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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) -- A local Grand Junction woman said she is be ostracized after publicly speaking about her use of medical marijuana and her support of Amendment 64.
Ladonna Lee spoke with KKCO 11 News two weeks ago about using medicinal marijuana to treat her multiple sclerosis symptoms. She said since her interview aired, all of her physical therapy services through Mesa County Health and Human Services have been cut off.
"As soon as they saw my TV interview, they stopped all my benefits," Lee said. "The nurses who come to stretch me for atrophy stopped; the lady who comes to fill my pill box stopped. I can't believe they're going to crucify me for telling the truth."
Lee said for the last ten years, a physical therapist would come to her home three times each week to stretch her since she spends most of her time in a wheelchair, but not anymore.
Lee said she asked her case worker at Mesa County Health and Human Services what was going on.
"She told me nobody would help me, and I said, 'why?' and she said it's because of my choice of medicinal uses," Lee said.
Karen Martsolf, public information officer for Mesa County Health and Human Services said the department does not monitor the media to determine eligibility for programs.
"Eligibility for adult service programs is based on functional and financial eligibility," Martsolf said in a statement to KKCO 11 News. "The decisions we would make in Ms. Lee's case are no different than in any other case."
Lee, however, said she is concerned there's more to it and believes the community is trying to silence people in support of Amendment 64 and medical marijuana use.
"I thought this was America and I was safe, but if I say something and everybody else doesn't agree, apparently they really can harm me even if I'm not doing anything wrong," Lee said.
Lee has been using medicinal marijuana to treat her MS since first getting a license in 2000.
"I'm always, always in pain, and I did medical marijuana, and I didn't have the pain," Lee said. "I thought how can this be bad? How can something that stops pain I've been in since I was 24 be a bad thing?"


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How to Explain Free Trade in Less Than Three Minutes
The professionally ignorant (and I'm thinking here of Lou Dobbs, among others) never "get it" about trade. They think it's some complex swindle, in which we deny ourselves "jobs," or that it should be about being "fair" or "balanced." They don't see how free trade creates prosperity and peace. I was inspired by the outstanding trade economist Doug Irwin of Dartmouth to explain what goes on when people trade. The challenge was to explain international trade in under 3 minutes. So here's the result in 2:57: The Great Prosperity Machine.
Share it with your favorite protectionist, or with professors and teachers. (There's more information at AtlasNetwork.org/BastiatLegacy.)
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Visiting the Pennsylvania Amish in Lancaster County
Amish buggy rides, attractions, tours, crafts & food throughout PA Dutch Country.
The Pennsylvania Amish of Lancaster County are America's oldest Amish settlement, where thousands still live a centuries-old "Plain" lifestyle. Arriving in Amish Country allows you to step back in time to enjoy a slower, more peaceful pace – one where the horse & buggy remains a primary form of transportation, and where windmills dot the landscape, providing power harnessed from nature. Always a vital part of Lancaster County culture, the PA Amish are involved in agriculture as well as an array of businesses and cottage industries.
When you visit Lancaster County be sure to take a tour of the Pennsylvania Amish countryside –you can even do it in an Amish horse and buggy. Afterwards, explore the many Amish-themed attractions, and events, shop for hand-made Amish crafts, and chow down on some authentic PA Dutch cooking.
Learn more about all there is to do in Amish Country by using the links below.
Lancaster County Amish Tours
Online Business
(717) 314-6290
Personalized tours and transportation service.
Old Windmill Farm
262 Paradise Lane, Ronks, PA 17572
(717) 687-7929
An authentic working Amish dairy farm in Lancaster County, PA
Amish Village
199 Hartman Bridge Road, Ronks (Strasburg), PA 17572
(717) 687-8511
Experience today's Amish lifestyle with a guided farmhouse tour; then explore our 12-acre village grounds.
Abe's Buggy Rides
2596 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird-in-Hand, PA 17505
(717) 392-1794
Why ride with strangers when you can have a private tour in your own authentic Amish buggy? We have many satisfied repeat customers.
Amish Country Buggy Rides
3023 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird-in-Hand, PA 17505
Three great tours from which to choose. We accept all major credit cards. Free refreshments available for all of our riders. Free pony rides for kids 12 and under with any of our tours. Meet our great Amish drivers.
AAA Buggy Rides at Kitchen Kettle Village
3529 Old Philadelphia Pike (Rt. 340), Intercourse, PA 17534
(717) 989-2829
Take our famous 5-mile Covered Bridge Ride, a 4-mile country ride through the Amish farmland or our Original Ride Around Town!
Ed's Buggy Rides
253 Hartman Bridge Road, Ronks, PA 17572
(717) 687-0360
Right across the street from Sight & Sound Theatre. Tours through historic Amish farmlands, where you'll see the everyday routine of the Amish from an authentic Amish buggy.
The Amish Experience at Plain & Fancy Farm
3121 Old Philadelphia Pike (Rt. 340), Bird-in-Hand, PA 17505
(717) 768-8400
Guided Amish house and one-room school tour, "Jacob's Choice" special effect, five-screen Amish film, Guided Amish farmland shuttle-bus tours. Super Saver Package includes all three at great discount. Also, exclusive Amish Visit-in-Person Tour: meet three authentic Amish households on one tour.
Aaron and Jessica's Buggy Rides
3121 Old Philadelphia Pike (Rt. 340), Ronks, PA 17572
(717) 768-8828
Spectacular four-mile or longer tours available. Visit inside a real Amish house and barn.
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster, PA 17602
(717) 393-9745
A wonderful source for Pennsylvania German history, genealogy, and material culture. Includes museum exhibit, "Decorated and Plain: A Mennonite and Amish Sampler."
Old Order Amish Tours
63 Eastbrook Road, Route 896 North, Ronks, PA 17572
(717) 299-6535
Our tours are authentic, private, not commercial, and are respectful to our Amish friends.
Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum
2451 Kissel Hill Road, Lancaster, PA 17601
(717) 569-0401
Largest Pennsylvania Dutch Living History Farm & Village in the country, interpreting Pennsylvania German Heritage from 1740-1940, including tours and traditional craft demonstrations.
Small Towns & Northern Countryside explore the region
Amish Farm and House
2395 Covered Bridge Drive, Lancaster, PA 17602
(717) 459-0721
Lancaster County's original and longest running Amish Farmhouse tour. Learn more about the Old Order Amish. Afterwards, explore our farm – complete with over a dozen types of farm animals, a one-room Amish schoolhouse, and many other activities.
Mennonite Information Center
2209 Millstream Road, Lancaster, PA 17602
(717) 299-0954 (800) 858-8320
We provide authentic information on Amish and Mennonite faith and culture with maps and brochures of the area. Ask about our step-on-guide custom tours.
Strasburg Scooters
246 N. Decatur Street, Strasburg, PA 17579
(717) 344-2488
Explore the Lancaster County countryside on your own scooter. There's a postcard in every turn!
Make-A-Friend Workshop & Doll Shop
Kitchen Kettle Village, 3529 Newport Road, Intercourse, PA 17534
(717) 354-2860
A is for Amish Buggy Rides
Red Caboose, 312 Paradise Lane, Ronks, PA 17572
(717) 725-8664


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Dylan Penn Gossip
Dylan Penn gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Smutty Social Media, Friday November 6, 2015
AKM-GSI / Splash News
Robert Downey Jr. wishes his wife a happy birthday, and I'm getting shades of Justin Timberlake. It takes a confident woman to partner up with a big headed fella...Susan Downey, I'm grateful you were born. #HBDSD Full Story
Single Sean Penn on Father's Day
AKM-GSI/ Splash News
Here's Sean Penn with daughter Dylan yesterday for Father's Day. It's the first photo we have of him since news broke that he and Charlize Theron are over. Or, more specifically, since news broke that Charlize doesn't want to picture him - and have him - on top of her anymore. My favourite game Full Story
Is Justin Bieber the new Rob Lowe?
Uhhhhh… There's a feature in the April issue of VOGUE: Meet Hollywood's New Brat Pack. Before we talk about the new Brat Pack, can we review the ORIGINAL 80s Brat Pack? Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy… And they HATED the label at the time. Full Story
Between Kristen Stewart and Dylan Penn
Splash, Pacific Coast News
Here's Robert Pattinson leaving the gym yesterday after training with Harley Pasternak. And also photos of him heading out of Chateau Marmont the other night. He's been wearing that beanie for years. Do you think it's the same one? I keep losing toques. How do people keep their toques for so long? Pattinson was spotted leaving his house with Kristen Stewart just over a week ago. Full Story
Pattinson, Penn, and PEOPLE
Splash, Jason Merritt/ Getty
PEOPLE is now reporting that Dylan Penn is indeed Robert Pattinson's new girlfriend. On Wednesday it was LIFE & STYLE that identified Penn at Pattinson's side a few weeks ago at the Viper Room. Amazingly, it's not full of sh-t. Full Story


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Why Unilever is betting on open innovation for sustainability
Two Steps Forward
Why Unilever is betting on open innovation for sustainability
What happens when global companies look outside their walls for sustainable innovation? They sometimes find it.
That's the bet Unilever is making, based on its announcement last week that it was launching an online platform offering experts the opportunity to help the company find the technical solutions it needs to achieve its ambition of doubling the size of its business while reducing its environmental impact.
Open innovation isn't exactly new, and Unilever -- which just this week was named No. 1 in corporate sustainability for the second consecutive year by a global survey -- isn't the first to harness it in the quest for sustainability solutions. For example, I wrote recently about the design firm IDEO's challenge to use open innovation and crowdsourcing as a means of rejuvenating cities. Unilever has been using open innovation for years, and in 2009 established an open innovation unit to work with outside partners.
But Unilever's recent efforts go an extra step, perhaps unprecedented, by publishing a list of its "wants" -- a dozen key areas in which the company is seeking help. That strikes me as a bold move, broadcasting to the world the areas in which it wants to innovate. The list includes some broad topics -- better packaging, safe drinking water -- as well as some specifics -- sustainable washing, preserving food.
All of these efforts sync with Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan, set in late 2010, which set ambitious goals, including sourcing 100 percent of agricultural raw materials sustainably by 2015; changing the hygiene habits of 1 billion people in Asia, Africa and Latin America to help reduce diarrhea, the word's second biggest cause of infant mortality; making drinking water safer in developing countries; and improving living standards by working with agencies such as Oxfam and the Rainforest Alliance to link 500,000 smallholders and small-scale distributors to the Unilever supply chain.
I recently caught up with Roger Leech, Open Innovation Portfolio & Scouting director at Unilever, to find out what was behind the company's most recent announcement: Why it is harnessing open innovation, the rationale behind publishing its "wants," and what the company is learning about innovation along the way.
I started by asking him what drove Unilever toward open innovation around sustainability: Has the company's ambitions grown, is it having trouble finding solutions on its own, or has the nature of innovation simply changed?
Leech chose the last of those three. "Previously, many businesses used to internalize the research-and-development opportunity," he explained. "Of course, now there are a lot more people outside individual companies to actually devise new technologies and new ideas. The targets that we have in the Sustainable Living Plan are quite challenging and we recognize that we need to look as much externally as we can to find solutions to those challenges. If we can find those in a timely fashion and get partnerships in place then we have a far better opportunity of actually delivering the plan."
I told him I was struck by the company's revelation of a dozen of the areas where it was seeking ideas -- that it seemed rather bold and perhaps risky.
"We had a lot of internal discussions about exactly that," he said. "However, we do recognize that the only way we can really find the right solutions is to actually spend the time and effort defining what you want to find. One of the critical components is looking at the top priority requirements for the business, and then putting them out there so people can see them. And that's probably a good thing because it shows how difficult some of these challenges are. It's not easy to actually change consumer behavior to use less water or less energy. So we need creative people outside to help us succeed with some of these challenges. There are a lot of very bright people out there who have a lot of very good ideas."
Of course, simply getting ideas from outsiders isn't a key to success. In fact, it's the first step in a longer journey. "The idea is the first and easiest part of the solution," Leech explained. "What you need to do then is start a partnership to develop those ideas into the technologies that can actually be applied. It's never a straightforward process to find an idea and turn it straight into an innovation in the market. It's very much a case of looking at the right ideas and looking at the technologies and the capabilities needed to develop those into something that can be taken into the market."
In some cases, it takes a village -- or, at least, a small bevy collaborators -- to bring innovations to market. Take PureIt, Unilever's water purification system, sold in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and other countries. Creating a low-cost means to provide potable water involved partnerships with India's National Institute of Design and National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Tata Group's Tata Elxsi engineering subsidiary and Ernst & Young. Ensuring its safety meant bringing in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore, India, as well as public health engineers in Kolkata and the Indian Public Health Association. "As you can see, there was a wide range of partners required," says Leech.
It may sound like a long, messy, hit-or-miss process, but that's innovation -- it's rarely simple, quick or straightforward. For companies that get good at it -- that learn how to engage a diverse range of outside players in a targeted way -- the payoffs can be considerable. In Unilever's case, fully 60 percent of the projects in its innovation pipeline came through its open innovation process.
Will the new sustainability portal yield a similarly rich lode of ideas and technologies? It's only been one week, but the initial results are encouraging. "We're very pleased at the response to date, both on the number and the quality," says Leech. "There have been some really good suggestions that we'll definitely follow up on and look to for partnership agreements."
Here's hoping some of those ideas make Unilever's shareholders very, very rich.


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There is much to be read into the hiring of tight ends coach/recruiting coordinator Todd Stroud at Colorado State.
First of all, Rams coach Steve Fairchild dropped a casual remark recently that all the staff members who were at the school previously are tired of hearing themselves talk about 1990's. Maybe he wanted some geographical balance.
Stroud, a Florida State alum with extensive SEC and ACC ties, joins a staff that includes five ex-CSU players: Fairchild, offensive coordinator Pat Meyer, running backs coach Anthoney Hill, wide receivers coach Dan Hammerschmidt and quarterback coach Daren Wilkinson. Additionally, football operations director Tom Ehlers is an ex-Ram player and assistant.
Next, it shows the increased influence of Meyer, who coached with Stroud at Florida State and North Carolina State. Obviously this is network hiring, much like when defensive coordinator Larry Kerr brought defensive line coach Scott Brown with him from Duke to Fort Collins.
One more possible angle: With his Sunshine State roots, Stroud might be able to help Meyer even further boost CSU's already significant recruiting presence in central Florida.


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By: Shelby Soltau '16
SANTA CLARA, Calif. –
With eight other freshmen on the Santa Clara University women's soccer roster, goalkeeper Andi Tostanoski hopes to make an impact on the team in her first collegiate season. Tostanoski is still in the process of recovering from her groin injury that happened in a game nine months ago. "It has been a grueling process to recover from but the experience was incredibly motivating," said Tostanoski. She took one month off of playing so that she could recover all of the muscles in her groin.
After this, Tostanoski was able to do strengthening exercises and cardio workouts before she could eventually get back out on the field in games again. She was unable to attend a national team camp due to this groin injury which really pushed her to work even harder to recover so that she could be eligible to attend the next camp if the opportunity is presented to her.
In her spare time, Tostanoski enjoys volunteer work. She has spent about 200 hours as a volunteer soccer coach for the past few years. Tostanoski works with kids from age four to high school students and really enjoys the personal interactions with the young athletes. She is an athlete that inspires others, but there are also many people who inspire her on the field as well.
Tostanoski finds encouragement from some of her older teammates who she looks up to. Senior midfielder Meleana Shim inspires Tostanoski through her leadership of the soccer team. Junior midfielder Allie Vernon is motivational for Tostanoski because of her hard work and ability to always stay positive through challenging situations. Finally, junior midfielder Julie Johnston leads by example and is always critical of her team and of herself. These motivators help Tostanoski create her own goals in order to help her team.
Tostanoski's main focus in games is "distribution and communication." As a goalkeeper, Tostanoski gets a front row view of everything going on in the game. She aspires to effectively connect herself with the team through words in order to take some pressure off her teammates.
So far, she loves being at SCU and says the team has been very welcoming to her and all of the other freshmen. "They understand that I'm a freshman and that I'm going to make mistakes, but they also challenge me to be the best player I can be," said Tostanoski.
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You shall fear the Lord your God and you shall serve him, and you shall keep close to him and you shall swear by his name. Deuteronomy 10:20
Keep Close – Moses instructs the people to keep close to HaShem. How close? Inquiring minds want to know. Once you see the Hebrew word here, the picture becomes clear. The word is davaq. You will find it in Genesis 2:24. How close does God want you to be to Him? As close as a husband is to his wife. God wants you to cling to him as tightly as if you were married.
In case you haven't already considered the imagery, the biblical view of our relationship to God is frequently cast in terms of marriage. Why? Marriage is the divinely ordained pinnacle of human relationship. It is the deliberate decision to turn myself over to another, to reveal my deepest sense of identity and purpose to someone who accepts the responsibility of person-care. It is the practice field for understanding and experiencing my divine relationship with God.
Of course, that means that God uses marriage to prune me. He establishes the covenant of marriage as a means of confronting me with my self in order that I may become myself. My mate is my perfect enemy, the one who will not let me escape into denial, run away to fantasy, refuse to confront failure or lash out in anger. In God's plan, my mate is me in another form. If the two of us are to become one, I will have to look pretty hard at myself in order to bond with another. There is a hard edge to marriage that I can't avoid. That's why it's supposed to be a life-long commitment. It will probably take that long for me to get my rough edges smoothed.
Fortunately, by divine decree and heavenly engineering, there is the other side of this arrangement. There is joy, peace and companionship. There is discovering who I am in the love of another. That is also a picture of clinging to God.
The difference between marriage and my relationship to God is only this: God manages His side of the relationship perfectly. He provides perfect peace, unrelenting love and eternal faithfulness. He also never enables, never stops reminding me of the faults I must confront and never forgets to push me toward conformity to His Son. My relationship to my spouse may sometimes falter, sometimes be side-tracked, sometimes hit a wall, because we are both sinners. But my relationship with God never collapses because of Him. The more that I cling to Him, the more He will lead me toward myself. The more I become what He designed me to be, the more my life will reflect Who He is. God is glorified in me when I am stuck on Him. The more I want companionship, peace and joy, the more I have to let my spouse (and God!) tear me apart. In marriage, both aspects come together.
Moses tells the people, "Keep close to Him." He uses marriage imagery on purpose. If you thought of God as your spouse, how might that change you? If you don't think of God as your spouse, what does that say about how you behave toward Him?
Friday, October 10, 2008
You shall fear the Lord your God and you shall serve him, and you shall keep close to him and you shall swear by his name. Deuteronomy 10:20
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- Thanks for looking over the article. I hate to disappoint, but there isn't going to be a children's section. The "under construction" thing was intended as my way of showing that the site was made using sweatshop labour. Also, notice that it's a "children" section, not "childswear". I'm aware that that joke is too subtle for my own good, but I didn't want to actually write that subpage. I might have to expand on the joke. -- 15Mickey20 (talk to Mickey) 16:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
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Would it be too fad/même based to insert a foot note noting that the cake is a lie? Hmmm...no article on the game Portal to link to anyway, yet... – Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.104.22.168 (talk • contribs)
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Damn, epic sweatshop article. Very well written.
- Thanks. In case you didn't already notice, you can click the links on the right and explore the menswear, ladieswear sections etc. A few people have missed those in the past. -- 15Mickey20 (talk to Mickey) 17:35, January 5, 2011 (UTC)


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DirectTradeMotors needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 16 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
We need a nice simple advert for a free report made up. Not related to the company, just for people who are looking at buying a used car.
Buying a Used Car?
Send for this Free Report ……..
"How to Buy a Used Car Ensuring Trouble Free Motoring
and Avoid the 6 Most Costly Mistakes Many People Make"
Email email@example.com
Or phone 0800 50 30 30 and leave your name and telephone number
Do it now to save you aggro and $100's if not $1000's
- Colour scheme must be simple yet attention grabbing and effective.
- Must use colours
Need to keep all use of upper and lower case as written, but everything else is open for suggestion!


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The New York Times reports today:
Japan's rural areas have been paved over and filled in with roads, dams and other big infrastructure projects, the legacy of trillions of dollars spent to lift the economy from a severe downturn caused by the bursting of a real estate bubble in the late 1980s. During those nearly two decades, Japan accumulated the largest public debt in the developed world — totaling 180 percent of its $5.5 trillion economy — while failing to generate a convincing recovery.
This should not be news to any responsible law maker. Heritage Senior Research Fellow Ron Utt wrote in October of 2001:
The United States was not the only country to experience an economic downturn in 1991 as the Gulf War and its impact on energy prices and business confidence depressed commerce worldwide. Although the negative impact on the U.S. economy was brief and shallow, the effect in Japan was much more severe, exacerbated by that country's highly leveraged and overextended financial system and inefficient service, agriculture, and distribution sectors.
Beginning in 1991-1992, Japan adopted the spending approach now advocated by many in the U.S. Congress when it embarked on a massive nationwide program of infrastructure investment. Between 1992 and 2000, Japan implemented 10 separate spending stimulus packages in which public infrastructure investment was a major component.
Combined with increases in other government spending programs, Japan's efforts to spend its way to prosperity led to substantial increases in government spending as a share of GDP. … Japan's failed policies had severe negative consequences for its economy and citizens. …[M]easured in inflation-adjusted GDP growth, Japan went from being a high-growth country in the 1980s to a slow-growth country during the 1990s. … For the average Japanese citizen, the chief consequence of this economic underperformance has been both a relative and an absolute decline in the nation's standard of living, defined by per capita GDP as measured by the World Bank and adjusted for differences in purchasing power parity (PPP).
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… proponents of Keynesian-style stimulus spending in the United States say that Japan's approach failed to accomplish more not because of waste but because it was never tried wholeheartedly. They argue that instead of making one big push to pump up the economy with economic shock therapy, Japan spread its spending out over several years, diluting the effects.
Most Japanese economists have tended to take a bleaker view of their nation's track record, saying that Japan spent more than enough money, but wasted too much of it on roads to nowhere and other unneeded projects.
Dr. Ihori of the University of Tokyo did a survey of public works in the 1990s, concluding that the spending created almost no additional economic growth. Instead of spreading beneficial ripple effects across the economy, he found that the spending actually led to declines in business investment by driving out private investors. He also said job creation was too narrowly focused in the construction industry in rural areas to give much benefit to the overall economy.
Back to Utt in 2001:
Although Congress is split over whether the stimulus package should be comprised of tax cuts or spending increases or some combination of both, lessons derived from such past efforts at home and abroad demonstrate that strategies relying on increased spending will fail. Indeed, such lessons also suggest that such strategies make things worse by diverting scarce resources away from productive use in the private sector.


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Asphalting of 10-km road launched in Samangan
Asphalting of 10-km road launched in Samangan
AIBAK (Pajhwok): Construction work on a 10 kilometres road, costing $1.5 million, has been launched by Sweden in northern Samangan province, an official said on Sunday.
Director of Public Works Eng. Zia Hamyoon told Pajhwok Afghan News the road would connect the capital of Samangan through Khuram Sarbagh district with Roi Du Aab.
He said asphalting of the eight metres wide road would be completed in eight months. The project includes an 870 metres concrete wall to protect the road from river water.
Qari Abdullah Mowahid, Khuram district's administrative chief, said with the construction of the road, about 150,000 residents would benefit from good transport facilities.
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This section provides a vast array of resources to support teachers and pupils in schools learning about food and nutrition.
Board games - From farm to fork and Food route board games
Worksheets - worksheets looking at food around the world, hygiene and safety, the human body, growing and harvesting, cooking processes and equipment, shopping and growth/change;
Food cards - sets of food cards that can be printed and laminated;
Posters - PDF posters for the classroom;
ICT resources - word and excel templates for recipes, flowcharts, weight and percentage calculations and budgeting;
CAD and CAM resources - a guide to implemeting CAD and CAM resources in your classroom;
How to.. - instructions for performing a variety of tasks;
Energy and nutrients - case studies for secondary school pupils on different aspects of energy and nutrients;
Experiment sheets - ideas for experiments in the classroom;
Product analysis - worksheets to assist product analysis;
Sensory evaluation - how to conduct sensory evaluation tests;
Smart foods - explore smart foods in the classroom;
Are you drinking plenty? - a poster and guide to chart how much pupils are drinking;
What can you see? - a poster and guide with ideas for how to use the resource;
Multi-purpose teaching resource - a guide and 3 ideas of ways to use the resource;
mywellbeing - a teachers guide for the online diet and physical activity analysis tool.


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WytzeNL needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 21 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
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For a new e-book store we are launching a need a logo.
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Here we would like to have a funny picture. Basically the concept is, that by reading our books you can absorb a lot of info without reading big books. So we want a picture here explaining that
Here we would like to see our branding logo. This will also be used in our ebooks.
We would like our domain name lazyreading.com merged in the logo.
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They were one of my favorite groups, and they only have one album unfortunately. I collect a lot of their posters, CD's, promo stuff, and I even bought this website domain (newradicals.com) which used to be their web address. I'm probably their biggest remaining fan on the planet. Here's a promo bumper sticker the band (or record company) used to give out with this web address on it:
I promise that someday I will show all of my stuff online in a cool website dedicated to them.
If you're also a huge fan who collects a lot of rare memorabilia of New Radicals, I'd love to hear from you. Contact me at ethanwa [at] me [dot] com.


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Annual to subshrub
Leaves generally basal and cauline, alternate, generally simple; stipules 0
Inflorescence: generally raceme
Flower bisexual; sepals 4, free; petals (0)4, free, generally white or yellow, often clawed; stamens generally (2,4)6, generally 4 long, 2 short; ovary 1, superior, chambers generally 2, septum membranous, connecting 2 parietal placentas, style 1, stigma simple or 2-lobed
Fruit: generally capsule ("silique") with 2 deciduous valves, sometimes breaking transversely or indehiscent
Seeds 1many per chamber
Genera in family: 300+ genera, 3000+ species: worldwide, especially cool regions; some cultivated for food (especially Brassica, Raphanus ) and ornamental
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Capparaceae [Rodman et al. 1993 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 80:686699; Rollins 1993 Cruciferae of Continental North America. Stanford Univ Press]
Family description, key to genera by Robert A. Price.
ROCK CRESSBiennial, perennial herb; base woody or not; hairs 0 to dense, simple, forked, stellate, or multibranched; caudex branched or not
Stem branched or not, cylindric, leafy
Leaves: basal petioled, entire or dentate; cauline generally sessile, entire or dentate, base often lobed, often clasping stem
Inflorescence: bracts 0
Flower erect to reflexed; sepals erect; petals spoon-shaped to oblong and narrowed at base or narrowly obovate, white to deep purple, rarely straw-colored
Fruit erect to reflexed, linear, straight to curved, flat parallel to septum, rarely ± cylindric
Seeds ± many, generally 1 row per chamber, flat or plump, winged or not; embryonic root at edges of both cotyledons
Species in genus: ± 120 species: temp North America, Eurasia, Africa
Etymology: (Latin: of Arabia)
A. hirsuta (L.) Scop.Biennial, weak per; caudex branched or not; hairs simple or forked, coarse, spreading
Stems 1several, simple or branched above, erect, 27 dm
Leaves: basal short-petioled, 28 cm, oblong to obovate, entire to dentate, tip obtuse; cauline sessile, 15(7) cm, lanceolate to obovate, sagittate, clasping stem
Fruit 36 cm, flat, glabrous; pedicel 0.51.5 cm; hairs 0, rarely sparse; style 0.51 mm
Seed ± round to ± rectangular; wing prominent or narrow on 1 end to 0
Ecology: Gravelly soils, swales, disturbed sites
Elevation: 10002600 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, Outer North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, White and Inyo Mountains
Distribution outside California: to Alaska, e Canada, Colorado
Var. eschscholtziana (Andrz.) Rollins OR to AK, e Asia; var. hirsuta native of Eur, Asia, not in North America.
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Clustered storage will win
Clustered storage is gaining ground with an increasing number of vendors and systems in today's market. Over time, clustered storage will be a requisite architectural design element for all storage systems.
Most storage systems today support some level of clustering. Leading storage system vendors support dual-controller node configurations with active-active or active-passive architectures. However, storage systems that support N-way active architectures scale well beyond dual-node systems. In addition, storage systems with no theoretical limit to how large they can scale have been implemented with 80 or more controller nodes in a single cluster.
So, what does storage clustering bring to the table?
- Just-in-time scalability. Nodes can be added for additional CPU, cache memory and bandwidth. You don't have to buy based on your performance requirements down the road, but you can add resources when you need them.
- Performance protection. Storage systems that have dual nodes are in big trouble if one of the nodes fails because performance will slow down by at least 50%. With a three¬-node controller cluster, the ratio is 33%; with four nodes, it's 25%; with five nodes 20% and so on.
- Single level of management. Although you are adding more physical resources to the cluster, it is still one logical system for you to manage. It remains a single system regardless of how big it gets.
- Lower cost. Since you have already purchased the system, adding another controller node should be significantly less expensive than buying a completely new storage system. Depending on the vendor, you may not have to pay for the system software since you have already purchased it.
- Easy add-on. Adding an additional node to an existing storage cluster is much easier than implementing a whole new storage system. This will depend on the vendor and particular product, but adding a new node to a storage cluster should be an online and transparent process that requires a minimum of planning.
Another type of storage clustering, what I refer to as a management clustering, provides ease of management but not scaleable performance. The goal of management clusters is to simplify the management of the system, which is useful. However, they don't provide the linear scalable performance of a true cluster. One popular approach is to combine two controller nodes that are actually an active-active cluster and then connect this controller node pair to other pairs. There is no aggregation of performance with the other pairs.
Many SAN, NAS and CAS products provide clustering. If you think that clustered storage isn't having an impact on the industry, consider EMC Centera. It is one of the most popular clustered storage systems and has essentially created a new category in storage. A major milestone in clustered storage is the NetApp GX, a NAS storage system that supports dozens of nodes in a single cluster. NetApp jumping into the game validates clustered architectures for primary storage systems.
While this is not a complete list, some SAN clustered storage system vendors include 3ParData, Intransa, LeftHand and Pillar. Some clustered NAS system vendors include BlueArc, EMC, Exanet, Isilon, NetApp, Onstor, Panasas, Pillar, Polyserve, SGI and Terrascale. There are CAS product providers, including Archivas, ByCast, EMC, HDS, HP and Permabit, among others. There are VTL products that support clustered architectures, including Diligent, NearTek and Sepaton. Some of these products support true clustering, while others support management clusters and some a hybrid of both. The IBM SVC is a storage virtualization product that supports management clusters. EqualLogic doesn't call what they do clustering, but it does provide similar value, including scalability and ease of management.
The leading midrange SAN-based storage systems today do not support N-way clustering. Since the big storage vendors are making billions of dollars on these products, there is little motive for them to do so. But, what would happen if one of the big guys woke up and realized that they could have a real competitive advantage over the other big guys? Maybe they could break the tie and become king of the hill. Don't look now, but one of the big guys has already caught on.
About the author: Tony Asaro is the senior analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group.


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Home > News > Cushman & Wakefield Continue with Vigorous Expansion of Their EMEA Property and Asset Management Team
Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) the world's largest privately-held commercial real estate services firm has recruited Tina Reuter as a Partner and Head of EMEA Business Development & Client Management for Property & Asset Management. Based in Frankfurt, she will take up her post in the first quarter of 2013 and will primarily be responsible for Germany, northern Europe, Austria and Switzerland.
Since 2006 Tina Reuter has occupied various senior management posts at Jones Lang LaSalle, latterly as Head of Property Management Germany. She was previously a senior manager for a private-public partnership and project manager for an architects' office.
In February C&W already announced the appointments of Nina Jansen and Andreas Gast as Partners and Heads of Property & Asset Management in Germany. In May the appointment of Richard Davies as Partner and EMEA Head of Retail Property & Asset Management was announced for the fourth quarter this year, and also in the second quarter Sharon French joined us as Partner in our London Property & Asset Management team.
In EMEA, C&W has around 650 Property & Asset Management specialists in 16 countries who are responsible for some 4,000 properties with a total lettable area of some 16 million sq.m.
"In the past twelve months we have made substantial progress in following our expansion strategy for building our Property & Asset Management business in EMEA" said Carlo Barel di Sant'Albano, CEO of Cushman & Wakefield in EMEA. "We will continue to put high priority on further significant expansion in this area."
Markus Reinert, Partner and EMEA Head of Property & Asset Management and Investor Services, added: "We have been successful this year in winning new Property & Asset Management mandates for a total of some 3 million sq.m. With the addition of Tina Reuter we have won an experienced expert for our European team with whom we can further improve our service quality and client management as well as further expanding our market share in this important business segment."
Globally some 7,000 C&W professionals (EMEA: 650) are responsible for some 15,600 properties (EMEA: 4,000) with a total area of some 75 million sq.m. (EMEA: 16 million sq.m.).


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If you didn't know ahead of time, you wouldn't guess that The Clay & Calhoun Sketch Comedierie's first show was Monday night. Despite tech problems that plagued each of the night's performances, Clay & Calhoun put on 15 minutes of tight, well-acted sketches and videos that featured faces familiar to anyone who follows comedy in Philadelphia. Perhaps that's because the man behind the outfit, Vincent DiCostanzo, isn't new to Philly comedy. He's been part of the city's sketch scene since 2003, and in addition to Clay & Calhoun, he's one of the writers for Philadelphia Improv Theater's house sketch team, The Flat Earth.
Vincent led the night with a sketch that tested the limits of an NPR presenter's willingness to stay true to the source material during banned book week. Awkward moments continued through sketches that touched on dating, the news and birthdays, before the set wrapped with Secret Pants' Paul Triggiani on stage to help with a new take on the bit made famous by Abbot and Costello, "Who's on First?"
I spoke to Vincent after the show and then again on Tuesday.
Peter Rambo: How do you think the debut went?
Vincent DiCostanzo: I think, all in all, the show went well. There were some tech set-backs, but you have to accept that some things are out of your control. I jokingly told Hillary [Rea] downstairs that "my set is 90% awkward silence—so the crowd will be nice and warmed up for ya." I didn't realize how accurate I would be. One GOOD thing, though: There was an outro and a credit sequence set to play after "Huckleberry Finn," then I added "Happy Birthday" at the last minute to pad for time and give myself time to change clothes. The tech skipped the credits and jumped right to "Happy Birthday," so it's a good thing I took my shirt off before my pants or the next sketch would have been very awkward, or—awkwarder.
PR: What kind of prior sketch experience do you have?
VD: I started doing sketch comedy back in 2003—or thereabouts—with a group called SKITSoid. It started as part of the Fringe Festival and there were only a handful of shows after that, and I didn't start writing until late in the game. As SKITSoid wound down, I started writing and producing my own work as part of The Gentlemen's Rotary Auxiliary.
PR: And how long have you been working on Clay & Calhoun?
VD: Clay & Calhoun started making its way into my brain just over a year ago. I had a stack of sketches left over after the Gent's Rotary's demise and ideas just kept populating in my brain. I kept going to shows and really missed making comedy. I jumped at the chance to write for a PHIT House Team, now known as The Flat Earth, to get my legs back under me. Unfortunately, halfway though the process, my hours at work changed and I couldn't make as many meetings, rehearsals, etc. That panic and anxiety over the loss of control over my material—which I expected to an extent—lit the fire under my ass. I had challenged myself to start writing sketches that could be performed by one person, but ended up failing at that pretty quickly. I think the only two good ones I came up with were performed Monday night. I've always preferred performing with other people, plus, there are too many voices in my head for a one-man show. I applied for Philly SketchFest on the last day submissions were being accepted to sort of force my own hand.
PR: What are some of the benefits and/or pitfalls of running things by yourself?
VD: Well, I haven't been doing everything myself. When I sat down to start to dive into the work for SketchFest, I invited a few friends over for B.S. sessions. Matthew Schmid, whom I met while working with The Flat Earth, has been at my side the whole time—acting as a sounding board, cheerleader and helping hand. Also, as corny and cliched as it is to say, the comedy community is very supportive. Anyone and everyone I approached for a hand was happy to offer.
PR: So, how many people did you end up working with on Monday's show?
VD: In total, I was able to harness the talents of nine different people—10 if you include Miss Nikki Black whose sketch was cut at the last minute.
PR: Where did the name come from?
VD: Anyone who knows me knows that I am a history junkie. Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun were the two polar stalwarts of 19th century American politics. When he was leaving the Presidency, Andrew Jackson said he had "but one regret: not shooting Henry Clay and not hanging John Calhoun."
PR: Is it hard splitting your time between two sketch entities?
VD: It hasn't been hard yet. The Flat Earth is on a hiatus—which gave me time to work on Clay & Calhoun material. But rumors (and email threads back and forth) have it that The Flat Earth will be starting back up soon. I don't expect it to be too difficult, because as any good parent knows: It's easy to tell which of your children you want to raise on your own, and which you want to give away to be someone else's responsibility. Disclaimer: I am not a parent.
PR: What are some of the difficulties of living in New Jersey and performing in Philadelphia?
VD: Honestly—the parking.
PR: Are you looking forward to any other Sketchfest events?
VD: Unfortunately, I have to work every night this week. So here's what I'm looking forward to regretting that I missed. Specific Jawns: watching Chip Chantry's transformation from stand-up to sketch comedian is like watching a butterfly turn into a butterfly. ManiPedi: Their No More Wire Wangers set blew my mind. What I'm really looking forward to is when I finally have Friday and Saturday nights off: grabbing a seat 15 minutes before the first act of the night and not leaving until after the last.
PR: Do you have any upcoming shows, or anything you'd like us to plug?
VD: Currently, nothing. But I'll let you know ASAP.
You can watch Clay and Calhoun's videos at vimeo.com/vdicostanzo.
Peter Rambo writes and performs with American Breakfast. (Catch them at the next Camp Woods Plus on Thursday, December 6th.) You can follow Peter's quiet Twitter feed via @gunnarrambo.


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New York call center company Verint Systems is buying Kana Software for about $US514 million in cash, the companies announced on Monday.
This is interesting because news also leaked on Monday that Microsoft will buy Kana's competitor Parature for about $US100 million.
Both Kana and Parature offer software for customer service. Their wares do things like host a self-help database where customers can search online for answers to their questions. They also help customer service agents chat with customers online or on the phone.
Verint offers big data analytics tech for call centres and enterprises. Its tech helps them understand how effective their customer service efforts are, and where they need to improve. By adding in the customer service tech from Kana, Verint hopes to take customers service to a new level to "move from data to information to insight to action," says Ray Wang, founder of software consultant Constellation Research, on his popular Software Insider blog.
Kana and Parature compete with Moxie Software and RightNow. RightNow was bought by Oracle in 2011 for $US1.5 billion. We can't help but wonder if Moxie will be acquired soon, too.
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Server revenue down overall; Oracle server hardware loses shareOracle
Gartner reported server revenue and shipment numbers today, and the numbers don't look good for Oracle server hardware. Here's a look at revenue, first off:
Oracle has dropped from the fourth spot last year to the fifth, behind Fujitsu, this year. Gartner reported that x86 server revenue was flat, while Unix servers dropped off a cliff 36% in revenue. Since Oracle is focusing on high-end Sparc Unix servers and appliances, it makes sense that its number suffered. And now for shipments:
As you can see, Oracle isn't even on the chart. Again no surprise, since the company is de-emphasizing volume commodity servers. Any way you cut it, however, the numbers don't look good for Oracle. At the company's most recent quarterly earnings call, executives said it barely missed closing some deal in the last quarter. We'll see if the numbers rebound, but generally they've been on a pace downward.
The Oracle Fusion Applications subway map
Created by the International Oracle User Council (IOUC). Hat tip to this Oracle blog for bringing it to our attention.
Oracle reports down quarter all around
In past quarters, Oracle has had to explain why its hardware revenues continue to slide off a cliff. This quarter, however, revenues are down almost across the board.
Total revenue for the company was down about 1.5% compared to last quarter, and down about 1% compared to the same quarter last year. Even if you were to take hardware revenues off the ledger, the company's revenue was still down compared to last quarter and only up 2% since last year.
Hardware revenue declines are sure to take up the bulk of the media reports. They are down about 8.5% just since last quarter, and down close to 23% compared to the same quarter last year. President Safra Catz said that in part had to do with Sparc customers waiting for new servers to come out before buying.
CEO Larry Ellison has repeatedly said that the company will see "growth in our hardware business" by the end of its fiscal year, which is the end of next quarter. (Edit: Ellison said during today's earnings call that the big hardware turnaround would now happen in the second half of this calendar year…) Ellison may end up being right just because hardware revenues have hit such a long and extended valley. At some point you would think it has to level out and go up again. Its $1.24 billion in hardware systems and support is the lowest since the first quarter of 2010, which non-coincidentally is the same quarter that Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
Here's a quick line graph of Oracle hardware system and support revenues since it acquired Sun:
Oracle vs. HP, part 2- or, why the corporate world still looks a lot like grade school
Regular readers of my blog will probably remember me comparing that whole Oracle vs. HP "thing" to a school-yard scuffle. Well, the kids are at it again- now, HP is wailing on Oracle, Oracle is yelling "mercy!" and no one cares, because, well, it feels good to see a bully get theirs.
At least, that's my analogy of the situation. I'll admit that I took some artistic license there.
Long story short, Oracle attempted last week to end its bitter trial against HP, hoping to appeal the case sooner rather than later and skip the little part of the trial where the judge decides how much and what exactly Oracle owes HP for basically trashing their reputation and attempting to steal their customers (as HP sees it, anyway- Oracle's side of the story is that HP's Itanium chips were simply an inferior product and they chose to forgo supporting them). According to some sources, HP is seeking as much as $4 billion. Is this the Silicon Valley version of taking all the bully's lunch money while the hall monitor holds them down?
Whether it is or not, the judge did not comment as to why they rejected Oracle's petition to end the trial. As a result of this action, however, Oracle will have to wait until after the entire trial ends to appeal anything— and it's likely they will appeal the multiple issues (compensation, guilt, and so on) all at once.
I hate to speculate (ok, that's a lie, I love to speculate), but I wouldn't be at all surprised if with all of Oracle's recent legal battles, they've burned through a large amount of tolerance and sympathy that the US legal system might have for them. It will be interesting to see how the courts treat Oracle in any upcoming legal battles in the next few years.
Oracle releasing a better way to track health and safety issues?
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I worked as a burger flipper at a regional fast food chain. While there, I found countless ways to injure myself, from getting splashed with hot oil to shutting my fingers in the cash register to a very dramatic fall I took slipping on ice cream that a coworker forgot to announce had dropped on the floor while my vision was blocked by a dozen cheeseburgers I was carrying, all of which went flying through the air as I landed flat on my back.
Being 19 and very naive at the time, I didn't think much of reporting any of these incidents to the authorities, much less using my experiences to help the organization I worked for to track their health and safety issues. In fact, I don't think they really cared. Some companies do care, however (or, at very least, want to cover their asses and avoid getting sued), which is why Oracle just introduced the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Integrated and Comprehensive Solution for Health and Safety Incident Management during its annual JD Edwards Summit, currently taking place in Broomfield, Colo.
The first major software company to offer this sort of tracking software, Oracle is touting this as a way for organizations to record and analyze health and safety incidents, with the aim of preventing them in the future. In an online video posted on YouTube, Louise Farner of JD Edwards explains that this tool can be used to track all sorts of variables.
"Our new solution provides a comprehensive way to track health and safety incidents of all kinds—not simply those of injured employees," she said. "You can also track near misses and potential incidents. JD Edwards Health and Safety Incident Management provides for the entire process, from the initial reporting of an incident through reporting it to OSHA and analyzing it to gain valuable insight."
Farner added that the software can track environmental incidents such as chemical spills, as well as track witnesses and equipment involved, among other things. A sister product, One View Reporting for Health and Safety Incident Management, gives additional information on each incident.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Integrated and Comprehensive Solution for Health and Safety Incident Management allows whoever is in charge at the location of the incident to report it via tablet, and then immediately sends emails to "those that need to know" (I'm not sure what that means, but I'm betting HR is involved). It gives you a Google Maps view of where the incident took place, suggests that you indicate whether drug and alcohol testing has been involved and lets you track the projected cost of the incident. It also has a nifty safety scoreboard that displays the number of days since the last incident. Using Oracle BI capabilities, it also allows you to analyze what kinds of incidents are most prevalent.
This all sounds intriguing to me, and I'd be curious to know how well it works from any early adopters out there. If you're using this product or thinking of adopting it, please let me know your thoughts– email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Upcoming Oracle Cloud news?
Just got this message yesterday:
Please join Oracle President Mark Hurd and Oracle Executive Vice President Thomas Kurian for an Oracle Update for the Media. The Conference call will provide a brief recap of Oracle's business strategy and provide an update on Oracle Cloud.
The conference call is Monday afternoon. I'm not sure what the conference call will be about, but I have a couple guesses. Perhaps Oracle will be announcing more functionality with its Oracle Cloud, or maybe more modules will be generally available. Just as likely will be that Oracle will talk about its Eloqua acquisition and how it plans to absorb that company into the fold. Any other guesses?
Big data scientist parses NFL play-by-play data on MySQL
Just in time. The National Football League is holding its conference championship games this weekend, and Scott M. Sawyer has a lot of obscure data about how one team might win over another.
During the day, Sawyer is on staff at MIT's computing and analytics group. His research areas include big data and parallel algorithms. But in his spare time lately, he's been building a web app to parse NFL play-by-play data from 2002 to the present. The result? Some interesting findings:
- Since 2002, running the ball on 4th-and-1 works 71% of the time. It only works 66% of the time if you include pass plays. Conclusion? Run it on 4th-and-1.
- Since 2002, the New England Patriots have scored on 40% of drives when down one score with 5 minutes or less left in the game. League average: 34%.
- The Baltimore Ravens, in their first match-up against the Denver Broncos, actually had more success against the pass than the run, an interesting statistic considering how Peyton Manning is quarterback of the Broncos.
What Sawyer did is, conceptually, fairly simple. He took NFL play-by-play data from 2002 to 2012, which had been compiled into comma-separated value (CSV) files by Brian Burke at Advanced NFL Stats. The files add up to hundreds of thousands of rows in an Excel spreadsheet. Each row represents a play in the NFL that season, and includes which team was on offense, which on defense, what quarter it was, how much time was left in the quarter, and field position. Then there is a cell for the play itself, like this: "(13:13) (Shotgun) 12-T.Brady pass deep left to 34-S.Vereen for 33 yards, TOUCHDOWN."
Sawyer then described what he did with all those CSV files. He spent a few hours writing some Python code, and parsed each row. He filtered out non-offensive plays such as kicks and penalties, determined whether each play was a pass or run, and noted the yardage gained or lost. He then rated each play as a success or a failure. A play was successful if it resulted in a first down, scored a touchdown, or gained at least four yards on 1st or 2nd down.
Sawyer then put all of that data into a MySQL database.
"I don't expect to make money on this project, but I don't want it to cost a lot either," he wrote to me in an email. "I use inexpensive shared hosting, and MySQL is the best choice for delivering stats to a lot of visitors with minimal CPU cycles."
Sawyer added that MySQL is already installed and configured on his web host, and he is using extensive indexing and query caching to reduce the load on the web server.
Though the data was captured in CSV files, some might consider the cells to be big data in part because of the unstructured text descriptions of each play. Sawyer doesn't believe it's there yet. He said the total "text corpus" of plays is about 64MB, which is tiny. He reduced this to about 30MB after parsing the descriptions, but then that went up to 100MB after ingesting it into MySQL and using indexing.
That said, Sawyer is not done. He expects the data to get bigger as he brings in more sources – weather at the game, for example, or the results of analytics.
"If you really want to predict winners, you're going to need a lot more information," he wrote. "But we're not talking terabytes and petabytes anytime soon."
Oracle issues quarterly security patch
Oracle on Tuesday released its quarterly patch update. It includes 86 security fixes and runs the gamut of Oracle products, including database, middleware and applications.
All the fixes address security vulnerabilities that Oracle has rated from 0 to 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, or CVSS. The vulnerabilities in this patch with the highest score – that is, the highest severity – are for Oracle Database and MySQL. The most severe is for Oracle Database Mobile/Lite Server, previously known as just Oracle Database Lite. The risk is rated the highest it can be, at 10, and according to the patch update,"may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e., may be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password."
Other high-severity vulnerabilities are for Oracle Database on Windows, and MySQL on Windows.
Here's the breakdown of all the security fixes:
- Eighteen for MySQL
- Thirteen for Oracle Enterprise Manager
- Twelve for PeopleSoft
- Ten for Siebel
- Nine for E-Business Suite
- Eight for Sun products, seven of which are for Solaris
- Seven for Fusion Middleware
- Five for Oracle Database
- One for JD Edwards
- One for VirtualBox
- One for Oracle Supply Chain Management
The next security patches due out this year are on April 16, July 16 and Oct. 15.
New year, new releases from Oracle
I've sometimes wondered if companies, customers and developers feel like it's New Years' when looking at a new release of an old product. Here's a chance to do everything all over again. Old edition glitchy? Bad user interface on it? Got a big wish-list from the end users? Here's your chance to start over—not unlike New Years.
So, it's not unfitting that Oracle released the latest versions of both Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade Management so soon after the beginning of the new year, on Monday, Jan. 7. The new versions are designed to work with Oracle Fusion Applications, which will be a nice plus for everyone who uses Fusion or those in non-heterogeneous IT shops. Some new features in this version of Oracle Transportation Management include carrier bid optimization and management, fleet management, BI enhancements and new dashboards. Oracle is touting the major benefits of Oracle Transportation Management to be reduced transportation costs, increased customer service levels and improved environmental sustainability (how the heck an ERP system leads to greater environmental sustainability is beyond me, but um, sure, if they say so, I guess).
Oracle markets Oracle Global Trade Management as a first-of-its-kind supply chain management system. That sounds a little more revolutionary than it may be, but at least they aren't suggesting it will reverse the aging process or cure cancer (or lead to greater environmental sustainability, for that matter). This version introduces Oracle Customs Management, which is intended to help users "manage customs clearance screenings," enhanced tariff visibility for duties and taxes and new license management features. Supposed benefits organizations adopting this product might expect include accelerated cash flow, streamlined processes due to automation, better visibility of trade data and most other benefits expected of supply chain management program adoption.
I'd be curious to know if any of our readers are using the newest releases of these two Oracle products. If so, what kind of experience are you having with them? Are they easier to use, less glitchy, more bloated? Have you actually found any indications that they really do lead to greater environmental sustainability? I want to hear about it! Either leave a comment on this blog, or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water…
Oracle's gone and done it again. Just when small cloud-based firms think it's safe to go in the water, Oracle does their best imitation of Jaws and gobbles them right up.
This time, the victim is Eloqua, a multi-national, formerly publically held cloud marketing and marketing automation firm. Eloqua enables users to track the effectiveness of marketing campaigns across different kinds of media and weigh the interest of different sales leads. All the usual talking heads seem to agree that Eloqua was a great catch for Oracle, as marketing is anticipated to take up a large part of the content management industry. Business intelligence is just part of marketing's job nowadays. It's going to be important, even for giants like Oracle, to have the best brains and best technology ready to go in the BI, social CRM and online marketing spaces. Also, online marketing being a growing field, it makes perfect sense for Oracle to start beefing up on that front right now. Additionally, Eloqua had a very impressive client list, including household names as Comcast, Johnson & Johnson and Harvard Business Publishing. It's not like Oracle was hurting for clients or anything, but being able to cross sell to some of these folks almost certainly caused dreams of sugar plums to dance in Larry Ellison's head. True, Eloqua's expenditures have been higher than income over the past few years, but with Oracle's capital, that will be so inconsequential, we can pretty much just forget about it.
The strongest motivator for Oracle, though? Oracle wants to be able to compete with (and beat) Salesforce. Salesforce and Oracle compete directly in CRM and social sales, and Oracle knows that they must develop an edge in order to outmaneuver their rival. While their recent acquisitions gave them a pretty nice cloud portfolio, this addition rounds out their competitiveness in the growing field of online marketing. Well played, Oracle, well played.


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There are 82 police cameras and others cameras from stores trained on the streets in and around Times Square -- not to mention thousands in the hands of tourists -- but none of them seems to have picked up an image of Faisal Shahzad who is in custody for trying to set off a big homemade car bomb at the height of the theater rush May 1. The video most circulated by police of a suspect showed a white man changing his shirt on the sidewalk near the SUV packed with explosives. Lucky for him, a mob didn't find him and tear him limb from limb.
The bombing was averted that night due to conscientious community-minded vendors who contacted police as they often do when they spot something suspicious -- especially difficult in a district full of eccentricity. Shahzad was apprehended through good, old-fashioned police work -- tracking this bumbling would-be terrorist through identifiers on the vehicle that he had recently purchased.
Nevertheless, the early response of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, police and at least one editorial board to this incident was to call for more high-tech security. While most public officials seem to support that idea, a few critics have questioned the efficacy of such a system and the effects it would have on privacy and on our basic civil liberties.
Expanding the 'Ring'
New York is already in the process of blanketing the financial district with a "ring of steel" surveillance system modeled on London's. Now it wants to extend that to Times Square.
The system includes "cameras, sensors and analytical software," AFP reported, that, according to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly would trigger alarms when it "noticed an unattended bag or car circling a block too many times to be considered normal."
"Every public nook and cranny of midtown Manhattan should be covered by an integrated network of supersharp digital cameras that are monitored in real time," the Daily News wrote in an editorial. "The only obstacle is money -- which actually should be no object given that lives are at stake." It will cost an estimated $110 million to expand the downtown system into Times Square.
Security vs. Freedom
Public officials are not oblivious to the concern about civil liberties. Speaking at a joint press conference in London with Mayor Boris Johnson shortly after the Times Square incident, Bloomberg said expanded surveillance "is controversial, but we have to make a balance between civil liberties and protection. We live in a very dangerous world."
Johnson, whose Underground system alone has 12,000 closed circuit TV cameras (to New York's 4,300, only half of which work), said, "Of course everybody understands the civil liberties arguments and the concerns, and they're very, very strong in this city and country, just as they are in New York."
Civil libertarian Bill Dobbs worries that the cameras are another sign that we are slowly giving up our basic rights. "All searching people does is get people used to the idea of being stopped and searched. We're getting to the point where when someone resists this, the public will wonder what they're hiding," he said.
Dobbs added, "Now, everything and everybody is under suspicion; some simply because of their race or religion suffer even more police and public scrutiny. ... We are continually pushed to give up cherished freedoms to fight an unseen enemy."
Sahid Buttar, executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, raised similar issues. "While surveillance is in some ways the antithesis of profiling (surveillance is broad and limitless, whereas profiling seems focused and targeted), both government practices offend the same constitutional principle of individualized suspicion inherent in the First and Fourth Amendments," he wrote.
Do They Work?
Dobbs also questions the effectiveness of the plan. "The [Metropolitan Transportation Authority] put up cameras in the 1980s but gave up on them because they couldn't monitor them," he said. "Technology provides false hope."
In light of the various concerns, the expansion of the ring of steel needs more discussion and review, said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
"National security and warding off terrorism are enormously vital jobs and we all hope the police department is doing it well -- fantastically, in fact. To do it right, we have to not simply accept at face value every proposal put forward because it ought to work. The City Council and the mayor have to use the same high standards they put on other areas of government on the police department and its security effort," she said.
While she acknowledges "cameras can be helpful," she said New Yorkers need to "demand more than just assertions that they will do the job," particularly in the current economic climate.
The proliferation of cameras and images is "creating a big haystack of information and we're looking for needles," Lieberman said. "We need to be strategic in our surveillance."
And she noted that, in the case of the attempted bombing in Times Square "it was the alertness and civic mindedness of ordinary people and police" that led to a resolution of the incident.
Fate of the Footage
So far, the administration has not said what it will do with the information and images it collects with its surveillance cameras. This bothers Lieberman.
She believes adequate safeguards do not currently exist to protect people against the improper use of their images. And she said that the "potential for abuse is more than imagined," starting with the potential for identity theft if the information is compromised.
Example of possible abuses abound. CBS News recently did an expose on how photocopy machines memory cards store tens of thousands of images of documents that are not wiped clean when the machine is sold secondhand. One of the machines in CBS's investigation had police records from Buffalo, another medical records from a hospital.
In an example closer to home, Kelly has said the police department plans to createthe city police maintain a searchable database of the hundreds of thousands of innocent New Yorkers -- mostly African American and Latino young men -- who are stopped and frisked every year. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Councilmember Peter Vallone, Jr., chair of the Public Safety Committee have written to Kelly expressing concern that such a retention of records would violate the spirit of the law mandating that criminal records be sealed. Quinn told me on May 17 that the council and police department staffs were in the process of setting up meetings about the matter.
The civil liberties union filed a class action lawsuit on May 19 to stop the police from keeping this database of innocent people. The police department has stopped and frisked 3 million people since 2004 and 575,000 just last year, a record. About 80 percent were African American and Latino.
Two of the plaintiffs tell their stories in a short film. Clive Lino, 30, an African American Harlem resident who works with special needs kids, was stopped "at least 13 times by NYPD officers between February 2008 and August 2009," but never was guilty of anything, the NYCLU said in a release. "They make me feel like a criminal or suspect when I haven't done anything wrong," Lino said in the release.
"Innocent New Yorkers who are the victims of unjustified police stops should not suffer the further injustice of having their personal information shared indefinitely in a sprawling NYPD database" that may contain the names of more than 100,000 innocent New Yorkers, Lieberman said.
In general, Lieberman wants to require government to do "a privacy impact statement" when it seeks to expand surveillance. But trying to get information out of the government agencies that do this work -- from the New York Police Department to the FBI -- is "like trying to take blood from a stone," she said.
The police department did not respond to an e-mail request for comment on any of these issues. In the past, its spokespeople have deflected questions about security measures by citing security concerns. For this story, they would not answer questions about how many personnel will be needed to staff the expanded surveillance system, how long images will be kept, who will have access to them, and what evidence they have that these expensive methods are more effective than traditional police work.
Trusting the Police
Public officials I spoke with said they had few worries about the increased surveillance. Quinn said she was "confident" Kelly was conducting surveillance "in an appropriate way," despite her concerns about his retention of data on innocent people who have been stopped and frisked.
State Sen. Tom Duane said, "I'm 100 percent civil libertarian" and the trend to a surveillance society "makes me uncomfortable," but it "is important that we do everything we can to stay safer." While he said he did not oppose investing in reasonable security measures, he added, " People should also invest in groups like the NYCLU."
Gov. David Paterson, for one, does not think current efforts go far enough. "The cameras in use now don't emit strong enough images for identification," he told me, adding he wants a better system that can.
At the Crossroads of the World
Neither privacy concerns -- nor the attempted bombing that prompted the discussion -- seemed to be of much concern to the people filling Times Square on the beautiful Saturday evening of May 15. Two weeks after the failed bombing, Ann Marie Carter was sitting outside there with her two grandchildren, Nicole and Peter Godleski. She acknowledged being "a little leery" of visiting Times Square, "but I talked with my daughter who told me it would be covered more by cops. We feel safe."
Indeed, police and police cars were everywhere in Times Square that night, including many from the counterterrorism unit.
Many in Times Square wondered whether people on the streets might be more effective at finding problems than costly surveillance equipment.
"We spend all this money on anti-terrorism and it was a vet [one of the vendors] that saved the day," said Jason Esponiza, 19, of the Bronx.
Amadou Doye, who has been selling art in Times Square for 20 years, said he always watches out for suspicious things as do his fellow vendors who, he said, constitute a community.
Vendors and people leafleting for shows and restaurants are a constant presence. Actor Ryan Cavanaugh, wearing a sandwich board for "Everyday Rapture," has been out there since winter. While he hasn't had to report anything to the police, he is more aware of the people selling illegal CDs on the street since an incident where one of them got involved in a gunfight some months ago.
But even those who question the cameras' effectiveness are not bothered by having them there. "I don't do anything that I'm ashamed of a camera seeing me do," Cavanaugh said.
"Certain things are necessary," Esponiza said, though he said this kind of surveillance might bother him more if it were taking place in his neighborhood.
Doye doesn't care how long the police hold on to the images they get . "If it is only for safety, they can keep them forever," he said.
Jason Faust, who leaflets for the long-running "Naked Boys Singing," said he was there the night of May 1. He saw the crowd gathering around the SUV and "didn't think much about it -- it's New York!" When the "pops" were heard coming from the vehicle, "the crowd started running, but I'm a New Yorker. I stopped."
He said that surveillance "has been around for years" and doesn't feel in infringes on his rights. While the cops were being a lot more watchful on this night, prior to the incident "half the time they were taking pictures of tourists" for them.
I tried to see if it would bother people to have a stranger they could see take their picture. It didn't. In Times Square where almost every tourist has a camera and police camera keep almost constant watch, no one seems to notice yet another camera -- or care.
The people who feel they just barely dodged mass death in Times Square are not thinking much about infringements of their civil liberties, but by not drawing a bright line somewhere, they may be forgoing rights they will never get back.
Andy Humm, a former member of the City Commission on Human Rights, has been in charge of the civil rights topic page since its inception in 2001. He is co-host of the weekly "Gay USA" on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (34 on Time-Warner; 107 on RCN) on Thursdays at 11 PM.


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