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Washington (CNN) – Defying virtually all political analysis, the No. 2 House Democrat said his party has "a good shot" at winning enough seats in November to regain control of the House of Representatives.
Maryland Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer made a similar prediction in February, but no veteran political observers believe the House Democrats are in a position to pick up the 17 seats they would need to win back the chamber. In fact most national observers believe Republicans will keep or slightly expand the 234 GOP seat majority they hold now in the House.
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Hoyer argued in a session with reporters in his office in the Capitol on Wednesday that the "penchant for Republicans to self-destruct" combined with voters' wariness of gridlock in Congress will propel people across the country to vote for a change in leadership in the House.
President Obama's low approval ratings – about 42% in a recent CNN poll have a favorable opinion of him – are expected to hurt Democrats, and Hoyer acknowledged that they are "a factor."
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But Hoyer stood by his assessment, telling reporters, "Republicans are going to be running as the representatives of a party that shut down government, that put the country almost at the throws of default on the debt, that have done 52 votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and not much else. So I think Republicans have quite a weight to carry."
It's common for top party leaders, who have to raise millions of dollars for their party's candidates, to inflate their chances, but even the head of the House Democrats' campaign arm, Rep. Steve Israel, D-New York, repeatedly declines to predict House Democrats can put the House in play this fall.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is one Democrat who shares Hoyer's optimism. She recently told the Washington Post she is aiming for Democrats to win 25 seats in November. While Hoyer said Pelosi had a "great goal" he declined to put a number on exactly how many seats Democrats could pick up.
The Maryland Democrat cited Arkansas as a state where Democrats have an opportunity to make gains. Currently there are no Democrats in the Arkansas delegation, but Hoyer said he believed three districts could turn blue, and the national attention by the party on the competitive Senate and governor's races will help Democratic House candidates.
Andrea Bozek, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, mocked Hoyer's latest political assessment.
"Steny Hoyer is living in Nancy Pelosi's fantasy, buy their fairytale is going to have a very unhappy ending in November," she said.
Blue state constituents have to ask themselves....have "go along to get along" career Democrats done anything to advance the quality of life? Aside from blaming everyone else but themselves and instilling fear in people, these are the only leadership qualities they've demonstrated over the past 6 years.
He is definitely living in a dream world!!!!!! We do not need or want the democrats to be in control of Congress or even the WH as they have wrecked our country.
I wouldn't hold my breath. Not with all the gerrymandering the GOP has pulled off the past few years. Didn't House Democrats win more votes in 2012 but the GOP still held the House?

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Let's get this out of the way first: Bastille is not a 'typical DiS Band'. It's hard initially to put your finger on why: Dan Smith (for he effectively is Bastille) ticks a lot of boxes with his soaring and powerful voice, his intelligent arrangements and his acute ear for the dynamics of a perfect pop/rock song. There is an awful lot to love about Bad Blood, the debut Bastille record.
Where Bastille diverge from the types of artists that are usually feted on these pages though is in the presentation of their songs. With, for example, My Bloody Valentine the melodies are half buried under layers of fuzzed-out guitars and the listener has to work to uncover them: each listen delving a little deeper into the sonic morass and uncovering more and more treasure. Not so with Bastille: the 12 perfectly formed songs on Bad Blood are immediate; they reveal their charms on first listen which is both a strength and a flaw of this record.
If you can leave aside any anti-pop song snobbery and appreciate the big sing-along choruses with which Bad Blood comes amply stuffed, then you are in for a sonic treat. One of the things that you'll notice about most of the songs on here is how resolutely up they sound. On 'Things We Lost In The Fire' (sadly not a collection of Low covers) Smith sings "We were born with nothing and we sure as hell have nothing now", but with his powerful delivery and phrasing manages to make that line sound like a life affirming celebration.
Dan Smith doesn't just possess a remarkable voice (despite being a technically gifted singer he has enough imperfections in his delivery to sound human and warm) he also has remarkable songwriting chops. Almost every track on Bad Blood contains a big anthemic chorus but, again, this strength is also a flaw: 12 big choruses in a row tend to blur and merge into one another.
Bad Blood boasts a good range of instrumentation, especially with its percussion: programmed beats blend in seamlessly with live drumming and tuned percussion (shown to great effect in the opening to 'These Streets') but in the mix everything is subsumed and secondary to Smith's voice. Sometimes you are left wishing that the songs could be left to breathe a little more for themselves.
The cover of Bad Blood with its low-angle road-at-night picture and faux-cinema-poster look reminded me a lot of David Lynch's Lost Highway. Peek inside the CD booklet and you can see that this is no accident: Smith is wearing a Lost Highway T Shirt in two pictures. The Lynch connection doesn't end there either: the penultimate track 'Laura Palmer' is a well-crafted elegy to Twin Peaks' most famous corpse. What is slightly baffling is that a director as fiercely weird and unconventional as David Lynch seems to have had a major role in inspiring such a conventional and straightforward record (12 songs in 44 minutes, two ballads, big choruses, boxes ticked).
You only have to dig around a little online to see that Smith is capable of thinking outside the box far more than is displayed to us on Bad Blood: a far superior version of the highlight song 'Flaws' recorded with percussion and electronics replaced by orchestral accompaniment and numerous cover versions where Smith twists and mashes other people's songs into new and strange shapes show a level of creativity and ingenuity beyond the rather staid imagination on display here.
There is, nonetheless, a lot to love about Bad Blood. Fans of the big pop chorus and powerful male lead vocal should snap this up. There is also a sense of being rather underwhelmed: over half of the songs on the record were available in one form or another previously and the ones that are new sound very similar. That said, Dan Smith has released more properly catchy songs on this one record than some bands manage in a lifetime and, if he manages to break the shackles a little, his future Bastille releases should be essential listening.
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Topeka Kansas to San Diego California in 50 hours in a school bus - I do NOT recommend it... That's the short version. Here's the longer recount of what I recollect.
After giving the workshop I finally had enough funds to get back home, so I decided to shoot straight for home - partly because the area that I was to travel through is extremely hot and I wanted to get though it as fast as possible and partly because I have a feeling that that is the same area which has the least possibility of generating random interest in this project by just showing up. People in New Mexico and Arizona (especially the low-lands) are, in my opinion, not the most artistically-inclined. I may yet be proven wrong on this during my future journeys there, but I know for a fact that during the hot parts of the year (and those account for 80-90% of it) it's hard to see a single soul on the streets there because residents just want to get from their home into the car, then from there into the place of business where they were going and then back in the same quick fashion - the ticket there is to spend as little time outside of an air-conditioned environment as possible. So I decided to make the 1500mi (2400km) drive in as quick of a time as humanly possible.
I left Topeka at about 5pm on Saturday and arrived to San Diego Monday at about 7pm - that may be some sort of a record considering the vehicle and that there was only one driver. If commercial drivers licenses were given out simply by judging how numb someones gluteus maximus muscle is after a drive I would definitely easily qualify. The drivers seat in Gilli is original and was not designed for long stretches of driving - 2-3 hours I can do easy, but after 4-5-6-10 straight hours of bouncing up and down in it I found myself having to stand up while driving, which is actually kinda fun and feels a little like surfing a giant metal board down a freeway.
Kansas was nice and flat and not too hot and I drove well into the night exhilarated by the fact that I'm going home and hopped up on a major amount of coffee. Still, I couldn't do the all-nighter and soon after I crossed into Oklahoma I started to doze off and pulled over somewhere either in Oklahoma or Texas. Both of those states have parts dubbed Panhandle because of their shape and those parts are very similarly flat, boring and desolate.
I woke up at 8am because the air was already starting to get hot and stuffy and proceeded to drive all day down to I-40 and then on in through New Mexico, past Albuquerque and into the northern part of Arizona before finding myself not being able to go on any further. I fell asleep right after getting off the big highway just 40 miles or so into Arizona. I think I did about 550 miles that day - knowing that my average speed is about 50 when on the flats that's 11 hours of pure driving time.
In Arizona I chose the route that would avoid Flagstaff and at the same time would avoid the very low and hot I-25 that I had to deal with before (that's where Gilli overheated that one and only time and I have a prejudice against that road now). So, after looking at the topographical maps I decided to go with a series of small one-lane highways thinking that it'll be relatively flat and not too extreme when it comes to elevation changes. Somehow I must have miscalculated because soon after I started driving I found myself on a pretty steep incline. Gilli does not like hills and I was going 25mph for abut an hour until I reached a 7000+ foot plateau. It was a gorgeous drive up there and here are three images from that part of the drive.
There is a national forest there and someday I'd love to go camping in it, but this was no time to stop - I was determined to make it back to San Diego by Monday night because one of my favorite bands plays very Monday in my favorite bar in the town of Ocean Beach, so that was the major incentive driving me forward.
When I got off the plateau it immediately got to be close to 100°F, which made me ever so more determined to keep driving as fast as possible. The tough part was just coming up though and I was not looking forward to it. There is a mountain pass in California just west of El Centro and I know that road all too well. Back about 10-12 years ago I worked as a photographer for a portrait company that would frequently send me on shoots to Yuma and even a light-weight car that I drove back then did not like that climb very much. I knew I was in for a slow ride, but I had not anticipated exactly how slow. In a few parts of it I slowed down to 15mph and it was pure hell. Going so slow did give me plenty of time to contemplate every boulder, dust off the dashboard and admire the glistening of broken glass on the freeways shoulder. Here is a quick little snapshot to give those of you who have never been in this part of the country an idea of the landscape. Elevation - 3000ft.
It was still close to 100 degrees and Gilli was close to overheating for about 2 hours. I watched the thermostat closely, but there are no marks between 180° and 240° and the point of no return is 220° - the needle must have hovered somewhere around 215°... Tense! Thankfully she pulled through like a champ and soon I found myself on the wonderfully speedy downhill part barreling down toward San Diego.
I can't tell you how excited I was to see the sun go down into the ocean as I was approaching Ocean Beach. It was very unfortunate that I was just about 5 minutes from the actual ocean and had to take this sinking sun photo from the freeway, but I think it was still worth it. San Diego river can be seen on the bottom right and Pacific ocean is just beyond the background trees.
Driving into Ocean Beach, my old hang-out, in a school bus was very surreal to me, but I did not count on there being still so many tourists and locals out - I completely forgot that it was indeed Labor Day holiday and people come out in droves for that occasion. I barely found parking, stepped out of The Photo Palace and breathed a deep sigh - the first trial-by-fire journey was over and Gilli and I were back in one piece! Amazing...
I am going to take a short break from posting updates on here and allow a little time to separate myself from that experience in order to write a fair and balanced recollection report. Meanwhile I will develop the rest of the film shot, make some contact sheets, clean up the incredible mess that is currently my San Diego darkroom space, dig out the scanner to make some scans and, of course, print print print.


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The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster feels far worse to shrimper Ricky Robin than Katrina, even though he's still haunted by memories of riding out the hurricane on his trawler and of his father's suicide in the storm's aftermath.
The relentless spill is bringing back feelings that are far too familiar to Robin and others still dealing with the physical and emotional toll wrought by Katrina five years ago.
"I can't sleep at night. I find myself crying sometimes," said Robin, of Violet, a blue-collar community on the southeastern edge of the New Orleans suburbs, along the highway that hugs the levee on the Mississippi River's east bank nearly all the way to the Gulf.
Psychiatrists who treated people after Katrina and have held group sessions in oil spill-stricken areas say the symptoms showing up are much the same: Anger. Anxiety. Drinking. Depression. Suicidal thoughts.
"Everybody's acting strange," said Robin, 56. "Real angry, frustrated, stressed out, fighting brothers and sisters and mamas and family."
Fishing families, the backbone of the coastal economy, are especially hard-pressed as the waters that make up their livelihood are sporadically closed because of fears the oil will taint fish, oysters and shrimp.
Oil field workers, whose salaries are among the best the region can offer, worry about their industry's long-term future.
And there is still the rebuilding after Katrina, which in August 2005 devastated a swath from Louisiana to Alabama — almost as big as the area affected by the oil — killing more than 1,600 and forever changing the region's relationship with the water.
No one is fishing any more out of Zeke's Landing Marina in Orange Beach, Ala., though most charter boat captains are making some money pulling boom and doing other jobs in BP's cleanup program.
Looking at oil all day can be harder than staying home, said Joe Nash, a boat captain there. "Seeing everything that you've been used to for years kind of slowly going away from you, it's overwhelming," he said. "Because you can't do anything about it."
That helplessness, coupled with the uncertainty about what's going to happen with the spill and when the next check from BP PLC will arrive, leaves boat captain George Pfeiffer angry all the time.
"Our families want to know what's going on," said Pfeiffer, 55, who keeps two charter boats at Zeke's Landing. "When we get home, we're stressed out and tired, and they want answers and we don't have any."
His wife cries, a lot.
"I haven't slept. I've lost weight," said Yvonne Pfeiffer, 53. "My shoulders are in knots. The stress level has my shoulders up to my ears."
Social services agencies have not seen a significant increase in people seeking help since the spill began, but that doesn't mean the need isn't there, said Jeffrey Bennett, executive director of the Gulf Coast Mental Health Center in Gulfport, Miss., whose state saw oil wash up on the mainland for the first time Sunday.
"Unfortunately, the people most affected, shrimpers and fishermen, are not people who traditionally seek mental health services," Bennett said. "They're kind of tough characters, and look at being depressed or not being able to handle their own problems as weakness."
On Sunday evening, many in Alabama's coastal fishing community planned to attend services for a popular charter captain who committed suicide on his docked boat. Authorities had no way to know whether his death had anything to do with the spill, but they hoped it would move others to seek help.
John Ziegler, a spokesman for the Alabama Department of Mental Health, said no one had walked into counseling centers set up in fishing communities since the disaster. Then on Friday, two days after the captain's death, five people came in saying they needed help because of the spill.
As news of the captain's death spread east to Pensacola, Fla., Baptist Health Care's Lakeview Center publicized its 24-hour help line, and several calls about the spill came in the following day.
"People saying they were sad, they were angry, they were grieving, they have lost a lot," marketing director Tish Pennewill said. "Grandmothers talking about how they took the children to the beach for the summer and could no longer do that. People wondering if it was ever going to be the same."
Even people whose livelihoods aren't affected by the spill find themselves crying on beaches, like Nancy Salinas, who was on Penascola Beach last week when Florida officials closed it because oil was washing up. "It just breaks your heart," she said. "I can't get my feet in the water."
Mental health professionals say it is too early to have reliable data to understand the full severity of stress issues spawned by the spill.
However, their work so far indicates the problem is taking root, and the backdrop of Katrina means it is likely to get worse. Tropical systems such as the one that swirled over the Yucatan Peninsula on Sunday won't help matters, even though it was forecast to bypass the spill.
"This is a second round of major trauma for children and families still recovering from Katrina. It represents uncharted territory," said Dr. Irwin Redlener, a pyschiatrist at Columbia University and member of the National Commission on Children and Disasters who has worked with Katrina survivors.
Dr. Howard Osofsky, chair of the psychiatry department at LSU Health Sciences Center, said focus groups he's monitored in spill-affected areas confirmed those emotions.
Ziegler, the Alabama mental health chief, said counselors have gone out to marinas, docks and other places frequented by fishermen and others affected by the spill.
"They've had folks break down and weep," he said. "They've had people share some of their deepest feelings about their future and how they're feeling now that things seem imminent."
In Mississippi, Bennett's group is working with Catholic Social Services in Biloxi on a proposal to train people in fishing communities to work as "peer listeners" to try to identify people who might be having problems and encourage them to seek help.
The social and psychological toll on residents of the Gulf will last long after the oil is cleaned up, say veterans of the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.
"Every day you're dealing with this thing," said John Calhoun, former mayor of Homer, whose community was devastated. "If you're not working on it, you're worrying about it. Frankly, they sold a lot of alcohol during this time. I saw some of the toughest guys I know break down in tears because the stress had gotten to them."
Michael Herz, who served on the commission that investigated Alaska's spill, visited the Gulf and said it was like seeing it all over again, only worse.
"It took away livelihoods and it split families," he said. "Some members of family took money from Exxon and others were so upset they didn't. The rate of mental health, spousal abuse, alcoholism all skyrocketed."
Robin, the Louisiana shrimper, fears the spill will have similar effects on himself and his neighbors.
"This is a slow-moving hurricane," he said. "You're looking at it, and you can't do nothing about it."


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YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) Derek Thompson scored eight points and Eastern Michigan held off Purdue 47-44 on Saturday afternoon.
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Moroccan lamb
Prep: 5 mins Cook: 40 mins
Shopping for dinner doesn't have to be a chore, this five ingredient dish will have you in and out in no time, so there's more time to relax at home
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- Freezable
- Easily halved
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal350
- fat22g
- saturates9g
- carbs13g
- sugars9g
- fibre2g
- protein27g
- salt1.47g
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- 500g lamb neck fillets, cut into bite-size pieces
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- 2 tsp paprika
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- 3 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 x 400g/14oz cans chopped tomato with olive oil and garlic
- 1 tbsp finely chopped parsley, plus extra to serve
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Heat a large, non-stick frying pan. Cook the lamb well on all sides without adding extra oil. Tip in the spices, then fry for 1 min more until aromatic.
Pour in the chopped tomatoes and parsley, bring to the boil, then simmer gently, with a lid on, for 30 mins or until the lamb is tender. Serve sprinkled with more parsley.
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Fruity chicken with corianderCut 4 chicken breasts into bite-size pieces and coat in the spice mix, as above. Use 1 tsp olive oil to brown the chicken in a large pan, then add the tomatoes, as before, 85g chopped dried prunes and a good handful of coriander leaves. Bring to the boil, simmer for 20 mins until the chicken is cooked, then scatter with extra coriander to serve.
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Spice it upWhy not spice up your dish with a good pinch of dried chilli flakes – simply add them when you add the tomatoes.
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19th Aug, 2014
Made this with half the amounts listed as we we're only cooking for two. We used chicken instead. It was OK at best, wouldn't make it again. Very strong tomato flavour, a bit bland really. It seemed more like a pasta sauce. We had to add sugar as the tinned tomatoes were too bitter. I would say it needs more herbs/spices and needs to cook for a lot longer than 30 mins to taste as good as it should.
25th Jun, 2014
I started this off by frying an onion, chopped garlic and a chopped red chilli. I made it to serve two so used one normal tin of tomatoes. I removed the lid and turned up the heat 10 minutes before the end of cooking time as I thought it was looking a bit wet. It was really delicious. Warm and spicy with the freshness of the parsley.
23rd May, 2014
Yeah, in two minds about this one. Made half the quantity and only had regular tinned tomatoes, but other than that followed the recipe and it was a very unusual flavour - bitter, a bit like dhansak curry if you've ever had that. I wasn't convinced about the cinnamon so would only use 2tsp at most next time. I added a good shake of sugar to make this palatable for my family!
20th Mar, 2014
Well I'm glad that I DIDN'T read the reviews before I made this dish because I probably wouldn't have bothered. It was quite tomatoey but I like tomatoes. I didn't deviate from the recipe much but used plain chopped tomatoes because I hadn't got any other kind (not a fan of tinned tomatoes with things added) and I'd got a jar of mixed morrocan spices, so added a teaspoon. It reduced quite a lot, so added some water, so it didn't dry up. If I had thought ahead, I might have tried it in the slow cooker but used the recipe as a way of using up some diced lamb that I had in the fridge and not many other available ingredients so it worked well for me and I thought the end result was very tasty. I would definitely do it again.
13th Aug, 2013
This was really nice, I read the other reviews and too fried and onion and garlic then added the spices and the meat, I also only used 1 tin of tomatoes, and added a little chicken stock. I used the left over lamb from a leg of lamb the day before. A really good recipe if you have lamb leftover and use cupboard ingredients.


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AUBURN, CA (KTXL/CNN) - A California third grader was honored after officers say her bravery and focus may have saved her father's life when he was hit in the chest during a shooting spree.
Sheriff Devon Bell presented 8-year-old Isabell Pierce with a medal of merit Monday for doing something most kids her age have never done: help save her father's life by applying pressure to a bullet wound.
When Isabell and her father, Brian Pierce, were driving Jan. 15, they suddenly heard a loud sound. Someone had shot out the driver's side window, and the bullet hit Isabell's dad in the chest.
"Isabell absolutely remained calm and composed during the entire incident. She said she needed to focus to keep her dad alive," Bell said.
The 8-year-old's focus and quick-thinking did indeed help save her father's life, according to the sheriff.
"Brian grabbed his sweatband and placed it over the wound on his chest. Isabell quickly used her hands to hold that sweatband in place over Brian's wound," Bell said. "Brian drove to a fire station ... where he received medical aid. Isabell was able to keep pressure on the wound the entire drive."
Weeks later, Pierce is recovering from his gunshot wound and celebrating his daughter's bravery.
"I can't imagine, at 8 years old, having the composure to know to apply direct pressure onto a wound so that she can take care of her dad, so he could get to the fire station and get advanced medical care. Just amazing," Bell said.
As for Isabell, who has five siblings, she says she's getting some newfound recognition.
"Usually, my teachers would say, 'You're Emily's little sister, right?' But now, to Emily, they're like, 'You're Isabell's older sister, right?' So, now, they actually know who I am, I guess," she said.
Investigators identified the suspected shooter as 48-year-old Stanley Stepanski, who had, moments earlier, allegedly shot and killed an elderly woman in her home.
Stepanski also shot at businesses, homes and other vehicles, police say, before he was fatally shot by an officer with the Roseville Police Department.
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After reading Shawn Brown's article I was inspired to share one of my blog posts with the group. Living in the upper region of the bible belt, I have the opportunity to engage a rich variety of Southern Christian Negroes in fruitless dialogues quite regularly. These are some of the questions that I ask my Christian sisters and brothers whenever approach me and ask the usual non-sensical questions; am I saved? Do I know Jesus? Have I accepted Jesus Christ to be my personal Lord and Savior? etc.
The blog was entitled: A Few Questions For Dr. Fred Price, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Creflo Dollar, Bishop B. Courtney McBath and Anyone Else Out There. It was posted January 1st, 2009 on the Community Blog Page of hamptonroads.com
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Craig Federighi, Apple's vice president of Mac Software Engineering, and Dan Riccio, vice president of Hardware Engineering will be promoted to senior vice presidents and join the chief executive Tim Cook's inner circle, according to the company.
Apple also announced that Bob Mansfield, senior vice president of hardware engineering, who planned to retire in June, will instead stay on with the company, reporting directly to Cook and working on new products, Apple said in a press release.
Federighi will still handle the OS X and fill the spot last held by Bertrand Serlet. Riccio, who handled iPad hardware engineering, will now handle all Apple devices including the iPhone.
This does seem to be the biggest change in Tim Cook's role as CEO, and promoting two "influential" executives to his inner circle, but because they are internal candidates, they are expected to bow to the Apple status quo, according to MacWorld.
Do the recent moves mean that the Apple vision is alive and well? It would seem that Cook's moves are keeping the executive team enveloped in the Apple culture. John Browett, chief of Apple's retail who recently came under fire for Apple store layoffs -- which have since been reversed -- was an external hire. Perhaps Cook decided the team couldn't take another chance on an outsider.


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Well, as you all know, posting is pretty sparse around these parts. It's few and far between that I get a chance to craft and then post about it on this blog. I love doing this craft blog, but life gets in the way too often. As most of you know, I'm a teacher. A special education teacher. And, if any of you know any teachers you know that some days you come home too exhausted for much of anything, let alone crafting and blogging.
To no fault but my own, I created this blog about crafts. People come here to see crafts, not read about my life. And, while I'm not always crafting, my life is always going on. Things are happening, and I want to be able to share that with my friends and family, but I don't think that this is necessarily the place to do that.
So, I started a new blog with my husband. Life With The Luther's. I'll be posting about whatever tickles our fancy. Life, crafts, our never-ending task to fix up our house, and whatever else comes along. I will leave this blog up though for now. Thanks to pinterest, it still receives over 250 hits a day, which is awesome! I may post things on here, but I wouldn't count on it.
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Myrto wrote about Raising Funds for Transition. Several months ago, here in Los Angeles, we were discussing similar issues. But thoughts which began with "how do we get money" soon ventured into a different realm: "What does a sustainable service organization look like in this powerdown era and time of economic contraction?"
Here in the Transition movement, we understand that with the end of cheap oil, we will experience an inevitable (and likely severe) economic contraction. In our Transition Trainings we discuss the fallacies of the Industrial Growth Complex. We know what lies ahead: simpler times, less affluent times, less cash available, and necessarily more community participation in every single aspect of life.
Nonprofit organizations won't be immune. Already, most nonprofits are struggling for funding, and the fun's just beginning. Just like the energy surplus which is disappearing with the end of cheap oil, the cash surplus which used to fund nonprofits is disappearing with the credit/banking/economic crunch. We have witnessed "peak nonprofit."
It is absolutely absurd, in this post-peak day and age, to set up a nonprofit organization with the expectation that it will run on society's cash surplus (i.e. donations and grants). This old model, the nonprofit model we've grown up with, is a phenomenon of pre-peak excess.
We have around us several models for service organizations:
Transition initiatives ("TIs") by definition must serve quite broadly -- they must be inclusive within the community. We aren't setting up TIs to rescue "members only" from the horrors of peak oil and civilization collapse. Rather, we're setting up Energy Descent Action Plans and new parallel structures with the intent to serve the entireties of our local communities. Thus our organizational model must reflect that. The club and membership models won't work because we have to set up organizations that can and will serve a very broad base.
We're working within a new era -- an era of descent, of contraction, of coming together, of people having more time (albeit through unemployment); an era of less stuff and more sharing, an era where new things and glossy presentation will become far less important than sheer ability to get the job done. It will be a more localized era with less need to travel; an era of art and creative solutions because the "usual way" (i.e. the old buy-it consumer way) doesn't work anymore.
Doesn't it seem appropriate that we be using a new view of organization to go with this new era?
As we rethink society for a post-petroleum future, it's opportunity to rethink nonprofit structures, too. Rather than looking for how to fund Transition, and binding ourselves to a model of eternally-scrapping-for-fundraising ("Where can we fundraise?" "Where can we get grants?" "Where can we get money?"), creating new nonprofits in a time of economic contraction presents us with opportunity to rethink the idea of service-based organizations altogether.
A sustainable nonprofit in an era of powerdown and economic contraction must be able to flex and adapt to circumstances. It cannot carry debt. A loan is borrowing against the promise of a brighter future; yet we are likely now experiencing the brightest (conventional) economic times many of us will ever see. A sustainable nonprofit cannot carry pricey leases or heavy salary obligations. The operations of a sustainable nonprofit must be designed such that it can weather the long-term, because we need our TIs to be around and functioning for the long-term!
What about the cash-free nonprofit (or at least a lower-cash nonprofit): In one of our Los Angeles local groups, we recently held an event about ways a neighborhood could share finances -- everything from garden sharing to alternative currencies to group purchasing. In the course of preparing for this event, we created a chart which compares bartering, time banking, local currencies, and LETS (Local Economic Trading Systems). These represent an alternative view of economics, and for the same reasons an individual might be drawn to cash-free or lower-cash ways of meeting his needs, our nonprofit organizations could benefit. One online pamphlet, "The Community Way," describes a scrip-type program which could possibly help support a nonprofit's cash needs. More progressively, the TI could simply become yet another participant in a community-wide LETS system (see video).
What about the employee-free nonprofit: Many of the recent efforts of advocates of "the green economy" are geared toward development of jobs (as in, traditional white-collar desk jobs which pay nice W2 salaries) and "growing this sector." Yet we in the Transition movement understand that all sectors of society are being impacted by the end of cheap oil; all sectors are shrinking; and if we review biocapacity/global footprint constraints, we'll understand why no sectors can possibly expect to be growing, whether green or not-green. (for further discussion of this issue see page 6 and prior of this pdf). In a world of shrinking cash resources, creating new "nice W2 salaries" of any kind is tenuous-to-unlikely. The age of the salaried nonprofit executive is probably nearing its end. And in fact salaried executives (representing a single, influential viewpoint) might be in conflict with the circular-structured, working-group-representative, engaged-creativity models that our Transition Trainings are teaching us to use. For clerical and administrative tasks, barter-based labor, time bank-based labor, LETS system-based labor, and volunteerism are all much more likely scenarios.
What about the premises-free nonprofit: It requires networking, but hey, isn't that one of the 12 Steps of Transition anyway? Here in the Los Angeles area, our various local groups are using on a regular and ongoing basis the hall of an Episcopal church, the hall of a Methodist church, the premises of a yoga center, the open space at a community garden in a public school, some private homes, a meeting room in a public library, and they've been offered a room in a private school. Each of these has required us to form working relationships with the premises owners, fostering connections which in many cases are becoming supportive, rich, mutually enlightening, and interdependent. We didn't just "find" these generous people; we co-evolved and grew together.
What about the legalities-free nonprofit: Our Los Angeles initiating group has sustained more than 4 years of ongoing, active operations without any legal existence. It isn't a 501(c)(3). It isn't a corporation. It doesn't even have a checking account. Admittedly, this type of invisible operations probably won't work for all circumstances, but it may work for many!
As we talk about reducing consumption, our TIs are a chance to model stuff-free behavior. The challenge is: how much can you do with how little? If you think about the typical office setup with a Permaculture eye, you can see the waste. TIs have to be different. In many cases, office equipment and personal property isn't necessary; most of these can be short-term borrowed as needed, or dealt with in some form of co-op arrangement. We don't need single-use items, and reducing paper is a no-brainer. Glossy, expensive, full-corporate-services web presence isn't necessary (realize that vast swathes of the general population have limited or low-tech computer capabilities so they can't access all that fancy stuff -- rather than "better communications," in many cases it actually deepens demographic divides). Keep it simple. It's hard for us to remember when we've grown up amidst a more-more-more world that this time around it's the message that counts, not the trappings. Our new view of organization, our new view of nonprofits will have to reflect that.
Each time our Los Angeles initiating group has been faced with cash needs, it has become opportunity to ask the unshopping questions: "Do we really need this? Can we get by without this?" In true Permaculture fashion, we ask, "Could we meet this need with borrowed, repurposed, or scavenged items? How could we do it with the skills within our community?" In addition to ongoing community meetings and reskilling programs, our group has constructed a centerpiece community garden on a shoestring budget. We've borrowed AV equipment. We've used web design and graphic design skills of TI members, and have developed other skills internally (reskilling). It is possible!
Create opportunities for people to give -- of their time, their stuff, their creativity and ingenuity. The process engages people in a way that writing a check never, ever will. It binds people to the cause. They feel a part of that garden, that project, that event, that journey. And isn't this ultimately the Transition goal: finding ways to get people thinking and acting differently, finding ways to get people connected to this process, inspiring greater participation. Nonconventional organization structures and progressive financial arrangements can become yet one more tool to make this happen.
It simply (simply?!) requires thinking differently about finances, rethinking our sense of organization and nonprofit, forming partnerships, and building community.
My subject line speaks of a vision some of us had in the Boston Sustainability Community five years ago. Little or no money, a task or project focus, much formative evaluation, intrinsic rewards of working together with awareness and care, and continuous sharing of learnings with the larger sustainability community. It was somewhat inspired by the affinity groups I had known in the nonviolent antinuclear Clamshell Alliance in the late '70s.


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"Evaporative Cooling" book
CAREL has published a new book: "Evaporative Cooling".
As you know, evaporative cooling is a green technique for reducing the electric energy consumption of cooling equipments (dry cooler, chillers, etc.) yet maintaining the capability of the whole cooling system of abating the heat gains.
Cooling is partially/fully achieved by exploiting the spontaneous evaporation of water in the air: in fact, when 1 kg of water evaporates in 1 hour, it absorbs approx. 700 W from the surrounding air (1 lb of water evaporating in 1 hour absorbs approx. 1,100 BTU/hr from the surrounding air). When water evaporation is triggered through a device that consumes a small amount of energy, then that evaporative-cooling device becomes greener than an equivalent, traditional cooling equipment, like a dry cooler or a chiller. For instance, there are products like our humiFog that use as low as 5 Welectric per (L/hr) of sprayed water to generate around 700 W of cooling out of each (L/hr) of sprayed water: the ratio cooling power/input power is as good as 140:1 (= 700/5 in SI); in IP this becomes 485:1 (BTU/hr)/Welectric (5 Welectric per (L/hr) = 2.3 Welectric per (lbs/hr) è 1,100 / 2.3 = 485:1)!
Our book on evaporative cooling addresses both the physical and application aspects of this green technique, which is becoming more and more frequent for comfort cooling, data centres, abating heat gains in printing facilities, textile factories and everywhere where water evaporation can be used for doing cooling. The last chapter of the book also reports some stories that have become success thanks to evaporative cooling.
The book is currently already available in Italian and English; it is being translated into Russian and German and, upon request and availability, also into other languages.
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PIANY to Lawmakers: NFIP requires renovation, better promotion
ALBANY, N.Y.-Streamlining the National Flood Insurance Program claims process, giving affected policyholders a single point of contact "claims coordinator," and improving public education about flood insurance are some of the recommendations the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc., offered during yesterdays round-table discussion about the administration of the National Flood Insurance Program in New York state. The meeting, called by Senate Chairman James L. Steward (R-51) and Sen. John J. Bonacic (R-42), was held by the Senate Standing Committee on Insurance at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y., to explore ways to ensure adequate flood insurance coverage for the states property owners.
"PIANY members-thousands of independent insurance agents throughout New York state-have witnessed, and some even experienced personally, the significant and devastating damage caused to properties by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee," said PIANY Past President Jeffrey Greenfield, an independent agent in Rockville Center, N.Y. "Too many of our members policyholders, individuals and families, are still struggling to recover after having lost everything they own."
Greenfield told policymakers that a substantial number of these delays could be attributed to having multiple adjusters involved, a lack of communication and coordination among these adjusters and the fact that many adjusters lack adequate flood certification and training. As a proposed reform, Greenfield endorsed a single point of contact "claim coordinator" proposal to expedite the claims handling process.
Greenfield also told policymakers that many homeowners are not aware of the need-or even the availability of-proper coverage for their properties in the event of a flood. Moreover, homeowners simply dont understand the differences in coverages (ACV vs. Replacement
Cost) between flood and homeowners policies. While coverage is available for most property, including buildings and their contents, through New York states Write-Your-Own flood program, there is widespread misconception among homeowners as to what their homeowners insurance policies cover, which contributes to the underuse of flood policies.
Greenfield proposed that policymakers consider building upon the landmark 2008 Flood Insurance Notice Law, supported by PIA, to institute a requirement that every homeowners quote include an accompanying quote for flood insurance.
PIANY also called for a review of the flood-zone mapping accuracy and for the grandfathering of rates until flood maps can be confirmed accurate. Congress passed a law in 2003 directing FEMA to review and adjust flood maps every five years. This program has presented many long-time property owners with sudden adjustments that prove costly, and is often inaccurate. As an example, Greenfield cited FEMAs decision to use Suffolk County data to redefine the flood maps in Nassau County, resulting in increased flood policy rates for homeowners by thousands of dollars.
"While map changes are conducted to reflect a communitys flood risk, even accurate maps create financial hardship for homeowners when reassigned to new flood zones," Greenfield explained.
PIANY also urged the state to enact a referral program to local agents similar to that which the current Federal program, and that it consider revisiting state-law cancellation protections for policyholders, agents and brokers. The association also called for research of the requirement for denials on homeowners policies prior to receiving flood insurance proceeds.
Greenfield shared that New York agents will be traveling with PIA to Washington, D.C. this month to lobby Congress for a long-term extension of the NFIP program.
A video of the roundtable can be found here. Greenfields full written testimony can be viewed at http://www.pia.org/COMM/misc/SenateFloodInsRoundtable3-12-12.pdf .
PIANY is a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout the state.


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The Diamond K600S is a low profile trunk antenna mount. It features a UHF [SO239] base and 13.5 feet of RG316/U coax cable terminating in an SMA male plug. This mount is rated to 500 watts FM, 700 watts PEP SSB. The mount may be adjusted over a 0 to 9 degree range.
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The object of the game is to be the first player to play all the cards in your stock pile by playing cards in numerical order, 1 through 12. The game has 144 cards numbered 1 to 12 plus 18 joker cards that can be used as any number.
Basic rules of the game:
1. One card is dealt to each player. The player who gets the highest card begins.
2. Each player has one stock pile placed on his left with only the top card visible.
3. After the initial deal, the remaining cards are placed face down in the centre to form the draw pile.
4. Each player starts with 5 cards in hand.
5. With each turn, the computer will draw as many cards as are needed to your hand so you have 5 cards in hand again.
6. Up to four building piles can be started during play.
7. Only a 1 or a joker can start a building pile.
8. The joker card can be used as any number.
9. Once a pile of 12 cards has been completed, it is removed and the pile is empty again.
10. Each player has a personal discard pile that has 4 card spaces. You are able to place multiple cards on top of each other on one space. However only the top one can be used.
11. If all 5 cards in the players hand are played he will receive 5 new cards. Placing a card on the discard pile will not count as a played card.
12. Team mode works the same as the regular game except for the fact that you can play both your own and your partners stock and discard pile. The first team to finish one of the stock piles wins.
13. You can choose between a 20, 15 or 5 card game.
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At the beginning of the game and during the game you can choose to include two perks in your game:-Move helper: Highlights cards in your hand, stock pile or discard piles that can be placed on the shared piles.
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Ed Gavin, Product Manager & Gagan Bhatia, Product Marketing Manager
Is the endpoint backup of your mobile workforce being challenged? Learn how Connected MX addresses these challenges with optimized, continuous data protection. Understand how Connected MX safeguards your organization's endpoint data with enterprise-grade security features.
Here the success Connected MX is already having on organizations who have transitioned from Connected Backup to Connected MX, and how you can also benefit from this.
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The vision of zero incidents
Mar 17 2016
44 mins
Linus Linder, IT Director at FARO Europe GmbH & Co. KG.
Measurement technology specialist, FARO, needed to advance its IT Service Management (ITSM) to ensure ongoing support for 1,500 employees worldwide and to safeguard efficient operation of its new SAP deployment. Delivered from the cloud, HPE Service Anywhere was the solution. Join Linus Linder, Director IT at FARO Europe GmbH & Co. KG, as he shares his experiences on his journey to zero incidents.
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What does the uncomfortable truth mean for your business?
Dec 7 2015
4 mins
Tim Grieveson, EMEA Chief Cyber & Security Strategist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
In this 2nd short video (3 mins) Tim Grieveson, EMEA Chief Cyber & Security Strategist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise discusses the findings of the 6th Annual Cost of Cyber Crime report, conducted by the Ponemon Institute. Breaches are more expensive and are taking longer to remediate. It's not if, it's when will my organization be breached.
You need to focus on the data:
1.Classify your assets – understand what you are trying to protect
2.Understand what is critical
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Can Security Intelligence create business value?
Dec 7 2015
4 mins
Tim Grieveson, EMEA Chief Cyber & Security Strategist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Watch this short video (3 mins) as Tim Grieveson, EMEA Chief Cyber & Security Strategist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise discusses the findings of the 6th Annual Cost of Cyber Crime report, conducted by the Ponemon Institute. Tim looks at the top trends highlighted in the report and identifies what you need to know to create business value from security intelligence.
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HP Smart Analytics as a game changer for help desks
Oct 6 2015
27 mins
Charl Joubert, Change and Configuration Manager SMS, University of Pretoria
Charl Joubert from University of Pretoria in South Africa explains why HP Service Manager with Smart Analytics leverages Big Data to be a game changer for problem management at the service desk and how amazing gains have been measured on daily tasks.
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Create an automated data center and optimize your company productivity
Oct 1 2015
34 mins
Ralf Schäfer, COO/CSO/CCO COMLINE AG & Marco Kleiner, Data-Center-Services Director
COMLINE has updated and improved its datacenter to the next generation, based on HP Cloud Service Automation and HP Operation Orchestration. COMLINE has built a secure and highly automated hybrid cloud architecture to deliver IT services to SMEs throughout Germany from an advanced data centre. Return on investment has been achieved in less than one year along with 80% company productivity gain.
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Infuse powers customer service transformation with HP Service Anywhere
Sep 24 2015
30 mins
Nalin Parbhu, Chief Executive Officer, Infuse Consulting Ltd.
UK-based global IT services company Infuse uses HP Service Anywhere to manage its own internal IT services as well as being a key part of its innovative useMango™ solution. useMango™ saves customers 40% on testing costs and 80% of time savings.
Join Infuse CEO Nalin Parbhu for this interactive session where he will share how HP Service Anywhere keeps Infuse and useMango™ ahead of the game – and how it can do the same for you.
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Case Study: Faro - why they chose HP Service Anywhere
Jul 2 2015
31 mins
Linus Linder, Director Information Technology, FARO Europe GmbH & Co. KG
Join this webinar to hear what challenges Faro were facing around IT Service Management and why they chose HP Service Anywhere; which is an intuitive self-service portal - providing effective and easy problem management and much more.
FARO is the leading and trusted source for 3D measurement, imaging and realization technology. The company develops and markets computer-aided measurement and imaging devices and software. Worldwide, approximately 15,000 customers are operating over 30,000 installations of FARO systems.
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The Digitization of Everything Part 2
Jun 24 2015
16 mins
Mike Shaw and Dan Wood, HP Enterprise Software EMEA
Everything is digital. Industries are transformed as products and services become "software-defined". Organizations win by putting engaging applications in the hands of customers and insightful data in the hands of employees.
This new style of business requires a new style of IT. Core IT to deliver the backbone of services to run business operations, and Fluid IT to be a partner in building brands, experiences, and loyalty.
IT faces a challenge – how to be efficient and consistent, as well as experimental and innovative.
Join this webinar to learn the 5 key success factors:
1.Transform IT into a true Services Broker
2.Continuous Innovation and DevOps
3.Seize the Data
4.User Experience is Everything
5.Think like a Bad Guy
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The Digitization of Everything Part 1
Jun 24 2015
10 mins
Mike Shaw and Dan Wood, HP Enterprise Software
As digitization shapes every aspect of modern business, it is having an equally significant effect on the expectations of IT. Brands now have to embrace the age of the digital solution, whilst still maintaining the cornerstones of experience, security and loyalty. What has
emerged is a bimodal IT paradigm, where both traditional Core IT and modern Fluid IT are essential to the IT environment of a successful modern business.
A traditional IT system offers slower development but stable compute and solid security. Fluid IT is a reaction to the demands of the modern world—it is all about speed and agility as concepts are taken to market with ever-increasing speed, starting with minimal viable products. But this is not a case of old versus new, or good versus bad; successful businesses are those that learn to implement both.
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New innovations in Performance Testing technical webinar
Oct 15 2014
38 mins
Laszlo Simity, HP Software as a Service (SaaS)
Imagine a single, enterprise-level platform for all performance testing. Globally distributed engineers sharing a common testing infrastructure. All licenses consolidated into a single, easily accessible pool. Simple, single-instance installation and upgrade.
Imagine no more. Join this webinar to see the new innovations in Performance Testing from HP.
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Live Demo - Learn the secrets of Enterprise Agile Software delivery
Oct 9 2014
34 mins
Gary Voller, HP Enterprise Software EMEA
Discover how HP Agile Manager can empower your teams, provide unparalleled visibility and allow you to achieve nimbleness in the face of complexity and change.
HP Solutions for Agile Delivery enable you to move from being a development practice to being a delivery practice by integrating key disciplines like requirements and QA. They make your application teams more responsive. And they result in higher quality and lower-risk deliveries.
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Live Demo – Ready to take your application testing to the next level?
Sep 30 2014
42 mins
Matthew Brady, HP Software, Network Virtualization EMEA
With HP Network Virtualization solutions you can simulate and test real-world network conditions to improve application accuracy, reliability and performance. Enabling you to quickly discover and capture network conditions from hundreds of millions of true last-mile end points.
In this live demo you'll discover how to network-enable your functional and non-functional tests to identify user issues before deployment, test actual capacity and optimize mobile, web and other applications.
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What is the Orchestrated Data Center?
Sep 17 2014
46 mins
Andy Mackay, HP Software EMEA and Muneer Mubashir, HP Software WW
IT organizations are tasked with delivering end-to-end services for infrastructure and applications, while concurrent revolutions in cloud computing, mobility, big data and security are redefining what enterprise users expect from their applications and IT services.
IT professionals need to manage the complexity of accelerated delivery of services across traditional IT Data Centers or cloud environments—whether it is a full stack of infrastructure from storage, network, servers to databases or right up to the application layer. As an IT organization, success depends on efficiently orchestrating operations across functional silos, eliminating the hand-offs, delays and errors that lower the end users' experiences.
So join Andy Mackay and Muneer Mubashir as they discuss what the Orchestrated Data Center really is.
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How to Demonstrate Value Through ITSM KPIs
Jul 16 2014
48 mins
Michael Pott and Richard Hawes, HP Software
What value does your IT Service Management solution provide to your business? To your users? How do you measure service quality and efficiency? In a world where IT performance data is spread across many systems, using spreadsheets or other manual tools is error-prone and inefficient. On the other hand the data to answer these questions is there – it's in your service desk and other solutions. What if you could access this operational performance data coming from different systems and tools through a single lens and get meaningful answers from it?
Join this session to learn more about IT performance KPIs and how we can help you demonstrate value to your business and IT users.
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Automating IT Service Management – a pragmatic approach
Mar 12 2014
41 mins
Michael Pott and Kees Van Den Brink, HP EMEA Enterprise Software
The IT world is changing rapidly, but latest mega trends like cloud and mobility do not change the set of challenges and drivers IT organizations are constantly facing: cost, quality and compliance – even more so with the fast shift of traditional first-level tasks to more self-services.
Automation can help tackle these. But what does automation really mean? What should be automated? How would you automate? And what are the benefits you can expect?
Join this session to discuss the process – integration – automation triangle and then learn about examples like change management and request-to-fulfill to discuss some starting points for a pragmatic approach for automating ITSM.
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Big Data in Action
Jan 21 2014
46 mins
Dan Wood, HP Enterprise Software, EMEA
Your enterprise depends on actionable insight being securely delivered to the right person, at the right time, to influence what they do or the decisions they make. To stay ahead of the competition, become more profitable, and improve your operations, increasingly requires a real-time fusion and analysis of large volumes of structured machine (sensors, embedded software, etc.), unstructured-human (social media, documents, audio, video, etc.), and traditional transactional data.
Join this webinar to hear HP's strategy to harness the power of Big Data, including HP's latest innovations with HAVEn (Hadoop, Autonomy, Vertica, Enterprise Security, and n-apps), the industry's first comprehensive, scalable, open, and secure platform for Big Data. Hear stories of innovative companies already putting these ideas into practice.
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Reacting is not managing – take control of solution management
Dec 16 2013
17 mins
Paul Muller, VP of Software Marketing
IT organizations are currently spending 65-80% of their budget on maintenance. But traditional application management services are falling short, leaving IT stuck in reactive mode with unpredictable costs, gaps between internal and external providers, and challenges in innovation.
HP Solution Management Services (SMS) provides a holistic approach with a single point of accountability to help you control cost, improve quality and realize the value of your enterprise HP Software solution.
Watch the webinar to find out how your business can benefit and learn:
1. How to step out of reactive mode with HP SMS, allowing you to free up resources and make way for innovation
2. How to combat the three biggest software issues in the management phase: cost, resource and quality
3. How HP SMS can help you realize value and minimize costs of your HP Software solution
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Managing Storage Complexity in an Evolving IT Landscape
Dec 5 2013
30 mins
Nick Lee, Storage Essentials, HP Enterprise Software
Today's IT environment is full of new technology, trends, vendor proprietary solutions, virtualization strategies, BIG DATA, Enterpise applications and much more. Although there have been great advances with innovation and performance, the current scene is a setting for complexity that comes with various interfaces as well as de-centralized management of daily trends or key performance indicators.
A well-managed storage environment is constantly evolving, and managing storage resources effectively has become increasingly complicated. The transition to virtualized machines, software-defined storage, and cloud computing has created greater dynamics and has made managing a global infrastructure even more difficult. In this session, you will hear about increasing asset visibility and managing a global heterogeneous storage infrastructure. We will cover topics including capacity and utilization planning, application to spindle performance, as well as centralized storage resource management and reporting. You will get practical advice that you can use to determine the value of a storage resource management solution.
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Krom wrote:ShadowHunter wrote:I have waited a long time for this, remember when you banned me?
I think your anger is misplaced, sport. I never banned you.
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Author: Jeff Johnson, Creative, BBH New York (@fittedsweats)
Late in the spring, British Airways gave us a great brief for North America. Last year they held a contest where they gave out hundreds of free international flights (and shipping) to small business owners in the U.S. so that they could do business face-to-face rather than just via email, iChat, Skype and…fax. They hold the belief that face-to-face contact helps seal more deals rather than just staying put and hoping for the best—which in the current economy, we're probably more likely to do. Stay the course. Take less risks. Tread water. Shutter the place. Etc.
We immediately told them we would use the entire budget to make a feature length-documentary about the death of the use of the fax machine in Sacramento-area small businesses between '98-'08, while also weaving in our commentary on the dearth of new ideas in leather belt holsters for mobile devices.
They pushed back. Gently.
Actually, that last paragraph's not true. BA were giving away more free flights this year, and thought last year's winners—in telling their own unique success stories—would inspire other small business owners here to enter this year's contest, and go see their clients and prospective clients face-to-face.
Meeting real people who've dreamt up their own business and are ambitious enough to make it a reality was the fun part. Working with a budget that didn't allow us to send clients, directors, producers, account people and creatives back to far-flung locations to recreate face-to-face meetings was the challenge.
Tireless creatives Jessica Shriftman and Zac Sax teamed with director Chris Bren and Picture Farm out of Brooklyn, as well as photographer Todd Selby, and BBH editors Mark Block and Jonah Oskow to bring stories from a handful of the most compelling businesses to life. Throughout the summer, the group was fueled for the most part by Kombucha tea and it's startling before-taste.
The films (and the chance to win) can be found at British Airways' Face of Opportunity site, and, we hope, elsewhere.


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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. Emo Philips
It appears that I am caught in some sort of karmic justice boomerang. I keep running into people from my past that I thought were long gone. I find, even after all this time, literally years, I still have trouble letting go of "stuff". Believe me I try, but it isn't easy. The Buddhist in me says that I must forgive and let go in order to move forward, but it is so hard when all these mix of emotions come welling up inside. You put on a good face and just try to pretend like everything is ok, when deep down inside you know it's not. You're standing there smiling at this person that hurt you, you are saying "Hi" and all the general small talk, and you know that you are simply putting on a false front, you are bald face lying when your smiling! I don't know whether I hate myself more for being fake and pretending a false forgiveness that I don't honestly feel or whether I hate myself more so for my inability to let go and go on. I am trying to grow as a Buddhist and I find that at times like this my faith and belief is really put to the test. Maybe this is karma's way of giving them a chance to say "I am sorry". I don't know. I do know that two simple words go a long way toward mending the bridge of past hurts and ill will. With that I leave you with one of my all time favorite heartbreak songs…..


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Sarah Michelle Gellar has officially signed on to reprise her role as Kathryn Merteuil in NBC's "Cruel Intentions" sequel, meaning that pilot just got a whole lot cooler.
Gellar will star in the project, which comes from writers Jordan Ross and Lindsey Rosin and serves as a follow-up to the 1999 movie of the same name. The series will follow Kathryn's quest to control Bash, the son of Annette Hargrove (originally played by Reese Witherspoon), and the deceased Sebastian Valmont (originally played by Ryan Phillippe), as he leaves his small Kansas town to learn more about his family's legacy at Brighton Preparatory Academy. [[370101891,C]]
Since her days on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Gellar starred opposite Robin Williams in the sweet but short-lived comedy "The Crazy Ones," and starred opposite herself in the short-lived but not quite as sweet drama, "Ringer." She has also been lending her voice to "Robot Chicken" and "Star Wars Rebels."
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'Researching Ancestors in the East India Company Armies' provides a thorough analysis of the relevant biographical sources together with an informed comentary and a series of useful tables and appendices.
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September saw lending to private companies in the eurozone fall substantially, as businesses reined in the urge to borrow and lenders remained reluctant to shell out.
Reuters reported Thursday that European Central Bank (ECB) data showed a decrease of 0.8% from a year ago in loans to the private sector, for both businesses and households, in the region. That was a bigger drop than expected by economists in a Reuters poll, who had forecast a median of 0.6%.
In the largest decrease since December, September business lending fell 20 billion euros ($26 billion) below August levels, with Italy among countries where lending slowed. Lending to businesses did continue to rise, however, in Germany, the eurozone's largest economy.
This is despite the fact that the ECB has flooded banks in the eurozone with over a trillion euros ($1.3 trillion) in long-term loans with extremely low interest rates in the hope of loosening credit for businesses and individuals. However, lenders took the money but not the bait and are hanging onto the funds they borrowed.
Eurozone E3 money supply followed tight credit, with the growth of money in circulation and deposited at banks slowing to an annual rate of 2.7% during September; that's down from 2.8% in August. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected 3.0%.
Economist Howard Archer at Global Insight said in the report that the drop was not just because of increasing uncertainty about the economic outlook, but also because banks were not anxious to provide credit. He was quoted saying, "The concern is that a number of companies who do want to borrow—whether it be to support their operations, lift investment, explore new markets—and are in decent shape are finding it hard to."
He added, "So tight credit conditions are handicapping euro zone growth prospects."