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Not long after takeoff, about 10 miles east of Tampa, FL, the battery on Joe Cirulli's A36 Bonanza single-engine six-seat airplane exploded. Cirulli, an experienced pilot, lost all contact with air traffic control as well as his lights and navigation. His only guide was a compass that he could only see by holding a flashlight in his mouth.
It was the middle of the night in 2005, and a hurricane approaching the east coast of Florida meant Cirulli couldn't go east, as several airplanes were headed from the east to land in Tampa away from the hurricane. Cirulli, flying solo, navigated his dark airplane over the Gulf of Mexico, then he zigzagged across the state, looking for a place to land, his fuel running low.
That night was not the first test of Cirulli's mettle. Before he became the owner and CEO of the now profitable Gainesville Health and Fitness Centers in Gainesville, FL, he had reached and overcome the depths of despair many times.
Next month, Cirulli will receive Club Industry's Lifetime Achievement Award at the Club Industry Conference and Trade Show in Las Vegas. How he became the 10th recipient of the award is a tale worthy of a movie script, one part "Rudy" and one part "Rocky." It is a tale of grit, determination and the will to succeed. Cirulli is, in the health club industry and in life, a survivor.
A Leader from the Start
Joe Cirulli was born and raised in Elmira, NY, a largely blue-collar town in south-central New York just north of the Pennsylvania border. He is the third of seven children born to Armand and Fran Cirulli. Armand served in the U.S. Navy and later worked for the post office. Fran was a nurse. Many days, Armand would return home from his postal job as Fran was leaving for work. It was a busy household in which young Joe saw hard work first-hand.
Cirulli (pronounced "seh-ROO-lee") started working out at age 7, watching Jack LaLanne on TV. By age 9, Cirulli already showed an interest in lifting weights, so at Christmas, he received a Mighty Mouse weight set. Still in grade school, Cirulli led the neighborhood kids in workouts in the cellar of his house. He later lifted weights with men at the local YMCA.
In high school, Cirulli expanded his leadership role. He led his football teammates in weight training, and before his senior year, No. 63 was named captain.
"He would always leave everything out on the field," says Cirulli's sister, Linda Cirulli-Burton.
In his Notre Dame High School yearbook, a photo of Cirulli on the sidelines of the football field is paired with this quote: "It's not winning that matters but the will to win." The quote was from Vince Lombardi, legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers and one of Cirulli's idols. Years later, another of Lombardi's quotes is displayed on Cirulli's club wall.
One of Cirulli's greatest achievements in high school came in a loss. As a wrestler, he faced an opponent 20 pounds heavier—and with a beard. The opponent almost pinned Cirulli, but at the last second, Cirulli lifted his shoulder to prevent the pin. After time expired, Cirulli's teammates gave him a big ovation for his efforts. It was one of the first moments in which he showed his survivor instincts.
While attending Corning Community College in Corning, NY, Cirulli ran and hitchhiked the 20 or so miles back home so he could lift weights with his friends in Elmira before returning to Corning.
His journey to Gainesville came almost by accident. After getting his associate's degree, Cirulli and a buddy planned to travel the country, starting with a trip to Gainesville, but the buddy backed out. So instead, Cirulli went to Gainesville anyway to visit his girlfriend, who was going to a community college there. Cirulli arrived in Gainesville on Oct. 27, 1973. That is when his real survival story began.
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Cirulli's first job in Gainesville, at the age of 19, was at the Steve Spurrier Health Spa, which was partly owned by the University of Florida Heisman Trophy winner and later head football coach. When Cirulli arrived in Gainesville, Spurrier was across the country serving his seventh season as a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers.
In exchange for a membership, Cirulli worked as an instructor at the club. A few months later, after the club gained new management, he asked if he could sell memberships, and he sold eight his first day. Eight memberships in a month was a good month, he was told later.
Over the next five years, Cirulli experienced a series of high hopes and dreams crushed, as a total of six clubs that Cirulli worked for either went out of business while he was there or went bankrupt shortly after he left. On two occasions, Cirulli lived and slept inside the club. When things were really bad, he slept in his car.
One day, the fiscally challenged Cirulli went to McDonald's for a 16-cent Diet Coke, only to discover he had 12 cents in his pocket. That was all he had to his name, too.
As he walked out of the McDonald's, he began to feel grateful for the lessons he learned from all the club owners whose poor handling of their clubs led to his penniless circumstance.
"I will never allow myself to be broke again," Cirulli told himself.
In the parking lot, Cirulli encountered a friend who, upon learning of his situation, offered him a place to stay. Inspired earlier in his career by Norman Vincent Peale's "The Power of Positive Thinking," Cirulli found another motivational book called "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. After reading that book, Cirulli wrote down a list of life goals. Cirulli was thinking positively again, but he would soon encounter more obstacles that would test his mettle.
A Club to Call His Own
After a brief stint at the International Health Spa in Gainesville, Cirulli began working as manager at the Gainesville Executive Health Spa and soon worked a deal to take over the failing 1,500-square-foot club from the owner.
"He was on a mission. You could tell even back then," says Karen Coley-Cannon, who started working for Cirulli at the Gainesville Executive Health Spa and has been working for him ever since.
Cirulli wanted to expand the club and thought he had found the perfect spot for it, but when he went to sign the lease, the bank had leased out the space from under him.
Cirulli was crushed. He went to a friend, an attorney named Bill DeCarlis, and shared his frustration.
"You've got no choice," DeCarlis told Cirulli. "You've got to go find another place."
And Cirulli did—a 2,500-square-foot space in Creekside Mall. After years of bouncing from club to club, Cirulli finally had a club of his own, the Gainesville Health and Fitness Center. Before construction was finished in 1978, Cirulli began selling memberships and opened the club for workouts even though it meant that members needing a restroom had to use the one at a nearby restaurant. Cirulli needed the membership money to pay for the rest of the construction.
Eventually, the club passed the final inspection, and it became successful enough that in 1984, Cirulli opened a second club, Gainesville Health and Fitness Center for Women. He also expanded the original club and was about to expand further when city regulations ended those plans. Cirulli was three parking spots short of what the city required for his planned expansion.
Cirulli was crushed again, especially after a club operator from Wisconsin who also owned a club in Clearwater, FL, visited Cirulli to tell him he was going to open a club in Gainesville that would put Cirulli out of business.
After visiting the potential competitor's Clearwater club, Cirulli determined he needed to act fast to keep his business in business. For years, Cirulli had had his eye on the 22,000-square-foot Winn-Dixie grocery store across the street from his club. He knew a move to that location was the key to his company's future and the key to warding off the would-be competitor from Wisconsin.
When Cirulli heard the Winn-Dixie store was closing, he approached Fred Cone, the building's co-owner. With the relentlessness of a college football recruiter, Cirulli talked to Cone every day for the next five months, trying to persuade him to give him that store.
By the time Cirulli's would-be rival and other companies expressed interest in purchasing the grocery store, Cone had already determined who the future tenant would be.
"If anybody's going in that spot," Cone told a prospect over the phone in front of Cirulli, "it's my Italian Stallion here."
Cirulli got the Winn-Dixie store and moved his club there in 1986.
More challenges faced Cirulli, but he met them head on. Around the time of the main club's move, the University of Florida announced the construction of its own student recreation center. The student population made up the bulk of Cirulli's memberships at that time.
Undaunted, he began an aggressive marketing campaign to the entire Gainesville community to replace the students he likely would lose. As part of the wooing of the Gainesville community, he also opened his first rehabilitation center, complete with Med-X equipment developed by Arthur Jones, the Nautilus founder whom Cirulli knew and worked with for years. Back when Jones owned Nautilus, Cirulli would help give equipment demonstrations around the country. The Arthur Jones One Set to Failure training method became a staple in Cirulli's clubs.
Today, the main Gainesville Health and Fitness Center, which moved from the Winn-Dixie site in 1996, is 66,000 square feet, with plans to take it to 78,000 square feet by early next year. In addition to that club and the women-only club, Cirulli opened a 25,000-square-foot Gainesville Health and Fitness club in 2007. The company also runs three ReQuest Physical Therapy centers, including one inside the main club.
Gainesville Health and Fitness Centers generated $14.7 million in 2011 revenue, putting the company at No. 54 on Club Industry's Top 100 clubs list this year. The company has 26,000 memberships and 456 employees. Some of those members who have been with the club since the beginning pay the same rate as when they started, in some cases, as little as $50 per year.
Cirulli's impact on the Gainesville community has resulted in several awards and recognition, including turning Gainesville into the healthiest community in America in 2003. Cirulli's status in Gainesville may be on par with Spurrier, who came back to Gainesville to coach Florida in 1990. Spurrier didn't know Cirulli well when Cirulli worked at the clubs that bore his name, but when Spurrier was the Gators' coach, he worked out at Cirulli's club, and when asked, he always attended company events.
"He's come a long way," says Spurrier, now the head football coach at the University of South Carolina. "I forget who said it, but the way you measure a man in life is not where he is but how far he came to get there. Joe came a long way from those early days."
Employees and Family Are the Same
Cirulli has created an environment at Gainesville Health and Fitness in which the staff treats him like family and vice versa. Some of the staff is in fact Cirulli's actual family.
In addition to Coley-Cannon, several Gainesville Health and Fitness employees have been with Cirulli for 15, 20, or 25 or more years. It is not hard to understand why. Cirulli has rewarded his management team with whitewater rafting trips and excursions to Costa Rica. One year, as a Christmas bonus, Cirulli took his staff to a mall in Orlando and gave each employee an envelope containing more than $1,000 that they were to spend that day.
"I wouldn't want to work for anyone else," says Shawn Stewart, operations manager, an 18-year veteran at the club. "He's helped me grow as a person as much as any person I've ever been around."
One day, Cirulli told Stewart to keep Thursday open for a special trip, just for the two of them. Cirulli flew Stewart that day to a golf tournament. In Augusta, GA. At The Masters. Stewart, a golf fanatic, was floored.
"It's that personal level of knowing that he's thinking about you all the time," Stewart says. "We all work hard, but we get to play hard."
Sometimes, Cirulli will solve a problem for which his staff sees no resolution. One day, a car that was part of a giveaway was parked in front of the club and needed to be moved but was not moveable conventionally. Depending on whom you ask, the car either was barricaded and/or no one could find the keys. Not a problem, Cirulli thought. He and a few staff members simply lifted the car and carried it out of the way.
"Failure never enters his mind," Stewart says. "It truly never enters his mind."
Debbie Lee's first exposure to Gainesville Health and Fitness came in 1984 as a part-time aerobics instructor. Right away, Lee said to herself, "One day, I'm going to work for this man."
Today, Lee is the company's director of marketing. She calls Cirulli a marketer's dream.
"Joe is willing to put up the money to allow us to be the best we can be at our positions," Lee says.
Jan Matkozich, general manager and sales manager, has been with Cirulli since 1980, with a couple of pauses in between.
"I don't come to work," Matkozich says. "This is just part of life. This has never been a job in that sense. Outside of my wife and my two kids, this is my family. Joe and his family took me in like I was one of theirs."
Matkozich says Cirulli leads by walking around, often stopping to help a member on a machine or picking up a candy wrapper or paper clip off the floor.
All employees follow the company's core values: hard work, integrity, a commitment to helping people and a willingness to create your own future. The staff—men and women—wear blue dress shirts, with the men required to wear a tie. That's partly due to Cirulli's Catholic school upbringing and partly to differentiate the staff from the club's trainers, who wear polo shirts.
Gainesville Health and Fitness receives about 2,000 employment applications each year. The extensive interview process concludes with a workout in the club.
All six of Cirulli's siblings, from Linda to Debbie to Dan to Ro to Mike to Crissy, now live in Gainesville, as do their parents. And all but one of the Cirullis have or have had roles at the company, from public relations to the smoothie bar to finances.
At 86, Armand still goes to work every morning to manage Joe's personal bills. He shares an office with Mike Kline, CFO at Gainesville Health and Fitness.
"He doesn't believe in retirement," Armand says of Joe. "I can understand what he means."
Joe Cirulli, who will turn 59 in December, bought Armand and Fran a house in Gainesville, one of the many goals he set as a young man. Joe himself was married for a brief time in his 20s to the girlfriend who brought him to Florida. They later divorced, and he has never remarried. Although he does not have kids of his own, he sees his many nieces and nephews at birthday party after birthday party.
"The industry is what he loves," Dan says. "I don't know how he could get tied down."
Safe Landing
After flying all over Florida with no lights, no instruments, nothing but a compass lit by the flashlight in his mouth, Cirulli finally was ready to land. Some runway lights happened to turn on at a small airport in Cross City, about 50 miles west of Gainesville.
Cirulli had to manually lower the landing gear. For every turn, he had to twist the handle four times. It required 15 turns, and he needed every ounce of his upper-body strength to maneuver the handle. He pushed himself the way he would push someone to lift a weight in his club.
"Thank God I work out," Cirulli thought.
After landing the plane safely in Cross City at 2:30 a.m., he called a friend to take him back to Gainesville. Later that morning, Cirulli, still shaken by the flight, went into his club without telling anyone what had happened, even denying anything was wrong when someone noticed that he was less talkative than usual. Then Cirulli found a book on his desk that included this famous quote: "Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself."
After reading that quote, Cirulli thought about all the times in his health club career when he had no one else to turn to, just as he had no one to turn to but himself that night in the dark skies above Florida. His flying adventure re-emphasized what he had learned in his journey to becoming a business leader: Focus on what you can accomplish, not on what you cannot accomplish.
"I did OK," Cirulli said to himself that day. "I did what I was supposed to do."
For more on Joe Cirulli and the respect he has earned inside and outside the fitness industry, read this online-only sidebar.
Joe Cirulli's Timeline
1953: Joe Cirulli was born on Dec. 13 in Elmira, NY.
1973: At age 19, Cirulli arrives in Gainesville, FL, and works at the Steve Spurrier Health Spa.
1978: The first Gainesville Health and Fitness Center opens in a 2,500-square-foot space in Creekside Mall.
1984: The 9,500-square-foot Gainesville Health and Fitness Center for Women opens. It eventually expands to 14,000 square feet.
1986: The main club moves to a 22,000-square-foot space formerly occupied by a Winn-Dixie grocery store. It eventually grows to 31,000 square feet.
1988: The first ReQuest Physical Therapy center opens.
1996: The main club moves to a 51,000-square-foot facility at its current site. It eventually expands to 66,000 square feet.
2001: A ReQuest satellite office opens in Alachua, FL.
2007: A new 25,000-square-foot coed club and a ReQuest center opens in Tioga Town Center in Gainesville.
2012-2013: The main club undergoes expansion that will take it to 78,000 square feet.
Joe Cirulli's Top 10 List
As a young man, Joe Cirulli set 10 goals to achieve in his life. He accomplished all of them before he turned 33.
1. Own a health club in Gainesville, FL, so no one can tell me where I'm going to live.
2. Make it respected in the community.
3. Earn $100,000 by the time I'm 25.
4. Own a Mercedes-Benz like the one driven by the Six Million Dollar Man.
5. Own a home in the mountains, one by the ocean and build a home for my parents.
6. Become a black belt in karate.
7. Become a pilot and own an airplane.
8. Travel all over the United States.
9. Travel all over the world.
10. Save $1 million.
Club Industry Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
Profiles of all Club Industry honorees are available online at: http://clubindustry.com/awardsrankings/lifetime-achievement-award.
2003 — Joe Weider, Weider Publishing
2004 — Joe Gold, Gold's Gym, World Gym
2005 — Judi Sheppard Missett, Jazzercise
2006 — Rick Caro, Management Vision
2007 — Alan Schwartz, Midtown Athletic Clubs
2008 — Dr. Kenneth Cooper, Cooper Aerobics Center
2009 — Jack LaLanne, TV Fitness Personality
2010 — Curt Beusman, Saw Mill Club
2011 — Red Lerille, Red Lerille's Health and Racquet Club
2012 — Joe Cirulli, Gainesville Health and Fitness Centers


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Over the years, Billy Mitchell has spent his time nurturing his restaurant business, overseeing the sale of a popular hot sauce, and reveling in the fact that he's the high score world champion on "Donkey Kong." Steve Weibe is a down-on-his-luck nice guy, saddled with a life of missed opportunities and failures. Sensing his gift for "Kong," Steve decides to chase the high score, eventually taping himself in his garage toppling Billy's triumph, which leads to an outbreak of controversy inside the world of arcade records and gaming website Twin Galaxies. With both Billy and Steve claiming rights to the world record, the stage is set for a face off between the two men, taking Steve around the country in pursuit of a match with Billy.
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Let's cut to the chase: Billy Mitchell is a character of astounding confidence. In "Kong," it reads as pure, uncut ego, but it's plain to see how Billy has created this aura of godlike power about himself. A lanky man with beard of wisdom, long, immaculately conditioned hair, and clad in black to best sustain his reputation as the man with a plan, Billy has no problems extolling the virtues of his life and his mastery of a game that has defined his existence since 1982. It doesn't take much effort on the part of Gordon to get Billy to open up about his achievements. It seems all Billy needs is a camera and he's off on a tangent about his arcade dominance or spouting off constant philosophical streams that tie directly into his game play wizardry. He's an easy Alpha Mario in a subculture where participants cling to questionable success with little care for self-respect.
In other words, it's high school all over again, and Billy is the star quarterback.
Steve, on the other end of the spectrum, is a loser in the nicest sense of the word. Blessed with a healthy family (including a very patient wife) and a burgeoning career as a teacher, Steve has met one too many roadblocks in his life, looking at the "Donkey Kong" journey as an opening to grasp the fame and respect he's always craved. Unlike Billy, Steve barely speaks above a squeak and is about as affable a man as one could ever meet.
Do a little homework on "Kong" and it'll be easy to spot inconsistencies in the story and character shadings. Instead of coldly relaying the facts, Gordon exploits the personality chasm between Billy and Steve and sets up "Kong" as an epic story of men protecting their useless gifts. Steve is headstrong and passive-aggressive, while Billy is deceptive, ruthless, and adores the warm embryonic fluid of his past achievements. Scored with a wide array of 80s empowerment anthems, "Kong" gets to the heart of the conflict quickly and never deviates off course.
"Kong" is best when tracking the competitive shenanigans between the two men. Steve travels the country hitting tournaments, hoping to challenge Billy directly in front of the gaming community, overseen with questionable authority by Twin Galaxies, an organization that seems to have fallen ass-backwards into the role of high score gatekeeper, even employed by the Guinness people to bring arcade games into the world record books. Steve is frustrated with Billy's non-compliance and even ostracized for his friendships with fellow gamers (including rabid anti-Twin Galaxies spokesman, Roy "Mr. Awesome" Shildt). He's a man with a mission, yet nobody wants to upset the Billy Mitchell apple cart and allow him his rightful place on the top of the "Donkey Kong" food chain.
Billy, however, keeps his cool. Staying put at his base of operations in Hollywood, Florida (where he keeps company with his busty trophy wife and enjoys rearranging grocery store shelves for best sauce product placement), he prefers to burrow into Steve's head and toy with his vulnerabilities. Backed by his team of gaming toadies, Billy is a mastermind of manipulation and condescension; a Blofeld to Steve's suburban dad Bond. You can watch robots transform into cars, pirates visit otherworldly delights, or sprint with Bourne around the globe, but all of that pales in comparison to Billy Mitchell and his endless reservoir of superiority.
So where does this all lead? Well, that's a secret, and should be discovered in a theater with other viewers similarly thunderstruck by this pageant of unease. Suffice it to say, "Kong" doesn't end up where you think it will, yet still manages to offer the satisfaction of a big ending without actually achieving one. "King of Kong" is an iffy documentary, but a sublime comedy as delightful as they come. You won't find a more engrossing and infuriating set of personalities all year.


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Orange County's public pension system poured money into hedge funds, private equity and other so-called alternative investments during the past six years, but the returns have proven mediocre despite costing millions in fees.
This year alone, the fund is expecting to pay $54.5 million to alternative-investment managers, according to a budget briefing document obtained by the Orange County Register.
But in financial reports through the first half of the year, the pension system disclosed none of those fees. Officials said they are following standard government reporting practices.
Indeed, the Orange County Employees Retirement System is not alone.
As pension funds nationwide struggle to make up large unfunded liabilities, public officials have shifted billions of dollars to risky investments like hedge funds instead of traditional stocks and bonds. Fund leaders say it's a way to diversify their portfolios, and they argue for patience with new investments.
But experts say the results, in most cases, have been lackluster earnings for public pension funds and a boon for Wall Street money managers.
"This is a huge feeding frenzy," said Edward Siedle, whose Florida forensic firm Benchmark Financial Services investigates pension funds. "Never have the fees been as expensive and egregious and opaque … and you can't justify the performance."
Orange County's two main alternative classes – hedge funds, and a mix of commodities, energy and other investments – earned 3.4 percent and 7.8 percent, respectively in 2012, while the S&P 500 earned 13.4 percent. The OCERS real estate fund did better than other alternatives, earning 12.6 percent.
The overall performance of OCERS' $10.7 billion fund has lagged behind other public pension systems during the three years ending December 2012. Among 88 of the largest pension systems in the country, OCERS ranked 86, according to a Register analysis of data provided by Pensions & Investments, an industry trade publication.
OCERS reported total returns of 8.1 percent, while other funds, such as the Sacramento, San Bernardino and San Diego county pension systems, notched 9.9 percent and above. Fairfax County, Virginia topped the rankings with earnings of 17 percent.
Siedle, a former Securities and Exchange Commission attorney, estimates that OCERS missed out on more than $125 million of profit during 2012.
Some of those foregone earnings went to the investment managers' pockets, as hedge funds and private equity firms often take a cut from the returns.
"It's like running a race with a 10-pound bag tied to your leg," Siedle said. "You can't win if your fees are handicapping you."
Reducing fees is now a focus for new OCERS Chief Investment Officer Girard Miller. On Wednesday, he expects to unveil a plan to pool alternative investments with other California pension systems and then bargain for lower fees.
"We take it very seriously," Miller said about alternative-investment fees.
Alternative-investment firms command enormous fees compared with those of traditional managers. Typical of the OCERS hedge funds, Bridgewater Associates charges 1.5 percent of the assets it manages, plus 20 percent of profits if it surpasses a certain benchmark.
That is more than 180 times the rate charged by the OCERS basic U.S. stock market fund, a Blackrock index, which charges 0.008 percent of the assets alone.
Just a portion of the total fund investment fees are reported on the OCERS comprehensive annual financial reports. In 2012, for instance, the fees were about $51 million, according to the budget documents, but the CAFR said $32 million.
This happens, in part, because some managers invest in smaller funds, and those smaller funds take a second layer of fees that is hidden in the lower return rate, OCERS officials say.
Pension systems follow Governmental Accounting Standards Board practices, which require all fees to be broken out, unless they are "not readily separable." A GASB representative said it is up to an agency's accountant to decide whether such fees should be disclosed, although the fundamental guidance is to show the fees separately.
But opacity is common in the public pension industry, says Siedle, who uncovered tens of millions in obscured fees at the Rhode Island pension fund.
"They have strategically decided to not disclose these fees," Siedle said.
OCERS Chief Executive Officer Steve Delaney said officials knew that the fees were high but, until Miller was hired in 2012, had not taken the time to quantify the full costs.
Miller, formerly a top executive at Janus Capital Group and Fidelity Investments, said the fees are sometimes justified: "I'm happy to pay for performance when I get it."
But he acknowledges "there's a fair criticism" that hedge funds haven't performed very well recently.
The notion that high-cost and high-effort investment strategies often flop is not a new one. In a friendly wager, Warren Buffett bet hedge fund manager Protégé Partners $1 million in 2008 that a stock market index, like the S&P 500, would get better returns over 10 years than the hedge fund.
By the beginning of 2013, the stock index had earned 8.7 percent, while Protégé's hedge funds had earned 0.1 percent.
But members of the OCERS board have shifted more and more of their fund into alternatives. As of September, OCERS had $3.2 billion of its $10.7 billion portfolio in alternatives, which have ballooned from 6 percent of the total fund in 2006 to 30 percent today.
That does not include real estate investments, which most industry observers also consider to be alternatives.
Including real estate, OCERS has 39 percent of its portfolio in alternatives. The national average among state pension funds, by comparison, is 24 percent, according to investment adviser Cliffwater.
"I don't know how it morphed to that size," said county Supervisor John Moorlach, who served on the OCERS board until 2006. "What was the logic?"
Moorlach, who identified problems with the Orange County Investment Pool before its collapse triggered the county's 1994 bankruptcy, said he grows nervous, in general, if such an asset class is more than one-seventh of a portfolio.
Contacted individually to discuss the fund's performance, eight of the 10 OCERS board members either did not respond or declined a request for an interview. Some cited a board policy that directs media inquiries to a spokesperson. The policy also says board members are supposed to "respect the decisions and policies of the board … even if they may have opposed them."
Member Frank Eley, who represents general county employees on the board, was one of the few who would comment. Eley said he expects the alternatives to perform better over time.
"I'm not concerned, because I think you have to build a system that lasts for all times," Eley said. "The only thing that saved us in 2008 was having the most diversified portfolio."
Miller said the recent OCERS earnings doldrums can be attributed to the diverse asset mix. OCERS isn't as tied to the stock market as some other funds, so it didn't fully reap the market gains when public companies rebounded. Also, some of the alternative funds may not hit their full stride for another three to four years, Miller said.
Over the five-year period, when its alternative investments performed better, OCERS finished sixth out of the 88 largest systems.
Either way, a traditional portfolio of 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds is antiquated, Miller said. With the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates low, an average long-term bond target return of 5 percent "can't work mathematically," he said. Instead, Miller advocates for diversifying risk with alternative investments.
Siedle doesn't buy the argument.
"How do high-risk investments reduce the risk?" he said. "If I give $100 million to a seasoned poker player in Vegas, am I reducing my risk?"
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Ian Moyse from CloudTech summises that selecting a 'safe-bet' Cloud vendor is truly important. I agree, but I feel the need to point out that all Cloud providers are going to tell you they are the right choice. And there's many of them. Since Cloud become the latest buzzword, 'me-too' companies have put their hand up for this ambiguous status. Way back in 2001, before anyone had even referred to technology and the white, fluffy object in the sky in the same sentence, Global Speech Networks was offering Cloud-based contact centre solutions. If that's not an indication of a 'safe-bet', I don't know what is.
The cloud delivery model gives vendors a great amount of power. It is easier to create, deploy, maintain and enhance a service than it has been at any other point in computing history. Just look at Facebook, which grew to 500 million members in a very short period of time. People readily share within it, many with a limited understanding of the potential risks to their private information.
The ability to make an enhancement and almost instantly put it into the customer's hands is immensely powerful – and immensely dangerous. If you're a software vendor and distribute software with a bug, the effect propagates slowly as people install the update. And often, you'll hear about the problem and get a chance to fix it before many customers even become aware.
With cloud technology, however, such mistakes instantly propagate to all users. Because of this ability to quickly affect a wide range of customers, the responsibility for a cloud vendor is greater than we have seen before.
As the industry rushes to capitalize on the cloud delivery model, users are faced with more and more choices, making it harder to distinguish between a robust, reputable vendor and a small, possibly risky, player. Selecting a safe bet vendor is critical.
Many are software vendors that are just dipping their toes into cloud technology. But the cloud is a very different world, and there is a different approach and mindset to deliver upon.
It is up to customers and resellers to perform due diligence on cloud vendors so they can deliver success stories to their customers and business associates. As in any market, there are pros and cons and good and bad providers. Customers and resellers need to take the time to make educated decisions to discern the good from the bad, the safe from the risky. And cloud vendors need to invest in the expertise and solutions required to deliver the high quality of service customers expect.
The benefits of cloud technology far outweigh the potential risks, both in terms of power and quality of service. Smaller businesses and individual consumers can now access robust applications that were previously affordable only by larger firms.
The risks can be mitigated by performing educated decisions and being diligent in your choices. There are plenty of options, and it is up to you to select a vendor who can responsibly manage the power of the cloud.


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- The mirror is a reward at the end of the tunnel that encourages crawling babies to look down and discover their reflection.
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Business Plan Competition/Environmental Innovation Challenge (BPC/EIC) Resource Nights, offered throughout winter quarter by the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, bring in experts from the local entrepreneurial community to teach various aspects of new venture creation, encompassing topics such as idea generation, the business plan, financials for start-ups, legal issues, bootstrapping your start-up, and how to pitch to investors. Attending BPC/EIC Resource Nights is a great way to prepare for the Business Plan Competition, the Environmental Innovation Challenge, and beyond.
Resource Nights are open to all students and the public. Class lectures are recorded and can be watched live. A link to the MediaSite recording is posted to the class schedule website each Thursday; each session will be available to watch throughout winter and spring quarter.


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For him, continuing to support the Boy Scouts of America and his local troop is one way chemistry professor Dan Berger can help others. "I feel like it's a way of giving back to the community." >>>full story
Science alumni
Bluffton science department alumni have been featured recently in the Bluffton Magazine.
Dylan Burdette
The Fredericktown, Ohio, native is the youngest of five in a family that was posted at several Native American and Canadian aboriginal reserves after joining the Mennonite Central Committee when he was 3 years old. When he was 13, the family returned to Fredericktown, where he was a home-school graduate. >>Dylan's Story
Dr. Todd Crail '95
Lecturer, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo
"I was a great example of what not to do," says Crail about his college experience. But, in what he calls "a unique situation," Bluffton was "a community that accepted me even though I was a real challenge," he says. >>>>Todd's story
Suzanne Parete-Koon '97 (physics/chemistry) completed her doctorate in astrophysics in August 2008 at the University of Tennessee, and was chosen as an American Institute of Physics State Department Science Fellow. >>>Suzanne's story
Mafo Yakuba '09 Graduate student, Yale University
"The academic work at Bluffton is intense and my courses prepared me very well for what I am doing at Yale." >>>Mafo's story
Micah Boehr '08
Graduate student, Ohio University
"Bluffton gave me opportunities to build upon all of my strengths through the ability to explore many different interests at once." >>>Micah's story
Dr. William Hammitt (Material Science '65)
While still a student at Bluffton, conversations with Ollie Diller and Robert Kreider guided Bill toward a forestry career. Before retiring, he taught from a text book he co-authored - Wildland Recreation: Ecology and Management.
Dr. Steve Haman '95:
Steve surgically repairs major bone injuries that people suffer in traffic collisions and other accidents. Once the parts are brought together, nature takes over and heals the injury. "I put things where they belong and the rest takes care of itself."
David Lehman '68:
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Stage 6 swim lessons for school age children at the YMCA focus on stroke mechanics, refining the stroke technique for all four of the major competitive swimming styles. At this advanced stage, elements of competitive swim are also introduced, such as flip turns and efficiency techniques. Deep water safety skill enhancement and endurance techniques are also reinforced. Students are encouraged to participate on the swim team after graduating from this course for further skill development. See Swim Lessons for an overview of our Stages progression.
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If you convert your hardware from PNOZmulti / PNOZmulti Mini to PNOZmulti 2, a user-friendly migration tool is available for you to migrate data from the original project.
The assistant will migrate
- hardware configuration
- logic of the project
- test pulse configuration
- equipment IDs
- link modules
- PDP67 modules
- fieldbus module
- virtual I/Os
and then generate a migration report. It will save the result in a new project file and keep your source file untouched.
Even within the PNOZmulti 2 it is possible to migrate from the base unit PNOZ m B0 to B1. There are certain restrictions to observe during migration; you can read about these in the documentation. After installation, a video about the migration assistant is available in the PNOZmulti Configurator under "What's new?".
Copy and paste between 2 PNOZmulti systems
You can now copy elements and inputs/outputs from one PNOZmulti system to another
Language packages
Version 10.2.0 is already available in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Chinese.


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Friday, March 4, 2011
Free Sample Friday: Tibetan Singing Bowl
Today's free sample is a single sample of a Tibetan singing bowl. The singing bowl is essentially an inverted bell that is used by Buddhists to accompany meditation or chanting. It can be played either by rolling the padded mallet along the inside rim, or by striking it. The sample I'm providing is of a single strike. It's an extremely long sample that reveals just how this instrument got the name "singing bowl". The note of the strike is an E. 24-bit, 44.1k WAV sample. [6.07 MB]
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Singing Bowl and Celtic Cross in the same picture, interesting combo...
- March 4, 2011 at 5:03 AM
- Keith Handy said...
Pretty awesome.
- July 2, 2011 at 6:36 AM
Thanks Very Much, gracias por permitirme descarga esta grabacion. Lo necesitaba para crear una composicion musical. Chile
- September 12, 2012 at 12:51 PM
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Heather from Feather & Flourish will be hosting this three hour introduction into modern calligraphy.
Heather will cover all the basics of modern calligraphy, including how to use the starter kit which is included in the price of the course. Heather will be on hand throughout the class to answer questions and provide advice.
As well as providing a relaxed and fun environment, Heather will talk you through:
Your modern calligraphy toolkit - from the essentials included in your kit to some of the additional items you may wish to purchase once you have grasped the basics.
Mark-making and your alphabet - the joy of modern calligraphy is that there are very few rules - you'll be developing your own style, so embrace it!
Joining letters to write words and phrases - including any special words handpicked by the students attending each class.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent Valentine's Day apart working - with Kate visiting a charity project and William helping flood victims.
While Kate, who looked stylish in a blue LK Bennett dress, toured a school in north-west London to meet children benefiting from art therapy provided by one of her organisations, William donned waders and waterproofs and made an unannounced trip to Datchet with his brother Prince Harry to help move sandbags being used to defend properties in the flood-hit Berkshire village.
The royal brothers formed a human chain with troops from the Household Cavalry - Harry's regiment - to move sandbags off a lorry.
At Northolt High School Kate opened a newly refurbished room that has been transformed into a tranquil art studio and rest space with funds donated by global brokers Icap.
It is the seventh art space opened by the Art Room charity whose staff hold drawing and painting therapy lessons that help build confidence and self-esteem within youngsters having difficulties at school.
During her visit the Duchess joined a group of nine children who sat at large table in the art room creating still life paintings of pieces of fruit.
Kate, who is the Art Room's royal patron, spent more than half an hour chatting to the six girls and three boys and could be heard asking the youngster if they enjoyed their time in the lesson.
Jo Lloyd Jones, chairman of the Art Room's board of trustees, spoke about the work his organisation does: "We take children at risk of exclusion, who are not coping for a wide range of reasons, and, using art techniques, are able to establish them back into main stream schools, giving them confidence and the ability to cope."
He added that since the charity was established 12 years ago, it had helped more than 10,000 children from primary and high schools.
Speaking about the effect the Duchess has had on their work since she became their figurehead in 2012, he added: "It raised our profile undoubtedly, and she helps attract organisations and people interested in our work.
"The important thing is she's genuinely interested in what we've done, there's a commitment on her part and we feel very privileged."
City firm ICAP donated £105,000 to set up the high school's art room and cover its running costs for the first year.
The funds were raised in 2012 during the company's annual charity day when celebrities play brokers making deals over the phone - something that William and Harry have done in recent years.
Up to 60 children each week will use the Art Room and in time neighbouring schools will also benefit from its services.
Jon Snow, patron of the Art Room, said: "The Duchess thinks there should be an Art Room in every school in Britain. If you can prevent a child from being excluded, you're probably preventing a child ending up in a young offenders institution.
"Kids who come in crisis emerge confident and with their self-esteem boosted, and there is no stigma attached to spending time in the Art Room."
Juli Beattie, founder director of the Art Room who took the Duchess on her tour of the school, said: "Every human being needs time to be listened to, to have a cup of tea and to be nurtured.
"When children come to us, they suddenly realise that they are as able as any other child and as talented. And to have the Duchess, who studied history of art and knows the power of art, here making a difference to the children, is so important to us."
Gloria Lowe, headteacher of the school, said: "There is no doubt the children using the Art Room are better placed academically and less likely to behave in a way that would stop them from achieving."
Later this year the Art Room will open its eighth and ninth studios in Edinburgh and London.


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One of the many things I enjoy about unschooling is that my kids get to work on a skill when they are ready, not at an arbitrary time when someone says they should.
Up until last summer, my son (who was six at the time) had shown no interest in drawing. This was in stark contrast to my daughter who has loved to draw since she was very young. I wasn't really concerned about it, but one day when I was at the store I decided to pick up a few pads of drawing paper, crayons and markers to bring home and strew*, if you will.
After arriving home with the supplies, I announced to the kids what I had bought and set the supplies out on the table. I honestly thought my daughter would dive right in, while my son Julian would shrug and go off to play Legos or Minecraft.
However, Julian came right up to the table, opened up the fresh new pad of paper and markers and immediately started drawing. And drawing. And drawing. He literally sat at the table for a good hour or two, filling each page with a new creation. And getting progressively better at his drawing.
He ended up filling the entire drawing pad with pictures that day, even turning much of it into a story which, when asked about it, he narrated aloud. He later said to me, "When I started this book, I wasn't very good at drawing, but I got better and better." And it's true. He improved a lot that day. The beauty of it was that it was all at his own pace and in his own time. He was never asked to draw against his will before he was ready, therefore was never turned off to drawing.
I loved that he could see his improvement and that he took pride in his work.
Unschooling isn't always easy — it involves so much trust — but it's moments like this that reaffirm my decision to do it. I believe my kids will learn what they need to learn in their own time. It's my job to trust them and help them along the way.
"All I am saying … can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted." — John Holt
*Strew: to place objects in the path of kids without any expectation, coercion, or force of use.
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Placeholders are special model fields that django CMS uses to render user-editable content (plugins) in templates. That is, it's the place where a user can add text, video or any other plugin to a webpage, using either the normal Django admin interface or the so called frontend editing.
Placeholders can be viewed as containers for
CMSPlugin instances, and
can be used outside the CMS in custom applications using the
By defining one (or several)
PlaceholderField on a custom model you can take
advantage of the full power of
CMSPlugin, including frontend editing.
You need to define a
PlaceholderField on the model you would like to
from django.db import models
from cms.models.fields import PlaceholderField
class MyModel(models.Model):
# your fields
my_placeholder = PlaceholderField('placeholder_name')
# your methods
PlaceholderField takes a string as first
argument which will be used to configure which plugins can be used in this
placeholder. The configuration is the same as for placeholders in the CMS.
If you install this model in the admin application, you have to use
PlaceholderAdmin instead of
ModelAdmin so the interface renders
from django.contrib import admin
from cms.admin.placeholderadmin import PlaceholderAdmin
from myapp import MyModel
admin.site.register(MyModel, PlaceholderAdmin)
Now to render the placeholder in a template you use the
render_placeholder tag from the
placeholder_tags template tag library:
{% load placeholder_tags %}
{% render_placeholder mymodel_instance.my_placeholder "640" %}
render_placeholder tag takes a
PlaceholderField instance as first argument and
optionally accepts a width parameter as second argument for context sensitive
There are two ways to add or edit content to a placeholder, the front-end admin view and the back-end view.
Probably the most simple way to add content to a placeholder, simply visit the
page displaying your model (where you put the
render_placeholder tag),
then append
?edit to the page's URL. This will make a top banner appear,
and after switching the "Edit mode" button to "on", the banner will prompt you
for your username and password (the user should be allowed to edit the page,
You are now using the so-called front-end edit mode:
Once in Front-end editing mode, your placeholders should display a menu, allowing you to add plugins to them: the following screen shot shows a default selection of plugins in an empty placeholder.
Plugins are rendered at once, so you can have an idea what it will look like in fine, but to view the final look of a plugin simply leave edit mode by clicking the "Edit mode" button in the banner again.
There are some hard restrictions if you want to add custom fieldsets to an
admin page with at least one
PlaceholderField must be in it's own
fieldset, one
PlaceholderField per fieldset.
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New York, May 11, 2012--Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo must immediately release two journalists who have been detained without charge since Wednesday over their story criticizing a government official, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Plainclothes police arrested Sébastien Mulamba, an editor with the private monthly Kisangani News, and Mbuyi Mukadi, the paper's managing editor, in a restaurant in Kisangani, the capital of Oriental Province, according to press freedom group Journaliste en Danger. Mulamba told CPJ that officers questioned them for an hour over their sources for an April 15 article alleging Alphonse Awenze, a member of the Congolese National Assembly under President Joseph Kabila's ruling party, was involved in a sex scandal.
Awenze did not publicly dispute the allegations but filed a complaint accusing the newspaper of "offending his personality," Mulamba told CPJ. The journalist said he and Mukadi had gone to the restaurant to meet an aide of Awenze, who said he wanted to buy advertising in the paper.
"We condemn the unjustified detention of Sébastien Mulamba and Mbuyi Mukadi, an act of intimidation that should be halted immediately," said CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita. "Authorities should not be doing the personal bidding of an assemblyman who doesn't like unflattering news coverage."
Kisangani News has been persecuted for its critical reporting in the past. Earlier this year, the newspaper was suspended for two months for publishing stories critical of former provincial governor Médard Asenga, Journaliste en Danger reported.
- For more data and analysis on the Democratic Republic of Congo, visit CPJ's Attacks on the Press.


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So as it's been rumored this week, Pebble's Next Step is to be shut down and acquired by FitBit.
However—due to various factors—Pebble is no longer able to operate as an independent entity. We have made the tough decision to shut down the company and no longer manufacture Pebble devices.
I heard that they turned down a $700m acquisition a while back, and now they are being sold off for parts. This is especially traumatizing for the people who just got their new Pebble 2 and Pebble Time 2's (or are still waiting). Part of the challenge with Kickstarter of course, but also not super surprising.
Obviously wish them all the best but it still sucks. Pebble can be argued as the first "real" smartwatch and maybe that was their role in life, not to be the first and stay around forever.
Vox article on trolling the IRS scammers, you know, the ones that call you up and tell you that you owe the IRS money and pay it now or they'll send the police after you.
That's how I ended up talking to "Steve Smith" for 30 minutes. He was a senior investigations officer — the actual person who walks you through how to send them money. I learned that his secret is maintaining an aura of authority. That's how he optimizes fear. That's how he gets people to suspend logic, drive to Walgreens, and buy iTunes gift cards to pay the IRS. The scam takes advantage of the most vulnerable people.
Great read.
KDE Project releases KDE 1… yes, you read that right, and no, this is 2016, not 1996…
The KDE Restoration Project was a personal pet project that born around last QtCon and i took as a letter of love for the project that basically formed my professional life.
So this mad-man (or genius, it's hard to say) has revamped the original KDE 1.0 code for the modern era. A very cool project, and fascinating to see old tech anew. Of course, sometimes our memories of how awesome something was is more powerful than the reality of how awesome it actually was. It's left for you to decide if that's the case here or not though :)
Diego the 100-year-old tortoise rebuilds the population of species almost single-handed. Really what more do you want to know?
'He's a very sexually active male reproducer. He's contributed enormously to repopulating the island,' said Washington Tapia, a tortoise preservation specialist at Galapagos National Park.
Someone has done a lovely deep dive and put up a story with Every Episode of Star Wars, Ranked. Hard to disagree here.
We get answers to questions about what Darth Vader was like as a teenager. What drove him to the dark side? How did he cope with the loss of his mother? How does he feel about the texture of sand?
Via Loopinsight: Orcas hunting seal, seal jumps in boat
We were out with the family looking for whales and a pod of 12 transient killer whales were chasing the seal. It ripped towards the boat in a desperate escape and scrambled on the deck. It fell off three times in panic and finally stayed on until the whales gave up after about 30-45 minutes. Most intense epic experience ever.
I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory And You Won't Believe What Happened Next is a great post on Medium about a deep dive into Node and dependencies.
I started my investigation by installing the "babel-preset-es2015" package. This package allows twenty-something web developers to write a newer, worse version of JavaScript that no one else on their team knows.
The above quote is just about one of the modules detailed, but needless to say it turns out it's a big, ugly, hairy, mess.
Via torrentfreak: Feds Seize KickassTorrents Domains, Arrest Owner
The U.S. Government has arrested the alleged owner of KickassTorrents, the world's largest torrent site. The 30-year-old Ukrainian was arrested in Poland today and is charged with criminal copyright infringement and money laundering. In addition, a federal court in Chicago has ordered the seizure of several KAT domain names.
Looks like our favourite (and most dependent) torrent site may be in a bit of trouble…
The latest interesting Kickstarter out there is The Purpose Hotel, which is a project from great photograher Jeremy Cowart, a crowdfunded hotel with the aim to benefit everyone.
Cool idea, I hope he can pull it off. Here's a bit more info:
Every once and a while you wonder to yourself "is this a fake headline from the Onion" followed by "this can't be actually a real thing right?". That's exactly what I thought when I saw the headline of "Virginia introduces law to stop 12-year-old girls from getting married".
Last week, the authorities in the state introduced new legislation that updated rules that had until then made it legal for girls aged 12 or 13 to get married if they had parental consent and were pregnant.
All I can say is that I'm glad that the US, as a world leader and example to other countries, is so progressive.
Big congrats to the Plex team for their Server v1.0 release! Plex is basically the only thing I ever run on my Apple TV and an indispensable part of my digital (entertainment) life!
The first small piece of the Plex Media Server was committed inauspiciously enough on September 20th, 2008, right after 11:30pm. I was probably tired, and possibly drunk. It was just eight months after the very first pre-alpha release of our OSXBMC media center app, which goes to show you how committed we were to making a server.
Great post by John Romero, one of the creators of Doom and Quake, posting on Quake's 20th birthday: Happy 20th Birthday, Quake
So many great memories of one of the truly groundbreaking games, responsible for ushering in basically every FPS since.
I have to say the best one from this article where Ottawa Police Share the Most Ridiculous Excuses Heard for Distracted Driving is:
"My dad could buy you," to the Abbotsford, B.C., police officer who responded: "Get him to buy two of me, I could use the help."
Oh so Abbotsford…
Amazing find by JWZ - Claycat's DOOM. I'm with Jamie, I'd totally play this!
This one has been making the rounds today… an Epic Star Wars Aerial Battle Shot Using Drones and Creative Camera Work that really is worth a watch. Make sure you watch the 20 minute behind the scenes / making of video as well, lots of explanations about how it was done (not all how you think).
Huge kudos to the team behind this, well done!
This Star Wars - Episode V "The Empire Strikes Back" Homage looks absolutely wonderful!
Very cool project showing How Music Evolved: Billboard's Hot 100, 1958 - 2016. As @siracusa says, just pick the decade you were in high school and enjoy!
Discover One of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth
We wouldn't be surprised if you've never heard of The Drakensberg before. It almost sounds like a region in Game of Thrones, but it's not: it's a mountain escarpment in South Africa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the subject of the timelapse above, and probably the newest addition to your bucket list.
Well, I'm sure as hell planning a trip here now!
SSomething trippy for you this morning… Fight Club minus Tyler Durden. Some enterprising and super cool dude has gone and removed Tyler Durden from a scene in Fight Club.
Fight Club minus Tyler Durden from Richard Trammell on Vimeo.
Cool stuff, check out some of his other work as well.
Medium has a nice The "I'm moving to Canada if they win" Guide to Moving to Canada, along with some things to consider (ie: the super crappy dollar right now). Also I'm a bit of the "well, you clean up your own mess" mind, but hey, it's still a great article :)
The Setup Wizard is the blog of the IT guy hired to set up wifi at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter universe. Pretty hilarious stuff. Make sure you check out the extract of a few choice bits, or just hit the link and read the whole thing.
After a couple of years of silence, the excellent htop (an interactive process viewer for Unix) has released version 2.0!
Most notably the big change is the addition of the graph type, in addition to bar graph. Here's an example running on the current UFies.org server:
Note that to get the new graph types you go into setup (S) and then hit 'space' on the graph that you're configuring.
So a new DOOM - Campaign Trailer was released today. I am so excited about this game…. Having played from the original old school doom it's amazing to see how far the franchise has come!
The Developer Of Microsoft Solitaire Speaks Out About Not Being Paid A Cent.
It's not all doom and gloom though:
For what it's worth, I wrote a version of Pipe Dream for Windows on my own time that was included in one of Microsoft Entertainment packs. I was paid a few thousand bucks in stock for that.
That's the danger though, honestly even if they were a full time employee being paid a good developer salary, do they deserve more somehow just because Solitaire is the most used app ever?
Fascinating story though.
I have to say that the 10 Cloverfield Lane Trailer was filmkaker 101 on how to make a trailer that reveals nothing yet makes it so I can't wait to see this movie.
On the Rogue Amoeba Blog this morning they announced Loopback, new magical audio routing software for the mac.
So how does Loopback do all this, and more? The secret to Loopback's power lies in its ability to create "virtual audio devices". These are system-level audio devices which can be used in real-time by other audio applications on your Mac. These virtual devices appear throughout your system exactly the way a physical device like a microphone would.
And with this, along with their previous product, Audio Hijack, Rogue Amoeba cement themselves into the Mac audio world and become an indispensable tool for podcasters!
The Debian Project sadly announces that it has lost the founder of its community and project, Ian Murdock. Debian is only a part of Ian's legacy but perhaps the one that he is most known for. Ian was introduced to computers early in his life, and his curiosity turned to familiarity which led him to start actively programming at nine years of age. Later as a young adult at the Krannert School of Management a mandatory programming class rekindled his fascination with computer programming along with an idea and an opportunity to make something better. …
Star Wars: The Force Accounted is a round up of time and stats for all the Star Wars movies.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Official Trailer 2. Not much more to say than this… it looks great!
Cards Against Humanity's Black Friday Deal Is Literally Nothing, and they've made over $38,000 with it. Check out the current status and maybe give them $5 for nothing at all.
I love CaH so much for this… I don't know or care if it's a statement about Black Friday, consumerism, or just a way to get more money from it's fans. I don't think it matters either.
Hollywood's hacker war began on February 19, 2004 with a simple phone call. It happened at a T-Mobile store near Los Angeles. The caller told the salesperson he was from the T-Mobile headquarters in Washington. "We heard you've been having problems with your customer account tools?" The caller said.
Great little read, and I love the fact that most hacks basically consist of calling someone, telling them you are someone important, and they tell you their password. No exploits, no wild, four handed typing, just some kid saying he's looking into something and give me your username and password.
Death Star's architect finally answer the complaints about the exhaust port. Absolutely hilarious. Worth of an @ThatKevinSmith movie.
Excellent article - 5 things the media does to manufacture outrage. A more concise dissection of how stupid things are blown out of proportion by the media to get more clicks I haven't seen.
Not sure how me linking to the article talking about how the media talks about the media talking about things online counts, but whatever, I'm here to amuse.
The streaming music playing field just got a bit smaller… seems that Rdio is shutting down and Pandora is buying up the scraps. Wonder how this will turn out.
Great article on Modems, wArEz, and ANSI art: Remembering BBS life at 2400bps by Lee Hutchinson over at Ars Technica. I grew up with this stuff, it was my first exposure to connected computers in a day when a 386 was hot stuff. Good memories in there.
Nothing could put you to sleep and get you more centered and focussed for the day than this beautiful Dalek Relaxation Tape.
The Sunrise team blogged today that work on their apps was going to stop. There really wasn't ever any doubt when they were acquired by Microsoft.
Now here comes the sad news. As the entire team is completely focused on the Outlook for iOS and Android apps, we won't be updating the Sunrise apps anymore. We won't lie, it's tough for us to leave behind the apps we've been working on so passionately for the past years.
Sadly, any blog post that starts with "we're excited to announce" and says "we're not going anywhere", you know the next blog post (in this case a couple down the road, but under a year later) would be how they're sunsetting the app and working full time on the acquiring company's work.
From what I've heard, Outlook for iOS is a great app and the Sunrise team did amazing work on it. Still, sad.
Astronomers Unveil a 46-Gigapixel Photo of the Milky Way That Took 5 Years to Make
Last year, NASA released a 20-gigapixel photo of the Milky Way that was made up of over 2 million infrared photos. Back in January, NASA published a 1.5-gigapixel photo of the Andromeda Galaxy. If you thought those were big photos, get this: German astronomers have created the largest astronomical photo ever made: a ridiculously big 46-gigapixel photo of the Milky Way that took 5 years to make.
Uhmm….. wow.
Aurous - Free Music, Whenever, Wherever. I'm just going to leave this here.
LastPass Joins the LogMeIn Family
It's a big day here at LastPass. We're thrilled to announce that we're joining LogMeIn. As one of the world's leading SaaS companies, we can't imagine a better team to align with our values and product-driven mission. With their experience in growing successful brands like join.me, we're excited to join LogMeIn in delivering the next generation of identity and access management for individuals, teams and companies, with LastPass at the forefront.
I'll reserve judgement, but you know that blog post announcements about acquisitions starting with "we're thrilled to announce" are generally bad news for everyone but the founders of the company.
LastPass is the free password manager I recommend to everyone who asks about one, lets hope that they continue as they have been doing.
This morning Marco released Overcast 2, a huge internal revamp of Overcase, his podcast player for the iPhone. Streaming, new options, recommendations, and best of all it's all completely free, moving from the 'free with in app purchase' model it was before. Marco's moving to a patronage model where you can become a supporter for $1/month, but it's completely optional. He feels that he'd rather everyone using the best version of his app, which is a good way to think of it.
Well done sir, you've made my favorite podcast player that much better.
Who hasn't wanted to drive the Batman's Tumbler? Well now you can… check out this video:
The newest version of Ubuntu, 15.10 has been set upon the world. As usual the ReleaseNotes has most of the information that you're looking for.
Pebble Round appeared on the Pebble Smartwatch site today. Basically it's what you'd expect from Pebble, it's a smartwatch, using the same colour e-paper display, battery life measured in days, iPhone and Android compatibility, etc.
Looks like they got around the 'flat tire' look of the Android round smartwatches by making the bezel wider (probably hiding a square(ish) display behind it that only uses the circle). Also they specifically say "battery life measured in days" and not the "7-10 day battery life" from before (though I don't remember 100% if that's how they said it before). Maybe the smaller profile means less battery by a bit? Who knows.
It's a bit of a surprise to those of us who backed the Pebble Time on Kickstarter, when not everyone has all their rewards yet, but we do get an interesting discount deal (details in the blog).
AVG anti virus just updated their privacy policy. it says that they can and will sell your browsing history to 3rd parties.
As the first comment says, time to look for a new anti-virus if you're on windows and care about your privacy.
America, you're turning into a parody of yourself.
Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school.
[…] So the 14-year-old missed the student council meeting and took a trip in handcuffs to juvenile detention. His clock now sits in an evidence room. Police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb — though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it's a clock.
The number of things in this article, and I do urge you to actually read it, that should jump out and grab you are astounding.
- He's still suspended
- "School Police"? Is this the new normal now?
- Arrested for a 'hoax bomb'.
- Handcuffed - "his hands cuffed behind him and an officer on each arm" - is that really needed for a 13 year old?
But he's a brown kid so it's all ok right?
Seriously this is messed up. The kid wants to invent stuff, does invent stuff, and because he's not white (and let's not fool ourselves that that has nothing to do with it) he's getting screwed over because of a bunch of stupid scared people. But it's ok I guess, "He's vowed never to take an invention to school again" and if the scared people of Texas are lucky he'll stop inventing things completely, hide any smarts he has and work a nice safe factory job away from any sort of intelligent thinking at all. Cause we wouldn't want him to be smart and think or anything like that would we?
Ardbeg's space whisky tastes "noticeably different" from Earth-matured whisky:
The biggest difference was in the tasting, though. In the triangle tests conducted, almost all participants picked out a difference between the space whisky and the mundane Earth-matured control.
As a relatively new Scotch and Whiskey drinker, I'd appreciate Ardbeg sending me a sample to test, please and thankyou.
I'm just going to say "no" right now.
The Martian was an excellent book and looks to be just as good a movie. Can't wait for this one!


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Here's a cheap flight from Chicago (ORD) to Delhi (DEL) flying with Turkish Airlines March 10th – March 28th for just $708.49 RT.
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Fare Class for this trip: P
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marriott.com – Marriott has the best BRG in the industry and has over 4,087 properties in 80 countries.
hyatt.com – Hyatt has some of the best properties worldwide – my favorite hotel chain if I could always afford it!
ihg.com – usually awesome promotions and earn rates – I love IHG.
hilton.com – Hilton has a wonderful global footprint and it is hard to find a place in the world without one of their hotels.
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Herbalists in Europe
Plants considered to have useful healing properties are central to all medical traditions. Herbalists focus on the use of products from plants for their cures. Originally this may have meant using local plants, but the range of available plants soon expanded as trade and commerce grew. The Roman author Dioscorides produced the first general 'herbal' - a guide to herbs with illustrations and descriptions of the plants themselves. Galen made a distinction between 'simple' remedies using one herb and more expensive 'compound' medicines which had many different ingredients. In the Middle Ages many herbal remedies were provided by monks and nuns. Most monasteries had 'physic' gardens where the most common and useful medical herbs were grown.
European herbalism was influenced first by ingredients from Islamic medicine, especially through texts such as Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine. After the European encounter with the Americas, herbalism was transformed, with new products such as chocolate and tobacco considered medically useful.
With the invention of the printing press in the mid-1400s, 'herbals' became more widely produced. These could be used by people with no special training. Household 'herbals' mixed classical recipes with local plant-lore and used cheap local ingredients. In the 1600s Nicholas Culpeper wrote his famous herbal in English rather than Latin, so that anyone could read it.
Herbalists were only granted professional status in Europe in the 1930s. However, modern biomedicine was focused on pharmaceutical drugs, rather than herbs. Herbalism now exists as an alternative medicine, although pharmaceutical companies still explore the medicinal properties of plants. This bioprospecting can be controversial when companies profit from a plant-based product without compensating the people from whose medical tradition it comes.
Related Themes and Topics
Related links
Techniques and Technologies:
C Engel, Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Well and What We Can Learn From Them (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002)
N R Farnworth, 'The role of ethnopharmacology in drug development', Ciba Found Symp, 154 (1990), pp 2-11
B Griggs, Green Pharmacy. A History of Herbal Medicine (London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1981)
B Inglis, Natural Medicine (Glasgow: William Collins Sons & Co, 1979)
R Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind (London: Harper Collins, 1997)


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Introduction to Mentoring: for Mentors and Mentees New
Mentoring can be a really useful tool in helping people to develop their professional lives and careers, in both roles of mentor and mentee.
This interactive workshop is designed to give an overview and introduction to mentoring, informing participants about what mentoring is, giving them the opportunity to explore the key benefits for mentors and mentees, learn some key skills needed to both mentor and be mentored effectively and become familiar with some simple models, tools and techniques to support the mentoring partnership and maximise its value and impact.
- University staff
- Further details regarding PPD's eligibility criteria are available here
- Research, post doctoral, academic and library staff may find courses detailed in the Relevant Courses section helpful
- UIS have an established mentoring scheme for UIS staff and the IT community details of which can be found here
Number of sessions: 1
|Wed 6 May 09:30 - 13:00
|09:30 - 13:00
|Greenwich House, Edmonton Room
|Miranda Carr
One half day session
- Postdoc Mentoring Training (Engineering) [Provided by Department of Engineering]
- Cambridge University Library Staff : Mentoring Workshop [Provided by Cambridge University Library Staff Learning & Development]
Booking / availability