIDITY from a young mother,,, such as the make the angels shake their heads and weep,,, as much for my OWN stupidity for sleeping so long as for hers,,, and her with a less-than-one-year-old child, and how I was sorely tempted to let the whole thing pass because of that,,, but then I remembered the sad and sorry summer that my OWN two children had to endure,,, because their father was broke,,,, and how I had to accept the gift of the trip that my OWN father gave us, so that my OWN two kids could have a bright spot to remember about the past summer,,, and how that put my OWN head on straight about what happened,,, and what I had to do.... ,,,, and I may even tell youse about how that same attitude gave me the intestinal fortitude to kick my pharmacist-owner's train off the tracks when he tried to up my rent after the Mad Dogs all retired, leaving only myself in that second floor old-hospital-style waiting room that stinks,,, and how I wrangled a movers' fee outta him so's I could relocate downstairs with the new batch of Mad Dogs, in a nice modern Med-Dent-Physio-Psych clinic on the ground floor. ... and then maybe we'll all go get a draft beer in a dirty glass at a stand-up bar, while we smoke a cigar,,, after strikin' the phosphorous match on our teeth.... See you Good Luck SP Sp, The above is seriously funny. I am going to be chuckling all day on that one. Thar is some truth to them thar words!! But seriously... it is difficult for me to change my attitude toward the almighty MedtroniX... They have been berry, berry very good to me! ALWAYS. I cannot help it.. I really do love this company. Even if they let me go tomorrow, I would have no regrets and hold no contempt. Yet I understand your point... I am WAY too apologetic for my own failings at times and that holds me back. Lol. Re: my new boss. She is seems great so far. She supports me 100% in whatever I want to take on (education wise). However, depending upon where this new position looks like it is headed, I may decide to take clases willy nilly as I need them, rather than going for a masters. Seriously. I do not care about the money. We (Kirk and I ) are fine that way. Regardless of going for a masters or not, I intend to learn and develop some practical skills in this new position. These I can use after retirement (doing freelance work and/or volunteer work that I have been considering for quite some time now) As for the now and the future, I really just want to enjoy my work and my life outside of work. I will figure it out. Your opinions are heloign me to do so. In the same token, it does not matter to me if others think I am taking the easy road or giving up some great opportunities. Perhaps this is selfish, but I usually do what makes me most happy..... That is what I have always done and it seems to have worked out ok. Kirk seems to be happier when I am happy.. and vice versa. That is the way it works with family and true friends. As long as you are happy, they are happy and vice versa. So we do what is good for ourselves and help friend and family out when/if they are struggling, if we can. That kind of keeps everyone satisfied and moving forward. lol. With foes it is the opposite. If you are happy, they get mad! Perhaps a very simplistic life view.. oh well. In reality, it only matters if it makes sense to me. I would love to sit aorund a campfire sometime and just tell life stories. I love to hear others stories and understand what it is that makes them tick. Life is a gas. :-) Take care, Sue > Seriously. I do not care about the money. >We (Kirk and I ) are fine that way. Then please send all of your excess to me. -- W_B Take out the G'RBAGE wubbabubbazG@RBAGEyahoo.com Then please send all of your excess to me. -- Sorry W_B. That is not in my life plan. If you want more money, perhaps you can figure out a way to make it on your own. That is what I tell friends and family too.... and somehow they have always seemed to manage just fine.... Oh and they still like me too. Funny how that works. Sue >Then please send all of your excess to me. >-- [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Sue Oh, I don't need more; just thought that I would oblige you by relieving you of the burden of XS cash. -- W_B Take out the G'RBAGE wubbabubbazG@RBAGEyahoo.com I never said I have XS cash. You seem to make up your own translations. Btw, I am happy that you do not need any more money. Oh ... but if you have enough cash... then perhaps you can send someone else your XS burden? LOL. Scratching my head. I hope you can work up a smile at SOME point today. ....or not... . Go out and make another million if that is what it takes... or not. ...or be a grump. They make loveable pincussions sometimes. Lol. :-) TGIF, Sue >Sp, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >But seriously... it is difficult for me to change my attitude toward >the almighty MedtroniX... Hey Sue! Did you see Keanu Reeves in "THE MATRICS?" "accentuate this flash, and feed us with plenty of excitement to let slide the less interesting, and more standard scenes within the "real world" outside of the matrix. " You keep spelling it Medtronics when everyone knows its Medtronix. Joel Review Date: March 31, 1999 Director: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski Writer: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski Producers: Joel Silver Actors: Keanu Reeves as Thomas "Neo" Anderson Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith Genre: Science-Fiction Where the Truth Lies Domino Wedding Crashers Crash Two for the Money Carlito's Way: Rise... A History of Violence Flightplan Dirty Love Corpse Bride It is the year 2199, and the world is now being run by an artificial intelligence. It has constructed a computer-generated dreamworld, called the Matrix, in which human beings live their daily lives, without any knowledge of their false existence. Some rebel humans discover this horror, and recruit the help of computer hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves), hoping that he will be "the one" to rescue the world from this cyber-slavery. The last thirty minutes of this movie just kicks a.s all over the place! It combines special effects, with crazy fights featuring freaky Hong Kong action and unbelievable strengths, and a non-stop pace to a chase that seemed inevitable from the start. Unfortunately for my taste, this film's second act ran into a major slow-down when it delved too minutely into the intricate details of the explanation behind this "matrix". This muddled back-and-forth wasn't improved upon by the set of questions that seemed to answer the previously presented set of questions. Anyway, that aside, the film starts off with a bang-a-gong that will set anyone's taillights ablaze. The Wachowski brothers obviously have an eye for style, and fully take advantage of their respected talent during much of this film's progression. The slick action shots, decent suspense, and awesome cinematography accentuate this flash, and feed us with plenty of excitement to let slide the less interesting, and more standard scenes within the "real world" outside of the matrix. The acting is solid all around, with Fishburne making a fine showing, despite the excessive unflattering close-ups of his once pretty face, and Reeves pulling off a decent performance as the hacker caught in and over his head. Whoa! One guy that did standout in my mind, was the head of the "bad guys", Australian actor Hugo Weaving, who fed us with a fine dish of confidence, terror and an awfully annoying chatter style. All in all, this movie could have been trimmed a spot during its over-elaborate second act, but comes through on all cylinders in respect to style, vision, mood, and premise. But the biggest selling point of this film, a detail not gone unnoticed by its own overzealous marketing team, is the visually stunning special effect action sequences which trounce your pre-existing notion of "a great fight sequence", and present all future filmmakers with a new benchmark for fun and excitement. Kung-fu, crazy special effects, a girl in a black rubber suit, John Woo-esque slo-mo action shots, and Keanu Reeves in a shaved head. What is The Matrix? Cyber-kinetic futuristic fun for the whole family!! :) (c) 2005 Berge Garabedian >They have been berry, berry very good to me! ALWAYS. I cannot help >it.. I really do love this company. Even if they let me go tomorrow, I [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > >Sue > >Sp, > > [quoted text clipped - 139 lines] > > > >Sue Very funny Joel... but the truth is... it is neither MedtroniX nor Medtronics It is Medtronic ...without the "s" or the "X" -Sue BTW - We are located here www.medtronic.com :-) Sue We do not specialize in dental products... but we do have a division that deals with ENT (ear,nose,throat) ...and perhaps BMP will be used in some dental implant procedures some day ... >BTW - We are located here www.medtronic.com :-) Sue > >We do not specialize in dental products... but we do have a division >that deals with ENT (ear,nose,throat) ...and perhaps BMP will be used >in some dental implant procedures some day ... The real URL is www.medtronic's.com >Very funny Joel... but the truth is... it is neither MedtroniX nor >Medtronics >It is Medtronic ...without the "s" or the "X" > >-Sue One of my pet peeves ... Medtronic's. >I am also sure that you did not mean to be insulting by assuming that >my role at Medtronix is limited to secretarial work and/or support >functions only. lol. Sue, you been holding out on me. I never knew you could type although your coffee is darned good ....... Joel OK I misread the thread ....... I thought Sue had to go over the IGA Feed store to get the CPU replaced on some sheep. Joel >> Sue MedTronix blew her own horn: >> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> Cheers >> SP > This would have been relevant when I was doing the Master's in Neuro. > We had to do a lot of that stuff ourselves. We had no secretary or [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Cheers > SP Sp, I am sure you did some great presentations. I am not laughing at that!. I am also sure that you did not mean to be insulting by assuming that my role at Medtronix is limited to secretarial work and/or support functions only. lol. That is what I really like about medtronix.. the sky is the limit for everyone! There is no room for unfounded egos based only upon formal credentials and/or longevity. Please do not take offense, because I KNOW you were not being insulting at all. However your assumptions reminded me of a PhD's comments at Medtronix that I once worked with. The first time I presented my OWN research at our 15th annual Science and Technology Conference I walked away with the award for exceptional poster presentation (One award given out of ~300 presentations by PhDs, scientists, MDs, engineers etc. and lo and behold lil ol me). This PhD had been presenting for a few years and had never gained much notice. His comment to me was that I knew how to put together "pretty colors." Perhaps he did not think much of my research... oh well. A slew of 10-12 Bakken fellows thought that my presentation was exceptional. I prefer to believe them rather than one grumpy scientist. Lil ol boys club and ego does not work at Medtronix. Another example. A friend that I went to college with (female) was offerred a position that that some old timer thought he should have gotten. His comment was: I wondered who she slept with to get that position. lol. She is a materials scientist and our scanning electron microscope expert. Thsi other guy had been running SEM at a smaller facility for years and thought he should have gotten the job. I ahveno idea why.. but they recruited Sue (my friend) for the job.. not him. So sad, too bad for him.... HEy- she has a lot of intellgience and drive. She does not sit around expecting things to come to her... and she definitely does not sleep her way to the top. Geesh. oh well. Sp, At Medtronix, one is rewarded based upon ability, attitude and hard work.. some curmongeons just think they deserve certain positions and awards because of their titles (PhD or what not) and their longevity. The title of my poster that won that silly reward so long ago in 1996 was "Serum Creatinine Kinase, Creatine-kinase-MB, and Troponin-I Levels Following Ventricular Radiofrequency Ablation" Oh and what happend to that PhD? Unfortuantely he lost his job at Medtronix about 3 years ago and then went through a nasty divorce. YIKES. So sad. I really liked the guy even though he gave me a hard time about my abilities. I really hope he is doing well now. -Sue PS Everything I said above is true. >> This would have been relevant when I was doing the Master's in Neuro. >> We had to do a lot of that stuff ourselves. We had no secretary or [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >I am sure you did some great presentations. I am not laughing at >that!. Actually its the most important part of dentistry ........ Chapter XVI: The Presenting Of The Bill. Joel >I am also sure that you did not mean to be insulting by assuming that >my role at Medtronix is limited to secretarial work and/or support [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] >-Sue >PS Everything I said above is true. JOel and Sp, Quick correction. I wrote" " I have no idea why.. but they recruited Sue (my friend) for the job.. " My friend reminded me that she had gone back to school for master degree in Materials Science..(which the other person did not have). She had also been awarded technical contributor of the year for work on the feedthrough (where the lead attaches to the impulse generator of the pacemaker...) That is why they recruited her for the SEM position. I did not mean to make it sound like she was not qualified or that MEdtroniX just decided things willie nillie. -Sue PS I wanted to mention to Stovepipe. Beach VB is (was) fun! I no longer play. It requires so much more strength, agility and power than playing in a gym. Just don't have that anymore. It is still fun to watch. :-) OK. Back to work here. Please keep us updated on your secretary! It is a rather interesting dilemma that I hope works out ok for you in the end. Sincerely, Sue OK. Back to work here. Please keep us updated on your secretary! It is a rather interesting dilemma that I hope works out ok for you in the end. Sincerely, Sue ----------------------------- I've bought a machine gun, dna my Policeman's Ball tickets are already paid.... :-/ SP > I am also sure that you did not mean to be insulting by assuming that > my role at Medtronix is limited to secretarial work and/or support [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > However your assumptions reminded me of a PhD's comments at Medtronix > that I once worked with. > -Sue > PS Everything I said above is true. Well, having had some experience with research into neurologic and bio-med-information systems at the Masters' level,the only research positions I know are Masters', PhD, Post Doc Fellow, secretary, research assistant/assocciate. If you don't fit into one of those, I don't know what function you have at Medtronix. There is more to a wooden match than meets the eye. Cheers SP > I am also sure that you did not mean to be insulting by assuming that > my role at Medtronix is limited to secretarial work and/or support [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > However your assumptions reminded me of a PhD's comments at Medtronix > that I once worked with. > -Sue > PS Everything I said above is true. Well, having had some experience with research into neurologic and bio-med-information systems at the Masters' level,the only research positions I know are Masters', PhD, Post Doc Fellow, secretary, research assistant/assocciate. If you don't fit into one of those, I don't know what function you have at Medtronix. There is more to a wooden match than meets the eye. Cheers SP > >I can't get FREEZE.PANES to work. It takes a logical value (TRUE/FALSE) > >and a column and row arguement. I've tried many combinations and they > >don't work. Does anybody know how to make that function work? Tom Writed: > Not sure I understand what you want to do from your description but > the Freeze Panes function works by highlighting the row or column > under or to the right of the one you want to freeze and then hitting > Window ->Freeze Panes. > > If that isn't what you want then describe it better! That's it. I used your advice, turned on the Macro Record and set it up in three or four lines. Thanks SP >> >I can't get FREEZE.PANES to work. It takes a logical value (TRUE/FALSE) >> >and a column and row arguement. I've tried many combinations and they [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > SP If you think she is, she is. And probably more than you think. 1. start looking for a replacement - yesterday. 2. CYA - in the good old USA it's probably an indefensible dismissal to fire someone for falsifying hours and/or embezzling unless it is strictly spelled out in the office policy that you can't do that, and you have a documented, signed employee form. IOW, totally unacceptable behavior from any rationale point of view is OK if it is not documented in your signed, witnessed office policies. I suppose first thing tomorrow I should add that it is grounds for immediate dismissal if you urinate in the waiting room. You think I'm kidding - not the way our great court system works today. You can't believe the stuff I have been told in confidence by others in this situation. I got stiffed on one with unemployment claims - she should have been arrested and in the county jail. What do I do, pay out the nose for two years with Kansas Employment Security crap. Doughnuts to Fawk's pig turds she was working all the time too and double dipping. Not for embezzlement - not a chance in my office - other stuff........... Personally, I would just change the locks tomorrow and send her packing. Sometimes it's worth it and more. carabelli > Personally, I would just change the locks tomorrow and send her packing. > Sometimes it's worth it and more. > > carabelli The Crazy Jayhawker is right! I had one assistant that just never was a hard worker and just did enough to get by. My other assistant would jump in and get stuff done, even taking over jobs that the lazy one had kind of started. She (lazy one) eventually said that she couldn't take the harrassment and quit. I wished her well as I closed the door behind her. A month later she filed for unemployment! I won the first dispute by just saying that she had quit on her own. She appealed and I had to waste time on a teleconference with the State. I won that one too, but it was quite upsetting. Thank God I had never patted her on the back (or backside!). Small town folk aren't all nice either. Dartos Dartos furthered: A month later she filed for unemployment! I won the first dispute by just saying that she had quit on her own. She appealed and I had to waste time on a teleconference with the State. I won that one too, but it was quite upsetting. Thank God I had never patted her on the back (or backside!). Small town folk aren't all nice either. Dartos ----------------- Gads! It's to the point that one can't even compliment an employee without running some kind of risk! I'm sure this lady knows her options very well by now. Things are gonna get rough for a while. I hope there are others out there who are learning something from this... Thanks SP >Dartos furthered: > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >Thanks >SP That's it. That is why we got laws! Joel Carabelli JawBreaker suggests: If you think she is, she is. And probably more than you think. -------------------------------- She _is_... She's been awarding herself five hours a week more than we've been in the shop, and sometimes more. She has been calculating the pays for the three of them, and I have been just signing the cheques: real trusting-like... 'till I noticed that if her calculated pay was 468$ in a week, the cheque would often be for 568$ or something like that. I have looked at the pays vs the cheque book ledger and I calculate about 2000$ there alone. I don't know exactly how many extra hours for the year, but I do know for the last three weeks... I could accuse her of thievery and leave it at that. I decided instead to computerize the daily ledger sheet (Mardan: double receipt with carbon copy of all the transactions on a big sheet. I t is easy as hell to do: The totals of column 3 minus column 4 plus comumn 6 must equal comumn 7 plus column 2 unless it is a full moon and Suzie Q is playin' on the radio.... It is made for people like me who have small dental outfits and are not computerized. I will do the balancing myself, and I will announce tomorrow (Thursday, the last day we work before the long weekend) that I will be repatriating the task of calculating the pays to my self. I will do this 'because the CPA has strongly suggested I inform myself more closely as to the workings of the shop...' (He _has_, but he hasn't an explanation as to why she is tacking money onto her pays. _I _ have a feeling that she is doing this because she is desparate for $$$, as her husband is on 'Paternity Leave' after being on accident pay for getting half of one of his fingers cut off on the job. I think that when I face her with the overestimated hours, along with picking _one_ example of her overestimated net pays, she will bolt. She will do this because she cannot make ends meet with the salary I'm supposed to be paying her. I just hope she hasn't poisoned the other two beyond repair. Of course, all of this is my _own_ fault: for not computerizing the clinic before, and by not keeping my nose in all aspects of the works. I've been the type to let them each do their own thing, as long as the work gets done. I see that more rigor is needed in many aspects of our operation. 1. start looking for a replacement - yesterday. --------------------------- I'm gonna get a numbered mail box (Post Office box) this week (Friday) and I'm putting my add in the paper for Saturday. I'm hoping she sends me her CV. 2. CYA - in the good old USA it's probably an indefensible dismissal to fire someone for falsifying hours and/or embezzling unless it is strictly spelled out in the office policy that you can't do that, and you have a documented, signed employee form. ------------------------ You can accuse them of stealing and swear out a warrant. Of course, that means lawyers... IOW, totally unacceptable behavior from any rationale point of view is OK if it is not documented in your signed, witnessed office policies. I suppose first thing tomorrow I should add that it is grounds for immediate dismissal if you urinate in the waiting room. ----------------- Oh.... do they do that at your place too? Or do they just threaten to do it and then just fart? ;-) You think I'm kidding - not the way our great court system works today. You can't believe the stuff I have been told in confidence by others in this situation. I got stiffed on one with unemployment claims - she should have been arrested and in the county jail. ------------------ Too expensive, and she knows it. What do I do, pay out the nose for two years with Kansas Employment Security crap. Doughnuts to Fawk's pig turds she was working all the time too and double dipping. ------------ She was shovelling Fawks' pig turds in her spare time... What is 'double dipping' ? Not for embezzlement - not a chance in my office - other stuff........... Personally, I would just change the locks tomorrow and send her packing. Sometimes it's worth it and more. I can't do that reasonably and hope to keep the other two. Their situation should become evident immediately when I put the screws on the front desk's pay cheque. carabelli Thanks SP >Carabelli JawBreaker suggests: > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >hours for the year, but I do know for the last three weeks... I could >accuse her of thievery and leave it at that. You had a partner ...... You didn't know about it ..... >I decided instead to computerize the daily ledger sheet (Mardan: double >receipt with carbon copy of all the transactions on a big sheet. I t is [quoted text clipped - 94 lines] > >SP You had a partner ...... You didn't know about it ..... --------------------------------------------- You're right: except she is not taking _any_ of the risks. SP Get a new iBook. They're fantastic (mine is flying along :-)). And very reasonably priced. I do have an iBook G3 clam shell, and that's what I've been using to post here, and I will be again, Once I get that $%%?&?& rooter working to accept the two set ups; Thanks SP >I do have an iBook G3 clam shell, and that's what I've been using to >post here, and I will be again, Once I get that $%%?&?& rooter working [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >SP That's the problem ... Roto-Rooter don't do Windows ........ |
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