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Hometown: Santa Barbara, Calif.
Position: Opposite
Height: 6-5 (196cm)
Weight: 210 lbs (95kg)
College: USC
Joined Team: May 2002
PERSONAL: Born Brook Michael Billings in Santa Barbara, Calif.... Parents are David Billings and Daphne Von Essen... His stepmother's name is Beth Berger... He also has a sister, Summer Billings, and a brother, James Von Essen... Enjoys "snowboarding, basketball, electronics, a little bit of golf, surfing and music concerts"... One of the most defining moments in his life was being recruited and accepted to USC... Majored in public policy and management at USC... His off-court goals include finishing school, getting married and having a family... Considers real estate as a possible future profession...Most prized possessions are his family, his friends and his clothes... One of his fondest childhood memories is spending all day at East Beach in Santa Barbara with his friends... Says "a million dollar car-with wings" is the first thing he would buy if he won the lottery... Chose "mind reading" as the superpower he wants... His pet peeve is "when people drive slow in the far left lane on the freeway." In January of 2010 Brook went to play for a club team in Iran.
MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2009 - FIVB World League. 2008 - FIVB World League (Gold Medal)... Four Nations' Tournament (Gold Medal). 2007 - Americas' Cup (Gold Medal)... Pan American Games (Silver Medal)... FIVB World League (Bronze Medal). 2006 - FIVB World League... Pan American Cup (Gold Medal)... Argentina Tour. 2005 - FIVB World Championship Qualifying Tournament (Gold Medal)... NORCECA Continental Championships (Gold Medal). 2004 - NORCECA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (Gold Medal)...Japan Tour...Houston Series... USA Global Challenge (Gold Medal)...Serbia and Montenegro Tour (Silver Medal)... Olympic Games (Fourth Place). 2003 - Colorado/Nebraska Tour... Canada Tour... Pan American Games (Fourth Place)... NORCECA Zone Championships (Gold Medal)... World Cup (Fourth Place). 2002 - Dallas Tour... Six-Nation Tournament (Italy)... Louisville Tour... Bulgaria Tour... Greece Tour... Florida Tour... World Championships.
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2010 - Played the winter of 2010-2011 for Iraklis Thessoloniki in the Hellenic league. 2009 - Played in three World League pool play matches. 2008 - Brook was an alternate for the Olympic Team... Played in two World League pool play matches in Bulgaria and scored four points.. Played in the Four Nations' Tournament in Leipzig, Germany and then scored 16 points in an exhibition victory over Geramany played in Chemnitz. 2007 - Brook had a stellar run at the Pan American Games on Aug. 23-28 in Rio de Janeiro, finishing as the United States' second-leading scorer, and fifth overall, with 61 points on 54 kills, six blocks and one ace. He led the U.S. Men in scoring in their matches against Argentina (12 points), Puerto Rico (14 points) and Cuba (16 points)... Played in four World League pool play matches and scored 20 points. 2006 - Was on the preliminary roster for the World Championships... Scored seven points for the U.S. Men in their opening World League match against Poland... Helped the squad win the inaugural Pan American Cup. 2005 - Earned a gold medal as Team USA won its second-straight NORCECA Continental Championship with a four-set victory over Cuba on Sept. 15...The USA Men qualified for the FIVB World Grand Champions Cup with the win...Also earned a gold medal in August at the FIVB World Championship Qualifying Tournament as the USA Men qualified for the 2006 World Championships. 2004 - Brook made his first-ever Olympic appearance in Athens, Greece as the USA Men finished fourth overall...Ranked sixth on the team in total points with 28 on 23 kills and five blocks...Team USA qualified for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, by winning the NORCECA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Caguas, Puerto Rico on Jan. 10...The men posted a perfect record of 6-0 en route to the gold medal, which included a come-from-behind, 3-2 win over Cuba in the championship match...Scored a match-high 17 points on 16 kills and one block in a 3-1 pool-play win over Cuba after replacing starting opposite Clay Stanley. 2003 - Led Team USA in scoring and ranked third among all scorers with 73 points on 67 kills, five blocks and one service ace at the Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic...The Americans finished fourth (3-2) at the Pan Am Games after losing to Brazil in the bronze medal match...Saw action in just six of 11 matches at the World Cup and played 20 of a possible 37 sets but still scored 86 points on 73 kills and 13 blocks to finish fourth on the team in total points and tops in points per match at 14.33. 2002 - One of the team's biggest surprises during the 2002 season...Ranked first on the team in total points (266) and total kills (223)...Also ranked third in stuff blocks (30), points per set (2.83) and digs (97)...Scored a career-high 26 points (24 kills, one block, one ace) in a 3-2 upset of eventual World Champion Brazil on Sept. 30 during pool play...Also scored 21 points (19 kills, one block, one service ace) in a five-set win over Australia on June 30 and 20 points (17 kills, two blocks, one ace) in a 3-2 win over Greece on Aug. 30.
COLLEGE HIGHLIGHTS: 2002 - Earned All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) honorable mention...Led the team in kills (386) and in kills per game (4.39). 2001 - Earned Asics/Volleyball All-American and All-MPSF honorable mentions...Led USC in kills (390) and blocks (68) and was second in digs (118)...Finished eighth nationally in kill average at 4.88 (fourth in the MPSF at 5.21)... Posted double-figure kills in 20 of his 22 matches, with nine matches of 20-plus kills. 2000 - Earned Asics/Volleyball All-America first team, AVCA All-America second team and All-MPSF first team honors...Led the team in kills (601) while hitting .339...Finished third on the team in digs (160) and had 73 blocks...Ranked fifth nationally in kill average (6.84) and third in the MPSF (6.83)...Posted double-figure kills in 24 of his 25 matches, with 18 matches of 20-plus kills and six matches of 30-plus kills (including an MPSF and USC season-high 50 kills at Loyola Marymount, a career best). 1999 - Started all but two matches at opposite hitter as just a freshman and made an immediate impact... Garnered Asics/Volleyball National Co-Freshman of the Year and MPSF Freshman of the Year honors, as well as being an All-MPSF honorable mention selection... Led the team in kills with 640, the most ever by a USC freshman and the fourth-most by any Trojan ever, while hitting .317... Finished sixth nationally in kill average (6.17)... He also had 169 digs (second on the team) and 92 blocks (fourth on the team)... Posted double-figure kills 26 times, with 17 matches of 20-plus kills and six matches of 30-plus kills.
Updated Nov. 22, 2010
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Topic: SOLVED fixture generate incorrect data in database
I've created a .yml fixture file, which I'm using to load data in the MySQL database via a data only migration.
All rows get inserted in database, however certain rows have the right data, others get inserted with incorrect data.
For example, my .yml file starts like this:
NDB_No: 01001
Long_Desc: "Butter, salted"
FR_Desc: beurre salé
NDB_No: 01007
Long_Desc: "Cheese, camembert"
FR_Desc: camembert
NDB_No: 01009
Long_Desc: "Cheese, cheddar"
FR_Desc: cheddar
In this example, the row "cheddar" get inserted right in database, however "camembert" and "salted butter" have an incorrect NDB_No:
NDB_No Long_Desc FR_Desc
01009 Cheese, cheddar cheddar
513 Butter, salted beurre salé
519 Cheese, camembert camembert
I don't know where these numbers "513" and "519" come from and I could not find any logical pattern explaining why certain rows are correct and others aren't.
Can this have to do with the accents in French messing up the .yml file, even though it is saved as unicode UTF-8 ?
Last edited by carrot06 (2012-05-21 05:16:56)

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Midamar CEO Bill Aossey (right) meets with mulberry farmers and Noor Akbara (right), Project Coordinator, Horticulture and Livestock Project, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock. The mulberry grove was one of several places that Aossey visited during his one week visit to Afghanistan where he investigated potential trade and investment opportunities in Panjsher and Bamyan provinces.
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I while back I bought a Sony PRS-505 eBook reader. I'd contemplated the slowly growing eBook market for a while, I'd heard good things from the US about the Kindle, and I thought it about time I dipped a toe in the water.
After reviewing the eBook landscape I plumped for the Sony. The Kindle was still pricey and didn't have a separate UK store; The Nook hadn't been released; Sony used ePub, an open XML-based standard. The touch screen Sony PRS-700 had just been released but was getting somewhat mixed reviews, with some users pointing out that pushing greasy fingers over a surface you're supposed to read was bound to cause a few problems, so I opted for the Sony PRS505 which had had very good reviews when it first came out.
Since then I've been disappointed with it for the following reasons:
- Speed
- Display
- Lack of integration with store
Taking them in turns:
The page turn isn't fantastically quick but it's quick enough not to be a problem. However. My PRS-505 can be unbelievably slow to display the index of books when it first starts up after being switched off and it can also be very, very slow when loading a book. It didn't take quite as long as the time needed to make a coffee but it was getting on for that. If you change the font size of the display then the book would be repaginated and I would experience that very long wait again.
The e-ink display was supposed to be about the best around when I bought the device but it is still disappointingly grey. I don't suppose this irritation is confined to Sony eReaders
Lack of integration with store
I buy my books from Amazon. But Amazon was competing with Sony and had the Kindle so I couldn't buy books from Amazon to read on the PRS-505. I didn't want to open another book-buying account with another seller; and then, Google announced the availability of thousands of freely downloadable ePub books which Sony made accessible but only through their US store, at least to begin with. That was frustrating. I reinstalled the Sony software and claimed to live in the US just to be able to access the free classics Google was making available.
And now the new Kindle is out. It's significantly reduced in price. It has WhisperSync, which allows you to pick up reading where you left off on different devices; it has free 3G and WiFi to allow you to contact the Amazon store wherever you happen to be, whenever you want to buy a book. It's Amazon – and that's where I buy my books. It's a smaller device, it looks smarter, it has better battery life, the display is better…and Amazon will allow non-DRMd eBooks to be sold in their store if that's what the publisher wishesl Sony won't. And it uses Amazon as a permanent store for all your books.
So it's the new Kindle for me. I might be just as disappointed by Christmas with the Kindle as I was with the Sony; but I think this iteration of the device might be the the one that tips me over into buying the bulk of my books as eBooks in future. I hope so.


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by Anton Shilov
With the release of the world's first and yet only DirectX 11 graphics chip ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, is again on top of the graphics cards world. Unfortunately, AMD's central processing units cannot outperform chips from Intel Corp. In addition, global economic slump has hit AMD very hard. Three years after ATI became a part of AMD, the question arises: would AMD survive without ATI?
The acquisition of ATI Technologies by Advanced Micro Devices started to seem controversial after ATI began to lose market share, sales volumes and failed to deliver DirectX 10 lineup on time. Moreover, AMD-ATI reconsidered the Fusion central processing unit (CPU) roadmap a number of times, which made the merge even more questionable. The year 2007 was a complete disaster for the "new" AMD. The company delayed release of its quad-core AMD Opteron "Barcelona" processor and subsequently AMD Phenom X4 "Agena" chip and when it released them it appeared that the design has an erratum, which essentially stalled shipments. Moreover, ATI Radeon HD 2000 failed to beat Nvidia GeForce 8000-series in terms of performance and then ATI Radeon HD 3000 did not manage to offer performance advantages too.
"Both AMD and ATI suffered from inadequate execution in 2007, and it showed in their results. Both got on track by the end of that year, and have delivered on their roadmaps," said Nathan Brookwood, the principal analyst with Insight 64.
Inadequate execution took its toll: sales of discrete desktop ATI-based graphics cards slumped 2.7 times from Q3 2006 to Q2 2009, according to Jon Peddie Research market tracking firm. Sales of microprocessors also declined very considerably.
This week ATI, as a part of AMD, launched the world's first DirectX 11 graphics chip, which is a pretty clear evidence that the graphics chip designer is back on track. ATI Radeon HD 5870 is currently the world's highest performance graphics processing unit (GPU) and has the richest feature-set available.
But what about AMD's primary microprocessor business? The company seems to have excellent execution at this point, but its desktop chips have consistently failed to compete with Intel Corp.'s offerings in the high-end market segment for three years now and it is unlikely that next year the situation will change considerably, unless the company's six-core Phenom II X6 "Thuban" chip has excellent clock-speed potential. It will still take some time before AMD will be in position to regain performance leadership on the CPU market. On the other hand, the fact that AMD is capable of releasing a six-core chip is a sign that its processor business is showing signs of recovery.
Considering rather massive slip of unified CPU-GPU "Fusion" chip (which AMD calls accelerated processing unit, or APU), it is not completely clear why AMD decided to take rather huge multi-billion loan, acquire ATI Technologies, then fail to execute on both companies' roadmaps and sell off its manufacturing facilities.
Analyst Nathan Brookwood believes that the take over actually helped AMD to survive: the company gained new revenue streams with discrete graphics processing units as well as its core-logic sets, which not only bring additional earnings, but also gave AMD technological advantage in terms of graphics processing over Intel: it is indisputable fact that ATI Radeon graphics cores are a lot better compared to Intel Graphics and Media Accelerator (GMA) cores.
"The 'old' AMD, with integrated manufacturing, but without graphics, would have been challenged to survive last year's global downturn and Intel's new Calpella/King's Creek/Piketon platforms. The 'new' AMD can survive on lower revenues, and can credibly argue that its integrated graphics platforms deliver a better visual experience than Intel's, even if the Core i3 and i5 CPUs outperform AMD's processors. It would never have been able to make such a claim without the ATI acquisition under its belt," said Mr. Brookwood.
AMD itself reckons that it is in unique position on the market, since it is the only company that can deliver both x86 microprocessors and leading-edge graphics processors. Still, the company admits that the global economic crisis impacted it quite seriously.
"As you know well, much has happened both in the industry and in the global economy in the three years since the ATI acquisition occurred. Having said that, we remain convinced that the rationale underpinning the ATI acquisition remains sound. Only two companies in the world deliver x86 processors in volume, and only two companies deliver leading edge 3D graphics. AMD is the one and only company in the world can do both - and that's a unique, direct benefit from our ATI acquisition," said Michael Silverman, a spokesperson for AMD.
In fact, even the massive delays of Fusion, which was once promised to become available in late-2008 or early-2009, makes some sense, claims the analyst. Since Intel continues to integrate its 5th generation GMA graphics core into its Clarkdale/Arrandale processors in 2010 and 6th generation GMA engine into Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge in 2011, AMD will continue to have performance advantage with ATI Radeon cores built into chipsets in terms of performance and feature-set and will also be able to offer DirectX 11 graphics with its first APU chip code-named Llano in 2011.
"I am as disappointed as anybody by the continued push-out of AMD's Fusion CPUs, but can't argue with their rationale for moving them out. Although Intel has multi-chip module integrated graphics now, and single chip integrated graphics next year with Sandy Bridge, both products use Intel's archaic GMA technology that lacks OpenCL and DirectCompute support. This means AMD's products offer better graphics features and greater functionality now, and will beat Intel to market with CPUs that offer OpenCL and Direct Compute, since Larrabee-type graphics don't get integrated onto Intel CPUs until 2013," said the analyst.
So far the information about Llano has been quite sketchy, but in case the details are summarized, the accelerated processing unit will seem to be quite an interesting solution for entry-level market: it will feature up to four Shanghai/Phenom II-class cores; 4MB of L3 cache; PC3-12800 (DDR3 1600MHz) memory controller, possibly, with some tweaks to better serve x86 and graphics engines; DirectX 11 graphics core with third-generation universal video decoder; PCI Express 2.0 bus for external graphics cards. What is even more interesting is that Llano appears to be a monolithic chip combining both x86 and graphics cores. Of course, Phenom II will hardly deliver extreme performance in 2011, but the better graphics core will give AMD an edge over Intel's offerings.
There is still a lot of work to do for both AMD and its graphics business unit to take maximum advantage of the merger between AMD and ATI Technologies. One of the main thing to achieve is to gain synergy between AMD and ATI engineers and execute successfully on the "x86 everywhere" strategy through the evolution of both CPU and GPU technologies.
In the mid-term future AMD will have to develop ultra low-power x86 microprocessors and integrate advanced graphics cores into them to compete not only against Intel Atom-based system-on-chips (SoC), but also against SoCs like Nvidia Tegra or chipsets like Qualcomm Snapdragon. Besides, AMD will also have to integrate advanced multimedia, input/output and communication functionality into its platforms going forward. AMD's forthcoming code-named Ontario APU features CPU core based on low-power code-named Bobcat micro-architecture and an unknown graphics core, but the company positions the chip for netbooks, based on current roadmap.
The future of computing is very diverse: end-users and enterprises want to have advanced capabilities inside handsets, high-definition graphics and advanced security on desktops, full Internet experience on HDTVs, very long battery life along with desktop capabilities on laptops, extreme performance of servers amid low power consumption and a lot, lot more.
In order to respond to new challengers, AMD-ATI have to do a massive amount of work in the next three to five years.


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You can get it at the coffee shop, on your smartphone, even in coach on an airliner. So why is it so difficult to get Wi-Fi on the jet you charter? One reason is that most chartered aircraft still lack broadband access.
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In this quarter, UNISDR and the Republic of Korea sign a US$10 million agreement to strengthen global capacity development. The 3 Korean cities of Ulsan, Busan and Gwangju participated in training on the local implementation of Sendai Framework, and 4 new Korean cities joined the UNISDR Making Cities Resilient Campaign: Cheongyang, Mokpo, Dalseo-gu, Seo-gu District - bringing the total of participating Korean cities to 152. ONEA-GETI's school programme in Incheon began expanding towards fostering a DRR educator programme for students all across Korea. Across the global, ONEA-GETI supported capacity development of national focal points of 7 Central Asia and South Caucasus countries, LDCs and SIDS from 5 continents in Singapore, the private sector in the Philippines and in Malaysia and co-organized with UCLG ASPAC an event for local authorities at the Habitat III PrepCom3 in Surabaya, Indonesia. ONEA-GETI also hosted the Iran delegation of Mashhad City and 27 Indonesian Masters of Health students for training in its Songdo facilities in collaboration with trained trainers from Griffith University of Australia.
Ulsan Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea aspires to become a role model city in Making Cities Resilient and leading by example – commits to develop knowledge and capacity of its city officials, NGOs and communities, and share international experience in implementing Sendai Framework at local level.
Implementation of the Sendai Framework is taking roots in Bangladesh, Croatia, Mauritius, Mexico, Russian Federation with support of ONEA-GETI capacity programme for strengthen or development national or local disaster risk reduction plans. Through ONEA-GETI affiliated partners' countries with similar risk profiles such as Cambodia, Côte d'lvoire, Laos, Senegal and Uganda also benefited of good practices and tools such as the draft local urban indicators. Sendai Framework for Children is now available in Korean. New e-Learning course on – Resilient Action planning, the Sendai Framework and its linkages with the SDGs by UNITAR. See new resources and follow our incoming workshops with business partners in Philippines and Malaysia through our calendar.
The Government of Croatia took action to build their capacity and to develop their national action plan for implementation of the Sendai Framework. ONEA-GETI together with the UNISDR Office for Europe supported these efforts. The National Protection and Rescue Directorate of Croatia shared the importance of national Disaster Risk Assessment and the new obligations for local government.
More than 800 DRR policymakers from China, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Philippines and Qatar benefited from ONEA-GETI training on the implementation of the Sendai Framework. Business and Korean students also actively participated in risk reduction activities.
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction calls upon governments to engage with children and youth, and to promote their leadership. It is very clear in the instrument that children and youth are agents of change. The Incheon Metropolitan City has been bringing the Child-Friendly Sendai Framework program to the Korean students.
The State of Qatar is working towards increasing their capacities to face disaster whether natural, accidents, or technological. The Government is committed to the idea that policies and procedures should go beyond reducing the current risks to prevent the accumulation of new risks. UNISDR Regional Office for Arab States and ONEA-GETI experts were deployed to support the country's commitment.
Mongolia is striving to develop its long term development strategy 2015 -2030. Fundamental to this process is a set of actions, including supportive and integrated legislative and policy environment; a financial investment in disaster risk reduction development plans and programmes; and engagement with the key actors and sectors.
ONEA-GETI is supporting Yogyakarta City to pilot the Sendai Framework Local Indicators for effective local implementation. Following the Training of Trainers, national facilitators assisted 7 districts in Indonesia in applying the City Resilient Scorecard.
Following the 4th Trilateral Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Management and its commitment to advanced training and experience sharing between China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia, representatives met in Seoul to discuss current Sendai Framework implementation and explore in detail the expected role States in its implementation.
16 Local Governments from Busan Metropolitan City, the second largest city after Seoul, got together to learn about risk management. The Cities' main risks are related to technological and natural hazards such as typhoons, floods and landslides, among others. Given their common exposure and risk profile, Busan City called for joint training with ONEA-GETI and their government officials.
700 high level participants representing different regions of Iran attended the session on "Implementing Sendai Framework at Local Level through City Resilience Action Planning" that enhanced their understanding on practical implementation of the Framework at national and local level in the country. It is expected that UNISDR ONEA-GETI will further collaborate to scale up learning in the country.
This first of its kind workshop, a joint effort of the Government of Samoa, the Chamber of Commerce, and the UNISDR, brought practical tools for businesses to learn about disaster risk management and strengthen collaboration in risk reduction with the Government. Emphasis was placed on reinvesting in safe infrastructure, implementing the building codes, securing back-up storage in safe locations, and implementing scenarios and drills for staff to support the business profitability and improve local economy in the face of hazards in the island.
Philippines National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council members have developed a pool of professionals to help roll out Sendai implementation at national and subnational level. Among the tools used, participants pilot tested the draft Sendai Framework indicators.
In the last six months of 2015, ONEA-GETI facilitated nineteen trainings with practical case studies to respond to the increasing demand for implementing the Sendai Framework across Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America reaching up to 784 participants, representing 23 nationalities.
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 highlights the importance of the role of the private sector and public-private partnership in making business and our communities more resilient. In the Korean city of Incheon, the private sector is listening and ready to engage.
Following a second workshop in Incheon with representatives from the Russian Ministry of Education, the Institute of Development of EMERCOM and Bauman Moscow State Technical University, The Russian Federation has committed to scale up urban resilience and capacity building in 2016. They aim to engage 25 Russian cities in the Making Cities Resilient campaign, develop joint workshops with ONEA-GETI and adapt training of trainer courses for national government, cities and academia.
27 national officials, experts in comprehensive disaster risk management, building resilience, climate change, meteorology and related areas in the Dominican Republic have committed to training. The trainees will serve as faculty of the National School of Risk Management.
Korea's advance towards a national integrated public-safety communications network has been heralded as an example of how disaster risk reduction represents a major business opportunity. The country aims to launch its world-leading system – the so-called Public Safety Long Term Evolution (PS-LTE) network – in 2017, and several commercial bids are expected from various major telecommunications carriers to implement the ambitious project.
Indonesia is a vast nation with tremendous capacity as well as a multitude of disaster risk. GETI partnered with government officials and senior representatives from business and civil society to highlight important principles for resilient business as well as next steps to build a stronger public-private partnership for national resilience.
The Province of Potenza, Italy, a UNISDR Making Cities Resilient Advocate already recognized for its network approach to engaging all city and local authorities together with civil society organizations, has trained trainers from 12 of its municipalities and committed to scale up capacity for effective development of local action plans under the umbrella of the Provincial Territorial Coordination Master Plan.
Canary Islands are taking strong action to build their resilience to disasters. UNISDR ONEA-GETI made available its practical case studies and tools to the department of disaster risk reduction and cities resilient of the University of la Laguna to scale up the learning through Spain and abroad.
A Metro Manila-wide earthquake drill tested the preparedness of people and organisations across the Philippines capital. GETI partner SM Prime took the simulation seriously as part of its ongoing commitment to DRR
Nadi is Fiji's tourism hub and home to the island nation's main international airport. Thirty-two senior representatives from the city's private sector community joined GETI for a two-day workshop on Making Your Business Disaster & Climate Resilient.
Key private sector GETI partner, SM Prime, has kicked off a Green Film Festival for high school students to raise awareness on of the environment and climate change. Hundreds of public secondary school students watched the first documentary released for the festival at the SM Megamall cinema, in Manila, Philippines.
UNISDR's ONEA-GETI is five years old this November. As part of the process to renew our excellent partnership with the Korean Government (Ministry of Public Safety and Security) and the City of Incheon, a Joint Review of the Office was conducted.
ONEA-GETI has had a busy three months or so supporting countries, cities, businesses, national training agencies and UN partners in the roll-out of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
GETI supported Indonesia's National Authority for Disaster Management (BNPB) to deliver a three-day high level training for 30 officials on urban resilience. The initiative is part of GETI's scaled-up 2015 programme under the new Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
One of GETI's main private sector partners, SM Prime, is championing the need to reduce the disaster vulnerability of people living with disabilities.
Typhoons and several other hazards are an increasingly common fact of life for the business community of Da Nang, Central Viet Nam. Protecting investment is a higher priority for the city's business community, particularly its booming tourism industry.
UNISDR's Incheon office supported Armenia's impressive roll-out of the global Making Cities Resilient" global campaign at a three-day event in Yerevan to help create a database of instructors in the country.
The Final Report of the 'Make Your Business Disaster & Climate Resilient' forum in Tblisi, recounts the USD14 billion in direct economic losses suffered in Georgia since 1975 has made it an issue the private sector can no longer afford to ignore.
Forty representatives from the private sector in Georgia attended a two=day 'Make Your Enterprise Disaster and Climate Resilient' workshop in Tblisi. ONEA-GETI teamed up with the International Chamber of Commerce in Georgia to deliver the successful forum.
Korea's love affair with the Making Cities Resilient campaign continues. A remarkable 126 municipalities have now joined UNISDR's thriving global movement
Head of UNISDR ONEA-GETI Sanjaya Bhatia (pictured right) highlighted UNISDR's thriving Making Cities Resilient Campaign at the World Congress of Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI). Their World Congress - titled 'Sustainable Solutions of an Urban Future' - attracted several mayors and thousands of delegates to Seoul, Korea.
Up to 100 GETI alumni were present in Japan for the World Conference where the new Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction was adopted. The future is a busy and exciting one for GETI. Catch up on some of the key issues here
The first meeting in three years between the Foreign Ministers of China, Japan, and South Korea in Seoul affirmed their collective commitment to strengthened trilateral cooperation on a number of issues including disaster management. GETI has been working closely with the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat in this area. Most recently a joint workshop was held here in Incheon (pictured) to strengthen urban resilience in cities from each of the three countries.
Experts on response and preparedness from Korea's new Ministry of Public Safety and Security (MPSS) have discussed how to strengthen disaster management with colleagues from the US.
The Green Climate Fund - our neighbours in G-Tower, the home of international organisations in Songdo New City, Incheon - told the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction that human and economic losses because of climate‐related disasters need to be significantly reduced.
Want to know where key meetings are, how to get around Sendai City and some key practical information for the World Conference then look no further than this great guide.
Several members of GETI's alumni will be taking the #ROAD2SENDAI both in spirit and substance. Here Alexey Chirikov, the Dean of Russia's Civil Defence Academy, signals his support for global disaster resilience efforts from a chilly Moscow.
All disasters, even the bigger ones, are ultimately local in their impact. This presents a huge opportunity for GETI in its work to support the building of local capacity. Will the hundreds of policymakers who will meet at the World Conference on DRR in March 2015, in Sendai seize the moment? Read this blog on the WCDRR website from GETI's Andy McElroy
GETI held its second Make Your Business Disaster and Climate Resilient forum, in Suva, Fiji. A range of businesses, including strong representation from critical infrastructure entities such as the airport, port and water utilities, engaged in a step-by-step planning of their risk.
Forty representatives from municipalities from China, Japan and Rep. of Korea forged stronger partnerships at a disaster risk management forum held at GETI, in Incheon.
GETI was delighted to host a senior official from Sendai, Japan, the host city of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction at a major forum in partnership with the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat here in Incheon
Senior officials from 73 Korean cities attended a two-day forum on Urban Risk Reduction and Resilience at GETI in December. Those present included representatives from the new Ministry of Public Safety and Security. At the event nine local municipalities joined UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient campaign bringing the total number of Korean cities in the initiative to 109
GETI provided support to a senior member of Pakistan's National University of Science and Technology Risalpur campus, the first faculty in the country to offer a Master's course in disaster risk management. Dr Naeem Shahzad was one of 25 practitioners working at the 'DRR frontline' who participated in a GETI Capacity Development for Making Cities Resilient course run in partnership with CIFAL Jeju and UNITAR
In the first seven months of 2014, GETI facilitated resilience action planning at nine forums in Armenia, India, Mongolia, Philippines, Qatar, and Republic of Korea, for more than 500 city and national DRR practitioners and policymakers from more than 26 countries
Regional organisations are key partners for GETI and its links with SAARC in South Asia look set to open up more capacity building support in the world's most populous region.
Armenia's Ministry of Emergency Situations teamed up with GETI to help propel efforts at city and national level to address disaster risk across the country. The country ie emerging as a model of resilience planning in action.
GETI's trainings are not just theory and concepts that quickly evaporates into thin air. We bring international experience to the table and engage with cities and ministries at the 'coal face' of practice. Take a look at this draft resilience action plan from Stepanavan, Armenia, which is guiding policy and practice on the ground.
GETI made the Business Case for DRR to more than 60 representatives of the private sector at a major forum in Manila, hosted in partnership with SM Prime.
GETI has worked hard over recent months to strengthen links with Central Asia and the Caucasus with a series of events. The HFA2 consultation in April 2014 enabled the region's voice to be heard on what the priorities should be in the post-2015 Framework for DRR.
The municipality of Muntinlupa is nestled in the extraordinarily vibrant - yet vulnerable and exposed - metro Manila area of the Philippines. City leaders, with the support of GETI, are seeking to build on local capacity and strengthen their approach to building resilience.
City planners and DRR practitioners from the Indian capital of New Delhi have begun pinpointing actions to reinforce the Ten Essentials of UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign, with the support of GETI
GETI has made big strides in connecting with the Korean public and raising the issue of disaster risk management. Here GETI Head Sanjaya Bhatia tells how preparedness is key to reducing disaster risk
GETI has launched a thrice-yearly newsletter to keep pace with its expanding portfolio of capacity building work and to better link up with its global alumni of more than 500 DRR policymakers and practitioner around the world.
The Republic of Korea is at the forefront of UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign. GETI Head Sanjaya Bhatia told the Korean Herald that the country should be proud of the global lead it is providing in building city resilience.
KOICA brought officials and practitioners from nine countries convened to the Central Civil Defence and Disaster Management Institute (CDI) of Korean NEMA in Cheonan city for two weeks of training. GETI worked with the group for three days on issues of urban resilience.
Fifteen DRR practitioners from eight Asian countries made the most of excellent facilities of the UNITAR CIFAL-Jeju centre to swap experience at a GETI-facilitated forum to strengthen resilience in April 2014. We'll be back there in October 2014 to repeat what was a vibrant four days.
Twenty-five top officials from cities in seven countries converged on the GETI conference centre and shared their vast experience of reducing the exposure and vulnerability to disasters of their citizens.
The Philippines is one of the key partner countries for GETI and a resilience action planning workshop in 2014 helped mayors who are battling with complex issues on the ground focus on the essentials of disaster risk-sensitive recovery.
Ninety-eight Korean municipalities are now part of the global Making Cities Resilient Campaign and more are set to join. This Korean language version of the handbook is a key reference for local government leaders working to make their communities more resilient.
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|Global volcanic hazards and risk: Technical background paper SOURCE: UNISDR; IAVCEI; GVM
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|Detailed building stock at regional scale in three size categories of settlements for 18 countries worldwide SOURCE: UNISDR; WAPMERR
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|People-centred early warning systems and disaster risk reduction SOURCE: UNISDR; TISS
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|Pathways of transformation: Disaster Risk Management to enhance development goals SOURCE: King's College; GNDR; UNISDR
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|GAR15 regional vulnerability functions SOURCE: UNISDR; Australia - gov
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|Finding the missing thread: The inclusion of a human rights-based approach in tackling climate change mitigation, adaptation and disaster risk reduction SOURCE: UNISDR; Faculty of Political Science and Journalism; ICHR
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|Institutionalising climate smart disaster risk management approach SOURCE: UNISDR; AIDMI
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|Loss and damage, vulnerability and constraints to adaptation: Case study findings SOURCE: UNISDR; UNU-EHS; Germanwatch
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|Preparing Metro Manila toward urban resiliency: Prospects and retrospect SOURCE: UNISDR; CDP
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|A review of progress in the integration of disaster risk reduction into Australian school curricula programs and materials SOURCE: UNISDR; Molino Stewart
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|Addressing loss and damage at the national level: Lessons from Bangladesh SOURCE: UNISDR; King's College
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|Post-disaster challenges and opportunities: Lessons from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and Great Eastern Japan earthquake and tsunami SOURCE: WB; UNISDR; Kyoto Univ; ResOrgs
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|What drives transformations in meso level disaster risk governance? SOURCE: UNISDR; DIIS
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|Mitigating the adverse financial effects of natural hazards on the economies of Central Asia SOURCE: UNISDR CA; WB; CAREC
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|Preliminary examination of existing methodologies for allocating and tracking national government budget for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Indonesia SOURCE: ADB; ADPC; UNISDR AP
|Water and disaster: High-Level Expert Panel on Water and Disaster/UNSGAB SOURCE: WWC; UNISDR Hyogo; UNSGAB; KWF; JWF
|Strengthening hydro-meteorlogical services in Southeast Asia SOURCE: WB; WMO; PAGASA, Philippines - gov; UNISDR AP; GFDRR; MONRE, Viet Nam - gov; MOWRAM, Cambodia - gov; BMKG, Indonesia - gov; MONRE, Lao People's Democratic Republic - gov
|Central Asia and Caucasus Disaster Risk Management Initiative (CAC DRMI) SOURCE: WB; WMO; UNISDR EUR; UNISDR CA
|South Asia disaster risk management programme: synthesis report on SAR countries disaster risks SOURCE: RMSI; WB; UNISDR AP
|Relationship between natural disasters and poverty: A Fiji case study SOURCE: SPC/SOPAC; UNISDR Pacific
|Lesson learned and way forward for resilient shelter interventions in rural Myanmar SOURCE: UN-HABITAT; UNISDR
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It hasn't relocated to properly zoned land, or stopped making grout, as instructed.
By CHUIN-WEI YAP
Published March 4, 2007
LAND O'LAKES - Hunt Road, narrow and unpaved, threaded through a dense citrus grove when William "W.R." Absher moved there 11 years ago.
Most of the orange trees have since given way to development, a common story in this fast-growing region. Absher witnessed the biggest clearing yet when Earth Tech decided to move to Hunt Road in 1996.
Earth Tech is a company that specializes in filling sinkholes and stabilizing the ground for building.
They were good neighbors at first, Absher said.
Then, things changed.
About two years ago, trucks started hauling sand and cement in and out to manufacture grout. Clouds of dust choked their wake. Tailgates slammed and industrial noises startled neighbors out of their beds at 5 a.m.
"It's like a bomb going off," Absher said. "Sometimes, when the wind picks up, it's a dustbowl out here."
What started as a quiet, clean business suddenly got noisy and dirty.
This would have been fine had Earth Tech been in an area zoned for industrial use.
But it isn't. The company sits in a commercial zone. Officials say the area cannot be legally rezoned to suit Earth Tech's purposes.
Two years ago, the county ordered Earth Tech to move to properly zoned land, or cease making grout.
For two years, the company did neither.
It did pay the county's $500 fine.
In February 2006, Earth Tech bought a properly zoned site on five acres in Hudson, but it has yet to move there.
On Thursday, the company received its second court citation and another $500 fine.
"They've been in the process for months now of trying to relocate this plant," Dean Birch, Earth Tech's lawyer, said Friday. "We fully expect the plant will be moved in the next couple months."
* * *
Grout is the lifeblood of a company like Earth Tech.
The substance's main ingredients are cement and sand, which sit in large mounds in the open on Earth Tech's grounds.
It is also the cement and sand, combined with a fleet of at least 11 mixer trucks, that cough up the fog and noise that infuriate Earth Tech's neighbors.
"I've been here about 22 years now," said Arthur "Skip" Schaer, another neighbor. "Until the plant came, there were no complaints from anybody."
Founded in 1991, Earth Tech is headed by Ron Broadrick and his father, Lewis Broadrick.
They moved their operation from Lutz to Land O'Lakes in 1996.
Earth Tech used to buy grout from businesses like Keys Concrete. But it soon became cheaper for Earth Tech to cut out the middleman.
In 2004, as Pasco's sinkhole-related insurance crisis was coming into full bloom, Earth Tech was poised to take advantage of the economic opportunity presented by homeowners cashing in on insurance payouts to fix their homes.
Meanwhile, Ron Broadrick, the company president, demonstrated a commitment to his community. He was president of Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Tampa Bay, whose chief executive, Stephen Koch, spoke well of Broadrick. Broadrick also sat on the board of the For Kids' Sake Foundation in Orlando.
On Friday, at his Land O'Lakes office, Broadrick was asked for an interview. Later, Birch called to speak for the company.
Birch said Broadrick ran into problems with permitting that delayed the move, but they have since been resolved. He said there were snags in Earth Tech's attempts to buy the land.
"It's not been for lack of effort on their part," Birch said.
Birch attributed the most recent citation to "probably a new county employee" who may not have known about the company's efforts to move.
Earth Tech ran into difficulty last April with another government agency, the state Department of Environmental Protection, which fined the company $9,500 because it failed to promptly file a permit notification for air quality controls.
Last week, the mixers were still churning and the trucks still chugging at Earth Tech. Nearby, Southern Crafted Homes was gearing up to start selling homes in a 94-acre subdivision called Devonwood.
David Bevin, a Hunt Road resident who brought the first round of complaints against Earth Tech in 2004, grew frustrated.
"Nothing has happened," Bevin said. "I've been on their case at least three years now. The county told me they are supposed to go over to Hudson, but it's no good."
On Thursday, Patrick J. Phillips, who heads Pasco's code enforcement department, explained that part of the reason for Earth Tech's delay stems from Florida statutes, which allow for a "reasonable" amount of time to fix the problem.
But the two-year lag is too much, he said.
"The amount of time that's gone by is long enough," he said.
Birch said he was not sure why Pasco issued the second citation, but now underlines the company's intention to abide by the county's rules.
"It's something that the company has been working on for months and months," he said. "It's something that Earth Tech wants to do."
Fast Facts:
Earth Tech
The sinkhole and soil stabilization company faces citations from Pasco County that require them to move their grout-manufacturing operations and pay a $500 fine.
- Founded: 1991
- Address: 2620 Hunt Road, northwest of State Road 54 and U.S. 41
- Directors: Ron and Lewis Broadrick, both of Lutz
- Web site: www.floridasinkhole.com
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Those looks very soft for a 4 minute bake. Were they soft?
Certainly not crispy, fold at the end, not overly soft. I find the Caputo adds that aspect.Mark


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I have conflicting emotions. Having experienced the
I have conflicting emotions. Having experienced the pressure that comes from religion and people within the religion as a child, there is a side of me that feels anxious by this. But then there's another part of me that recalls, "But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, "Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these," and "At that time Jesus said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants." (Mark 10:14 and Matt 11:25)
Not knowing the parents or the church or the child, I don't want to judge. However, yes, growing up in a religious environment is certainly influential and not necessarily in all ways that are good.

She looks like a little old lady!

She looks like a little old lady!

There is something to be said for worship practices that
There is something to be said for worship practices that are physical, visceral and teachable to others. There is a kind of synchrony between music, gesture and brain going on here that does generate a sense of unity within the assembly and some sort of communion with the Divine, however that is understood. Re-linking people, earth, and the Divine is what religion (re-ligio, re-link) has always been about. The experience of the "re-link" or the "sync up" may be a good thing in itself regardless of the textual framing of the experience. If the textual framing is also generating something good-- something that speaks from and promotes such re-linking interpersonally, infrapersonally and transpersonally, that seems to be a good thing, too.

As parents and adults, we model behavior for our children
As parents and adults, we model behavior for our children. Modeling a worship style is not any different. I think it is important! As a child grows - he/she can naturally develop their own worship style if they are given an early foundation. We should empower our children with a love of worship. Regarding physical forms of worship - I have a child on the autism spectrum - he loves "hip hop" worship (as long as it is not too loud) - he's told me he's glad he can use his whole body to worship God instead of sitting still and being uncomfortable!

Here's another one, with subtitles that may or may not be
Here's another one, with subtitles that may or may not be accurate.

Mixed feelings here, too. We can't know from watching
Mixed feelings here, too. We can't know from watching whether this child was looking for approval in the context of scarcity or from a companionable and secure joining in. I do believe that during early childhood we're probably more able to tune in to our own intrinsic experience of spirituality, whether or not that reflects the religious beliefs and practices of our family and community. One's family and community will, of course, influence that at some point. However we might define what's going on here, that child will inevitably decide for herself what's what.
As for the connection of movement and spiritual practices, I think it's wise to consider the depth of experience and integration that many in western cultures miss. Think of whirling dervishes, tribal Native American, Australian and African spiritual practices, and how a great many of us are fascinated and drawn in. I suspect this is one reason why evangelical religions are growing so rampantly in the US.


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Serving Size ½ of recipe
Calories 406
Total Fat 22 g
Saturated Fat 7.5 g
Sodium 589 mg
Total Carbohydrate 26 g
Dietary Fiber 4.5 g
Protein 28 g
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Olive oil 2 teaspoons
Sirloin steak, visible fat trimmed and cut into 1-inch cubes ½ pound
All-purpose flour 2 tablespoons
Portabella mushroom caps 2
Small white onion, chopped ½
Medium tomato, chopped 1
Frozen lima beans, thawed 1 cup
Reduced-sodium beef broth 1 cup
Dried thyme ¼ teaspoon
Salt ¼ teaspoon
Freshly ground pepper to taste
- Heat oil in a large Dutch oven or pot over medium-high heat. Coat steak with flour and cook, stirring occasionally, until browned on all sides, about 3 minutes. Transfer meat to a plate and cover.
- Stir in mushrooms, onions, and tomatoes and cook for 3 minutes. Add lima beans, broth, thyme, salt, and pepper to pot. Bring to a boil and then reduce heat and simmer, stirring often, until broth has thickened, about 5 minutes.
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Steve DeKoker, an avid runner and head of Brooks Sport's Inspire Daily program in Seattle, Washington, breaks a race down. "Focus on small goals within a race or long run," he says. " I compartmentalize my mental anxiety into segments, and then 26.2 miles, for example, is only 26 individual miles, eight 5Ks or two sets of 13.1-milers."
Do not make something as familiar as a race become an anxiety source. Adds elite mountain runner Alex Nichols, 26, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, "During races I try to only think about being relaxed and fast. As soon as I start to worry I lose running efficiency. I run my best races when I run relaxed."
Mistake #4: Using negative words for motivation
Don't stop. I can't get passed. While self talk is important during a race, negative words may trigger performance-harming emotions. For example, telling yourself "Don't stop" might bring attention to your fatigue.
According to a 2000 study comparing negative and positive self talk with tennis players, Dr. Judy Van Raalte and colleagues at Springfield College in Massachusetts, found that negative self talk often stems from mistakes during a poor performance and can inhibit later performances. We've all had bad races. And, if we're not careful, we can let them get in the way of a potentially excellent performance.
WHAT TO DO INSTEAD. Shift focus away from negative (pressure) words or phrases such as don't, won't or have to. Use positive words like calm and cool or strong and smooth.
Dr. Janet Shaw, an ultrarunner and exercise physiologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City envisioned herself deflecting negativity during a rough patch in her first 100-mile race. "I envisioned Wonder Woman using her bracelets to deflect bullets. But instead of bullets, I deflected my negative thoughts," she says.
Stephen Gonzalez, M.S., of Salt Lake City, is a sports psychology consultant (www.elitemindsetconsulting.com) and former NCAA Division I runner.


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by Anton Shilov
The world's largest memory manufacturer Samsung Electronics on Tuesday proposed to acquire SanDisk Corp. for $5.85 billion, offering a huge premium over the current stock price of the flash memory maker. However, SanDisk said that it was not interested in the deal.
"We remain prepared to acquire all of the outstanding shares of SanDisk for $26 per share in cash. […] This offer is full and fair and we believe that, given an opportunity, your shareholders would agree. It constitutes a very substantial premium to SanDisk's share price and would deliver to your shareholders an immediate cash premium of 93% over SanDisk's closing share price on September 4, 2008, the day before news reports indicated that we were in discussions about a business combination," a statement by Samsung Electronics reads.
The transaction would cost Samsung $5.85 billion, which is actually a premium of 80% over SanDisk's closing share price on September 15, 2008, and a 66% and 164% premium to the company's 30-day weighted average price and enterprise value as of September 4, 2008, respectively.
However, SanDisk reportedly referred to 52-week high – which was about $55 per share – in order to convince Samsung to pay considerably more than it agreed to. The South Korea-based Samsung insists that overall condition of the world's economy got much worse than they were and SanDisk's business and value changed drastically.
"The world has changed dramatically in the past 52 weeks as can be seen from SanDisk's own disappointing results. Consumer spending and the overall economic situation have been getting worse. It will take the NAND flash market quite a bit of time to recover. Notwithstanding the current market conditions, to stay competitive, SanDisk will need to fund critical investment and development over the next several months – cost cutting alone will not suffice," the statement by Samsung claims.
Nevertheless, in its final letter to the world's largest maker of memory SanDisk said that it still considers Samsung's proposal undervalued.
"We believe Samsung's proposal does not provide appropriate value to our stockholders and is opportunistically timed at the trough of an industry-wide downturn. In our view, this proposal fails to recognize the value of our patent portfolio, in particular to Samsung, our significant investments in our strategic partnerships, and our technology leadership in 3 and 4 bits per cell flash memory, advanced controllers and three dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory. We believe we have the strategy, execution record, innovation and financial resources to return to profitable growth and be the flash memory leader in new growth markets in mobile devices, solid state disk, and portable consumer electronics," said Eli Harari, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of SanDisk.
The combination of Samsung Electronics and SanDisk would create a major force on the market of NAND flash and would allow Samsung to boost its market share that is already about one third of the market.


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I have done the same thing. Some brands of mozz are notoriously bland, requiring a bit of salt added to the water. But a bit is all, as I have also over salted mozz doing this. I have also soaked the cheese in salt and heavy cream to try and boost the level of creaminess. Haven't done either in awhile though.Chau


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Event Details: TC WEEK: Yoga on the Lawn
Join us for Yoga on the Lawn!
Saturday, September 7, 2013
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Columbia University Mathematics Building Lawn
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ALL ages and levels welcome!
Yoga Instructor, Heather Van Uxem Lewis, will lead you in a morning yoga flow class designed for ALL LEVELS. New to yoga? Great! Heather's clear instructions will guide you into alignment. Advanced practitioners will also find this class satisfies their daily yoga needs. This class is particularly designed to get you ready for the new year ahead. Being a doctoral student at Teachers College herself, she knows the rigors of graduate school well.
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Animals can succumb to a number of illnesses ranging from arthritis to diabetes and even cancer. VCA Animal Hospitals reports one such cancer is called oral melanoma and is the most common malignant oral tumor in dogs.
Oral melanoma is a tumor of the melanin pigment-producing cells (called melanocytes) in the mouth. These tumors tend to grow rapidly and are difficult to remove completely—even with surgery. Many times small amounts of the tumor will remain, leaving a chance for the cancer to grow again, sometimes spreading to other regions in a dog's body.
Although it is the most common form of mouth cancer in dogs, the cause of oral melanoma is not straightforward. In people, melanoma tends to stem from exposure to ultraviolet irradiation from the sun, however it is not certain whether pets get the skin cancer in the same way.
VCA reports that cancer tends to occur in older animals and the average age for a dog to develop oral melanoma is 11 years old. Clinical signs of oral melanoma include swelling of the gums, bleeding or the development of a secondary infection, which may cause bad breath. An owner should bring a dog with any of these signs to a veterinarian clinic for examination. If a vet is concerned about oral melanoma or another form of cancer, bloodwork and x-rays will likely be performed to screen a dog's organ health prior to surgery. The most common form of treatment for oral melanoma is surgical removal, though other treatments will likely be recommended due to the malignant nature of this tumor.


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Topic: Best way to deal with ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
Ok. This is coming up a lot for me.
In most cases, it's not a big deal.
I just want to deal with it like a conditional:
def find (topic_type)
User.find(@user.id, :include => 'topics', :conditions => ["topics.type=?", topic_type]).topics
rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
return nil
and then just pass it along from the controller to the view.
it knows how to deal with no results!
my_favorites = Favorite.new(session['user'])
@my_topics = my_favorites.find topic_type
render :template => 'shared/topics/favorites'
But it's not working for some reason.
In most cases now I find myself checking exists?
first, which I'd rather not do for the extra database hit.
However, it tends to work more like my thinking out the problem.
And don't even get me started on rescue_action_in_public, which
only seems to work in my application_controller, not in any
specific controllers I use...


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Rino's Special
Recipe courtesy of Tony DiCenso, owner, Rino's Place in East Boston, MA
- Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
- 4 (4-ounce) thinly sliced veal cutlets (scaloppini)
- 4 (4-ounce) thinly sliced chicken tenderloins
- 2 ounces all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 12 shiitake mushrooms cleaned and stems discarded, then sliced
- 6 ounces oyster mushrooms, trimmed
- 3 ounces porcini mushrooms chopped
- 4 large shrimp, shelled and deveined
- Salt and fresh ground black pepper
- 3 tablespoons brandy
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 stick butter
- Chopped parsley leaves, for garnish
Pound the veal and chicken into 1/4-inch thick slices, between sheets of plastic wrap or waxed paper. Add the flour to a large shallow dish. Dredge the veal and chicken in the flour. Heat the olive oil in a large saute pan over medium to low heat. Add veal and chicken and brown on 1 side only. Add all of the mushrooms and saute for 1 to 2 minutes. Drain the oil from the pan, add the shrimp and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Add the brandy and carefully ignite it with a long kitchen match to burn off the alcohol. Stir in the heavy cream and butter and let the sauce reduce for 3 to 4 minutes. Ready to serve. Arrange 1 piece of veal, 1 piece of chicken and 1 shrimp on each serving plate. Top with some mushrooms and sauce and garnish with parsley. Can be served over pasta, if desired.
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Twitter – For Your Business Marketing
Twitter has fully established itself now among the business community as an incredibly efficient marketing tool. With many organisations using Twitter as a way of connecting and engaging with their customers, its power comes in the fact that it is incredibly easy to use, can reach a wide range of people quickly and of course, its free.
Twitter says:
"Every day millions of people use Twitter to create, discover and share ideas with others. Now, people are turning to Twitter as an effective way to reach out to businesses, too. From local stores to big brands, and from brick and mortar to internet based or service sector, people are finding great value in the connections they make with businesses on Twitter
Here are some great reasons for using Twitter in your business:
1. Connections
Staying connected is what drives business use on Twitter. Product updates, offers, promotions, feedback, recruitment are all reasons to get in contact with customers, and because Twitter has become part of everyday life, you can get in touch with people in an instant. The key is in building your community and your followers. Squeeze media can advise on building your followers and automate your company updates.
2. Feedback
Getting feedback from your customers about your services or products is a great way for you to expand and improve your business. All feedback is good feedback and if people have something to say about your product, you will surely hear about it on Twitter. Market research has never been as accessible and instant.
3. Marketing
Unlike other forms of advertising, Twitter is free! This means that you can reach your client base with promotional offers at any time you want. You can include links to QR codes, coupons, discounts to drive interest in your business. Dell computers are a great example of how they have used Twitter to increase their market share and according to Mashable.com, have increased sales by over $6.5 million. http://mashable.com/2009/12/08/dell-twitter-sales/
4. Information and updates
Need to let your clients know something urgently? Twitter can be a great way of spreading that message in an instant to your followers.
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Once you have built up a base of followers and your tweets are considered valuable, your messages will go viral, spreading your messages beyond your followers and increasing your potential client base.
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Here's the simplest answer of all, don't use Reinhart's book What kind of style are you looking to make? We can steer you towards a good recipe.
Most recently I followed this recipe.
If I wanted to cold ferment any pizza dough, from 24-48 hrs, how would I determine the yeast and hydration amounts?Also, I've seen some references regarding over-fermentation. How do you know if that has occured?
My kitchen oven will not allow me to get the temps needed to cook a true neopolitan pizza. My KEG, on the other hand, can get pretty hot, in excess of 700 degrees.The pizza oven I will be making should be able to get in excess of 800+ so my goal is for 1000, not necessarily always at that temp but would like to be able to do a pizza in the 90 second range.


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3 Things You Should Know About Small Business: January 10
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- What's happening in small business today?
1. Do consumers actually shop with their smartphones? Um, yes -- $25 billion was spent via phones and tablets last year, up 81% from the year before, according to a survey cited in the New York Times ' Bits blog .
True, that's just 11% of total e-commerce sales, but it's a growing percentage. Mobile commerce is expected to reach 15% of total e-commerce sales this year, and eMarketer, the company that conducted the survey, "predicts that by 2016, mobile will be $87 billion, or a quarter of all e-commerce," the article says.
Mobile shoppers are also spending a surprising amount, eMarketer says -- purchases average $329 per order on tablets and $250 when on phones.
This is significant given the process' many challenges, including small screens that complicate viewing and typing.
"Many mobile storefronts have problems that make buying difficult," says Clark Fredricksen, vice president of communications at eMarketer. "Even though sessions often start on smartphones, in the end consumers end up turning to computers or retail stores or even a tablet to seal the deal."
2. A Texas start-up is taking on big players in the lighting industry. iLumi Solutions has created an energy-efficient light bulb that provides not only white light, but hues of multiple colors -- all controlled wirelessly through a smartphone. The Plano, Texas, start-up is taking on the competitive lighting market dominated by such large players as General Electric (GE) , Philips (PHG) and Samsung, according to The Dallas Morning News .
"Our focus is on making a simple, easy-to-use and engaging product that is going to give people an amazing experience with their lighting," iLumi chief executive and co-founder Corey Egan tells the paper.
Even more interesting, the company is selling its iLumi light bulbs via a crowdfunding Web portal, Indiegogo, hoping to raise $1 million in seed money
It is not easy to enter the LED market; production and packaging is expensive. But LEDs are expected to dominate the market by 2020, the article says.
3. Hire smarter in 2013. If you're ready to add to your team, Rieva Lesonsky writes in Small Business Trends , take note of these tips to recruit the right candidates and waste minimal time with employees that don't suit your needs.
First, make sure you target your recruiting. Instead of posting on a big, general-interest job site, home in on the job search sites most relevant to your industry and your hiring needs.
Try using social media to find job candidates. Lesonsky recommends using LinkedIn (LNKD) , particularly the LinkedIn groups, for networking and finding qualified employees.
Don't forget to maximize your own website for job posting, with a "meaty 'About' section" and a tab with job opportunities and information about working at your company. Finally, enlist your own employees (if they are reliable) to recommend someone for the job. Ask them to spread the word and sweeten the pot with a finder's fee if someone recommends a candidate who gets hired and completes a 90-day probation period, Lesonsky writes.


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THE RAJASTHAN STATE COOPERATIVE BANK LIMITED RTGS HO Branch in JAIPUR - Address, IFSC, MICR Code
RSCB0000010MICR Code
22/32/01 SAWARN PATH MANSAROVAR JAIPUR - 302020City
What is IFSC Code of THE RAJASTHAN STATE COOPERATIVE BANK LIMITED situated at MANSAROVAR- RTGS-HO?
IFSC Code of THE RAJASTHAN STATE COOPERATIVE BANK LIMITED situated at MANSAROVAR - RTGS-HO is
What is the meaning of IFSC Code, MICR Codes in Banking industry?
IFSC or Indian Financial System Code is the code allocated to all banks branches. Bank branches use this code to participate in RTGS and NEFT transactions.
What is the significance of IFSC Code and how we can use it?
IFSC Code is a 11 digit code and we can use this code to communicate between different branches of different banks. Upon receiving the request for fund transfer it is easy for a bank to identify the payee branch. First four characters are code of bank, last six digits are branch code and fifth character is left 0, for any future use.


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Delivering as One
In the Outcome document of the 2005 World Summit (A/RES/60/1), the world leaders reaffirmed their commitment to build on ongoing reforms and called for improved alignment of policy formulation and operational activities, as well as for better coordination and stronger system-wide coherence. Subsequently, the High-level Panel on United Nations System-wide Coherence in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment submitted its report, Delivering as One (A/61/583), which recommended to overcome the fragmentation of the United Nations system and bring together the system's numerous assets to deliver as one at all levels in the pursuit of one set of goals.
In 2008, the General Assembly adopted the resolution on system-wide coherence (A/RES/62/277) that has demonstrated the broad support of the UN membership to the process and decided that "the continuing and deepening intergovernmental work of the General Assembly on system-wide coherence will focus exclusively and in an integrated manner on 'Delivering as One' at country and regional levels, harmonization of business practices, funding, governance, and gender equality and the empowerment of women".
Pursuant to the Delivering as One initiative, and recalling the outcomes of the major UN conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields including the 2005 World Summit, the resolution on the Quadranial Comprehensive Policy Review of Operational Activities for Development of the UN system (A/RES/67/226) adopted by the General Assembly in January 2013 highlighted the importance attached by member States to strengthened system-wide coherence as a vehicle for improving the relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of the United Nations development system. In this resolution, member States reaffirmed the role of regional dimension of development and noted the contribution of the UN regional commissions to achieving the internationally agreed development goals. Recognizing the comparative advantage of the United Nations development system at the regional level, member States urged the regional commissions and other United Nations organisations to intensify their support of country-level development initiatives, in alignment with the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and in close coordination with the United Nations resident coordinators and country teams. The resolution also reaffirmed the increased importance of South-South cooperation and called upon the organizations of the United Nations system, including the regional commissions, to establish and/or improve mechanisms to promote knowledge-sharing on successful development experiences and best practices through South-South cooperation.
The UNECE's Technical Cooperation Strategy, adopted in 2007 as a result of its reform stated that "the UNECE will increase its involvement in national level planning mechanisms, such as the Common Country Assessment (CCA), the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper in order to encourage the incorporation of transboundary policy issues into these mechanisms".Pursuant to the Strategy and in response to GA resolutions on UN system wide coherence, the UNECE has been actively involved in the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) process in all countries with economies in transition since 2008. In addition, it participates in the One UN pilot programme in Albania and Montenegro (a self-starter). At the regional level, UNECE contributes to the work of the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) (formerly Regional Directors Team or RDT) for Europe and CIS. The main objective of the UNDG is to provide coherent technical support to Resident Coordinators and the UN Country teams for the achievement of country-level results.At the global level, UNECE has been contributing to the work of the Inter-Agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity established in 2008 by the Chief Executives Board (CEB) for coordination of UN trade and development operational work. It has also been contributing to the work of UN-Energy, an interagency mechanism established in 2004 for promoting UN system-wide coherence in energy-related operational work.
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