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InterSystems has announced CACHE 2010, a new release of its CACHE object database. CACHE 2010 targets Java-based high-performance processing combined with persistent storage for event processing systems.
Among other features, CACHE 2010 introduces Database Mirroring which provides automatic failover between any two CACHE-based systems, without the need for specialized (and expensive) storage and networking hardware and software. Key benefits include:
- Flexibility for Planned Downtimes. Configuration changes or operating system upgrades affecting one CACHE-based application, for example, can be executed with minimal impact on overall application availability or performance against Service Level Agreements.
- Minimized Risk. In contrast to traditional replication solutions with the inherent complexity of their configuration requirements, CACHE Database Mirroring utilizes a simple, easy-to-implement model. This approach removes complexity from the configuration equation. And, by using logical data replication, mirroring reduces risks such as out-of-order updates and carry-forward corruption that are possible in the physical replication technologies used by other systems.
- Business Continuity Support. Mirrored databases can be housed in separate data centers, so continuity of key business operations is ensured in the event of a disaster.
CACHÉ 2010 is available for Windows, Linux, Mac, UNIX and OpenVMS platforms.
The update also includes support for Java with the release of CACHE eXTreme for Java which provides direct Java access to the CACHE multidimensional database engine. InterSystems claims that CACHE eXTreme for Java delivers performance equal to an in-memory database while also delivering the persistence of both historical and transactional data that is required for CEP and event-driven SOA.
CACHE eXTreme makes it possible for Java developers to access data efficiently as multidimensional data structures to obtain the highest possible application performance. With sparse storage techniques, sophisticated cache management, and high concurrency rates, CACHE-based applications can be scaled to many thousands of clients without sacrificing high performance, says InterSystems. Another alternative is eXTreme event persistence where developers store Java objects in the CACHE database. This approach automatically creates a Java binding and data can be accessed through Java using objects or SQL for maximum development flexibility.


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Fires in Brown and Keya Paha Counties in northern Nebraska
North central Nebraska is fighting three big fires in Brown and Keya Paha counties, along or near the Niobrara River. As I understand it, all of these fires were started by lightning from thunderstorms. Vegetation is very dry due to drought, and high winds have been spreading the fires. Today, the temperatures climbed as high as 108° in the area.
The above map from the Nebraska Emergency Management Area shows the locations of the three fires. The largest of these, on the west, is the Fairfield Canyon Fire that has burned about 50,000 acres. The two smaller fires on the east are the Wentworth Fire and the Hall Fire. These fires are 50 to 60 miles north/northwest of where I grew up in northern Nebraska.
The news section of the Radio KBRB website reports that various agencies and organizations are providing support and assistance. The Central Plains Chapter of the American Red Cross, the Southern Baptist Emergency Relief Team, the National Guard, the Rocky Mountain Incident Management team, the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency, firefighting crews from over 50 Nebraska and South Dakota communities, and other civic and religious organizations are all working in the area. One of the roles of the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency is to coordinate these efforts to the best advantage.
The National Guard has sent water tankers and also some helicopters that can carry big buckets of water. The helicopter crews can dump the water onto the fire, or they can lower the buckets to the ground where the water can be used by firefighters. These aerial photos from the Omaha World show how the helicopters lower the buckets into the river to fill them with water.
I am not sure this link will work for everyone, but I am going to include it anyway. This is Lorie Olson's Facebook album of about 250 fire photos from the Fairfield Canyon fire. If you click on one of the little photos, it will enlarge, and then you can click on that photo to go to the next one.
My heart is touched by the Facebook messages of my Nebraska friends who live in the area. They describe how they are playing a part in a huge community effort to fight these fires. They are baking cookies and cinnamon rolls, donating bottled water and ice, lending their cots and air mattresses, and working in emergency shelters and kitchens.
This evening, I received an email from Carolyn Hall whose family owns the Hall Ranch where one of the fires is raging (the fire on the east edge of the map.). Here is her assessment of the situation: "They have backfired along the west, north and east sides of the canyon so if the wind stays in the south today it may burn itself out. The big question is what happens tomorrow when the wind goes to the northwest??????? More troubling is the Wentworth fire which is out of the canyon and heading northeast. That will really be a problem when the wind goes to the NW."
These fires are devastating people's lives in so many ways. It's not just grass that's burning -- it's people's livelihoods and futures. Please pray for rain for northern Nebraska and all of the drought-parched Midwest -- rain without lightning.
UPDATE: The fires were finally declared contained on July 28. Destroyed by fire: 75,000 acres, 14 homes, 42 other structures, hundreds of miles of fences, and an unestimated number of livestock and wildlife.


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I found an older article in the New York Times entitled "The Surprising Power of Promotional Products" in which the author found the promotional letter opener his grandfather had used at his medical practice for many, many years and then carefully stored among his possessions after retiring. The writer was stunned at how the letter opener had stayed with his grandfather for so many years and how it was still a perfectly functional product. There is one line in particular that struck me from the article, "Promotional products are, some say, the oldest form of advertising".
Advertising is made up of trends and passing fads: billboard ads may be big one year or a flop the next, radio advertising is not lauded as it once was, and, eventually, we all throw away print magazine and papers no matter how artfully crafted the ads were. The right promotional product, given at the correct time, can be spared that fate. It can become the daily tool we go to without second thought, the one that stays snugly at the bottom of our trade show tote long after it's brethren have been bartered or gifted away.
So what promotional products do you choose if you want your investment to have a long shelf life? Look for quality and step away from gimmicks. While there will always be a time for gimmicy promotions, it's best to choose something that will outlast. Items like the Americana Leather Wrapped Journal possibly packaged with a promotional compu-tote like the Kenneth Cole Women's Etched In Time Compu-Tote, are ones that will develop history with time. For either personal or business use, people tend to keep journal around for years whether to reflect on old times or see how business meeting went months ago. A name brand leather tote will be kept and proudly displayed for years, so while costly it is a worthy investment for years of brand exposure and loyalty.
These three products are but a glance at what options you have for a promotional product that lasts. Consider investing in a beautiful executive pen or a set of carefully imprinted glassware. If you need more ideas check out our website or give us a call at 877.300.2007, our team can help you find the perfect promotional product. Also, let us know what promotional products have lasted for you. Have you found any promotional items or apparel at a grandparent or parent's house?
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This activity is part of a 16-course series designed to equip licensed practitioners from medical, nursing, and related disciplines with a multidisciplinary approach to managing patients with atopic dermatitis (AD), also known as eczema.
10. Systemic Therapies for Eczema: The New Horizon Is Here
Biologics have swept the field of medicine over the last decade and now a first in class biologic is approved for eczema. These powerful agents can be life-changing for patients with eczema but are not for everyone. This class will review the current classes of systemic therapies for eczema and explore how new therapies can be integrated safely into the treatment regimen.
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Eve of Destruction: Classic is a free modification of the popular Battlefield 1942 game by DICE/EA, based on the Vietnam war. No other military conflict is comparable to those dramatic years of the 20th century. Most rumors spread about the Indochina and Vietnam War are not honest, even though it was the best documented war in history. No other military conflict was ever so controversial, pointing to an unloved fact: our enemy was not the only source of evil, the evil could be found within ourselves. The "Eve Of Destruction" mod is a tribute to the U.S., ARVN and Vietcong/NVA soldiers who fought and died in Vietnam, and also to the Vietnamese people.
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U.S. Women's Update - March 2
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 2, 2010) – The current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on March 2 includes briefs on U.S. players competing overseas, player information, Volley-Tweets, trivia questions and much more.
For the complete PDF version including a complete list of players training at the team's facility at American Sports Centers in Anaheim, a thumbnail gallery of the U.S. Women's National Team Open Tryouts with full gallery links, the U.S. international transfer list, 2009 season stats and other fan interaction sections, click here.
TRIVIA QUESTIONS: 1. What members of the 2003 U.S. Women's National A2 Program are current members of the U.S. Women's National Team? 2. Who comprised the coaching staff of the 2003 U.S. Women's National A2 Program? 3. Who led the U.S. Women's National Team in scoring in nine of the 11 matches at the 2006 FIVB World Championship? Answers can be found on page four in the full PDF version click here the current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update.
UPDATE TO SECOND TRAINING SESSION ROSTER: A total of 16 players are currently training with the U.S. Women's National Team during its second winter training block that ends April 9. Neticia Enesi (The Dalles, Ore.), a middle blocker who completed her collegiate career last fall at the University of Oregon, started training at the USA National Team Center on Feb. 22. The team training sessions, held at the American Sports Centers in Anaheim, Calif., are open to the public. Training times are generally Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., while Fridays often vary on times. Middle blockers include Tracy Stalls (Denver, Colo.), Christa Harmotto (Aliquippa, Pa.), Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Mekana Barnes (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and Brittnee Cooper (Houston). Outside hitters/opposite include Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.), Angie Pressey (Lake Mary, Fla.), Brittany Moore (Orange, Calif.) and Jill Collymore (Bellevue, Wash.). The setters training include Bryn Kehoe (North Bend, Ohio) and Nicole Vargas (Seal Beach, Calif.). The libero position has Jessica Fine (Tarzana, Calif.) and Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii) training with the U.S. Women's National Team. Further, Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), and Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.) have joined the training session. Some players could leave for pro opportunities or other circumstances.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS: Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) has completed her international transfer paperwork to compete in Azerbaijan's professional league with Baku during the second half of the season. She joins Elisha Thomas (Grass Valley, Calif.) as U.S. National Team players competing in Azerbaijan who have completed transfer paperwork. For a full listing of the 146 international transfers for American female players to other countries to play professional volleyball, visit the full PDF version of the U.S. Women's National Team Weekly Update.
GLASS PROVIDING INSPIRATIONAL PRESENTATION: Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.), a member of the U.S. Women's National Team which played in China last month, will take a break from her studies at Penn State University to give an inspiration speech in her hometown of Leland, Mich. On March 11 at 7 p.m., she will present "Setting in Pursuit of a Dream" at the Leland Public High School Gym. Glass will share her dream journey as a youth in Leland, Mich., to a position on the U.S. Women's National Team. She will touch on leadership skills and commitment in attaining future goals without forgetting the past influences. The presentation is open to all individuals and tickets cost $10 at the door or in advance at the Leland Public School office. Student admission is $5 at the door or $4 in advance.
METCALF PROVIDING OFFENSE IN BRAZIL: Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa), a member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic Games roster, is in Brazil playing for Usiminas/Minas of the Brazilian Superliga. Metcalf scored a match-high 21 points on Feb. 25 as Usiminas won a tight three-set match 29-27, 26-24, 30-28 over second-place Sollys. She earned all her points on kills via 52 attacks. Two days later, Metcalf collected 22 points, but it was not enough as league-leader Pinheiros rallied to win 20-25, 25-19, 20-25, 25-22, 15-10 on Feb. 27. She scored 17 points with a match-high 59 swings to go with five of her team's 22 blocks in the match. Metcalf is currently the leading scorer in the Brazilian Superliga with 294 points scored (251 kills, 36 blocks, 7 aces), while ranking third in the Best Spiker category with a 23.91 hitting efficiency (251 kills, 92 errors, 665 attempts). Now 12-6 overall (5-1 in second round) and in fourth place in the Brazilian Superliga, Usiminas plays Blausiegel on March 4 and Sao Bernardo on March 6 in its next league matches.
BERG PUSHING ITALIAN TEAM TO TOP: Lindsey Berg (Honolulu), a setter on the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team which won the silver medal in Beijing, is playing for MC-Carnaghi Villa Cortese of the Italian Serie A professional league this winter. She set Villa Cortese to a 25-20, 23-25, 25-23, 25-20 victory over 11th-place RebecchiLupa Piacenza on Feb. 28. As a team, Villa Cortese converted 42 percent of its attacks into kills, despite Berg setting with only a 29 percent excellent service reception by her team. Villa Cortese, now 14-4 on the year and in second place with 41 points, challenges league-leader Scavolini Pesaro on March 7 in its next Serie A match. To follow Berg throughout the season, check out her blog at lindseyberg.blogspot.com.
BOWN COMPETING FOR JESI: Heather Bown (Yorba Linda,Calif.), a three-time Olympian with the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing for Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi in the Italian Serie A professional league. Bown tallied nine kills on 12 attacks to go with three aces and two blocks for 14 points as Jesi defeated ninth-place Riso Scotti Pavia 25-10, 25-21, 25-20 on Feb. 28. She converted 75 percent of her attacks into kills with just one error for a .667 hitting efficiency. Jesi, now 12-6 on the season with 36 points and in fourth place, plays third-place Fappapedretti Bergamo on March 7 in a key match.
TOM, ASYSTEL VOLLEY NOVARA: Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah), a three-time Olympian and member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Games silver medal roster, is competing for Asystel Volley Novara in the Italian Serie A professional league this winter. Novara dropped a 25-17, 23-25, 25-21, 25-22 match to league-leader Scavolini Pesaro on Feb. 28. Tom scored a match-high 24 points for Novara with 17 kills on 44 swings, four blocks and three blocks. She added a 76 positive service reception percent on 17 attempts. Novara, now 8-10 on the season and in eighth place with 22 points, faces sixth-place Yamamay Busto Arsizio on March 7 in its next Serie A match. On March 2, Novara started off the CEV Indesit Champions League Playoff 6 round with a 25-22, 25-23, 25-27, 25-16 victory over Turkey's VakifGunesTelekom. Tom scored a team-high 21 points with 19 kills on 34 swings with just two errors to go with two aces. The two teams meet again on March 10 with the winner of the home-and-series advancing to the Final Four April 3-4.
RICHARDS, SYKORA HELPING OMICHKA TO RUSSIAN FOREFRONT: Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah), an outside hitter and 2008 U.S. Olympic Team alternate, and three-time U.S. Olympian Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) are playing in the Russia Super League with Omichka in Omsk. Richards hammered 15 kills and added a block and ace on Feb. 26, but it was not enough as league leader Dinamo-Moscow came away with a 25-14, 25-17, 25-21 victory. She also had 22 of the team's service reception attempts and had a percents of 68 positive and 50 excellent. Dinamo Moscow elected to serve away from libero Sykora, as she handled just 11 of the team's 69 service receptions on the night. Omichka falls to 13-5 on the season, but still resides in second place in the league standings. Richards and Sykora will face U.S. Women's National Team teammate Jordan Larson and Dinamo-Kazan on March 9.
LARSON PUSHING DINAMO KAZAN TO NEW HEIGHTS: Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) is playing in her first professional season of her career in the Russia Superliga with Dinamo Kazan. In its match last week, Dinamo Kazan lost 25-23, 13-25, 25-17, 25-17 to 10th-place Leningradka on Feb. 28. Larson tallied a team-high 20 points with 14 kills on 28 swings, four blocks and two aces. Dinamo Kazan, now 8-10 on the season and in seventh-place, plays second-place Omichka with U.S. National Team members Kristin Richards and Stacy Sykora on March 9 in its next match.
FAWCETT SCORING IN RUSSIA: Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio), a U.S. Women's National Team player, continues to pay dividends for Dinamo-Yantar after joining the team in mid-season. She helped her squad rally from a first-set loss to defeat University-Technolog 19-25, 25-12, 27-25, 25-17 on March 1. Fawcett scored 19 points with nine kills on 26 swings, but added eight aces and two blocks in the victory. The victory improved Dinamo-Yantar to 8-10 and is in a tie for seventh-place with Dinamo-Kazan with both teams having 26 points. Dinamo-Yantar faces fifth-place Dinamo-Krasnodar on March 9 in its next league match.
BARBOZA WITH TORAY IN JAPAN: Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.), an outside hitter with the U.S. Women's National Team and alternate on both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games rosters, is playing in her first professional volleyball season in Japan V-League with Toray. She tallied seven points – all on kills from 15 errorless swings, in a 25-18, 25-19, 25-21 victory over Pioneer on Feb. 27. Barboza converted 46.7 percent of her attacks into kills, including all three from the back row. On Feb. 28, she contributed eight points with six kills on 17 errorless attacks and two blocks in a 25-21, 16-25, 25-22, 25-15 victory over Toyota Autobody. In the process, Toray qualified for the V-League playoffs with at least a top-four finish. Toray, which improved to 15-7 on the season and in third place, travels to Saitama on March 6 and March 7 for matches against seventh-place Pioneer and second-place Hisamitsu, respectively. To read Barboza's most recent blog, click here.
NNAMANI, GLASS PACING PROSTEJOV IN CZECH REPUBLIC: Ogonna Nnamani (Bloomington, Ill.) and Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.) continue to lead their Czech Republic professional team Prostejov. The squad concluded its regular season with a 20-0 record, while also winning the Czech Cup and Czech-Slovakian Cup. In a Feb. 27 Extraliga match with Olymp Praha, Prostejov handily won 25-13, 25-20, 25-15. Prostejov plays kolo Olomouc on March 4 in its next Extraliga match.
JOINES TAMAS, BUSSE WITH TOA BAJA: Jen Joines Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.) and Cassie Busse (Prior Lake, Minn.), both members of the U.S. Women's National Team, are playing for 2009 Puerto Rico League champion Toa Baja in 2010. Busse notched a team-high 17 points with 12 kills, three blocks and two aces in leading the Llaneras to a 25-23, 19-25, 26-24, 25-20 victory over Caguas on Feb. 24. Joines Tamas added 13 points in the victory. Joines scored seven points to help the Llaneras to a 25-16, 25-17, 25-15 victory over Guaynabo on Feb. 26. Busse added three points in the victory. Joines Tamas dominated in Toa Baja's 25-23, 25-12, 25-11 victory over Juncos on March 1 as she tallied nine kills without an error, six aces and three blocks for a match-high 18 points. Busse added eight points in the victory. Toa Baja is currently leading the Puerto Rico league with a 7-1 record, two more wins than second-place Catano (5-1).
THOMPSON, SALVO WITH CATANO: Setter Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.) and outside hitter Airial Salvo (Farmington, Utah), both members of the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team and products of University of Washington, are playing for Catano de Lancheras of the Puerto Rico Superliga. Catano lost for the first time in 2010 as Mayaguez won a 25-18, 26-28, 25-23, 13-25, 15-10 marathon on Feb. 26. Thompson had 10 assists, two aces, one kill and one block for four points. Salvo had 14 points in the loss. Catano, now 5-1 overall and in second place, trails only league-leader and defending champions Toa Baja (7-1), which it defeated to open the season.
SPICER WITH PONCE: Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.), a setter with the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing for Ponce of the Puerto Rico Superliga in 2010. She scored three kills and a block for Ponce on Feb. 26, but Carolina came away with a 25-21, 21-25, 25-20, 23-25, 15-13 victory. She set three teammates to at least 20 points in the match. Spicer helped Ponce rebound to a 22-25, 25-20, 25-22, 25-21 victory over Corozal on Feb. 28. She scored 12 assists, 10 digs and eight points with six aces as part of a near triple-double. Spicer contributed 12 assists, nine digs, two kills and three aces in helping Ponce to a 25-22, 24-26, 25-20, 20-25, 15-11 victory over Caguas on March 1. Ponce holds a 4-4 overall record and is in sixth place in the league standings.
KIMMICH WITH GUAYNABO: Katie Wilkins Kimmich (Lakeside, Calif.), an outside hitter with the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing for the Mets of Guaynabo in the Puerto Rico Superliga. Kimmich notched a match-high 17 points in pacing Guaynabo to a 25-18, 25-17, 25-22 victory over Bayamon on Feb. 24. She scored nine points in a 25-16, 25-17, 25-15 loss to defending league champion Toa Baja on Feb. 26. Guaynabo is currently 2-5 on the season and tied for eighth place in the league.
OTHER AMERICAN HIGHLIGHTS IN PUERTO RICO: Shonda Cole scored 20 points for Caguas on Feb. 24, but her team lost in four sets to defending league champion Toa Baja…Aneli Cubi-Otineru scored eight points with 10 digs in helping Guaynabo to a sweep of Bayamon on Feb. 24. On the other side of the net, Christal Morrison scored 14 points and Erin Moore added 10 points in the loss…Jessica Jones tallied 22 points, including eight blocks, in leading Carolina to a five-set victory over Ponce on Feb. 26. Katie Olsovsky, a former member of the U.S. Women's National Team, added 18 points in the victory. Sonja Newcombe contributed 21 points for Ponce in the loss…Kristee Porter counted out a match-high 19 points in helping Corozal to a four-set victory over Juncos on Feb. 26. Kaitlin Sather added 15 points in the victory. For Juncos, Kelly Wing scored 19 points in the loss to Corozal and Erica Lott added 15 points, including five aces…Kelly Wing notched 18 points in leading Juncos to a four-set victory over Caguas on Feb. 28. Shonda Cole matched her point total with 18 for Caguas in the loss, while Christine Tan tallied 11 digs and 16 service receptions…Sonja Newcombe contributed a match-high 27 points in helping Ponce to a four-set victory over Corozal on Feb. 28, while teammate Sarah Ammerman added 11 points. Kristee Porter scored 21 points for Corozal in the loss, while Kaitlin Sather added 10 points…Christal Morrison hammered out 20 kills for all her points in leading Bayamon to a five-set win over Mayaguez on Feb. 28. Erin Moore added 18 points in the victory…Sonja Newcombe scored 23 points, 15 digs and 17 service receptions in Ponce's five-set victory over Caguas on March 1. Teammate Sarah Ammerman added 17 points in the victory.
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Should You Invest In A Green Home?
Green building is a great idea, but in terms of residential construction, it's still in its infancy. Sure, high-efficiency windows and low-flow water fixtures are becoming standard features, but large-scale green building is not yet commonplace nationwide. In fact, many consumers are still unclear on the definition of "green." So what does it mean to be green? (For more, see What Are Green Investments?)
Energy neutral housing is the ultimate objective. Since, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, buildings use 40% of the energy produced in the United States, moving that number to zero would have a huge impact on the nation's energy consumption. Such homes are often referred to as "energy neutral" because they produce as much energy as they consume. Builders which produce net zero homes can charge up to a 10-15% premium over similar properties constructed with traditional methodologies. With tax incentives and rebates, the majority of these energy neutral properties expect to breakeven for their owners about in 12 years.
Aside from the occasional project, it's hard to find an energy neutral home. A few states have witnessed the construction of a small number of homes, but even powerhouse conglomerate General Electric doesn't envision an energy neutral home before 2015. (Learn more in The Green Marketing Machine.)
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How can you tell if your house is green? A common standard for energy efficient homes is the LEED certification, which refers to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council. They use 30% less water and 15%-20% less energy than similar, non-certified homes.
Exact figures are difficult to pin down, but various sources claim that LEED certified homes save homeowners about $70 per month through lower utility bills. Cost estimates suggest that LEED certified homes can usually be built for 2%-5% more than the average home. On a $300,000 home, that could be a $15,000 cost differential to meet the lowest of the four LEED certification levels. If you have a mortgage and pay interest on it, that number will be even higher. It takes a lot of months at $70 per month in savings to break even, and that's if you can find a builder willing and able to build the home within the projected budget. According to the Green Building Council, there were fewer than 150 LEED Platinum (the highest rating) homes in the entire country as of 2009.
The American National Standards Institute also offers a standard for green construction. They tout the ICC-700-2008 National Green Building Standard as "the first green building rating system to be approved by ANSI, making it the benchmark for green homes." Like LEED, the rating system includes four levels (bronze, silver, gold and emerald). They address issues such as lot design, energy efficiency and air quality. Even the top-rated "emerald" designation only signifies "energy savings of 60% or higher." Again, finding a home that meets these standards is easier said than done.
The practical realities of today's marketplace do make it possible for many would-be homeowners to find a home that is at least partially green. Geothermal heat, solar panels and even rainwater capture systems are readily available in some parts of the country. In areas where these features are common, the cost differential between traditional and more efficient homes is often minimal. (For more, read For Companies, Green Is The New Black.)
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If you can't find a new home that meets the green standard you are seeking, retrofitting an existing home is another option. While it is cost prohibitive to take a traditional home and turn it into an energy neutral property, you can take reasonable steps to reduce energy consumption.
The installation of better insulation, efficient windows and water fixtures, native landscaping instead of turf and a programmable thermostat can help you improve reduce energy use and save money. Most of these steps pay for themselves in just a few years. GreenandSave.com estimates that new energy efficient windows cost about $700 more than other windows and pay for themselves in about 2.3 years through energy savings. Insulating your basement walls is estimate to cost $750 and to pay for itself in two and a half years. Sealing up air leaks can cost around $554 and pays for itself in just 3.1 years. All of these steps are good for your wallet and good for the environment. (To learn more, see Top 10 Green Industries.)
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Going green is a great idea – it just may not always be a great investment if you are looking simply in terms of dollars and cents. Building an energy efficient home in an area when none exist is going to be expensive. It is also likely to be frustrating, as you will not only struggle to find a builder that can do the job, but your home is likely to serve as a practice project for a crew that is not familiar with green building techniques.
Building a green home in an area of existing green homes is likely to come with a cost that is at least slightly (and possibly significantly) above the going rate for similar homes. If you don't plan to stay long enough to recoup your costs, you are unlikely to save any money.
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In every case, if your area offers the technology, and reasonable prices or tax breaks that make it a better deal, going green is the way to go. Of course like any investment, you need to research the topic thoroughly before putting your money at risk. (For more, check out our Investopedia Special Feature: Green Investing.)
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Artistic Capital of North America???
Is Los Angeles really the "arts capital of North America?" How about "the world?" According to Steve Rountree (President of The Music Center), Antonio R. Villaraigosa (Mayor of Los Angeles), Olga Garay (Executive Director of the Department of Cultural Affairs for the city of Los Angeles), and many others in attendance at Wednesday's kick-off for the 3rd Annual LA Arts Month—which took place outside, between the Music Center and the Ahmanson Theatre—it is. Which brings to mind another question: if you repeat something enough times, and you really believe it in your heart of hearts, does it start to become true?
Los Angeles Arts Month—or January, as most people know it—was put together three years ago in an effort to promote tourism and encourage artistic community engagement. And from what I gather—although it was difficult to ascertain during the afternoon's strange launch party, which included a Glee-like performance from the Hollywood High School Choir and a body-bending tidbit from this coming summer's Cirque du Soleil show at the Kodak—it's essentially a couple ticket give-aways, free museum entries, and of course, lots of media coverage.
Of course, any Angeleno—no matter how prideful—who's ever been to New York will tell you Los Angeles is not the artistic capital of North America. And anyone who's ever been to most any major city in Western Europe will scoff at the notion that Los Angeles is the artistic capital of the world. Don't get me wrong: I spend a lot of time supporting and enjoying LA's enormous, eclectic, and vibrant arts scene, but I would never claim it to be any more than it is—which, at least on the government-supported side of things, is struggling.
25 full-time positions, between last year and this year, were eliminated in the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA); grants and donations to the DCA decreased significantly from 2009 to 2010; the Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT), responsible for a quarter of the Department's entire budget, was decreased by approximately $1.6 million; and the expenses for the coming year are projected to be about $0.7 million more than last year.
And these numbers are not just numbers. They actually do affect our city in a major way. The DCA, through grants, is responsible for producing over 400 free or low-cost exhibitions, classes, performances, film screenings, and festivals each year. So all those times you go out to a cool, free event at LACE or LA Theatre Works or the Echo Park Film Center or even make the trip downtown to MOCA or the LA Philharmonic, you can thank the DCA. Not only that, but they provide grants to over 25 individual artists each year, they uphold historic sites like the Watts Towers, and they make sure those many murals all over town stay in tact.
So, if the DCA is in trouble, why all the bravado? Well, on one hand, there is a significant amount of money coming in through grant awards. These include the Arts and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (a.k.a. stimulus), Pacific Standard Time (an award to fund a massive collaboration of over 50 exhibitions throughout the city designed to show off Los Angeles's contribution to modern art), and the Mayors' Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative (a plan to install affordable artist housing in Downtown LA). On the other hand, it may have more to do with what I mentioned before—that the illusion of a thriving artistic capital (much like the illusion of easy weightlessness created by the Cirque du Soleil dancer as she balanced her entire body on top of her chin) is less challenging than the reality of a city that's come a long way, but must still use every practiced muscle in its body to pull off the act.
- By Joshua Morrison
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FLEFF Intern Voices
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival from the interns' point of view
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Blog posting written by Jennifer Barish, Communication Management & Design '14, FLEFF intern, Skokie, IL
In my first definition of microtopia, I left out a vital part of the story.
I had only scratched the surface; you can have an individual experience within a microtopia, but it's cooperation, collaboration, and organized chaos that creates a "different environment."
With each improvised performance paired with silent film, Robby Aceto creates a singular microptopia from a diverse coagulation of sound. It's all made up on the spot. Toy instruments. Mandolins. Cellos. Textured electronic audio.
The musicians in Aceto's ensemble don't have to compromise on creating one sound. Starting with a baseline of "respect" and trust among the artists, they're equally a part of the process and collectively in control of their environment.
The exciting part, Robby expressed, is waiting for disaster.
As I watched clips from pieces of expressionist German film set to Aceto's improvised melodies, my viewing experience created a profoundly "different environment." Without an established soundtrack to comment on the film, I felt involved and emotionally invested. The musicians were not just "recreating" the notation of another artist's vision, but interpreting the film—and welcoming the audience to talk about it, too.
It's a beautiful, utopic thought—the idea that a group of talented musicians can successfully share an art-form while including a community of engaged onlookers.
But the moment is fleeting. The credits roll, and at the next performance, there will be new sounds, fresh reactions, and a different environment.


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Start with a behavior statement.
Everyone needs to understand that they will be held responsible not only for the results of their work, but also for how they go about their work, and their rewards will depend on both.
If, for example, a company's most experienced salesperson has great sales numbers but bullies the shipping department every time he/she needs an order rushed, or if you have an employee who clients love but who often misses internal targets, those transgressions must have consequences despite these employees' successes in other areas.
One useful way to communicate this is to develop behavior statements that make it clear what you're looking for.
The statements will answer the fundamental question of what, precisely, you're trying to fix, implement or eliminate.
This is especially helpful in international companies, because accountability might mean different things in different countries, languages and cultures.
So, for example, you might establish accountability behavior statements, such as:
Always do what you say you'll do.
- Always tell the truth.
- Bring issues up as you discover them.
And then make those even more clear through Dos and Don'ts.
For example:
- Do be open, honest and truthful.
- Don't make excuses.
"Once you've established accountability behavior statements and provided Dos and Don'ts, you can revisit them during performance reviews," Miller notes. "They'll help drive discussions with employees on how they are doing when it comes to meeting your company's accountability standards."
Regularly meet up and talk it out.
Do you hold regular communications meetings with your team or organization?
We recommend it, because meetings provide an opportunity for management to highlight people who have demonstrated good accountability, as well as to show where things went wrong and what could have been done better.
"This should be done in a way that instructs rather than punishes," Bedford says. "Use every available communication tool to emphasize why accountability is important: Electronic signs, business reviews, one-on-one meetings, e-mails, posters and more. If, by way of regular communication, you reinforce the changes you want to see, you will drive the value deep into the organization."
Don't promote accountability shirkers.
A sure way to express the importance of accountability at your organization is to connect it to advancement.
Promotions and salary increases should be considered only for people who demonstrate accountability as defined by the organization, Miller says.
"When your employees do well, reward and promote them," she says. "If they don't do well, apply consequences and make sure they understand that their performance will limit their success and possible progression. Do not promote employees with problems with accountability, especially if they'll be moving into a leadership position. If you do, rest assured that employee's problems with accountability will become other employees' problems with accountability."
Hire accountable people.
Spice up your interviews and weed out the unaccountable by asking key questions during the interview process.
Instead of asking a job candidate about her strengths and weaknesses, ask, "If I asked your boss how you demonstrated accountability, what example would he or she give?"
Or say, "Share with me a time where you made a big mistake and how you handled it."
If you're interviewing a candidate for a leadership position, you might say, "Summarize a difficult conversation you had with an employee who had failed to meet a commitment."
Or, "Describe a situation in which you very clearly held others accountable for their performance and it paid off. How did you do it and what was the outcome?"
"More and more companies are using skill assessment tools and personality tests to screen potential candidates, so why not add behavior-based questions to screen for accountability," Bedford says. "Of course, hiring an employee and then training him to be accountable is possible. But hiring people who are already accountable is a better, less costly option."
Monitor your success and make adjustments as needed.
Goals and metrics should be used to guide the business on an ongoing basis, not just at the beginning and end of the year.
"Use regular business meetings to establish an accountability drumbeat to keep goals and metrics on track so there is a better chance to achieve success," Miller says. "Reviewing goals at the end of the year and hoping for success will likely end in tears."
"When left unattended, the negative results that come from a lack of accountability will spread," Bedford says. "Will your organization be able to survive that kind of plague? Maybe. Certainly, not all companies meet the fate of the Enrons and Lehman Brothers of the world. But in the end, what will your company look like? Will it be a place where great people want to work? Will it be able to provide great services or products to customers? When you commit to making accountability stick, you improve your chances of becoming a great company. Make 2014 the year you and your employees dedicate yourselves to accountability."


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Stutzki Engineering, Inc. is a small consulting firm, offering and executing engineering services for architects and building contractors in the field of structural glass, lightweight structures, and building facades.
Design a point-supported glass structure that is capable of withstanding not only normal design loads but also the extra loads, incurred in the case of a pane failure, in order to prevent the collapse of the entire structure.
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Using Abaqus FEA allows the engineers at Stutzki Engineering to visualize load distribution throughout panes of glass that they otherwise would be unable to see, allowing them to make well-informed design decisions and structurally sound buildings.


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Initial evidence hints at pilot error
Federal investigators' evidence so far on Asiana Airlines Flight 214 appears to point to pilot error. But National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Debbie Hersman pointedly refused to endorse that conclusion Sunday, even as she related initial findings that included nothing indicating a mechanical malfunction just before Saturday's fatal crash.
Briefing the press in San Francisco for the first time Sunday, Hersman repeatedly refused to finger the pilots as the culprits. She admonished reporters that the agency is nowhere near assigning blame for the crash, which killed two people and injured as many as 180. "Everything is on the table right now," she said.
But the data she communicated, gleaned from the plane's voice and data recorders, suggest serious problems with the plane's approach to the runway — primarily that it was traveling was far too slowly, and that the crew tried just 1.5 seconds before impact to abort the landing and try again.
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Hersman said the plane had been cleared to land at 137 knots, or 158 mph, but was going much more slowly as it approached the runway. She wouldn't reveal a specific speed, but said that "we're not talking about a few knots here or there, we're talking about a significant amount of speed below 137 knots."
The plane's speed had been allowed to bleed off so much and other factors, including its pitch, were such that it triggered the plane's "stick shaker," a kind of warning that shakes the plane's control yoke to alert pilots that a stall is imminent. In aviation parlance, a stall happens when a plane no longer has enough "lift" to maintain its altitude.
Hersman said that according to cockpit voice data from the last two hours of flight, there was "no discussion of any aircraft anomalies or concerns with the approach."
( Also on POLITICO: Many targets for NTSB probe)
But seven seconds before the crash, she said, a crew member called for an increase in speed, followed three seconds later by the sound of the stick shaker. A second and a half before impact, the voice data show a crew member asking for a "go around."
Hersman said the flight data recorders also show that the throttles were at idle and airspeed was "slowed below the target" as the plane was on landing approach. Hersman said the crew pushed the throttles open "a few seconds prior to impact, and the engines appear to respond normally" — which, if those data hold, would appear to rule out a mechanical problem in which the engine did not perform as asked.
Hersman also said the cockpit data recorder shows the aircraft was cleared for landing on runway 28 Left, the same runway where it crashed. That suggests there was no apparent mixup as to which runway the crew were to land on.
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At the moment, Hersman said, investigators have not identified any "specific similarities" between the Asiana crash and the only other major Boeing 777 accident, in which a plane crash-landed short of a runway at London's Heathrow Airport in January 2008. That crash was caused by icing problems with the plane's Rolls Royce engine that have since been fixed. The Asiana plane was equipped with a Pratt and Whitney model that was not included in the NTSB's prior recommendations.


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URSP currently does a summer studio overseas in two out of every three years. In the summer of 2014, several students are working with Professor Emeritus Sidney Brower on a studio project in Litha Park, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. The students met with community leaders there; first, to obtain permission to work in the area, and then to identify the problems residents would like the students to address. These were crime, fire danger, open space, and unemployment. Assisted by members of the Community Organization Resource Center (an NGO) who provided introductions and translation (most residents spoke only Xhosa), students had a number of meetings with residents in one of the shacks to discuss concerns and possible courses of action. They identified public programs directed at these problems, but these could only be implemented in the long term and the problems were of immediate concern, and so the students proposed a series of actions that residents could initiate immediately, by themselves or with minimum assistance from an NGO or the government. About 60 people attended the final presentation.
In the summer of 2012, several URSP students teamed up with some students from Historic Preservation. Architecture and Real estate Development – along with several architecture students from St. Petersburg State University -- to create a development plan for the 'Gasholders Site", a former industrial area close to the city's commercial and historic center. One of challenges was to plan for the rehabilitation and reuse of two historic buildings on the site so as to retain their historic features. Another was to transform a collection of disjointed land parcels into vibrant neighborhoods that extend the historic fabric of Saint Petersburg. A third was to develop a business plan for the redevelopment effort. There will be another St. Petersburg studio project in the summer of 2015.
The St. Petersburg studio report is available here. Other studio projects, domestic and overseas, are available on the Projects page.


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The 2Up reopens as the 1Up – Colfax on Dec. 20 with new music stage, jam bands
The original 1Up arcade and bar in LoDo got all of the attention last month as Donkey Kong competitors assembled for the third annual (and second in Denver) Kong Off competitive arcade-gaming championship.
But there was just as much action going on at The 2Up, the barcade's sister location across town on East Colfax Avenue.
After an early-fall renovation that significantly polished the existing decor and layout of The 2Up, owner Jourdan Adler continued his expansion into the old Kitty's East adult shop next door, tripling the size of the space and adding a live music stage that will host its first act on Dec. 20, the date of the official debut and reopening.


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The Assistive Technology Training Center (ATTC) program provides instruction in computer access to students with a broad range of disabilities, using the latest assistive technology available (both hardware and software). Students learn to use such access strategies as screen readers/speech synthesizers, voice-recognition systems alternate keyboards, specialized multi-sensory word processing programs, mouse alternatives, and other assistive hardware and software appropriate to their learning needs. Ventura College has implemented Universal Design of Learning principles using many assistive technology tools for (all) students as well as those with disabilities throughout campus.
Assistive Computer Technology (ACT) Classes Offered
- ACT V01: Evaluation
- ACT V02: ACT Keyboarding
- ACT V03: ACT Access to Computers (MS Office)
- ACT V05: ACT for Internet (email, web research, site design)
- ACT V08: ACT Spelling Skills
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Lots of people wondering lately:
Have we been going even slower than usual on the Steel Bridge?
Answer: Yep.
Eastern side of the Steel Bridge span
Current speed for trains over the Steel Bridge span is 5mph instead of the usual 10mph. I'd mentioned this way back when in the "How fast do the trains go?" post – the speed over the Steel Bridge span is typically 10mph in order to (relatively) reduce vibration while crossing the span, which can damage the microswitches & sensors and other mechanisms on the bridge. I say "relatively" because if you've ever walked over the upper deck of the bridge at the same time a train is crossing it, you can feel the effect it has going over the span even at 10mph.
But a few Sundays ago, the speed was reduced to 5mph on the span because some of the sensors on the bridge had gotten damaged, and a slower speed means less vibration. At that time, a train order was issued directing trains to proceed at this reduced speed. Since a train order can only last for 24 hours and this was going to last longer than that, a special instruction (which can last for up to a year) was then issued until everything gets repaired.
Within a few days, the cones were placed on the bridge to mark the area affected by the slow order. Ignore the green cone in the above picture for a moment – the yellow cones, which are placed in pairs 100′ apart, indicate that speed is reduced over the span. As soon as the front of the train reaches the first yellow cone, it must reduce speed to the necessary level (5mph in this case) and maintain that speed until the front of the train reaches a green cone on the other side. So in the above picture, the green cone is for eastbound trains and the two yellows are for westbound trains.
A similar arrangement is on the western side of the span, though only one of the yellow cones is visible from this angle because of the grade of the bridge and the concrete divider.
The green cones are placed 200′ from the span. That's the length of a train, meaning a train can resume normal speed there since it's clear of the span once the front of it reaches that spot. You may have seen the word "CLEAR" on the bridge about 200′ from either side of the span which predates the cones being used for this current special instruction. That lets you know under normal operating conditions that the usual CBD speed of 15mph can be resumed once the front of the train gets to that point.
I have an old post showing a view from the cab crossing the Steel Bridge eastbound if that helps with the visuals.
Cones and Flags
The cones are nearly functionally identical to wayside flags, which have been mentioned in this blog before. Flags with pointed ends are used in ballasted track, flags on tripods are used on paved t-rail, and cones are used in low-speed paved areas. The tunnel uses flags that are attached to the handrail on the walkway, but I don't have any pictures of those.
Slow order wayside flag in ballasted track
There are some differences between how cones and flags will be arranged for use. In areas of the alignment that use flags instead of cones, only one yellow flag is used for a slow order unlike the pair of yellow cones used in low speed paved areas. Where flags are used for a slow order, trains must be at the ordered reduced speed when the front of the train reaches the yellow flag. Similar to the cone arrangement, trains will maintain that speed until the front of the train reaches a green flag.
Another example of cone/flag similarities:
Double red cones on Holladay Street during Streetcar tie-in work last fall indicating that this track is out of service…
… have the same meaning as these double red wayside flags (photo from expansion joint work on the Yellow Line last spring)


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Races take place in fragile natural environments. All players involved with trail-running races, runners, organisers, partners, accompanying persons make a commitment to protect the natural equilibrium.
Organisers of trail-running races must do all they can to reduce the negative impact linked to the running of their races. They make a commitment by sharing information and making efforts to educate in order to contribute to the general awareness of the natural environment's fragility.
Each organiser will identify the environmental risks engendered by their event and propose concrete actions to reduce the risks to the minimum. They will encourage the use of public transport or car-sharing and limit, as much as they can, the use of other motorised equipment.
Each runner makes a commitment to adopt the most relevant behaviour to minimize his or her impact on the terrain through which he or she passes.
Together, the members of the trail-running community act as ambassadors for the promotion and conservation of natural environments.


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Nicole Kidman may be married to a music superstar (Keith Urban), but she has no plans to test out her own pipes professionally.
"I hum a little," she told the December/January issue of Ladies' Home Journal. "When your husband's a huge singer, the last thing you do is sing with him."
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But while they may not sing together, the couple is all about communicating.
"Keith and I have a very honest, profound marriage, which we both contribute to every day," she said. "We have a phrase, 'Does this contribute to the good of our union?' Because that's what's most important."
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And Nicole said she is still mad over her man, whom she married in 2006.
"I love being in love. I believe in the power of love, the way it can heal. The more you keep choosing it — because there are times when you can choose to be angry at the person or to love him — the more it nourishes a family," she said.
The actress, who made almost 20 films between 2001 and 2008, said she's now putting family first.
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"I was running from my life, in a way," she said. "My imaginary life was better than my flesh-and-blood life. That's a sad thing to say, but it was. Now I love my real life so much it requires an enormous belief in a film to want to take it on.
"I think that we're in the world to connect. Because that's what you're left with. You're not left with your houses or awards or money, you're left with the people that you built relationships with," she added.
Nicole said she was thrilled their family grew with the addition of baby Sunday Rose, who was born last year.
"I loved bringing life into the world. To be completely responsible for this baby growing inside me, I'm grateful for that experience," she said.
But having the baby also helped Nicole fill out her red carpet dresses a bit more.
"They're not very big, my boobs, so they just became normal size. I loved it! I felt very 'Woman,' she said. "When you've had a slightly androgynous body your whole life, having breasts is a nice feeling."
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SAP and BlackBerry have had a long partnership in the enterprise, providing business customers with the secure and essential data and processes they need to keep their business moving as a highly mobile workforce.
With the recent launch of the powerful BlackBerry 10 smartphones, SAP and BlackBerry have been working together to bring even more business critical apps to the new platform. SAP mobile finance apps are now integrated with core features of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone such as the BlackBerry Hub, Calendar, and more, to provide you with an exceptional user experience.
This week at SAP's SAPPHIRE NOW and BlackBerry Live, we're going to provide a peek at these new tools that are available to increase your mobile productivity.
SAP Customer Financial Fact Sheet
This app gives business customers the ability to stay up to date on their customers' financial status anywhere and anytime. It connects directly with the SAP ERP system to provide the most relevant customer financial data to a BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
Features include:
- Display a list of all customers assigned to you, customers classified as critical, and recent customers
- View customer sales volumes for the past fiscal year
- View total outstanding invoices, credit info, and the average payment arrears for the last 12 months
- Retrieve original invoices in PDF format and access archived documents stored in the backend
Get a free demo of the app from the BlackBerry World storefront and give it a try.
SAP RealSpend
SAP RealSpend for BlackBerry 10 smartphones gives business customers access to real-time, accurate budget and spend information.
Features include:
- Access to the SAP ERP application
- Access real-time budget and expense information, including trends and projections
- Analyze and benchmark spend data by department, project, or expense type across any period of time
- Receive customized spending alerts
- Collaborate with team members to resolve issues
Download the demo version of the app today.
SAP CFO Vantage
Giving business executives the most timely and accurate information to enable key business decisions can have a great impact on day-to-day operations. SAP CFO Vantage does just that – so executives have the right tools and info to help increase productivity and improve decision-making capabilities.
Features include:
- Access to SAP financial data
- Access to critical media content
- Access to important analyst information
- View social media content in real-time
- Ability to communicate easily with team
We are truly excited about these new finance apps, which are another important piece of the executive's application toolkit on BlackBerry 10. Currently the apps are available for BlackBerry Z10 smartphones, with BlackBerry Q10 editions on the way soon.
Do you use SAP tools in your work? How would taking these processes mobile speed up your work and provide benefit? Share in the comments below.


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The tragedy of Khatyn
You will not find this small Belorussian village on any of the most detailed geographic map today. It was destroyed by German fascists in spring in 1943.
This is the only photo of the woman who was among these 149 burned people, her name is Vanda Yaskevich.
The massacre occurred on March 22, 1943. Brutal fascists rushed into the village and encircled it. The inhabitants of the village did not know anything about the fact that in the morning a fascist motor convoy was attacked by fire on a motorway just 6 km away from Khatyn. As a result a German officer was killed. The inhabitants of Khatyn were innocent, however their death sentence had already been pronounced. All of them young and old, women and kids — were driven from their houses out into the shed. The fascists roused the sick from their beds with rifle butts. They had mercy neither for the old nor for women with infants in their arms. The family of Joseph and Anna Baranovsky with their 9 children was among them. So were Alex and Alexandra Novitsky with their 7 children. Similarly, there were 7 kids in the family of Kazimir and Elena Iotko, the youngest boy was only 1 year old. Vera Yaskevich was also driven into the shed with her 7-week-old son Tolik. Little Lena Yaskevich first tried to hide in the farmstead, but then decided to take safe shelter in the wood. Fascists' bullets were not able to catch up with the running girl, therefore one of the fascists rushed to her and having overtaken killed the girl before the very eyes of her father who was distraught with grief. Among the perished there were also two people from other villages who by chance found themselves in Khatyn at the time. These were Anton Kunkevich from the village of Yurkovichi and Kristina Slonskaja from the village of Kameno.
None of the adults managed to escape. Only three kids Volodia Yaskevich, his sister Sonia and another boy Sasha Zhelobkovich by name were able to hide from the fascists. When all people were finally in the shed, the door was locked and the Nazis covered the shed with straw, spilt benzine over and set fire to it. In a moment the wooden shed was ablaze. The children were crying and suffocating in the smoke. The adults were trying to rescue them. The doors of the shed could not bear the force and the pressure of the dozens of people and so they crashed down. Horror-stricken people in their burning clothes took to heels. But the fascists with their machine guns dispassionately killed those who tried to escape from the flames of fire. 149 people, including 75 children under age were burned alive. The youngest baby was only 7 weeks old. The village was then looted and burned to the ground.
The girls from two different families — Maria Fedorovich and Yulia Klimovich — were saved by miracle. They managed to leave the shed and crawl to the nearby wood. Half dead or half alive, all burned they were found by the inhabitants of the village of Khvorosteny of the Kameno village council. Unfortunately, this village was later also burned to the ground and the tow girls were killed.
In the village of Khatyn only two children survived. They are a 7-year-old Viktor Zhelobkovich and a 12-year-old Anton Baranovsky. A young woman Anna Zhelobkovich by name was also in the shed. Together with some other horror-stricken people in their burning clothes she tried to leave the shed, which was ablaze. She was firmly holding her son Vitia's hand. A moment later she was fatally wounded and as she was falling down on the ground she covered the son with her body. The child was wounded in his arm. He lay on the ground under his mother's corpse till the Nazis finally left the village. Anton Baranovsky was also wounded in his leg by an explosive bullet. And so the fascists mistook him for a dead boy.
Inhabitants of neighbouring villages picked up all those injured and severely burnt children and brought them to an orphanage in a small town of Pleshinitsy where they were raised after the war.
The only adult witness to the Khatyn massacre, a 56-year-old village smith Joseph Kaminsky, also wounded and burnt, recovered consciousness late at night when the fascists were already gone. He had to suffer a hard blow, though. He found his injured son among the corpses of the fellow villagers. The boy was fatally wounded in the abdomen and totally burnt. He died later in the arms of his father.
And so the only sculpture of the Khatyn memorial complex "The Unconquered Man" was based on this tragic story in the life of Joseph Kaminsky.
The tragedy of Khatyn is not just an occasional episode of this war. It is one of the thousand facts, which testify to the existence of the targeted genocide policy regarding the population of Belarus. And the Nazis were pursuing this policy during all those years of German occupation. Hundreds of similar disasters occurred within the three years (1941 1944) of the occupation of the Belorussian land.


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Oct 22, 2002 | ISBN 9780375507601
"Rick Tramonto's Amuse-Bouche is a 'Tru' delight! Who said cooking had to be difficult? Rick will guide you in transforming a few ingredients into perfect little palate teasers. This book is destined to be an indispensable part of your cooking library."
–THOMAS KELLER, The French Laundry
"Rick Tramonto dazzled America with his groundbreaking food and audacious presentations at Tru. Now he brings his inventiveness and creative spirit to the uniquely exciting subject of marvelous miniature mouthfuls. Be
prepared to be amused."
–PATRICK O'CONNELL, The Inn at Little Washington
"The amuse-bouche is the best way for a great chef to express his big ideas in small bites."
–JEAN-GEORGES VONGERICHTEN, Jean-Georges
"This book captures the whimsical and yet deeply satisfying soul of Rick Tramonto's complex food art, and yet makes it real for the ambitious home cook. Although the book is conceptually like James Joyce's Ulysses, on my palate the tastes are more like Tom Robbins's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. I love both sides of the coin."
–MARIO BATALI, Babbo
"Rick Tramonto is one of America's most creative chefs at work today. The tiny tastes Rick teaches us to prepare will light up any table with the spark that every great dinner party needs. This book will help any cook to unleash his or her imagination and transform any meal into an experience. These amuse-bouche stimulate not only the palate, but the conversation as well."
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Last week was a momentous week, the beginning of the end, perhaps, of a national depravity – the "war on drugs". The voters of Colorado and Washington passed measures to legalize marijuana, amounting to local shifts, for the moment. So we shouldn't delude ourselves that the country will be transformed overnight, but the public thinking, the public spirit is being transformed. Finally, there is a growing realization that this "war" has produced nothing but a legacy of failure. And who wants to be associated with failure?
Let's be clear what we're discussing here. Not in question is the ravaging impact drugs can have on individuals – too many of us know people who have suffered in this way. But we need to see addiction for what it is – not a criminal matter but a public health issue, and a huge social issue, especially for the young. In fact, instead of a "war on drugs", better to call it a war on children.
In many parts of our country, a child strays a little at 14; tries a drug, can't think of any way to pay for it, and then sinks into the underground economy. Before long, he has a strike on his record, a strike that will be with him for the rest of his life. So you have a cycle of degradation, starting at 13, 14, and he never gets out of it. We now know so much about child development, the importance of the early years, how communities develop. Instead we eviscerate neighborhoods, we strip away the infrastructure that once provided towns with resources.
And with this "war", we're talking about the erasure of a population – which was once black America, now just poor America. These are people removed from the official American story – just last week the millions of them locked up, often for non-violent drug-related crimes, did not participate in our democracy. So, at the very minimum, you are taking the poor away from the levers of power.
There is a new consensus that the economic view is becoming more influential in shifting attitudes on drugs, that the amount of money saved from policing and the amount gained through taxing legalized drugs is swaying opinion. Obviously we would all shudder to think we live in a country where only the economic collapse of a depravity like this should bring about its end. But I think it's also true that what's happening is more complicated – economic calculations meeting up with humanitarian concerns. So you have the likes of Grover Norquist, the conservative founder of Americans for Tax Reform, and Chris Christie, the Republican New Jersey governor, finding unlikely bedfellows with Russell Simmons and Danny Glover, producers on my film. All see a failed approach.
When I set off to make my film, I wanted to speak to people all over the country touched by drugs. The users and dealers and family members; but also judges and police and wardens. I expected to be a sort of court reporter, capturing an argument between these two camps.
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In fact, everybody sounded like a victim. The people who work in the penal system want those jobs like they want a hole in the head; they are doing work they take no pride in. Ultimately, there are very few people who want to work in a system whose success relies on a churn of your fellow humans to lock up. And, of course – in class terms – there's far more commonality. Prison guards would tell me that they had relatives in prison, high school friends. And, hauntingly, everyone had a story about how broken the system was.
But there's a shocking fatalism in play. What I found was lots of people saying: "Eugene, I know the system is broken and I wish you well. But dream on, it is so vast and has so much bureaucratic thrust you're deluding yourself if you think it can be fixed." But these wardens would then say: "But until you do, I have to do my job, and by God, I'm an American and I'm going to do it better than the next guy."
Admirable in one sense, but it greases the wheels for the continuing operation of the machine. So a judge will quite sincerely tell you how he has no choice but to imprison a non-violent person for 20 years because of mandatory sentencing – and he's right – but then, over lunch, he'll tell you how much he regrets doing so. For a country founded in revolution, we have become spectacularly unmoored from the notion of revolutionary behavior. Instead, we keep the bodies moving through the system.
I'm not going to pretend that the collapse of the "war on drugs" would transform life chances overnight for those born poorest in America. But, if you were to stop kneecapping many communities, you would free them to at least get their feet on the ground in normal ways. You could also save such a tremendous amount of money that you could ask yourself: what could I do that would plant a tree? What could I do in the neighborhoods that would actually foster the values that built civilization and would help young people find pathways other than those that end up in addiction?
Progress is not going to be made immediately on the national stage. Obama, I'm sure, would recognize the logic in the film, and then he would do what he has done for the past four years – he wakes up with the Washington machine. Four years ago, I met with his team; they said all the right things. Don't talk about a war on drugs, they said. You don't have a war against your own people. But, still, they've carried on in the same way.
What will bring about change is public demand. The public has to boo and hiss politicians who pander in this way – who say they are being tough on crime when they are destroying communities. We need to tell them that we won't let them vilify our neighbor to keep the penal system running. We will do that if we recognize that drug-mongering is no more substantial than WMD-mongering. And we know how that turned out. Americans have been an impressionable lot, but we're becoming less so. Bit by bit, we're realizing that the "war on drugs" makes no sense. And, if we let politicians know this, they have no choice but to become smarter and answer our demands.


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I totally get Zoe Kravitz's appeal. There's a sullen pouty mystique about her, even more pronounced in person, that many people find very sexy, including Michael Fassbender, with whom she ended a year long relationship just recently ...so as to free herself for Penn Badgley...?
Zoe and Penn spent part of the holiday on the beach in Miami together. You already know my thoughts on Badgley in relation to Fassbender. Besides, the reason I'm posting these images is really just to talk about her ass. OH MYGOD.
Never mind her missing him, if I were Fassy, I'd miss that right back.


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According to the report "Global Kidney Dialysis Equipment Market, By Equipment (Hemodialysis, Peritoneal dialysis, Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT)), End User (Home Care Settings, In-Clinics/Dialysis Centers), and Geography – Insights, Opportunity Analysis, and Industry Forecast till 2024, the market was valued at US$ 13,930.3 million in 2015 and is projected to expand at a CAGR of 6.6% during the forecast period (2016–2024), as highlighted in a new report published by Coherent Market Insights.
The Global Kidney Dialysis Equipment Market was valued at US$ 13,930.3 million in 2015 and is projected to expand at a CAGR of 6.6% during the forecast period (2016–2024), as highlighted in a new report published by Coherent Market Insights. Increasing number of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients, growing prevalence of diabetes & hypertension (major causes of kidney failure), rapid growth in the aging population are expected to be major factors driving growth of the global Kidney Dialysis Equipment Market over the foreseeable future.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a serious medical condition, wherein either one or both kidneys are damaged, causing improper blood filtration, irregular blood pressure, electrolyte imbalance, and lower red blood cell production in the body. As a result, waste produced in the body by filtration process remains in the body and may further lead to other health problems such as gall stones, abdominal pain, and painful maturation. The incidence of chronic kidney disease increases with age and is mainly prevalent in the age group of 65 years and above. Diabetes and high blood pressure are among the most common causes of CKD. According to America Kidney Fund, diabetes cases accounts for 44% of all kidney failures or improper functioning of kidney. In 2012, there were around 239,837 kidney failure patients out of an estimated 29.1 million diabetics. It is observed that around 40% people having diabetes will be affected by chronic kidney disease. High blood pressure (HBP) leads to 28.4% of kidney failure cases. Other risk factors for chronic kidney disease include cardiovascular disease, obesity, high cholesterol, and lupus.
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According to the University of California, incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the U.S. is 5% annually, while only 20% of kidney donors are available every year. The need for kidney donors in the U.S. is increasing by 8% annually. Globally, Taiwan, U.S., Japan, Mexico, and Belgium are the countries with highest prevalence of ESRD. Kidney disease is the 9th leading cause of death in the U.S. According to American Kidney Fund, in 2015, around 31 million people in the U.S., i.e. 10% of the adult population suffered from chronic kidney disease (CKD). Chronic kidney disease is one of the most common among women than men, however, 50% of men when compared to women with chronic kidney disease have chances of turning chronic kidney disease kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Kidney failure risk is higher in some racial and ethnic groups. According to Kidney National Foundation, when compared to whites, African Americans are at 4 times higher risk, Native Americans at 1.5 times higher, Asians at 1.4 times higher risk of contracting the disease. Non-Hispanics are 1.5 times higher risk to be diagnosed with kidney failure as compared to Hispanics.
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Key takeaways of the Kidney Dialysis Equipment Market:
- The global Kidney Dialysis Equipment Market is expected to expand at a CAGR of 6% during the forecast period (2016–2024) as there exists a huge unrealized market especially in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa
- Hemodialysis will dominate the market throughout the forecast period, accounting for 83.7% market share in 2016 and expected to remain dominant with 80.3% in 2024 owing to easy affordability and low price.
- In Clinical/ Dialysis Centers will dominate the market throughout the forecast period accounting 93.8% market share in 2016 and is expected to dominate with 92.7% in 2024.
- Some of the major players involved in global Kidney Dialysis Equipment Market are Baxter International, Inc., Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co., Nipro Corporation, B. Braun Melsungen, Nikkiso Co, Ltd., Asahi Kasei Corporation and NxStage Medical, Inc.
Detailed Segmentation:
- -Global Kidney Dialysis Equipment Market, By Equipment:
- –Hemodialysis
- —Machines
- —Dialyzers
- —Bloodlines
- —Concentrates and dialysis solutions
- —Others (Water treatment systems, accessories)
- –Peritoneal dialysis
- —Machines
- —Dialysates
- —Catheters
- —Transfer sets
- –Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT)
- -Global Kidney Dialysis Equipment Market, By End User:
- –Home Care Settings
- –In-Clinics/Dialysis Centers
- -Global Kidney Dialysis Equipment Market, By Geography:
- –North America
- —-U.S. Kidney Dialysis Equipment Market, By Equipment:
- —–Hemodialysis
- ——Machines
- ——Dialyzers
- ——Bloodlines
- ——Concentrates and dialysis solutions
- ——Others (Water treatment systems, accessories)
- —–Peritoneal dialysis
- ——Machines
- ——Dialysates
- ——Catheters
- ——Transfer sets
- —–Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT)
- —-U.S. Kidney Dialysis Equipment Market, By End User:
- —–Home Care Settings
- —–In-Clinics/Dialysis Centers
*Similar cross sectional analysis is provided for Other Countries covered as a part of this report
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