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During the Q2 earnings call yesterday, Chinese map services provider AutoNavi Holdings (AMAP) announced a major change to its business model: it would now offer its premium navigation map for free.
This announcement overlapped with weak, though expected, second-quarter financials. AutoNavi reported $38 million revenue, a 5% decline from a year ago, and $6.6 million non-GAAP net income, a 49% fall from last year.
More ominously, China's Google Baidu (BIDU) also announced yesterday (before AutoNavi's earnings release) that it would be offering its mobile map app for free, too.
Investors raised eyebrows: Can AutoNavi ever monetize mapping services at all when Baidu is offering it for free? AutoNavi's shares dropped 14.4% yesterday, the largest one-day slide since its 2010 IPO.
Don't panic.
AutoNavi is land grabbing the nascent mobile market right now. Once it reaches a critical user base, it can make money from location-based services (LBS).
Nomura Securities analysts Leping Huang and David Hao write:
We agree with management's view that license-based offline maps will eventually shift to free online maps, driven by improvement in network quality and the rise of Internet-based map service providers, eg, Baidu.
More importantly, AutoNavi has a powerful partner – China's largest e-commerce Alibaba. Alibaba invested $294 million in AutoNavi in May for a 28% stake. Here is Normura again:
Alibaba's investment in May 2013 gives AMAP management a solid cash reserve to sit on (USD517mn in 2H13, equivalent to 6.4x of FY12 opex) in order to explore a new business model. Meanwhile, this strategy is also in line with one of AMAP's aims to become the mobile Internet gateway to Alibaba's vast e-commerce platform and services.
Note the cash reserve is 6.5 times 2012 operating expense – this means AutoNavi can burn cash for at least a couple of years.
Alibaba can also share its merchant database with AutoNavi, to speed up the monetizing process.
Nomura lowered its target price from $18 to $17 to reflect AutoNavi's new strategy of short-term pain for long-term gain, but maintained a Buy rating.
For those of you who read Chinese, this is an interesting article from Qihoo (QIHU)'s CEO, who sits on AutoNavi's board, applauding AutoNavi's decision to keep its maps free. Qihoo competes with Baidu in search. You can feel the team spirit!


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That's The Way God Planned It
Billy Preston inspired love and admiration everywhere; people just adored him. If ever a musician became his music it was Billy. He had the funk from his feet to his fingertips. He was truly gifted, a child prodigy born to play. He had a wonderful singing voice too, full of soul. As a dancer, his gospel strutting was electric, organically choreographed, just exploding with energy and passion.
Billy played the organ and the electric piano for fellow artists twice as famous and sometimes twice as old as himself. His session work is so celebrated that it can overshadow his own music. Hopefully, this reissue, and that of his second album for Apple Records, Encouraging Words, will help redress the balance.
Billy had always sung, but until he signed to Apple for That's The Way God Planned It, released in the UK in August 1969, most of his output had been instrumental. By this time, Billy was a flourishing songwriter, creating tight funky melodies and deep soulful ballads, always with direct informal lyrics. He was 22 years old, and it had taken him over a decade to reach this point. His apprenticeship had been a long one.
Billy drew the attention of the greats as a child. At aged 10, he played behind gospel queen Mahalia Jackson, and at 11 he duetted with Nat 'King' Cole on US TV. At 15 he played organ for Little Richard and Sam Cooke, and then for his hero Ray Charles. His instinctive playing graced key works by The Beatles and later The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan. Plenty more too.
Billy couldn't help but fall in with the famous, although it was never something he courted. His first album, Sixteen Year Old Soul, came out in the States in 1963 on Derby Records, a label owned by Sam Cooke. "I've never asked anybody to help me or give me a break," Billy said in 1975. "Whatever I don't have now I believe will eventually come. Why? I have to say it's God… the God in me". This belief is the lyrical thrust of his classic Apple single 'That's The Way God Planned It'.
One such divine plan began in Germany in 1962. Billy skipped school to join a Little Richard tour of Europe, which that November took up a two-week residency at the Star-Club, Hamburg. On the same bill were The Beatles. Back home they'd just released 'Love Me Do'; and like Billy, they too were fervent fans of Little Richard. Speaking in 1975, John Lennon recalled being in close proximity to Richard and Gene Vincent at the Star-Club: "It's hard for people to imagine just how thrilled we, the four of us, were to even see any great rock'n'roller in the flesh and we were almost paralysed with adoration for both of them, and the side show was that Little Richard's organist was Billy Preston. He looked about 10 then."
It was here that The Beatles and Billy became firm friends, as Billy remembered later: "They used to come backstage and ask a lot of questions about Little Richard and America and we would jam some in the rehearsals. That's how we got tight". It was mutual admiration from the start. The Star-Club revue featured an extensive line-up, but as Billy admitted: "I only watched the Beatles." He added: "They were never predictable… They used to dedicate 'A Taste Of Honey' and 'Love Me Do' to me, as they were my favourite numbers".
Fast forward to 1969, and Billy was in London playing organ for Ray Charles. George Harrison caught Ray's show at the Royal Festival Hall and spotted someone he recognized in the band. George said in The Beatles Anthology book: "I thought, 'That guy looks familiar,' but he seemed bigger than I remembered… I thought, 'It's Billy!'. Since we had last seen him in Hamburg in 1962, when he was just a little lad, he had grown to be six foot tall".
George put out the word to get in touch with Billy, and coincidentally, Billy had decided to catch up with his old friends at the same time. He phoned Apple, and was invited along to 3 Savile Row. As Apple's Derek Taylor wrote in a press release for Billy: "An hour later The Beatles are recording a song called 'Get Back'. Paul McCartney, bearded and hair brushed back in unconscious awareness of a pre-moptop era, turns to Billy… who has just arrived, and extends an invitation to join in on the piano…".
Those sessions were not the most relaxed that The Beatles had ever held, but Billy's sudden presence, his natural ebullience and his instinctive, effortless playing quickly enlivened the proceedings. Said Paul in The Beatles Anthology: "Billy was brilliant — a little young whizz-kid. We'd always got on very well with him. He showed up in London and we all said 'Oh Bill! Great — let's have him play on a few things'. So he started sitting in on the sessions, because he was an old mate really".
Speaking in 2003, Ringo said: "Well, Billy was, and still is, the most incredible musician. That we also knew him helped, but he just plays the right thing. Billy knows what to play and he always has. We met him when he was 16, 17, with Little Richard, but it really enhances the track what he does because it's not only great, it's not busy… So thank you Billy for all your help."
After assisting his friends on 'Get Back', and on 'Don't Let Me Down', Billy remained at The Beatles' sessions — originally for the Get Back album, which became Let It Be, and which decades later became Let It Be…Naked. He also joined the mammoth recordings that yielded 'Something' and 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' for Abbey Road. The Beatles even discussed adding him to their line up full-time. That didn't happen of course, although in essence it actually did for a while: "They made me feel like a member of the band", Billy remembered later. For what turned out to be their last ever live performance, Billy was indeed the Fifth Beatle. "Musically, my favourite moment was on the (Apple) roof for Let It Be," he said. The real seal of approval came when 'Get Back' was issued as a single in April 1969. The label carried the unprecedented credit, 'The Beatles with Billy Preston'.
Billy was offered a contract with Apple Records. "I said yeah, but I'm on Capitol, so the next day they said you're now on Apple, just like that." It was a watershed moment: "That was my first chance to produce and to do my songs," said Billy, "and also to sing because in the beginning I was an instrumentalist."
Three unreleased tracks from his Capitol sessions, recorded in Los Angeles with producer Wayne Schuler, were included on That's The Way God Planned It: the soulful 'I Want To Thank You', the wisely-worded groover 'Keep It To Yourself', and 'Hey Brother'. Versions of several others, including 'Do What You Want', 'I Want To Thank You', 'It Doesn't Matter' and 'What About You?' had also been recorded at Capitol, but were remade from scratch for Apple.
New sessions for Billy's songs — held at Abbey Road and at Olympic in Barnes, south west London — began as soon as George's commitment to the Get Back / Let It Be project was over. By mid February 1969, a batch of new songs was complete; three of these, 'Encouraging Words', 'Right Now', and 'Sing One For The Lord', a unique Harrison-Preston songwriting collaboration, would be held over for Billy's second Apple LP.
For That's The Way… George Harrison was officially in charge of production, but it was a loose arrangement, as Billy stated in his Apple bio: "We work together and it's a beautiful combination. Usually he just wants to be out there playing all the time."
Derek Taylor, Apple's press officer, visited Billy just after the London sessions began. He wrote: "Preston's hotel room has been quiet until now. He moves over to the record player and plays an acetate of himself jamming with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Keith Richards and George Harrison. Says Billy: 'They're all playing on the album I'm making; and Madeline Bell and Doris Troy are doing the backing vocals'."
That album is this album, That's The Way God Planned It, remastered in 2010 and featuring a never-before-heard bonus track.
All but two of the 12 songs here are Billy Preston originals, and three of them were written in collaboration with Doris Troy: the feel-good 'Everything's Alright' was issued as the follow-up single to 'That's The Way God Planned It' in October 1969; 'Let's All Get Together Right Now' is a universally-themed anthem that could have come from the mighty pen of Ray Charles; while the lyrics to 'This Is It' read as if they were an entry from Billy's 1969 diary: "I've made it!". (After George heard Doris' spirited backing vocals at these sessions, he offered her a deal with Apple too.)
The two cover versions on the album are Bob Dylan's bittersweet 'She Belongs To Me', and 'Morning Star', by 'father of the blues' W.C. Handy. Billy played the role of Handy as a child in the 1958 film St. Louis Blues, while Nat 'King' Cole played Handy as an adult and sang 'Morning Star' on screen and on the soundtrack album.
The full force of Billy's musical prowess was brought out by George Harrison the producer on this album. Witness, in particular, Billy's powerhouse performances on 'What About You', 'It Doesn't Matter', and the opener 'Do What You Want', which features Eric Clapton on lead guitar; Eric also plays on the title track. (Billy went on to re-make 'Do What You Want' for his self-titled 1976 album on A&M Records.)
When issued as a single, 'That's The Way God Planned It' became Billy's breakthrough hit in Britain, reaching No. 11 in July 1969 . It had been a long road up to this point. But it was also just the beginning.
As Billy said in 1986: "Everything that's happened to me has been the way God's planned it 'cos I never auditioned, I never worked any other job but music and people would call me to play with them. I never like begged or asked, you know, and I feel it was a blessing. And this is the way God planned it.
'Through All Times' was recorded at Capitol Records with Wayne Schuler producing. The instrumental 'As I Get Older' was co-written with Sylvester 'Sly Stone' Stewart, produced by Ray Charles, and was issued as the B-side to 'All That I've Got (I'm Gonna Give It To You)', Billy's third Apple single (Apple 21), in January 1970. The alternative version of 'That's The Way God Planned It' dates from the sessions at Olympic Studios in March 1969.
The previously unreleased 'Something's Got To Change' was written by Billy Preston with Arthur Fullilove and Melvin Ray Jernigan, and was first recorded by Ray Charles in 1967. Billy's version dates from early 1970 and was produced by Billy and George
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- George Harrison (Except tracks 2, 7, 11 & 13 Wayne Schuler; track 14 Ray Charles)
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- Olympic Studios (Except track 16 at Trident Studios)
- Released (UK)
- 22/08/69
- Released (US)
- 10/09/69

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Shows what i know next to nothing about stuff that old. i am like a kid with his dads stereo when it comes to turbos. If theres a HP knob i am going to turn it all the way up. So I would have to pass on the turbo. I know my self to well.
edelbrock does flat head ford stuff still not sure if they do anything else. They never list everything they sell on the site.
Ford NEVER made a straight-8 engine, only V-8s.
Boosting the old engine with moderate boost (5-6 psi) shouldn't be a problem at all. Pistons are much heavier and thicker if aluminum, and may be cast iron. The crank and rods are forged steel, cast wasn't strong enough until techniques were developed around 62-63. The cylinder walls are thicker due to casting techniques not developed until the early 60s for thinner blocks. Everything is tough enough, but you do make a good point of making sure everything is in good working condition or better yet newly rebuilt. Detonation would be a concern, but that would be the case on a modern engine. Cast iron pistons might not be tougher than cast aluminum -- heavier an thicker, but also more brittle.
Does edelbrock still make a webber and four barrel manifold for these. i bet they got one in stock somewhere. i would give em a call. I was thinking there were parts out there for s8 fords.
biggest problem you got is young guys dont do straight 8 stuff and old dudes dont like to sell stuff on the net. Best to hit the swap meets and ask every person that will talk to you if they have herd of anyone with the parts you need. they were made by a bunch of people at one time. I am sure some old rodder has what you need in his garage in good shape and ready to go.
I would not boost a 100 year of engine. or 80 90 whatever. Unless you have just rebuilt it i would leave that option on the table. Putting the stright 8 in storage and going 350 would be safer. You could always go back to oem spec.
Boost will have oil pooring out of that motor. Not to mention putting load on everything. If you do boost it you got to build it up to take the turbo. gaskets and valve seals were never made to take that kind of abuse they will be spewing oil. i was thinking the crankcase does not have good venting on those old 8s as well. But i have never built one. 350 is to cheap and no one cries when it goes up in smoke. junk yard short block and fab up some custom mounts so you dont have to cut into your chassis would be trick. i think they fit if you lower the front of the car and mount the engine back at an angle.
hope that is not unwanted advise.
|Great call Tech!! Pressurizing the intake should deliver fuel more evenly too. A "draw through" setup would be easiest with low boost like that.
|I think the simplest way would be to rig up a small supercharger or turbo. Seems that with 4-5 psi, you could make more power than you could with more carbs and headers and not blow up anything.
straighteight upgrade
The Buick OHV straight eights had a performance package called the "Century" engine. The early versions were 246 cubic inches, later 263 and finally a 320. All could be made to scoot. My family still has a '41 Sedanette Century and it runs very well. The engine in the roadster is a 320. The one in the Sedanette is a 263.
carter wcd carbs
G m used carter WCD 2 barrels on those dual setups/. They were a pretty good carb and had metering rods that you could adjust the lifter cam on the linkage , The WCD's we used by american motors up thru the 70's, In the 60's you could still buy the weld on flange kits to add more carbs to your stock manifold. I made my own a few years ago and made a spider leg intake manifold for my corvair (6 cyl flat engine ) powered dunebuggy and ran a single holly 500 2 Barrel carb.
|They had factory available dual carb intakes for those engines. That and a home built header will help a lot.
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You kinda said what you want to do with this .... so picking at what's left of my brain, these old straight 8 Buicks had individually poured tin-lead babbit rod bearings which are then fitted to the crankshaft dimensions cylinder by cylinder at least through 1948. This will severely limit how much you can safely add horsepower to these low RPM engines. Then there are those main bearings - reamed to size and fitted to the crankshaft with shims. My thoughts are, fix it up as-is and drive it. 320 cubic inches in that Century wont move it fast, but will have a lot of low end torque. If you have a later version straight 8 that could be installed, i.e. '49-'53, then I think you have some more possibilities with an improved bottom end as well as oiling system. This one, probably looking at a recipe for failure with horsepower modifications. Of course, with a 'nailhead' V8 installed there ............
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|Back in the day, when I was drag racing. There was a Henry J with a Hudson six in it. Ran every week at my favorite track. I ran B/Gas and they would let that car go first. A LOOONG wait for my green!!
|Dont ask me why but i have always wanted to build an old straight 8 fuel injected and stuff in an old henry j just one of my old odd ball ideas. Any way as far as headers i think you are going to end up having some made or building them your self the same goes for the intake
Harvey Crane still does some oddball/ specialty cam regrinding; might try him. I think he is in his 90s now.
Don't go too crazy without evaluating the oiling system on this thing; along with the con rods and the hardware that holds the con rods together.
Im not sure about the valvetrain, but if its not adjustable, you can't do too much to the cam either. Best thing you can do to increase performance is more compression and or rear gear change.
|Cape Cod Bob
|Have you ndriven this car. Seems that I remember some straight eights that had a lot of stock power.
Uh, no... nobody make anything! There's not much you can do. You can make your own headers, of course. Heck, I'd start with two right side V-8 headers and make a flange to fit the I-8. That might work... Or just get a "make your own" kit and start cutting and welding.
The intake would be harder. You can make a steel tubing intake similar to making a header though. Would be real easy to make intake tubes for Weber side drafts! Four 2V Webers sticking out the side would look great!!
Call Isky, Crane, or some other cam grinder and see if they can still grind a cam that long. They won't have new blanks, but can easily regrind a stock cam and get you a bit more power.
straighteight upgrade
I,m considering to upgrade my inlineeight in my 36 century coupe. I'm looking for just a little more horse power but not making a screamer. Possibly headers & intake change. Might use an electric fan & aluminum radiator and also electric fuel pump.. I,m mostly a purest in the old car hobby but I think I,m ready to step it up. Any suggestions? Does anyone make headers?
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KAY WOLF is surrounded by grateful Cambodians at the joyous dedication of The FordHarrison School in a rural village.
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Sipping wine at the beach last summer, Orlando lawyer Kay Wolf was reading an inspiring book and had an epiphany that would lead to building a school in a rural village in Cambodia that bears the name of her law firm: The FordHarrison School.
Working on writing an article on educating women in Third World countries, Wolf was rereading the best-selling book by husband-wife Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
Wolf focused on a chapter about Bernard Krisher, who retired from Newsweek and founded World Assistance for Cambodia, and is quoted as saying it's easier to educate girls than rescue them from brothels. Krisher created the foundation that helps donors build schools in the poorest areas of rural Cambodia for $15,000 each.
Wolf thought: "I could raise $15,000! What a great opportunity for the firm!"
"I'm sipping wine, reading this, and I could not let it go," Wolf recalls with a laugh. "In my buzzed stupor, I sent an email to my partner and said: 'We need to do this.'"
That day at the beach, she didn't hear back from Lash Harrison, the founder and managing partner of FordHarrison, a labor and employment firm of 170 lawyers in offices all over the country.
Later, when Wolf, a partner at the firm, met with Harrison face-to-face and gave him her zealous charitable sales pitch, he told her: "Go for it!"
Wolf took off with a passion, on a mission to raise $15,000 within the firm. Fundraising included $10 tickets to wear jeans on Fridays, bake sales, silent auctions, cocktails for a cause, online Scrabble competitions, and a lunch-and-learn brown bag event. The Chicago office came up with a self-policed "swear jar." A pace-setting group of 10 lawyers matched donations for every equity partner who donated an hour of billable time, and $20,000 was donated directly from the firm.
Wolf's goal was wildly surpassed.
"It's amazing what you can accomplish with a little bit of education about a social issue and a lot of arm-twisting," Wolf joked.
The firm raised $86,000 — enough to build a school, buy six computers and solar panels to power them, a satellite connection for Internet access, a printer with ink cartridges and paper, a digital camera, shelves filled with books, a deep water well with water filter, and school supplies for 420 children.
They also were able to hire a computer teacher for five years, who will help the children learn English, at a salary of $3,200 a year, instead of the usual Cambodian teacher salary of $600 a year.
"Oh, my God! I was overwhelmed with gratitude and pride at my firm," Wolf said. "And had Lash not been supportive, this couldn't have happened. I was so excited about the possibility of what it would mean, the number of kids we would be able to reach. And I was particularly grateful we are able to continue funding for the school."
The logistics of turning her inspired idea into reality had a few serendipitous moments. At the end of Kristof's and WuDunn's book, there is a section of how people can help.
"I contacted Bernie Krisher by email and he contacted me immediately," Wolf recounts. "He's in Toyoko, and his daughter, Debbie Krisher-Steele runs the foundation now. I have had 15 or 20 conversations with her."
Half the Sky tells the story of how students at a private school near Seattle, The Overlake School, also built a school in Cambodia in 2002 through World Assistance for Cambodia, and the faculty member who led the effort was now living in San Francisco. While Wolf helped her daughter move to San Francisco in August, she connected with that former Overlake teacher. They spent an afternoon together, and he answered all of Wolf's questions and assured her the foundation was well-run and her law firm would not regret this charitable project.
In October, Wolf had an opportunity to meet Kristof when he came to speak at Rollins College.
And on January 3, the grand opening of the FordHarrison School actually happened.
Wolf, her legal assistant Amy Cook, and Los Angeles senior associate Michelle Abidoye and her husband all traveled to Cambodia to attend the dedication and officially turn the school over to the country's Ministry of Education.
To get to this rural village in the Prey Veng Province of southeastern Cambodia, they had to ride a ferry because there was no bridge, and they are in the middle of nowhere.
"When we drive up in a van, there are 420 children, in their little white shirts and shorts, standing in two lines leading to the entrance of the school," Wolf describes.
As they walk the path between the rows, the children are smiling and clapping so loud it creates joyful thunder.
"It was hard to hold back tears," Wolf says.
Special scarves were wrapped around the lawyers' necks, and the dedication ceremony began as Buddhist monks blessed the generous visitors who brought the village its first school.
"We are on our knees and Buddhist monks are throwing rose petals and water on us, and saying words we couldn't understand. I'm sure it was a good thing!" Wolf describes with a laugh.
"Then I got to do my little speech about why we had done the project and what a difference education makes. Because my mother was a schoolteacher, I grew up believing that education is the key to financial independence and stability — both of which are desperately needed in Cambodia.
"I told the children we were lawyers and had been through 20 years of school. And that gives us an opportunity to afford a comfortable living and, more importantly, work for justice for our clients and our communities. I said, 'You can do this, too. Education is the way. Work hard. We are depending on you for a better future,'" Wolf said.
The next stop was to a huge market, where they bought sports equipment for the kids and gave each child school supplies and textbooks.
"You would have thought we'd given them the latest iPad. The children were so excited," Wolf said.
"It took me a week to process it all. I had never seen such poverty and squalor. You think, if I were to quit my job and move there, I couldn't make a dent. But if there is a way to solve those problems, first of all, it's through education. They have to do it themselves. They have to develop a workforce of leaders and thinkers. And this is how it has to start."
For more information, go to www.cambodiaschools.com. Under the Rural Schools Program, you will find the FordHarrison School as donor No. 544. Kay Wolf is happy to be contacted about her experience at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Microsoft Surface Pro to Have Much Less Available User Storage Than Specified
Those who purchase a 64GB Surface Pro ($899) will discover just 23GB of available space for their own files, while the 128GB version leaves users with 83GB of storage.
Less storage space than advertised isn't something that's unique to Microsoft by any means, but the reason it's drawing so much Internet attention is because Surface Pro gobbles up more storage than most of its competitors, up to 45GB right out of the box.
Much ado about nothing?
"Surface Pro has a USB 3.0 port for connectivity with almost limitless storage options, including external hard drives and USB flash drives," Microsoft said in a statement. "Surface also comes preloaded with SkyDrive, allowing you to store up to 7GB of content in the cloud for free."
Surface Pro also comes with a MicroSDXC card slot for an additional 64GB of storage space, provided you pony up for a memory card. And yet another option is to create a backup bootable USB device and delete the recovery partition, Microsoft adds.


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Marian J. Warren
Madison/Janesville-Marian J. Warren, age 92, passed away on Monday, December 10, 2012, at Waunakee Manor Nursing Home.
Marian was born on November 25, 1920 to Jeff and Emma Durfey and was born and raised in Madison. She Married Harold Warren and they lived for many years in Janesville. Marian loved to travel, animals, and was an avid Badger fan.
She is survived by her nephew Tom Fish; niece Millie Kiefer; and several great nieces and nephews. Marian was preceded in death by her husband Harold; her parents; sisters Mildred and Elizabeth; and good friend Ruth Jacobson.
Thank you to the staff of Waunakee Manor and Terri Patwell NP for the extraordinary care which allowed us 6 ½ more years with her.
Burial will take place on Thursday December 13, 2012 at ROSELAWN MEMORIAL PARK, 401 Femrite Drive in Monona, at 11:00 a.m.


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Electric Blue Jack Dempsey?
I saw a beautiful fish in my favorite store, and was told it was an electric blue (or neon blue as I've also seen it referred to) Jack Dempsey. Now, I want one; naturally. I was told it stays smaller than the norm at around five inches but have also been told it reaches around 10 inches. I was also told it doesn't get as aggressive as the norm. Can anyone confirm or touch up on this info? I know I can't just throw in with any fish or tank for that matter. I know there's google, but I keep finding things about natural habitat, and I wan't to know about tank setup.
Not sure about the max size, but they are (somewhat) less aggressive than the regular breed. However, they are still a cichlid, and may not play well with other cichlids. They also tend to die for no apparent reason, most likely some genetic defect, before reaching maturity. Some do make it in the long run, but most likely 5" is the max size most will live to. Tank setup would be the same as for any good-size CA or SA cichlid. High turnover rate (10x tank volume/hour) on the filtration, and don't fall in love with your aquascaping because it will probably get rearranged by the fish. Live plants are usually eaten, large rocks should rest on the bottom of the tank, not the substrate. They don't require much cover, not a particularly shy fish.
Yup, ditto the above. Mine was less aggressive than regular Jacks, but ONLY compared to regular Jacks - they are still an aggressive fish. You should stock around them same as you would a regular Jack.
I'll third on this one; amazing looking fish with some genetic issues but they are still jacks at heart even if they may be a bit more timid.Long time fish keeper most experience with CA/SA cichlids, natives like sunfish, and aggressive catfish.
Currently have a 29g planted with 14 candy cane tetras, 6 sterbai corys, 6 melini corys, a rescued Siamese fighting fish and 1 mustache wearing albino longfin pleco.
I'll add my 2 cents. I purchased a 1 1/2 inch ebjd a year ago in Sept. Now he's a strapping 5 inches. I babied him something awful as I grew him out. I kept him in a 30 gallon with some tetras so I could monitor what he ate as I understand that getting them to the 3 inch mark is difficult because, as someone said, of a digestive issue. He was a finicky eater for some time so I tried everything to get him to eat. Once he started eating blood worms, he started on live shrimp, then started hoarding algae wafers and now he eats everything with gusto. He loves cichlid pellets, flake food and shrimp pellets as well.
He currently resides in a 90 with a gold sev, 3 blood parrots, a geo and some congos. I have seen little aggression - in fact, one of the BP's is the tank boss and she just loves pushing him out of where she thinks he shouldn't be.. I have 2 crocks with multiple openings and he sleeps in either one or the other. The tank has a huge piece of leggy driftwood and lots of rock formations so there are a lot of 'line of sight' barriers which helps with over all aggression. The tank has no plants in the substrate but I've tucked Anubis, java fern, hornwort and anacharis in every nook and cranny and he pretty much leaves it alone.
I've never seen him try to take on a fish but he's not fully mature yet so that could change. He's a gorgeous fish - a real show stopper - and I enjoy him immensely. I think you should give it a go if you can get a proper set up.30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
15 g FW planted:2 male guppies, neons, pygmy corys, clown pleco, 4 types of shrimp, assassin snails
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E-mu Emulator II
An affordable classic early eighties sampler/workstation synthesizer. It's a sampler that sounds like an analog synth because it has analog filters! It samples at a low 8-bits (up to 17.6 seconds) so it's got that lo-fi sound which is great for some types of electronic music. Especially nice is its ability to create warm analog-ish pads and sounds. It uses those giant 5" floppy disks for storage. Also on-board is a useful 8-track sequencer. It can be hooked up to a Mac for easier editing using software such as Digidesign's Sound Designer.
The Emulator II had many new features for its time. MIDI, SMPTE and computer control. Editing samples includes truncating, manual/auto looping, reverse, velocity switch cross-fading and splicing samples together. A great feature is the 24 dB/oct analog 4-pole low pass filter. There are eight separate LFO's and eight extra individual outputs for each voice. Make no mistake, the Emulator II was a long standing professional sampler of the mid-eighties for musicians and sound designers.
The Emulator II received numerous upgrades during its four year production run from 1984 to 1988. These included the Emulator II+ with double the sample memory and the Emulator II+HD which adds a 20MB internal hard drive. The Emulator II series was replaced by the much improved Emulator III in 1988. Although both have definitely been overcome by modern samplers and workstations the Emulators remain as classic music machines. The Emulator II has been used by Depeche Mode, ABC, Genesis, Paul McCartney, Tangerine Dream, New Order, Front 242, Brian Wilson, Simple Minds, Enya, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Stevie Nicks, Yes, filmaker/composer John Carpenter, ABC, David Frank Of The System, Mr. Mister, Phillipe Saisse, Stevie Wonder, David "Hawk" Wollinski, Pet Shop Boys; even Ferris Beuller!
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Jam Cruise is like no other music festival for a variety of reasons. But things like tribute sets, all star jams, charity work, and the pre and post parties that surround the cruise really top that list of reasons.
We are thrilled to announce that the pool deck will be closed out by the Master Camp at Sea All Stars, who include Victor Wooten, Butch Trucks, Col. Bruce Hampton, Luther Dickinson, Cody Dickinson, and Kofi Burbridge.
We'll also have some worldclass yoga onboard instructed by Gina Caputo, with two sessions per day. One in the morning, and one in the evening.
Our annual tribute set this year will be done by Karl Denson with special guests Zach Deputy and Dela of Slightly Stoopid, as they will be performing the music of soul icon Ray Charles.
Speaking of unique sets, Keller Williams will be playing a rare lounge set that will see him perform for us on the piano.
The Stanton Moore Trio featuring Will Bernard and Robert Walter will make it's Jam Cruise debut this year. This will showcase the Galactic drummer in a new form for the Jam Cruise faithful.
There will be no shortage of Jam Cruise love on dry land this year as we have announced even more pre and post shows. The Jam Cruise All Stars which includes George Porter Jr., Eric Krasno, Adam Deitch, Nigel Hall, Bill Evans, Billy Iuso, and the Bonerama horns will rock The Funky Biscuit in Boca Raton as the Pre Cruise Party on January 2nd. After disembarking on the final day of Jam Cruise, head on over to Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale for an evening with Les Claypool's Duo de Twang to reminince of good times had. But the party doesn't end there, the next day on the 10th, head back to the Funky Biscuit for another Post Cruise Party show with The Revivalists and Monophonics!
For the 2nd year in a row, Brad Barton, Reality Thief will be bringing his renowned magic show onboard Jam Cruise! Get ready to have your mind blown!
Last but certainly not least, some exciting news on the Positive Legacy front. The Bob Moog Foundation will be returning to Jam Cruise to host some activites onboard as well as get involved in Positive Legacy's Jammin in Jamaica excursion. There will also be a donation drive to gather items such as composition notebooks, toothbrushes, women's tops, and used digital cameras to help benefit Falmouth, Jamaica, where Jam Cruise will stop to port on day 3.
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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal
JACKSON – Mississippi Health Care Access, a coalition that includes medical providers, religious groups and others interested in the state's health care issues, will host a public hearing Thursday night in Tupelo on Medicaid expansion.
The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at the Link Centre on West Main in Tupelo. A similar meeting will be held at the same time at the Oxford Conference Center on Ed Perry Boulevard.
According to a news release by the group, other meetings will be scheduled across the state to discuss the option to expand Medicaid to provide health care to those earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level or about $15,000 annually for an individual.
The Legislature ended the 2013 session without funding Medicaid for the upcoming fiscal year because of the issue of expansion.
Democrats in the House blocked funding the existing program, saying they wanted a debate and vote on expanding Medicaid, which is allowed under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant and many members of the Republican legislative majority say the state cannot afford the expansion even though the bulk of the cost is paid by the federal government.
At some point before the new fiscal year begins on July 1, it is anticipated Bryant will call a special session to take up the issue of funding the existing program. It is expected that Bryant and the legislative leadership will reject efforts to deal with expansion during the special session.
Jarvis Dortch, program manager with the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program, said he hopes to have health care professionals and legislators at the public hearings, which he said are designed to educate the public about Medicaid expansion.
When, Where
TUPELO – Thursday, 6 p.m., Link Centre
OXFORD – Thursday, 6 p.m., Oxford Conference Center


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BP exec to deliver Taplin Lecture, Oct. 4
Posted September 30, 2004; 03:50 p.m.
John Browne, group chief executive of the oil firm BP, will speak about "Powers and Responsibilities the Role of Corporations in Human Progress" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, in McCosh 50.
The talk is part of the Frank and Peggy Taplin Environmental Lecture series and part of the 10th anniversary celebration of the Princeton Environmental Institute. The talk will be followed at 5:45 p.m. by a reception in McCosh courtyard.
Under Browne's leadership in 1998, BP announced a commitment to reduce its emissions of the heat-trapping gases that cause global warming to 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2010. The company met the target eight years early at no net cost, according to BP. In 2000, BP donated $15 million to Princeton to establish the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, a 10-year effort to investigate science and technology for solving the global greenhouse gas problem.
The Taplin Environmental Lecture is an annual event that brings leaders from around the world to discuss pressing environmental issues. The Princeton Environmental Institute coordinates environmental research, education and outreach at Princeton and is home to the Carbon Mitigation Initiative. More information about the anniversary celebration is available on the institute's Web site .
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We've all seen Michelle Monaghan on screen playing the action heroine, especially in Mission Impossible III, opposite Tom Cruise. We've also seen her play with guns as a national fugitive in Eagle Eye, co-starring Shia LeBeouf. Given that kind of acting repertoire, you'd be led to believe Michelle, hot enough as she is, has an affinity for action involving guns and sweatbreaking scenarios.
Well, true enough, here's gorgeous Michelle Monaghan in another sweaty scenario, locking on to another kind of gun: cocks, and all of them pointed at her or inside her, and don't let me nudge you for you to get the point. I'll just let these pictures do the talking.
See, I told you Michelle Mongahan is a pro at taking the bullet, and I'm sure a bullet in the form of pearly lumps of cum inside her pussy in an even easier feat. She can even take it on all fours, provided that it's done in the comforts of the bed, with cock zeroed in on her pussy from behind. Man, it's always so hot to see a celeb who likes to take a fucking from behind; they're just so helpless, you know? But of course, we're not fooled: just look at Michelle Monaghan delightfully getting rammed by a dick on all fours and tell me they don't like it.
This celebrity chick is such a pro at cock that she can take two of them at one time! Shit, just seeing these wild fuck pictures of Michelle Monaghan is making me want to pull a buddy and find us a hoe in the street who's ready to do a twofer, gawd. It was a stroke of genius that god decided to put two holes in a woman's crotch, eh? So, if you were worried before that Michelle can't take a ramming in the ass, you're worries are officially over: these pictures of Michelle Monaghan getting fucked in the ass and cunt ought to lift up your spirits. And your cock.


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Snowball Cake
1 box devil's food cake mix
8 ounces cream cheese
1 egg
2 tablespoons sugar
1 small box instant vanilla pudding
1⁄4 cup powdered sugar
1 cup cold milk
2 cups Cool Whip, thawed
1 cup Baker's flaked coconut
Prepare cake as directed on box and pour batter into a greased 2.5-quart Pyrex bowl.
Beat cream cheese, egg and sugar until well blended. Spoon into the center of the batter in the bowl.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool cake in the bowl for 10 minutes. Loosen cake from the bowl with a knife and invert it onto a wire rack or serving plate.
Meanwhile, beat dry pudding mix, powdered sugar and milk in a bowl with a whisk for 2 minutes. Fold in Cool Whip. Refrigerate until ready to use. When cake is cool, frost with pudding mixture. Cover with coconut. Keep refrigerated.
Hinkle Creek Mud Pies
4 large eggs
2 cups sugar
2 sticks margarine
4 heaping tablespoons cocoa powder
1 tablespoon vanilla flavoring
Pinch of salt
1 cup chopped pecans
Vanilla ice cream
Cream together eggs and sugar and set aside.
Combine margarine and cocoa powder and cook in microwave until margarine is melted. Remove and add vanilla and salt, then pecans. Combine margarine mixture with egg mixture and mix well.
Pour 1⁄4 cup of mixture into large-mouth half-pint canning jars that have been sprayed with cooking spray. Place jars in a pan half-filled with water and bake at 300 degrees for 45 minutes. Do not overbake. Top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Note: This recipe contains no flour.
Pamalucy's Salad Dressing
3 cups mayonnaise
11⁄2 cups sugar
5 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons finely chopped pecans
3 tablespoons real bacon bits
3 tablespoons finely chopped purple onion
Combine all ingredients and mix well. Keeps well if stored in a container in the refrigerator. Use as a dressing for green salad or heat it in the microwave for 10 seconds and use it as a dipping sauce for hushpuppies or saltines.
Vinegar Slaw
1 small head of cabbage, finely chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 large jar chopped pimientos
2 tablespoons celery seed
2 tablespoons mustard seed
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon black pepper
4 cups sugar
4 cups white vinegar
In a large bowl, combine cabbage, onion, bell pepper, pimientos and seasonings.
Heat sugar and vinegar in a saucepan on the stove until the sugar has completely dissolved. Pour over cabbage mixture and store in the refrigerator. Slaw will keep 2 to 3 weeks. Good with fish and hushpuppies or pinto beans and cornbread.
Nanny's Cake
1 box yellow cake mix
1 cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 pound powdered sugar
8 ounces cream cheese
8 ounces Cool Whip
1 teaspoon vanilla
20 Kraft caramels
2 tablespoons milk
Prepare cake mix as directed on package. Combine pecans with 2 tablespoons powdered sugar and stir this in the batter (the powdered sugar keeps the pecans from settling on the bottom). Bake cake in a 9×13-inch pan as directed on the box.
When cake is done, remove from oven and poke holes in the top. Pour sweetened condensed milk over the top of the cake while it's still hot.
Combine box of powdered sugar, cream cheese, Cool Whip and vanilla. When cake is cool, ice the top.
Melt caramels and milk in a double boiler. Drizzle over icing, making sure to get the edges. Swirl caramel mixture over the top using a toothpick.


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Binghamton University's Graduate School of Education announces a master's degree designed especially for working teachers in Greater New Orleans. This program will help you refine your teaching, learning, and assessment skills. You will learn best practices and the theories behind them. You will acquire strategies and approaches that improve learning outcomes for all students and deepen your understanding of what you are teaching and, most importantly, why.
Binghamton's MS in Educational Studies program features small cohorts and separate paths for elementary and secondary teachers. Secondary teachers will matriculate in core subject areas: English, mathematics, science, or social studies.
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Eliminate all section 8 and put them back in the prijects or better yet cages. I worked for my home and the gov;t made me pay for someone to live next to me and destroy it!
Hihope Hiland Heathen of Perth CD, RE, CGC, TDI. (RIP)
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There was a fire zone by the entrance to the door to 6 units with a parking space on either side. Well, she would park in the fire zone if no open space near the door! SO those of us the normally got the spaces on either side had to rather than parking to leave the fire zone, walk way as wide as possible especially in the winter started parking on the lines so she could not fi her car in there. Went to take my dog out one snowstorm morning and was met at the common doorway by a drug dealer and a pit bull visiting her I guess overnight who told me to move or his dog would tear us up. Mickey told his his dog off and pitbull put his tail between his legs but they again had a car parked blocking everyone in.
NO laundry or towels to be hung over balcony railings but she would dry her jeans out there again againt the bylaws almonst everyday in the summer. HAad enough one day as my window box flowers needed watering. Finally watered the dying flowers, splashing lots of mud (yup a maxed out the splsh factor at that point) doen onto the ILLEGAL laundry. The bitch came upstairs and tried to attack me and tryed to claim my dog waspeeing on the deck. Bad scene. I could go on and on. How about the one directly across from me Tracy with her 5 year old whos daddy was in jail.
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Love the grow chart idea! Instead of using a wall and, maybe, painting over it someday. a record that can be kept forever. Love it!
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Love the grow chart idea! Instead of using a wall and, maybe, painting over it someday. a record that can be kept forever. Love it!
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Missgigglwwings - Your Quilt just about took my breath away. It's wonderful!
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
carriem & dublb...thank you so much for the kind words. I wish I had made this one for me..but Richard is a very special person...making this for him was a peaceful endeavor for me...a very enjoyable one!
A lovely Asian quilt Missgigglewings. Just want to report my 2nd finish for 2013. The "You are My Sunshine" baby quilt. Turned out darling but I've had it with trying to post pictures on here so I am not even going to bother again until I talk with a tech friend of mine for advice.
@ DebJ: Don't give up on posting photos just yet.
I posted how I do it here, post #38. Good luck: 2.5 Candy Birthday Swap - Closed/Full
"I don't buy vintage quilts. By the time I finish the quilts I've started they've already become antiques." ~ Mark Lipinski
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Finished this little scrappie. Just trying to finish up some scraps. Will go to local charity.
Aww, that's cute. Ring the bells & sing the song! Ya finished one.
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
This is SO gorgeous, I'd love to put it on my 'one day' list . . . Could you tell me the pattern? You did a wonderful job, it is just lovely!
I have made a lot of rail fence quilts, and it has never occurred to me to use my ends as another border!! You are a genius! I am SO going to remember this cool idea!! =))
looks great!
Wow, you guys are inspiring me to use up some scraps! But, wait I can't! I still have at least 10 unfinished projects I have to get done before I start anything 'new!'
Great job on all the finished projects! I especially like the little fishy quilt with the border and fish block off center!


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Hi again all of you....
New problem with my ubuntu/linux setup.
I've recently installed a 25 laptop network with ubuntu 11.10.....
Now I've added the network printer to all of them.
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Somalia: Displaced people hit hardest by flooding
The home made of twigs and branches, cardboard boxes and plastic sheeting did not stand a chance against the heavy rain and winds. When their roof and walls were ripped away, 73-year-old Isack Dahir Hilowle and his eleven family members feared for their lives.
"We huddled together, one on top of the other, to survive," he recalls, one month after the storm and flash flood forced about 2,500 people living in camps on the outskirts of the central Somali town of Cabudwaaq to flee their homes. Virtually everything the family owned, including food stores, was destroyed, as was the town's central market that so many people relied on for work.
An estimated 12,000 displaced people live in seven camps near Cabudwaaq. More than two decades of conflict, drought and famine have displaced hundreds of thousands of people across Somalia. Hilowle and his family fled their home in Bakool six years ago when local authorities expelled aid groups that many depended on to supplement their livelihoods.
Health concerns amidst flood waters
The Gu (long) rains fall in Somalia between March and June, bringing relief to the parched southern and central regions. But they can also cause devastation. Torrential downpours like those experienced in Cabudwaaq can trigger floods that ruin crops and kill people and livestock. Stagnant waters then pose major health risks, including increased incidents of cholera, diarrhoea and malaria. Despite these risks, many people prefer to draw water from potentially polluted catchment sites, instead of from bore holes or water kiosks. Aid agencies are helping to educate people to use safe water sources as well as expanding their access to clean water.
At a new catchment site developed by the World Food Programme near the camps north of town, women fill their jerry cans with clean water. Ten metres away, a herder sets out a dish of water for his camels. One animal drinks at a time, while the others stay packed close together.
Humanitarian agencies provide relief
The floods were devastating for many. It took Hilowle's family two weeks to rebuild their makeshift shelter (known as a buul in Somali) having found higher and safer ground on the other side of the camp. An NGO has provided them with rice, wheat flour and oil.
With the threat of further flooding still present in the weeks that followed, aid workers in Cabudwaaq distributed shelter and food supplies to families that had lost everything.
However for some families the storm had little impact. The reasons for this were varied, but they speak to the importance of helping vulnerable communities become more resilient.
Standing on high ground in one of the camps on the outskirts of Cabudwaaq, Sureer Shire Muhamed explains that the heavy rain caused only the slightest of damage to her buul and had no impact at all on her business. She sells firewood that she collects far from the camp using a cart and donkey. Sureer purchased the animal and cart two years ago, aided by a grant from a livelihood-building programme funded by the OCHA-managed Common Humanitarian Fund.
These types of efforts to help displaced families cope with disasters and develop sustainable livelihoods are central components of the humanitarian community's three-year strategy for Somalia, which was launched in Mogadishu in December 2012.
Moving away from a cycle of recurring disasters
Hilowle wears a long chain of orange, white and gray-blue stone worry beads around his neck. His eyesight is failing, but his calloused hands show that he still finds work. "I can still collect firewood or dig small ditches," he says.
It is unlikely that Hilowle will ever go back to planting maize, sorghum and tomatoes in Bakool. Nor is it clear if his children will ever learn to farm. They will need to build new lives, and they will need support to do this without being interrupted by regular disasters.
"Communities in Somalia will continue to be exposed to flooding and drought conditions," said UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Philippe Lazzarini. "Our goal is to help people and communities to become better prepared to cope with shocks and then quickly recover from the impact. Building such resilience is at the heart of our strategy to make a difference in people's lives and move away from the cycle of recurring crises."


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By Dennis Seid/NEMS Daily Journal
On the day JCPenney announced it was letting go its CEO last week, word came that the company's store in Vicksburg was closing.
The Vicksburg closing isn't a big deal for most of you reading this. It was just one of 47 underperforming stores the company said it was shuttering.
But I'm a Vicksburg native, and there's quite a bit of nostalgia that goes with that store. Well, with all old department stores, really.
The first JCPenney in the River City was built in the 1930s on Washington Street. My grandparents shopped there, as did my parents, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends and many, many others.
It moved to what was then the new Pemberton Square Mall in 1984 in a building with little character, unlike its old downtown spot.
I didn't come around until the late 1960s, but I remember going to the old store as a kid. That's when department stores were cool and you could find just about everything you wanted. There was the multi-story Valley Department Store the next block over that was even better.
The stores all had a particular smell that I can't quite place. It was a "department store" smell. And the stores back then certainly didn't bake bread or fry chicken or have floral departments.
I certainly wasn't interested in the clothes and shoes at JCPenney or any other department store. I remember how cool it was to run up the stairs in the back of Penney's and peering back over the sales floor. Maybe the toy department was up there, too.
Ah, memories. McRae's, before it was bought out by Belk, was another stalwart on the retail scene. As were TG&Y, Howard's, Gibson's.
Then came Walmart. The Arkansas retailer changed the department store game that few were able, or willing, to adapt to. And where are those other stores today? Gone.
It was a nice trek down memory lane for me to think about what it used to be like at JCPenney and those other stores.
But if JCPenney doesn't want to join the rest of them in extinction, it's got to right its ship now.
If you've been wondering what the company's been doing the past year or so, join the crowd. Maybe hiring a former Apple exec was thinking too far out of the box for JCP.
A new pricing plan was supposed to be revolutionary – there would be fewer sales and coupons, giving way to everyday low prices. But the execution of the plan flopped, and led to confusion for consumers. The company changed its message several times but still couldn't get it right.
The results speak for themselves: company sales dropped by 25 percent and losses hit nearly $1 billion last year.
Department stores have changed and aren't what they once were. It's not business as usual anymore. They still must adapt to survive and thrive. But as JCPenney discovered, going too far can be just as bad as doing nothing at all.


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Is this Obama's war?
Mali: Update. News services reported today that the prospect of a war in northern Mali against fundamentalist Islamists and al-Qaida affiliates advanced significantly after European governments promised to back an international force to retake the region from Islamist groups, provided it is led by soldiers from African countries.
While preparations continue to retake the north, foreign jihadists reportedly are arriving in northern Mali to reinforce the Islamic militants.
Comment: This week's major development is that the Europeans promised to finance the operations. The problems of operating in northern Mali are enormous, requiring extensive resources just to sustain supplies of ammunition, fuel, food and water, not to omit coordination between forces from different states. The supply problems alone would tax a modern military force from a single nation.
A multi-national operation compounds the problems exponentially, especially if English-speaking and French-speaking forces try to cooperate. France and its NATO allies must provide the communications, maintenance, intelligence and supply backbone or this intervention will stand no chance of success. It looks like another Libya operation. No matter how the operations are presented to the public, the US will be doing much of the heavy lifting because no other nation in the world can. That is why the US has an Africa Command.


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South Sudan: Searching for safety
"They came to kill us, so we fled."
Martha Acher's voice is quiet but steady as she tells the story of the day, in late January, when she and her six children fled their home in Jonglei State. Now Martha and her family are sheltering in a small and dusty compound in Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile State in South Sudan's north-eastern corner.
The compound is normally used by the State Ministry of Labour, but is now the temporary home for several hundred people. Many sleep outside, without any protection from the blistering heat of the days and the surprising chill of the nights.
Like Martha, most of the people in the compound arrived in the past week. Many came on foot from villages up to a day's walk away. Today they are being registered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) – the first step towards receiving assistance from aid groups working in the area.
But people do not want to stay. They fear that the town will be attacked again. Local authorities are organizing transport to take people further north, towards smaller towns closer to the border with Sudan. "I want to take the children to Melut [a town further north]", says Martha. "I think we will be safer there."
A patchwork of displacement
The thousands of people transiting in Malakal represent only a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese who have been displaced since fighting began on 15 December. Patterns of displacement are fluid. Many are moving from towns hit by fighting to more peaceful parts of the country where they have family or other connections.
Others stay in the bush close to their homes; waiting to see if the situation will improve. One thing is clear: despite the agreement to cease hostilities signed by the Government of South Sudan and opposition forces in late January, many people are still too afraid to return home.
The scale and fluidity of the displacement pose enormous challenge for aid workers. By the time a group of people have been registered to receive assistance, half will have moved on to a new location.
"The registration is going well," says Susan Atala, a registration officer with IOM, as she inks the finger of an elderly lady who is being registered for assistance along with Martha and her family.
"The challenge is tracking where people go next, and making sure we are able to give them what they need to get through the journey. Many of the people here are old or sick. I am worried what will happen to them once they leave Malakal."
Access and safety key to expand the response
Every day brings new reports of people fleeing, often into remote rural areas which are difficult for aid organizations to reach. One afternoon in early February, a young man from a local NGO rushed into the OCHA office in Malakal. He explained that thousands of people were huddled along the banks of the Nile; pushed from their villages by attackers, living off leaves and water drawn from the river.
Plans were quickly made to deploy a team to the area. However, the location of the community meant the team would need to cross a conflict line, meaning that access would need to be negotiated with both sides.
"Negotiating safe passage for aid workers and humanitarian supplies with all parties is a hugely important part of our work" says Vincent Lelei, head of the OCHA office in South Sudan. "It is often time-consuming, but it is the only way we can get assistance to all communities in need, without risking the lives of our colleagues."
The OCHA team was able to negotiate access to the community, and have started working with humanitarian groups to provide them with basic healthcare, clean water and other support.
A massive task ahead
The humanitarian community in South Sudan has a massive task ahead. So far, 300,000 people displaced by violence have received assistance, out of the estimated 3.2 million people that aid groups are planning to reach by the end of June. The need to negotiate access is only one complicating factor. Logistical conditions are tough, with many displaced people scattered in areas which can only be reached by boat. Looting and attacks on humanitarian compounds are further hampering the capacity of agencies to deliver.
Part of the challenge will be to respond flexibly to rapidly changing circumstances. As aid agencies gear up the response, South Sudanese families continue to move.
"People are desperately searching for a safe place, an end to the bloodshed, and a chance to rebuild their lives," explains Mr. Lelei. "As humanitarians, we are determined to stand with all communities struck by this crisis, to stay and deliver assistance wherever it is needed, and to help people through this exceptionally difficult time."


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That would totally be an awesome future in the next five to ten years, but I can't be the only one thinking the whole time, "where are the sani-wipes?" :)
I was wondering how long the display in the bus stop would last.
Jesus, Rob. After what the 'Glass of the Brilliant New Future' in your iPad2 did, I'd think you'd be less enthused about this flavor of vision.
We better figure out our energy crisis in the mean-time if we are going to power all of this tech. I can't imagine it's all going to come from solar (glass) panels.


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text: The procedure I described has worked for me 2 out of 2 times thus far. In theory it can be just as efficient as a surgical and could produce larger litters than a TCI involving frozen or chilled semen. The amount of semen volume can exceed the capacity of the entire uterous and when followed by more of the same extender can easily force the semen all the way to the ends of the utirine horns for immediate contact with the eggs. The whole point I am trying to make is that this is a viable alternative for those without decent access to surgical or TCI implants. I have friends that have to drive at least 6 hours for any specialized Vet care. The chilled insemination involved semen with morphology issues. The person who collected,processed, and shipped it told us that surgical or TCI would have to be used. Upon arrival of the semen and evaluation we decided to do a vaginal AI and got ten pups. We did a side by side 5 weeks ago that showed at least 5 pups last week via ultra sound. The Vet College I use may be getting an endoscope for TCI's finally after my meeting with the aministrator in charge of equipment procurements but I like this insemination technique so well that I may opt for it on any involving semen that I own. No techniques will ever be 100% effective due to the uncertainties of estrus. False surges of progesterone or failure to maintain a high level of progesterone cause failure as well as poor semen that lose their tails or can't penetrate the eggs. My repro Vets worked at Cornell and then Penn before coming to the midwest to head this Therio department. They can extract semen from the testicles of a male that just passed away also. My personal Vet does not do much repro work so I use the Vet College Hospital for specialized procedures. Not trying to convince anyone to use thiss method but only to inform of altrenatives out there that work. I have only used surgical implants three times with one failure. The semen had a low count and was very sluggish post thaw.


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Family: Pinaceae, Pine view all from this family
Description Small to medium-size tapered tree. Crown rounded, spreading. Branches full, ascending. Bark gray to dark reddish-brown, thick, deeply fissured. Needles in mixed pairs and threes, slender, 3-6 cm. long, and dull yellowish green, with stomata on both inner and outer surfaces. Cones globose, 3-4 cm. long and broad when closed, green at first, ripening yellow-brown when 18–20 months old, with only a small number of thick scales, with typically 5-12 fertile scales. Cones open to 4-5 cm. broad when mature, holding the seeds on the scales after opening. Seeds 10-12 mm. long, with a thick shell, a pink endosperm. Wing 2 mm.
Dimensions Height: 5-6 m. (16-20 ft.)
Diameter: 0.3 m. (1 ft.).
Habitat Mountains, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Deserts, Grasslands & prairies.
Range Southwest, Texas.
Discussion Used for fuel, fenceposts, and small construction timbers, but rarely for lumber. Wood is soft, heavy, and varies from fine- to coarse-grained.
Seeds dispersed by the Mexican Jay, which plucks the seeds out of the open cones. The jay uses the seeds as a major food resource, stores many for later use; some of these stored seeds are able to grow into new trees.