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The 2008 Summer Olympics Torch Relay will run until August 8, 2008, prior to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Plans for the relay were announced on April 26, 2007, in Beijing, China.[1] The relay, with the theme "Journey of Harmony", is expected[2] to last 129 days and carry the torch 137,000 km (85,000 mi) — the longest distance of any Olympic torch relay since the National Socialist German Workers' Party started the tradition at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
After being lit at the birthplace of the Olympic Games in Olympia, Greece on March 24, the torch traveled to the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, and then to Beijing, arriving on March 31. From Beijing, the torch is following a route passing through six continents. The torch will visit cities along the Silk Road, symbolizing ancient links between China and the rest of the world. The relay also included an ascent with the flame to the top of Mount Everest on the border of Nepal and Tibet, China from the Chinese side, which was closed specially for the event.[3]
In many cities along the route, the torch relay has been met by protesters representing a range of political issues, particularly those related to China's human rights record, the struggle for freedom in Tibet, the genocide in Darfur, China's support to dictatorships in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, North Korean defectors, territorial disputes over the Spratly and Paracel Islands with Vietnam, Falun Gong persecution and the political status of Taiwan, resulting in violence at various locations. These protests, which ranged from tens of thousands of people in San Francisco,[4] to effectively none in Pyongyang, have forced the path of the torch relay to be changed or shortened on a number of occasions. The torch was extinguished by Chinese security officials several times during the Paris leg for security reasons.[5]
The protests in Europe were described as "despicable" by the Chinese government, condemning them as "deliberate disruptions...who gave no thought to the Olympic spirit or the laws of Britain and France" and who "tarnish the lofty Olympic spirit", and vowed they would continue with the relay and not allow the protests to "impede the Olympic spirit"[6]. Large-scale counter-protests by overseas Chinese and foreign-based Chinese nationals became prevalent in later segments of the relay.
Prompted by the chaotic torch relays in Europe and North America, the president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge described the situation as a "crisis" for the organization and stated that any athletes displaying the Flag of Tibet at Olympic venues could be expelled from the games,[7][8] though he stopped short of cancelling the relay altogether despite calls to do so by some IOC members[9]. The outcome of the relay will likely influence the IOC's decision on whether or not to scrap global relays in future editions of the games.[10]
In June 2008, the Beijing Games' Organizing Committee announced that the planned international torch relay for the Paralympic Games had been canceled. The Committee stated that the relay was being canceled to enable the Chinese government to "focus on the rescue and relief work" following the Sichuan earthquake.[11]
Relay elementsEdit
- Main article: Olympic Flame
The Olympic Torch is based on traditional scrolls and uses a traditional Chinese design known as "Lucky Cloud". It is made from aluminum. It is 72 centimetres high and weighs 985 grams. The torch is designed to remain lit in 65 kilometre per hour winds, and in rain of up to 50 millimetres per hour.[12] An ignition key is used to ignite and extinguish the flame. The torch is fueled by cans of propane. Each can will light the torch for 15 minutes.[13] It is designed by a team from Lenovo Group. The Torch is designed in reference to the traditional Chinese concept of the 5 elements that make up the entire universe.
The Olympic Flame is supposed to remain lit for the whole relay.[14] When the Torch is extinguished at night, on airplanes, in bad weather, or during protests (such as the several occasions in Paris[15]), the Olympic Flame is kept alight in a set of 8 lanterns.
Internationally, the torch and its accompanying party travels in a chartered Air China Airbus A330 (registered B-6075), painted in the red and yellow colours of the Olympic Games.[16][17] Air China was chosen by the Beijing Committees of the Olympic Game as the designated Olympic torch carrier in March, 2008 for its long-standing participation in the Olympic cause. The plane will travel a total of 85,077 mi (136,918 km)for a duration of 130 days through 21 countries and regions.[18][17]
- Main article: 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay route
The announced route will carry the torch through six continents from March 2008 to May 2008 to August 2008. The planned route originally included a stop in Taipei between Ho Chi Minh City and Hong Kong, but there was disagreement in Beijing and Taipei over language used to describe whether it was an international or a domestic part of the route. While the Olympic committees of China and Chinese Taipei reached initial consensus on the approach, the government of the Republic of China in Taiwan intervened, stating that this placement could be interpreted as placing Taiwan on the same level as Hong Kong and Macau, an implication it objected to. The Beijing Organizing Committee attempted to continue negotiation,[19] but further disputes arose over the placement and usage of the flag or the anthem of the Republic of China along the 24 km torch route in Taiwan.[20] As of the midnight deadline for concluding the negotiation on September 21, 2007, Taiwan and China were unable to come to terms with the issue of the Torch Relay. In the end, both sides of the Taiwan Strait decided to eliminate the Taipei leg.[21]
- ↑ "Beijing 2008: BOCOG Announces Olympic Torch Relay Route", International Olympic Committee, 2007-04-26. Retrieved on 2007-04-26.
- ↑ Officials Expect Olympic Torch to Continue on Route.
- ↑ "Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay Planned Route and Torch Design unveiled", BOCOG, 2007-04-26. Retrieved on 2007-04-26. See also: 'No change in Tibet torch rally route', Times of India, Retrieved on 10 April 2008.
- ↑ Olympic torch San Francisco | Salon News
- ↑ "Paris protests force cancellation of torch relay.", msnbc.com, 2008-04-07. Retrieved on 2008-04-07.
- ↑ China condemns "despicable" torch disruptions, Reuters. April 7, 2008.
- ↑ IOC flags athlete free speech dilemma, The Australian. April 12, 2008.
- ↑ Olympic Official Calls Protests a 'Crisis', The New York Times. April 11, 2008.
- ↑ IOC mulls cancellation of torch relay, USAToday. April 8, 2008.
- ↑ IOC mulls abandoning international routes in future, The Economic Times. April 8, 2008.
- ↑ "International torch relay for Beijing Paralympic Games cancelled", Xinhua, June 25, 2008
- ↑ The Beijing Olympic Torch, The Official Website of the 2008 Summer Olympics Torch Relay
- ↑ 示威不斷 聖火難傳 境外是否續運 奧委周五定奪, Apple Daily.
- ↑ The Torch Relay lantern, The Official Website of the 2008 Summer Olympics Torch Relay
- ↑ "La Chine condamne les troubles sur le parcours de la flamme", France 24, April 8, 2008
- ↑ Olympic Torch Emits 5,500 Tons of CO2, ABC News (April 9, 2008).
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Air China Successfully Wins the Title of 'Designated Olympic Torch Carrier', Reuters (March 18, 2008).
- ↑ Air China Carries the Olympic Torch around the Globe.
- ↑ "Taiwan rejects China's torch relay plans", USA Today, 2007-04-26. Retrieved on 2007-04-26.
- ↑ Editorial: New Olympic event: Torch tug-of-war. Taipei Times.
- ↑ Taiwan, China Fail to Reach Agreement on Olympic Torch Route.
External linksEdit
Official sites Edit
- Official site of the Beijing 2008 Torch relay
- Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay in London
- Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay in Hong Kong
Official videos Edit
- "Sacred flame blazes way through the 'city of apples'": Almaty
- "Torch relay extends Saint Petersburg's blessings for Beijing Olympics": Saint Petersburg
- "Olympic flame crosses London amid snow": London
- "Sacred flame gets a French kiss": Paris
- "Crowds gather to show support for Olympic torch relay": San Francisco
- "Olympic flame lights passion of 'Tango City'": Buenos Aires
- "Eighth stop of global torch relay concludes": Dar es Salaam
- "Olympic flame back to Asia in Muscat relay": Muscat
- "Pakistan torch relay a fiery success": Islamabad
- "Olympic torch relay in New Delhi a 'success'": New Delhi
- "Olympic flame sheds glee in 'City of Smile'": Bangkok
- "Torch relay concludes successfully through downpour": Kuala Lumpur
- "Sacred flame finishes tour of Southeast Asia": Jakarta
- "Torch relay concludes in Canberra peacefully": Canberra
- "Olympic Torch Relay in Nagano concludes": Nagano
- "Olympic torch relay in Seoul concludes": Seoul
- "Well-organized torch relay completes in Pyongyang": Pyongyang


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Date: 07/24/2002
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LAS CRUCES - Southern New Mexico is in the midst of one of the earliest chile harvests ever, and all signs point to a bumper crop.
"The green chile crop looks good across the board," said Dave Layton, a crop consultant for Deming-based Border Foods Inc., one of the world's largest processors of green chile peppers. His plant has been taking in peppers since July 15, more than a week ahead of last year. "And last year was one of the earliest dates anyone could remember," he said.
An early harvest translates into more money for area farmers because of the extended growing season, said John White, Doña Ana County agent with New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service. NMSU agricultural experts say the state is well on the way to a repeat of the banner crop of 2000, when 19,000 acres produced 99,000 tons of chile. The state's most valuable vegetable is worth more than $200 million after processing.
"The year before last was a good year, and this year promises to be better," said Bob Bevacqua, a vegetable specialist with NMSU's Cooperative Extension Service.
A constellation of positive factors aligned to produce this year's bumper chile crop, he said. Steady and gradually warming temperatures in the early spring were favorable for strong and vigorous crop establishment. Meantime, six months with little or no precipitation didn't hurt the largely irrigated chile fields.
"The absence of rain in the spring was actually favorable for the chile crop," Bevacqua said. "We did have our isolated wind storms, but they weren't particularly damaging."
In addition, the chile enjoyed a relatively bug- and disease-free spring. New Mexico's long-term drought has diminished the number of weeds at the edges of chile fields, where many pests could get their start early in the spring, said Carol Sutherland, an entomologist with NMSU's Extension service.
Another boost came from beneficial insects in nearby alfalfa fields that shifted to chile as the hay was being harvested. "They helped things out quite a bit," Sutherland said.
Plant diseases could provide the only glitch in an otherwise positive outlook. Summer rains promote the growth of three diseases: phytophthora root rot or chile wilt, powdery mildew and bacterial spot. "They're the only threats on the horizon," Bevacqua said. "They are all favored by humid and hot conditions."
Bevacqua pointed out that chile experts predicted early on that this growing season was going to be exceptional. "This gave farmers ample time to prepare," he said. "Producers and processors were able to recruit additional labor in advance. These anticipated high yields have also stimulated grower interest in purchasing mechanical harvesting equipment, which is a significant development."
Just a few years ago little of the state's chile crop, which includes greens, reds, jalapeños, cayennes, paprikas and other peppers, was mechanically harvested. Now, much of the eastern New Mexico's chile is machine harvested, and interest is growing in the Mesilla Valley, West Texas and eastern Arizona, said Richard Phillips, a project manager with NMSU's Cooperative Extension Service and coordinator of the New Mexico Chile Pepper Task Force.
The task force has identified mechanical harvesting as key to the survival of chile production and processing in the state. Hand harvesting of chile accounts for 40 to 60 percent of the total farm costs of chile pepper production for New Mexico, he said. New Mexico growers pay a minimum of $5.15 per hour, while foreign competitors pay as little as $1 a day. t http://cahe.nmsu.edu/
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wow Norma !! that bulk dough pic is worth $$$ !! very nice recap, thanks for all the details... ill be in FL from the 22DEC to 09JAN, if i get a good deal for tickets i am dying to go to NY... you just made me want to go even more....
A couple of the pics brightened up a little and sharpened. In a car in bad light and they still came out as good as they did? Not a bad camera at all.....and a good steady hold. Loving the under the bridge shots too!
@andreI think the pic of the Keste dough is proofed dough balls (judging from the faint lines that show between "squares" of dough).
aaah, street meat, so yummy. I miss NY so much, and your photos made me feel like I was there. Thanks Norma!
+1 For me also!
I may go to NYC for the holidays ( only 20 min for ME to the bridge) again this year. after seeing those great pics Thanks Norma! and what kind of Keste pie was that that blogger touched up? I am drooling!! Great work ! Have a great thanksgiving!! Very Cute Grandson too he must have been fascinated!John
@andre I agree with you. Looks like individual panetti, which have relaxed by quite a bit and will need to be cut out to make individual pizza (a usual event). I see some definite big bubbles here and am wondering what time of the day Norma was there....looks like the dough is potentially getting near the end of its optimal window of usability?
Roberto also asked me where I lived. I told him in Pa. He said he operated a pizza business in Pittsburgh at one time. Does anyone know what pizza business he operated?Norma
From Slice: http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2009/03/keste-pizza-vino-roberto-caporuscio-greenwich-village-manhattan-nyc.htmlPrior to Kesté, Caporuscio was the founding pizzaiolo of A Mano in Ridgewood, New Jersey, which he came to in 2007 after opening and running two restaurants in PittsburghRegina Margherita and Roberto's.
I didnt post much about Joes pizza because it tasted just like any average pizza I can buy around my area. As can be seen on the pictures I posted the crust is more dense and bready. In my opinion the crust had a slightly sweet taste to it. The cheese and mozzarella on the slice I purchased were just average. I like a better mozzarella and sauce. I find with each pizza I taste, they all taste a little different. As far as comparing it to the pizzas I make at market, I like the Preferment Lehmann dough a lot better. There were people inside of Joes purchasing pizza. There are so many pizza places in NYC to try.
Thanks for your thoughts on Joe's Norma. It appears that the dreaded restaurant apathy monster has finally reared it's ugly head and plunged Joe's into an oblivion of mediocrity. During the decade or so that I was going there, it hadn't dropped too much in quality, but that was before they were featured in the movie Spiderman. I'm guessing that with that much publicity, apathy was inevitable.The interior photo was very telling. It may seem like a decent amount of customers, but, compared to it's heyday, that's downright empty. For the most part (DiFara's is one notable exception), you can pretty much always judge the quality of pies a pizzeria is putting out by the number of customers it has.Edit: Btw, there's lot's of info on making Sullivan St. Bakery's pizza at home. Lahey even has the recipe in his book. I believe it's his typical high hydration/no knead process. Lahey (and Bittman) put no knead on the map.
@cornicione54, for sure individual dough balls, they are so proofed that they almost came together... still a $ shot !
Norma, In one of the photos you took from Keste, a guy is spreading a bright yellow sauce-type 'thingy' on a dough, do you know what that was? Looks interesting.Paul


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Arkansas rice farmers want to teach fourth-grade students a lesson.
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About 37,000 fourth-grade students in nearly 500 Arkansas schools received copies of the workbook.
The workbook, titled "Arkansas Rice AWESOME," has sections on language arts, math, and social studies. All the information in the workbook is based on rice farming and the rice industry in Arkansas. It was developed with input from a panel of Arkansas elementary school teachers.
"Education is extremely important to rice farmers and millers because so many in our industry have children," explained Robert Petter, chairman of the Arkansas Rice Council and a farmer in Prairie County. "We also want to promote awareness and understanding of the rice industry. We hope that the students, teachers and parents will have a greater appreciation of the rice farming industry because of this project."
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Monday, February 27, 2012
The New Technology Elite: A Book and Author Review
My friend and associate Vinnie Mirchandani has written his second book, The New Technology Elite: How Great Companies Optimize Both Technology Consumption and Production. I asked Vinnie if I could write a review, and he provided a pre-release copy of his book.
I'd gotten bits and pieces of the book from Vinnie's blog posts and excerpts he released on LinkedIn. But getting a look at the entire book is a whole other experience.
In this post, I'd like not only to review the book--I'd like to also review the author.
A Curious MindFor regular readers of the Spectator, Vinnie needs no introduction. I've been quoting and linking to him for years, even before I met him in person, around 2007. Since then, we've become friends. Among industry analysts, Vinnie is someone I consider like-minded.
At the same time, though, Vinnie is something of a strange cat. As a former Gartner analyst and PwC sourcing executive, his background is in enterprise software and vendor management (his blog title, Deal Architect, gives that away).
But over the past several years his focus has shifted to technology innovation more generally. Ever restless, he launched a second blog, New Florence, New Renaissance, I suspect, to help him on his flights of fancy outside the walls of enterprise IT. This has taken him far afield into areas such as nanotechnology, healthcare IT, sustainability, consumer electronics, mobility, and dozens of other corners of technology innovation. From time to time I try to scoop him, by sending him a link to some cool new application of technology, when I spot it. But generally, he's not only spotted it himself: he's also written about it. I still try, though.
Vinnie's interests led to his 2010 book, The New Polymaths: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations. There he chronicled dozens of case-studies of organizations that are leveraging a wide range of technologies to solve the world's grand challenges and improve our lives. Now in his second book, The New Technology Elite: How Great Companies Optimize Both Technology Consumption and Production, he weaves more case-studies into a larger story.
In Vinnie's view, some organizations that are, historically, buyers of information technology, are now turning into technology providers—as they embed new technology into their products and services. Virgin America, 3M, GE, and UPS are examples. At the same time, leading technology providers, such as Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook are becoming examples of best business practices, such as in their data center operations, retailing units, and supply chains. He then presents a framework for understanding what these organizations have in common: their 12 key attributes.
He concludes by examining the outside influences affecting these organizations, including the regulatory environment, their impact on society at large, and the ability (or lack thereof) of sell-side financial analysts to understand it all. Lest one think Vinnie is an unabashed technology enthusiast, these last three chapters strike a counterbalance—it's not all positive.
A Disorienting ExperienceReading the book leads to one overriding impression: the pace of technology change is unprecedented. Sure, we all know this, generally. But, most of us really don't.
The danger for anyone in a business leadership position today is to not recognize new entrants arising from outside traditional markets. At the same time, it's no longer enough to look at best business practices within one's own industry. Often, it's players in other markets that are setting the bar higher. This is a problem for today's market leaders, their customers and suppliers, and the analysts that cover them.
Vinnie's fast-paced writing style matches his subject matter. Just one example: in Chapter 15, Vinnie discusses how quickly GPS technology evolved from in-auto dashboard systems, to standalone GPS devices, to smartphone apps—in less than a decade. He then launches into a discussion about technologies that are being embedded in home appliances, enabling them to connect to smartphones, tablets, and other devices and how this is leading to Samsung—a consumer electronics company—to take market share away from appliance market leaders, such as Whirlpool and Kenmore. He then jumps to an analysis of how difficult it is to forecast demand for new products such as Amazon's Kindle, or Nintendo's Wii.
If you have attention-deficit disorder, Vinnie's book is for you. He piles on examples one after another, barely giving time to take a breath. For the rest of us, it is disorienting. But it serves a purpose: to give the reader overwhelming evidence of the magnitude and pace of the changes taking place in all industries.
A Positive ExampleAlthough his book is on new technologies, Vinnie's research style is definitely old school. Today too many so-called industry analysts take the lazy way, getting nearly all of their information from vendor briefings and press releases, writing analysis that regurgitates vendor PR talking points, and rarely speaking directly to customers. As a result, they have no original insight.
Vinnie's way requires more work, but it's more rewarding: Do your homework, pick up the phone, talk to those at the center of the action, and learn something new.
Then, take a position. Those who engage with Vinnie on Twitter or in blog comments know that Vinnie doesn't hedge his views. From time to time, I get into debates with him. Although sometimes I don't agree with him, I respect that he doesn't arrive at a position lightly, and that his opinions are research-based. He doesn't shoot from the hip. (At the same time, though, I do see an evolution of his thinking in the final version of the book, as compared to some of his earlier blog posts on the same subjects.)
So, there's much to learn from The New Technology Elite. Moreover, there's a lot to learn in imitating the author's example.
The New Technology Elite can be pre-ordered from Amazon. My copy is already on order. It is now scheduled to ship in March, 2012.
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Mischaracterization of Multitenancy in an SAP-sponsored Blog Post
In an SAP-sponsored post on ZDnet, SAP employee Eric Lai attempts to identify "four big problems" with multitenancy in cloud applications. As I am writing a soon-to-be published research report on cloud ERP, I was interested to hear Eric's take on the subject.
By way of definition, in a software-as-a-service application, the term multitenancy refers to an application architecture where a single instance of the system's application code and database serves multiple customers.
Please read Lai's entire post, as, in the interest of space, I will not quote from it extensively.
Lai gets off to a good start:
Anyone can see how much more efficient [multitenancy] is versus the old server hosting model, where the ratio of server:customer is 1:1. Even using today's Red Hat-type virtualization, each server can cram fewer users/customers onto itself than a true multitenant service.No argument there. But then he quickly goes downhill. He first draws a distinction between consumers and enterprise customers, which have "much more rigorous requirements." He then presents his four objections to multitenancy.
Besides their efficiency, multitenant services can scale easily. Both of these mean lower costs for the hosters/software vendors, and, potentially, lower prices for customers.
1. "It's Inflexible."Here, Lai doesn't really make a flexibility argument as much as a security and privacy argument. He points to privacy laws in some European regions that require data in some circumstances to be stored locally. But this is not an argument against multitenancy--it's an argument in favor of local data centers. A single-tenant system provider will need to build local data centers in the regions it serves, just as a multitenant provider will need to do so.
He then argues that multitenant systems might allow competitors on the same system to see each other's confidential information. I agree that IP theft is an increasing problem, especially with organized gangs of cyber-criminals in Eastern Europe and Asia, who in some cases may have the endorsement of their governments. (See, for example, this report.) But I do not know of a single cases where one tenant on a multitenant system was able to access the data of another customer on the same system. Tellingly, Lai provides not a single reference of such a confidentiality breach.
2. "It's Less Secure."He now makes the security argument again, from a different angle. Here he argues that a multitenant database gives a careless database administrator, or a malicious hacker, the opportunity to compromise, with one breach, the data of multiple customers rather than just a single customer. He overlooks the fact that if a DBA is careless with one database, he or she would probably be careless with multiple databases. Likewise, if a criminal is able to gain access to a single customer's database in a secured data center, he or she will probably be able to gain access to many or all of the customer databases in the same data center.
3. "It's Less Powerful."Here the argument is that the capabilities of the platform-as-a-service providers do not match the capabilities of traditional database tools. He points to Salesforce.com's database.com, Google App Engine, and Windows Azure as examples. Here, I find Lai's argument similar to that of Larry Ellison, head of SAP's arch-rival, Oracle.
In response I would point to the testimony of the head of development of one new enterprise SaaS provider. This individual came from a traditional enterprise software development and has now built sophisticated enterprise applications on both NetSuite's platform and on Force.com. He told me recently, "Frank, you wouldn't believe how easy it is to develop on these platforms. Things that used to take us months [at vendor X], we can now do in weeks or days."
Although I am no longer into software development, I am willing to stipulate that the newer cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments do not have all of the features and functions of traditional on-premise application development environments. (So also, in the old days we couldn't do as much with third-generation procedural languages, such as COBOL, as we could in assembler language. And, we couldn't do as much in 4GLs as we could in third generation.) But a PaaS removes an enormous amount of development work, by abstracting database, middleware, and user-interface functions, allowing the developer to focus on business logic. Furthermore, if (as I believe) PaaS is a disruptive technology, we should expect its capabilities to improve over time, and increasingly able to take on jobs that formerly could only be done by traditional tools.
4. "It May Be More Costly."Here he doesn't mean the cost to the customer, but the cost to the ISV who wants to move from a traditional on-premises software product to a cloud offering. He is arguing, in essence, that it is cheaper for the vendor to simply host his traditional product as a single-tenant offering (i.e. changing nothing) than to rewrite it as a true multi-tenant SaaS offering.
As an advocate for enterprise IT buyers, I have to ask, will that hosted offering will be less costly for customers? Lai doesn't say. But in his introductory paragraphs (quoted earlier), he indicates that multitenancy offers "lower costs for the hosters/software vendors, and, potentially, lower prices for customers." So he has contradicted himself in his own post.
A Puzzling PositionFinally, what I find strange about this SAP-sponsored blog post is that it seems to contradict SAP's own position relative to Business ByDesign (ByD).
ByD is a full multi-tenant ERP offering for SMBs. It is a well-known fact that SAP's first attempt at ByD employed a single-tenant architecture, similar to that proposed by Lai in his blog post. That iteration was not successful in that, according to SAP spokespeople, they could not get that approach to scale cost-effectively. So, SAP took an extra two years or so and rewrote ByD as a completely multi-tenant application. The system is rolling out in multiple geographies worldwide, in local data centers where required, presumably with security and privacy measures commensurate with SAP's high standards for customers. The system is cost-competitive with other SaaS ERP offerings and has grown quickly to over 1,000 customers at the end of 2011.
SAP now has such confidence in its ByD platform that it has made it the platform for developing its line-of-business applications, such as Sales OnDemand and Travel OnDemand, for its large enterprise customers--presumably the ones with the most demanding security and privacy requirements.
Now, at the top of the post, ZDnet does make the disclaimer, "Eric's views are his alone and do not necessarily represent those of SAP." Still, as I mentioned, I find it puzzling that Lai's views appear to be closer to Larry Ellison's than those of his employer.
I am waiting for SAP's rebuttal to its own sponsored post.
Update: Eric Lai responds in the comments below.
Update, Feb.23: Please read the more detailed response on SDN by Sybase's Eric Farrar.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Glovia Returns to the ERP Market
An ERP sales professional, whom I've know for many years, recently called to let me know he'd taken a new job with Glovia International. I indicated that I hadn't heard anything about Glovia recently. Maybe now I could get an update.
So he arranged a briefing with James Gorham, who heads up Glovia's North American business, for me and two of my senior associates at Strativa, Bob Gilson and Nick Hann.
A Long HistoryGlovia's roots go back to the 1970s, when Xerox Computer Services launched a time-sharing application for manufacturing companies. The product went through several iterations and was eventually relaunched in client-server form in 1990 as Xerox Chess. The company was acquired in 2000 by Fujitsu, who renamed it Glovia.
For many years, Glovia has been a well-respected mid-market ERP solution for automotive manufacturers, aerospace and defense contractors, capital equipment makers, and other industries. In the past, when I was looking for solid functionality for project-based manufacturers, Glovia would be one of the first to come to mind.
But, as just mentioned, that changed about two or three years ago, when Glovia suddenly fell off my radar. I knew they were still in business--I just never saw them in deals or even in press releases. They wouldn't even respond to my inquiries.
In our briefing with Gorham, we soon found out why. Glovia had undertaken a deliberate strategy three years ago to pull back, abandon all new sales efforts, and invest in rewriting the entire product.
Retrenchment StrategyGlovia system had been developed in McDonnell Douglas's PROIV 4GL language, which though a good language, was not a platform with a wide developer base. They spent two years to rewrite the product with a service-oriented architecture, migrating the business logic to .NET, developing a new user-interface in Microsoft Silverlight, and providing a full deployment of web services with over 140 integration points. The latest version of Glovia runs on Oracle's database and is being released for Microsoft SQL as well.
Now here's the interesting part: during this retrenchment period, Glovia was profitable and actually grew, through organic growth of its existing customers adding new plants, new acquisitions, and new users. So, retrenchment turned out to be a good strategy during recessionary times: kill off marketing and net-new sales, redouble your service and support for your installed base, and invest in rewriting the product for a relaunch.
This retrenchment strategy (my term) could only work because Glovia had an enviable position as the incumbent for some very large and loyal customers, beginning with its corporate parent, Fujitsu, which deploys Glovia in 43 factories. Fujitsu had the resources to support any fall-off in Glovia's business, but as it turned out, Fujitsu's deep pockets weren't needed. Xerox (Glovia's former parent) is still a customer, as are several other large and well-known global brands, such as Panasonic, Dell, Carrier, Bridgestone, Avery Dennison, Honda, Honeywell, Phillips, and General Electric.
So, now the rewrite is complete. The functionality offered by Glovia for its target manufacturing industries--which was already well established--has grown even more impressive.
The rewrite also gave Glovia the opportunity to build mobility apps, which appear much further developed than many larger and better known competitors. Apps include work orders, financial apps such as expense reporting, purchase requisition approvals, and executive dashboards. Glovia even provides device management capabilities. Apple's iPhone and iPad are supported, as well as Android devices, Blackberry, and Windows Phone. Everything is developed in HTML5 and available through the appropriate apps store (e.g. iStore).
- It offers heavy visualization, with real-time graphical information flow.
- There is support for assemble-to-order and engineer-to-order, with "available to X" planning calculations, such as available-to-order, to-make, to-buy, and to-service.
- Production scheduling and optimization is granular down to the minute.
- There is load-balancing at all levels of production: the plant, cell, machine, skill, and person.
- The supply chain planning capabilities allow synchronization of supply to demand or demand to supply.
- Lean thinking permeates the execution functions, with the Toyota Production System natively embedded in the product.
- For defense contractors, there is the necessary "borrow-and-payback" functionality as well as pegging to contract.
There are even some nods to social business: Glovia gives engineers at different links in the supply chain the ability to collaborate. Planners also have visibility into customer and supplier engineering changes and inventory positions. Integration with Microsoft's Sharepoint is also provided.
What about the Cloud?These days, no briefing is complete without asking about cloud options. Glovia offers an on-premise deployment (of course) as well as an on-demand option. Although the on-demand version is currently a simple hosting arrangement, when Microsoft Azure is ready for enterprise applications, Glovia will be able to host its system on Microsoft's cloud, assuming customers demand it.
Separately, Glovia has built a set of manufacturing modules on Force.com to inter-operate with Salesforce.com's CRM system. These are full multi-tenant SaaS applications that provide functionality for product configuration, order management, inventory, manufacturing, invoicing, purchasing, and returns. These are separate and independent from Glovia's flagship G2 system.
My own view is that Glovia's current support and stated direction for cloud computing is probably sufficient for now in light of the industries and size of organizations that it targets.
Where is Glovia Headed?Behind us in Glovia's conference room was the obligatory "customer wall," with logos of Glovia's largest and most well-recognized customer names. My associate Nick Hann asked, "Three years from now, what will that wall look like?"
This led to an interesting discussion. Customer attrition during the retrenchment period was surprisingly low: a loss of any of these large customers would have been huge, and in fact none were lost. The sales team is now expanding to focus on new deals in addition to incremental sales into the installed base. There are also some resellers being added strategically for certain vertical industries.
Will Glovia be successful as it transitions from retrenchment to new sales? So far, some signs are promising. There are some big names in the sales funnel, including one Fortune 100 company. Interestingly, many of these new sales opportunities have come out of introductions by existing customers.
But will that be enough? The market is crowded, as Gorham noted, with SAP and Oracle gunning for the top tier of customers and Infor, Epicor, and IFS hungry for the mid-market and individual facilities of large multi-nationals. Syspro, Consona, and QAD also play in some markets and industries.
The markets that Glovia competes in are not under-served. In addition to the traditional players that Gorham identified, I would be concerned about newer cloud ERP providers: specifically Plex, which has a big bulls-eye on the automotive sector, NetSuite, and SAP's Business ByDesign.
Nevertheless, circling back to the retrenchment strategy: I like Glovia's story. How to leverage a recession to retrench and recover. In warfare, retreat is sometimes a good strategy, and in Glovia's case, the retrenchment appears to have paid off.
I hope Glovia's success continues, because buyers can only benefit by having a greater number of well-qualified choices.
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Labels: Epicor, ERP, IFS, Infor, Oracle, Plex, QAD, SAP, Sysproby Frank Scavo, 2/13/2012 03:37:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Do you realize it's been four years since Rihanna was forced to skip the Grammy Awards because her boyfriend had beaten the ever living snot out of her? FOUR years. And yet, here we are again, talking about Chris Brown and Rihanna at the Grammys.
The Barbadian singer decided to follow the Grammys dress code -- despite her threat to ignore it -- and she looked absolutely stunning in red. It's too bad she didn't ignore Breezy too.
Too bad for her, that is ...
The couple that shouldn't be was caught canoodling in a photo that's hard to look at not for what it shows but what it represents: a smart, sexy, successful woman who still can't get out of her own way.
More from The Stir: Grammys 2013: 5 Scantily-Dressed Celebs Who Didn't Adhere to the Dress Code (PHOTOS)
Sad. But it's not our problem. It's Rihanna's.
She has chosen to reconcile with her domestic abuser despite a nation of people holding their hands out to help her. Rihanna even decided to let Chris Brown share her spotlight on Grammy night, a night that carries so many bad memories for them. If that doesn't speak volumes about the cycle of domestic violence, I don't know what does.
So ... are we ready to give Rihanna a break, yet America? For four years, we have expected her to step up and be some perfect example of how to move past domestic violence. And every time she stumbles, we get angry with her.
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So Rihanna hasn't moved past domestic violence? So she is still caught up in the cycle? Need I remind you that she is the victim here. In fact, she is a perfect example of a domestic violence victim ... forgiving, accepting of apologies, willing to believe the best about her abuser, and unable to move on.
If we want to really talk about domestic violence in this country, we need to recognize that, recognize that women like Rihanna don't simply get better because we WANT them to. They need to find the strength and the support to escape the cycle, and that's neither easy nor quick. And it's even harder when you're a victim being attacked for, well, being a victim.
Do you get angry with Rihanna when you see her with Chris Brown? Why?
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Justin Bieber Organ Miracle: Star Inspires Huge Influx of Donors
Justin Bieber has had a huge impact on organ and blood donations by encouraging fans to participate in donations through his Twitter feed.
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Apple has released a pair of new iPad mini commercials, Books and Photos. Like the previous Piano commercial, they start off with both the full-sized iPad and the iPad mini side-by-side, both showcasing the same app. Then fingers take turns, alternately at first, then in coordination, choosing different books and photos, respectively.
Books is a little odd in that Apple stuck to plain, black and white novels instead of showing their full range of text books, picture books, comic books, and more. Apple is still ahead of Amazon and the Kindle when it comes to the power of their books format, and the quality of their visuals, so making that part of the pitch would have made sense. Sticking to novels may give the illusion of catalog and ereader parity with Amazon, but it keeps the fight on Amazon's terms.
Also, Books and Photos, wisely, keeps things at a distance so it's hard to see the difference in quality between the Retina iPad 4 and the non-Retina iPad mini. Because of the way the human brain works, Photos are more forgiving of lower resolution than text, but why take chances?
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Sigwolf wrote:I am no Bruins fan, but it is strangely satisfying to see the Leafs not just flame out, but flame out so spectacularly...
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REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — Police in Canada say a child under 12 is responsible for the death of a six-year-old boy on a Saskatchewan aboriginal reserve.
Authorities say Lee Bonneau died in a hospital from injuries that police have said were consistent with an assault.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Staff Sgt. Larry Brost said Tuesday the child cannot be charged because of his age. Police declined to release the age of the suspect. He says the two children did not know each other.
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Intracranial Monitoring (Phase III)
In addition to the previously described MRI, SPECT and PET scans, neuropsychological assessment and EEG monitoring, some patients will require a more invasive evaluation. Approximately 40-60% of the patients considered for surgical treatment will need intracranial monitoring with implanted electrodes to localize the epileptogenic area responsible for seizure onset.
Intracranial monitoring consists of depth electrodes (thin wires placed deep in the brain to detect seizure activity that cannot be detected by electrodes placed on the surface of the head) or subdural or epidural strips or grids (small plastic strips or sheets containing electrodes placed on the surface of the brain underneath the skull).
During intracranial monitoring a team of research neuropsychologists may also perform brain mapping through electrical stimulation of the implanted intracranial electrodes. They are able to pinpoint the functional areas of the brain which are then safeguarded during surgery.
You will have a pre-operative visit prior to the scheduled surgery date. At this time you will meet with an Anesthesiologist who will be with you during surgery. Instructions regarding surgery will also be provided at this appointment. You will have a visit with the neurosurgeon for any additional questions you may have prior to surgery, history and physical exam, and to provide permission to perform the surgery.
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- The morning of the procedure you will arrive from home.
- You will be taken to the operating room where you will have anesthesia, then the neurosurgeon will place the electrodes.
- Once the surgery is completed (approximately 6-8 hours) you will go to the Neurological Intensive Care Unit. Pediatric patients will be taken to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. You will spend the first night in the intensive care unit.
- The day after surgery, you will have an MRI, a CT scan, and a SPECT Cerebral Blood Flow study.
- After the above scans have been completed you will be taken to a specialized room that has audio-visual monitoring. Your electrodes will be connected to a specialized machine that will record your brain wave activity, and your behavior will be recorded with a camera in the room. This phase is similar to Phase I.
- You will have a large, bulky tight dressing on your head. Your face and eyes may be slightly swollen.
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Eupoecila australasiae
|Eupoecila australasiae
|Scientific classification
E. australasiae
|Binomial name
|Eupoecila australasiae
(Donovan, 1805)
Eupoecila australasiae, commonly known as the fiddler beetle or rose chafer, is a colourful green- or yellow-and-black member of the scarab beetle family from eastern Australia.
The fiddler beetle was originally described by Anglo Irish naturalist Edward Donovan as Cetonia australasiae in his 1805 work An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and other Islands in the Indian, Southern, and Pacific Oceans. It was reclassified in and became the type species of the new genus Eupoecila by German entomologist Hermann Burmeister in 1842.[1] Within the scarab family, it is a member of the subfamily Cetoniinae, commonly known as flower chafers. These beetles are strong flyers and can fly without moving the elytra; they spend much of the time searching for nectar and plant exudates.[2]
Its common name is derived from its patterned body, reminiscent of a violin.[3]
The fiddler beetle measures 15–20 millimetres (0.6–0.8 in) in length, its body patterned dark brown and lime green to yellow.[4]
It is found in eastern Australia, in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and southeastern South Australia, and lives in heathland and eucalypt woodland, as well as suburban parks and gardens.[4]
Eggs are laid in rotting logs, or in debris or soil. The larvae eat rotting wood until they mature and pupate there by making a cocoon-like chamber within the wood. Adult beetles burrow through the soil and emerge in early summer, and feed on nectar-laden flowers.[4][5] These include Angophora hispida and A. woodsiana, Backhousia citriodora, and Melaleuca linariifolia.
- ^ Burmeister, H.C.C. 1842. Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Melitophila. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 3 pp. xxii 827 [538].
- ^ Environment Australia
- ^ Museum Victoria (December 2007). "Fiddler Beetles". Museum Victoria website. Museum Victoria. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
- ^ a b c Hawkeswood, Trevor (1987). Beetles of Australia. North Ryde, New South Wales: Angus and Robertson. pp. 38–39. ISBN 0-207-15352-3.
- ^ Hangay G, German P (2000). Insects of Australia. Frenchs Forest, New South Wales: Reed new Holland. p. 85. ISBN 1-876334-41-X.
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I have been doing geocaching for about a year now, and plan on putting out my first cache. To make life easier for both of us, I thought I would ask you for any suggestions or tips on placing a cache. Our current plan is to put between 10 and 20 caches in the ______ area, mostly in the citys parks. We have received permission from their parks department already. Our goal is actually to have them in place before the end of July. We have collected a variety of containers, some magnetic, a few coffee cans, and others. We have 2 GPS units to verify the co-ordinates with. Would it be best to activate all of them at the same time, or to do one or two at a time as we get them placed? Any insight you can give us would be greatly appreciated. I have read the placing caches section on here.And here's my response to him:
Thank you for your help,
I recommend that you activate a couple at a time as you place them. That way you'll get feedback from geocachers when they post their finds (and possibly feedback from me when I review them) that will help guide you and possibly improve your caches and cache hiding as you go along. You'll also see which containers work best over the weeks and months. In general, coffee cans have a limited weatherproof life in the outdoors, so you may want to reconsider using those. Placing a few at a time will also help you determine how many caches you want to have active at any given time -- that is, how many you can comfortably maintain on a regular basis.
As far as other advice, you may want to spend a little time reading my blog (http://iowaadmin.blogspot.com) because I mention a number of geocaching topics there that may be helpful. Here are some highlights:
- Don't hide caches that are on or that simulate electrical equipment unless you can show express permission that you have permission from the owner of the electrical equipment. (I still think these are a bad idea, but they may be approved if the cache owner has permission.)
- Check to make sure your caches are at least 528ft from existing caches and from physical cache waypoints of multicaches. Try to avoid a string of caches placed close to the minimum separation distance along a trail. This is known as a "power trail" and Groundspeak frowns on them because they tie up stretches of a trail so that other geocachers can't place caches there.
- Use the "attributes" feature to add attributes on your cache page, especially one to indicate whether or not the cache is wheelchair accessible.
- Use the "add/edit waypoints" feature to enter coordinates for all waypoints and final locations of multicaches and puzzle caches.
- If the cache is on land managed by the Iowa DNR, you'll need to first get permission from the local land manager. Some local parks departments also require permission for caches in parks.
Thanks for asking. I hope this helps. I look forward to seeing what you come up with, and so will geocachers in your area.


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PLAISTOW, N.H. (AP) — Tips from acquaintances and others helped authorities track a fugitive New Hampshire couple to Florida, where they were arrested at the Universal Studios theme park on charges stemming from the beating and burning of the woman's 3-year-old son, an official said Thursday.
PLAISTOW, N.H. (AP) — Tips from acquaintances and others helped authorities track a fugitive New Hampshire couple to Florida, where they were arrested at the Universal Studios theme park on charges stemming from the beating and burning of the woman's 3-year-old son, an official said Thursday.
Federal marshals took 23-year-old Jessica Linscott and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Roland Dow, into custody Wednesday evening at the Orlando park. They had been on the run for two weeks, making stops in New York and New Jersey on their way south, U.S. Deputy Marshal Jeffrey White said.
"They didn't resist. They didn't have any weapons," he said. "I don't think they believed anyone would come looking for them in Florida."
They are due to appear in a Florida court Friday morning. If they waive extradition, New Hampshire law enforcement officials will escort them back to the state.
Police say Dow hit James Linscott hard enough in the head on Nov. 12 to cause traumatic brain injury and seizures and also burned his fingers and wrist. It was at least three days before the boy was taken to Exeter Hospital, where officials called police.
Police say Dow and Linscott told them by phone that the boy's injuries were self-inflicted and that they would go to the police station later. They never showed.
Dow is charged with first- and second-degree assault. He and Linscott face multiple charges of child endangerment for failing to protect and get medical attention for James, who remains hospitalized at Children's Hospital at Dartmouth in Lebanon.
A spokeswoman for the state Division of Children, Youth and Families, which has legal custody of the boy, would not comment on his condition Thursday, citing confidentiality laws. She also would not say whether the division had previous contact with the family. The boy's father died of a drug overdose, Dow's grandmother told The Associated Press.
Police say his condition is improving but that his recovery will be long and difficult.
"It's very upsetting to everyone involved," White said. "They were hiding out in a place you'd normally take your kids for enjoyment, to have a good time. Here they are down there, on the run, after harming their child."
White said he is not sure what mode of transportation they were using and that both their cars were accounted for in New Hampshire.
"I think they were smart enough to dump their cellphones," White said, stressing it was tips from acquaintances that led police to them.
"At one point in time they were still in contact with family members," he said.
White said tips led investigators first to Florida, then to the Orlando hotel where the couple was staying, and ultimately to Universal Studios, where they were arrested after watching a parade.
Law enforcement officials spent "countless hours" trying to find Linscott and Dow, who are from Plaistow, N.H., a town of about 8,000 residents in Rockingham County on the Massachusetts state line, marshals said.
The Orange County Jail in Florida, where they are being held in protective custody, said the couple had declined all interview requests.
Dow's grandmother, Helen Fram, who lives next to the couple in a two-family home in Plaistow, said Thursday that she's certain her grandson and Linscott did not hurt James. She said the boy sometimes banged his own head on the bathtub or threw himself off the toilet.
"I can hear anything if anything is going on," she said. "They would never, ever hurt a baby. Never."
She said they initially went to the hospital with James but got scared when they found out police wanted to talk to them.
"They figured they didn't do anything, so they took off," she said.
Fram described her grandson as a loner and said he sometimes did siding or roofing work, though he is unemployed right now. She said she did not hear from him while he was on the run.
Asked why they would have gone to a theme park, she said that was one thing she did not understand.
In the small downtown of Plaistow, Joe's Barber Shop owner Dan Diemand said every third or fourth customer for the past week has wanted to talk about the case, wondering if Dow and Linscott had been caught. A lot were angry.
"Especially parents, I think they take it very personally when a child is hurt," he said.


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The 2007-08 cotton leadership class has been chosen by the National Cotton Council's Cotton Leadership Committee. The class, the 25th since the program was initiated in 1983, will begin its first training session Sept. 10-14.
The Cotton Leadership Program, which is administered by the NCC's Member Services department, is intended to foster leadership skills in individuals who demonstrate the potential and desire to be U.S. cotton industry leaders.
The new class includes:
Producers — Tim Mullek, Robertsdale, Ala.; Nathan Reed, Marianna, Ark.; Kent Dunn, Moscow, Kan.; and Charlie Meyer, III, Hanford, Calif.;
Ginners — Dwayne Alford, Yuco Gin, Inc., Yuma, Ariz., and Gil Haskins, Worth Gin Co., Sylvester, Ga.;
Warehouser — Hernand Koubratoff, Anderson Clayton, Fresno, Calif.;
Merchant — Amy Ives, Cargill Cotton, Memphis, Tenn.;
Cottonseed — Kelly Jack, PYCO Industries, Inc., Lubbock, Texas; and
Marketing Cooperative — Carlos Garcia, Plains Cotton Coop Association, Lubbock.
During its Mid-South session on Sept. 11, the class will visit the Memphis headquarters of the NCC for an orientation to U.S. cotton's central organization and overview of its policy development process and presentation, business etiquette and media skills training.
The following day, the group will visit Staplcotn and PYCO, Inc., in Greenwood, Miss., before seeing cotton production/harvesting in the area.
On Sept. 13, the class will visit another cotton operation and a gin before touring the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service office in Bartlett, Tenn., and Cargill Cotton Co. in Memphis.
Class members will conclude their session with a visit to the Memphis offices of DuPont Crop Protection, which sponsors the program through a grant to The Cotton Foundation.
Over the next year, in addition to learning NCC's role, the class members will gain a thorough understanding of all the industry segments and the common goals they share. They will visit with industry leaders, tour production and processing operations, and observe cotton research activities.
They also will attend the NCC's annual meeting, visit with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., and participate in orientation sessions with Cotton Incorporated, the New York Board of Trade and DuPont Crop Protection.
Nearly 250 industry members now have participated in the Cotton Leadership Program.


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Travelers TuneBy Shoutaro Takahashi
The New, Old Sounds of Brazil
Arto Lindsay takes us on a backwoods beat tour of Brazil where both he and his music made the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Many musicians have put a great deal of effort into creating radical music, but few have done this while reaching a large fan base and commercial success. Enter Arto Lindsay. With his eccentric guitar licks and a mixture of punk, jazz and funk, Lindsay holds the attention of an adoring public and maintains a lofty existence.
"I lived in Brazil from age 3 until 17," begins Arto. "I'm not sure exactly when it happened but, after I returned to America, I started to become much more interested in Brazilian music."
Lindsay's devotion to his South American roots greatly influenced his recent solo effort. Those already taken with his style of music are well aware of this connection. One would imagine someone whose name is now synonymous with Brazilian beats would know every nook and cranny of the music scene, right?
"Not really. Brazil is such a huge country," says the artist. "I can't even get my head around everything. You'd be surprised to hear what's coming out of the out-lying cities. Rhythms and beats I've never even heard still lie dormant out there in places like…"
He begins to list an endless number of locales. I pull out a map and ask him to circle five main areas: Belem, San Luis, Recife, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The first four have stylings difficult to place in a specific genre and could contain musical offerings yet to be discovered; music not even known by the great Arto Lindsay. Discovering a new style of music would be exciting. But perhaps discoveries such as these would best be left to those more familiar with Brazilian music.
"Don't put it past yourself," Lindsay encourages. "You should pack up and go. The music-filled streets and delicious local cuisine are worth the ticket. In the end, however, it's always best for first-timers to find their way to Rio to be dazzled by the numerous talented bands. You can pick up CDs only available locally and maybe discover a musician or two prior to their big debut."
That settles it—I'm off to Rio. Once I become defter in the ways of Brazilian music, I'll make my way toward the outlying areas. A Brazilian adventure seems best taken one step at a time.
The music that tells the history of Arto Lindsay:
DNA on DNA (NO MORE)
His musical beginnings were with DNA, well known on the New York punk scene. Since he is playing with only 11 strings on his 12-string guitar, his sound runs well into avant-garde.
The Lounge Lizards
The Lounge Lizards(Plan 9/Caroline)
Moving next to jazz, Lindsay explores a unique genre called "fake jazz" with an array of contorted guitar pieces.
Ambitious Lovers
Greed (Virgin)
Sharing the stage with Peter Scherer, Arto showcases a pop sound highlighted with the Brazilian beats for which he is now known. This is a highlight of '80s funk.
Arto Lindsay
Salt(Righteous Babe)
Moving closer still to his Brazilian roots, Lindsay's most recent solo album (in 2004), was followed by a special release in Japan titled Salt 2, featuring Japanese artist Cornelius.


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The History Computerization Project aims to create a network for exchanging historical information. The site includes details about the computer database program for historical research, writing and cataloging; advice on organizing materials; and links to mostly-US research resources.
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The program is used by individual researchers as well as by institutions such as archival centers, libraries, museums, historical societies, historical landmark commissions, and preservationist groups. Single-user and multi-user versions, running on IBM PC compatible computers, bridge the gap between the researcher and repository, allowing them to exchange data easily.
History Database was designed for use by organizations and individuals at the lowest possible levels of computer experience. The program presents on the screen all of the information that a novice will need. Easy data entry, editing, and searching are accomplished by filling in a form or making choices from a menu. Searching with a menu or by example eliminates the need to learn search commands. Sound searching retrieves names with variant spellings. While adding, editing, or browsing data you can flag records to pick up later as easily as putting an adhesive tab on a file folder.
Ready-made data entry forms allow you to start immediately, with help messages to explain the intended usage for each field. You can easily choose which of the fields provided you want to use, and in what order. Or you can construct new fields and forms.
Default choices eliminate 50-90% of the typing for data entry. The program determines the most likely entry and offers to you as an initial choice, for you to accept or to change. Many fields are filled in automatically. Others re-use data entered previously.
Variable-length fields give you as much room as you need and avoid wasted disk space. The data entry form changes dynamically on the screen to expand a field. Any field can stretch over many screen pages. All fields are searchable with or without indexing.
For research and writing, never waste time re-typing data from note cards to manuscript again. Instead pull your research notes from the database into your word processor in first draft manuscript form, with footnotes and bibliography created automatically.
History Database provides fully relational database management. It relates and combines data from several files, rather than repeating the same information. It offers 25 varieties of global search and replace, to correct past mistakes or to change the content, structure, or format of old data. Individual values within a field, such as the names of people or organizations, can be searched and replaced as separate entities. A researcher can recycle information from one project to the next, using past research as a business uses its inventory. In a repository, those with more knowledge can quickly correct the work of those with less.


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Zynga, the fast-growing maker of Facebook games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, has been called by the New York Times "the hottest start-up to emerge from Silicon Valley since Twitter and, before that, Facebook." This week, its CEO, Mark Pincus, is profiled in the story, the second in two weeks, highlighting the company's recent success (though not without its fair share of controversy). Among other things, the article profiles Pincus as a fearless entrepreneur and visionary aiming to build an online entertainment empire as important to the internet "as Google is to search."
While Zynga will cite profits and player numbers as success criteria, it is another recent trend Zynga is pioneering that has caught my attention; advertising through social gaming. Zynga came under fire recently for allowing advertisements into its games. Some ads, for example, signed up players for subscriptions to costly text-messaging services. This caused a PR headache for the company with TechCrunch, the technology blog, calling the practice "ScamVille," after some users filed a class-action lawsuit.
But with 211 million players every month, according to AppData.com, Zynga is perhaps well on its way to making social gaming as important to the internet as anything else thanks to a new partnership with an American food manufacturer, (also covered in the New York Times recently). Cascadian Farm, an organic farm in the U.S. and subsidiary of General Mills, is using one of Zynga's more popular games, Farmville, to reach a growing customer segment through advertising. Instead of your bog standard click-through ads a la GoogleAd Words however, the Cascadian Farms content will be integrated into the gaming experience.
In Farmville, you participate, create, build and manage your own farm. You gain experience points by visiting your friends' farms and lending a virtual hand. From next week, players in the U.S. will be able to purchase (using farm bucks) and plant, an organic blueberry crop from Cascadian Farm. In doing so, FarmVille users will learn about organic farming and green living through standard game play, and at the same time, earn additional points to grow fruits and vegetables or raise animals on their virtual farms. Cascadian Farm executives said in a New York Times article that they hope that the company can expand its food niche and make itself better known by increasing awareness among FarmVille's audience – that's 221 million players a month. Users will also be able to access a $1 off coupon.
It will be curious to see just how successful Cascadian Farm is on Farmville. Will the strategy work to attract and educate potential customers through participation and content or will it back fire just like the imbedded ads? While integration in game play gives the user unique exposure to content in an experiential manner, will users see through the stunt and reject it as advertising or is this campaign just clever enough to work?


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OBSESSED with human centred & tech driven experiences - and educating the same. Daniel is an artist, educator and entrepreneur who uses technology at the core of his work. He is the founder & CEO of Hirsch & Mann - which creates magical memorable activations and brand experiences with crazy design and technology at their heart. He is also co-founder of Technology Will Save Us, a business dedicated to helping young people learn to be creative with technology. As an artist, dad, maker, entrepreneur and educator, his work breaks down the boundaries between consumers and technology, turning the former into makers and inventors and the latter into learning tools to solve real-world problems. Daniel's work has been exhibited at the V&A, Pompidou, Whitney, the Science Museum and MoMA to name a few.


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Pay with Square and Square Register have both received updates that give merchants the opportunity to better connect with and reward their customers. Pay with Square now allows customers to keep track of virtual punch cards at their favorite merchants. Square Register for iPad has been updated with the ability to give discounts as well as a few minor interface enhancements.
Pay with Square allows customers to make hands-free payments to participating merchants via their iPhone or Android phone. Once you've created a login and linked a bank or credit card you can start paying merchants that already accept Square payments. The new punch card feature allows customers to have in-app punch cards for participating merchants. These businesses can then reward loyal customers with discounts or other offers after so many visits.
Customers can also use location services to search for things such as coffee houses, chinese food, or any other place they choose. Square will them give them a list of merchants in their area that are accepting Square. This adds even more visibility for Square merchants over the previous version of Pay with Square.
Square Register for iPad has also been updated and now gives businesses the ability to natively create discounts within Square. Your employees can then choose the Discounts section and apply discounts after ringing up a sale. If you want to run a special that gives people who like your Facebook page $5 off of their next purchase you can now do so. You can choose between percentage or dollar off discounts on an individual basis.
Businesses can also create first visit specials to attract new customers into their location. Using this in conjunction with punch cards and loyalty rewards makes it much easier for small businesses to grow their client base and retain them with continued rewards.
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Monday, 5 September 2011
Stanley Hiller 1924-2006
Stanley Hiller was a true aviation pioneer in rotary wing flight, and was recognized as a "boy genius" when during his high school days in the late '30's he developed a miniature racing car manufacturing business. During WWII, his firm became a major producer of die castings for the aircraft industry. In 1942, at the age of 18, Hiller left Hiller Industries to devote his entire effort to helicopter development and founded United Helicopters, which subsequently became Hiller Aircraft.
Two-and-one-half years later, he completed the Model XH-44 Coaxial Helicopter. For this accomplishment, Stanley Hiller received the "Fawcett Award" for his "major contribution to the advancement of aviation." At 24, Hiller built a single rotor UH-5, the forerunner of the Hiller 360 which received its Civil Aeronautics Administration Type Certification in October, 1948.
In 1950, at the outset of the Korean Conflict, Hiller personally directed the sales efforts that resulted in his firm producing its first military helicopter, the H-23A. Used primarily for medical evacuation and popularized later in the TV series, "MASH", some 1,200 of his H-23 Models were delivered to the Army in a 12-year period.
Continuing his quest for design simplicity and reduced cost, Hiller then directed his company's R&D efforts into the field of tip propulsion, his YH-32 Hornet being powered by two 11-lb. ramjet engines mounted at the tips of its two-blade main rotor. In the process, the Hiller 8RJ2B ramjet engine received Type Certification in 1954, the first jet engine to be CAA-certified. In 1956, a quantity of YH-32s were delivered to the Army for evaluation.
In other Army-Navy related efforts, Hiller pursued the experimental XROE-1 one-man helicopter and the VZ-1E Flying Platform, both break-through projects. His X-18 VTOL aircraft sustained Tri-Service user interest in a large, four-engine tilt-wing VTOL transport aircraft.
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Your challenge: write a haiku or limerick featuring one of the subjects discussed here in the past seven days: shrews or something from Monday's nature quote. Feel free to mine the comments, too.
Post your haiku or limericks in the comments, below. Remember the pattern of a haiku is:
the second line has seven.
And 5 at the end.
Please, oh please post your haiku or limerick in the comments, below.