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Reading 2: Khrushchev Visits Eisenhower's Farm, September 26, 1959.
Excerpt from Eisenhower National Historic Site oral history interview with John S. D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower's son, January 26, 1984, on the porch in the Eisenhower home, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
When my father was president, he developed the habit of bringing visiting world leaders to the farm. Such informality, he reasoned, would make them feel at home. Visiting dignitaries soon got the word of such favored treatment, so everybody had to be brought to the farm, so they would receive what everybody else had! In September 1959, the White House laid it on for Khrushchev to come to Camp David, though we later learned that he was suspicious at first about Camp David what kind of a place it was. The Russians were always afraid for their lives when they came over here. However, when Khrushchev found out what a nice place Camp David was, he was delighted.
Excerpt from Eisenhower National Historic Site oral history interview with Bob Hartley, Eisenhower's herdsman, June 18, 1981.
Khrushchev was here, too. He knew more about agriculture than any of them [other world leaders]. Although, I talked to him, he talked to me more than any of the rest of them but through an interpreter. He really was interested and he asked a lot of questions.
Excerpt from Eisenhower National Historic Site oral history interview with Barbara Eisenhower, Eisenhower's daughter-in-law, August 20, 1983.
I remember when he brought Khrushchev up. Khrushchev was so impressed with individual dwellings, especially as they left the Washington area. He was so impressed with the fact that there were so many individual homes instead of all apartments, like it is in Moscow. He didn't think it was good particularly. He thought we were wasting space. He thought it was improvident more than anything else....[Khrushchev] was here on the farm, and I remember I brought the children over. He gave them each a little red star to put in the buttonhole of their lapel, and I remember after we got back in the car and drove home, I made them give me the stars and I threw them out the window. The reason I did was because they were communist insignia....I just didn't want them wearing souvenirs of his visit....He liked the children very much, and he was very grandfatherly, which is strange. You know, you don't think of him that way. He wanted them to come to Moscow. We were going to make a State visit there and John and I were going to go, and he wanted the children to come. He really pestered my father-in-law about it. He sent his ambassador over almost every week to the White House to try and talk Ike into bringing them.
Excerpt from Eisenhower National Historic Site oral history interview with General Andrew Goodpaster, White House staff secretary, November 7, 1983.
My recollection is that we had all of our activity [with the Berlin Crisis] down in Washington until Khrushchev came to visit at Camp David....I was at Camp David, the official part of it. I think [Eisenhower took world leaders like Khrushchev to the farm] so that he would have an opportunity to talk in circumstances that would encourage a little more freedom of discussion. It would not be so heavily official and it would be his opportunity to get more of what he called "the other man's equation," and also to convey, in a more constructive and positive setting, his own views.
1. Why do you think Eisenhower brought Khrushchev to his farm and home?
2. If you were Khrushchev, how do you think you would have reacted to Eisenhower's hospitality? Why?
3. How did Khrushchev's reaction to American housing patterns reflect his cultural and economic values? Have American attitudes changed toward land use since Khrushchev's visit?
4. How did Barbara Eisenhower's reaction to Khrushchev's visit reflect America's attitude toward communism in the 1950s? Did America's attitude change over the next 30 years?
5. List the advantages and disadvantages of using oral history to learn about recent events. Do you think historians would need to corroborate oral history accounts with other documentation? Why or why not?
From the Eisenhower National Historic Site archives.


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South Florida dogs aim to fetch honors at Westminster show
Even the threat of a major snow storm couldn't keep Pippi, a "powder puff'' Chinese Crested dog, from heading to New York on Friday for the American Kennel Club's 137th Westminster Dog Show on Monday and Tuesday.
The tiny dog, with silky fur and pointed ears, made one of the last flights out, with her 11-year-old handler, Jolie Dreiling , of Miami Beach, Jolie's parents Mary and Michael Dreiling, and one of her canine housemates, another Chinese Crested name Ace, who's just along for the ride.
Until the storm put some travel plans in jeopardy, Florida planned on sending 116 dogs to the show, which will go on no matter the weather.
In all, about 3,000 dogs are expected to show, most at Madison Square Garden but some at Piers 92/94 on the Hudson.
It's the first time any part of the show will take place somewhere other than the Garden, which is undergoing renovations.
Two newly-recognized breeds join the contest this year: the Russell Terrier and the Treeing Walker Coonhound.
Jolie, a Cushman School fifth-grader — along with twin brother Albert — is already one of the top junior Chinese Crested handlers in the world — also The International Brotherhood of Magicians' 2012 Junior Close-Up Magician of the Year.
She and 4-year-old Pippi, whose AKC name is Gingery's Wintergreen, are entered in the "toy'' group at Westminster with nearly 40 other Chinese Cresteds, both powder puff and hairless.
Among them: two Chinese Cresteds from South Florida. Mother-daughter breeders from Sunrise, Mary Lou Patti and Jennifer Patti, are showing Barbie (Grand Champion Stillmeadow Solo in the Spotlight), an 18-month-old hairless, and her half-brother Nigel (Grand Champion Stillmeadow Looks Like a Photo Shoot), 2.
They've had Chinese Cresteds since the 1980s, said Jennifer, a paralegal.
"Mom showed Yorkies, and I developed allergies, so we went to hairless,'' she said.
A perennial winner of the World's Ugliest Dog contest, hairless Chinese Cresteds were recognized by the American Kennel Club in 1991.
The Ugly Dog winners are invariably geriatric and toothless.
"That's not our breed,'' said Jennifer Patti, 30.
Also planning to go from South Florida: Dr. Nancy Greenbarg, a Dania Beach endodontist who's been showing for 16 years, and Rocky, one of three golden retrievers she co-owns.
Champion De La Vega Colorado Rocky Mnt. Hi, his AKC name, will compete in the "sporting'' group with a professional handler.
Goldens Chelsea (Champion Nautilus Erin Go Bragh), and Juicy (Champion Cashmere Blue Sky Basin), Chelsea and Rocky's daughter, are sitting this one out.
"These three love more than anything to show,'' said Greenbarg, 50, public education coordinator of the Golden Retriever Club of America.
Rocky also hunts birds and competes in field trials. He can spend hours in the yard finding and fetching hidden training bumpers, prompted only by hand signals.
Mindful that no golden retriever has won Best in Show since the AKC recognized the breed in 1925, Greenbarg is hopeful nonetheless.
Rocky, she said, "has a big head and a short-ribbed back and has fabulous movement.''
Jolie Dreiling isn't sure that Pippi can win, but thinks showing is fun. She's been handling for more than a year, and is accustomed to being in front of an audience, as a magician.
The point, she said, is to "have a good time.''

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This Week's ChessVideos Show: Tal-Spassky, Glenrothes 1988
It's a game I didn't even know existed until earlier today, and although this 1988 battle between two legends and former world champions was only a blitz game, it's still absolutely worth watching.
Boris Spassky, in a must-win situation with the black pieces, essayed the Pirc Defense. It's not a bad choice in general, though it is rather provocative against a player like Mikhail Tal. (In fact, I know of one reasonably decent player* who had been successful with the related Modern Defense, managing to beat even titled players in tournament games with it. He thought it would be a smart idea to use against Tal in a simul...and got obliterated.) Tal used the Austrian Attack, arguably the most principled reply, and they followed an earlier game of Spassky's until the latter varied with a logical and ambitious new move.
Logical, but mistaken. With some fine prophylactic moves Tal prevented Spassky from implementing his plan, and then Tal turned his attention to what he did best: attacking the enemy king. While he did miss some little improvements along the way, it was an impressive performance - especially for a blitz game - and it's an instructive game for anyone who plays that line with either side.
So have a look here for all the details. The show is free, as always (free registration required), and will be available on-demand for the next month or so.
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If you asked a kid what their favorite things were, odds are you'd hear a lot of them say "pizza" and "videogames." Really, most adults would say the same thing because pizza is (arguably) the best food there is, and videogames are the best things to do while eating food or not eating food. So combining the two seems like a natural fit and while many have tried to cash in on our collective love of dough combined with sauce and cheese over the years, only a few have done it memorably. These are the 10 Tastiest Pizzas in Videogame History.
There's a lot of super weird things going on in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. There's an upside-down castle. There's a goofy librarian sitting by himself in a library filled with ghosts and demons that he doesn't seem to notice. Hell there isn't even a symphony. But the weirdest thing may be the fact that there are a lot of fast food items popping up around the castle, including "New York style pizza." Given that Castlevania takes place in 1797, it seems unlikely that "New York style pizza" would be readily available in Dracula's castle back then, or even exist at all. But since Dracula does have the wizard (hilariously-named wizard, more specifically) Shaft helping him out, maybe it's possible that time and space have been bent to allow some pizza into the mazelike castle. If you hate unnatural magic powers back then, odds are you too would use them to resurrect Dracula and get a fresh Lombardi's pie.
According to the Home Alone mythology, Kevin McCallister loves pizza plain cheese pizza, specifically (note: this is canon). So, naturally, the makers of the game decided that pizza would literally give Kevin the ability to live, as the annually-neglected child battled burglars obsessed with vengeance on a child. By collecting six slices of pizza, scattered throughout the levels, you would gain an extra life. Which seems like something you would need, after eating random slices of pizza you found floating around some potentially disease-ridden New York streets.
Mach Pizza is a pretty incredible business: it's the only pizza place in the world of Earthbound, it has only a single deliveryman, and they will have any pizza delivered to you no matter where you are or what you order in precisely 3 minutes. To be fair, they charge $238 for a large pizza, which is a little excessive, but it does heal you pretty nicely instead of ruining your arteries like regular pizza, so let's cut them some slack. Plus, they deliver it to you in 3 minutes. THREE MINUTES. That's not even enough time to put on pants before the delivery guy rings the doorbell. Unfortunately, after you defeat Giyagas, their deliveryman quits, and the franchise closes. Some dreams are over before you can say "Fuzzy Pickle."


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Think pink: Don't cry over candied rose petals
It is the end for the second group of travelling diners on My Kitchen Rules and this episode promises the re-introduction of couples long since forgotten, such as Lisa and Stefano, Josh and Andi (the hipsters who aren't really hipsters) and those others from Victoria who are a great deal older than everybody else. Their participation is inexcusable because apparently it's only young and unwrinkled people who like to cook.
For this instalment, the teams travel to "Adelaide" and the travellers wonder why people choose to live in "Adelaide" which is unimportant to the rest of the country.
Jenna and Joanna, self-proclaimed domestic goddesses, are the hosts for the evening and for the 783rd time in just a few episodes, Jenna reminds us that she works in a "high-class patisserie". For reference, an "Adelaide" "high-class patisserie" is the equivalent in Sydney or Melbourne of Donut King.
Jenna also declares that she is a self-taught cupcake artist, as though this is something to brag about. Jenna says her goal is to create an empire of sweetness. Joanna sees that her way out of this craziness is to open a dental surgery for all of Jenna's customers.
Joanna says that to cook is to love, except if you are Jessie and Biswa, in which case to cook is to kill/maim/poison.
Jenna declares that she and Joanna are the most glamorous domestic goddesses you'll ever meet. There are two problems here: one, the title is already taken and that is by Nigella, so just back off. The second is that they live in Adelaide. Glamour? Really?
As the shopping starts, Joanna hopes that Jenna will get through the day without crying. Has she not watched this show before? Crying is mandatory, with non-compliance resulting in elimination.
Joanna thinks using smaller fish for an entree means that the bones will disintegrate during cooking. Can anyone smell TROUBLE ahead?
She also predicts that Lisa and Candice will score strategically because this is their lost opportunity, being at the bottom of the leader board. Wow. She is so wise. Joanna and Jenna try to boost their chances and spirits by signing Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead. By sing, I mean sing badly. However, their alleged singing is infinitely preferable to Lisa and Candice's "dancing".
Speaking of those "dancers", they live in hope that the stars align and send Jenna and Joanna to Pluto. This acerbic yet predictable slight from Candice has Lisa guffawing.
Jenna hopes the other teams like her pink restaurant as much as she and Joanna do. I think this is unlikely unless they've had a lobotomy in the past 24 hours.
Joanna starts by making the home-made bangers. Jenna is crystallising rose petals. Apparently this is a thing. The notification to the world that dead roses can't rest in peace has clearly passed me by.
Jenna is feeling the pressure because of her passion for dessert. Maybe if she had shared less of her passion with the rest of the group, she wouldn't have this rod for her back.
In a stereotypically blonde moment, Jenna leaves strawberry paste for her mousse on the stove top. Her resolve not to cry is severely tested. Then, by putting the crystallised rose petals in the oven, Jenna has stuffed that up too. Oh noes. Joanna has a heart-to-heart talk to her by the sink. "Don't do it," warns Jo, "or I'll rip your head off and serve it with clotted cream for dessert."
Remember earlier, when Joanna said the bones of the fish would disintegrate during cooking? Well, for part 861 of Famous Wrong Calls of History, here is Joanna. The fish are full of bones. The two gasp as though fish having bones is something they've not encountered before. They decide to hope for the best and that the bones will disintegrate.
The other teams arrive and are unsurprised to see pink everywhere. Unsurprisingly, Lisa looks far from impressed at the amount of sugar in the restaurant's lolly bar. Hey, Lisa, sugar has carbohydrates. You know, that thing you demanded a couple of restaurants ago?
Dan thinks his masculinity is being challenged by all the pink. I think the button earrings will do that by themselves, Dan. Luke's masculinity, though, is not such a problem and with a look, tells Jenna to "go hard". Ooh, err.
Lightning strikes thrice for Jenna back in the kitchen when she realises she's not made enough dessert and has to start again. Jenna's third batch of mousse is not inspirated and she starts to cry. Again.
Manu and Pete arrive and agree that Jenna is obsessed with pink. Manu subtly mentions that he likes blue. This could mean something but the idea of Manu and Jenna finding a common/romantic bond through colours could make the world explode.
The menu is revealed. Candice was wanting cupcakes for dessert so that Jenna could display her talents "that she talks about, every single instant restaurant." Well now, Candice, forget the mote in Jenna's eye and behold the beam in thine.
Manu asks Lisa what she is hoping for at dinner, and with unflinching honesty, she replies "That you'll all give them zeros". Everyone laughs but they all know that there's no chance of that, even if they die choking on fish bones.
Jenna and Joanna cook for some time but all seems to be going to plan. Nothing to see here except a really awkward impersonation of Manu's catchcry: "Where is ze sauce?"
Entree is served. In the ultimate act of hypocrisy, Joanna dissolves into tears when Pete says her dish epitomises what My Kitchen Rules is all about – real people and real food. "This is the best dish I've had in the competition," he says.
Candice, never far from the action, says hearing Pete's praise is a stab in the heart. No, she does not mean that literally. But she is almost stabbed in the mouth when she finds a line of little bones and starts to faux choke.
The action returns to the kitchen and the main is started. Joanna is forensic about her salt – 18 grams per one kilo of meat. Evidently the same exacting weights do not apply to the sugar that lines the dining room.
Lisa is putting the pressure on in the dining room and slams the main as being a "Sunday night dinner ... it's not my idea of a gourmet meal".
Joanna's regrets? She's had a few. And one of them now is cooking the sausages in a coil because every one of the 12 sausages looks like a dog doo-doo. In the end, she decides to keep the skewers in the sausage, choosing a potential eye-gouging over poor aesthetics.
Dan the Queensland sausage king thinks the dish doesn't look particularly flash. Candice says it looks like a dog turd, which makes Lisa give her most animated expression of the show, with eyebrows going every which way.
Manu, though, puts dog-turd fears into the pooper-scooper. "I thought your sausage was to die for." Lisa and Candice look as though their faces have been rubbed in dog doo-doo.
But the judging sausage splits over the issue of sauce: Manu is again about to jump down the contestants' throat for no sauce with a main. Pete says no sauce was needed but the mash needed work. Candice gloats and the venom coming from her aura could make a poisonous sauce.
Scott and Luke declare undying allegiance to Team Manu and lobby for sauce. Scott is considering a Manu tattoo to sit with his squid tattoo.
Back in the kitchen, Jenna is on the verge of tears again when the dacqouise base for her mousse looks a lot like an elderly person – grey and cracked and wrinkly. Manu enters and, holding her hand, tries to help. Everyone say "awww". Manu tells her there is nothing wrong and gives her a hug.
But the mousse? After some conveniently timed dramatic music, it's largely OK. some are melting. Given the wicked witch nicknames for Lisa and Candice, maybe those mousse servings should be theirs. Candied rose petals go the way of the wicked witch and disappear.
Jenna, with some excellent skills in passing the buck (perhaps politics is a career if this dessert thing doesn't work out), says that everyone has called her the dessert queen and she guesses that they have high expectations. I can't imagine where they would have got those ideas from.
Jenna is crying. Again. Candice, with her usual diplomacy and tact, wants to tell her that she and Lisa aren't crying and they're on the bottom. I want to tell Candice to shut up, but I think the judges are about to do that, once and for all.
In the meantime, the judges deliver Jenna a cup of harden-up by telling her to stop complaining – the dessert is excellent. Sam thinks Jenna has lived up to her dessert queen billing.
Candice and Lisa show delusions again – with other teams scoring 7s, 8s and 9s, they score Jenna and Joanna a four and think that if the scores are fair, there is a chance they could squeeze through. The self-assuredness of these two is incredibly wearing.
Pete announces that there will be an announcement at the final judging. Lisa seems to think that there is now an air of belief around the table that she and Candice may not be going home. If the table has suddenly changed to just be one for those two, then I'd say that is a fair and accurate statement.
Jenna and Joanna score 87 from 110, putting them into second position. Sadly [maybe], it's the end for Lisa and Candice. Pete activates a fake smile and tells them that it's sad to see them go but he's secretly relieved he won't have to sit next to them at dinner again.
The five successful teams from group one return to the only building Adelaide has with a staircase for the shock announcement: not all of the 10 remaining teams will be going to kitchen headquarters, which is a relief to Matt and Mick and Ali and Samuel, whose Tasmanian passports have been exhausted from the constant travel to that far away fantasy land called "the mainland".
Lisa and Stefano, Ali and Samuel and Dan and Steph are in immediate danger, not of having to remain in Adelaide forever, but of having to travel around the country once more for elimination with the gatecrashers.
Lisa, ever the rule-abider, says that normally with gatecrashers, "ya chuck 'em out".
Joanna relishes the prospect of three new teams to hate as much as Lisa and Candice. The gauntlet is laid.
In the words of Jake: "Game on, moll."
Adrian Lowe is Domain's national news editor. Prior to Domain, Adrian worked at The Age, including as night news editor, homepage producer and court reporter.


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Contrasting Colors and Diverse Materials in a Modern Apartment in Moscow
Defined by a relaxed atmosphere, this contemporary apartment designed by Geometrix Design for a family in Moscow, Russia, showcases an interesting mix of colors and materials. A generous open plan living and dining space sets the tone for a home that impresses through neatness and space. A white bar table, a dining table for six and two comfortable sofas of contrasting color reassure us that is a cheerful crib where family and guests love to spend time together. The white kitchen against the background of a slate stonewall serves as a compositional center. Storage space is cleverly hidden and the doors of the wall-mounted closets open upwards, with the help of an automatic push-button control.
One of the most interesting part of this apartment in Moscow, is the children's room, described by the designers as follows: "The extraordinary wall unit attracts your attention immediately. It is made according to the design of the studio architects and serves as a storage system, a closet, and a playing area at the same time. The major highlight is in the center – a stairway leading to the "roof" of the closet covered with soft pillows: there you can just sit and read a book, or make a defense headquarters. One of the walls is decorated with soft puzzle-shaped panels made according to the designers' idea. When the boys grow up, the panels can be taken off to make the interior more composed". See any other details you find practical?


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The ever-evolving East Bay punk scene has already hit the big time but may be headed to Broadway. Green Day's "American Idiot" has been adapted for the stage and is making its world premiere at the Berkeley Rep, as Billie Joe, Mike and Tré's Grammy-award winning, multi-platinum album has been taken to another dimension.
"When we made the record we were being as ambitious as we possibly could -- so I think a long time ago there was a part of us that said, 'no rules' -- don't put any limitations on what you're capable of doing," says lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong.
While it's the band's music, words and ideas embedded in the musical, the band is not actually performing in the production, which offers something of an out of body experience. "The only negative thing about being in Green Day is that we don't get to see Green Day live so this takes care of that 100 fold for us," says bassist Mike Dirnt.
Since each of the guys in the band are from the Bay Area, starting this show in Berkeley is an extra special experience. "Watching the reactions in the audience, as well as bursting into tears several times," says drummer Tré Cool, "It's a feeling you can't really describe."


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Browsing Conference papers (DIGI) by Author "Bjørn-Andersen, Niels"
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Hansen, Rina; Bjørn-Andersen, Niels (, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper proposes a framework for assessment and design of B2C websites focussing on Web 2.0 and social media as vehicles for involvement of current and potential customers. Three overall strategic dimensions are proposed for characterization of websites, whether the 1) purpose is branding or e-commerce, 2) communication is one-way or two-way, 3) focus is transaction or innovation. When these three strategic binary dimensions are combined, we get 2 x 2 x 2 or a total of 8 different triplet combinations. The framework is used for an assessment of 15 fashion websites in the years 2006, 2008 and 2010. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8429
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Jetzek, Thorhildur; Avital, Michel; Bjørn-Andersen, Niels (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The exponentially growing production of data enables global connectivity as well as increased openness and sharing, which turn into a powerful force that is changing the global economy and society. Governments around the world have become active participants in this evolution by opening up their data for access and re-use by public and private agents alike. The recent phenomenon of Open Government Data (OGD) has spread around the world, driven by the proposition that opening government data has the ability to generate both economic and social value. However, a review of the academic research and the popular press reveals only sporadic attention given to various aspects with no overarching framework that explains how OGD generates value. We apply a critical realist approach to uncover the generative mechanisms that serve to explain this relationship. First, we present a strategic framework with four archetypical generative mechanisms. The framework outlines the different pathways to value generation and highlights the current tension between the private/public and economic/social domains. Second, we offer a conceptual model that provides a systematic way of articulating and examining further the generation of value from OGD. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8740
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Bjørn-Andersen, Niels (Oman, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: IT1 is likely to be as important to the way companies will organize in the future as electricity was to the industrial revolution. IT will revolutionize entire industries and markets. IT will create new types of organizations that will surpass and outsmart traditional organizations. This has been predicted for more than a decade. But now it is happening especially in the music, newspaper and publishing industries, and shall see it even more pronounced in these sectors in the future. But it will not be limited to these industries; it will influence all types of industry and government organizations. Already today, we see many examples of innovative organizational designs, enhancing organizational effectiveness and competitiveness. The paper will briefly discuss the potential of future IT developments, and will proceed to give a short theoretical background for why we see a growth in IT-facilitated new organizational forms. A couple of interesting organizational design will be mentioned, before we proceed to making the argument that any business process in principle may be reengineered, centralized or outsourced in one way or other. Interesting examples will be presented. We suggest that future IT will have such a profound impact on organizational structure going far beyond the traditional 'virtual organization' that it calls for a new organizational concept, which we have chosen to label the "Ambient Organization'. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8428
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Salling Pedersen, Allan; Bjørn-Andersen, Niels (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: ITIL has been proposed and indeed adopted by many as a framework for solving the problem of IT Service Management. It has been available for organizations for more than 10 years and initial adoption has been high. However, consultancy surveys of ITIL adoption, implementation and institutionalization show that there are only few complete and institutionalized ITIL implementations. This paper presents work in progress on a comprehensive ITIL literature review, focussing on critical success factors and benefits documented in scientific literature about ITIL implementation. Based on this, the paper presents a draft framework aiming at assisting organizations during their decisions regarding ITIL adoption, implementation and institutionalization. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8431
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A Strategic Analysis FrameworkJetzek, Thorhildur; Avital, Michel; Bjørn-Andersen, Niels (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Government data has been accumulated for centuries in protected repositories and registries as public record and a matter of civil order. Recently, the Open Government Data (OGD) movement has emerged as a group that focuses on facilitating open access to government data. Proponents of OGD initiatives argue that it can strengthen democracy and improve government through increased participation, collaboration and transparency. OGD advocates are also motivated by its potential contribution to greater productivity and economic growth through increased government efficiency and the creation of new businesses and services. However, as most OGD initiatives are relatively recent, the key questions regarding the value propositions and return on investment of these initiatives remain unanswered. In this theory development paper, we propose a strategic options framework that offers criteria for generating and prioritizing OGD initiatives. The framework can guide structured analysis of the economic and social impacts of OGD with an emphasis on its value propositions for both the public and private sectors. Building on a literature review and fieldwork-based anecdotal evidence, we expect OGD initiatives to generate value and substantial returns through increased transparency, efficiency of government activities, citizen participation and entrepreneurial activity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8621
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It's Time to Take Artificial Intelligence Seriously
No Longer an Academic Curiosity, It Now Has Measurable Impact on Our Lives
The age of intelligent machines has arrived—only they don't look at all like we expected. Forget what you've seen in movies; this is no HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey," and it's certainly not Scarlett Johansson's disembodied voice in "Her." It's more akin to what happens when insects, or even fungi, do when they "think." (What, you didn't know that slime molds can solve mazes?)
Artificial intelligence has lately been transformed from an academic curiosity to something that has measurable impact...


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Sidney Crosby tied a career high with five assists, and Chris Kunitz posted his second hat trick of the season in the Pittsburgh Penguins' 6-1 rout of the New York Islanders on Sunday night.
Crosby's big night boosted his point total to an NHL-leading 45 and helped the Penguins win their fifth straight. James Neal had a goal and three assists, and Pascal Dupuis scored twice for Pittsburgh. Tomas Vokoun made 23 saves.
Brad Boyes scored the lone goal for New York, which had a five-game point streak snapped. Evgeni Nabokov stopped just 12 of 17 shots in two periods before getting pulled for the final 20 minutes.
The Penguins played without reigning NHL MVP Evgeni Malkin, who sat out due to an upper body injury.
Kunitz more than picked up the slack. The veteran forward scored a pair of power-play goals in the first period and then added his third midway through the second as the Penguins began a home-heavy portion of their schedule with a blowout.
The Islanders had lost 13 straight games in Pittsburgh before breaking through at the end of last season and backing it up with a win in Pittsburgh six weeks ago.
While New York has been a modest surprise — the Islanders entered the game just two points out of a playoff spot — they were no match for the NHL's highest-scoring team. The Penguins are rolling behind a resurgent Crosby and two linemates playing perhaps the finest hockey of their careers.
A gifted two-way player with a knack for doing dirty work in tight places, Kunitz is flourishing in his ninth season. His fourth career hat trick gave him 17 goals this season, and his 36 points are third in the NHL. Kunitz's career-high point total in a season is 61, set last year. He is on pace to post career bests in goals and points in a lockout-shortened, 48-game sprint.
Having Crosby at the peak of his powers certainly helps. Nearly a year after his last comeback from concussion-like symptoms, Crosby has regained his MVP form. He extended his point streak to nine games — the longest stretch in the NHL this season — and the Penguins had little issue to kick off a three-week stretch that could help them strengthen their position atop the Atlantic Division.
Pittsburgh spent most of the first half of the season on the road but Sunday night started a 12-game run in which they will play only twice away from home.
The Penguins didn't waste much time getting settled in. Dupuis put them up 1-0 just over 7 minutes in when his shot from the goal line clanked off the post, smacked the back of Nabokov's pad and went into the net.
Kunitz pushed the lead to 3-0 by the end of the period after a pair of power-play goals within a span of 3 minutes. He poked in a feed from Neal for his first goal and then did it again on his next shift. Kunitz took a backhand feed from Neal and slipped it by Nabokov to score Pittsburgh's 33rd first-period goal, the most in the league.
Boyes briefly got the Islanders back into it when Pittsburgh defenseman Simon Despres slipped trying to clear the puck, allowing Boyes to come in alone. He snapped a shot over Vokoun's right shoulder to make it 3-1.
Penguins coach Dan Bylsma called timeout to let his weary club — playing its third game in four days — get its legs. Whatever he told them worked. Kunitz and Neal scored 16 seconds apart to make it 5-1.
NOTES: Crosby's other five assist game came against the Philadelphia Flyers on Dec. 13, 2006. ... New York scratched forwards Keith Aucoin and Eric Boulton as well as defenseman Joe Finley. ... The Penguins scratched defensemen Deryk Engelland and Robert Bortuzzo. ... Pittsburgh hosts Boston on Tuesday. The Islanders are off until Thursday when they play at Tampa Bay.


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EATONTON, Ga.- Columbus State University fired a two-under second round to slide past host Georgia College & State University for the team lead after two rounds of the Bobcat Invitational today (March 23) at Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee. CSU shot a 278 combined with a first-round 286 for an overall 564, pacing the field by eight strokes.
GCSU junior Pedro C. Lima (Sao Paulo, Brazil) owns the individual lead, following up a first round 72 with a 67 (139) for one-under on the par-70, 6,730-yard course.
He stands one stroke ahead of a five-way tie for second between CSU's Michael Hicks and Kyle Albright, Nova Southeastern University's Byron White, Florida Southern College's Jude Eustaquio and University of West Florida's Kyle Scott. White shot a second-round 66, low round for the day.
The host Bobcats stand at 572 (284-288), while Nova Southeastern is third at 579. Florida Southern stands fourth (581) with Valdosta State University rounding out the top five at a 582.
Lander University's Billy Belair provided some fireworks with a hole-in-one, coming on hole No. 8 in the first round.
For the host Bobcats, junior Francisco Bide (Buenos Aires, Argentina/El Diamante (Calif.)) is eighth with a pair of 71s (142). Sophomore Joe Young (Cochran, Ga.) is 21st at 72-73=145 and junior Niclas Johansson (Skanor, Sweden) is a stroke behind in 24th (69-77=146). Sophomore Billy Shida (Berkeley Lake, Ga.) rounds out the starters at 60th (76-77=153).
Three Bobcats competed as individuals, two in their first career tournament at Georgia College. Sophomore Matthew Yonz (Norcross, Ga.) leads all playing as individuals at 38th overall (75-75=150). Both Bayley Craig (Eatonton, Ga.) and Rich Crumpton (Eatonton, Ga.) were in their first tournaments at GCSU.
The tournament finishes tomorrow with one final round, the first tee times coming at 8:22 a.m.
Visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement.


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Hi everyone, as part of our 15th Anniversary Celebration, we're updating The Bard's Tale with a new Remastered and Resnarkled Edition. This will be the new standard edition of the game. For those of you who already own The Bard's Tale, no worries! Your version will be updated automatically for free!
- The Bard's Tale Remastered & Resnarkled features the following updates:
- Updated splash screen and app icon.
- Runs at highest desktop resolution by default without bringing up the Graphics settings app.
- Graphics settings app updated to no longer incorporate legacy language settings. Instead, the Steam specified language is used which is the preferred method.
- Full Steam overlay support (Shift + Tab).
- Steam achievements & trading cards.
- Additional language support for Italian.
- 64 bit OS's no longer crash at startup.


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It is the group of creative, professional and personable stylists, designers and managers that make XEX what it is. We are grateful to have them with us.
XEX uses a tiered stylist structure. Although our prices vary to accommodate a variety of guests, each of our stylists has completed XEX's extensive training program. Regardless of the level of stylist you choose, you can be confident that you will receive incredibly high quality services.
The name XEX comes from Feng Shui. Two "Xs" mean lucky. The "E" means good energy.
The directors of XEX, David and Gary, have created an artistic team of knowledgeable and experienced individuals in a wide range of services.
We strive to maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction, professionalism, and integrity. Education, a commitment to creativity, and individualism are at the center of our constant pursuit for excellence. XEX provides the best services day to day by meeting the demands of our customers and proving our ability to produce the highest quality work.
XEX is also the exclusive gallery in North America to represent renowned Venetian Murano glass artist Darra. We have an assortment of one of a kind pieces in various functional art interpretations. Visit DarraUSA.com to learn more about the artists.
We are pleased to extend various offers to our clients through this site, Facebook and Twitter. We will also keep you updated with added services, discounts, and fashion tips.
We believe as our name states, that good energy is important. Every Wednesday XEX donates $1 from each of your purchases to Feeding America so we can all participate in helping others.
Feeding America is the nation's Food Bank Network. It is the largest domestic hunger relief organization in the United States. Feeding America serves more than 37 million Americans, including nine million children and 2.5 million elderly, each year. 98% of all product and financial donations received by Feeding America go directly towards feeding hungry people, rather than administration or fundraising. For more information, please visit www.feedingamerica.org.
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Before proceeding, please ensure that you have read Section 5 and Section 6.
These installation notes are based on a single-partition installation using the 2.6.9-55.0.2 EL kernel.
The installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 completed successfully, with no problems getting the GUI installer working, and no errors during the install. This smooth installation isn't surprising, given that RHEL 4 is an officially supported platform for DB2.
Basic test results (see Section 21 for more details) were successful.
However, I found that after a reboot, the DB2 instance was not being restarted automatically, so clients could not connect to the database. To correct this problem, execute this command as the instance owner:
db2set DB2AUTOSTART=YES
Also, to allow DB2 access through the iptables-based firewall (which is enabled by default), it was necessary to modify the iptables firewall ruleset, which is kept in the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file. If you have enabled your firewall (using the iptables service), and you want to enable external connectivity to your DB2 server, you must open up TCP and UDP access to ports 523 and TCP access to any DB2 service ports. To make this work, add these rules to the iptablesfile (anywhere amongst the -j ACCEPT rules):
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 523 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 523 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 50000 -j ACCEPT
You can use db2 get dbm cfg | grep SVCENAME to retrieve the service names and then check the /etc/services for the equivalent port values to open on your firewall.


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Obama's new detainee policy: Break from Bush, or the same?
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday abandoned two key aspects of former President George W. Bush's policies on suspected terrorists, setting off a wide debate on whether the move undercut the government's rationale for holding at least some of the men who are now detained at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba or amounted to nothing new.
In a court filing in Washington, the Justice Department dropped the term "enemy combatant" to refer to those being held in Guantanamo. It also said that the government's authority to continue to jail terrorist suspects would hinge on proving that they "authorized, committed or aided" the Sept. 11 attacks or that they "were part of or substantially supported" the Taliban or al Qaida.
Some lawyers said the decision not to use the term "enemy combatant" marked the death knell for military commissions, which Congress established specifically to try Guantanamo detainees. Under federal law, the commissions have authority to try only persons declared "unlawful alien enemy combatants."
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian Mizer, who defended Osama bin Laden's driver before such a commission, said Friday's move effectively gave the war court "jurisdiction over a category of persons that doesn't exist.""There is no such thing as an unlawful enemy combatant," he said. "International law has never recognized such a category of persons, and the filing is a welcome sign of America's return to the rule of law and community of nations."
Others said the filing meant the U.S. had no right to hold their clients. Air Force Reserve Maj. David Frakt, an attorney for a young Afghan at Guantanamo, said the new definition means that his client, Mohammed Jawad, gets to go home.
Jawad, now 23, is accused of throwing a grenade in December 2002 that wounded two U.S. soldiers and their translator in a Kabul market. The Pentagon, however, has never alleged that he was associated with either Taliban or al Qaida. Now, Frakt said, the allegations against Jawad amount to "an alleged domestic crime under Afghanistan law. There is no basis for the U.S. military to detain him."
While Amnesty International hailed the filing as "a strong symbolic gesture," other human rights groups said it changed little.
"It appears on first reading that whatever they call those they claim the right to detain, they have adopted almost the same standard (as) the Bush administration . . . with one change, the addition of the word 'substantially' before the word 'supported.'" the Center for Constitutional Rights said in a written statement. "This is really a case of old wine in new bottles."
The American Civil Liberties Union also criticized Friday's filing, calling it "a half-step in the right direction."
"It is critical that the administration promptly narrow the category for individuals who can be held in military detention so that the U.S. truly comports with the laws of war and rejects the unlawful detention power of the past eight years," ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said in a written statement.
That position was echoed by Seattle attorney Joe McMillan, who defended Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, in federal and military courts.
Despite the absence of the term "enemy combatants" in Friday's filing, "the position set forth by the Department of Justice is quite similar to the position adopted by the Bush administration,'' McMillan said.The Obama administration position, he said, "very much contemplates the existence of 'enemy combatants' and justifies detention at Guantanamo on that basis under the laws of war."
Proponents of the continued detention of those held at Guantanamo found themselves on opposite sides of the dispute. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said he was "pleased that the Obama administration decided essentially to affirm the Bush administration's definition of who can be detained."
However, the former commander of the USS Cole, which was attacked by al Qaida, denounced the filing. "The president, in his search for justification to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, has now changed and lowered the standards for detaining terrorists; thereby setting the stage to justify their transfer and release," said retired Navy Cmdr. Kirk Lippold.
The Justice Department filing doesn't give the prisoners a specific designation. They aren't described as prisoners of war or enemy combatants, both categories of war prisoners under the Geneva Convention. The Bush administration created the term "unlawful enemy combatant" to remove detainees from the protections of international law.
A Justice Department official said on Friday that, for now, they're just considered "detainees."
At the Pentagon, a spokesman for the Guantanamo war court declined to comment on whether the decision to abandon the term "enemy combatant" would spell an end to military commissions.
"As you know, there are a series of comprehensive interagency reviews of all policies and procedures related to detainees," said commission spokesman Joe Dellavedova. "Until those reviews are complete, it would be inappropriate to comment."
Still, Friday's actions put a little more flesh on the bones of Obama's approach to terrorism suspects, according to some legal experts.
"What's important about it is it's a plan on how they will evaluate Guantanamo detainees and future detainees," said Eugene R. Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale University. "It sets the bar higher than it had been set in the Bush administration."
Obama in January signed an executive order to close Guantanamo within a year and ban the CIA from operating other detention facilities.
Friday's filing seeks more time to unravel the enemy combatant policy that evolved in the Bush administration, and in the courts. Attorney General Eric Holder noted in a separate affidavit that he's leading an effort to close the prison camps in Obama's first year in office.
"The reviews addressing the disposition of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and the vital issue of detention policy are ongoing," Holder wrote. "Important and difficult legal, diplomatic and national security issues are at stake."
A McClatchy investigation, Guantanamo: Beyond The Law
With Guantanamo closing, where will the detainees go?
Britain appeals to U.S. for 'swift' release of Guantanamo detainee
Judge allows restraint chair use in Guantanamo force feedings
U.S. stand on Guantanamo documents angers British
Al Qaida victims dueling among themselves over Guantanamo
9/11 families applaud Obama at meeting on Guantanamo


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The bad news is we have another delay because I have to have the server re-deployed. As I was working on the install, I realized the data center had deployed the wrong server. We're wanting a cloud server that has scalable resources, and they gave us a standalone server. So I have to have it re-deployed with the requested specifications as a cloud server.
The good news is that I didn't encounter anything significant along the way in terms of hurdles, and so once I have my hands on the right server, I expect it to continue going well getting the base install done. I got so much further, and faster, than with any of the old LJ codebase reinstallations we've had to do over the years. So that is a really good sign.
So, it's a delay, but it isn't one that is particularly ominous for the long term. It's just a huge inconvenience for everyone.
But, we'll get there.
Thanks again, everyone!


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After 16 months of carnage in Syria, enough evidence and reports of systematic brutality and crimes against humanity exist to send the case to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, according to diplomats. The reports, including names of Syrian officials and details on massacres, amount to a mass tipping point, they say, and allow a "referral" by the UN Security Council to the ICC that would result in indictments.
Yet an ICC referral requires the agreement of Russia and China, which seems unlikely as the Syria conflict has become a global standoff between Moscow and Western and Arab states led by the US.
This week, France's top human rights diplomat told the Monitor there is "definitely" enough evidence of Syrian war crimes and torture to refer the case: "The raw material is there," says Ambassador François Zimeray.
President Hollande and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insist the prosecution of war crimes is not a matter of if, but when. Last week, as host of a Paris summit of Friends of the Syrian People, French president François Hollande made it his first order of business to pledge "no impunity for crimes" by Syrian leaders. The US State Department has collected war crimes evidence since spring 2011.
Mr. Zimeray described Syria as an "endless Guernica" after visiting its border this year, and told the Monitor that after four years and 97 trips to world trouble spots, he had never encountered "such cruelty, cruelty inside of violence … that is manifest in the criminal attitude of [Assad's] regime."
Yet, even as various tribunals at The Hague this week marked progress – the first verdict coming from the ICC in the Lubanga child soldiers trial, and the first witness testimony in the trial of Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic – the wheels of justice on Syria are tangled in conflicting interests by emerging world power blocs.
"Russia and China are the hurdles, definitely," says Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch, which this month published a report describing an "archipelago" of some 27 torture centers around Syria, including locations and the names of at least half of the commanding officers in charge of them.
While a war crimes investigation might not have an immediate impact on the conflict, the fact that enough evidence exists amid ongoing atrocities is a point diplomats feel can play a role in the court of world opinion, if not in Moscow or Beijing.
The concept of international justice in ad hoc tribunals on Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and now embodied in the ICC, has been criticized as weak, sometimes counterproductive, and slow. ICC indictments have tended to center on African warlords, giving it a "North-South" bias. The US, Israel, India, and many Arab nations are not signatories.
The UN has in the past referred Libya's Muammar Qaddafi and Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir to the ICC. But Syria has now come to represent a case of Russia's Vladimir Putin playing cards in a larger game. A Security Council referral is likely to occur only as part of satisfying broader goals that Mr. Putin has in mind, analysts say.
"What makes Syria a hinge-moment is that Russia and China are proving that they have no strategic interest in transitions beyond dictatorship," wrote Michael Ignatieff in a New York Review of Books blog yesterday. "Both Russia and China see Syria not through the prism of international peace and security or human rights, but through the logic of their own despotism. For Putin, Syria is Chechnya; for China it is Tibet."
The Yugoslav tribunal was set up during the conflict in 1993, partly, critics said at the time, in order to assuage the conscience of world leaders that something was being done in the midst of Serb aggression. Like Syria, the Balkans conflict was seen as a symbolic moment of clashing forces and values after the cold war.
But the UN agreement took place at a time of Soviet transition, a time that Mr. Putin has said is a humiliation he will not repeat in tending to Russian interests.
Defectors could provide key information
The Syrian story continues to evolve as the Syrian ambassador to Iraq, Nawas Fares, has defected, days after another important defector, Gen. Manaf Tlass, formerly a member of the Assad family circle. Both men are seen as potential gold mines of inside information for a war crimes investigation.
French Syrian experts like Fabrice Balanche say that Mr. Fares is a more significant transitional player than Mr. Tlass, since he has a political base in the east of Syria, was a top official there during the rule of Hafez al-Assad, Bashir Assad's father, and has respect as ambassador to Iraq, a key state in the region.
"The resignation of the Syrian ambassador in Iraq is very important, far more than the defection of Tlass," says Mr. Balanche, of the University of Lyon. "This ambassador is a Sunni who comes from the region of Al Bukamal, in the Eastern part of Syria … and is part of an important tribe straddling Syria and Iraq. He could play a role in the political transition."
Moreover, if the ICC is seen as weak and ineffectual, the blame for this is not to be thrown on the court, says Mark Ellis, director of the International Bar Association in London. The ICC, like the UN that established it, is merely an extension of the political will and sensibility of the world powers that make it up.
"The ICC doesn't have an army or police force. It can only act with the support of the international community," Mr. Ellis argues. "So when we hear a focus on the perceived weakness of the court, this is not the ICC's fault. The Security Council gives the ICC its jurisdiction."
"We are preparing for a [Syria] trial that will happen," says Zimeray. "This is not a belief, it's a conviction, and what I heard at the Friends of Syria meeting in Paris convinced me the international community is dedicated to punish the perpetrators. This is an improvement, and would not have been the case 20 years before."
In the wake of the Lubanga verdict, the French newspaper of record, Le Monde, argued enthusiastically in a front page editorial that the ICC has begun to show results 10 years into its development, and, despite being alternately "too timid or too aggressive," has become "an essential instrument" in world affairs.


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Recent News
February 27, 2014
California Firm Recalls Canadian Liver Pâté Products Produced Without Import Inspection
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of Canadian liver pâté products which were produced without the benefit of full USDA inspection.
The following Sun Hing Foods, Inc., products are subject to recall: [View Labels]
- 2.75-oz. and 4.76-oz. packages of "FLOWER ® BRAND, LIVER PÂTÉ / PÂTÉ DE FOIE" bearing case code "215960."
- 4.76-oz. packages of "FORTUNE ® BRAND, LIVER SPREAD / PÂTÉ DE FOIE" bearing case code "215960."
Packages will bear the Canadian establishment number "265."
The products were distributed into commerce in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia.
The full product listing can be found at www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2014/recall-017-2014-release.


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Webgame Wednesday: Art Game
Is Art Game a game, a joke, an experience, a comment on the modern art scene, all of the above? Yes. You start by choosing your artist, a male or a female, and then leaping head-first into the cutthroat world of modern art. First, you must create your minimalist masterpieces. This is accomplished though a mini-game whose mechanics should be familiar to longtime gamers. Next, you've got to choose the paintings for your exhibit. Will it be a success or a failure? Oh, fickle muse!