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I can say this sauce was super duper delicious. It can be cook with any other dishes with meat and vege. A recipe adapted from "Hawker's Fair....Sauces"
Ingredients for Hakka Nam Yee Sauce:
8 pcs Nam yee (fermented red bean curd)
3 tbsps chopped garlic
3 tbsps chopped shallots
1 tsp chopped ginger
2 star anise
5cm cinnamon stick
3 tbsps oyster sauce
2 tbsps sugar
1 tsp sesame oil
2 tbsps Shaoxing wine (chinese cooking wine)
500ml water
a little constarch (for thickening)
~ Heat up some oil, saute chopped garlic and shallots until fragnant. Add in remaining ingredients and bring to boil. Add in some cornstarch and cook until thicken.
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Do you remember 2007 and 2008 when the season came down to the final weekend and we got wonderful pitching performances from John Maine and Johan Santana? Gems that kept alive the season in those summers of memorable collapses?
Those were the days.
Even if it meant the disappointment of losing the final game, I'd take that kind of finish over the one this year. Citi Field won't be packed this sunny afternoon. There will be a bite of chill in the air, just like there should be for October baseball, but it won't mean anything other than Game #161.
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UPS loves logistics and is looking to start engaging with others who share its passion -- and who have an appreciation for the modern complexities of combining the latest technology with efficient supply chains. The global economy is more interconnected than ever before, and global logistics can make the difference between success and failure. The competitive advantage that integrated global logistics provides can help to improve customer service, to expand into new markets and to improve the bottom line -- and we'd like to hear about your stories.
To start off this conversation, we're interested in hearing about "new logistics" -- such as experiences involving small businesses that have leveraged logistics to take advantage of international markets, or how logistics helped you and your company to better compete with larger companies by creating new opportunities, or simply explanations of what "new logistics" means to you and how it has helped build up your company's operations.
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The future of logistics for small business by Devin Moore
Monday, December 13th, 2010 @ 11:06AM
The future of small business logistics includes several key points; some are more achievable than others.
1. ZSF distribution - a zero square foot (ZSF) distribution model means we have no actual warehouse. In the ideal ZSF distro model, Every item needed is ordered on demand, and every item sold is made on demand. In reality, one can get close but due to manufacture times and other risk mitigation, a small cache of items is usually required. The goal of ZSF is to minimize this amount to reduce cost and speed up turnaround times.
2. Perfect tracking - ideally, you'd know where all your orders and shipments are at any given time. This is not technically possible, but you can get pretty close with RFID tags on every shipment. Of course, RFID tags are only as practical as their ability to remain secure, which leads to the next point.
3. Secure shipping - generic ship boxes and labeling plus secure order detail data are required to maintain shipping security. High value items that can be easily identified from outside the box are likely theft targets. The higher risk my cargo, the more likely I would be to take measures such as shipping under generic names or other steps to reduce the likelihood that a high dollar shipment would be identified as such and stolen in transit.
4. Pickup/Drop shipping - door to door service on shipping orders on a daily basis. This helps achieve ZFS, but it also reduces costs especially for startups. Automated order system stub scheduling of pickup/drop makes it a seamless experience for the small business owner -- one less thing they have to worry about all day.
So with all of these things, I can achieve the following scenario: I need no warehouse, so my costs are minimal. I and my customers know exactly where packages are, yielding higher customer service and backoffice statistics. I know my shipments are as secure as they can be, minimizing my risk in shipment, and I get seamless pickup and drop shipping when orders are placed. In other words, logistics are a transparent, utility-like service for my small business.
Logistics by Gene Cavanaugh
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 @ 4:03PM
UPS clearly sets a standard for timely, cost-effective delivery; but as these factors are taken more and more for granted, other factors are becoming increasingly more important.
A recent study showed that while UPS rated highest for a combination of care in handling, speedy delivery, and cost, like all other carriers, except the USPS, handling was too rough, and "fragile", etc., labels actually result in worst handling.
An incentive program, where UPS sends dummy packages loaded with accelerometers, etc., and rewards the handlers who show the most care; followed by a PR program showing the results, would be the best way to improve logistics beyond the present.
If I send a delicate <whatever> <somewhere>, I don't want the delay involved in replacing it due to damage in shipping, even if I am reimbursed by the carrier! To me, that is <slow> delivery, not just damage in shipping!
New Logistics Altered eCommerce Plans by James Durbin
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 @ 8:21AM
A company in the Home Furnishings market was excited about the possibilities for online sales of its products, and began to explore ways to generate new business outside of its traditional retail/distribution model. The technical obstacles were standard:
- Develop digital strategy and assets to generate leads and sales conversions
- Identify supplier/seller conflicts with new channel
- Establish delivery/customer service process geared towards online selling versus in-store selling
- Take advantage of enhanced technology and tracking systems to deliver product faster and with more certainty to retail customers.
The modern wisdom is that all sales are moving online and thus companies must adjust to this with new manners of selling and transportation. The speed of delivery was improved, and sales were generated from the website, but the company quickly recognized that the customer service/repair/return model was not as conducive to online selling.
- Customized orders suffered a higher percentage of returns with unacceptable losses. Expectations from online buyers were not tempered/directed with human contact.
- Logistics difficulties in creating home/business delivery from scratch created a new layer of overhead, as existing infrastructure was tasked to the retail division. Possible conflicts of interest for selling precluded the use of that existing infrastructure.
- Bulk transportation efficiencies were lost when delivering from a national instead of regional focus.
- Customer service departments were not prepared for online selling. Creation of a mature system was required to meet the demands of a fast-paced and demanding online shopping experience.
Success in this case was defined as a refocusing of the digital strategy to support current logistics, instead of taking advantage of a new logistics to alter the industry. Existing partnerships and infrastructure had to be incorporated and thus the online selling turned to support of the current business model instead of a new division within the parent company
While the promise of fast delivery and instant online purchase was possible, the company recognized it needed to restructure its internal systems and processes to prepare for the benefits of the new logistics.
Logistics for Mobile Data Centers and Data center Migration by Ramkaran Rudravaram
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 @ 9:02AM
At Sify, We are into Data Center and Information Infrastructure Management. We build out and assist customer in migrating Datacenters often working as part of large ecosystem of IT providers.
Logistics of Handling Data Center equipment when is properly packed in manufacturers packaging is relatively safe and proven activity.
Due to the Rise in Virtualization and Unified Infrastructure Technologies, there is need to consolidate datacenters. I was part of three such projects in the last six months.
These projects require moving old equipment in relatively short time windows often less than 48 hours due to the business critical nature of the data and applications residing on them.
The best of the providers without naming names including UPS did not have any well thought out solutions other than corner protection, shrinkwrap or Blankets. At best a shock resistant base. custom solution like purpose built Crates are both expensive and time consuming for production use.
Ideally I would like to see a service which can move full 42u Racks in a Shock-Protected Resistant Reusable container. and smaller reusable containers for 1-u, 2u, 3u up 12 u size chassis of Datacenter equipment(server, storage arrays and networking gear)
The development of RFID and Sensor technologies may allow easy capture of Shock and temperature data in transit. For Critical equipment, It may be a good idea to build these sensors into the reusable containers mentioned above.
I wish there could be a easy way to know the Shock and Temperatutre data(Logging and Retrieving using a USB key) of new and old critical equipment in transit to quickly isolate and complex issues due to damage-in-transit to the equipment. This will allow the IT manager to plan the alternative for damaged equipment will help immensely reduce the overall downtime.
In my view there is a huge oppurtunity to spur innovation in DC-buid outs if there is consistent Logistics support available. The Entire DataCenter Build cycle can be reduced as we can integrate in controlled locations and ship complete racks of equipment to the destination as a single ready to use units.
This is very different from the Containerized or Data Center on Wheels approaches that are becoming popular due the simplicity and Ready-to-use capability. I am wondering what role companies like UPS can play in Containerized DataCenter rollouts.
UPS ...share your love for Logistics to DataCenter equipment. Invest tools and technologies for hitech reusable containers. UPS may be able to convisnce large OEMs to use these containers for new equipment too. It may be frugal, safer and greener than the expensive packaging we discard during every datacenter rollout and migration. UPS can reap the benefits of this booming industry with such innovations.
Logistics by Sean Henry
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 @ 11:39AM
In the future of logistics I see packages with more quickly updated tracking information and estimation of delivery times including estimated travel time to the next stop and how many stops there will be.
Having the ability to specify time of delivery and location of delivery, this would be something along the lines of if delivery is to be made before 1:30PM deliver to X, if delivery is to be made after 1:30 deliver to Y. That would allow for better handling of packages that require a signature at delivery.
To improve on the condition of the packages instead of focusing on the unload time of trucks that results in conveyors being overloaded and causes packages to fall. Focus of the load time of the trucks so that the packages are less likely to backup and eventually fall.
Create a "store front" or embedded script for online retailers to have process orders and place a pickup time for in stock items. This will allow online stores to streamline the shipment process a bit easier and set blocked times and shipping delays for out of stock items and rush times.
New logistics in everyday life by David Cassel
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 @ 11:57PM
New logistics are becoming part of our everyday life -- before we even know it...
In fact, it's as close as your local public library. Last month I placed a stack of 10 books on a check-out counter, and my librarian startled me by instantly producing a receipt showing every single title and its due date. Every book was tagged for RFID detection, so the technology actually "knows" every book, literally sensing it instantly by its proximity to the counter. And this gave the library a foolproof security system, since nothing could be removed from the building without being detected and scanned against a database of checked-out materials.
My library constantly faces funding shortfalls, but they've used technology to save money and improve customer service dramatically. They could've hired new employees to speed up their check-out times, but instead they just installed a row of machines that lets patrons do it themself! Children today will grow up with memories of their parents holding books over an infrared bar code scanner, triggering a friendly beep of recognition as each book is checked out. And books can now be renewed online, 24 hours a day, just by entering a unique 14-digit patron code to pull up a list of checked-out materials.
It's happening all around us, and without even realizing it, I've made purchases from dozens of small businesses located in different states and even different countries. Using new logistics to compete, they're listing their inventory online, and drawing customers from around the world. I'll never forget the day I noticed that a local antique store had closed their high-rent storefront in a downtown shopping district. In their window, they'd placed a sign that said "Moved to eBay."
They'd discovered a global market which was just as profitable as the locals, and they'd eliminated their single biggest monthly overhead item: their rent. (The antiques were actually stored in a warehouse at the edge of town, and the storefront had been a second where they displayed them to prospective customers.) On the other side of the equation, I'm out there making purchases of obscure items most stores would never want to carry - and I'm more likely to search for them online. One day I searched eBay for the soundtrack for my favorite B-movie from 1967, and discovered a used record store 2,000 miles away selling a copy for only $4.00.
Small business are what's really driving the success of Amazon and eBay. Thousands of small businesses have been woven together into one unbeatable superstore. Yet they're also able to create their own independent storefronts online, offering the same customer service as Amazon itself, including cheap online customer service and 24/7 shipment tracking. Someday I'd like to see shipments tracked with a GPS unit, so shoppers could even follow their shipment's progress on a map in real-time!
But the next frontier is probably smartphones. J.P. Morgan Chase has launched a program that lets customers make deposits using a smartphone -- just by transmitting a photograph of the complete routing information at the bottom of any check. Consumers are already using smartphones to get vast amounts of new, customized information -- for example, lists of nearby restaurants based on your location, along with crowd-sourced reviews. Imagine an app which taps into the inventory of local stores, then tells you the closest location for purchasing a particular item -- along with its price!
In the future, businesses will have to keep up with these new audiences. (UPS already offers its own smartphone app for package tracking -- and in the future, it may provide more and more detailed information.) But the thing to remember about new logistics is that it's real, its powerful, and it's happening right now. I learned that the day I saw my public library had installed RFID capability into a book that still had an ink-stamp showing its first check-out date in 1905.
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It took the full 30 minutes, but someone finally scored in the Meadowlands.
Jay Feely's field goal as time expired in the first half put the Cardinals ahead 3-0 in a game that's been hard to watch on both sides. The Cardinals finally scored on their 8th possession of the half thanks to a fake punt by safety Rashad Johnson that went for 40 yards. It's a play the Cardinals might want to keep in the hopper since the rest of their offense amounted to 75 yards in the half.
Ryan Lindley has missed receivers by large margins all day, completing just six of his 20 passes. It might be the Jets defense or it might just be too soon, but Lindley looks overmatched. He only threw one interception, though, which leaves him behind Mark Sanchez for honors in that department. Sanchez was picked three times in the first half, leading to loud boos from fans who would probably turn back to Neil O'Donnell if such a thing was put on offer at MetLife Stadium this afternoon.
He has thrown the ball to members of the Jets on nine of his other 13 attempts in the half, which put the Jets did move into position to try two field goals. Nick Folk put each of them off of the uprights, however, and the Jets find themselves behind in a battle to see if anyone scores a touchdown. If it happens, our money's on it coming via the defense or special teams.


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When I moved to New York from Chicago last April, I had an awful lot of trouble picking a neighborhood. I looked at apartments almost everywhereWilliamsburg, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Chinatown, Tribeca, Soho, the Lower East Side, Greenwich Villageand each seemed to have its own pitfalls and charms. Eventually, I settled on a place just off Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights, a neighborhood that, ironically, hadn't been on my not-so-short list originally. I've been happy here, but like most New Yorkers, I suffer from a bit of grass-is-greener syndrome. Would I be better off living in Astoria? Prospect Heights? Chelsea?
It is of course impossible to come up with a completely objective answer to that question, but there is value in trying to understand and measure livability. Luckily, there is a wealth of information to study. The Bloomberg administration gathers reams of data about almost every element of life in the cityfrom potholes to infant-mortality ratesas do New York University's Furman Center and the U.S. Census Bureau. Sites like Yelp provide a reasonably objective perspective on the popularity of neighborhood bars and restaurants. StreetEasy.com and Zillow.com publish the costs of apartment space per square foot. Ethnic diversity is now broken down in much finer gradients than black and white: You want to know how many Albanian-Americans there are in Sheepshead Bay? The answer is 734.
Our goal was to take advantage of this wealth of data and apply a little bit of science to the question. If there was anything that could plausibly affect one's quality of life in a particular neighborhood, we tried to incorporate it. We sorted the dozens and dozens of statistics we compiled into twelve broad categories: housing cost (as measured on a price-per-square-foot basis, for both renters and buyers), housing quality (historic districts, code violations, cockroaches), transit and proximity (commute times to lower Manhattan and midtown, the density of subway coverage), safety (as measured by violent- and nonviolent-crime rates), public schools (test scores and parent satisfaction), shopping and services (the number of neighborhood amenities, especially supermarkets), food and restaurants (judged by density and quality of options), bars and nightlife (ditto), creative capital (arts venues as well as the number of residents engaged in the arts), diversity (in terms of both race and income), green space (park and waterfront access, street trees), and health and environment (noise, air quality, overall cleanliness).
Of course, not all of these categories are equally important: Most people would value safety over access to cool bars; public schools may be very important to some and not at all to others. The formula we finally devised weighted the categories based on a combination of objective and subjective approaches. On the one hand, we thought about what factors might be most important to five different types of New Yorkers, then averaged their answers together. On the other hand, we conducted an online survey of over 3,000 people nationwide and 700 in New York, asking respondents to rate the factors most important to them. Reassuringly, the two approaches produced very similar results, and we settled upon:
Housing Cost: 25 percent
Transit: 13 percent
Shopping and Services: 9 percent
Safety: 8 percent
Restaurants: 8 percent
Schools: 6 percent
Diversity: 6 percent
Creative Capital: 6 percent
Housing Quality: 5 percent
Green Space: 5 percent
Health and Environment: 5 percent
Nightlife: 4 percent
Perhaps the most difficult decision was how to weight affordability. More expensive neighborhoods are generally more expensive for a reason; the correlation between prevailing rents and a neighborhood's amenities is high. We went with 25 percent simply because it represents the midpoint between the best-bang-for-the-buck scenario and the cost-is-no-object scenario.
That was not the end of our challenges. How does one define a neighborhood? In the most literal sense, we defined neighborhoods block by block, Census tract by Census tract, corresponding to generally accepted, commonsense boundaries. They vary greatly in sizefrom about 8,000 people (Todt Hill in Staten Island) to more than 220,000 (the Upper West Side and Upper East Side). So statistics were tabulated on a per-capita or a per-square-mile basis. We assessed 60 neighborhoods in all, though only the top 50 are ranked in these pages.
It was important to go into this much excruciating detail because New York contains an abundance of great neighborhoods. The differences in our list sometimes boiled down to tenths or even hundredths of a percentage point, with the subtlest tweak in how we weighted the component factorsespecially costsending neighborhoods zooming up or down in rank.
A few of our model's conclusions are liable to be controversial. The front of the list is dominated by brownstone Brooklyn. This is largely due to how we calibrated the cost variable: Pay slightly less attention to price, and Manhattan starts to dominate; if price matters more, a number of Queens neighborhoods rise toward the top. But this group of Brooklyn neighborhoods is generally the most balanced in the city, with few obvious drawbacks and plenty of charm.
On the other side of the spectrum are the Upper East Side and Upper West Side, which ranked just 35th and 36th, respectively. These are large neighborhoods, and some individual parts of them might have ranked higher. But the principal issue is value. Compare Brooklyn Heights and the Upper West Side: They score within a few points of each other in most categories (including transitcommute times to Union Square are identical, at eighteen minutes). But Brooklyn Heights is about $1,000 a month cheaper for a comparable two-bedroom apartment. Likewise, compare Harlem, which ranked a disappointing 50th, to Fort Greene, which placed 18th. Fort Greene wins out in schools, safety, creative capital, housing quality, diversity, shopping, foodand affordability.
The East Village and, especially, the Lower East Side scored better than some might expect. Although nightlife makes up just 4 percent of the ratings, it does make some difference in these cases: The LES would fall three places without it, and the East Village would move from tenth to sixteenth. But these neighborhoods are appealing even to those who would never venture into a bar, as they also have excellent restaurants and shopping, and are more diverse and less expensive than their immediate neighbors.
The top 25 include a pretty even mix of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, of more affordable and less so, of hip and square. This is not a reflection of our methodology so much as a reflection of neighborhood life in New York. Of course no static set of rankings canor shouldcompletely satisfy any one individual. Livability means different things to different people. Our Livability Calculator allows you to determine for yourself which factors are most important and see how the rankings re-sort themselves to point to your ideal neighborhood. But not even the most thorough and personalized statistical analysis can override a gut feeling: that sensation of stepping out of the subway and knowing that you are home.


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As a reader of your Cinema section, I find myself increasingly nauseated by the 21-pun salute which greets each new picture (except, of course, the ones from Italy). In the May 26 Cinema review of John O'Hara's Ten North Frederick, your critic finds it necessary to hedgehop from Pennsylvania, where the picture plays, to Japan, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the picture. By way of samurai and Bushido, he ultimately arrives at that peak of comicality, "O'Hara-kiri." Obviously, we in Hollywood are no match for such devastating wit. Why doesn't he take on somebody his own size? Bennett Cerf, for instance. I suggest a sunrise duel in the old offices of College Humor — with puns at 20 paces. And may the best man wince.
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Chicago Tribune / Reuters
December 4, 2012
by David Schwartz
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been arrested after he was
spotted accepting bundles of marijuana from a suspected Mexican smuggler at an
international border fence in Arizona, authorities said on Tuesday.
Anaya, 25, was taken into custody early on Monday by federal agents who seized
147 pounds (66.6 kg) of marijuana inside three duffle bags from his border
patrol vehicle, authorities said in a criminal complaint in U.S. District Court
in Phoenix.
Anaya, a U.S. Border Patrol agent since 2010, was charged with possession of a
controlled substance with intent to distribute and firearm possession during a
drug trafficking offense, according to the criminal complaint. Anaya had his
service weapon with him at the time.
The controlled substance count
carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and the firearms count is
punishable by up to 5 years behind bars.
Anaya's federal public defender
could not immediately be reached for comment on Tuesday.
Stephen Martin,
the Border Patrol's sector chief for Yuma, Arizona, said the agency was "sorely
disappointed by the alleged conduct of one of our own."
"I appreciate the
efforts by our law enforcement partners and our own agents to uncover those that
violate their oath of office, and hold them accountable for their actions,"
Martin said in a statement released on Tuesday.
Anaya was arrested by
agents from the FBI-led Southwest Border Corruption Task Force who were
conducting surveillance with the help of aircraft in an area between Yuma and
Wellton, about 185 miles southwest of Phoenix.
According to a probable
cause statement filed with the complaint, agents say they watched as Anaya
stopped his patrol vehicle along the border and picked up bales of marijuana
tossed over the fence into Arizona from a man on Mexican side.
Anaya was
then seen by the agents placing the load into his vehicle before he continued
patrolling, the probable cause document said.
The U.S. Department of
Homeland Security reports that 129 agents were arrested on corruption charges
from 2003 to 2009.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Arizona border agent arrested for alleged on-duty drug smuggling
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Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You
by Deepak Chopra
For you and me, the body poses problems that will only grow worse. As children we loved our bodies and rarely thought about them. As we grew older, though, we soon fell out of love, and with good reason. Billions of dollars are spent to cure the body of its many ills and miseries. Billions more are thrown down the drain for cosmetics, whose purpose is to fool us into thinking we look better than we do. To be blunt, the human body is unsatisfactory and has been for a long time. It can't be trusted, since sickness often strikes without warning. It deteriorates over time and eventually dies. Let's attack this problem seriously. Instead of making do with the physical form you were given at birth, why not look for a breakthrough, a completely new way of approaching the body?
Breakthroughs occur when you start thinking about a problem in a fresh new way. The biggest breakthroughs occur when you start thinking in an unbounded way. Take your eyes away from what you see in the mirror. If you came from Mars and have never seen how the body ages and declines over time, you might believe it would work in just the opposite way. From a biological point of view, there's no reason why the body should be flawed. So start there. Having erased every outworn assumption from your mind, you are now free to entertain some breakthrough ideas that totally change the situation:
Your body is boundless. It is channeling the energy, creativity, and intelligence of the entire universe.
At this moment, the universe is listening through your ears, seeing through your eyes, experiencing through your brain.
Your purpose for being here is to allow the universe to evolve.
None of this is outlandish. The human body is already the universe's most advanced laboratory experiment. You and I are at the cutting edge of life. Our best chance for survival is to embrace that fact. Rapid evolution, faster than that for any other life-form on the planet, gave us our present state of ever-increasing health, longer lifespan, exploding creativity, and a vision of possibilities that science advances faster and faster. Our physical evolution ceased around 200,000 years ago. You don't possess liver, lungs, heart, or kidneys different from those of a cave dweller. Indeed, you share 60 percent of your genes with a banana, 90 percent with a mouse, and more than 99 percent with a chimpanzee. In other words, everything else that makes us human has depended on an evolution that is far more nonphysical than physical. We invented ourselves, and as we did so, we brought our bodies along for the ride.
How you invented yourself
You have been inventing your body from the day you were born, and the reason you don't see it that way is that the process comes so naturally. It's easy to take for granted, and that's the problem. The flaws you see in your body today aren't inherent. They aren't bad news delivered by your genes or mistakes made by Nature. Your choices each played a part in the body you created, either consciously or unconsciously.
Here's a list of physical changes that you have made and continue to make. It's a very basic list, all medically valid, and yet hardly any part of your body is excluded.
Every skill you learn creates a new neural network in your brain.
Every new thought creates a unique pattern of brain activity.
Any change in mood is conveyed via "messenger molecules" to every part of the body, altering the basic chemical activity of each cell.
Every time you exercise, you alter your skeleton and muscles.
Every bite of food you eat alters your daily metabolism, electrolyte balance, and proportion of fat to muscle.
Your sexual activity and the decision to reproduce affects your hormonal balance.
The stress level to which you subject yourself raises and lowers your immune system.
Every hour of total inactivity creates muscle atrophy.
Your genes tune in to your thoughts and emotions, and in mysterious ways they switch on and off according to your desires.
Your immune system gets stronger or weaker in response to being in a loving or unloving relationship.
Crises of grief, loss, and loneliness increase the risk of disease and shortened lifespan.
Using your mind keeps your brain young; not using your brain leads to its decline.
Using these tools, you invented your body and can reinvent it anytime you want. The obvious question is, Why haven't we reinvented our bodies already? Certainly the problems have been staring us in the face long enough. The answer is that solving small pieces of the puzzle has been much easier than seeing the whole. Medicine is practiced in specialties. If you fall in love, an endocrinologist can report on the decline of stress hormones in your endocrine system. A psychiatrist can report on your improved mood, which a neurologist can confirm through a brain scan. A dietician may be worried that you're losing your appetite; on the other hand, what you do eat is digested better. And so it goes. No one can provide you with a complete picture.
To make matters more complex, because the body is so fluid and so superbly multitasking, it's difficult to imagine there's any one step to take that could lead to transformation. Right now you may be in love, pregnant, running down a country lane, eating a new diet, losing sleep or gaining it, doing better at your job or worse. Your body is nothing less than a universe in motion.
Reinventing the body means changing the whole universe.
Trying to tinker with your body misses the forest for the trees. One person fixates on her weight, another trains for a marathon, and yet another is adopting a vegan diet while her friend is dealing with menopause. Thomas Edison didn't tinker with building a better kerosene lamp; he abandoned the use of fire–the only human-generated source of light since prehistoric times–and broke through to a new source. That was a quantum leap in creativity. If you are the creator of your body, what is the quantum leap awaiting you?
Going back to the source
If we use Edison as our model, the last great reinvention of the body followed certain principles:
The body is an object.
It fits together like a complicated machine.
The machine breaks down over time.
The body's machinery is constantly attacked by germs and other microbes, which are also tiny machines on a molecular scale.
But these are all outmoded ideas. If any of these assumptions were true, then the following couldn't happen: a new syndrome recently appeared called electro-sensitivity, in which people complain that simply being near electricity causes discomfort and pain. Electro-sensitivity is taken seriously enough that at least one country, Sweden, will pay to have a person's house shielded from the electromagnetic field if they are diagnosed as electro-sensitive.
The widespread fear that cell phones harm the body has reached no definitive conclusion, but it seemed far easier to test whether there is such a thing as electro-sensitivity. In one experiment, subjects were put inside an electromagnetic field (we are surrounded by these every day in the form of microwaves, radio and television signals, cell-phone transmissions, and power lines), and as the field was turned on or off, they were asked to say what they felt. It turned out that nobody did better than random. People who described themselves as electro-sensitive did no better than anyone else, which means no better than random guessing.
However, this didn't settle the matter. In a follow-up experiment, people were given cell phones and asked if they could feel pain or discomfort when they placed the phones against their heads. The electro-sensitive people described a range of discomfort, including sharp pain and headache, and by looking at their brains with MRIs, it could be seen that they were telling the truth. The pain centers in their brains were activated. The catch is that the cell phones were dummies and were emitting no electrical signals of any kind. Therefore, the mere expectation that they would be in pain was enough to create pain in certain people, and the next time they used a real cell phone, they would suffer from the syndrome.
Before you dismiss this as a psychosomatic effect, pause and consider. If someone says he is electro-sensitive, and his brain acts as if he is electro-sensitive, the condition is real–at least for him. Psychosomatic conditions are real for those who experience them. But it's just as true to say that they created the conditions. In fact, there is a much larger phenomenon at work here–the ebb and flow of new diseases that may be new creations. Another example is anorexia and related eating disorders like bulimia. A generation ago, such disorders were rare, and now they appear to be endemic, especially among teenage girls. Premenstrual syndrome, or PMS, had its heyday but now seems to be fading. Cutting, a form of self-mutilation in which the patient, usually a young woman, secretly slices superficial wounds into her skin with a razor or knife, appears to be on the rise after a period of almost total obscurity.
When such new disorders appear, the first reaction is always that the victims created a sickness that is essentially imaginary or psychotic. Yet when the disorder spreads, and doctors find that patients cannot turn off the switch that turned the illness on, there can be only one conclusion. Self-created symptoms are real.
Machines can't create new disorders. But then the whole machine model was imperfect from the start. If you drive a car long enough, its moving parts are ground down by friction. But if you use a muscle, it gets stronger. Non-use, which helps keeps a machine in pristine condition, leads to atrophy with our bodies. Creaky, arthritic joints seem like a perfect example of moving parts that have worn out, but arthritis is actually caused by a host of complex disorders, not just simple friction.
During your lifetime this outworn model of the body hasn't changed but has only been tinkered with. So what is your body, then, if it's not a machine? Your whole body is a holistic, dynamic process in support of being alive. You are in charge of that process, and yet no one has given you the knowledge of how you should approach your job. Perhaps that is because the enterprise is immense: it covers everything, and it never stops.
The process of life
At this moment your body is a river that never stays the same, a continuous stream merging hundreds of thousands of chemical changes at the cellular level. Those changes aren't random; they constantly serve the purpose of moving life forward and preserving what's best from the past. Your DNA is like an encyclopedia that stores the entire history of evolution. Before you were born, your DNA thumbed through the pages to make sure every piece of knowledge was in place. In the womb, an embryo starts out as a single cell, the simplest form of life. It progresses to a loosely assembled blob of cells. Then, step by step, the embryo goes through the evolutionary stages of fish, amphibian, and lower mammal. Primitive gills appear and then disappear to make way for lungs.
By the time a baby emerges into the world, evolution has overshot the mark. Your brain was too complex as a newborn, with millions of unnecessary neuronal connections built into it, like a telephone system with too many wires. You spent your first few years paring down those millions of surplus connections, discarding the ones you didn't need, keeping those that functioned to make you exactly who you were. But at that point physical evolution reached unknown territory. Choices had to be made that were not automatically built into your genes.
A baby stands at the frontier of the unknown, and its genes have no more old pages left in the encyclopedia. You had to write the next page yourself. As you did so, starting the process of forming a totally unique life, your body kept pace: your genes adapted to how you think, feel, and act. You probably don't know that identical twins, born with exactly the same DNA, look very different genetically when they grow up: certain genes have been switched on, others switched off. By age seventy, images taken of the chromosomes of two twins don't look remotely the same. As life diverges, genes adapt.
Take a simple skill like walking. With each clumsy step, a toddler begins to change its brain. The nerve centers responsible for balance, known as the vestibular system, start to wake up and show activity; this is one area of the brain that can't develop in the uterus. Once a toddler has mastered walking, the vestibular system has completed this phase of its function.
But later, after you grow up, you might want to learn to drive a car, ride a motorcycle, or walk a balance beam. The brain, even though it may be mature, doesn't stop there. Quite the opposite: when you want to learn a new skill, your brain adapts according to your desire. A basic function like balance can be fine-tuned and trained far beyond the base level. This is the miracle of the mind-body connection. You are not hard-wired. Your brain is fluid and flexible, able to create new connections up into very old age. Far from decaying, the brain is an engine of evolution. Where physical evolution appeared to stop, it actually left an open door.
I want to take you through that door, because much more lies beyond it than you ever imagined. You were designed to unlock hidden possibilities that will remain hidden without you. An image comes to mind of probably the greatest feat of balance ever exhibited by a human being. You may have seen photos of it. On August 7, 1974, a French acrobat named Philippe Petit breached security at the World Trade Center. He climbed onto the roof and, with the help of confederates, strung a 450-pound cable between the two towers. Petit balanced himself with a twenty-six-foot pole as he walked out onto the cable, which stretched 140 feet. Both towers were swaying; the wind was high, the drop below his feet was 104 stories, or a quarter of a mile. Petit was a professional high-wire artist (as he called himself), and he had taken a basic ability of the body, balance, to a new stage.
What would terrify a normal person became normal for one person. In essence, Petit was at the cutting edge of evolution. He made eight crossings on the wire, which was only three-quarters of an inch in diameter. At one point Petit sat on the wire and even lay down on it. He realized that this was more than a physical feat. Because of the unwavering concentration that was required, Petit developed a mystical regard for what he was doing. His attention had to focus without allowing fear or distraction to enter for even a second.


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Jones Was Right: Cowboys Should NOT Focus On Drafting A QB
Hello fellow Dallas Cowboys fans. Before I begin my first post I would just like to introduce myself. My name is Greg Pomes. I'm a Cowboys fan from New York City. I've been a Cowboys fan since I was seven or eight years old. My favorite all time Cowboys are Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith. I'm looking forward to communicating with everyone about our favorite football team!
There has been a lot of talk since the Cowboys once again collapsed and missed out on the playoffs. It's tough being here in New York seeing the city fawn over the New York Giants, the same team that eliminated my beloved Cowboys from the playoffs yet again. I think we are all in agreement that there needs to be some serious changes if this franchise is ever going to be the proud franchise it once was. There's no question about it that we need to revamp our defense. The secondary or complete lack of a secondary is the reason why we lost that final game against the Cowboys.
I've seen a lot of criticism over Jerry Jones not actively seeking out a quarterback in this year's upcoming draft. I rarely ever agree with Jerry Jones and that's for good reason, however on this stance he's completely right. Jones said:
""We've got a lot of work to do with our personnel. "The good news is that we're not starting out at quarterback. We've got a competitor there and we've got a lot of good skill people around him."
Tony Romo has been a good quarterback. Is he in the same class as Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and yes Eli Manning? I don't think so but not every good quarterback has to be an elite quarterback. Romo this year had better stats than Eli Manning yet Eli is the quarterback going to the Super Bowl while Romo will be watching it. Eli also has a very good defense around him.
Romo became a different player before our very eyes this past season. Gone was the smiling and shrugging when he made a stupid mistake which was rare this season. Gone was that gunslinger mentality that we've seen for most of his career. He took a beating this season with those cracked ribs and that bruised hand at the end of the season but he got back up and led this team to victories.
What we need Jerry Jones to focus on in this year's draft is improving the offensive line, the pass rush and the secondary. The Cowboys need defensive backs that can make tackles, not chase guys into the red zone. The Cowboys need a pass rush that is not going to give the opposing quarterback all day to throw. The offensive line needs improving after using inexperienced guys on the line that caused Romo to be sacked 36 times and resulted in the injuries that I mentioned earlier.
I'm aware that we cannot go into the new season with McGee as Romo's backup. There are some good free agent quarterback's on the market that would serve as an adequate backup. I would like Matt Flynn but he would command too much money. Vince Young is too much of a head case and we certainly don't need any more of those on this team.
I'm sure there will be many things that Jerry Jones will be wrong about in the months to come but this is not one of them.


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There are pirates in Iowa! I know several in Des Moines. Where are the rest of you? I want to start a church here!
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Edythe Abdullah, Luther Coggin, Toni Crawford, O'Neal Douglas, Wilfredo Gonzalez, Steve Halverson, Wanyonyi Kendrick, Judith Solano, Bruce Taylor, Carol Thompson, Kevin Twomey, Jerry Watterson
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Chair Thompson wished everyone a happy new year and called the meeting to order. She said there was not much to discuss under the chair's report that would not be talked about in other reports, so more on recent events would be covered by President Delaney and Janet Owen. She asked for a motion to approve the minutes. The motion was proffered, seconded, and approved unanimously.
President Delaney said he had a couple of brief announcements and that more would come from Janet Owen under the legislative report. He said the Board had lunch with a group in the audience, LeadershipUNF, a diverse and talented group of employees involved in a program modeled after Leadership Jacksonville. He expressed his appreciation for those who were able to attend the luncheon. Chair Thompson also welcomed the LeadershipUNF class. President Delaney spoke of an email he received from Sharon Ashton, director of Media Relations, regarding the "Ask the Expert" segment aired Mondays on Channel 4. He said he was pleased to announce that the segment had won an award. He remarked that Ms. Ashton had been doing a great job of trying to elevate UNF's image in the community.
Trustee Gonzalez said he had seen the Campus Connection television show on FIGs (freshman interest groups) and wondered if that segment could be used as part of the materials sent out to prospective parents. President Delaney said Enrollment Services was really zeroing in on quality students and had also changed the procedure for entering freshmen by having them come to campus earlier. He said he would speak with Ms. Kaye to find out how expensive it would be and to determine the feasibility of including the segment within the materials sent out.
Trustee Twomey said that several items were discussed at the last Finance and Audit Committee meeting, including parking fees. He applauded the process used to gain broad support for the increases in parking fees among the University's constituent groups. Each parking space was to generate the same revenue target, $345 per space. It had been determined that spaces on the second and third floors of the garages would not need as much increase as planned to meet the target and that the designated spaces would require a greater increase than originally planned. The discount lots would be raised to $69, half of the general parking rate. The increase to the discount parking rate would affect the transportation benefit offered to university employees, which, Trustee Twomey said might require the Board to consider raising the benefit to $69 this year, accordingly. He thanked the administrative team for building consensus and support for the increases.
Regarding the University's investment policy, the committee reviewed the policy and felt it was both conservative and appropriate. The committee had also looked at the treasurer's report and discussed it. Trustee Twomey said the report was well done but would include additional detail in the future.
Trustee Watterson had a question regarding parking spaces for housing; he said parking availability for all housing students had been discussed previously as a potential recommendation from the parking committee. He wished to know if anything further had occurred on that front. Vice President Shuman replied that part of that discussion had revolved around the possibility of having housing students pay a higher rate for parking as they took up a space for more of the time. Neither recommendation had been put forward at this point, Ms. Shuman said, but the allocation of existing spaces would be discussed during the spring semester by the parking. Trustee Watterson said he was very appreciative of the committee's decision to keep the parking rates for housing students the same as the general parking rate. He said he thought that the designated spaces should be generating higher revenue per space sold than the general parking spaces and recommended reconsideration of the policy in the future. He said he felt compelled to relay the feelings of the student body that parking was not as convenient as students would like and that the price was more than they would like to pay. He said he respected that other board members might feel differently and that he would vote in favor of the parking increases as he believed it was necessary to cover the debt ratios and fund the new parking garage, but still felt he must voice the student body's position. The trustees voted unanimously in favor of the parking increases.
President Delaney said he realized a major student complaint was over parking. A year previously he had quoted another president during his inaugural address, joking that he should not delude himself into thinking he could solve the campus parking problem. He said he was aware that parking would become even more of an issue on campus in the future, as it did for many universities. He pointed out that UF students had no parking on campus at all. Students had to park in collateral lots and commute in; further, there was no guarantee of parking for student housing either. He said that UNF could eventually end up with a shuttle system of some kind from collateral lots but, as of last year, a study indicated that it was cost prohibitive at this point. He added that increases to the parking fees did not result in a profit for the University. The increases would help to build the next parking garage. He noted that the parking issue was something the Board would probably be dealing with two times a year, every year. He said the committee of constituents: faculty, staff, and students, agreed that the current proposal was the best option at this time, but he acknowledged that the parking issue would probably always be a bit sticky.
Trustee Twomey asked for a vote to approve the investment policy. The Board voted unanimously in favor of the policy.
Discussion ensued regarding the check signing policy. Trustee Abdullah asked if the signers to be authorized were bonded and if there was a graduated level of authority. Vice President Shuman replied that these signers were approved for transactions that were repetitive transactions and transfer of funds between established accounts only, but this was considered check signing authority. She noted that transfers could not be made other than to the designated accounts or an already approved contract. President Delaney added that the policy was in compliance with Florida statute, which referred to such transactions as requiring check signing authority. Trustee Coggin asked if checks required two signatures. Ms. Shuman answered affirmatively and added that the same was also true for repetitive transactions. Chair Thompson asked if there was a written policy that delineated limits to signature authority. She wanted to know if the language of the motion could be changed by notation in the minutes from authority to sign checks to authority to transfer funds based upon University policy. Ms. Stone did not think changing the language would cause any problems. Ms. Shuman said that if there was not already a policy in existence, she would bring something back to the Finance and Audit Committee. President Delaney said he understood that the Board just wanted to make sure internal controls were in place and assured the trustees that Ms. Shuman would present a policy to the FAC, allowing the committee to address any issues at that time. The trustees voted unanimously in favor of the motion with the specified modification.
Trustee Abdullah asked for clarification on the investment policy. She noted that a decision had been made to go with a primarily short-term maturity portfolio and asked why this was the case. Vice President Shuman introduced Mr. Mike Neglia, recently hired as treasurer for the University. She said Mr. Neglia came to UNF after many years experience with Winn Dixie. Mr. Neglia said there was a provision extending investments up to five years under one section of the policy. He said the policy allowed for changes needed and was part of the strategy for improving returns. Trustee Twomey said there had been a fair amount of discussion of the plan and that it was a very conservative policy. He added that until the University had more experience in investing, as the task had been assumed only recently under devolution, he felt it was appropriate not to make large bets with investment funds at this point. He said he believed the policy would serve the University well, allowing better rewards but for less risk. Trustee Solano pointed out that the policy had a provision for trustees to review the policy and make suggestions and noted that the policy would probably be brought before the FAC and the Board periodically. Chair Thompson agreed and said Trustee Solano had made a good point; she added that trustees could request that the policy be brought before the FAC at any time. Vice President Shuman said that this was the first time since devolution that the University would be responsible for management and investing of its own monies. At this time, she felt more comfortable with short-term investments and liquidity. She said she had asked Mr. Neglia and others in the Controller's office to monitor cash flow for UNF. Chair Thompson and the other board members welcomed Mr. Neglia. There were no further comments regarding the policy.
Trustee Twomey went on to the next item, stating that it had been a bit more controversial in nature. The Florida LambdaRail provided for faster transmission of data and would allow connection with the national LambdaRail. UNF would be joining a consortium with nine other Florida universities and participation in the consortium had strong support across the campus. The cost to join, he said, was approximately $500,000 to buy in and around $200,000 annually after that. Mr. Twomey said he had been told that it would cost the University $8 million annually to buy the same bandwidth on the open market. The consortium had a loan outstanding, and though the universities did not have a legal obligation to pay back the loan, they did have a moral one. He noted that the committee decision to recommend joining the consortium had not been unanimous. Though he moved to approve on behalf of the FAC, he wished to have further discussion on the item first.
Trustee Kendrick said that her concern was not so much about this project but more about the decision making process for the next wave of technology to come. She felt decisions must be based on more than excitement and interest in each new advancement. Upon discussing the LambdaRail with Dean Coulter, she said she felt more comfortable after she knew the business drivers and that she just wanted to make sure the University was making the best use of funds and exercising fiduciary responsibility.
Trustee Taylor said he was somewhat familiar with what was going on at the College of Computing, Engineering, and Construction and knew there were ongoing projects that would benefit greatly from this connectivity. He said he was a strong proponent of committing to the consortium and he urged the Board to vote in support of it. Trustee Abdullah said she thought it was a wonderful project and asked if other consortia had been developed similar to the LambdaRail and whether UNF could benefit from their experiences. Dr. Serwatka replied that UNF was in an extremely unique position as the national LambdaRail was going right through Jacksonville. UNF would have the most direct link to the national LambdaRail. Mr. Lance Taylor, director of Information Technology Services, said that other states had developed similar consortiums and there could be opportunities in the future for sharing information.
Chair Thompson verified that Ms. Kendrick had felt more comfortable with joining the consortium after her discussion with Dean Coulter. Trustee Kendrick said the only alternatives to joining the consortium were for UNF to buys the bandwidth on the open market at a cost of $8 million, which would also be expensive and would not allow UNF to be an owner of the resource. She said she thought it was a wonderful strategy and that the University had a solid plan in place to pay back the loan.
President Delaney said he believed Trustee Kendrick had asked the right questions. He said that he and Vice President Shuman had also been skeptical, wondering if the University would really use the LambdaRail. He said that he believed the resource was the new wave of technology and that it was necessary to developing the kind of name that UNF wished to have in the future as well as for the kinds of research that would be brought in. He said most of the other public universities in Florida were joining the consortium with the exception of USF, which already had Internet II. Chair Thompson asked if the universities were to be charged based on the amount of their usage of the bandwidth. Vice President Shuman responded affirmatively, stating that ownership was purchased in units. UNF would be purchasing two units, whereas most of the other universities had purchased four. Trustee Abdullah asked if there would be other costs associated with joining the rail. Ms. Shuman replied that she did not expect any additional costs. The trustees voted unanimously in favor of joining the consortium and the resolution for Northern Trust. Chair Thompson thanked the committee for their work.
Chair Thompson asked Dr. Allaire to speak on the naming policy. Vice President Allaire said the policy had been revised several times. This was the last generation of the policy and had been divided between employee and non-employee, gift and non-gift recognition. Chair Thompson verified that the policy was consistent with everything that had been discussed previously. Trustee Twomey moved to approve the policy. Trustee Gonzalez seconded the motion and the Board voted unanimously in favor of it.
Ms. Owen referred trustees to the extra materials behind their packets. She compared the Governor's 2005-06 recommended budget to the Board of Governor's Legislative Budget Request. She noted that the Governor's recommendations left the universities outside of administered funds, a significant change that would mean that salary increases for the University would have to come from its own operating budget, rather than being included in the funds available for state employees. However, the universities were included in the Governor's budget to cover health insurance premium increases.
Indicating the amount under the Cost-to-Continue Current Programs category, Ms. Owen said both the BOG proposal and the Governor's recommendation did cover phased in space for 2004-05 and new space that UNF had requested for 2005-06. Of significance was the Governor's recommendation for major gift matching programs for community colleges and universities. The Governor proposed to bring the institutions up to date in the matching program for major gifts and for Courtelis. After bringing the universities up to date, he planned to significantly overhaul the program, proposing to match new donations if there were general appropriations available for the year. If funds were not available for matching, the Legislature would not come back and match current donations in later years. Gifts would also be tied to universities' strategic plans. President Delaney said Vice President Allaire and his counterparts in the state had agreed on proposed legislation that would lower the percentage of gift funds matched but would keep the program intact. He believed the idea of tying funding to each university's individual mission was a good one. Trustee Crawford expressed her pleasure in the Governor's plan to catch the program up before making changes. President Delaney remarked that the state was currently cash flush, sadly due to the hurricanes. He said much of the money would be sales tax money, which, though viewed as recurring, would taper off in the next couple of years and should really be viewed as non-recurring.
Regarding enrollment growth, Ms. Owen said the university system had asked for $78 million but the Governor's recommendation was $20.1 million. However, the Governor did recommend fully funding FSU's medical school and FAMU's law school, as well as $1.5 million for the FSU chiropractic school, if approved by the Board of Governors. As for tuition, the Governor's recommendations were that in-state undergraduate tuition could be raised 7.5% and university boards would have full discretion for all other levels.
Trustee Solano asked if the University would accept the additional FTEs if they were unfunded. President Delaney replied that it was a good question. He said the problem was that many students would already be accepted by the time the amount of FTE UNF would receive was determined. Also, over 1000 FTEs were already unfunded. Chair Thompson asked if there was a chance that though UNF may not be funded for some FTEs, the institution would get money for critical needs. Ms. Owen said the BOG was requesting funds for increasing capacity in high need areas, such as nursing, teacher preparation, and engineering. UNF had specific requests and proposals for what would be done with funding and Ms. Owen said the universities would be lobbying for funds in the area of statewide critical needs.
Trustee Abdullah asked about the BOG's request regarding UNF's plans for future degree production. She asked if the BOG was sending the consultants to the universities to make sure they were in line with what the BOG wanted from them in terms of meeting workforce needs. President Delaney replied that there were two strategic plans: UNF's, which outlined the University's goals for itself, and the BOG's plan for higher education throughout the state (also known as the Y-Axis). One of the key issues in the BOG's plan was degree production. Ms. Owen said that what the BOG thought UNF should have for degree production coincided with UNF's own goals. The University also wished to add two or three more doctoral degrees, as did several other universities. Provost Giordano said that he anticipated that UF, FSU, and USF might be unwilling to increase their undergraduate degree production due to their emphasis on doctoral degrees. He asked if UNF would be willing to increase the number of students graduated over what the BOG was asking in order to meet statewide needs should that occur.
Trustee Halverson said his reaction was one of short-term concern and long-term alarm. He said it seemed reasonably clear that there was an upward trend in the number of degrees the universities were asked to produce and a downward trend in the amount of state funding; also, the long-term stability of Bright Futures was in question. He said the University really needed to focus on long-term revenue modeling. He recommended a concentrated workshop that modeled revenue for the next five years in an attempt to try to anticipate funding issues. President Delaney and Ms. Owen agreed. President Delaney noted that the federal government looked out five years in advance whereas the state did not. He said he had long advocated including fees under tuition as Florida would not rank at the bottom under those circumstances. He also believed students should pay for a certain percentage of their educations, but that there should also be a ceiling on that amount. He spoke of an old saying in the Legislature that anything attached to the everglades would pass; now that saying would apply to teaching, nursing, and engineering. Referring to funding for higher education, he said that when one considered how long pennies had been pinched, it really started to hurt. Chair Thompson pointed out that this was the time for the Board to exhibit leadership through developing a long-term outlook and that the Board should concentrate on looking ahead for solutions rather than reacting.
Ms. Owen reported that the BOG had requested $20 million for centers of excellence. She said a bill would be filed on both the Senate and House sides requesting $50 million for five new centers of excellence. The BOG was also asking for $2.7 million to help universities with the LambdaRail expense. Moving to the PECO request, Ms. Owen said the BOG recommendation for UNF included only utilities and infrastructure and funds for the Health Professions Facility. Senator Jim King and Representative Mark Mahon submitted Community Issue Budget Requests (CBIRs) for a portion of the land acquisition and for a new education building. She said the BOG was to meet the following week on January 27 and that because the presidents had expressed concern about the ranking of the BOG's priorities, she hoped there might be additional recommendations for UNF.
President Delaney remarked that the original estimate for UNF in October or November had been for $7.5 million, which would have been a very good year for the University. Later the state found another $45 million, which had also boded well for UNF. However, it appeared that $2 million had been taken from the first estimate for UNF and given to Florida State instead under the reasoning that as significant funding had been obtained for a number of projects for FSU last year, funding should be made available by the state to finish those projects this year. President Delaney said he did not agree with UNF's allocations for this year, that he did not feel the decision was a correct one as UNF had done all that was asked, including stepping up degree production. He said the BOG had agreed to address the issue but might want to resolve it in year two or three rather than for this year. President Delaney felt it was important to have the discrepancy corrected this year if at all possible to eliminate the possibility that UNF could be lost in the shuffle later on. He said he would appreciate any help the trustees could offer with lobbying legislators or members of the BOG.
Trustee Coggin asked about the disparity between UNF's $12 million request and Senator King and Representative Mahon's request for $3.4 million for the College of Education building. Ms. Owen said the legislators had filed it at UNF's request, it was a strategic idea to get the BOG to move up funding for the building in the hope that if the BOG funded the University at the higher level this year, it would do so again next year. Further, the BOG's justification for reducing the amount designated for UNF from $7 to $5 million was that the Board plans to give the $3.4 million for the education building in year two. President Delaney added that UNF would not need the entire $12 million at first.
Ms. Owen provided a list of the bills filed thus far. She said she would provide updates as the bills made it through the session. Chair Thompson thanked her for her diligence, not only in pursuing the issues and but also in presenting them comprehensibly for the Board.
Vice Chair Halverson said he had heard that the BOG was considering acceptance of proposals for teacher education plans. Trustee Abdullah said the DOE had just released a request for proposals for alternative teacher certification programs. The request had gone out to universities, community colleges, and private institutions. Trustee Abdullah acknowledged that FCCJ planned to submit a proposal.
Trustee Watterson said he had noticed the bill proposing restriction of financial aid for foreign students. He asked if the restriction would include athletes. Ms. Owen responded that it would. Trustee Watterson also asked about block tuition. Ms. Owen replied that there were no such recommendations in the Governor's budget.
Trustee Kendrick reported that she had an opportunity to visit a Pre-K urban school recently and had met a UNF intern working there with the ELLM program. She said it was wonderful that the children had time one on one with the interns and thanked the University for moving forward on meeting the needs of the community and being an urban institution. She asked if the Board could be given an update on the program and perhaps even have someone from the schools speak with trustees about encouraging the interns.
Chair Thompson said the Board would like to have a workshop from a policy standpoint to look at long-term planning. She told trustees to let her know if they had any comments regarding agenda items for the January 27 BOG meeting that they would like her to relay. Trustee Abdullah remarked that as the time for the legislative session moved closer, it would be good for board members to be more aware of what the current issues were and to be provided with more detailed information so they could be better advocates for the University. She recommended talking points that trustees could use as they met with people.
Chair Thompson agreed and suggested that the next BOT workshop would be a good opportunity to go over something of that nature. Trustee Douglas brought up Dr. Giordano's comment about increasing undergraduate capacity. He asked what effect such action would have on the University's long-range plans, stating that trustees needed to fully understand the impact of such a move, either positive or negative.
Chair Thompson acknowledged that he had a good point, stating that funding was a major issue. She said that as trustees and university administration talked about funding or the lack thereof, from a state perspective, philanthropy was of increasing importance. She said the University had made a request of the Board to support the annual campaign and many of the trustees had. She invited trustees to stay for the ceremony to recognize major donors to the university, including two members of the Board: Trustees Coggin and Crawford. She thanked the group for their participation and adjourned the meeting.
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POMONA — The Inland Empire Branch of the National Association of University Women will hold its jazz brunch and scholarship fundraiser May 4 at the Sheraton Fairplex Hotel and Conference Center, 601 W. McKinley Ave.
The brunch, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. will feature Barbara Morrison.
The deadline to purchase tickets, at $65, is Saturday. They can be ordered by mail to the NAUW Inland Empire Branch, P.O. Box 1388, Guasti 91743-1388.


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On Being An Old Man With A Precious Lawn
Tomorrow at 8 PM Adidas and Michigan and Notre Dame will have an under-the-lights unveiling of the uniforms both will wear when the first night game in Michigan Stadium history goes down. That's odd: marketing 101 is "when you have bad news, release it on Friday at 5 PM." Michigan is treating their great unveiling like they're firing their coach for massive NCAA violations.
On the other hand, maybe it's not so odd. Yesterday the M-Den momentarily posted what looked like the official thing:
If that's what you're deploying, 8 PM isn't late enough. Broadcast the announcement from the Chinese factory where they'll be made at 4 AM Eastern.
The M-Den twitter feed later posted a three-part item expressing regret for the "mistake" that obviously failed to address whether or not those were the real McCoy. They likely are. Tom pointed out the close-up teaser image has the exact same M the mistakenly posted jersey does. If they're different, they're not much different.
Tomorrow we'll enter the ranks of schools that dress up like clowns for a little bit of money from a shoe company. Notre Dame will as well. I'll make some sarcastic comments, privately think anyone I see wearing one of the jerseys is a total sellout, and move on. This September we'll watch Clownz Faceoff 2011 and life will go on. It's not really a big deal. Everyone does it, and traditionalists sigh, and recruits say they're excited.
So why does this make me want to buy a shotgun, rocking chair, and lifetime supply of lawn fertilizer?
Well, there was a way to do this that would not give people hives. It did not require the assistance of a crack team of uniform designers, and it didn't have stripes conjured from one of their fever-dreams.
The numbers on the helmets (and the different wing pattern on them), block Ms on the socks and shoulders, and overall retro stylings of the mid-60s (like gray face-masks) would have provided a distinctive, historically accurate look. (Doctor Saturday pointed out that it would have been a look from an era when Michigan and Notre Dame were in one of their periodic snits, but whatever.)
It wouldn't have been much different. It would have been cool, though:
It would have been a genuine callback to another era of Michigan football. They could have brought out some former players, celebrated a Rose Bowl win, whatever. If they're going to do that in the Franken-uniforms they'll have to bring out a nighmarish assemblage of Horace Prettyman's arms and shoulders stapled to Bill Yearby's torso and head; the lower body will be a cyborg entity from 2211 that shoots postgame celebration laserz. The legs will stop at the knees because bony undead horror robots of 2211 come hovering or they don't come at all.
This bothers me because it makes it obvious that honoring the program's past doesn't crack the top several reasons they'll put the stripes on this fall, falling behind at least "money," "making Adidas happy," and "allowing Dave Brandon to 'create the future'." My money teat is easy to milk, but not that easy. I won't put on a Big Chill shirt with an Arby's logo on it and I'm not buying whatever that is above.
This makes me an old man but it also strikes me how stupid the corporate culture Dave Brandon comes from is. At a consumer-facing, mid-sized, publicly-traded corporation it's all about three months from now when you report your numbers and the stock price goes up or down and you're a hero or an idiot. Once companies go public they slowly lose the distinctive characteristics that made them successful in the first place and become a collection of generic suits*. The suits get paid exorbitant amounts of money to trade long-term goodwill for numbers that will allow another set of suits to increase the exorbitant amount of money they are getting paid.
The best example of how this doesn't have to happen is privately-owned Chik-Fil-A, which is still closed every Sunday for religious reasons and is so loved by Southerners that when the corporation bought the naming rights to the Peach Bowl it was generally regarded as an improvement. These are correlated factors.
These days a lot of tech companies are remaining private longer than they would have in the past—Facebook is the best example—in order to avoid the relentless make-your-numbers effect of being a public company. It seems like Michigan is announcing its IPO Friday night.
*[Once you get to the behemoth side of the scale you can maintain identity via monopoly: Google and Apple are distinctive entities that appear to have ethoses (ethii?) other than making money hand over fist; they can probably have these because they are making money hand over fist.]
(HT on the 60s uniform picks to "cutter," denizen of Michigan messageboards everywhere.)


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What, me, angry?
Here's someone at UCLA asking why I don't scream and rant and froth at the mouth in person like I do in my writing:
To those of you who asked about hosting the whole talk, I'm just not up to it technologically. The only way I know of to do something like that would take me a week and crash my hard drive a dozen times. If someone out there is really slick with computers and wants to try it themselves, just write and let me know.


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To the Editor:
As a former school board trustee in District 13, I understand the commitment, the knowledge and the skills that a person must have to effectively serve our community. Patty Farrell is such a person.
She has been a resident of the district for 15 years and her sons attended our schools. Her youngest is currently in Memorial Junior High. Patty has been actively involved in every local school that her boys attended. She has held several executive board positions in both the Wheeler Ave School PTA (including president) and the Central Memorial PTSA. In recognition of her involvement and contributions to PTA, Patty has received both the New York State PTA Honorary Life Membership Award and the Carolyn Fiori Leadership Award from the Nassau Region PTA. Also in recognition of her outstanding leadership ability and knowledge, Patty has moved up the ladder in the PTA structure to become assistant director for Nassau Region PTA, which means that she currently assists the executive boards of other PTAs with issues within the units that need the help of a very experienced outsider. I like the opportunity to have a school board trustee whose knowledge and skills are recognized beyond the boundaries of our community, don't you?
I know Patty best through our mutual work on the Valley Stream District 13 Educational Foundation during the past six years. The phrase that most comes to mind to describe her is "detail-oriented." She thoughtfully questions everything — and I mean that in a good way. Patty picks up on things that others miss. From small details such as conflicting sections of our by-laws to larger issues such as grant money, it is Patty who is most likely to raise questions that help us fine tune everything we do.
Here's an example of something that Patty is currently working on for all of us: over the years our Foundation has secured many grants for District 13. It is Patty who has taken the initiative to pursue $29,000 in legislative grant money that was earmarked for the district but not received, including working with the district's Business Office and communicating with Senator Skelos' legislative aide, to see to it that we get the money that our district is owed. I like the opportunity to have an inquisitive school board trustee who is detail-oriented and who keeps an eye on the district's funds, don't you?
I want Patty Farrell, and I hope you want her, too. I urge you to vote for Patty so that she can continue to use the knowledge and skills that she has gained by volunteering in our community, to benefit all of us in District 13.
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Three weeks ago, Lions rookie cornerback Chris Greenwood emerged from the Physically Unable to Perform list, joining practice.
But now the Lions have decided he's not ready to suit up and play.
Via the Detroit News, the Lions have announced that Greenwood will not play this year. Greenwood, a fifth-round pick in the April draft, underwent abdominal surgery in May.
Greenwood will now return to the reserve Physically Unable to Perform list for the balance of the season.


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In Look Homeward, America, Bill Kauffman introduces us to the reactionary radicals, front-porch anarchists, and traditionalist rebels who give American culture and politics its pith, vim, and life. Blending history, memoir, digressive literariness, and polemic, Kauffman provides fresh portaiture of such American originals as Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day, regionalist painter Grant Wood, farmer-writer Wendell Berry, publisher Henry Regnery, maverick U.S. senators Eugene McCarthy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and other Americans who can't—or shouldn't—be filed away in the usual boxes labeled "liberal" and "conservative." Ranging from Millard Fillmore to Easy Rider, from Robert Frost to Mother Jones, Kauffman limns an alternative America that draws its breath from local cultures, traditional liberties, small-scale institutions, and neighborliness.
There is an America left that is worth saving: these are its paragons, its poets, its pantheon.
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"There may have been better books than Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists, published in 2006, but I didn't read them. In Look Homeward, Kauffman celebrates those uniquely American radicals who make this the country it is, and does it with humor, grace and keen perception…Whatever your ideology, Bill Kauffman's words will touch your soul and make you long for his America."
"Bill Kauffman is the finest literary stylist writing within the broad twenty-first-century conservative dispensation and among the keenest minds in contemporary American letters. Sometimes an agrarian libertarian, on other occasions a populist or a 'peace and love' paleoconservative, Kauffman defies the standard categories. Above all, he is—like Russell Kirk—a localist, rooted in his beloved (if not always lovely) Batavia, New York, region. Look Homeward, America celebrates the 'insubordinate Americans' who cherish their families, their neighborhoods, and their liberties and who distrust the cant pouring out of Washington, DC. With felicitous ease, the volume moves from side-splitting humor to profound insight to wise prescription. In its grand affirmation of the true American spirit, Look Homeward, America will challenge, dazzle, and delight the reader."
"Bill Kauffman is the Sage of Batavia."
"Kauffman's marvelous trick of praising to the skies and then noting shortcomings and even vices increases the fascination of his remarks on such defenders of 'family, community, [and] local self-rule' as Wendell Berry, Grant Wood, Carolyn Chute, Millard Fillmore...More marvelous is that Kauffman, who freely injects himself into his prose, treats himself the same way; he vaunts his stance on something and then acknowledges his contradictions on the same matter. If figures he considers overrated don't get the same treatment, well, that helps keep things snappy. His writing persona couldn't be more appealing."
"Kaufmann combines an acerbic wit with an encyclopedic knowledge of ignored American characters to create enchanting allusions and flat-out rants that may remind readers of comedian Dennis Miller. The crucial difference being that unlike Miller, Kaufmann has a point."
"This particular cynical idealist (or should that be idealistic cynic?) is the real deal when it comes to actually living the small-town life and celebrating its many virtues. As such, he is also an American treasure—a more than occasionally maddening treasure, but a treasure nonetheless."
"If you are the kind of conservative who despairs over the chain-store, geography-of-nowhere, slob-in-the-grey-velour-sweatsuit consumerist crapulence that is devouring the American cultural landscape like kudzu—well, Bill Kauffman is your man."
"Kauffman wants us to know there is a better way, that is, as the inside jacket of his new book says, 'There is an America left that is worth saving.'"
"In this celebration of what Kauffman calls America's 'traditionalist rebels,' passages of considerable eloquence are all the more arresting precisely because they appear in a work otherwise characterized by such unrestrained jollity."
"Bill Kauffman is a writer who defies categorization, which is only appropriate because people who defy categorization happens to be his favorite subject: his latest book, Look Homeward, America... illustrates how the tired old labels of 'left' and 'right' no longer seem to apply…"
"The American pageant includes a huge supporting cast of idealists, eccentrics, crackpots, and cranks. Telling their stories can only enrich the texture of the tale."
"[T]his book has a Whitmanesque quality about it: it is a song to liberty, truth, goodness, and beauty, to family and community, to hearth and home, to farm and small town. It's a call to those of similar principles to keep on keeping on, and bring America home again."
"Bill Kauffman is a chronicler, historian, and social critic. He possesses an equanimity and discernment that provides a unique perspective that deserves our attention. He is a Jeffersonian de-centralist, thought criminal, word tossing anarchist, and champion of America's gutted, Walmartized small towns. 'Mine is a Middle America,' Kauffman writes, 'profoundly un-imperial patriotism based in love of American music, poetry, places, quirks and commonalities, historical crotchets, holy fools and eminent Kansans.' Perhaps, John Prine had it right all along. Go ahead and 'blow up your T.V.,' then read Look Homeward, America."
"Bill Kauffman's latest book is a sympathetic look at various American politicians, artists, rabble-rousers, poets and saints—assorted men and women who do not quite fit into our usual political categories and often hold ideas that to the mainstream seem odd if not downright perverse… All these people have in common that, in one way or another, they supported localism and regional identity, opposed the burgeoning American empire, and refuse to fit neatly into the silly Left/Right, Liberal/Conservative categories…"
"[W]e can still educate our individual souls. . . and his book is a fine place for most of us to begin."
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Federal officials say that a 2012 deadline to start construction of a multibillion-dollar high-speed rail system in California is firm and can't be postponed.
The U.S. Transportation Department said in a letter Wednesday to the California High-Speed Rail Authority that regulators have no authority to change the deadline. The department also says it won't allow the state to move the first stretch of track from the Central Valley to a coastal city.
The state Legislative Analyst's Office this month questioned whether the rail authority can effectively manage the massive capital project linking San Francisco with Los Angeles and Anaheim. The report proposed seeking waivers of the deadline and starting point that were conditions for $3.5 billion in federal grants.
California rail officials requested clarification on whether waivers were possible.