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A hard week from 13 to 17 December for the main international markets (Milan -2.0%, London +1.0, Frankfurt -0.3%, Paris +0.3%).
After Moody's downgrade of Ireland (Aa2 to Baa1) and the decision to monitor Spain's rating (AA1), fears for the financial stability of the peripheral countries in Euroland were reawakened. Bank and insurance shares suffered with the respective European benchmark indexes down by 2.8% and 1.4%.
The negative figures for new car registrations in Eastern Europe in November (-8.3% yoy) hit the Auto sector, down by 2.1% (DJ Stoxx Auto).
Tyre sector shares were hit too (Continental -6.5%, Michelin, -1.4%) suffering, in addition to the auto figures, from the continuous rise in the cost of natural rubber, with futures touching 4.7$/kg (RSS 3) and 4.6$/Kg (TRS20), .
Pirelli contained its losses closing the week almost at par (-0.3%) outdoing both the European benchmark index (+1.8pp) and the FTSEMib (+1.7pp). Share dealings fell with an average of approx. 1.6 million pieces exchanged (monthly average over 3 million).
Centrobanca's upgrade of the share (BUY at 7.35€ from 7€) following its reviewed assessment of the tyre business is worth note: +9% at 2.68 billion €, a multiple P/E of 10.7x in 2011 in line with the average of its peers but up on Michelin by 16%. Forecasts are for average annual growth in tyre profits of 6.5% and an EBIT margin of 9.5% in 2013 (EBIT of 556 million €).
The reduced risk of M&A, high exposure on emerging markets, "sound debt position" and "safe dividend policy" were particularly appreciated according to brokers. The development of business in Russia also acted as an important stock catalyst.
IMI bank's addition of Pirelli to the "securities to bet on in 2011" is also worth noting. Its focus on the premium sector and redistribution of production (with the projects in China, Latin America and Russia) will enable Pirelli to achieve and probably exceed its objectives despite the constant increase in cost of raw materials.
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aRtECYCLE is an exhibition of sculptures and installations using reclaimed materials
May 24, 2011 in Art, Calendar, Competition, Crafts, Exhibition, Melbourne+VIC, Mixed Media, Sustainable
May 5, 2011 to June 12, 2011
Exploring themes of environmentalism and sustainability. Inspired by the venues' history and a non-acquisitive prize pool of $10,000, it attracts artists from all over Australia.
Incinerator Arts Complex, 180 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds, Melbourne.

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text: Good luck. Like Captain jack said, be training and working on distances much greater than the max, with more cover and factors than they will generally throw at you. Make sure OB is TIGHT and have fun. You always want your dog to be UNDERwhelmed on test days. But there are a lot of things you will see, hear, and put your dog in situations that are hard to mimic in training.


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I keep my webblog over here.
I keep my webblog over here.
It has been a while since I last posted. I have gotten Mozilla running on Mac OS X. I have recently written a new file picker for Mozilla to use on Unix and have been working on getting Mozilla running on my new NetWinder I picked up. Blizzard has been kicking ass latley getting things like drag and drop working.
In my never ending quest to make Mozilla faster, I finally got a Sparc Ultra60 to run Quantify on, simply to find out that Quantify does not run on Solaris 8. (Why doesn't Linux have any development tools that don't suck?) arrrgggh!
I think my next goal is to get Mozilla running on my PalmVx. This should be interesting...
I have been playing Crazy Taxi latley. This game is one of those games that really sucks but you keep coming back to play it. I am at the end of both Jet Force Gemini and Final Fantasy VIII. I should really finish those two games and get some new ones. I suppose I should reinstall Windows98 on my NT box here so that I can play some of the cool new games.
I had an excellent Christmas. Spending the day with family was actually a lot of fun. I got a 3' Tux! He's huge and looks damn cool. I also got some clothes, books, CDs, and video games. Jet Force Gemini is very addictive. Quake 3 unfortunately must wait until I get back to California due to a small "lack of good hardware" issue in my current location. I did get a few large things that will have to be shipped back to California since they wont fit in my suitcase... Oh well. I hope everyone else had a great Christmas.
Today is Christmas. I'm home for the holidays with my parents and sibbligs. I have no idea what kind of presents I'm going to be getting from them. Today should be interesting, spending a good portion of the day at my grandmother's house with my family and my aunt, uncle and cousins. I got my brother and sister something I think they will both like, so today should be a pretty good day.
Balsa did get released on the 21st and the response has been positive.
My first diary entry...
Well, things have been going good. I'm currently back in Georgia for the holidays. A few weeks ago, my life got much better when I met a beautiful woman named Meg. Currently we are both away on vacation, but I'm looking forward to seeing her when I get back.
Mozilla has been moving along very well these last weeks. M12 should be out sometime this week and a new release of Balsa should be out tonight.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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On occasion I feature a new release, apart from my interviews with authors. Readers, please note: rather than giving the author's book away, I simply add commenters' names an extra time to existing drawings.
This week let's take a look at Cindy Woodsmall's novel, The Bridge of Peace (Waterbrook Press, August 2010).
A little about Cindy:
Cindy Woodsmall is a New York Times best-selling author whose connection with the Amish community has been featured on ABC Nightline and on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. She's coauthor of an upcoming spring release, Plain Wisdom, which is a nonfiction book of touching and humorous life events written with an Old Order Amish friend.
About the book:
Headstrong schoolteacher Lena Kauffman finds herself at the center of controversy in her Amish community when a young man in her classroom refuses to submit to her authority. As her friends and family rally around her, especially longtime friend Grey Graber, things go from bad to worse when Grey's wife, Elsie, becomes an accidental target in trouble meant for Lena. As the present unravels around them, each must find their own way through their private pain in order to find peace and a brighter future.
The Bridge of Peace is the second novel in the Ada's House series and it returns to Dry Lake, Pennsylvania, and the beloved characters from The Hope of Refuge. The Hope of Refuge--Christy finalist, Inspirational Readers Choice Contest finalist, and a Carol Award finalist.
To read the first chapter of The Bridge of Peace, go to www.cindywoodsmall.com/books/bridge-of-peace_excerpt.php
The book is available for purchase online via the following buttons:
Leave a comment for Cindy, below, to be added an additional time to the drawing on Thursday, September 2. Leave your email address (in case you win) like so: trish[at]trishperry[dot]com.
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This project engages students in the science and engineering processes used by NASA astrobiologists as they explore our Solar System and try to answer the compelling question, "Are we Alone?" Students will identify science mission goals and select... (View More) an astrobiologically-significant target of interest: Mars, Europa, Enceladus or Titan. Students will then design their mission to this target in search of their chosen biosignature(s). Students will encounter the same considerations and challenges facing NASA scientists and engineers as they search for life in our Solar System. Students will need to balance the return of their science data with engineering limitations such as power, mass and budget. Risk factors play a role and will add to the excitement in this interactive science and engineering activity. Astrobiobound! will help students see how science and systems engineering are integrated to achieve a focused scientific goal. Includes an alignment document for Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards. (View Less)
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Applications for Ross University and Community Projects Fund now available
BINGHAMTON, NY -- The Binghamton University Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2013 Stephen David Ross University and Community Projects Fund grant cycle. Ross, a Binghamton University faculty member, established the fund with the hope of fostering working partnerships between the University and the community.
Over the years, the Ross Fund has supported numerous partnerships including projects to educate students about opportunities in the Greater Binghamton area and developing ways to expand those opportunities and retain students in Binghamton. Most recently the fund helped support the Little Read Initiative, the Binghamton Poetry Project and the Evaluation of the Broome County Sexual Assault Response Team initiative.
In 2013, the Ross Fund will award approximately $10,000 in grants to non-profit organizations in partnership with University units. Examples of University partners include academic and program units, administrative offices or faculty members. Grant funds are available beginning July 1.
Grants are awarded based on the following priorities:
- Promotion of collaboration and cooperation between University and community group
- Innovative use of the talents and resources of project partners
- Demonstrated commitment to the use of existing funds or to obtaining matching funds
- Significant, enduring and positive difference in the quality of life in the community
All projects must benefit and enhance the greater Broome County area and New York counties, and must include residents of Broome County.
The application deadline is Friday, March 29, 2013. Grant applications, full guidelines and further information are available on the Stephen David Ross University and Community Projects Fund web site at http://www2.binghamton.edu/giving/ross-fund.
For more information, contact grant administrator, Cindy Lupo at (607) 777-6927 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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If you've got a Despicable Me fan in your life, try this easy recipe that celebrates the rambunctious homunculi. This spot-on recreation of one of Gru's tiny henchmen will be the hit of any party.
The blue Betty Crocker® decorating icing has a thicker consistency than the whipped frosting. If you have trouble spreading it over the cake, microwave the icing for 5 to 10 seconds until spreadable.
String licorice can be found at most bulk candy stores and online. If strings are too firm to bend into a desired shape, microwave them for 5 seconds to soften.
Once the chocolate ring is coated in silver sugar, you can transfer it to the refrigerator for a few minutes to firm. This makes it easier to lift onto the cake without it bending out of shape.
Silver decorating sugar can be found at most grocery stores or in the baking section of craft stores. If you can't find silver sugar, you can leave the ring plain or coat it in chocolate sprinkles.
Make a display board for serving your Minion by covering a sturdy piece of cardboard with colorful wrapping paper, foil or cooking parchment paper.
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"In 5 days... Expect more from DVD" (voice and text match here); Cut to a starfield with a giant black I with glowing orange light, a big new shiny gold Star Wars logo, and the glowing red The Phantom Menace underneath that, voice over says "Star Wars Episode One..." (no voice-over saying "The Phantom Menace"); cut to scene of a view from the cockpit of Anakin's podracer avoiding scavenger droids, on-screen text reads: "The 7 new scenes are true gems" DVDreview.com voice over says "See 7 newly-created scenes that critics rave are true gems." During that voice over, we see Ani's pod fly by more scavenger droids, a shot of the Coruscant taxi in action, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan escaping from the Gungan Sub hanging over the waterfall with the rotor still slowly spinning. Scene diagonally wipes to Qui-Gon on Tatooine whipping out his saber and slashing a sith probe droid in half, voice over says "Star Wars Episode One, on DVD October 16th", during this, the scene changes to a close-up of Sebulba's podracer engine opening the flame weapon hatch and flaming Ody Mandrell's pod engine, finally they show the disks sliding out of the cover.
So I'm guessing we won't be seeing this commercial today. (because it's now 4 days until the DVD.) I saw this commercial last night during Farscape and they showed those little snips from some of the DVD cut scenes, but the blithering text all over them while the announcer was going on and on ruined the effect, you couldn't see as much as you would want. Anyway, so you DVD folks should be a little jazzed now.


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With my digital cable, I'm getting a bunch of different Nickelodeon channels, like Noggin. On Noggin, they're playing a few shows that I used to watch way back when (like Pete and Pete). Anyway, it apparently jogged my memory and I'm remembering a show about a crazy butler who wanted a vampire as a boss (or something). He then tries to make one using a duck as the host, but in the process, he adds ketchup (to his "vampire-creating machine ) instead of blood. The result is a duck vampire that craves ketchup.
I'm pretty sure that this was on Nickelodeon, and I know that it sounds pretty "out there" but does anyone else remember this one?


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Corsican Places is part of Serenity Holidays, a privately owned, independent holiday company also offering a number of other destinations including The Gambia, Cape Verde Islands, Senegal and Sardinia.
Serenity Holidays was set up in the late 1980's by Stephen and initially offered just flights and holidays to The Gambia in West Africa. The Gambia continued to be the main area of specialism for Serenity until 2003 with the acquisition of Sussex based tour operator, Holiday Places. This then added a range of European destinations to the company, including mainland France and the island of Corsica.
In recent years a mix of further acquisitions and organic growth has seen the introduction of Cape Verde, Senegal and Sardinia to the Serenity Holidays portfolio.
All of our specialist holidays offer excellent value and choice. We are an independent company where emphasis is very much on quality and service.
Today Serenity Holidays employs around 100 staff in the UK at our offices in Fareham, Hampshire. Whilst we are still independently owned, Stephen and Sandra have stepped back from the day to day running of the company. Our Managing Director, Chris Rowles, now oversees the daily operation of the business in the UK and in our overseas areas.
In the autumn of 2007, Serenity Holidays success was recognised by the Travel Trade Gazette being voted Travel Company of the Year for 2007. A couple of months later we were recognised as the runner up in Sunday Times Travel Magazine "Best Tour Operator" awards.
Serenity Holidays have been arranging holidays to Corsica for 30 years. Our sales team have the personal first-hand knowledge to help you choose the holiday best suited to your needs with our bi-lingual and knowledgeable overseas staff always at hand to help whilst on your holiday.
As a specialist we pride ourselves on our attention to detail, customer care and treating customers as individuals.
We have Representative positions available on the island of Corsica and are currently recruiting for 2017. If you are bilingual and interested in working with us please use the link below and send us your CV.
We always welcome applications and CVs for office-based positions, and would particularly like to hear from you if you already have experience in the travel industry. Our offices are based in Fareham, Hampshire and are just off of junction 9 of the M27.
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31st October 2013 06:54 PM #361
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Hi! Im Lorraine, Loann for short, 32 years of age. I'm a single parent with a 6 years old son with mild autism. Living with autism is hard during the first 2 years of my son. At first I thought during his first 2 years it is just normal that he is just a hyper kid. Always plays by himself, no eye contact, love lining up toys, etc. But He is now have therapy like ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) Therapy. And I have happy for the results. Although of course there's a lot of struggles but I was able to make it.
Hope I can give good advice to you guys!
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Hi everybody!
Hi, I'm Georgia and I'm 35. I have a longtime boyfriend and we want to have a baby. He already is a wonderful father of a beautiful girl (from a previous marriage) and he'd like a boy this time.
I love children and I want at least one of my own.
Hope I'll find some answers here.
Thank you!
2nd November 2013 09:53 AM #363
Hi Adinda,
Welcome to the forums! Two year olds are lots of fun and the "terrible twos" can be avoided with firm, loving, consistent discipline. None of my children went through the "terrible twos". I enjoyed breastfeeding 4 of them into their twos which may also have helped with this.
Looking forward to getting to know you.
Warm Regards,
3rd November 2013 06:39 AM #364
Dear Loann and Georgia,
Welcome to you both to our forum! I hope you find it to be a supportive, interesting and caring community.
Loann you sound like a wonderful mum. It sounds like you have a lot of experience to offer us here, particularly about mild autism. I look forward to getting to know you better on here.
Georgia - we are here to support you with information and time as you start out on your pregnancy journey.
Warm wishes to you both,
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Thank you, LJ!
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My name is Martine and I have just given birth to my baby boy this Oct 26th through C-section. I am 20 years old and I am looking forward to learning from all you other mums!
6th November 2013 07:06 AM #368
Hi Martine,
Welcome to the forum and a huge congratulations to you on the birth of your baby boy!
How are you feeling? There is so much to get used to with a new baby; it can feel quite overwhelming at first. Was your c-section planned or was it an emergency c-section? How are you feeling about the birth?
I have two boys aged 1 and almost 3 and I am passionate about parenting with a gentle style.
I look forward to reading your other posts.
Best wishes,
8th November 2013 12:45 AM #369
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Thank you for your warm welcome!
Thank you so much for your warm welcome! Well, I have been feeling much better recently. My stitches have partially healed and they do not hurt as much anymore. My c-section was actually unplanned and caught us by surprise. My OB pushed my limits for normal delivery but ended up with a c-section due to complications with my baby's heartbeat. I was terrified at first, but when I saw my baby, all that just faded away. I never thought seeing my baby for the first time would bring such mixed emotions, that I teared up while I was still at the operating table.
I need quite a lot of advice, I am looking forward to your replies to my posts!
Thank you in advance,
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Hi, I am a first time mum to a beautiful baby girl. She is 3 months old already. I am looking forward to interacting with and learning from you all here.
8th November 2013 12:45 PM #371
Hi MUMtoZOE
Welcome to the forum and a belated congratulations on the birth of your little girl! I look forward to getting to know you a little better.
9th November 2013 06:55 AM #372
Dear Martine,
Thank you for your reply. I'm glad to hear that you are healing well from your c-section.
It's just incredible seeing your baby for the first time isn't it? Amazing. I hope you are also able to emotionally heal from any remaining trauma left after the stress of your birth. Does your hospital have an 'after thoughts' process where you can talk through what happened and come to terms with it?
You are doing a wonderful job at being all your baby boy needs.
Warm wishes,
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Hi all, my husband and I are ready to have a baby. I feel like I was born ready. We are in the process of trying and hope it will happen for us soon. I of course have a million questions and particularly love online forums where I can search and reaserch. Looking forward to finding out all I need through this journey.
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More ways for firmware to screw you
Some of my recent time has been devoted to making our boot media more Mac friendly, which has entailed rather a lot of rebooting. This would have been fine, if tedious, except that some number of boots would fall over with either a clearly impossible kernel panic or userspace segfaulting in places that made no sense. Something was clearly wrong. Crashes that shouldn't happen are generally an indication of memory corruption. The question is how that corruption is being triggered. Hunting that down wasn't terribly easy.
My first thought was that we were possibly managing to load the kernel over a region used by UEFI code. UEFI defines two types of code - boot services and runtime services. While runtime services code and data must be preserved by the OS, in theory boot services code and data is available to the OS once the firmware has exited. In practice, that's not true. It seemed entirely possible that the kernel might be ending up on top of some of that boot services code or data and getting trodden on. Grub now has code to avoid putting the kernel on boot services, so testing the latest code seemed like a good plan. But no, crashes still happened.
That pretty much ruled out the bootloader. My next thought was that executing some of the firmware code was triggering a write to some other memory that contained the kernel. Josh Boyer suggested the next trick, which was to try marking the kernel read-only to see whether anything was hitting it. x86 lets you mark pages as read-only - any attempt to write to them should take a fault. UEFI functions are executed in the context of the kernel, so share the same page tables. That let me rule this out, since everything still went just as wrong and I wasn't taking an extra fault first.
However, at this point I was reasonably happy that it wasn't the kernel itself being overwritten - faults were occurring in userspace code as well. That was a pretty strong indication that what was happening was continuing to happen once userspace had started, so it wasn't a direct response to a firmware call. I made sure of that by stubbing out all the calls that could be triggered after kernel initialisation, and saw the same failures. Once all attempts to be clever have failed, it's time to just start using brute force. The kernel lets you reserve areas of RAM by passing arguments like memmap=0xlength$0xstart to block length bytes starting at start from being used. It took a while, but I finally found a 256MB range that made a difference - reserving it resulted in the machine booting reliably, letting the OS use it resulted in occasional crashes.
Definite progress. Comparing that memory range to the EFI memory map was helpful. There were several blocks of UEFI boot services data present there, which really seemed like too much of a coincidence. By reserving each of them in turn, I'd traced it down to a single 31MB region of boot service data - that is, memory reserved by the firmware for use by the UEFI boot services. Per spec, this is available to the OS once the boot environment has been exited. Nothing other than the OS should be touching this after boot, but something clearly was. Tracking down what was far easier than I expected, although the first attempt was a failure. Setting it read-only should have triggered a fault, but didn't. That was rather confusing. But, rather than give up, I patched the kernel to fill the region with 0xff at kernel init. Then I booted the system, read it back and looked for values that weren't 0xff. I got this:
00000000 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................| * 001568a0 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 84 00 00 00 |................| 001568b0 00 20 a7 ac 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 01 |. ..F...........| 001568c0 c2 0b 0c 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................| 001568d0 ff ff 0a 04 f0 03 82 0d 40 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff |........@.......| 001568e0 ff ff 00 21 00 36 9a 80 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 7e |...!.6.........~| 001568f0 00 09 43 48 41 2d 47 75 65 73 74 01 04 02 04 0b |..CHA-Guest.....| 00156900 16 32 08 0c 12 18 24 30 48 60 6c 2d 1a 0e 18 1a |.2....$0H`l-....| 00156910 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00156920 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 dd 09 00 10 18 02 00 10 01 |................| 00156930 00 00 dd 1e 00 90 4c 33 0e 18 1a ff ff 00 00 00 |......L3........| 00156940 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00156950 00 00 bd ea f8 b3 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................| 00156960 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................| * 022fb000That's a lot of 0xffs (around 31MB of them) with one small section that contains an 802.11 probe packet with the SSID of the hospital across the road from my house. Apple support network booting off wireless networks. It seems that the firmware brought up the wireless card, associated with this network (it's the only public one nearby) and then left the card DMAing packets into RAM. The read-only page attribute only applies to CPU-initiated accesses, so it could do this without triggering a page fault. It also explained why it was so random - whether memory corruption occurred would depend on whether a packet appeared between that memory being used by the OS and the kernel reinitialising the wireless card. It certainly explains why I couldn't reproduce it when I left the machine repeatedly rebooting on the bus home.
How do we fix this? Unsure. With luck disconnecting the UEFI driver in the bootloader should quiesce the hardware, but without testing I'm not sure of that yet. For now it's just another example of firmware managing to break expectations in deeply strange ways.


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The Street is still picking apart the presentation given Monday by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), in which the chip maker's CEO, Rory Read, said AMD will introduce chips based on ARM Holdings (ARMH) processor designs starting in 2014, in order to jump-start the market for "micro servers" that run in "cloud computing" data centers, in constrast to servers traditionally run on Intel's (INTC) "x86" processors.
ARM itself followed yesterday with the announcement of a new 64-bit CPU core, the "Cortex-A50," destined to go into server chips of the kind AMD is designing.
AMD is competing against startups such as Calxeda and other public chip makers such as Applied Micro Circuits (AMCC).
The shares today fell 2 cents, or 1%, to close at $2.05 on the first day of trading after
Williams Financial Group's Cody Acree , who has a Buy rating on the stock, and a $14 price target, wrote this morning before market open that the news was a bit of a surprise coming at this time from AMD:
Given the comments made by Rory Read over the past several months, those that were paying attention likely saw this coming. The problem has been that AMD hasn't recently given investors much reason to pay attention. We believe this announcement is critical enough that it warrants investors take another look at AMD and we expect the company's shares to react positively once the market finally begins trading.
Acree thinks there's a chance for the company to escape the misfortune of the PC market for server and tablet chips:
While these new server processors are not expected to be in the market until 2014, we believe the directional change at least opens the door on a path for AMD to return to growth. The company's core PC/Notebook market is likely entering a very long period of secular decline, caused primarily by the adoption of tablets and smartphones [...] On the other hand, we see significant opportunities in microservers and tablets for AMD. In servers, the company's historic relationships, architecture experience, and graphics strength should give the company a material advantage [...] In tablets, we expect the company will eventually also offer ARM-based alternatives to its current tablet platform. While tablets could be a material driver, we are less enthusiastic because of the customer concentration issues and the significant level of entrenched competition. With servers, all the players will be starting from about the same point.
Bears on the stock, while less jubilant, suggest the effort has merit:
Credit Suisse's John Pitzer reiterates a Neutral rating on the shares today, and a $2.50 price target, writing that "AMD is taking a risk by developing ARM for servers, but given their server share erosion from ~25% in C2Q06 to <5% today, AMD has little to lose in a market where they have minimal competitive traction today."
Pitzer suggests ARM-based CPUs can have real advantages:
While the server ecosystem for ARM is still in early days, and ARM's success in server compute is far from certain, ARM's proven success in low power/mobile platforms could potentially translate into some compelling performance/watt cost reductions for server compute beyond what is currently available from x86 – likely the motivation behind previously announced HPQ/DELL development efforts based on ARM-based CPUs from Calxeda.
MKM Partners's Daniel Berenbaum also reiterates a Neutral rating today, and a $2.50 price target, writing that "this seems to be a mild positive for AMD, but the jury is still out, and likely will be for some time [...] Standalone 64-bit ARM is going to be a crowded market, and it's not clear that there will be market demand for a combination product (if that is even in the roadmap)."
Bernstein Research's Stacy Rasgon had perhaps the harshest words for AMD. He has a Market Perform rating on the shares, and a $2.50 target as well. Writes Rasgon, AMD has to face a possible cash crunch while they spend the next year or so developing the product:
We do not expect to see any products coming out of this new partnership with ARM for at least 18 months, and management readily admitted that this would be a 3-5 year process. Given the state of their core business, however, we are not sure they have that much time – we forecast significant cash burn and balance sheet deterioration through much of the next 5 quarters.
Rasgon also had a rather macabre analogy for AMD's current plight:
During the announcement it is likely that much of the investment community on the East Coast was dealing with Hurricane Sandy. On top of the flooding and winds, much of the news coverage for the hurricane involved the destruction of a crane at a luxury condo building under construction at 57th and 7th in Manhattan [...] The crane (hanging over the streets of Manhattan) seemed, in our mind to sum up AMD's position perfectly – both crane and company appear to be dangling by a thread, with a hurricane raging around them. In the crane's case it appears (at least as of this writing) that the structure is (for now) withstanding the forces against it. We hope AMD will make out as well…


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Yesterday on the way home I heard a piece on NPR about the latest on these off limits to fishing areas. All I can say as an observer listening to the piece is this:
1. The marine science sounded professional and solid.
2. There was not a hint of anti fishing, in fact, the scientists were pro fishing, both comm and rec.
3. To support their theories they sighted how there is a 40 mile zone by Cape Kennedy closed for NASA rocket launch security for many years. The areas adjascent to it have yielded world records in sport fishing for Red Drum and a couple other species.
4. There are currently 14 such zones in the US waters and many over seas. Australia was given as a case where these things have worked.
5. The main thrust was to make more fish for harvesting not some wacko PETA-esque campaign.
Here is one other side of the coin I found today on the front page of the BBC:
I know which way I starting to lean on this issue, but I will certainly keep an open mind.
Last edited by Lefty; 12-04-2001 at 05:51 PM.
Most definitely, keep an open mind. However, also try to read between the lines, ask yourself, whats missing? When you read about the 20% of the area that someone (lets ask who) wants to close,keep in mind that if you close off all state waters from Maine to Texas( as was discussed at the CCA-MA executive meeting last night ) based on the total area including all federal waters, Thats not quite 20%. So, ask yourself, when someone wants to create new rules and regulations, can't we be specific, let's understand the entire story, let's not allow something that can blow-up in our faces.
The CCA is all about conservation and preservation, so tell us why the closure is needed and how it will produce the results it was intended to produce. Yes, closing off some areas will provide sanctuary for breeding stock and baitfish, but let's understand the purpose and the potential benefit before we agree to something we don't understand. And once we see how and where the closures will take place as well as for how long, we might just support them.
Speaking for myself only, I could never agree to closures or limits unless I understood the whole story. Lets see the whole story!
You can't tell me NPR is an unbiased source.
Let's look at what they want to stop - ALL FISHING. Why?
Remember that CCA made it's name by bringing back the redfish from near extinction. Why can we not be trusted as sportsman (let's not address the commercial issue right now) to be responsible for the protection of an area or species?
It would seem to me that CCA has a better track record in species protection and propagation than the federal government.
Of course, I also believe that the government was created to serve the needs and wishes of the people - not tell us what to do.
Crazy huh?
I live in WA.
I belong to CCA and, by default, am assigned to the MD Chapter.
CCA covers the waterfront from ME to TX.
Why they are not present in CA, OR or WA is beyond me; we can certainly use their intervention on many issues here.
I'm truly confused over Marine Protective Zones. WDFW established one last year here in Puget Sound and, on the table for this year, is establishing 4 more. To me, it seems these are being established in a very arbitrary manner. The one they established last year is just outside and to the North of Gig Harbor to protect the "bottom fish." Nobody fishes for bottom fish in the area they protected that I know of. It is a great spot for scuba divers, however.
If there's science to back up establishing these zones, then I more than likely would support it. Butl, to date, they seem to be getting a foot in the door to prevent sportfishing. I''ve not seen ANY data to support establishing them.
I heard that report also and would agrue that no reference in that article or any other I've heard on NPR advocates banning fishing. All the article stated was that in areas that were closed- generally parts of offshore banks or in the case of the Kennedy Space Center as a security zone- and monitored as to the rates of fish recovery. They took the data collected from several areas that had been closed, reasons for which weren't the topic of the report, and simply stated that as the populations recovered within the restricted zones populations of fish adjacent to the reserves showed marked increases also. This was believed to be because as more dominent fish set up shop in the prime feeding and breeding areas, less dominent fish were forced outward as populations and competition for real estate increased.
What I didn't hear was a general anti/peta/skunk hugger call to close more chunks of ocean to fishing. The idea that perhaps strategic closures of certain productive nurseries may be an asset in helping to increase fish stocks across the boards was suggested. However, not before more science and input from the researchers and fisherman. There may have been some arbitrary closures in places but to date none of them effect access for inshore flyfishing as much as the monied gentry do in places like many of the high brow towns on the Nw England coast.
As a side I was training in Atlanta last year and one of the guys in my class was a service tech on equipment at Kennedy Space Center and had clearence to fish in the security zone established off shore. He says it's the best saltwater fishing he's ever seen on the Florida coast
Last edited by Chris; 12-06-2001 at 09:06 PM.
OK, say a "no fishing zone " is established in an area to protect ground fish, say this area has a depth of 200 or 300ft. If the purpose of the closure is to inhance the groundfish then whats wrong with fishing the remaining water column ?
Also, let's not loose site of the fact that these closures are not only directed at the recreational fisherman, the commercial guys will be affected as well.
We all want more, bigger fish so the idea may be a sound one, just to vague. We need much more info before anybody can make a reasonable assessment of any proposals where closure is being considered.
I admit that NPR is akin to WGBH-the height of the "Harvard Bow Tie" crowd leaning to the left. They nauseate me at times too, but other times they go in depth while the rest of the media does sound bites and Jerry Springer-esque sensationalism. But that had no bearing on my fair assessment of the piece.
They were a bunch of scientists reporting data. It was dry.
I don't think we as sportsman have the resource to manage the whole east coast right now either. Here in Mass. everyone you talk to wants a higher limit than 28" for Stripers. Many favor adding 8" to that total (36"). Your almighty CCA can't evan pull that off because of lack of action by it's members and strong political lobbys and other Ma. state pol shenanigans.
When we as a group turn a deaf ear to the Marine biology community we all loose. I find it actually rediculous that anyone would fear us loosing our fishing rights. There is 1500 miles of coast line in this state alone. Fishing is the #1 most done sport in the country. If they evan tried to overdo it without sound science, they would be strung up, and I'd be first in line for that action committee.
As an example look at the hunting situation in Ol' Liberal Mass. People still hunt. Towns stop it only when the houses get too close together. Killing a warm blooded animal with bullets that could kill humans accidentally is way higher on the scale of the wackos in terms of importance than fishing, yet here in Liberal Ma. hunting persists(which I personally would defend hunters right too). Point is: if they can't stop hunting of warm blooded animals in Mass. how the hell do you think some small enviro-wacko group is going to shut down fishing in say Fla.? (a multi billion $$ recreation) No way.
Right now they are experimenting and we can afford the space. The world is polluted and the resources are abused, or overused. We should accept the help and be involved with them so we can keep an eye on them. Show me where PETA is behind this. I'd like to know if they are( or any other similar group)I don't see it.
I still haven't found out who, or what group, wants to stop ALL FISHING. You talk about sound science, well who is the group (besides PETA) and what is their interest in the NO Fishing zones. Let's get scientific about that. All I'm hearing are generalities to date. Who are they?
Last edited by Lefty; 12-07-2001 at 07:02 PM.
BTW- Read about the piece here:
Here's a couple of snips from it:
"And the new studies suggest their efforts are paying off. On All Things Considered, NPR's Christopher Joyce reports that fish in these reserves are thriving and that they can become nurseries for replenishing nearby fisheries.
In his report, Joyce talks about two compelling pieces of evidence described in a study published in the Nov. 30 issue of the Journal Science. One of the marine reserves highlighted in the article is located near St. Lucia, a speck of an island in the Eastern Caribbean. Dr. Callum Roberts, co-author of the study, says generations of fishermen have fished there using hand lines or
nets, but by the mid-1990s, the reefs became almost barren. So conservationists cordoned off an 11-mile stretch of reef that prohibited fishing.
"The fishermen were skeptical at first," Roberts said. "They worried this would make their lives harder rather than better, and for the first couple of years they were right."
But now, five years later, the refuge is bursting with fish. "Catches
near the reserve are up between 46 and 90 percent, and the fishermen are happy," he observed.
Lefty - nice thread & follow up. This is truly an important issue that I think we all need to educate ourselves on.
Wanted to comment that I thought Chris made a nice point in his post regarding NE shore access. In reflexively responding 'no way!' to any and all perceived attempts to curtail fishing do we risk lumping together the 'not in my backyard/beach/marsh' efforts throughout much of NE to limit public shoreline access w/ (potentially) legitimate efforts to protect and grow fish stocks? Don't want to infer too much from Chris' comments, but that was my take on where he was going.
Not to backtrack but...
Any organization is biased in some way, thus the ability and need to organize. The more organized things become, the more apart the group becomes from being "the people".
This concept of "the people" is interesting. 10% of the time it's the most important human concept on Earth. But at the same time it's also everyone, no one, everything and nothing and 90% pure propaganda. I'm not sure you can equate organizations and "the people".
Government is an organization, and if nothing else it's tangible, structured, sanctioned and essential. It's "the people's" job to keep government from stabbing us in the back - and it's the government's job to keep us from shooting ourselves in the foot. I think the national park system was a pretty good example of that.
I think commercial species exploitation and industrial habitat destruction are good examples of the people needing intervention. Goes both ways I guess. I hope the balance holds.
I think the CCA is a perfect example of that balance.
Terry - just to be argumentative. A little, TEENY, piece of the evidence that says CCA MA and it's membership aren't totally to blame: the VA legislature wouldn't budge on their size or catch regulations either one or two years ago unless Massachusetts bumped down. We had just gone back to 30", been there for a year or so, and this was raised as part of the problem. So, in essence, I guess you COULD say CCA is contributory by not being able to sway a legislature seemingly connected at the hip to a far more vocal or powerful commercial lobby and it's unwillingness to err on the side of the fishery.
I suppose the archives on different BB's can be researched to substantiate this. I suppose meeting minutes and such can be accessed from committees in the various states under respective information acts to support or subvert this information.
Trying to cut to the core of the issue, I have absolutely no doubt at all that it's a good policy to shut down fishing in those areas where it's devastating the population. We must not forget Chesapeake Bay's striped bass spawning ground moratorium and the profound effect it had.
When discussing fishing, we can't compare commercial seining to a recreational flyfishing season either. Stopping one will have a much more emphatic effect on a population than the other in fact I would argue that a typical fish population could withstand fly fishing without measurable harm while it often can't survive a large scale commercial harvest.
So if they cut the million ton per year harvest of sand eels in the North sea to 500,000 tons, I would think that's good. If they say we can't flyfish on Cape Cod because it traumatizes the fish, well then that's when it's time for a revolution.
Interesting points.
Will jump into this tomorrow after I check my information.
My point in regards to access was that, at this point, I think we have more to be concerned about from the money folks buying up shore front property and then restricting parking and weigh points near them. Just look at the complaints about fisherman parking on the causeway, the difficulty of access on the Brewster side not to mention some of the north shore. The most important thing is to make sure we are heard when the powers that be sit down to draw the lines as to where, how and when fishing will be allowed.
I will say that Maine has held its ground for the in regards to the Kennebec striper nursery. It is right up there with the Chessepeek for spawning production. While we watched Massachusetts ease lenght, bag and commercial regulations on stripers Maine held fast and only after populations improved markedly did we change from one fish 36+" to a slot of one fish between 20" + 26" OR one over 40"- AND no commercial taking. You can't get striper in a restaurant here. Also, the Kennebec is closed to the use of bait and keeping fish until July first. You are required to fish with a single treble on a lure all season. These regs extend from the first impoundment in Waterville to an imaginary line drawn across the mouth of the river from Popham to Newagen. The elver fishing has also been restricted as well increasing the sand eel populations and in turn giving the yung fish a good chance at bulking up for the run south.
I would argue that one of the reasons the fishery is hanging in there so well and not dropping off from the easing if regs on the lower coast is because our nursery is so well protected. I saw a lot of young fish up here this year.
We need to talk seriously and loudly when the fisheries people start stirring but not assume that just because NPR said there were interesting stats coming from a few test cases that fishing will go away. I thought it was good news all in all but as yet not much of a threat.
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Finally! Megan Fox will have her fist honest-to-goodness sex scene in a movie! It's all in the upcoming film entitled Jonah Hex, based on the popular comicbook series. Megan plays a prostitute in the Old West who has a thing for outlaws. She did do some hot and heavy scenes in the horror flick, Jennifer's Body; but she ended up killing the guys she made out with in that movie. And although her curves were prominently featured in the first two Transformers films via lingering shots of shapely body, those movies were strictly PG rated flicks.
And who is the lucky guy who gets to pop Megan Fox's cinematic cherry? It's actor Josh Brolin, who has this to say to the press about his sex scene with Megan: "It was horribly awkward. It was her first love scene… I think, ultimately, she felt very protected. We all looked out for her and we got most of the people off the set."
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Hey Dan, I hadn't posted to mine in even longer, neener!
Which reminds me, Dan kindly pointed out that due to something or other I did for Mozilla ages ago, I'm in the Acknowledgements portion of Safari. I thought that was kind of neat.
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I'm currently working for Embedded Alley working mainly on the Linux Kernel on various architectures and boards. Additionally, I'm a co-maintainer of KGDB
Well, I've been a bit busy and a bit lazy of late. Finals are coming up. Tomorrow in fact. But, I've gotten a bit of work done. First off, on the kernel side I looked at the pmac nvram bit, and figured out that drivers/macintosh/macintosh.? needs to be a shared library (not the right term, I know) and not ar'ed. Otherwise the module_{exit,init} stuff won't work. So right now, nvram and some adb stuff isn't even trying to work in 2.3. I also found out that Paul M's rsync tree has the needed changes. Hopefully Cort Dougan will listen to Paul and the changes will go in. I asked Cort about this before and he preferred the library to stay as is. Wish I knew this was breaking things before, oh well.
Second off, I've got/am getting done one of my finals. 1500-2500 words, dang it.
Lastly, for those of you which have been playing with entropy.crashing.org or using stuff hosted there, myself and the machine will be offline from next wedesnday (may 10) until a bit later (unknown) as I leave the U of A and the dorms.
Well, I got around to doing a few bits & pieces today anyways. First off, I grabbed all the educational programs off of www.linuxforkids.com which seemed useful for me right now. After talking to Dan J, I'm using dh_make instead of deb-make to get things done. My progress was mostly slowed due to having to "test" the games after .deb'ing them. For a quick and fun addiction go and hit lolit_sl.
I hope to have the .deb's up someplace relativly soon
I also did a wee bit of kernel work and noticed Jeff Garzik's patch for the old-style nvram driver still isn't in there, oh well.
Ok, just a few bits about what I'm trying to do here and there.
First off, I'm going to check out linux kernel 2.3.99pre6-whatever in Cort Dougan's bk tree and see whats still missing from my little set of patches.
Second off, I'm going to go through www.linuxforkids.com and debianize any of the games which currently aren't. Eventually I'd like to do some proper debs but for now deb-make will do. I'd also like to eventually get all of this into Debian/Jr. or whatever.
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Rural life in Vermont.
Had many many many snow days.
Wood was lugged. Snow was shoveled.
Hot meals carried by cross-country skies (Cant I use the ski-do? No, youll spill it and waste gas!)
To elderly neighbors. Believe me when I tell you, the kids I hung with and myself were happy to go back to school to rest up.
Anyway, back on point, when they be whining about the snow day, how many were killed and how many crosses were burned?


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Dr Anna Lavelle, chief executive officer, AusBiotech, Australia
AusBiotech, which is Australian biosciences' flagstaff industry organization comprising of a network of over 3,000 life sciences companies, has been providing representation and services to promote the global growth of Australian biotechnology for the past 25 years. Dr Anna Lavelle, chief executive officer, AusBiotech, Australia, speaks about the latest developments that have taken place in the association for the past two years and also how AusBiotech's is cultivating a supportive environment to enable companies to grow and advance their commercial interests. Here are the excerpts from her interview.
What are the major developments/activities/achievements of the Association in the last two years?
The last two years have been a significant period for AusBiotech and for the Australian biotechnology industry, with: major achievements in public policies impacting the sector, such as the introduction of the 'Research and Development Tax Incentive'; the building of a strong showcase platform to attract investment in promising Australian biotechnology companies; and the anniversary celebrations, marking 25 years since AusBiotech began as the Australian Biotechnology Association (ABA) to support the growth of the industry. Meanwhile the industry organization has continued to deliver expanded services and networking events, and the flagship annual industry conference that attracts more than 1400 people from around the globe each year to share views and latest happenings.
What are the major policies developments and changes in the field of bioscience that have happened recently in the country?
The strong performance of the biotechnology sector in an unpredictable economic market, underscores the industry's success, maturation, and resilience. The Australian biotech industry was named the fifth most innovative in the world, by the Scientific American World View magazine (2011). There's a buzz amongst investors, most notably about the value offering available in Australia, and increasing activity in mergers and acquisitions, as well as licensing deals.
Dominating AusBiotech's advocacy agenda has been the work we have done in representing the membership's interests on public policy issues with the potential for profound impacts, with the main focus on supporting the delivery of capital to our sector via the R&D Tax Incentive and addressing the campaign by others to ban patents on biological materials. The introduction of the $1.8 billion R&D Tax Incentive program legislation last year was a momentous and pivotal inflection point for Australian innovation; the type we as a community will look back on in admiration and congratulate its architects' foresight. It was the culmination of years of campaigning, planning consulting and AusBiotech advocacy, which was initially flagged as part of the Australian Innovation Review of 2008, known as the Cutler Review.
What is the size of the life science industry in your country and the split size of pharma/biotech/medtech industry?
Despite the challenges of the global economy and the degree of difficulty in building a biotechnology and life sciences sector from scratch, Australia is doing very well by any comparative measure, with an impressive return on investment from a maturing stock of quality companies. Australian biotechnology boasts a raft of success stories and a world-class industry. Australia is already a leading location for biotechnology companies with over 900 biotechnology companies (400 therapeutics and diagnostics and 500 - 900 medical technology companies (Innovation Dynamics, 2008 & IBIS World, 2005)). The Australian biotechnology sector is still dominated by human therapeutics companies, but encompasses the fast-growing sectors in agriculture, food technology, medical devices and diagnostics, industrial applications and cleantech.
With respect to industry credentials, there are currently 100 ASX-listed life sciences companies, with a market capitalization of $40.7 billion (BioForum, Oct 2012). In a global context, the Australian biotech sector boasts the largest listed biotechnology sector as a proportion of GDP in the world (Beyond Borders, 2011). As 2013 commenced, Sirtex Medical was hailed a stand-out performer for 2012 and some analysts are tipping the biotech sector to be a "hot space" in 2013. At the close of trade on Christmas Eve, the S&P Indices replaced Integra Mining Limited with Sirtex Medical (SRX) on the S&P/ASX 200 and the good news didn't end there for the oncology treatment developer. Having freshly joined the S&P/ASX 200, Sirtex took second place for the highest share price increase for 2012 at 193 percent, on the back of its September report of a 37 per cent increase in sales of lead product, SIR-Sphere microspheres. The performance prompted The Australian Financial Review (7 Jan 2013) to refer to Sirtex as the "poster child for the medical research and bio-pharmaceutical sector."
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By Brandon Speck/NEMS Daily Journal
Dexter Stafford isn't walking through that door. Well, actually, he probably is to watch, but he can't play basketball for the Biggersville Lions.
A year after losing in the MHSAA Class 1A state championship game, Biggersville lost its leading scorer, Stafford, and its entire starting crew. Still, the Lions are back in the MHSAA Class 1A state tournament semifinals.
"This bunch, all of them, they're confident and expect to win," Biggersville coach Cliff Little said. "We didn't play well in the North finals but these kids are resilient and know they have a job to do. I don't think they'll be too wide-eyed."
The Lions went cold late in a North championship loss to Coldwater, the team it beat in last year's North finals and lost to in the state championship.
Stafford, Darrien Williams, Tevin Watson, Blake Anderson, Tee Watson and Chris Bishop all made up the starting five and all graduated.
A group of juniors are among the new pride – and a lot are family members – Daniel and Emmanuel Simmons, Jaylon Gaines, Marquis and Shaun Watson. Blake Stacy is the only senior and is a constant leader, Little says.
Biggersville (26-8) takes on South state champion West Lincoln Friday at 2:30 p.m. in Jackson at Mississippi Coliseum.
"They shoot it really well," said Little, who led East Webster to a 1A state title in 2008. "They start two kids, 6-7 and 6-5. Pick your poison. They're big in the post and can shoot from outside."
West Lincoln is 31-3 and gets 15 points a game from Duane Marshall and Jared Case, both guards.
Biggersville hasn't shied away from competition. Three of the Lions' losses have come to Class 4A semifinalist and Alcorn County neighbor Corinth. They lost to 2A semifinalist Baldwyn.
Biggersville beat both Cleveland East Side and New Albany, as well as 3A semifinalist Booneville.
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Sean Scully: [My pastels] don't have the material certainty of the paintings. So the relationship between the idea and the material is more fragile in the pastels. With the pastels it's almost as if you could blow them away. It's like dust in the desert. They are very interesting to make — that you're pressing down powder.
Hans-Michael Herzog: That's very ephemeral in a way.
Sean Scully: I think the pastels have that quality — they hover between being there and not being there.
Sean Scully, interview with Hans-Michael Herzog, 'The beauty of the real',
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Best discloser this year
Brian Rudman looks at the Auckland Council Register of Pecuniary Interests:
As clubs go, perhaps the most unusual was Howick Local Board deputy chairwoman Lucy Schwaner's revelation that she is a member of the Fingerprint Society.
Ha, I bet she enjoyed having to disclose that. Everyone will be like WTF?
Though understandable given her day job as a forensic analyst for the police.
Understandable, but still pretty cool. The Society's website is here.


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Update, I followed your advice today John. 30 Yards from water at heel, sitting, bumper out and she makes retrieve, five yards up same thing, five yards up, same thing, waters edge, no hesitation, no sign of no go or no wanting to go, I walked two feet out in the water and she did it each and every time with not a problem one.
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Calhoun College Chocolate Tasting Notes, Round II
May 1st, 2008 by Rosa
After the success of my first chocolate tasting (notes here), I held a second one with the extra bars. Unfortunately, by the time the second tasting rolled around, most of the bars had bloomed thanks to New Haven humidity and temperature fluctuations and a lack of air conditioning. The Vosges chocolate bars were the only ones that survived because their wrappers are airtight. We tasted them anyway, and all the flavors were there; it's just that the textures were all wrong. Sadness. Here's what we tasted, with my notes:
- Green and Black's milk, 34% – sweet, yogurty flavor; tastes like a Cadbury mini-egg. Thick texture.
- Dagoba milk, 37% – slightly fruitier than the Green and Black's with a dusky finish.
- Vosges Macha (Japanese macha green tea in 41% deep milk) – woodsy dirt flavor, brittle texture. Tastes like green tea, as it should. I don't like the taste of green tea, but if you do, this bar is true to its name.
- Vosges Woolloomooloo (roasted and salted macadamia nuts, Indonesian coconut, hemp seeds in 41% deep chocolate) – I've reviewed the truffle version of this bar. Nicely nutty, smells of coconut.
- Vosges Goji (Tibetan goji berries, pink Himalayan salt in 41% deep milk) – fruitiness to the bar; goji berries just taste like red berries. Saltiness works, I think.
- Vosges Mo's Bacon Bar (applewood smoked bacon, alderwood smoked salt in 41% deep milk chocolate) – I bought another one of these bars because it's such a great conversation piece for tastings.
- Chocolove dark chocolate, 55% – nuttiness to the flavor, which starts off sweet and has a long finish. Vanilla notes? Thick texture.
- Nirvana Single Origin Granada, 60% – fairly straightforward cocoa flavor with a strong roasted taste.
- Scharffen Berger 62% semisweet – fruity notes, sweet finish
- Vosges Calindia (Indian green cardamom, organic California walnuts, dried plums in 65% Venezualan dark chocolate) – strong spice flavor. Can taste the sweetness of the plums and feel where it adds texture.
- Nirvana Single Origin Santa Domingo, 67% – strong earthiness, dirt flavor. Not at all well received (the wrapper promised herbal tones, which must have been the dirt flavor people complained about).
- Green and Black's Maya Gold (orange and spices) – on first taste, strong notes of pepper with a light orange finish. On second taste, orange flavor stronger. Many people said the bar tasted like marmalade.
- Scharffen Berger 70% bittersweet – super fruity with a cocoa finish
- Dagoba Conacado, 73% – nutty
- Dagoba New Moon, 74% – sweeter than the Conacado with a dark fruitiness
- Dagoba Xocolatl, 74% with chilies and nibs – slight fruitiness to the chocolate. STRONG chili flavor that wallops your taste buds on first impact. Not the way I like my chili chocolate.
- Endangered Species 88% Extreme Dark (panther) – vanilla scent with a nice smoky flavor.
- Ghirardelli 100% baking chocolate – completely dries up the mouth. Worse than the 100% La Maison du Chocolat bar.
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Plan OK'd to give out tickets at Racine polling place
GAB: Brewers ticket promotion unrelated to voters, not a conflict
RACINE, Wis. - State elections officials said a plan to give away free baseball tickets at a Racine polling place is probably legal.
The city's parks and recreation department plans to give out free Milwaukee Brewers tickets Tuesday as part of a recurring promotion. The location is the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, which will also be a polling location that day.
A Journal Times of Racine report said the plan has sparked some concerns within the community. But a spokesman for the state elections board said there doesn't appear to be a conflict.
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1.25 cups of vegan butter (Petey likes Earth Balance)
1/2 cup organic white sugar
2 cups organic flour
2 tsp almond extract
2 Tbsp water
1/4 tsp salt
STEP 1: Make the Cookie Dough
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STEP 3: Roll the Dough
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Stave Horse Stool
For wine lovers who take great pleasure in serving fine wine to family and friends from the comfort of their own home, the Wine Country Collection includes dozens of pieces appropriate for the occasion. Whether it's the unique serving centers, wine bottle displays, or elegant side tables, this collection's pieces are all handmade from recycled white oak wine barrels. To complement the unique textures and shades of the wood, each piece is now available finished in any one of eleven hand-rubbed transparent stains. The resulting furniture pieces have a casual appeal and yet are sophisticated enough for any decor.
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The Wine Country Collection is constructed from reclaimed wine and whiskey barrels. By repurposing oak barrels, this collection gives a second life to quality wood and saves thousands of barrels from the typical waste stream.
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Stave Horse Stool
2011-08-29 The bar stools came the other day and I am so pleased with them.
"The bar stools came the other day and I am so pleased with them. Thanks for all of your help, much appreciated!"
Cheryl K.; Saskatoon, Canada
Stave Horse Stool
2009-09-30 The barstools are here and I love them! Thanks again-I will continue to recommend your products.
"The barstools are here and I love them! Thanks again-I will continue to recommend your products."
Julie O.; Valrico, FL
Stave Horse Stool
2009-04-01 Wow!!
"Wow!! Thanks very much! I appreciate your efficient and courteous business methods. Looking at the FedEx site, looks like I'll have the stool this afternoon. I am so excited and will definitely come back again to order from you folks! How RARE it is these days to find a company who operates in such a way. Best wishes to you, as well."
Pamela C.; Houston, TX
Stave Horse Stool 3
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