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Here's an excellent interview with Lars Iyer (of Spurious) in which he says two things that particularly stuck me. The first is about writing:
It is only by returning to our creative projects, over and over again, that we can achieve anything by writing. Getting to your desk is the trick. Leonard Cohen says in an interview, "Most people give up. My mind is not particularly fertile. My only success is the fact that I've been able to get to the desk." I agree with him. That's been my success too, such as it is. I lack wit. I am not funny in real life. I'm fairly quiet; I rarely hold forth. I do not excel in intellectual discussion. How is it that I, of all my friends, have published novels? One answer is that there is no money in novel-writing. There is some measure of cultural prestige in publishing a novel, of course, but this is disappearing. Why on Earth would anyone bother to write, when there are so many other things to do? Does getting to your writing desk reflect strength or weakness? Do you go to your desk full of the desire to create literature, to populate a fictional world? Or do you slink there, full of disgust and self-disgust because ordinary life isn't sufficient for you?
When I think back over my adult life, I remember a series of desks at which I wrote, or tried to write. Is my desk a retreat or a rallying point? I've never been sure. Perhaps getting to my desk is an attempt to give meaning to my life, at a time in which meaning is being stripped from the world. Perhaps writing is necessary in order to confront this meaninglessness, to struggle with it. But perhaps writing only perpetuates this meaninglessness, doubling it up, making it even more real.
If anything, this awoke me to my own sluggishness. I've resolutely failed in the last few months to get to my desk and update this blog. I've produced nothing creative. This is a pretty superficial response to what Iyer says, I know, but I feel I can't begin to answer his questions with any honesty, having shied from the desk for too long. I rather like his anti-heroic picture of the dejected writer, though suspect that in my own case it's fear of failure, rather than excess contentment or distraction, that keeps me from writing: I'm entranced by a heroic ideal I can never fulfill. And that seems a pretty sorry reason not to write. Perhaps I should allow self-disgust to propel me? Disgust that I could hide from failure. A heroic disgust.
In any case, I hope to update this blog more regularly now, and less fustily. Though I've a very boring post on F H Bradley in the works that I'm compelled to grind out completely before anything more colourful comes along.
Iyer's second thing is about friendship and what Hegel would call "ethical life" (Sittlichkeit):
We usually understand friendship to involve a special concern for the other person, a concern that is, in some way, returned. We value our friend for intrinsic reasons, for the unique individual that they are. And our relationship is typically characterized by an intimacy, by a bond of trust wherein we can disclose things to one another that we might not share with anyone else. Friends typically share views and values, as well as a sense of what is important. And friendship involves a kind of sympathy, whereby you take joy in your friend's successes, just as you are disappointed when things go wrong for them.
Seen in this way, friendship is a philosophical ideal, something to aspire to in order to cultivate your own virtue, as well as the virtue of your friend. For my part, reading what I've just written, I wonder whether I've ever had a single friendship! W., in my novels, speaks of an opportunism and cynicism which, springing from neoliberal capitalism, progressively strips away our capacity for intimacy and sympathy, and hence friendship. I share his concern. I always felt, growing up, that my so-called friends and I were rats in a maze, responding in a limited way to a small range of stimuli. A system of stereotypical rewards and punishments trained us to be self-interested, bent only on maximizing what we took to be our own ends. We had a sense that there was something wrong with our world, that older forms of solidarity and community were disappearing, but we had lost the ethical sensibility that would have allowed us to live up to the ideal of friendship.
Again, this interests me selfishly. It was quite nice to see a contemporary novelist spelling out one of the central themes of my PhD research: the way certain postmodern novels deal with the sense that the conditions of possibility for a coherent kind of ethical life have been lost. W's argument here is a tad reductive, however, in leading the issue immediately back to neoliberalism. He's totally right, of course, but the perniciousness of methodological atomism goes back well before the 1980s, and I'm not enough of a materialist to grant that the history of ideas is also that of the market. Rather, I think the debate also exists within the history of ideas itself, particularly in the gap between forms of humanism and anti-humanism.
More on that later, but this has led me to reflect on the latent humanism of Iyer's own writing. I'd love to do a post on Spurious and Dogma, once I've remembered the former and finished the latter. But something I'd like to avoid in that post is discussing the work in terms of friendship. Obviously these novels are about friendship, but when Spurious came out last year, friendship dominated reviews of the novel so as to obscure a good deal of its discursive content (as if it had, somehow, to be led back to a comfortable novelistic category – as if the form of Lars and W's discussions were more important than their content). I was hence a little dismayed to see Iyer talking lengthily, however perceptively, about friendship (although clearly he talks about everything else in the interview too). Perhaps a little more dismayed to see no-one pointing out that this is a particularly male kind of friendship under discussion: women don't have much of a role in Spurious and Dogma, and I'd like to know if Iyer believes the (quite plausible) proposition that friendship between men and women is impossible – a thesis that would, however, necessitate a deeper exploration than his duologues provide – or if he thinks it's adequate exploring friendship tout court via the bantering of two middle-aged, male academics, as if their masculinity really were gender-neutral.
What Spurious and Dogma really remind me of is Withnail & I. There's only one woman in that film too. Clearly both Iyer and Withnail have a shared heritage in middle-period Beckett – a heritage that stretches through all modern drama and comedy, from Pinter to Pulp Fiction and Peep Show. Beckett does, however, in many ways seem richer, both in that he is not so exclusive of women, and that – in developing away from gendered characters altogether – his abstract subjects take on an interesting negative relation to humanism. (Peep Show probably succeeds on the first count, but not on the second.) It's this relation to humanism that I'd really like to get at in Iyer, and not via the category of friendship, but another, equally humanistic, which he also shares with Beckett and Withnail: dignity.
The fundamental charm of Withnail & I lies in the dialogue, whose wit and eloquence have a redemptive capacity: we maintain dignity within ruin through the grace of our rhetoric. Perhaps this is the only way open to us when we are left with nothing but language. The pathos of the final scene hinges upon this idea. Withnail is utterly destitute, forsaken by everything but one of the most beautiful passages in Hamlet, which he bellows to the wolves. There's a kind of dignity here very similar to Vladimir and Estragon's, to Hamm and Clov's. It's also very similar to that of Lars and W on their inebriated lecture tour. However much they might fail as thinkers or writers, they can nonetheless acknowledge their inferiority with a crystalline deadpan humour; they have still encountered great beauty and flashes of truth, discussing Rosenzweig over a dive bar's pooltable. W's glorious insults of Lars are also a perverse form of esteem, as well as self-assertion. In this sense, the books seem to me as much about dignity as they are about friendship. Dignity achieved by a certain poise.
It's through this kind of dignity that I'd like to try to get at Iyer's humanism. It is more essential to his novels' form and enduring interest than friendship alone, and at the same time so much more tenuous, like W's messianism, or the notions of the human developed in the French thought that clearly inspired Iyer and his avatars (who are obviously also readers of Blanchot et al.). What Iyer says in the interview about solidarity and ethical life expresses a conservative nostalgia for which I'm broadly sympathetic, though I'd not say that either of us is blatantly a communitarian. It's a stance that I find fascinating, and his novels are an excellent example of how anti-humanism seems to turn back upon itself to issue into a more informed humanism. The interplay of form and content (how exactly is antihumanism compromised when discussed with an old friend over a pooltable?), as well as the relation between residual human dignity and rhetorical eloquence, seem like another good way into Iyer. Such dignity is even more fundamentally human than that of friendship, reposing in language alone. It is the philosopher's plea for immortality: the renunciation of the perishable.


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This week the Donnelly Lab visited Prof. Donnelly's K01 mentor Prof. Deepak Vashishth's lab at RPI to learn biochemistry techniques for analysis of collagen in bone. Thanks to Dr. Gyna Sroga and Catalina Bravo for teaching us these assays, and to the Vashishth Lab for hosting us!
Recent Posts
- Social Event at Ithaca Beer Co
- Taylor recognized with young investigator award at ICCBMT
- Ganesan and Patel win ELI Undergraduate Research Awards
- Hemmerling to Present at the Orthopedic Research Society Annual Meeting, February 2-5
- Hemmerling wins ELI Undergraduate Research Award
- Mileti to Present at SciX Conference, October 21-26
- Donnelly to Present at ASBMR annual meeting, September 28-October 1
- Mileti receives SAS Undergraduate Student Award
- Lloyd AA, Luengo EA, Donnelly E. Atypical fracture with long-term bisphosphonate therapy is associated with altered cortical composition and reduced fracture resistance. PNAS. 2017
- Palomino, Taylor, Lloyd to present at ORS Upstate meeting, July 27-28
- Hunt recognized with young investigator award at ICCBMT meeting
- Taylor EA, Lloyd AA, Salazar-Lara C, Donnelly E. Raman and Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Mineral to Matrix Ratios Correlate with Physical Chemical Properties of Model Compounds and Native Bone Tissue. Applied Spectroscopy. 2017
- Palomino to present at ORS annual meeting, March 19-22
- DeLucia and Burke to present at Cornell Undergraduate Research Board Fall Poster Forum, November 16
- Heather B. Hunt, Eve Donnelly. Bone Quality Assessment Techniques: Geometric, Compositional, and Mechanical Characterization from Macroscale to Nanoscale. Clinic Rev Bone Miner Metab. 2016
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Posted on June 21, 2011 in Countdown
That Which Doesn't Kill Us Gets Appointed
Republican presidential candidates had their first major debate last week, hosted by CNN in New Hampshire. With Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, and Herman Cain present, those anticipating a good dose of Islamophobia were not disappointed. Cain reiterated his inflammatory statements about not appointing Muslims to his administration, noting that while some Muslims are good, others want to "kill us." Unlike Cain, we're of the opinion that we should be uncomfortable appointing anyone who wants to kill us, regardless of religion...but that's just us. Gingrich rolled out a two-pronged plan to root out insidious plots: first, use McCarthy-era tactics that have worked so well in the past. Then, ask Muslims if they're really loyal to the United States before hiring them. Whew! Glad we've resolved that issue. In marked contrast, frontrunner Mitt Romney took the high road, reminding viewers that the United States was founded on the principle of religious tolerance.
Hey, Those Bombs Weren't Cheap!
On planet earth, when you destroy something that belongs to someone else, you bear the responsibility of fixing it. On planet Rohrabacher, when you destroy something, its owner owes you for your hard wrecking labor. As of last week, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is no longer welcome in Iraq, following his suggestion that Iraq should reimburse the United States for the cost of the U.S.-led war. Rohrabacher's suggestion demonstrates yet again the disconnect of some members of Congress and the media from reality. Rohrabacher and a CNN anchor had a venting session in which they expressed outrage and confusion over Iraqi anger at his proposition, failing to understand why the country we bombed, invaded and occupied would be so ungrateful. Meanwhile, those of us with a modicum of common sense will continue to advocate for a policy in which the United States leaves Iraq in a more secure and prosperous state than it was before the misguided invasion.
Just When You Thought Weinergate was Over...
Is Anthony Weiner a secret Muslim? If you are actually pondering this question, you may be on the wrong email list. Like most of you, we found the question absurd, but the prospect was seriously raised in an article in The Washington Times. Though the original article was taken down, Salon's Justin Elliott saved a copy for all of us at the bottom of his post—you have to see it to believe it. The conspiracy goes like this: neoconservative PR operative Eliana Benador speculated that Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, is part of an insidious plot to push a Muslim agenda on America. Don't expect Weiner's recent exit from Congress to put this hysteria to rest. Folks like Eliana Benador are creating an environment in which any public official affiliated with Muslims—even ardent pro-Israel hawks like Anthony Weiner—risk being accused of secretly fomenting a "Muslim plot."
Pass the Turkey
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected to its third majority term last week in Turkey, beating out its main rival, the secularist and pro-military Republican People's Party (CHP). The AKP did not, however, secure the super majority it needed to unilaterally alter Turkey's constitution, which has led most analysts to expect another four years of political bickering. We sympathize, Turkey!
"Prislam" a la King
Congressman Peter King (R-NY) held a second round of his infamous hearings last Wednesday on "The Threat of Muslim-American Radicalization in U.S. Prisons. " King's panel of "experts" talked at length about "prislam," a terrifying hybrid of prison psychopathy and Islam. A number of committee members patiently explained to Congressman King that a proper investigation should include all forms of radicalization; that gangs are a far more dangerous prison population than Muslims; that the best way to combat prison radicalization is to reform the prisons; and that only two cases of Muslim American prisoners planning terrorist attacks have ever been recorded. In response, King accused them all of being overly "politically correct."
What Lebanon Doesn't Need
Arab American Congressmen Darrell Issa (R-CA), Charles Boustany (R-LA), and Nick Rahall (D-WV) joined forces with Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Howard Berman (D-CA) in introducing the Anti-Terrorism Act (HATA), H.R. 2215. The legislation is ostensibly aimed at preventing U.S. aid to Lebanon from falling into Hezbollah's hands. HATA will prohibit U.S. assistance to the Lebanese government (because Hezbollah is now a part of the majority coalition), but the prohibition has "built-in exceptions" which essentially account for all current aid to Lebanon: "humanitarian, democracy-building, and educational assistance, [as well as] IMET funding, in order to allow for continued contact with the Lebanese military." This is already what accounts for U.S. aid to Lebanon since the recent suspension of arms shipments. The bill also contains boilerplate language that gives the President the authority to waive its enforcement to "support necessary American national security initiatives in Lebanon, as well as our friends in Lebanon." In effect, the bill is a bit of posturing which allows for the status quo of U.S. policy to remain. With Lebanon a tinderbox ready to explode, it is dangerous for members of Congress to be playing with matches.
Penny-wise and...just Foolish
The President's pitch on Libya has been tough to sell. Preventing what appeared to be an imminent massacre may be difficult to oppose on moral grounds, but some Republicans in Congress (in what we'll pretend is a "mystifying" reversal of their attitude under the Bush administration) are now serious about not wasting money when our "vital national security interests" are not at stake. Hence the pursuit of legal action against the President on the grounds that he has violated the War Powers Clause by authorizing attacks on Libya. Strangely, although the U.S. hasn't declared war since World War II, no other suits have been brought to contest our extensive military activities in, say, Iraq and Afghanistan. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate real fiscal concerns (given the inconsistency in which they arise) from political pandering and opportunism.


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Honor the Heroes of the Game, Preserve Its History, Promote its Values & Celebrate Excellence Everywhere
Share your pictures, videos, and stories from your visit to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on our social media. We might even feature you in one of our promotions!
At the time of his retirement in 1973, Johnny Unitas, the superstar quarterback of the Baltimore Colts, held virtually every career passing record that existed in the National Football League. Since that time, some of those records have been surpassed.
One record, however, stood out among the many. He threw a touchdown pass in 47 straight games, a string that stood unchallenged for a half century until Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints broke it.
1. Drew Brees (54)
2. Tom Brady (52)
3. Johnny Unitas (47)
4. Brett Favre (36)
5. Dan Marino (30)
By completing 697 passes for 10,645 yards and 102 touchdowns during the 47-game string, Unitas quickly became recognized as one of the greatest quarterbacks to play the game. Seven different Colts were on the receiving end of his scoring passes, but Hall of Famers Raymond Berry with 38 TD catches, and Lenny Moore with 27, were Unitas' favorite targets.
After a record-filled 18-year career, and three championships, Unitas himself was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1979. His full uniform is on display at the Hall as well as the football he threw to surpass 40,000 passing yards.


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Nation's Headline
Colorado Voters Pass Legalization of Medically Assisted Suicide
Colorado residents have voted to allow terminally ill patients to opt for assisted suicide.
Veterans Day: Origins, History, and Events
Veterans Day is commemorated every year on November 11, and is observed on Armistice Day when the Treaty of Versailles was signed to mark the ending of hostilities between Germany and the Allied Forces during World War I in 1918. The war officially ended on June 28, 1919.
Immigrant Community Urged to Prepare in Advance of President-Elect Trump's Inauguration
In the wake of the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. President, activists and advocates urged members of the immigrant community to make preparations ahead of Trump's inauguration.
California Voters Legalize Recreational Marijuana
California became the fifth state to legalize recreational marijuana on November 8 after rejecting a similar measure six years ago.
Christian Couple Blocked from Adoption for Their Perspective on Raising Kids in Traditional Families
A Christian couple was barred from adopting their two foster children because they suggested that a child needs both mother and father for a stable upbringing, and were apprehensive of children being adopted by gay parents.
Hillary Clinton's Concession Speech: 'I Offered to Work with Trump on Behalf of Our Country'
Hillary Clinton has vowed to work with the president-elect Donald Trump and asked the people who voted for her to have an open mind towards him.
California Votes in Favor of Death Penalty
California residents voted against abolishing the death penalty and approved another measure limiting death penalty appeals.
Jury Selection Postponed for Dylann Roof Indicted in Charleston Church Shooting
The final phase of jury selection for the trial of 22-year-old Dylann Roof at the federal court has been postponed till Wednesday. He is accused of shooting nine black members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June 2015.
Evangelicals Respond to Election of Donald Trump as Next President of United States
Donald Trump has been elected to be the next President of the United States, winning 279 electoral votes on Tuesday. Hillary Clinton won 228 electoral votes. According to exit poll results, a large majority — 81 percent — of evangelicals voted for Trump. And evangelicals had much to say on the night of and the morning after the elections. Some weighed in on what it was that made Trump appealing to evangelicals.
Trump Set to Become Next President of United States, Calls on Americans to 'Bind the Wounds of Division'
Donald Trump won the general elections 2016 and is set to be the next President of the United States of America.
Federal Court Protects Iowa Churches from Civil Rights Law on Sexuality
An Iowa church is taking back its lawsuit against the governments of the state and the city of Des Moines after a District Court judge ruled on October 14 that churches are not public accommodations and that their religious views must not be interfered with.
Billy Graham Celebrates His 98th Birthday
Evangelist Billy Graham turned 98 this Monday, having preached the gospel at the pulpits for the last 60 years.
Jury Selection Postponed In Death Penalty Case For Charleston Church Shooting
The jury selection process has been postponed in the federal trial of a South Carolina man who fatally shot nine black parishioners at a historically black church last year.
More People Embracing Homeschooling in 21st Century, Says Study
Department of Education has released a report showing that homeschooling students doubled from 850,000 to 1.8 million between 1999 and 2012. DOE also noted that the movement has become more racially and ethnically diverse.
FBI Investigating Arson Attack on Black Church, Spray Painted with 'Vote Trump'
An FBI investigation has been opened to identify vandals who burned a black church in Mississippi, and wrote "Vote Trump" on the wall on November 1.


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EB-5 Insights & Metrics
The EB-5 Investor Visa Program by the Numbers
eb5investorvisa.com - Follow us on Twitter @TheVisaAttys
480+ Regional Centers have been approved as of April, 1st 2014
"…the number of regional centers has grown rapidly to 207 in 2012 and to 480+ as of the end of 2013, a near doubling of the total number of unique regional centers from the beginning of the year"
Brookins-Rockefeller, EB-5 Report
Top 4 countries for EB-5 based on I-526 approvals, FY2009 - 2013
77% of investors come from these countries
75.42% from China
5.67% from South Korea
1.79% from Taiwan
1.78% from the United Kingdom
I-526 Approvals for investors from countries other than China and South Korea, FY2009-2013
Taiwan: 199 I-526 approvals for Investors
United Kingdom: 198 I-526 approvals for Investors
Iran: 165 I-526 approvals for Investors
India: 162 I-526 approvals for Investors
Mexico: 138 I-526 approvals for Investors
Venezuela: 114 I-526 approvals for Investors
Russia: 97 I-526 approvals for Investors
Canada: 79 I-526 approvals for Investors
Japan: 71 I-526 approvals for Investors
Vietnam: 53 I-526 approvals for Investors
Brazil: 48 I-526 approvals for Investors
South Africa: 45 I-526 approvals for Investors
Netherlands: 36 I-526 approvals for Investors
Germany: 35 I-526 approvals for Investors
101 Other countries:543 I-526 approvals for Investors
Reasonable price of the investment
Any foreigner willing to invest at least $500.000 and create 10 jobs in America can apply for an Investor Immigrant Visa
Australia, for example, requires a $4.5 million Investment
nine times the minimum required in the U.S.
I-526 Petition approvals trends by country of investor origin
"The EB-5 program is limited to 10,000 visas per year. At the moment, there are approximately 7,000 applications pending. It is expected in FY2015 that the EB-5 category for Chinese nationals will be oversubscribed."
How much capital formation has the program received ?
The 6,517 I-526 petitions received in FY2013 account for $3.25+ billion in capital formation
The 3,677 I-526 approvals account for just over $1.83 billion
The I-526 is the first application the investor needs to submit to USCIS to qualify for conditional permanent residency.
Once the I-526 is approved the applicant has to either file an adjustment of status petition in the US or immigrant visa process at the US Consulate abroad in order to obtain the conditional residency.
21 months after obtaining conditional residency, the investor should submit the I829 application to remove the condition.
Florida is one of the top states with over 40 Regional Centers
Commercial Enterprise Investment
Approximately 90-95% of the individual Form I-526 petitions filed each year are filed by Foreign Investors who are investing in Regional Center affiliated commercial enterprises.
From FY2005 to FY2013:
131 000 American Jobs created.
In a Regional Center investment, the applicant does not need to directly employ workers or manage the day-to-day affairs of a new business created under this program
How much investment has the program provided since it began ?
From FY2005 to FY2013: $6.5 billion of foreign direct investment
The EB-5 Investor Visa Program is a great opportunity for Foreign Entrepreneurs and Investors
EB-5 Regional Center Petition Filing Receipts
USCIS I-526 Petition (FY 2009-FY 2014 Q1-Q3)
USCIS I-829 Petition (FY 2009-FY 2014 Q1-Q3)
Permanent resident status through the EB-5 Visa Program is available to investors, for themselves and for their spouse and unmarried children
The country with the most visas issued: China
Chinese nationals account for more than 80% of visas issued, compared to just 13% a decade ago, according to government data compiled by CNNMoney. That translates to nearly 6,900 visas for Chinese nationals last year, a massive bump up from 2005, when only 16 visas were granted to Chinese Investors
EB-5 Investor Visa Benefits
No language, related business experience, or minimum education requirements
Foreign investors utilizing a designated regional center are given priority by USCIS. Free to work and live anywhere in the U.S.
Permanent Residency in the United States for you, your spouse and any children under the age of 21 No sponsor needed
Obtain your green card which gives you rights similar to U.S. citizenship
Fastest way to obtaining a U.S. green card and U.S. citizenship
No waiting list – No quota backlogs like those found in many other employment and sponsorship visa programs
Become a citizen after 5 years
Investors freed from managing investment on a daily basis
Employment requirement is satisfied by direct and indirect job creation
Education at colleges and universities for students at U.S. resident costs
Green card allows you to travel to and from your homeland without a visa
The EB-5 investment must create at least 10 full-time jobs for:
- US citizens
- lawful permanent residents or
- other immigrants lawfully authorized to be employed in the U.S. including asylees and conditional green card holders.
Non-immigrant workers (temporary worker visa holders), independent contractors and the investor, his/her spouse and children cannot be included in the count. The 10 full-time jobs must be created before the end of the two-year period of conditional residence.
In the United States a full time job is one in which an employee works at least thirty-five hours per week. Job sharing is permitted as long as the total weekly-hours requirement is met. However, part-time employment is specifically excluded and cannot be used to create a "combined" full-time position.
Investors participating on the EB-5 Regional Center Pilot Programs need to reasonably demonstrate that his/her investment in the Regional Center has indirectly created 10 or more jobs and has resulted in improved regional productivity.


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Portfolio Review Meetings
Portfolio review meetings are a great way to review and assess the entire project portfolio with the governance team. Unfortunately in practice, these meetings can be overwhelming, time consuming, and unproductive. There are many ways to conduct a portfolio review meeting, but one of the key questions of the governance team is "what do they want to accomplish at the end of the portfolio review"? For some organizations, portfolio review meetings are about getting project status of every project in the portfolio. For other organizations, portfolio review meetings are designed to evaluate each project in the portfolio with the intention of updating priorities.
Options for Portfolio Review Meetings
With this background in mind, we can look at four options for conducting portfolio review meetings:
- OPTION 1: A review of all in-flight projects, current status, relative priority, business value, etc. Some projects may be cancelled, but the primary purpose is to inform the LT of the current in-flight projects.
- OPTION 2: A partial review of projects in the portfolio consisting of high-value/high-risk projects. This provides more in-depth information of critical initiatives and may result in a possible change of priority of certain projects.
- OPTION 3: A high-level review of all projects in the portfolio with the intention of updating project priorities for every project in the portfolio.
- OPTION 4: A review of portfolio scenarios that meet current business needs followed by a selection of a recommended portfolio
Option 4 comes courtesy of Jac Gourden of FLIGHTMAP in a 2012 blog post and is the best approach I have seen for conducting portfolio review meetings. I also have sat through long sessions (although not all-day sessions) of reviewing all the projects in the portfolio and it can be painstakingly tiring. Moreover, these types of portfolio review meetings wear out governance team members and do not yield much value. While there is certainly a time and a place for review the status of all projects or conducting a lengthy review for the purpose of re-prioritizing projects in the portfolio, taking a strategic view is the way to go. Rather than merely focusing on individual projects, a portfolio team can compile a few portfolio scenarios that should be reviewed by the governance team. In many instances, there is significant overlap between the portfolio scenarios, but the emphasis is on the business goals of the portfolio and how a portfolio scenario supports a certain goal. Some examples of portfolio scenarios include:
- Revenue Growth Scenario
- Customer Growth Scenario
- Market Growth Scenario
- Reduced R&D Spend Scenario
- Balanced Portfolio Scenario
These scenarios are easier to produce when efficient frontier analysis is applied. Even after a portfolio recommendation is accepted, there is further work to screen out the projects not included in the portfolio, and in some cases to make worthy exceptions for some projects that would have otherwise been removed from the portfolio.
What do you think? Have you tried this approach before? How successful was it? Let me know.


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A federal judge temporarily blocked implementation of the Final Overtime Rule, scheduled to go into effect tomorrow – December 1, 2016, which doubled the maximum salary a worker could earn and still be eligible for overtime pay.
What does this mean for our business-owners and nonprofit clients?
1) As a result of the ruling, employers currently do not need to comply by the December 1 effective date.
2) The injunction is temporary pending further review by the court.
3) We do not know if or when the status of the regulations will change.
We will keep you updated as any new developments occur.
If you'd like to read more on this topic, below is a link to a New York Times article which provides more details: Judge Blocks Obama Rule Extending Overtime Pay to 4.2 Million U.S. Workers


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Make your next outdoor adventure complete with a cool customizable Adventurer's Belt!
Here's what you need to make this handy dandy belt:
- Velcro
- Nylon strapping
- Center release buckle
- 1 Sheet of felt or scraps of fabric
- Sewing machine or thread & needle
To make the pouch, cut a strip of felt an inch wider than you'd like your pocket to be. Then sew on a smaller strip, several inches from the top to start the belt loop.
Next, sew down the bottom of the belt loop. Sew a piece of Velcro to the bottom of the felt strip.
Then, fold the pouch inside out and pin the pocket together. Sew the sides of the pouch up and finish off by sewing the other piece of the Velcro.
To make a simple stick holder, just sew a strip of fabric together then follow the same belt loop instructions as above. This is where a needle and thread come in handy.
Start the belt by cutting the nylon strapping a few inches longer than your child's waist. Thread one end of the strap through the end of the buckle with just one loop and sew the strap together. Thread the other end of the strap through the adjustable loop end of the buckle. It's easiest to fit the belt on your child first before sliding on the pouches.
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Baby, child, and breastfeeding-friendly places in Queenstown
There's nothing more frustrating than meeting friends at a café or restaurant and there's no space to park the buggy, no changing table, the kids are bored and there's isn't elbow room to breastfeed. Check out the Queenstown Family restaurants guide suggestions and set the venue yourself! These are ranked top to bottom, with priority given to those that meet all the criteria; change table, space for prams, kids toy area, easy parking and good food/coffee.
1.Graze Restaurant and Café, in Lake Hayes Estate – Excellent café and restaurant, plus bar. Outside garden is spacious, sun-shielded and it has a playhouse and toys. Inside offers room for prams,a change table as well as discreet areas for breastfeeding.Another plus, Graze is a hop skip and a jump from McBride's Park, playground and bike track, one of the best in Queenstown.
2.The Boatshed Cafe & Bistro this is a lovely venue all year round, although summer is better when there's a whole lot of prams because of the lovely spacious garden and lake front deck area. As well as a smashing coffee and good menu, there is a change table and tucked behind the woodburner a more discrete and comfortable area for breastfeeding. It's a good base to go walking along the lake. Parking is free and ample.
3. The Fork and Tap in Arrowtown – Best suited to summer. Excellent outdoor area complete with play hut, sandpit and toys. It also has a change table and room for prams outside (although there is a bit of manoeuvring to get into the premises!). Great for lunches and sunlit dinners.
4. Remarkables Park Shopping Centre Hamills Restaurant has a dedicated play area and does a buy one pizza, get one free dinner deal on Wednesdays. Bookings for this are essential. The shopping centre has excellent change facilities in the public toilets, which are located near the Coffee Club behind the Flight Centre. The Coffee Club is quite roomy and there is a play area for kids. Lots of free parking.
5. The Exchange Café in central Queenstown – not only good coffee but very baby-friendly, often allowing mums' groups to book out a lovely room at the back of the Café. The outside terrace is fabulous on a warm day and easy to access with prams. They also have a change table.
6. Columbus at Mitre 10 Mega in Frankton. Yes, it's a chain and it's in a hardware store, but if you need a fun indoor play area complete with slide, heaps of room, a change table and high chair while sipping a good coffee, then this is a good choice. The Café overlooks the Mitre 10 greenhouse with Remarkables Mountain in the background so not bad views either. Free parking.
7. The Tin Goose in Frankton – fabulous coffee and food plus a wee play area and toy box, plus heaps of space for prams. Popular with the locals, and there's always a park available. There's no changing table however.
8. Walnut Cottage has recently changed names and is now called Akarua Wines and Kitchen. Still located on on Lake Hayes Road (on the way to Arrowtown) the cafe/restaurant is set in beautiful gardens, which the kids love, and with its spacious layout it provides discretion for breastfeeding if that is what you are seeking. The coffee, service and food are good but there's no changing table. Best suited to summer.
9. Flightpark on Malaghans road between Arthurs Point and Arrowtown is loved for its outdoor play area, and out of town location. They have a change table and kids craft activities on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings. It's named this because it's a landing point for paragliders, a great attraction for the kids.
Note: Flight park is closed over winter.
Top 5 venues for toddlers
1. In Frankton – Hamills is child-friendly with play areas, toy boxes and great deals like the buy one get one free Wednesday pizza dinner deal.
2. Graze in the Lake Hayes Area has a large spacious outdoor eating area, playhouse and kids menu. Very close to Graze is an epic playground and bike track.
3. In Arrowtown – The Fork and Tap is ideal with its large beer garden, play house and kids menu. Lunch and dinners only.
4. The Bath House for coffee or lunch – on the lake front with a playground at the doorstep. Small so best suited to sunny days where you can sit outside.
5. Brazz on the Green – Cheap and Cheerful pub style grub. Big booths and tables plus a huge box of toys make it a friendly spot for big family groups. The $10 breakfast is a bargain. Good for a cold day.
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China's films are taking a hit from a trade deal that allows for more U.S. movie imports, the country's broadcast regulator said on Sunday, with their share of the box office take sliding even as the industry's total revenues outpace those of last year.
The movie pact, which exempted 14 films from China's annual quota of 20 foreign films per year, was hammered out in February during a trip to the United States by Vice President Xi Jinping, the man expected to take the ruling Communist Party's top spot after a congress held this week in Beijing.
After signing the deal, the number of American films in China and their proportion of revenues have increased by a "large margin", Vice Minister of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television Tian Jin said.
"The past dominance of domestic films in the Chinese market has been shaken," Tian told a press briefing on the sidelines of the congress held once every five years.
China's 2012 box office revenues reached 13.27 billion yuan ($2.12 billion) at the end of October, Tian said, already outpacing revenues from all of 2011. But the share of revenues for domestically produced films was only 41.4 percent, constituting "a huge drop".
Tian said the U.S. film industry is reaping massive profits while domestic producers are under greater pressure, mainly because Chinese movies cannot compete with the Hollywood spectacles.
"The competitiveness of Chinese-made films must be raised," he said.
Chinese film industry experts have said that Hollywood's looming shadow means Chinese producers need to focus on quality if they are going to elevate their appeal to a Chinese audience.
February's deal stemmed from a victory in a 2009 U.S. World Trade Organization case that challenged Beijing's restrictions on import and distribution of copyright-protected materials.
The U.S. movie industry has long complained about China's tight restrictions on foreign films, which they say helps fuel demand for pirated DVDs that are widely available in China.
It also argued that it was being boxed out of a booming market, as the fast-growing Chinese middle class spends more money in theatres.
The Chinese film market is seen as one of the largest potential markets for Hollywood, but it has also been tightly controlled by the state-owned China Film Group.
Chinese films frequently compete for international awards, but winners overseas are often not those supported by China's government, which tend to fan nationalist and patriotic sentiment.Source: Reuters "China says Hollywood putting pinch on domestic films"
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japanese researchers have found a way to increase the mobility of transparent transistors. this results in transistor operation that is 10 times faster than previous transparent devices. the researchers claim that these new transistors could lead to "invisible devices," such as transparent displays. the transparent transistor was made from a single-crystal oxide semiconductor, in this case indium-gallium oxide and zinc oxide. previous devices operated much too slow to be useful, but these new devices have speeds that might be adequate for certain opto-electronic devices. even with this increase, however, the speed of these devices is anything but impressive. moreover, the cost of these devices is currently prohibitive. although these devices probably won't lead to transparent displays, the field of display technology should continue to advance rapidly. organic light-emitting diodes (oleds) are thin, have wide viewing angles, have the potential to be inexpensively mass-produced, and require little power. we may not see any transparent displays in our lifetime, but large, inexpensive, high-resolution flat panel displays should soon be ubiquitous.
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|what is this, "popular science" (12:54pm est fri may 23 2003)
"but large, inexpensive, high-resolution flat panel displays should soon be ubiquitous"
…by the year 2000 we will all be driving flying cars and commuting to the moon in atomic jets.
– by disbeliever
|well (12:58pm est fri may 23 2003)
vaporhardware, seeing is believing. – by dinobot
|hmm (1:01pm est fri may 23 2003)
unless your 99 years old, i think it is a little premature and arrogant to say that we will never see transparent displayes in our lifetime.
how long from the discovery of transparent transistors did it take them to increase the speed tenfold?
the fact that there are researchers working on this tecnology means that we will see these displays in 10 – 20 years, and that is being generous. – by topher
|transparent oled displays are here (1:17pm est fri may 23 2003)
hey, if you want to see a transparent display, go to the sid conf.:
– by socratesplus
|cool (1:43pm est fri may 23 2003)
thanks for the link, socratesplus.
and seriously people, listen to topher. – by eyad
|heck, i remember lp's (2:53pm est fri may 23 2003)
i still have a working record player…
– by the scavenger
|3d (6:38pm est fri may 23 2003)
wow, cool, i hope some enterprising dude or dudette takes a bunch of these to create a cube, or sphere, or whatever shape would be best for a 3d display. – by whatever
|uv triggered conductivity (3:16am est sat may 24 2003)
i think the 10^9 jump in conductivity when exposed to uv is a more interesting feature with this technology than the transparency, at least in the immediate future.
i think of an ultraviolet imaging system or document reproduction system right off. not knowing more about the period of conductivity and specifics of a recovery period, i am just guessing that the ionization levels could be controled, switching between conduction states. – by zeke
|re: whatever (2:42am est mon may 26 2003)
i'm no professor of optics, but say you display an object in such a sphere.
the side facing you is red, the opposite side is blue. if i'm not mistaken, what you actually would be seeing is pink! you need to block the light from the other side. perhaps that could be done with lcd technology, but that eats a lot of light when not active as well. also, how would you otherwise display colours darker than the ambient light? (i.e. black) – by led
|never never never (5:04am est mon may 26 2003)
what is with all the pesimism lately on this site? quantum tech useless, no transp. displays…. heck no one believed in airplanes, from the invention to mass transport was less than a lifetime! – by serial
|disbeliever (3:42pm est tue may 27 2003)
popular science also claimed in…1955, i think, that by the year 2000 computers would *only* be the size of half a room.
and don't forget lord billy: "i think 64k of ram should be enough for anybody."
topher said it best, we'll see these things soon enough. – by nyeark
|us patented transparent (9:36pm est tue may 27 2003)
wiring, transistors, cicuits, computers
using photonic crystals years ago.
– by grey_eminence
|3d holographic oled dispaly (1:15pm est mon jul 19 2004)
– by grey_eminence


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The Lord spoke to Israel through Moses about the Law of God, the Commandments, the statutes and the ordinances, which he had given them, saying to them, "You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it; that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you." Now, if there is any way we can mess it up, we will undoubtedly find it. God knew from experience with Man that we liked to add, subtract, multiply and divide God's Word. Just take a little word from here, such as "don't", and add a little word there, such as "may", and the Scriptures read much better than before. The first time this happened, I think, was in the Garden, when the serpent said to Eve: Did God say that there were any trees in the Garden of which you were not to eat the fruit thereof? And Eve replied Yes: of the fruit of the Tree in the midst of the Garden we were not to eat, nor were we to touch it! Now, nowhere is it recorded that God said "Do not touch it." Eve added that; she made it worse than it was. Can't eat of it; can't even touch it, or we will die. And the serpent said, "You shall not die!" I can hear Eve now; what a nice serpent this is, so much nicer than God, who threatens to kill us! This fruit looks wonderful, and God won't let us eat it!
St. James urges us as Moses urged Israel, "Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls." There, you see? Everything that comes from God is a gift, a peace offering from God the Father to us, the children he treasures even though we misbehave so. The Law was a gift, along with all the statutes and ordinances which governed the day to day life of the people of God. So Moses is able to say, "For what great nation has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? And what great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day?" These things were not a gift to all of mankind. They were rather a gift to those whom God called out of Egypt, out of a place of sin and death and hopelessness into a place wherein they were at liberty to worship the Lord their God and live as free men. Of course, any who have not renounced the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh, so that they will not follow nor be led by them; those people have no place in the Commonwealth of God, and cannot claim to be under his government and protection. Those people are given up by God to ungodliness and all that goes with it. As St. Paul writes to the Church at Rome: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, have been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. …and, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice …they are haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless." Oh, my. The choice is clear: leave these things behind and be governed by God's laws and therefore protected from all this ungodliness and evil, or choose to ignore God's ways, and be unprotected from these things. Those who come out of them and choose God, are as those who came out of Egypt, they have been redeemed by the Blood of Christ, whose sacrifice was forecast to Eve in Eden, and foreshadowed by the death of the first-born males of Egypt. Then shall those who repent be governed and protected by God unto eternal life.
Now, if all this trouble started with the decision to eat that which God had forbidden, so the rebelliousness of people today roots itself in the decision to refuse to eat that which God has given, namely the Bread of Eternal Life and the Cup of Everlasting Salvation, which is the fruit of Calvary's tree. When asked what people must do to do the works of God, Jesus' response was simple: "Believe on him whom he has sent." The world now says that Christianity is "bad religion". They do not want it, they want something "spiritual" instead. It is as from the beginning, that what God reveals Man rejects. So Jesus tells the Pharisees in today's Gospel, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.' You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men." He goes on to speak that which St. Paul echoed in Romans: "For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man."
Do not fall away and become as one of them, my brethren. You are those who have "come out of Egypt" through the waters of Baptism. You have received the Holy Spirit by the Laying on of Hands and the anointing of oil. You have been welcomed at the table of the Lord, that your daily bread may be supplied, and your souls washed by His Most Precious Blood. Never dare to think that you can safely live outside of this governance and protection of God, for people who think like that are people do not have eternal life dwell in them. But rather pray for them, that they may join us, and live forever to the Glory of God the Father.
O GOD, the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us thy mercy; that, thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal. Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake our Lord. Amen.


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Mayflower autonomous trimaran project backed by US ambassador
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An autonomous ship project to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's 1620 crossing of the Atlantic has received a major boost after the American ambassador to the United Kingdom, Matthew Barzun, lent his support.
The modern hybrid version of the Mayflower is a 32 metre trimaran that is currently under development in Plymouth ahead of a planned 2020 launch.
Unlike its Jacobean forebear, the new Mayflower will feature two masts and a sailing rig inspired by windsurfers. Auxiliary power would come from solar panels and an electric drivetrain, while its livery will reflect the transatlantic collaboration between the USA and the UK.
The Mayflower project began in 2014 after members of Plymouth council discussed ways to mark the milestone anniversary. Over the past two years, several influential names have thrown their weight behind the project, including the Earl of Devon, naval commodore Ian Shipperley, and Vendée Globe veteran Pete Goss.
It is hoped that a successful transatlantic voyage will lead to a circumnavigation, and the trimaran will later be made available to charter for ocean research expeditions. Despite being completely unmanned, the robotic Mayflower would also be loaded with liferafts so that it could respond to distress calls.
The futuristic design, by Orion Shuttleworth, is reminiscent of some of the world's most iconic multihull superyachts, such as Adastra and Galaxy of Happiness.
The next stage of the project requires £300,000 for construction of a scale model and wave tank testing, which the Mayflower team hopes to raise via a Crowdfunder campaign. Donors will get their name engraved onto the trimaran's carbon fibre superstructure when construction begins in 2018.
Patrick Dowsett, former commander of HMS Northumberland, added: "So far we have the plans, the passion, the potential and now all we need is to get it to production."


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New iPad coming to India on April 27th, cheaper than Galaxy Note
An overwhelming news for Indian Tablet lovers or gadget freaks. Apple announced that it will launch The new iPad in India and 10 other countries on April 27th. The price of the new iPad will be 30,500 and will be available in black and white color options. The new iPad has received good reviews as … Continue reading
Samsung sold 92 million phones, overtakes Nokia in phone sales
Samsung, the Korean electronic giant has dethroned Nokia from the top phone seller. Yes, Nokia who was the previous top phone seller is now at the second spot because Samsung sold 92 million handsets (shipped) in Q1 for 2012 whereas Nokia was left behind at 83 million of which 71 million are low-end devices and … Continue reading
Apple Planning 'Significant Growth' of Reseller Network in India
Macrumors reported a new job listing on Apple's site that indicates that the company is developing a significant growth plan for its network of APRs in India (Apple Premium Resellers). The company is looking for a new National manager to oversee expansion of the program. The Apple Premium Reseller (APR) program was designed by Apple to … Continue reading
Instagram is finally coming to Android
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Apple is now selling more Smartphones in Canada, where BlackBerry was born
Apple is one company that is beating its rivals everyday and not with words, but with numbers, with sales. Just a few minutes earlier i wrote about the Wifi problem in the new iPad and now a positive news for Apple. Canada, the birthplace of Justin Bieber, and Blackberry is now buying more smartphones from … Continue reading
New iPad is now suffering from poor Wifi reception
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The new iPad's most talked about features are made by Samsung
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Google pays $1 billion to Apple for being the default search engine
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Here's what you should know about The New iPad, its Features, Specs and Pricing
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Mercedes-Benz to have Siri soon
Reblogged from PSFK, originally written by Alice Chan on February 27, 2012 Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz unveiled plans to integrate Apple's Siri into its A-Class electronics system that would allow drivers access to their iPhone apps using voice commands. The program, called the Drive Kit Plus will work in conjunction with Mercedes-Benz' Digital DriveStyle App to translate the iPhone's screen onto … Continue reading
Possible iOS 5.1 'pre-gm' images leaked
Apple again! Alleged images of iOS 5.1 that we have with us, thanks to The Verge and Apple Insider, show a permanent camera button on the lock screen and Japanese language support for Siri. Here are the images that have proved that blogs in the past few days were correct, Siri is going to speak … Continue reading
Apple is worth more than these 6 things
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Twelve more automated stacking cranes for Khalifa Port
Following the delivery of a complete automated container yard system including 30 automated stacking cranes (ASCS) to the new Khalifa port in Abu Dhabi, Konecranes will deliver a further 12 ASCS to the port, which officially started commercial operations on September 1, 2012. Deliveries will take place in Q4 2013 and Q1 2014. The parties have agreed not to disclose the value of the order. Read More »
Portek to collaborate with Papua New Guinea
Portek International has signed a five year agreement to collaborate with Papua New Guinea Ports Corporation Limited (PNGPCL) in the operation of its two largest container terminals. Read More »
La Spezia is an important example for Italy
\r\nCaptain Gianluigi Aponte, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) President visited Italy's Port of La Spezia on November 19 and was given an official welcome by a number of high-ranking dignitaries. Read More »
Another step forward for Ukraine's port concession process
Reform of the port industry in Ukraine which many consider as an intractable problem, has been dragging on for years. On November 3, 2011, for example, the VerkhovnaRada (the Supreme Council, the country's parliament) adopted a draft Sea Ports of Ukraine Law, which defined "the legal, organisational, economic and social principles for the creation of new facilities and the development of existing sea ports, as well as defining the responsibilities of port operations with the aim of completely reforming the State's port sector". Read More »
Chilean operators cleared to bid for Valparaiso Terminal 2
Chilean competition authority TLDC, has judged in favour of lifting a ban preventing incumbent operators in the 5th region from bidding for the concession to operate the proposed new container handling facility, Terminal 2, at the Port of Valparaiso. It took the four-person committee looking into the tender 10 months to make the decision. Read More »
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New hotel for Cayuga Sustainable Hospitality is grain of gold in busy San Jose city
For the second time in three months, Cayuga Sustainable Hospitality has announced that another Costa Rican hotel has been added into its fold of Earth-friendly and forward-thinking Central American eco-lodges, resorts and inns.
Hotel Grano de Oro, located on a shady street just off San JosĂŠ's main thoroughfare, is a 40-room luxury accommodation property. Once a tropical Victorian mansion, Cayuga's newest property has a warm and comfortable home-like atmosphere with old photographs and local artworks adorning the walls, a Spanish-tiled water fountain, a garden terrace with two Jacuzzis and a gourmet on-site restaurant to appease the appetites of locals and visitors alike. âThe name Grano de Oro literally translates to grain of gold, Costa Rica's term for the coffee bean,â said Hans Pfister, CEO and principle of Cayuga Sustainable Hospitality. âSimilar to the coffee bean, our newest hotel is physically small, but plays a significant role in bolstering the local economy. As a highly sustainable and socially conscious enterprise, it's an honour to add Hotel Grano de Oro, our first city-based location, into our Cayuga family of forward-thinking properties.âCayuga's other award-winning properties include Latitude 10 Exclusive Beach Resort in Santa Teresa, Lapa Rios Ecolodge on the Osa Peninsula, Finca Rosa Blanca Coffee Plantation & Inn located just outside San JosĂŠ, Arenas Del Mar Beachfront & Rainforest Resort in Manuel Antonio, The Harmony Hotel in Nosara, Jicaro Island Ecolodge near Granada, Nicaragua and Hacienda Tayutic located in the mountainous valley of Turrialba, Costa Rica.As one of only nine Small Distinctive Hotels in Costa Rica and rated four leaves by Costa Rica's prestigious Certification for Sustainable Tourism, Hotel Grano de Oro is a model for eco-consciousness and social responsibility. Some of the hotel's ethical policies and actions include opening Casa Luz (a home and healing centre for young, at-risk mothers), using green alternatives whenever possible (such as non-toxic, biodegradable cleaning and laundry products and chlorine-free cleaning systems in the Jacuzzis) and funding local environmental organizations that promote reforestation and protection of vulnerable Costa Rican areas, such as Cerros de EscazĂş. As Costa Rica's largest city and a region that seamlessly blends busy metropolitan districts with green, wildlife-rich rainforests, San JosĂŠ has much to offer to both active and laidback travellers. Some of Hotel Grano de Oro's activities include going back in time and exploring the nearby pre-Columbian Gold Museum, grabbing a lifejacket and hitting Costa Rica's adrenaline-pumping whitewater or experiencing the power of nature by going on a night tour to the ever-active Arenal Volcano. To learn more about Hotel Grano de Oro or to book a vacation, visit www.granodeoro.com. About Cayuga Sustainable HospitalityCayuga Sustainable Hospitality develops and manages hotels, lodges and other tourism related projects in Latin America and the Caribbean that are committed to the four Ps of sustainability â people, planet, profit and place. It offers solutions and expertise to tourism operators looking to enhance their performance in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. As well, Cayuga provides expert responsible travel advice, including full itinerary suggestions for families, adventurers and honeymooners. For more information, visit www.cayugaonline.com.-30-Media Contacts:Suzanne Girard Foote, Tartan Group: 917-370-7288 or email@example.com Deirdre Campbell, Tartan Group: 250-592-3838, 250-882-9199 (cell) or email@example.com
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The Inquisition
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I hope our Attorney General can forestall the current hyperventilating call for a major inquisition to catch the Phantom Leaker. I know that leaking information about intelligence and counter-intelligence matters is serious. And yes, I can believe that it can put brave people at risk of death or worse.
What I also know is that the recent history of these investigations is a sorry one. They invariably require a large number of innocent people to spend thousands of dollars for lawyers and they never result in punishment of anyone for leaking classified information or misusing restricted information.
There is a very broad and dangerous federal criminal law that makes it a crime to make any false statement to any federal official. So, the only safe thing for anyone to do when asked a question by a federal official is to decline to answer. It doesn't matter whether one is guilty of anything. It is just foolhardy to get into a conversation with a federal official because, regardless of your guilt or innocence with respect to whatever the official is investigating, you can be convicted of a federal crime if you are inaccurate about anything you say.
The two most famous victims of this law are Scooter Libby and Martha Stewart. Libby was not convicted of leaking information about Valerie Plame. He was convicted of perjury and "obstructing an investigation." Martha Stewart was not convicted of insider trading. She was convicted of making false statements to investigators.
Now, in addition to calls for an investigation, they also want to strap lie detectors on everyone who had access to the classified information.
This is dangerous nonsense. Turning these bloodhounds loose is more dangerous than the problems they are claiming to solve.
Being a spy or a counter-spy is a dangerous profession. Being exposed and perhaps killed or harmed because some jackass in Washington recklessly or deliberately spilled the beans to some reporter is an outrage. But I don't think it justifies authorizing federal authorities to threaten a large number of people with financial ruin, damaging publicity and risk of criminal prosecution merely because they had access to classified information.
If this happens, I think the first ones to be strapped to a lie detector should be the President, the Vice President and every Congressman and Senator who calls for the investigation, followed by the senior staff of each of them. If that is the plan, I predict that a lot of the enthusiasm for the inquisition will dissipate.


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Back when the living was good, the Brooklyn Dodgers outfitted their beat reporters with new suits and snappy fedoras. Walter O'Malley believed if you were going to cover a classy organization, you ought to dress with class. Are you paying attention, Drayton?
I could see myself in a three-piece suit, shoes polished, hat pulled low, cigarette hanging from my lips strolling the clubhouse. Can you spell instant respect?
"Hey, Berkman, you still cashing that paycheck? You've got a lot of nerve, buddy."
Looking back on it now, I would have been perfect for those times.
When O'Malley moved the Dodgers to the West Coast, plenty of people back in New York were hot under the collar, especially the newspapermen that lost both a prestigious beat and some really nice perks. As a sportswriter once said, "I don't want to be a millionaire. I just want to live like one."
Covering the Los Angeles Dodgers until around the mid-'80s was a nice assignment, too. Newspapermen flew on the team plane, got meal money and stayed in team hotels. A spring at Dodgertown beats a week in Maui.
The Dallas Cowboys did right by the media, too. They gave their beat guys season tickets and sometimes even took them on off-season vacations. I'm not saying it helped the Cowboys get favorable coverage, but if you were a player in a contract dispute, it's reasonable to expect your side of the story might have been played after the jump.
Covering the Cowboys on the road was once about the best assignment you could have. You flew on the team's plane and stayed in the team hotel at discount rates. Best of all, the Cowboys had a hospitality room on the road. There was food and drink and lots of nice company if you know what I mean and I think you do. There'd also be a free meal at one of the city's finest restaurants on Saturday night.
For a time, beat guys at training camp would file a quick story and head for Zuma Beach, knowing a member of the public-relations staff would file a few notes and cover the scribes in case news broke at practice.
I spent a semester or two working in the sports information office at The University of Texas and once even had a charge account at El Rancho's. If an unimportant newspaperman came to town, I got to take them to El Rancho's and sign for a meal.
My charging privileges were abruptly pulled, and that's all I'm going to say about the matter. I will say the Longhorns did right by me and a dozen of my best friends, including at least two members of Asleep at the Wheel, and really that's definitely all I'm going to say about that matter.
I graduated college around the time newspapers got religion. A new generation of editors came along that believed if you accepted free food and other things, it might compromise your objectivity.
That philosophy didn't take into account that some of us enjoy biting the hand that feeds us. Once in that Cowboy hospitality room, I was raising a nice plump fried shrimp to my mouth when Tex Schramm walked up and said, "You've got a lot of nerve to be eating that after what you wrote about Mr. Murchison."
To this day, I don't remember ever writing anything about Clint Murchison, but I did commit the cardinal sin of writing an article that cast the striking players in a favorable light.
I have accepted some freebies through the years. One time, the Baltimore Orioles sent me a case of steaks as a Christmas present. I had such a bad relationship with the public relations guy at the time that there was no way I was going to take the steaks back. (I'd phoned Mike Flanagan and got him to talk about tearing his achilles tendon the night before the Orioles had a big news conference planned for him to speak.) There was also no way I was going to take them.
So I did the courageous thing. I drove them over to my sports editor's house, left them at his front door, rang the doorbell and left. Smart, huh? I'm not naming names, but that man is the new president of the American Society of News Editors. In the years that followed, I accepted the steaks from the Orioles and dropped them off at House of Ruth, a home for battered women.
I didn't think the steaks were any big deal, but if a magazine or newspaper writes a story about it, you end up looking terrible.
(There was a guy with the Orioles that liked to hang around with the writers. He'd ask where we were going in a certain city. "Are you bringing the company credit card," Ken Rosenthal would ask. One night, this particular guy threw a beer can at a television in Kansas City when ESPN didn't lead SportsCenter with Sam Horn's pair of three-run home runs. "Let's see ESPN try to get into my press box ever again," he screamed. Of course, the next time ESPN showed up in Baltmore, the guy sent a limo to the airport to get the crew.)
Here's the best freebie I ever took: airfare to Japan. The Orioles did a three-week tour of Japan after the 1984 season, and I was assigned to go. I don't remember the airfare, but the connections were terrible, and it was going to take two full days to get there.
Two days before the trip, a guy with the Orioles called and said, "We've got empty seats on the charter. You're welcome to have one of them."
(At one time, I regularly flew on the Oriole charters but stopped after frequent-flier programs were born. It was a sweet life. After a coach spent a rough landing in the bathroom, he came out holding his beer can and announced: "I didn't spill a drop." Al Bumbry served as a flight attendant until his average dropped below .220, and he mysteriously disappeared. When Earl Weaver noticed we were no longer on the charters, he said: "If it were up to me, I'd charge you guys $100 to fly with us. That would be so cheap your bosses would make you do it. The ballclub would make some money, and you guys wouldn't have your bleepin' miles. Ack. Ack. Ack. Ack.")
I told my boss about the Japan invitation, and he made me promise the newspaper would be billed. I never bothered with a bill. The return portion of the charter dropped the players and staff in Honolulu, and my editor never said anything about sending me to Japan and back for a Honolulu-to-Baltimore ticket.
Editors got uneasy about accepting free seats at boxing events. They'd take the tickets for a reporter, then send the boxing promoter $50 for a ticket that might have gone for $1,000. That's situational ethics in action.
Edtiors also started demanding we not accept free food, and when we did accept it, they'd send the team a check for the food.
The Washington Redskins offered me a Super Bowl XXVI watch because I'd done such a great job covering the team and been such an inspiration to the players. I told the PR guy I couldn't take it, but pleaded with him to tell my competition I had. I would then rat the guy out to Washingtonian Magazine.
I mention all of this as a long-winded way of discussing the question I'm asked most frequently.
What do the local teams give you in the way of food and drink? Are you so nice to Drayton because he essentially buys you off?
Let me say right up front I'm available to be bought off if Drayton would like to try. I will admit to taking a free meal from Drayton McLane. That was in the restaurant of his choosing in a discussion that was extremely unpleasant and sometimes heated. In other words, he picked up the tab for the opportunity to chew my butt out.
The moment I left the restaurant, I telephoned Commissioner Selig and told him Drayton had been mean to me. I've haven't heard a peep from Drayton since.
I think Pam Gardner took me to lunch once to tell me Drayton didn't bend the truth as much as I seemed to think. I quickly dived under the table fearing a lightning strike.
The Rockets invited some media members out to dinner in Los Angeles. I didn't accept because watching Mark Berman devour a meal will kill your appetite faster than a hair in the pasta.
(Two nights later, we arranged for Berman to meet us at a place in Marina del Rey. When he called and said he was a block away, I told him, "Sorry, buddy, we just finished dessert. Ack. Ack. Ack.")
A couple of years ago in Buffalo, I thought I was getting a free meal from the Texans in a sports bar where we'd gathered to watch the Texas-Ohio State game. That was the night I turned to someone from the Texans and said: "Look at Berman eat. He eats the way he works."
"Yeah," the guy said, "fast and angry."
As I was saying, I thought the Texans were picking up the tab until we were about to leave and The General whispers, "Your share is $200."
The General had invited people from the front offices of both teams, several people he ran into at the airport and two hitchhikers. If Vince hadn't thrown a game-winning TD pass, I might not have been in the mood to hand him $200 for two bottles of beer and some wings.
The bottom line is there isn't much free food anymore, nor should there be. You can spin it a hundred different ways, but when you accept food or clothes or travel, you're in a bad spot from an ethics standpoint.
Even if you know in your heart you're not being compromised, there's the perception of compromise. As Selig said of steroids, "If the perception is that the game has a problem, then the game has a problem." Now if Commissioner Selig wants to offer me a nice job with the MLB Network I don't think that would be a conflict at all. I mean, how many more nice things can I say about the guy?
The other side of this argument is that if a reporter can be bought off with two bottles of beer and an order of nachos, he's really got low standards. But still.
Drayton has a very nice press buffet at Minute Maid Park. The fried chicken is famous throughout the big leagues. Cost: $10.
The Rockets have a nice pre-game meal, too. Cost: $7, or maybe $8, I can't remember.
The Texans do feed the media, and it's free. So if you see me going soft on the Texans, blame the burgers. Jerry Jones, bless his heart, serves the media some world-class barbecue and cobbler, and after games, the beer tap is turned on, especially if the Cowboys ain't looked too good.
Most colleges offer a meal before games and a snack at halftime. Ohio State has a Wendy's Frosty machine, which may be why there's never any negative press about the Buckeyes.
Not that many years ago, there'd be media golf tournaments and golf outings and all of that. I never got invited because, well, I was never that important, but they were there.
I could go on and on about this topic, but you've got a life and I pretend to have a life. For now this is my story, and I'm sticking to it.


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How to Have a Blooming Good Time in South Carolina
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Sellsy allows you to easily manage your promotional operations on the product catalog.
You can easily manage:
To create your first promotional operation, open the product record that you want to discount.
In the action buttons, click Add / Link special offer.
You must first choose whether to create a promotion or use an existing one.
To create a special offer, choose the first option.
You then fill in the different elements of your promotion.
The name of the promotion serves two purposes:
Note allows you to add an indication following the description in your documents (estimates, invoices ...).
You can then specify your choice of dates for promotion.
Set the date and time of the beginning of the offer. You can program an offer in the future.
You can then choose an end date. If you wish, you can also check the box so that the promotion never expires (for clearance sales for example).
The next step allows you to choose which channels you want to apply the promotion.
You can apply the promotion to:
You can set the pricing for a special offer in three ways.
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The amount discount is also applicable to the price categories checked in the list below. The fixed amount you set will be subtracted from the sale price.
The reduction in fixed price allows you to manage prices manually for each rate category.
Note: If you choose the latter option and apply it to other products, then you have to change prices product by product.
Just below, you can check the effects of promotion on your price categories.
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viaForensics', Android's Firefox browser app is vulnerable to Hackers.
He responsibly disclosed the details to Mozilla, that allows hackers to access both the contents of the SD card and the browser's private data.
He posted a video showing how hackers will be able to access data on the device. The flaw works only if a user install a malicious application or opened a locally stored HTML file in the vulnerable Firefox app that included malicious Javascript code.
Successful Exploitation allows attacker to access to files on the SD Card including all of users' cookies, login credentials, bookmarks etc. This is a privacy issue and could be severe depending on what is stored there, including personal pictures and video, or data placed there by other applications.
Files are accessed through the standard "file://" URI syntax. Firefox encrypts the data stored in internal storage which is why hackers also introduce a third-party app which gets the encrypted keys stored on the device.
"However, to protect the most sensitive information, apps can place data in a separate location called internal storage, a private folder for each app that even the user is prevented from accessing directly (unless the device is rooted). The most significant threat from this vulnerability is that the secured location for Firefox is also accessible, which means a hacker will have access to cookies, login credentials, bookmarks, and anything else Mozilla think should be kept safely tucked away." Androidpolice blog explained.
We contacted Sebastián to get more details, please find a quick FAQ on the matter as follows:
Q. Can an attacker host the malicious Javascript code HTML file on a server to exploit the flaw remotely by making victim to visit the website only ?
A. The exploit cannot be executed by a remote web page. This flaw works only if you install an application, but there is another vulnerability in Firefox that could allow an attacker to install applications without user's knowledge. I disclosed it to the Firefox, but other researcher did the same before me.
But it's possible to host the malicious HTML file somewhere and using some social engineering , attacker can make victim to download and execute the file locally on their Firefox app.
Q. To steal the files from the victim's SD card, an attacker need to pre-define the file names or folder path in the exploit code ?
A. Nope, there is no need to specify the path, because I'm obtaining the salted folder generated by Firefox at runtime, due to a vulnerability. So I can make a copy of the SDcard, because the path will be always /sdcard, and for the private folder locates at /data/data/org.mozilla. Firefox, I'm obtaining at runtime the salted profile generated.
Q. Where and how stolen files will be uploaded ?
A. You can upload it where you want i.e. Using exploit code we are opening a socket connection against the remote FTP server to upload stolen files.
Q. Is there any CVE ID or Mozilla's Security Advisories ID defined for the Vulnerability yet ?
A. As far as I know there isn't a CVE assigned to this vulnerability.
Mozilla has patched the vulnerability in patched in Firefox 24 for Android. Just few weeks back a Russian hacker put up a Zero-day Exploit for sale, that forces the Android Firefox browser to download and execute a malicious app.
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North East fastman Keith Murray, riding for the Steve Goff Frames RT/Columbus, has had another successful week, scoring a further three wins.
At the Houghton event last Tuesday the Cleveland-based rider rode in a
class of his own clocking 20-47 for the 10 miles where his time was over a minute faster than fellow scratch rider Dale Aitkenhead (GS Metro) with the pair taking the first two prizes in the class-related event.
Murray was not, however, entirely satisfied with his ride
"I was told I'd be clocking 50mph on the drop on the way out but I could only manage 45!"
Murray scored his 25th win of the year on Saturday when he beat former
National Champion Gethin Butler in the Phoenix CC 10 at Liverpool. The 21-03
for the win was again slightly disappointing for the Teessider as he missed out on breaking the course record by one second which had a #100 prize attached.
It did however, mean that he had enough in the tank for the next day when he beat National 50 silver-medallist Julian Ramsbottom by nearly a minute to chalk up
win 26 of the year in the Prescot Eagle RC 25. * It looks as though NECCA Cyclo-Cross champion Stuart Wearmouth will not have things all his own way when the season gets underway in October as Keith Murray, this year's runner-up has been ploughing his race winnings into a fighting fund to have his bikes equipped with top gear and is now targeting the off-road side of the sport as one of his season's aims.
Wearmouth, meanwhile, has not exactly been sitting around himself for, after beating the best of North East roadmen he scored his first NAMBS win in round two of this year's series at Bolton, beating Paul Oldham by just over a minute
HOUGHTON CC 10 - Cat A Riders: 1 Keith Murray (Steve Goff Frames RT/Columbus) 20-47; 2 D Aitkenhead (GS Metro) 22-02. Cat B Riders: 1 C Kennedy (Cestria CC) 22-38; 2 J Mawson (Houghton CC) 22-49. Cat C Riders: 1 S Lawson (Cestria CC) 22-55; 2 P Robson (Houghton CC) 25-13. Cat D Riders: 1 J Short (Houghton CC) 26-22; 2 B Smith (Houghton CC) 28-34. Women: Debbie Hailes (Cestria CC) 26-49.
SUNDERLAND CLARION - 1 Dave McReady (CCS Racing) 58-44; 2 C Blacklock (Zeus CRT) 58-53; 3 D Aitkenhead (GS Metro) 59-05; 4 T Tiffin (Zeus CRT) 59-28; 5 R Richardson (Middridge CRT) 59-29; 6 C Dale (Border City Whs) 59-49; 7 A Cosgrove (Teesdale CRC) 59-54; 8 P Tyler (Cestria CC) 1-01-04; 9 N Atwell (Border City Whs) 1-02-19; 10 G Mayne (Hades 69). Vets: 1 Ron Longstaff (Zeus CRT) +15-07; 2W Clayton (Tyne RC) +11-39; 3 A Armstrong (Sunderland Clarion) +10-37. Handicap: 1, Stu Parsons (Tyne Vags) 55-31; 2 B Childes (Sunderland Clarion) 55-53; 3 R Luckett (Tyne Vags) 56-06. Women: Debbie Hailes (Cestria CC) 1-12-18.
BREAKAWAYS * The Tyne Velo hold a 2-Up 18 on Saturday at 2pm. Glen Turnbull and Mark Addinall head a field of 13 pair and will be chased all the way by VS Briganti teammates Geoff Mount and Richard King. * Entries are still being accepted for this Sunday's Northumberland Classic road race at Whittingham, near Alnwick. The field so far has last year's Jackson Trophy winner Ian Norris and runner-up Trevor Greener as favourites.
The course consists of an 18-mile loop to be covered four times. Entries available on the line or preferably before by calling Russell Thompson on 0191 2530727. * Entries close next Tuesday for the Barnesbury 50 on July 15. Trevor
Leightley is the event secretary at 1 Farleigh Court, Norham Park, North Shields, NE29 8DU. * The inaugural Sam Walton Memorial Road Race incorporating the Border Trophy will be held on July 8 in honour of the former Barnesbury member tragically killed in a motorbike accident last August. Entries go to Ben Walton at 52a Edge Hill, Darras Hall, Ponteland, Newcastle, NE20 9RR. Tel 01661 871416.