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Since I got the bread machine, I'm always on the lookout for different types of flours. I've been thinking of trying out gluten-free recipes but the combination of hard-to-find flours has stopped me from getting round to it so far.
However I was rather impressed with the selection of flours on sale at Marketplace supermarket at Tanglin Mall. Being one of the most expensive supermarkets on the island, I hardly ever go there, but if one is in need of unusual flours, it's definitely worth a visit. There's a wide range from Bob's Red Mill and Origins Healthcare.
Even for basics, Marketplace is the only store I know of that stocks my favourite flour: Waitrose Organic range. The Waitrose range has the following flours:
Plain White Flour
Self-Raising White Flour
Plain White Bread Flour
Plain Stoneground Wholemeal
Stoneground Wholemeal Bread Flour
Unlike other flours I've bought before, Waitrose never seems to smell stale or produce weevils even when it's passed the use-by date. (It is recommended that you keep wholemeal products in the fridge as they go rancid quickly, but my Waitrose flour has kept very well outside the fridge too.)
The Waitrose stoneground wholemeal flour is also finely-ground so the texture is smooth and light, even for cakes. Don't believe it if you are told wholemeal cakes are heavy and unpalatable; most people will eat my wholemeal cakes without even realising they aren't plain flour (although those with sensitive palates will notice a slightly more gritty texture).
In contrast, Prima brand Wholemeal Flour which is the most commonly available type in Singapore supermarkets is a very different type of product. It's extremely coarse and must be combined with plain flour. However, the coarse grains are still noticeable and I have given up using this for any kind of baking, even if just to mix a small amount with plain flour.
[Update 18/12/07: I've now decided to use Origins Healthcare organic wholemeal flour as it seems to be more finely-ground than Waitrose wholemeal flour, and is also cheaper. It's easily available at NTUC supermarkets as well. See my other comments on flour here.]
Where Waitrose stands out is that it is the only brand of wholemeal bread flour which I've come across. Regular wholemeal flour is easy to find, but it's not suitable for making bread with. One health food shop staff I asked suggested I mix wholemeal with plain bread flour instead, which is a reasonable idea but I want a fully wholemeal bread and a lower proportion of bread flour affects the texture of the bread. The other solution is to get some vital wheat gluten and add it to plain (wholemeal) flour as described here. Bob's Red Mill produces vital wheat gluten but it's quite hard to find in the stores. (Read more about flour here and here.)
Then again, maybe vital wheat gluten might be easier to find if I stopped looking in the baking section but tried to find it health food stores among products for vegetarians. [Update 14/11/07: found vital wheat gluten from Bob's Red Mill brand in Cold Storage Naturally Marketplace at Vivocity, but it was so expensive! S$20+ for about half a kilo? It's only US$5.79 for a 1.5lb bag on the Bob's Red Mill mail order site.]
Vital wheat gluten is also the main ingredient in producing the gluten chunks commonly used in savoury Chinese vegetarian dishes, also known in Japanese as fu or seitan in macrobiotics. Read more about gluten as a food here, here and here (with recipes in latter two links). Hope our gluten-intolerant friends aren't getting shivers down their spine reading about all this!
P.S. Tanglin Mall also has the organic store, Brown Rice Paradise on the 3rd floor. They have a great selection of teas from Yogi Tea brand and Traditional Medicinals (including some flavours I've not seen elsewhere, such as Yogi Tea's Chai range), organic miso from South River in amazing varieties such as Dandelion Leek, and it is the only place I've found Muso brand furikake (which costs S$5.50, as compared to Eden brand furikake which is $11.85 at Supernature). However… for most products they are rather expensive. I would definitely compare prices before buying anything there: some sea salt in exactly the same brand was half the price at the 'expensive' Marketplace supermarket downstairs, and some Avalon toiletries were nearly three times the price compared to the Nature's Farm chain store!
17/03/08 update: new info on buying vital wheat gluten here.
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Conservation and Environment in Peru: Monthly Updates
Monthly Update - August/September 2009
This report from Taricaya will bring you all up to date on what has been happening over the last couple of months. Personally, I went on vacation for a couple of weeks and with some major overhauling going on at the centre time has flashed by and so I shall report on the last eight weeks together. As usual my dilemma is where to start with so many projects advancing and the hard work of everyone involved with the project producing such fantastic results.
Nonetheless, I would be remiss not to begin with the completion of the collection phase of the turtle project. Despite fluctuating river levels, freakish cold weather and an increase in poacher activity we have smashed our record for nests and eggs collected. You may well recall how the collection got off to a very slow start with just two nests in July. The female turtles (Podocnemis unifilis) were unable to lay as weather conditions were very unfavourable and whilst we understood they would have to lay eventually it was a great surprise to everyone that we finished August with 77 nests transferred to our artificial beach and an astounding 2400 eggs. This is a true reflection of hours spent camping and walking the beaches, often in unpleasant conditions, and I must thank everyone for their hard work on this project. This huge total could have been even greater but one night a group of poachers beat us to a cluster of 9 nests, more by luck than planning, and so our total could have been higher still. With a potential haul of close to 90 nests on the same beach we have been monitoring for several years now we must ask why more turtles are laying their eggs here every year. It is an intriguing phenomenon because the first baby turtles we released back in 2005 have yet to reach sexual maturity and in a couple of years one would expect a marked increase as these youngsters return to lay their first clutch on the beach where they first entered the river; but why are more turtles appearing every year on our beach?
I believe that the answer lies in an increase in small-scale gold mining in the area. As more and more people struggle to make a living in and around Puerto Maldonado the continued high price of gold makes mining on whatever scale more attractive. In reality, to start extracting gold all one needs is a small set of machinery and a boat, whilst the numerous beaches in the lower Madre de Dios River are unclaimed sites waiting to be tapped. The miners themselves will not ignore laying turtles as their eggs are an extra income or source of food but it is the 24-hour activity with loud machines that is scaring the female turtles away from the beaches. This year we were forced to ask two separate rafts to move on from our beach and this is further indication of increased mining in the area. With increasingly few untouched beaches our site is becoming a haven for the pregnant turtles and it begs the question what would they do if we were not working in the area? In conclusion, our turtle repopulation project becomes ever more crucial to the survival of this species locally and we can only expect more and more nests as the turtles are presented with fewer and fewer beaches upon which to bury their eggs. This coupled with the imminent reproduction of our first releases means that next year will surely see yet another record broken!
Another first at Taricaya was the official release of three residents from the animal rescue centre. As you will recall, since becoming an official rescue centre we have been unable to liberate any animals as the government struggled to formalise the release protocols. After continued banging on doors and numerous proposals we finally got the green light to go ahead and release two coatis (Nasua nasua) and a Spix's guan (Penelope jacquacu). After blood work and behavioural analysis the animals were deemed healthy and ready for liberation and so the government official responsible for the permits was invited and with great pleasure we took the animals deep into the reserve and returned them to their natural habitat. Over the years, releasing animals back into the wild has given me great satisfaction and now that we set a precedent I look forward to many more releases and a better dynamic in the centre as residents come and go more frequently.
Another positive from these releases was the freeing up of enclosures and as we restructured our animal distribution we have been able to separate a set of enclosures for our small felines, a larger enclosure became available for our macaws and a cage has also become available for our group of small spider monkeys. The three young spider monkeys were joined by a fourth juvenile female this month and as they continue to grow and recuperate we shall be looking to move them form the quarantine cages into this larger enclosure so they start to bond as a secondary group that can eventually be integrated with our group of 4 sub-adults. The liberation also meant that we were able to receive new residents and apart from the fore-mentioned spider monkey we had two firsts for us arrive over recent weeks. The neo-tropical otter (Lontra longicaudis) is becoming increasingly rare with increased fishing activities in the rivers causing mortalities in nets and competition for food and so the young male that arrived last month was a surprise to all of us. The youngster became an instant hit and is already running around his enclosure and happily chasing fish we release into his pool. The second arrival is a very unusual one as the red-masked parakeet (Aratinga erythrogenys) is resident in the north of Peru and is not found in Madre de Dios. One can only assume that its arrival in Puerto Maldonado is a reflection of the pet trade ripe in the northern Amazon region of Peru but its release will pose a problem as it will be destined to a solitary existence. We shall have to push for a transfer to its natural dry mountain forests for release as and when the time comes.
September saw a breakthrough with the butterfly house also as the government came to inspect it. The instant approval means that as soon as the paperwork ploughs through the system we shall be able to begin working with our three test species and release them for breeding into the large enclosure. In parallel our permanent butterfly traps have enabled us to capture many new species for the reserve and whilst I do not have the exact total at the moment as some individuals are still being processed for identification, I estimate that we are well over 130 species for the reserve.
Many of you who have visited us over the years will have slept in our huge two storey dormitory block but eight years of jungle storms and wear and tear means that it had to be torn down and replaced and so this month we have been slightly disrupted as the building was taken apart. Materials have been reused where possible and next month will see the completion of a new series of rooms each sleeping four people but with the luxury of private bathrooms. This will take our capacity to 40 volunteers at any given time and create uniform living accommodation for everyone. Whilst maintenance and safety were the primary reasons for this change we need to continue to grow as bookings for 2009 have surpassed all other years and with over 170 volunteers visiting us this year the future indeed looks bright for Taricaya and all that we are trying to achieve.
October will bring us the first heavy rains of the new wet season; the hatching of our first turtle eggs; preparation for the transfer of our adult spider monkey troop to the pre-liberation area deep in the reserve and much more... until then!
Stuart Timson
Conservation Director
Projects Abroad
30th April, 2009

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Research in the period after 1900, and especially after 1930, can be challenging because of record restrictions, as well as time lags in the release of records and publication of corresponding indices and abstracts. While many of the standard record indices available in the Genealogy Department end early in the twentieth century, some sources exist that can propel research toward the present. Keys to doing successful modern research include knowing what is available, both in print, online, and other formats; contacting local repositories in the area of interest for unpublished records; and using sources seldom consulted when researching earlier time periods.
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Many counties in the United States allow only limited access to vital records filed after a certain date, despite the fact that these are public records by law. Courthouse personnel often require the researcher to submit the individual's approximate or exact date of birth or death before providing a record. Luckily, library sources exist that can provide this information. These include the following sources.
Vital Records Indices in Book form for the 20th century typically are limited to the first several decades, with precious few such indices existing for the early years of the 21st century. To determine what indices exist, check the online catalog at www.ACPL.Lib.in.us under the county name.
Remember that if the subject heading "Registers of births, etc.," appears in the description of a particular book, it does not necessarily indicate that the book is a birth record book. "Registers of births, etc.," is a subject heading the Library of Congress assigns to many different types of books that contain a vital date. Hence, cemetery listings, death records, marriage records, and obituaries may be included in this category.
Also check the World Family Archive Genealogy Data links under E-Resources on the library homepage to find vital record indices available in that format. These indices tend to be similar in nature to print publications.
Vital Records Indices on Microtext, as well as some of the actual vital records themselves, are available for the 20th century for some states. Check the State Records section of the microtext catalog under your state of interest to determine what vital records indices and actual records are available.
Vital Records Indices Online as well as digital copies of some of the vital records themselves are becoming increasingly common. Strategies for finding such indices and digital copies on the Internet should include visiting the websites of the state library, state archives, and state historical society of the state in which you are conducting research. It is also imperative that the USGenWeb pages for both your state and your county of interest are checked. Indexing and providing access to vital record data is a key focus of many USGenWeb volunteer input teams. Including the websites of public libraries in your research area can often prove beneficial as well.
The Social Security Death Index online usually includes the following information about 76 percent of people who died between 1962 and the present: Name, birth date, month and year of death, Social Security number, and zip code of last residence or where last payment was sent or both. Only 2 percent of deaths in the index date from before 1962. With the information it provides, the researcher can:
By doing all three, researchers will be able to gain all or some of the following information about the individual: birth date, place of birth, parents' names (including mother's maiden name), place of birth of parents, occupation, death date, place of death, cause of death, burial place, survivors' names and where they lived at the time of the individual's death, and the name of the funeral home. Often the obituary will include more information, such as organizational or church affiliations of the person, the length of time he or she lived in the area where the death took place, military service, etc.
A helpful volume for analyzing a death record once it has been obtained is How to Get the Most out of Death Certificates by Carolyn Earle Billingsley and Desmond Walls Allen. /Gc 929 B49h/ Another helpful volume by Desmond Walls Allen, this one analyzing social security applications, is Social Security Applications: A Genealogical Treasure. /Gc 929 Al53s/
Obituary Abstracts/Indices and Cemetery Transcriptions are often more readily available than death record indices for recent time periods and provide some of the same information. Obituary indices may be virtually up-to-date; cemeteries may have been read and the resulting transcriptions published within the past few years. To find published obituary and cemetery volumes, search online catalog under the city or county you are researching, or under the name of the cemetery if known.
Obituaries and cemetery transcriptions also may be published in the periodicals of local genealogical or historical societies. To find these, perform a search of articles by location and record type in the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI). One could also do a general keyword search in PERSI.
Once an individual's death date and place is known, the following books provide sources for requesting the death record, an obituary, and information from the funeral home. These books are located at the reference desk in the Genealogy Department:
Kemp, Thomas. International Vital Records Handbook. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000. 4th ed. /Gc 929 K32ia/
American Library Directory: A Classified List of Libraries in the United States and Canada. New York: R. R. Bowker, 2002. /027 Am3a/
The National Yellow Book of Funeral Directors. Youngstown, OH: Nomis Publications, 1995. /Gc 929.11 N234 1995/
Newspaper bibliographies are available in the Historical Genealogy Department for a number of states and include information on where newspapers are available and for what dates. See the Pathfinder titled Newspaper Research.
Genealogy and Local History Periodicals contain a variety of articles in addition to obituary abstracts and cemetery transcriptions that provide birth, marriage, and death information for the modern era. Some examples include family group sheets and pedigree charts of members, local newspaper excerpts (including end-of-year listings of marriage licenses and deaths), compiled family histories, etc. Access to items in periodicals is available through the periodicals' own indices - often including every name - and the Periodical Source Index, which is an article or subject index.
Several Genealogy Department sources exist that provide information on servicemen and servicewomen of the 20th century. They include:
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Directory of Names. Washington, D.C.: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, 1986. /Gc 959.7043 V67/ Includes name, rank, service, date of birth, date of casualty, city, state, whether missing in action, panel and line number on the memorial.
Korean Conflict Casualty File, 1950-57. 2 vols. /Gc 951.9042 Aa1u/ and Combat Area Casualties, Southeast Asia, 1957-1986. 2 vols. /Gc 959.7043 Aa1un/ Both produced by the NationalArchives Center for Electronic Records. The file includes name, branch of service, home ofrecord, date of birth, race, religion, and marital status among the date it provides.
The FamilySearch system of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints includes the Korean Conflict Casualty File and the Combat Area Casualties.
Although records for World War I and World War II generally are not yet available, the department does have a number of regimental histories for units that participated in these conflicts. To locate them in the online catalog, look under the name of the regiment or division in which the person served, or under the name of the war in which the individual participated.
The Genealogy Department also has the complete World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 for all states. Consult the title by John J. Newman, Uncle, We Are Ready! for useful information on how to access specific registrations. /Gc 940.410 N465un/
The Business and Technology Department's Government Documents Division has several sources that list the names of modern era military personnel for each branch of the service. These can be requested by title, Government Documents (SuDOC) number and year. A number are listed in the following.
Air Force Register. /D303.7/ Active and retired personnel, 1949-1979.
Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty. /D208.12/ 1941-1985.
Official Army Register. /D102.9/ 1932-1976. This source lists regular commissioned and warrant officers on active duty and retired officers and warrant officers on active duty. It includes the soldier's name, pay grade, rank, and birth date, among other information.
Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers, U.S. Naval Reserve. /D208.12-2/ 1943-1985.
Register of Retired Officers, Navy and Marine Corps. /D208.12-3/ 1960-1984.
Another book that may help researchers find soldiers and sailors is Richard S. Johnson's How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Been in the Military. 8th ed. Spartanburg, SC: Military Information Enterprises, 1999. /Gc 973 J632h/ It also is available for checkout through the Business and Technology Department. /355.0025 J63h/
Researchers may write for records of their 20th century soldier to the National Personnel Records Center, 9700 Page Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63132. However, eighty percent of army records at this location were destroyed by fire in 1973.
The Genealogy Department has an excellent collection of city directories that will place an individual in a given locality at a given time in the modern era. Directories for major U.S. cities covering the time period prior to 1936 can be found on microfilm. Check the microtext catalog drawers labeled "City Directories" for a list of holdings. The department also has a large collection of Polk Company city directories in print dating from the early 1960s to the present. Some earlier print directories, by Polk and other companies, are available as well. To determine whether a print directory is available for a specific town or county, check the online catalog at www.ACPL.Lib.in.us under the name of the city with the term directory.
Current Indiana city directories are in the Business and Technology Department on the first floor. Fort Wayne city directories are located both with the Fort Wayne and Allen County, IN materials, depending on coverage, as well as in the regular city directory shelves. All other print city directories are located in the regular city directory shelves.
Online phone directory products are available through the e-resources link on the library's homepage. Compiled from marketing lists and other sources, these are a fairly current list of names, addresses and telephone numbers for many millions of individuals and business across the United States. Each product has a slightly different coverage and varying search capabilities.
The Genealogy Department has Fort Wayne telephone directories from 1911, 1912, 1916, 1924 and 1929 to the present. Use the following call numbers.
Pre-1985: /977.202 F77t/
1986-88: /977.202 F77fote/
Post-1988: /977.202 F77te/
The Business and Technology Department has a collection of current telephone directories for larger U.S. cities. County seat libraries often hold collections of city directories, county rural directories, and telephone directories. Library addresses and telephone numbers can be found in the American Library Directory, kept near the reference desk.
Other sources providing information on people who lived or are living during the 20th century include:
Salvation Army Missing Persons Locator Service. This is a service for locating relatives, not classmates, military buddies, or former boyfriends/girlfriends. The inquirer must provide essential information about the person and include a $10 non-refundable donation. The Salvation Army reserves the right to accept or reject any request. To obtain a missing persons inquiry form, contact the nearest Salvation Army office.
Social Security Administration letter-forwarding service. As a service of last resort, the SSA will forward a letter to an individual's latest address for a "strong humanitarian purpose" if the letter-writer includes the person's name, Social Security number and birth date. Write: SSA, Department of Health and Human Services, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235.
Drivers' Records. By writing to the State Motor Vehicles Registration Office or Drivers License Office in the state where the individual is believed to live, it may be possible to obtain information such as Social Security number, address, date of birth, and dates and locations of accidents and traffic tickets. Check the Findex Indexes on the library's website under E-Resources.
You Can Find Anybody! By private investigator Joseph Culligan, offers more suggestions for finding living people. Copies are located in the Readers' Services Department of the library. /363.2336 C89y 2000/
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November/December 2013
Close to 21 million American farmers produce, process, and sell food and fiber products, and nearly US$136 billion in farm goods were exported in 2011. Chief among these producers is the Land O'Lakes cooperative, which has been a part of the American landscape for nearly a century.
An iconic brand, Land O'Lakes has grown far beyond its roots as a small cooperative of dairy farmers with forward-thinking ideas about producing and packaging butter. Supported by a variety of technologies, including Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic, Land O'Lakes has become a Fortune 500 company and is now the second-largest cooperative in the United States, with annual sales of more than US$14 billion. Over the years, Land O'Lakes has expanded its operations into a variety of subsidiaries, including WinField Solutions (WinField), which provides farmers with a wide variety of crop seeds and crop protection products, and Purina Animal Nutrition, which provides farmers and ranchers with a wide variety of animal nutrition products.
Location: Arden Hills, Minnesota
Industry: Agriculture
Employees: 9,000
Oracle Products: Oracle Database 11g Release 11.2, Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), Oracle Advanced Compression, Oracle Partitioning, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle GoldenGate Veridata, Demantra demand planning applications, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Endeca applications, Oracle Transportation Management, Oracle Enterprise Manager (10g, 11g, and 12c), Oracle Universal Records Management, Oracle WebCenter Imaging, Oracle WebCenter Capture, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebLogic Suite, Oracle WebCenter Portal, Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack, Oracle Data Integrator, Exadata Storage Server Software, Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software, Oracle Application Management Pack for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack, Oracle Diagnostics Pack, Oracle Tuning Pack, Oracle SOA Management Pack Enterprise Edition, Oracle Management Pack for WebCenter, Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite, Oracle Management Pack Plus for Identity Management, Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Business Process Management Suite
The dairy and farm product giant has been a user of Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications for more than a decade, and the Oracle footprint extends across Land O'Lakes and the WinField and Purina Animal Nutrition subsidiaries. "We've been a longtime JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP customer across multiple divisions," explains Mike Macrie, vice president and CIO at Land O'Lakes. "Our growth into our current Oracle footprint began about four years ago, when we invested heavily in Oracle's technology platform and applications."
For example, back in 2010, Land O'Lakes introduced Oracle's Demantra demand planning applications and Oracle Transportation Management, which the company promptly integrated with its existing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system to improve shipping and delivery operations. In the case of WinField, the company began focusing more heavily on the Oracle technology stack—including Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalogic, and the Oracle WebCenter platform—to handle some of the complexities of the seed business.
Like the Land O'Lakes dairy products business, WinField functions as a wholesaler: it sells seed and crop protection products and services to local co-op members who, in turn, sell to farmers. To support the operation, WinField has grafted an array of Oracle technologies together with existing proprietary systems. This includes the R7 Tool—an interactive web-based, mobile platform that aids agronomic decision-making—and the company's web-based seed ordering system, Connect3.
For more than a decade, Land O'Lakes has been running Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to meet the enterprise resource planning (ERP) requirements of Purina Animal Nutrition, one of the largest producers of animal feed, and WinField, a business that sells crop protection solutions and seed to farmers. In 2006, the company's dairy foods division was hindered by the lack of integration between its business units, so it combined its 12 manufacturing plants, 40 third-party warehouses, and 23 contract manufacturing facilities on a single instance of its JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle Transportation Management solution.
Land O'Lakes plans to upgrade the dairy foods division's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne environment in the next 12 to 18 months while moving the application tier onto Oracle Exalogic and the back-end Oracle Database instance onto Oracle Exadata. "With everything we've already got in place, combined with future Oracle investments, we think we're going to get all the performance we need for our growing environment," says Tony Taylor, director of technology services at Land O'Lakes.
What makes seed sales unique and challenging is that they are directly tied to seasonal purchasing. "There's somewhat of a Black Friday in the seed business," explains Tony Taylor, director of technology services at Land O'Lakes. "WinField is a US$5 billion company that sells all of its seed during about a six-week period of time." With such a hugely compressed sales cycle, speed and efficiency in the online ordering experience are essential. Add to that heightened customers' expectations, and if transactions are running in minutes rather than seconds, customers aren't going to use that system.
To support its co-op members, WinField uses Oracle Endeca Information Discovery technology in its Emerald Extras Equinox program, which helps co-op members better understand behaviors and patterns in the farming market. "We can glean information that tells us, for instance, who has bought 1,000 acres of seed but maybe has bought only 500 acres' worth of protection products such as herbicides, granular micronutrients, adjuvants, and seed treatments," explains Macrie.
Through its partnership with GEOSYS, WinField uses the R7 Tool to gather and analyze huge volumes of imaging data, which it uses to help farmers make smarter agronomic decisions and ultimately gain higher yields.
WinField also drills down into information that, for instance, displays details in January about a particular farmer who typically purchases seed and products in November but has not yet ordered. This provides WinField the information it needs in order to perform proactive outreach to farmers to find out if they simply haven't had time to place an order. "We're able to help farmers and our co-op members, even in cases where we're not sure whether it's going to directly benefit Land O'Lakes or WinField," says Macrie. "Because this is truly a cooperative system, these are the people we work for, and we're willing to invest in them."
Prior to implementing Oracle technology and applications, WinField was struggling with its legacy web-based sales portal. "It was one of our first custom-built applications, and it was a customer-facing application for WinField," says Taylor. "It didn't have a lot of the functionality we were looking for, so we rebuilt it around the Oracle framework, which includes Oracle Database 11g Release 11.2, Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic, and Oracle Endeca applications, leveraging our JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP back end for order processing." WinField also built the front-end order entry component through its Connect3 system, making it accessible through Oracle WebCenter.
According to Taylor, the expansion of the Oracle footprint continued at both WinField and Land O'Lakes as a byproduct of Oracle's own integration strategy. "The continued integration strategy of Oracle is attractive to us, because it not only addresses the application tier but also goes down through the technology stack," says Taylor. "It made a lot of sense for us to leverage the Oracle stack through and through, and eventually that evolved all the way into engineered systems."
WinField considered all of its technology options—regardless of its existing Oracle investments—when it conducted a series of business intelligence technology evaluations, testing other solutions against Oracle Exadata. "When we started to deploy Oracle business intelligence, we had it sitting on our standard HP-UX back end, running our Oracle Database instance, and immediately we started to experience very slow performance in some of the analytics and queries," notes Taylor. "We had this really great tool, and we were giving our customers some really great insights, but because the performance wasn't there, they were just ready to drop it and quit using it. Through all that testing, we couldn't get the performance we desired with any solution other than Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata."
When WinField went live with its Oracle business intelligence solution, it had its application tier on Oracle Exalogic and the database tier on Oracle Exadata. "Since we went live, we've scaled that environment probably to a user base that has tripled in size, and the system continues to hold up and perform very well," says Taylor. "WinField is now benefiting from a transaction and analytics environment that is approximately 15 times as fast as it was with its legacy environments."
Both Macrie and Taylor are supportive of taking their Oracle investment to the next level. "We're considering investing in Oracle Exalytics," says Macrie. "With the underlying technologies of the Oracle application platform, we see Oracle Exalytics as a competitive advantage, because it's completely integrated and optimized and built to outperform other industry solutions."
Macrie feels strongly that Oracle Exalytics also has the potential to outperform the improvements already gained with Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata. Moving to Oracle Exalytics would also free the Oracle Exalogic environment for Land O'Lakes to begin virtualizing with Oracle VM. "Our strategy is to virtualize the Oracle Exalogic box and use it as the ERP application platform going forward," he says.
Land O'Lakes and its subsidiaries also view the Oracle platform as a powerful consolidation system. "We can essentially do more with less on these engineered systems than we can on traditional platforms," Macrie says. "The same operations on this integrated platform require less CPU, memory, and floor space than if they ran on a nonintegrated platform."
Both Macrie and Taylor see a great future at WinField with Oracle products. "I think there's real value in what Oracle is doing in the end-to-end integration—from the hardware platform and engineered systems through the middleware stack and up through the applications," says Taylor. "If you're an Oracle customer today and you're not using the combined strength of the total solution, I think you're missing an opportunity."
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Jonathan Erickson's Bio
Dr. Dobb's former editor Jon Erickson muses over the amusing in the world of software development.
Among other duties, Jon Erickson was editor-in-chief of Dr. Dobb's. Erickson is the guy who makes the coffee every morning, at least on those days when he manages to show up in the office. Erickson is the author of 10 books, ranging in topics from database management systems to portable computing.
- Dr. Dobb's Virtual Event: Soup-to-Nuts Dev
- Deterministic Parallel Java
- Dr. Dobb's Mobile Developer: Free, As In...Free
- An Editor's Work is Never Done
- ParKD: Parallel k-D Tree Construction in C++
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Central is Michel Richard's casual restaurant in DC. While working in Annapolis, the roving reporter invited his friends to dine at Central. (Editor's note- some descriptions are brief as roving reporter didn't eat every dish and also he doesn't take notes.)
The restaurant is a charming, noisy, delightful bistro done with style.
Open kitchen…a very busy place…
Michel Richard – adorable
Michel still as charming as he always was and is.
Cherry Tomato & Burrata Mozzarella Salad
Central "Chopped" Salad
Frog's Legs – The last time I had these with Michel was out on the lawn in front of his rental house in Brittany. We had been to a fabulous "Fish Factory" in Brittany and picked them out fresh. Michel threw Lizzie and me out of the kitchen because we were "stealing" too many frogs legs as he and Patrick Jeffroy, his friend and 2 star chef were making them. Here he uses a great cole slaw to put the frogs legs on top. I will definitely have these next time at Central, absolutely worth returning for.
Roasted Salmon with Tomatoes and Pearl Pasta
Lamb Shank with Creamy Corn Polenta and Fried Shoestring Onions – a big portion, but delicious.
Chicken Rotisserie with Roasted Potatoes and a small green salad – another "must come back to have" dish
Michel began life [at 14] as a pastry chef for the legendary Gaston Lenotre. He has not lost his touch – He's a great teacher/trainer. (He taught lizziee who used to buy pastries and now wouldn't think of anything but homemade). The Napoleon was REAL – perfect flaky puff pastry with wonderful creme. It was the first time I've had a high quality Napoleon in years – just perfect.
Michel then decided to say to our server, "Bring them every dessert!" and they did. Tastes of everything made it clear that Washingtonians can go to Central for dessert only and love it. Here Banana Split – old fashioned delicious with a few new touches.
Chocolate Lava Cake a la mode
Michel said "boobies with chocolate sauce"…yup, that's Michel! Vanilla Ice Cream with Hot Chocolate…it all disappeared.
Central's Chocolate Mousse – The bowl was emptied by my friend's 21 year old "actress daughter, soon to move to Hollywood." She is lactate intolerant and the staff was perfect in checking ingredients. She was not enthusiastic about going with us, but had a great time–no one can resist Michel!
Dessert Debris – demolition with protests,"I can't eat any more" but we did.
We had a great time. If you are going to DC, make Central a must visit. Coming soon is Michel's new restaurant at Ritz Carlton in Tyson's Corners. Michel says it will be not as fine dining as Citronelle but not as casual as Central.


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COLUMBIA - Construction crews of Magellan Midstream Partners found an oil leak last week in Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area.
Crews are putting in a new natural gas pipeline below the Missouri River.
Missouri Department of Natural Resources said there is an old petroleum pipeline down there since the '30s. This pipeline has been leaking oil and over 50 gallons have leaked into the soil.
Vic Bogosian, wildlife biologist for Department of Conservation, said this has probably been happening over many years.
"There hasn't been any crude oil through this area for 30 years. So odds are this isn't a recent leak, it's something that happened a long time ago and they are just now discovering it," said Bogosian.
Oil hasn't gotten into the Missouri River yet, it is still in the soil of the Conservation Area.


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Rescuers scoured a Mississippi neighborhood on Monday for a 9-year-old who appeared to be swept away by flood waters the night before, while floods in Alabama stranded people in cars and homes in a turbulent morning across the American South.
The young girl disappeared in Yazoo County, north of Jackson, after she was spotted playing in the floodwater from 7 inches of rainfall at the backdoor of her home, NBC affiliate WLBT reported.
The child was last seen at 7 p.m. on Sunday night and crews searched until past midnight, police Maj. Tilmon Clifton of the Yazoo City Police Department told WLBT.
Search crews and volunteers on Monday focused on scouring drainage ditches and other areas where water remained, Clifton said. Reportedly the girl cannot swim, Clifton said.
Severe Weather Pounds the SouthApril 7, 201401:50
Half of the state was under a flood warning, flood watch or tornado warning through Monday night, according to the National Weather Service.
Seven people suffered minor injuries resulting from a tornado in Covington County, Miss., Greg Flynn, a spokesman with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, told NBC News.
At least 50 homes were damaged by the tornado, Flynn said. A shelter for displaced residents was set up at a community center in Collins, Miss.
Seven people suffered injuries resulting from a tornado in Covington County, Miss., the state emergency management agency said.
On Monday, 1,700 customers were without power in Mississippi due to the tumultuous weather, according to electric companies.
Most of Alabama was under a flash-flood warning, with parts under tornado watches, while Mobile, Ala., was put under a more severe tornado warning by the National Weather Service.
People in Jefferson County, Ala., were evacuated as their homes started taking on water, said Bob Ammons, a spokesman for the Alabama Emergency Management Agency. More than 200 apartments in one complex were heavily flooded, he said.
Rescuers in boats and military trucks worked for six hours to pluck trapped people from flooded cars, mobile homes and first-floor apartments in Pelham, Ala., said Homewood Fire Department Lieutenant Gus Murphree.
No one was injured, but more than 100 people had to be rescued, Murphree said.
In Shelby County, part of a highway was closed when the rains caused a mudslide to block the roadway, according to NBC affiliate WVTM.
Trees were uprooted by heavy winds throughout 1 square mile of Evergreen, Ala., according to Weather.com.
About 4,000 homes and businesses were still without electricity Monday afternoon, Alabama Power reported.
The western half of Georgia was under a flash flood watch as the storm pressed north, and several counties were put on tornado watch, according to the National Weather Service. Heavy rain pounded the area Monday morning, according to NBC affiliate 11 Alive.
In Augusta Ga., where the Master's golf tournament is set to begin Thursday, a practice round was suspended due to severe weather, according to the Masters website.
The severe storms could spread as far north as the Carolinas, while a separate system of damaging winds, hail and tornadoes may develop from middle Tennessee to the upper Ohio Valley, according to Weather.com.
— Elisha Fieldstadt
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Calving front of Kangiata Nunata Sermia, an outlet glacier in Greenland, as seen in August 2012. New research estimates how much this iceberg production will contribute to global sea level rise by the year 2100.
For the past ten years, skyscraper-sized icebergs have cracked off glaciers in Greenland and tumbled into the sea at an ever-quickening rate in response to global warming, raising concerns about runaway ice loss and rising seas. The good news? The rate of acceleration will slow, according to a new study.
The slowdown is related to the physics and geography that govern glacier movement, not a forecast that the rise in global temperatures will halt anytime soon. Indeed, the ice sheets will continue to melt and push up sea levels around the world, just not as quickly as feared, the study's lead author said.
The earlier work extrapolated the rate of acceleration seen since the late 1990s out to 2100, explained Faezeh Nick, a glaciologist at The University Center in Svalbard, Norway. But scientists now know that glaciers respond to warming in complex ways, especially those that end at the sea.
These moving tongues of ice, known as outlet glaciers, accelerate in bursts — dumping tons of ice into the ocean — but then the pace slackens. "It doesn't go lower than it was before, but it doesn't stay at the top" rate, Nick told NBC News.
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Water filled surface crevasses on Greenland outlet glaciers, every summer surface meltwater enters in the surface crevasses and forces the crevasses to penetrate deeper which eventually results in higher calving rate.
Her work hinges on individual models of the four largest outlet glaciers in Greenland and their individual response to atmospheric and ocean warming. The models are based on more than a decade's worth of scientific observations.
For example, two of the glaciers are particularly sensitive to the production of surface melt water, which falls down crevasses and fractures off icebergs. Submarine melting of ice by warmer seas is big factor in another glacier, which thins the ice and releases a natural brake, allowing more icebergs to calve.
Once the models were tuned to accurately represent the observed historic trends of these outlet glaciers, Nick used the models to forecast future ice loss using two different scenarios of warming in the coming centuries.
Under a mid-range warming of 5.04 degree Fahrenheit (2.8 degrees Celsius) by 2100, the outlet glaciers contribute 0.3 to 0.5 inches (8.5 to 13.1 millimeters) to sea level rise, which is equivalent to 30 to 47 gigatons of water per year, according to the paper published today in the journal Nature.
For perspective, Nick said that Lake Geneva, among the largest lakes in Western Europe, holds about 90 gigatons of water. "You are losing half of that lake to the ocean every year just from these four glaciers," she said.
The four glaciers account for 22 percent of Greenland's total contribution to sea level rise. If the findings are extrapolated to include iceberg production and surface melt from all of the island's glaciers, the researchers estimate a total contribution of sea level rise from Greenland of between 3 and 7 inches (65 and 183 millimeters) by 2100.
Under the warmer scenario modeled — an 8 degree Fahrenheit (4.5 degree Celsius) rise by 2100 — the team found the sea level rise would be 50 percent higher.
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Calving front of Kangiata Nunata Sermia, one of the large fast flowing outlet glaciers in west Greenland.
The modeling is "good science" and consistent with other recent findings, glaciologist Richard Alley at Pennsylvania State University, told NBC News in an email.
He explained that an icesheet can shrink by waiting for the environment to bring warmth to it or send ice off to find warmth. "Iceberg calving is the fastest way to send the ice off to melt elsewhere," he said.
The geography of the narrow fjords where the outlet glaciers terminate is such that as the glaciers retreat, friction on the glaciers will increase, thus slowing down their seaward march and, eventually, eroding their ability to dump big icebergs.
"Then, the ice must melt in place, from heat in the air, rather than melting elsewhere from water. … Note that this does not mean that we're safe because Greenland is no worry," Alley added. "Too warm, and the ice will melt, and surface melting has been accelerating overall, contributing to sea level rise."
John Roach is a contributing writer for NBC News. To learn more about him, visit his website.


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Big Brother has had a few contestants that have had their names in the news for not so great reasons in the past but BB9's Matt McDonald might have passed everyone else up with his latest indictment in federal court for apparent involvement in BB9 winner Adam Jasinki's Oxycodone drug ring as reported by TMZ on Tuesday.
The drug charge might cost McDonald 1 million dollars and 20 years in prison if convicted.
Besides the drug charges, Matty was arrested April 18th when his 8 week pregnant girlfriend accused him of assaulting her. He was then arrested two days later when the fiance and her family complained that Matty was harassing her to drop the charges.
The NY Daily News has a great summary article on Matty's woes including the following:
I would have to say that Big Brother 2's Justin Sebik is the current runner up in the 'Biggest Loser' of Big Brother. Although I can't find any new information since 2006, up until then Sebik had accumulated quite a list of accused infractions from assault to 'theft by deception' since he was kicked out of the BB2 house for holding a knife to fellow contestant Krista Stegal's throat.
Police said McDonald, 26, punched his seven-weeks pregnant fiancée in the face, kicked her repeatedly dragged her around her Boston apartment and tried to strangle her.
Cops said the fight erupted after McDonald found a text message his fiancée received from a male friend and accused her of cheating.
"I hope the baby dies and hope u have a miscarriage," the heavily-tattooed McDonald screamed at his fiancée, according to a police report.
Just think - Big Brother 12 is just two months away!


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HOUSTON -- Royce White finally got to focus on basketball Monday, joining the Houston Rockets after he missed the first week of training camp to form a long-term plan for his anxiety issues.
White, the 16th overall pick in the draft, has a deal with the team to travel by bus to some games this season, a compromise he says will help him cope with his anxiety, fear of flying and obsessive compulsive disorder over the long term.
He was happy to just be back on the court after the swell of national media attention sparked by his request to the team.
"Trying to get back in the swing of things," White said. "It went as good as it could go."
Houston held its first week of practice in McAllen, home of its developmental league affiliate. The Rockets were back at the Toyota Center on Monday, and coach Kevin McHale said White was noticeably behind in his conditioning and his familiarity with Houston's plays.
"He's got to catch up on what we're doing," McHale said. "It's always hard when you're a young guy and you miss early camp practice, when you're trying to establish your principles and what you're doing. But he'll be fine."
White's off-the-court issues were no secret. NBA teams still wanted to talk to him after his one spectacular season at Iowa State. White was the only Division I player to lead his team in scoring (13.4 points per game), rebounds (9.3 per game), assists (five per game), steals (1.2 per game) and blocks (0.9 per game) and led the Cyclones to their first NCAA tournament appearance in seven years.
The Rockets decided he was too good to pass up. And over the summer, White flew with the team to Las Vegas and to the rookie orientation in New York City, suggesting that he had a handle on his aerophobia.
As training camp approached, though, White felt apprehensive about starting his first NBA season without a plan to cope with his disorder. He contacted the Rockets through his agent and the two sides negotiated their arrangement.
"I'm excited," White said. "It's a different plan than I've ever had going into a season. I'm happy that the Rockets are willing to work with me, and I'm excited to see what I can do under new circumstances."
McHale, who played 13 seasons in a Hall of Fame career with the Boston Celtics, acknowledged concern for how White was going to navigate through the travel demands of the league schedule.
"Royce is going to have a little bit of a different path in the NBA," McHale said. "If your choice is to have a 10-hour bus ride, or an hour flight, everyone would want to take an hour flight. He's just going to have to work his way through all that stuff.
"We're here to help him and support him as much as we can," McHale said, "but he eventually has to be responsible to your team and your teammates. That's the biggest thing."
On Monday, White easily answered questions in front of a throng of media. If anything, White said going public with his personal struggle has been cathartic.
"In a lot of areas, we're actors," White said with a smile. "The camera doesn't frighten me. Planes do."
He hopes the attention his situation has generated creates more awareness for mental-health issues and treatment.
"It helps for me, just to be honest," he said. "One of the things that comes with anxiety is trying to hide from what you're scared of and oftentimes, that is the spotlight. Being honest and having good feedback obviously helps me out."
His teammates seemed happy to have White back, greeting him with high-fives and encouragement when practice began. If White can blossom, the Rockets think he can provide a strong -- and much-needed -- inside presence.
"He has a unique skill set," point guard Jeremy Lin said. "We don't really have anybody who can do what he can do. More importantly, we're thankful that he's healthy and with the team. He learned a lot today. He didn't look like he missed too much."
White seems willing to do whatever is necessary to get up to speed on the court.
"I just stay goal-oriented," White said. "I want to be a good teammate, and I want to be a part of this organization. I have other goals and aspirations and I just stick to those, focus on those. I'm just ready to do whatever they ask me to do."


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Movie star Uma Thurman gave birth to a baby girl on Sunday, her representative confirmed to People Magazine.
This is Thurman's first child with boyfriend Arpad Busson. The "Kill Bill" star has two children with ex-husband Ethan Hawke, 14-year-old Maya, and Levon, 10.
Busson has two children from a previous relationship with supermodel Elle Macpherson, according to the Huffington Post.
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Thurman, 42 and Busson, 49, began dating in 2007. The French investment magnate proposed to Thurman in 2008, but their engagement was called off the following year.
"Mom and baby are doing well," Thurman's rep told People.
The baby's name was not disclosed.
Selected Reading: Huffington Post, People Magazine, IMDB


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"Maybe it's true," he said slowly, "what Aunt Liza believes about Anna. She's not human. For the first time he looked at her. "You understand that?"
Title: A Hidden Place
Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Year: 1986
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
For my latest excursion into the works of one of my favorite authors, I went all the way to the beginning to take a look at Wilson's very first novel, A Hidden Place. And what did I find? Well, a fine book, which was no surprise. Although this one largely lacks the boldness of premise that Wilson exhibits in his later novels, this is nevertheless a solid and satisfying piece of work. And although Wilson only gets stronger over time, his characteristic strengths are all evident here at the start of his career: the convincing depth of his characters, the vibrancy and genuineness of his settings, and his keen insights into life and human experience.
In the 1930's, young Travis is taken in by his aunt and uncle after his mother's death; and given her scandalous lifestyle (she was a "working girl"), he finds himself an outcast in a small prudish town of conventional folks. He soon connects with Nancy, a girl his own age who is also an outcast, a starry-eyed dreamer who longs to escape the confining limits of dreary small town life. And these two soon find their lives entwined with that of yet a third sort of outcast, for Travis' aunt and uncle have a boarder living in their attic, an indescribably strange girl named Anna who has very bizarre effects on people. Travis is drawn to her for reasons he can't understand. There are secret midnight meetings between her and Uncle Creath. And there are hushed rumors about her all over town. No one seems to know who — or even what — she really is.
Interspersed with these events are scenes of a traveling Hobo named Bone, a peculiar giant riding rail cars around the country and struggling to survive. Bone is also something of a mystery to those around him, and some try to take advantage of his apparent simple-mindedness. Bone feels a constant tug pulling him to some faraway place. He doesn't know what it means, but as it gets stronger and stronger, he has no choice but to follow it wherever it leads — which happens to be a certain small town already mentioned.
This is an attractive novel because of its many different facets: the mysterious nature of Anna and Bone (which I won't spoil for you); the anxiety and quiet desperation of Depression-era America; the social intrigues of an insular small town; the difficulties faced by those who don't fit into the prevalent social order; and the tendency to see in others what we want to see, in effect making other people a mirror of our own deepest needs or expectations. Wilson handles all these with skill, and braids them together into a whole that resonates with the reader.
And speaking of resonating, one of the things I love about Wilson's writing is the way he slips in little bits of insight and truth about life. I think I say that in every Wilson review I do, but how could anyone fail to identify with a passage like this:
[…] he felt, too keenly, the narrowing of life itself. You start out, Creath thought, you are a river in full flood; but life meets you with its dams and deadfalls and all its interminable and arid places. You lose speed, depth, urgency, desire. You become a trickle in a desert.
So yeah….. get the book, read the book, enjoy the book. You just cannot go wrong with Robert Charles Wilson.


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Destitute to Successful, A Poor Man's Dream will be a talk that will be given by Richard Bentham on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 7:30 pm at the Bruce and Grey Branch of the OGS at the LDS Family History Centre, 2nd Ave. SE, Owen Sound.
The forebears of Richard Bentham fled the grinding, dismal circumstances of ordinary people in Yorkshire, England and Ireland in the mid 19th century. They arrived in Ontario as pioneers and faced daunting challenges simply to survive. Hope for a new beginning saw them through many hardships.
Richard Bentham of Grey Highlands Farm near Flesherton discusses what they were leaving behind and what they were looking for here. The story of the Bentham Pioneers could be a template for the many thousands of pioneers that poured into Grey County.
For more information, go to www.bruceandgreygenealogy.com


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CARSON, Calif. (Monday, August 27, 2012) – The LA Galaxy announced today that Ante Razov, a member of the inaugural 1996 Galaxy squad and the fourth leading goal scorer in MLS history, has been hired by the club's Academy to serve as the head coach of their U-14 team. Razov replaces Craig Harrington, who served as the head coach of the Galaxy U-14's in their first season of play in the Southern California Development Soccer League last year.
A native of Whittier, Calif. and a four-year star at UCLA, Razov was originally drafted by the Galaxy in the third round of the 1996 MLS College Draft. He spent two seasons with the Galaxy, scoring once in six games before going on to spend time with four other MLS teams in addition to a stint in Spain with Racing de Ferrol. In his 14 seasons in MLS, Razov won three U.S. Open Cup titles and MLS Cup 1998 with the Chicago Fire while also spending time with the Columbus Crew, MetroStars and Chivas USA before retiring in 2009. He finished his career with 114 goals in 262 regular season games.
The addition of Razov to the coaching staff was made today by Galaxy Vice President Chris Klein, who also announced the rest of the Academy coaching staff for the new season, which begins next month.
Current UCLA Assistant Coach Eddie Soto, who guided the Galaxy U-18's to their first ever SoCal Division championship last season in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy returns as does Craig Harrington, who guided the club's U-16's to a conference championship and berth in the Development Academy playoffs after replacing Kenny Arena midway through last season. Soto will once again be assisted by former FC Dallas defender Alexi Yi, who will also serve as the head coach of the club's U-15 side, while Harrington will be assisted by Ian Sarachan, the son of Galaxy Associate Head Coach Dave Sarachan, who will also assist Razov with the U-14's.
Former MLS players Braeden Cloutier and Ted Eck are back to serve as the head coaches of the Galaxy U-13 and U-12 teams respectively with former Galaxy legend Mauricio Cienfuegos serving as the Technical Director for those two teams.
Rounding out the Galaxy Academy staff is Ruben Messina, who is back to coach the program's goalkeepers, as well as Billy Bizzaro and Gordon Kljestan, who each served as coaches last season, but will now serve as administrators. Kljestan, who last year was an assistant on the U-16 team, is now leading the club's youth soccer initiatives as Camps and Clinics Administrator while Bizzaro, who coached the club's U-13 team, will now oversee the club's day-to-day administrative duties as Academy Coordinator.
"We are very fortunate and excited to have assembled this staff," said Klein. "The goal of the Academy is to develop players that can contribute to our first team and we feel that we can achieve that given the amount MLS and national team experience on our coaching staff."
The complete Galaxy Academy staff, which is overseen by club Vice President Chris Klein, can be found below:
U-18 Head Coach: Eddie Soto
U-16 Head Coach: Craig Harrington
U-15 Head Coach and U-18 Assistant Coach: Alexi Yi
U-15 Assistant Coach: Andrew Boyens
U-14 Head Coach: Ante Razov
U-16 and U-14 Assistant Coach: Ian Sarachan
U-13 Head Coach: Braeden Cloutier
U-12 Head Coach: Ted Eck
U-12 and U-13 Technical Director: Mauricio Cienfuegos
Academy Goalkeeper Coach: Ruben Messina
Academy Coordinator: Billy Bizzaro
Camps and Clinics Coordinator: Gordon Kljestan
Academy Head Athletic Trainer: Pablo Chung
Academy Strength and Conditioning Coach: Jonathan Brooks


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Choosing glasses frames
choosing glasses frames – today this is an inevitable attribute of modern man. They will not only benefit you, but also bring the completeness of your style and appearance.
How to choose choosing glasses frames?
There are many kinds of glasses. You can find in your city stores that sell glasses. And in them see a lot of brands that produce choosing glasses frames. And also choosing glasses frames can be easily bought on the Internet. When choosing glasses, pay attention not only to the appearance of glasses, but also to their quality.
Celebrities and choosing glasses frames.
Celebrities in their lives also use choosing glasses frames. They can be seen in glasses on TV screens, on the covers of glossy magazines. They create their own style and form new trends, including in the fashion of choosing glasses frames. Celebrities choose the best and most expensive brands of glasses. Look at them and make your choice.


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This is the translation of part of a text written by Jonathan Lemire.
The original is here. (it takes some time to view it… be patient)
Like many others, Jean-Baptiste Marineau was not implicated directly in the rebellion in St-Eustache. He was more a victim of the British army marching thru St-Eustache in December 1837.
Jean-Baptiste Marineau was born in the early 1800s. No trace of his exact birthplace nor his birthdate can be found in the parish registers. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Marineau and Josette (Josephte) Quenneville. Martin Marineau was his brother, who was also implicated indirectly in the 1837 rebellion in Saint-Eustache.
On January 12, 1829, Jean-Baptiste Marineau married in Saint-Eustache Marie-Jeanne Lauzé, daughter of Paul Lauzé and Marie Poirier. The couple had at least five children : Marie-Charles-Julie (1816)*, Louis (1818)*, Philomène (1840), Marie-Charlotte (1843) et Jean-Baptiste (1844).
The 1825 census shows that Marineau was a farmer on le chemin de la Rivière-Nord in Saint-Eustache. In the 1840s, he was the owner of a ferry in Saint-Eustache. In 1851, a few years before his death, the census lists him as a carpenter.
Jean-Baptiste Marineau was the victim of reprisals from soldiers and volunteers when they marched thru Saint-Eustache on December 14th and 15th, 1837.
On February 10th, 1846, he made a claim for £5, 15 sols and 6 deniers to la Commission des Pertes de 1837-1838. Here is the official letter :
À messieurs les Commissaires,
Jean-Baptiste Marineau, traversier, demeurant paroisse de Saint-Eustache.
A l'honneur de soumettre à votre examen un compte détaillé des pertes par lui éprouvées principal et accessoire, pendant l'insurrection de la paroisse de Saint-Eustache par suite du pillage à main armée.
Pour (mot illisible) votre religion, messieurs, l'exposant vous soumettre en temps et lieu, les témoins ou autres pièces justificatives que vous jugerez convenables.
Il a l'honneur d'être avec un profond respect, messieurs, votre très humble serviteur.
Montréal, 12 février 1846
His claim was for all these items: a rifle, a sideboard, a bed, a carpenter's workbench, a coat, a large kettle, a salting tub, twelve terrines, two one-gallon jugs, two barge oars. Two witnesses were present: Paul Rochon and Pierre Vanier.
After the unrest, he signed a petition to rebuild the church destroyed in 1837; this document was dated November 27, 1844.
Jean-Baptiste Marineau died in Saint-Eustache on March 9, 1852. He was 48. He was buried in St-Eustache on March 11, J. Meilleur and Charles Biroleau were acting as witnesses.
References :
BAC, Feddocs, Lower Canada Rebellion looses claims 1837-1855, Project no 19-2, RG 19, series E-5-B (R200-113-0-F), volume 5482, no 190 ; volume 3786, no 1866.
BAC, recensement de 1825, County of the Lake of Two-Mountains, St.Eustache Parish, bobine C-718.
BAC, recensement de 1851, County of the Lake of Two-Mountains, St.Eustache Parish.
Répertoire des Actes de baptêmes, mariages et sépultures (R.A.B.), P.R.D.H.
* these children were most probably a sister and a brother since Jean-Baptiste Marineau married Marie-Jeanne Lauzé in 1829.
Stay tuned.
More information on the way…
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It's designed to be an impressive show of force: Thousands of unionized teachers plan to rally Monday in cities from New York to San Francisco to "reclaim the promise of public education."
Behind the scenes, however, teachers unions are facing tumultuous times. Long among the wealthiest and most powerful interest groups in American politics, the unions are grappling with financial, legal and public-relations challenges as they fight to retain their clout and build alliances with a public increasingly skeptical of big labor.
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"I do think it's a moment of truth," said Lance Alldrin, a veteran high-school teacher in Corning, Calif., who has split from his longtime union after serving for a decade as the local president.
The National Education Association has lost 230,000 members, or 7 percent, since 2009, and it's projecting another decline this year, which will likely drop it below 3 million members. Among the culprits: teacher layoffs, the rise of non-unionized charter schools and new laws in states such as Wisconsin and Michigan freeing teachers to opt out of the union.
The American Federation of Teachers has been able to grow slightly and now represents 1.5 million workers — but because many new members are retirees or part-timers who pay lower dues, union revenue actually fell last year, by nearly $6 million, federal records show.
Moreover, the membership of the NEA and AFT overlaps considerably; some 663,000 workers show up on both rolls because their locals maintain dual affiliations. That double counting inflates perceptions of the teacher lobby's combined strength. Total union membership isn't 4.5 million — it's 3.8 million.
The unions and their affiliates still control huge resources. They collectively bring in more than $2 billion a year, most of it from member dues. Yet there are signs of financial strain. The NEA has cut spending by 12 percent in the last two years, in part by reducing its staff. And after years of posting surpluses, the AFT has been running deficits. It wrapped up the most recent fiscal year owing $3.7 million on its line of credit, up from $916,000 the previous year, according to records filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. (AFT officials point out that's still just a fraction of the union's $155 million general fund budget.)
The unions also face threats to their public image.
Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson expects to go to trial in California next month with an audacious lawsuit that aims to overturn teacher job protections, such as tenure, that unions helped muscle into state law.
His work in the courtroom will be paired with a broad PR campaign painting the teachers unions as obstructionists who protect their members at all costs.
Olson has gathered hair-raising stories about a small number of teachers who sexually harassed students, refused to plan lessons, appeared on campus under the influence, yet held onto their jobs for years because of union-backed job protections. Exhibit A: The Los Angeles Unified School District, which spent a decade and $3.5 million trying to dismiss seven teachers for poor performance — and only succeeded in ousting four. Rather than attempting to fire Mark Berndt, a veteran teacher who pleaded guilty last month to lewd acts with his students, the district paid him $40,000 to resign.
Union leaders say that Olson is distorting the picture by focusing on a few bad apples. "Parents will see through that," NEA President Dennis Van Roekel said.
But Olson says he intends to use tactics borrowed from his successful fight to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage – plus funding from Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch – to make sure he wins not just in the legal arena, but "in the court of public opinion."
More bad press for unions looms on the East Coast, where former CNN anchor Campbell Brown has financed TV ads and a relentless social media campaign accusing the unions of protecting New York City teachers who sexually harass students. She's got some vivid, cringe-inducing examples – and she's planning to kick the campaign into high gear this winter.
Union leaders say they don't protect bad teachers, just seek to ensure due process. And they brush off the negative publicity as a political ploy that won't gain traction. The American public, they say, is much more interested in talking about scrapping high-stakes testing, broadening the curriculum, reducing class sizes and spreading resources equitably — all issues that unions have championed.
In the struggle for "hearts and minds," unions are winning, AFT President Randi Weingarten said.
It's not clear, however, that those alliances are deep or durable: Support for labor unions in general has fallen steadily, dipping below 50 percent for the first time in 2012 before rebounding slightly this year, Gallup polls find. Only 32 percent of Americans expressed a positive view of teachers unions (and another 25 percent were neutral) in a poll last year by the journal Education Next.
To be sure, unions still have the funding and the foot soldiers to be power players. The NEA and AFT spent more than $40 million last year on federal lobbying and electoral politics, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, plus tens of millions more in the states. And they can still splurge when it's important to them: The AFT bought $1.2 million worth of TV, radio and print advertising this weekend to promote the National Day of Action.
But labor analysts say it's clearly a new environment for teachers unions. "They're much more on the defensive now," said Katharine Strunk, an education professor who studies labor at the University of Southern California.
"This is a very, very challenging time for unions," said John Logan, a professor of labor history at San Francisco State University.
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Luanluan the term suggests a more playful action than the straightforward luan (to ride, to get aboard). When a Cebuano word is doubled (there must be a specific grammatical term for this), the new word is either not a real thing (balay-balay, tawo-tawo) or itself an even more playful or enjoyable action (kaon-kaon, dula-dula) than the original. In that second example, luan-luan would be like sakay-sakay. Luan or sakay both means to ride, but luan-luan or sakay-sakay sounds more like an inviting joyride.
On the side of the San Jose chapel is the reported year it was founded — 1883. Since the placename Luanluan existed much earlier than 1883, does this date possibly signal when sitio chapels were allowed by the parish? But then, we might wonder: why would the Carcar parish priest allow a chapel to be set up at a site very near the parish church for people to worship there when the church itself is quite nearby – all this assuming that where the present chapel stands is the original site. Too near, right?
Were chapels only a later development? Some as yet unconfirmed accounts relate the earliest San Jose devotion was house-to-house sort of like the present block rosary and there may have been no fixed chapel to house an icon yet. And this manner of devotion may hold true for most of the early chapel organizations of the town—a family chapel and the icon just rotated from house to house among the willing devotee neighbors.
Well. But when they decided to build the first chapel, could it have been at a site a little farther away than this one? Are there older more knowledgeable historians who could tell us the story? Because there must be a story to be found behind all this.
If so – that the original site of the chapel was farther away — it would tie in nicely with a theory, just a theory, that the area of the circumferential Padre Vasquez-San Jose-Florencio Noel-General Luna belonged to Latid, or was part of the Latid nameplace. And thus, the Luanluan area would be a little farther, probably towards the river – since the river is obviously the reason for the name.
And also assuming that by 1888, the place name Latid was still used.
Some of the families recorded as residents 1850-60 of Luanluan were:
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|Beatris Gellecanea
|Francisco Canaria
|Alfafara, Martin
|Leonora Navarro
|Antonio Alcoseba
|Bareng, Eleuterio
|Gregoria Candar
|Vicente Canas
|Canches, Nicolas
|Ynes Aleson
|Francisco Sagolili
|Emnacen, Pedro
|Toribia Emnace
|Enanoria, Pablo
|Martina Dayagro
|Fanuncialman, Santiago
|Fermina Aleson
|Francisco Canaria
|Fanuncialman, Valeriano
|Feliciana Gellecanea
|Martin Alfafara
|Navarro, Doroteo
|Feliciana Barluado
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A federal judge sentenced a Michigan businessman to two years in prison yesterday for selling $3.9 million in bad parts to the military.
Shane M.S. Sarnac, 49, apologized to U.S. District Judge George C. Smith and said he and his company, Roth Fabricating, have been working hard to make amends for their mistakes.
Sarnac is president of Roth, a tubing and machine-tool manufacturing company his stepfather started 30 years ago in the small town of Morenci, Mich. In 2007 and 2008, the company began providing gun racks, seat assemblies and other products to the military.
Although Sarnac certified that the products were manufactured to military specifications, Defense Department engineers found that some were not and some represented a safety risk.
Sarnac pleaded guilty a year ago to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, a charge brought because military payments were wired to Roth. His sister, Simone L. Haas, who also worked for the company, pleaded guilty to the same charge and is serving a 15-month prison sentence.
Smith ordered Sarnac, Haas and Roth Fabricating to pay restitution of $825,000 and ordered Roth to pay a $25,000 fine.
The defendants already have paid $400,000 of the ordered restitution and have agreed to pay the rest within 60 months, according to court records.
George B. Donnini, a Detroit attorney representing Roth, said the company has shrunk from 40 employees to 10 but hopes to remain in business. As part of a plea agreement, Smith is allowing Sarnac to report to prison a year from now, after his sister is released, so a family member is available to run the company.
"We're glad we resolved this in a fashion to be able to keep the company open and provide restitution," Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Michael Marous said.


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I love how the birth of International No Diet Day began "from a picnic in Mary's living room" in the early '90's and fertilized it's magnitude world-wide. Ms Evans-Young is herself a recovered anorexic and wrote the book Diet Breaking: Having it all Without Having to Diet and it couldn't be a better time than now to let the message sink in– deep and with reflection.
Largesse gives the background on the term: size esteem which was initially coined by Richard Stimson, husband to a contributing director/writer at the site, Karen Stimson who explains it perfectly:
– Feeling acceptance of, respect for, and pride in one's body, whatever its size or shape –
But I like this analogy even more highlighted by Cheri Erdman EdD who wrote the book Live Large! and thought about it as a simple yet poignant equation: Size Acceptance + Self Esteem = SIZE ESTEEM
Either way you think about it, the insanity of dieting, wanting to force our bodies to be a size/shape it was not genetically determined to be– and thankfully so for the beautiful variety of shapes, sizes, colors, we all add to the collage of life, is quite dubious.
It's even further magnified when you or a loved one suffer from an eating disorder and are trying to regain your health and follow through with recovery and maintaining wellness in a seemingly endless fat-phobic, diet-crazed, fashion-consumed environment. Our daughter at times can take on this incessant self-doubt and accusational inquiries about why she has to eat what she has to when others, her classmates, etc. eat less than she does and are constantly discussing "fat" laden topics— it's enough to make anyone go a little bonkers. Advertisers, marketing, the health ins field, even health care (hey, let's face it– those mega-million dollar hospitals that now look more like shopping malls want to treat the ill business) and the all time winner: the diet industry.
Stuffed and Starved is a title from researcher Raj Patel more about food prices, the global-glut, etc. but I had to think about this a little bit more this morning how it really ties into so many other layers of Life– and will be worth dissecting and playing off the similar as well as dissimilar dualities we can only pretend don't exist, or just think is someone else's "problem" to fix, get over, medicate– like the cliched remark I've heard countless times since our daughter was diagnosed with anorexia- "why doesn't she just eat?!", then the instant turn against parents when our children don't eat = it's your fault, you did something "wrong", etc.
Yes, INDD is a day we find relative and meaningful in our family. And with the weather reaching low 70's, sun shining– I think a picnic is just what we'll do to celebrate this day!


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(CNN) -- There's an old saying in golf -- "beware the injured golfer."
Well, on this occasion it was the sick golfer who came out on top on the opening day of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, Orlando.
Adam Scott, who had been suffering with flu-like symptoms, tied the course record Thursday after carding a 10-under 62 to move into a three-shot lead.
"It takes your mind off (golf)," Scott told reporters after being asked about feeling under the weather.
"The expectations lower, slows you down and almost takes your mind off what's going on, because you're not even feeling human sometimes.
"I went out there today just trying to get the ball around. (I feel) pretty ordinary."
Scott, the reigning Masters champion, may have felt ordinary but his golf was anything but as he produced a magical first round.
The Australian hit two eagles and seven birdies on his first appearance at the tournament since missing the cut in 2009.
"It's maybe a little surprising," added Scott after being asked about his impressive start.
"I don't know where it came from, but the putter certainly got hot today.
"But I like the changes they've made since the times I have not been here. And today was just one of those days where the hole was a bit like a bucket."
Japan's Ryo Ishikawa and American John Merrick share second place after both finishing with rounds of 65.
World No.1 Tiger Woods is absent from the tournament he has won for the past two years with a back problem.


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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — The Chicago Fire were able to win their first game against FC Dallas at Toyota Park with a 2-1 victory on Wednesday, but the win didn't come easily.
It took a comeback, a penalty kick save and a favorable call against a short-handed Dallas team that hadn't won in seven games to break the streak with the 2-1 victory.
Even without the suspended Brek Shea or the injured Fabián Castillo, Dallas had the better chances early in the game.
In the 18th minute, FC Dallas midfielder Jair Benítez sprung through the Fire defense on a through pass, but he wasn't able to get a shot off.
FC Dallas struck first in the 41st minute on a corner kick play, when rookie Matt Hedges headed home a rebound after Sean Johnson initially saved.
The Fire answered four minutes later, when Sebastián Grazzini dribbled twice to his left and curled a left-footed shot just over the outstretched hand of Kevin Hartman from outside the penalty area.
FC Dallas had a golden opportunity to take back the lead in the 50th minute, when Dominic Oduro took down Bruno Guarda in the penalty area to earn a penalty kick. But Johnson brilliantly saved the ensuing Blas Perez kick.
In the 62nd minute, the Fire earned a penalty kick of their own. Kevin Hartman answered Johnson's save by saving Grazzini's kick, but Marco Pappa was there to finish the rebound. Replays showed that Pappa was illegally in the penalty area before the kick was taken, but the goal was allowed.
Matt Hedges nearly finished off a Blas Pérez rebound in injury time, but the ball went past his outstretched foot and the wide-open goal.
OPTA Chalkboard: See how the Fire edged out Dallas
The Fire were able to hold out for their first Brimstone Cup victory since 2001 in the teams' only meeting of the season.
After losing to Western Conference bottom feeder Portland on Sunday, the Fire won their third game in five matches to solidify their fourth-place spot in the Eastern Conference standings. They'll head to Columbus on Saturday looking for their fourth win in the month of May.
FC Dallas are now 0-6-1 away from home, and their overall winless streak has stretched to eight games, two away from the franchise high. They'll try to snap the streak on Saturday against Western Conference-leading Real Salt Lake in the final game of Shea's three-game suspension.


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