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Rhonda Gates makes her living developing weight management programs for hospitals, corporations and health clubs. Her work places her on the cutting edge of emerging trends in weight management and fitness.
Some of what she sees, such as McDonald's discontinuing its super-sized meals, heartens her. But other things, such as the way many health clubs treat overweight and obese clients, dismays her. Gates says many club owners and trainers want overweight people to buy memberships but don't necessarily want them using the club.
"At the clubs what I got was, 'Oh yeah, we really want that population,'" says Gates, president of Lifestyles by Rhonda Gates. "But underneath, what they wanted was to increase membership and saw this as a market they could capture. There is a definite prejudice against people who are heavy, especially in the fitness industry."
It's an astounding claim, particularly considering that, theoretically at least, health clubs exist to help overweight people get into shape. But it's a claim that has some resonance inside the industry. Even those who disagree with Gates admit that many club owners and trainers aren't equipped to work with overweight and obese clients.
"I wouldn't say there is a bias, but just that some club owners, trainers and instructors are lacking in education for this special population," says Len Kravitz, senior exercise physiologist for IDEA Health and Fitness Association. "Not all trainers and instructors know how to design programs for people with arthritis, another special population. So what can be done lies in more education for any special population."
The overweight and obese population is increasing rapidly and, no pun intended, represents the fitness industry's biggest market. Almost two-thirds of American adults are overweight, according to a study by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Almost another one-third are clinically obese. Both categories have been climbing steadily during the past 40 years. Between 1960 and 2000 the number of overweight people rose from 31.5 percent to 33.6 percent. But the increase in the number of obese people during that same period has been much more dramatic, rising from 13.3 percent in 1960, to almost 31 percent in 2000.
In the same study, HHS reports that between 1988 and 2000, the number of people with extreme obesity increased from 2.9 percent to 4.7 percent. If those numbers aren't startling enough, in 1991 only four states had obesity rates of 15 percent or higher. By 2000, 22 states had obesity rates topping 20 percent and only one, Colorado, had an obesity rate below 15 percent.
"I don't feel the industry is prepared for that market," says Dino Nowak, a fitness consultant and author of The Final Makeover: Your 40 Day Guide to Personal Fitness. "This is a key time in the industry because people recognize that diets don't work and people are coming over to fitness. We can't lose them here. This is a potential for great growth for the industry."
Realizing that potential and helping overweight and obese people become fit and healthy will require education and some attitude adjustment. Some trainers know how to exercise overweight and obese clients, but Gates knows from experience that many don't. When she asks professionals at her training seminars how they teach flexibility to an obese person, most say they put them on the floor and have them reach. The problem, Gates says, is that most people with a 50-inch waist can't get down on the floor or reach over their girth.
In body image classes, Gates asks trainers what the best way is to get people into the gym the day after Thanksgiving. The overwhelming answer, she says, is to tell them to come in and work off the extra pounds. A better answer, she says, is to tell them to come in because it is part of a healthy lifestyle.
"Trainers need body image and sensitivity training," she says. "A lot of trainers feel these people don't want to take care of themselves. They think they are slovenly or lazy. They have a prejudice or preconception. You need to be more compassionate."
The fact is, many trainers never consider the psychological and emotional baggage that overweight and obese people carry. It takes an immense amount of courage for a heavy person to step foot inside a club filled with fit or mostly fit people. Keeping them coming back requires trainers to be aware of those emotions. It also requires patience and an understanding that they will have to motivate their clients to persevere and strive for consistency because they are people who have given up, Nowak says.
Some clubs are striving to be more welcoming.
Not hanging a lot of mirrors in the exercise rooms is a simple but helpful change, Kravitz says, because mirrors can be a real deterrent to anyone who is overweight and obese. He also suggests that the instructors who work with these clients be healthy and fit but not extremely muscled because that physique may seem unattainable to them, which will be discouraging rather than motivating.
Minnesota's Life Time Fitness is one club that welcomes overweight and obese clients with open arms, says Chris Freytag, an American Council on Exercise-certified trainer for Life Time Fitness. She is also author of Move to Lose and host of a cable fitness show and ShopNBC.
"We are very focused on helping people and not just pigeon-holing them," Freytag says. "The staff at Life Time get a lot of education and are equipped to assess people when they come in. Sixty percent of our new clients are overweight and are people who really want to make a life change. If you are discriminating toward obese people, you are going to go out of business."
But everyone agrees that nothing will do more to attract and retain obese clients than trainers who not only know how to work with this clientele but who also want to work with them. It frustrates Nowak to watch a trainer making heavy clients attempt the same movements designed for fitter clients. Trainers have to spend time evaluating their overweight clients. They must assess their needs, set realistic goals and design a program that meets both. They may also have to deprogram their clients from thinking a magic pill or a diet exists that will help them shed pounds.
"Unlike more fit clients, obese clients are looking at finding small successes and building from there," Nowak says. "We are taking small steps with small successes."
Those small steps should start with an assessment.
"Not every obese person is coming in for the same reason," Freytag says. "And you always have to worry about their health history and joint safety. You have to start out a little slower. You just can't send someone obese to run five miles on a treadmill."
No special equipment is needed to train overweight and obese people although using some machines and equipment may be uncomfortable. If they are grossly obese, Freytag says, the first goal is to remove the layers of fat and change their calorie equation. Changing the way they eat may also mean suggesting they sit down with a nutritionist or registered dietician. As far as exercise goes, Freytag may start them with light weights and a cardio program.
"My philosophy with a new obese client is not to beat the crap out of them," she says. "No one likes to hurt, and they may not want to continue [if they hurt]."
Nowak suggests using tubing, bands, ball movements or steps to get them started.
"You are getting them to use their body and move it again," he says. "That's where it comes back to the training staff. You can't throw these people on the machines and it's business as usual."
Even Gates can see a glimmer of hope for the future. There was a time when heavy people entered clubs through a side door.
"I'd like to think that it's getting better, but I'm not sure that it is," she says. "Trainers have to get away from thinking they have the answers and instead pay attention to what their clients need."

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Kanye West will not face criminal charges over an incident in which he apparently punched a man in a Beverly Hills chiropractor's office, prosecutors determined Friday.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office rejected a battery case against the rapper because he had reached a civil settlement with the man and there were no significant injuries documented after the altercation.
The altercation occurred after the 18-year-old man used a racial slur in an argument with West's fiancee Kim Kardashian on Jan. 13, according to a document prepared by a prosecutor. The man had held the door for Kardashian when she entered the building but they then exchanged words. The reality starlet called West and told him about the man's use of the slur and the rapper came to the building and attacked the man in a chiropractor's office, the document states.
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The prosecutor's charge evaluation sheet says there were conflicting witness accounts about how many times West punched the man, but noted he wasn't seriously injured.
The rapper faces a misdemeanor battery charge filed after the singer was involved in a videotaped altercation with a paparazzo at Los Angeles International Airport last year. West has plead not guilty and the case is scheduled for a hearing on Feb. 25.


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A startup launched this year predicts with 93 percent accuracy what will happen with state legislation. Soon, the service will include federal and local predictions.
A startup launched this year is offering organizations legislative information and tools that can help them make better business decisions. The service, called FiscalNote, provides monitoring, tracking, analyzation and outcome prediction for state legislation in all 50 states.
Now available only as a paid service to track state legislation, the company plans to soon expand to include both federal, city and county level legislation services, and eventually include a service for individuals.
Overall, government could stand to gain from FiscalNote, according to Michael Weaver, the company's executive of business development and strategy, especially when its federal, city and county legislation tools are rolled out. The service, he says, can help them make better strategic decisions.
FiscalNote offers much of the same functionality found on free websites such as Congress.gov, the government's official outlet for legislative documents. Congress.gov contains old and new legislation, the Congressional Record, and information on committees and congress members. It's a bountiful resource, but it leaves enough missing features that other websites, like FiscalNote, have surfaced to pick up the slack.
OpenCongress.org is another such site; it makes use of the data provided by Congress.gov, but adds a more modern user interface and more functionality, such as links to write congress members either in support or opposition of the bill being viewed, bill tracking capabilities, and unofficial voting functionality for registered users.
GovTrack.us is similar to OpenCongress.gov, but with a stronger focus on tracking state legislation and analyzing federal legislation. Users of GovTrack can track bills, browse by legislative categories (such as Commerce or Native Americans), and get summaries and other information about bills, such as a bill's prognosis for making it to the next stage of the legislative process.
Despite the availability of these sites that offer up, for free, essentially the same information, many organizations -- including Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies -- opt instead to pay up to tens of thousands of dollars each month to receive legislation tracking, research and prediction services from FiscalNote.
The kind of value users get from FiscalNote varies for each organization, Weaver said. "Some organizations like the prediction because it provides the first data-backed tool to give companies peace of mind," he said, "and [they're] being more proactive and using their resources more strategically or just mitigating that risk."
FiscalNote's prediction algorithm has about a 93 percent accuracy rate in predicting whether a bill will become law, according to the company -- an accuracy rate that is based on seven years of legislative predictions. FiscalNote's prediction algorithm works by looking at the bill's sponsors, semantics and other traits.
Any organization that can be impacted by new or changing laws can benefit from FiscalNote's services, Weaver said. "Non-profits are strapped for resources, but they still have a need to understand what's going on in the different states they have an interest in," Weaver explained, adding that FiscalNote provides a cost-effective tool for some of these smaller organizations to provide analysis of the legislative landscape and how it affects their business. "They can understand it more without having to spend a lot of money on lobbying or hiring public affairs teams," he said. "They really love the discovery of these legislations."
In fact, Weaver noted, this is how FiscalNote was born. FiscalNote CEO Tim Hwang was the President of an advocacy organization for American youths. In this role, Hwang found that he needed to hire eight legislative analysts to keep his organization up to date on new bills, help him understand how they affected his constituents and filter out the white noise. His degree in computer science made it clear to him that it would be worth pursuing a more automated approach to such data analysis, and FiscalNote was born.
Some organizations just want to know about new bills, Weaver said, and some organizations just want to know about bills pertaining a certain topic like minimum wage. Walmart, for instance, had a great interest in the minimum wage increase bill that passed and was then vetoed in Washington, D.C., last year, Weaver said, adding that being able to accurately predict what is going to happen with these types of legislations is of great value to many organizations.
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Most agencies spend time tracking legislation that could affect their processes already, Carr said, so if this service works for the private sector, it could possibly work for government, too.
"If this solution does pan out to be everything they're claiming it is, it could be a huge benefit," he said. "Now, we would still track the implications – fiscal impact, staffing impact – those sorts of things we would want to track, but they may come out with some additional intelligence that could help us even track that."


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(CNN) - President Barack Obama will deliver long-promised remarks Thursday explaining the legal framework behind the decisions he makes to use drones against terrorist threats and further detail the administration's counterterrorism policy, according to a White House official.
In his speech at the National Defense University, the president also plans to review the state of threats the country currently faces and efforts to close down Guantanamo Bay's detention facility, the official said.
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After facing a barrage of criticism from both parties about the administration's secretive drone policy, Obama pledged in his February State of the Union address to work with Congress on the issue to ensure "that our targeting, detention and prosecution of terrorists remains consistent with our laws and system of checks and balances."
He also vowed to make the administration's efforts "more transparent to the American people and to the world."
A controversial memo leaked from the Justice Department in February confirmed the Obama administration considers drone attacks legal when it entails American citizens involved with al Qaeda or one of its affiliates overseas. While the policy paper had been shown to the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees last June, it only became public earlier this year.
Separately, the Obama admiration faced more pressure from Senate Republicans in March to further detail its drone policy when it comes to hypothetical situations involving suspected American terrorists on U.S. soil.
After a 13 hour talking filibuster from Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who demanded answers on whether the administration considers a drone attack in such suspects legal, Attorney General Eric Holder responded in a three paragraph letter, saying the president does not have the authority to use a drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on U.S. soil.
The use of armed drones to target and kill suspected terrorists has increased dramatically during the Obama administration. But the president said he struggles with the tactic to target terrorists.
"That's something that you have to struggle with," Obama said in a CNN interview at the White House conducted for the documentary "Obama Revealed: The man, The President" by this reporter. He continued, "if you don't, then it's very easy to slip into a situation in which you end up bending rules thinking that the ends always justify the means. That's not been our tradition. That's not who we are as a country."
This president is the best and smart...
We have home grown terrorists. They are the timothy mcveighs, the clinic bombers, the repugs in congress and last but not least the tea trolls.
Please quit this crap about secret drone deals because republicans as well as democrates sit on most military conneced committes,tell me I'm wrong..They see and hear everything that goes down and if they don't who's fault is that and I'm sure you'd be screaming if Pres.Obama did as much behind closed doors as Bush,Cheney did in their terms!!
Hmmmm Just who is anticipating this???? Obama thinks everything is solved by a tele-prompter- Guess what it takes real world experience to be president and you still don't have any and it shows!
"After a 13 hour talking filibuster from Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who demanded answers on whether the administration considers a drone attack in such suspects legal, Attorney General Eric Holder responded in a three paragraph letter, saying the president does not have the authority to use a drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on U.S. soil."
This is just wrong. The 3-page memo was written in response to a question by Paul which preceded the filibuster, and prior to the filibuster Holder had already testified in response to questions from Sen Cruz that this was not the case. Holder sent a one line response following the filibuster reiterating what he had already told Cruz.
People are more interested in the power ball numbers than any lies or half truths that Obama spins.
Separately, the Obama admiration faced more pressure from Senate Republicans in March to further detail its drone policy when it comes to hypothetical situations involving suspected American terrorists on U.S. soil.
That's the way to EDIT
i agree with the president. If you join the al queda, then you are NO longer an American citizen. repubs would agree with this also if Bush had said it.
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always." - Gandhi
It saddens me to see that this president is turning into a Hugo Chavez type. This administration has created a culture of intimidation, targeting any political groups and media types caught criticizing the policies of this President. This is exactly what Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela. It is a very scary road to travel down.
terrorism? what terrorism?? obama doesn't believe in terrorism. he's all about work place violence. 98% of the time involving muslim islamic radicals but when does reality ever protrude in the make believe world of leftists like obama?
Checks and Balances? Laws? You mean like the checks and balances he used to ram Obamacare down America's throat? Law's? Like the law the IRS uses to intimidate and terrorize American citizens?
Mr. Obama is the Emperor that has no clothes.
I'd be a lot more interested if the President spoke about IRS terrorism and his personal legion of drones.
Interesting, to say the least, as I just finished reading an international article relating to "millions of ordinary decent folk are now living in chaos as a result of U.S. and Western interference in their countries -as part of exporting 'freedom, democracy and stability',..." Exactly, how much taxpayor money is leaving the U.S.? "We the people of the U.S." should have a say as to how that money is spent.
For or against
It is very hard to watch a good man try and defend a disgusting and fruitless policy. I like Obama. But the policy of using drones to murder people is so obviously wrong on every level includig the question of legality. And international law is sacred, it should not be played with and this is what drones do.
The whole practice shows how inhumane we are. That we are quite willing to accept collateral damage and the deaths of children and innocent people. This is what is disgusting. It is not who we should be as human beings. I hope that Obama will see the light and admit that he has made a grave errror. Otherwise the drones will be his legacy.......how his children will see him in years to come.
I am a Rand Paul type of guy and I really appreciate the President saying something about this. Even if it isn't everything I want. I appreciate him being a stand up guy...
war crimes can't be just explained away.
With everyday life improving,positive things happening!why do Republicans continue with"Sour grapes"!get with it,let's have a POSITIVE AMERICA!!


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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Power lunch
I am on the no-sleep schedule these days. I find it difficult to take a nap in the day when the baby is sleeping, just because I get doing things and forget. By 7pm I am wiped (the no blogging lately is a result). Meals are quick and easy, and pre-planned.
I have been making a list of 5 to 6 meals a week, that way I don't need to go to the grocery store as much and I don't need to think about it. I just know what we are eating for dinner. Lunches are really just left overs from the night before. That is where this power lunch came about.
I was surprised how good this was, so I thought I would post it :)
Power Lunch
1 tbsp olive oil
1/4 onion- sliced
1 clove garlic-minced
1/4 cup red pepper- sliced
1/2 bunch of kale- chopped roughly
1 Tofurkey Italian sausage- cut into rounds
1/4 avocado- sliced (optional)
1 tsp balsamic vinegar
sea salt
freshly ground pepper
Heat oil in pan, add onions and garlic saute for 2-3 minutes until soft.
Add red pepper, kale and sausages. Saute until kale turns bright green.
Pour the balsamic vinegar over. Season with sea salt and pepper.
Garnish with avocado.
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The coupling of McCain and Palin
When it comes to mate selection, John McCain certainly does not engage in any pretentious behavior. He doesn't spend very much time personally wooing a prospective mate. All the pre-selection stuff is handled by his staff. His first glance and his very first gut reaction most likely tells him whether or not this is the one. No personal courtship is needed; one date is enough to find the good mate.
So the fact that the good senator immediately wanted Sarah Palin as his running mate should come as no surprise. He could tell she had what it takes to please him and his base. She could help him get what he wants. No need to vet her about Pakistan or Georgia. McCain knows that politics is in part about love and romance and so the whirlwind began.
There is an uncanny similarity relating to his choice of his other mate, Cindy McCain. With Cindy it was also love at first sight; he knew right away that she was his wife to be; the complicating problem for him was that he already had a wife. This situation was resolved via divorce and then a John and Cindy marriage.
And the fact that both John McCain's mates were beauty queens should come as no surprise. Being surrounded by beauty never hurts. Beauty is power and power is what all politicians want. Being surrounded by beautiful women affirms for self and many others that one has the power.
And it should not be surprising that both Cindy and Sarah are significantly younger than the senator; Cindy by 18 years and Sarah by 27 years. Surrounded by beauty and youth one can feel "eternally " young at heart. Such may be the case why McCain apparently is unable to give serious consideration to the possibility that his VP selection will become President if he should die. For McCain it may be that his whole life affirms that he transcends death; he is the survivor par excellence.
I do not mean to indicate that there is no cynical manipulation going on here. Politics is most often a combination of cynicism and romance. Certainly John McCain believes that Sarah Palin can help him get a higher percentage of the women's vote. But if he thinks that this will help him gain the vote of Hillary supporters and feminist women in general, McCain is engaging in unrestrained pipe dreaming.
For many feminists, a John and Sarah pairing symbolizes their dreaded male patriarchy- that of the older male being in the power position with the younger woman being in the subordinate position. Nothing new here; it's the same old same old. In fact, the more radical feminists might very well argue that this pairing is not a consensual one since for them where there is differential power, there can be no consent. In other words, they could hold that the Governor was unable to say "no" to the Senator.
What may be even more galling to feminists is that Sarah apparently holds herself up as a replacement for the displaced Hillary. Of course, Hillary can no longer be a yes woman to anyone. Sarah playing the role of yes woman to John is the antithesis of feminism.
As for the conservative base, such is entirely another story. The older male/younger female is a traditional acceptable pairing. No matter that Palin is inexperienced in national and international affairs. The good VP and the good wife follow traditional values. And in this framework all that Sarah has to do is to follow the wishes of her running mate who will then become her President. And just as the devoted wife who loses her husband thru death often inherits the wealth and status of her husband, such would be the case for the devoted VP who then becomes President Palin.
Of course, when it comes to love and politics, one knows that one does not know. McCain could dump Palin before election day. Of course, it has happened before. It was the the Democratic candidate in 1972 George McGovern who dumped his VP choice Tom Eagleton when Eagleton was no longer seen as useful to his candidacy. And the case of Spiro Agnew illustrates that in dire circumstances a VP can be forced to step down so that a Spiro Agnew cannot become President.
So if the McCain/Palin ticket becomes the winning ticket and then President McCain becomes seriously ill, it could be that Palin is forcibly removed from office and then if McCain dies, Nancy Pelosi will become President Pelosi.
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Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a sub class of mobile ad hoc networks. VANET provides wireless communication among vehicles and vehicle to road side equipments. The communication between vehicles is used for safety, comfort and for entertainment as well. The performance of communication depends on how better the routing takes place in the network. Routing of data depends on the routing protocols being used in network. In this study different ad hoc routing protocols for VANET are studied. The main aim of this study is to identify which ad hoc routing method has better performance in highly mobile environment of VANET. To measure the performance of routing protocols in VANET, two different scenarios i.e. city and highway are considered. Routing protocols were selected carefully after carrying out literature review. The selected protocols were then evaluated through simulation in terms of performance metrics i.e. throughput and packet drop. After simulation results, MATLAB can be used to plot the graph to compare the results of selected routing protocols with each other.
From the results, it is observed that A-STAR shows better performance in terms of high throughput and low packet drop as compared to AODV and GPSR in city environment, while GPSR shows better performance as compared to AODV in both highway and city environment of VANET. Based on the results of performance metrics in different environments of VANET, it is realized that position based routing method of VANET outperformed the traditional ad hoc topology based routing. In VANET the protocol performance depends on vehicle speed, driving environment etc. that may vary from one environment of network to another.
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3 Ways to Integrate Cloud Apps
Deloitte practitioners outline the pros and cons of three common approaches to integrating cloud applications.
CIOs like cloud applications. They like the speed at which they can deploy them. They like the automatic upgrades. And of course, they like the pay-as-you-go model.
That may be why Forrester Research Inc. forecasts the global market for cloud computing will grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to more than $241 billion in 2020.¹
But CIOs also express unease about potential difficulties integrating applications in the cloud.
"CIOs want to know how they'll be able to integrate cloud applications before they select a provider," says Gordon Aspin, a director with Deloitte Consulting LLP's Systems Integration service line. "Integration is a pressing concern among CIOs, and it drives much of their selection process."
Integrating cloud apps is critical because data needs to flow smoothly from one application to another to support business processes. For example, a cloud-based recruiting system should easily pass data to a cloud-based human capital management system. Similarly, a cloud-based file sharing system may connect to a cloud-based CRM system, salesforce automation application, or productivity suite.
As organizations adopt more cloud-based applications, the need to transmit data among them will escalate, and CIOs will require a strategy for integrating them.
"Without a strategy, organizations risk data quality issues and challenges keeping applications in sync, which may prevent them from reaping cloud services' benefits," says Sandeep Prasad, a senior manager with Deloitte Consulting LLP's Systems Integration service line.
Prasad and Vinod Surendran, a Deloitte Consulting LLP senior consultant, outline three approaches to integrating cloud apps and describe the circumstances in which each may be appropriate. While they use cloud-based HR applications in their examples, the three approaches they discuss could be used for a variety of applications housed in the cloud.
1. Cloud to Cloud. For two cloud applications to directly exchange data, one of them needs an integration layer that allows it to send and receive data to and from other cloud-based applications (see Figure 1). The integration layer enables the application to build the data structure required by the other cloud application and to "call" the web services that tag and transfer data and allow different applications to communicate with each other. The integration layer also performs the data transformation, encryption, and transportation.
Figure 1: Cloud-to-Cloud Integration
Most cloud applications are built with this integration layer, but its level of sophistication varies. Greater sophistication can help companies modify cloud applications, and at a lower cost, according to Surendran. Modification may be required in a global deployment where data structures need to be tailored for different regions.
"Cloud-to-cloud integration works well when one of the cloud-based applications has advanced integration capabilities, and when the two applications complement or support a particular function such as a cloud-based human capital management system that sends data to a cloud-based payroll processing system. Both apps support the HR function," says Prasad. "This option can suit cloud customers that lack a mature middleware infrastructure and can be implemented more quickly than other integration methods."
The drawback, say Prasad and Surendran, is that it may be more difficult for CIOs to find IT professionals in their own organizations with the needed skills to make the cloud-to-cloud approach work because vendors build cloud applications with proprietary software. Members of the IT department will have to come up to speed on the vendor's cloud software.
2. Cloud-Integrator-Cloud. In this approach, a company's existing middleware infrastructure acts as the integrator between cloud applications (see Figure 2). The role of the integrator is to receive data from one cloud application, convert it into the format required by the other cloud application, and send the data by invoking the web services exposed by the receiving application.
Figure 2: Cloud-Integrator-Cloud Integration
Prasad says the cloud-integrator-cloud approach may be preferable to organizations with an established middleware infrastructure and an integration team with the skills to design and develop the integration points between cloud providers. In such cases, cloud-integrator-cloud may potentially present the lowest cost option because companies only have to pay the marginal cost associated with maintaining the middleware infrastructure or for the additional resources required to build the integration point, according to Surendran.
Cloud-integrator-cloud offers good flexibility, which is critical to future enhancements and maintenance, says Prasad. "The integration capabilities offered by cloud providers are sometimes limited in flexibility, compared with the cloud-integrator-cloud approach," he says.
3. Cloud-Cloud-Cloud. The cloud-cloud-cloud or "cloud cubed" approach is similar to the cloud-integrator-cloud approach, except that the integration system is also a cloud-based application. As seen in Figure 3, Cloud C is built with an integration layer that acts as middleware between Cloud A and Cloud B. Cloud C receives data from Cloud A and transmits it to Cloud B. Cloud C performs the decryption, data transformation, encryption, and transportation.
Figure 3: Cloud-Cubed Integration
Surendran cautions that the market for cloud-based integration systems, on which the cloud cubed approach is based, is not yet well-defined. "Licensing models are not clear, and customers have a lot of questions about how they'll incur charges," he says.
Consequently, the cloud cubed approach may be the most expensive option. Surendran adds that it may also only be viable for organizations without a mature middleware infrastructure that are using cloud applications lacking integration capabilities.
Prasad, Surendran, and Aspin expect cloud integration challenges to diminish as cloud service providers strengthen their integration platforms. Indeed, they see certain providers devoting sizable portions of their quarterly updates to integration.
Adds Aspin, "CIOs will continue to need IT professionals with cloud and integration skills, but cloud providers will make integration easier."
¹ "Sizing The Cloud: Understanding And Quantifying The Future Of Cloud Computing," Forrester Research, Inc., April 21, 2011
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To promote the upcoming release of the Alien Anthology on Blu-ray, FOX released an interactive, promotional application powered by Adobe AIR and built by Oskoui+Oskoui.
The application includes a number of features that fans of the Alien franchise are bound to enjoy including an image gallery where you can discover unique photos and concept art from the films, listen to musical tracks from the soundtrack, watch video clips including trailers and customize the "wallpaper" within the application.
Congratulations to the team at Oskoui+Oskoui for building another engaging application that Alien fans around the world are sure to enjoy! Earlier this year, the team also built the Avatar Interactive Desktop to promote the launch of Avatar on Blu-ray & DVD.
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) Chris McNealy scored 13 points, Alex Young had 12 and UC Irvine rallied in the second half for a 58-51 victory over Fresno State on Saturday night.
UC Irvine (5-6) trailed 23-19 at halftime and was behind by as many as 10. The Anteaters battled back by going on a 22-12 run capped by a pair of free throws by Daman Starring to tie it at 44 with 5:38 remaining.
After Alex Young tied it at 51 with a jumper, Starring took over, hitting a jumper and a pair of free throws to put UC Irvine out front for good.
Will Davis II scored only six points for the Anteaters, but grabbed 15 rebounds. Allen Huddleston led Fresno State (5-6) with 12 points.
Fresno State shot just 25.5 percent from the field and was 3 of 16 from the arc but did make 20 of 24 from the free-throw line and forced 18 Anteater turnovers.


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I've had some rolled oats in the cabinet for a while, and I decided to try this recipe to use them up. It's a healthier version of my cheddar parmesan crackers, and the oats give them a heft that makes them a more filling snack so you will eat fewer and get full faster. Perfect for the new year, as many try to balance out all the holiday eating.
Cheddar Oat Crackers
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/4 cup milk
3/4 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
4 ounces cheddar, grated
2 tablespoons cold butter, cubed
2 eggs, 1 beaten with a splash of water for egg wash
flaked sea salt such as Maldon
Soak the oats in the milk for a few minutes while you combine the flour, salt, and baking powder in a food processor and pulse a couple times. Add the cheese and butter and pulse until it starts to resemble sand. Add in the oats and 1 egg, and pulse until it comes together. Turn out onto a piece of plastic wrap and form into a disc. Refrigerate for 2 hours until chilled.
Roll out in two sections between two sheets of parchment paper as thinly as you can, to about 1/8″. Cut or use a ravioli cutter or cookie cutter to create crackers. Put them onto a silpat or parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush the crackers with the egg wash and sprinkle sea salt on top.
Bake at 375 degrees for about 12-14 minutes, until they start to brown. Let cool before removing and serving.


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Best Buy Sells Busted Cam As New, Blames You. Oops! Employee Pix!
UPDATE: Best Buy Goes Above And Beyond To Make Up For Selling Busted Camera As New
Oh this is too classic. Michael's grandma bought a digital camera from Best Buy that turned out to already have its seal broken, be filled with someone else's pictures, and was defective. At first Best Buy said they would exchange it and give her a 10% discount. Then they decided that the customers had busted the camera and insisted the photos on the camera were "demo photos."
When Michael tried to escalate to Best Buy corporate, Best Buy said the manager had told them already that the camera was "clearly damaged" and therefore they could do nothing. There was no clear damage on the camera except for the most minor of scuff marks.
Then, the smoking gun. Michael found in a separate folder on the camera images of what very much appears to be a Geek Squad team member. Oopsie poopsies. All of a sudden now the Best Buy manager is very eager to help him out. Read the full story at Michael's blog.
It's Time For An Apology
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Book Review: Cleaving by Julie Powell: Rough Cuts
Julie Powell's central metaphor in Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession (Amazon) is the idea of butchery as therapy: it is, essentially, the act of breaking down an entity into smaller, more manageable pieces. This revelation occurs over the course of Powell's apprenticeship as a butcher at Kingston, New York butcher Fleisher's Grass-fed and Organic Meats, which she arrived at hoping to escape her disaster of a marriage and the heartbreak of a recently ended affair. When she arrives, she hopes all can be cured by cutting organic beef and Berkshire pork into chops and steaks. But in the end (spoiler!) Powell realizes that dividing everything into smaller parts can only do so much, and she has to examine her life as a whole to find peace. She also realizes that she loves cutting up animal flesh, and would like to dabble a bit more in the world of S&M.
The Meat of the Matter
Cleaving is on my radar (as it is on most people's) largely because of Powell's meteoric fame as a result of her first book, Julie & Julia. And thanks perhaps to the momentum of that earlier memoir and its hordes of fans, Cleaving is being marketed as a food book. On this front, however, it is somewhat lacking. The book is divided into three sections ("Apprentice," "Journeywoman," and the epilogue/coda "Master?"), the weaker sections of which are too lengthy and the intriguing sections too compact. The first section, by far the longest, is full of technical paragraphs explaining the exact method of separating specific cuts of meat which achieve the seemingly self-contradictory property of being both detailed and vague at the same time. As Powell herself explains, the art of butchery is one based primarily on feeling the various sinews and seams that divide the cuts, but her descriptions fall short of tactile, and It was hard to wrap my head around the process.
Besides the technical explanations of butchering, Powell handles her beginnings at Fleisher's almost like a novel, taking an overly familiar narrative voice that feels out of place for what is as much a documentary of the rock-star-filled butchering scene as it is a chronicle of Powell's emotional life. New York's local food stars are introduced as characters, giving short shrift to the real and fascinating people they are. "Tom" is the butcher Tom Mylan, of Williamsburg meat mecca The Meat Hook, and "Dan," who runs "one of the restaurants [Fleisher's] supplies," is better known as Dan Barber, 2009's James Beard Award winner for Outstanding Chef, whose restaurant Blue Hill at Stone Barns is practically locavore Mecca. Powell's gloss over background information like this does a disservice to readers who don't spend all their time reading about food (or to readers who read a lot about food, just not in New York). They're likely to miss these references, which is unfortunate: without this context, Powell takes away from the importance of what Fleisher's is, what they're doing, and how lucky she is to be apprenticing there.
The feeling that we're reading someone's novel continues through second section of the book, "Journeywoman," where Powell details her journeys to Argentina, Ukraine and Tanzania, where she learns about cattle, sausage, and goat, respectively. By far the most interesting part of the book in terms of its food content, I wish this section were longer — it's here that Powell seems to truly learn something about her chosen trade and, in her descriptions of her adventures to cattle ranches and restaurants, manages to step away from her emotional self-involvement. From these journeys, the mini-chapter "Master?" provides necessary closure to the metaphor of the book. While we never find out whether Powell leaves her husband or reunites with her lover, we do get the sense that she has found a sense of peace within herself.
Talk About Dirty Dishes
For all the Powell surrounds herself with other people on her butchering journey, ultimately, Cleaving is a selfish story. This is a book full of confessions: embarrassing sexual encounters and overly intimate recounts of her fights with her husband. At times it seems Powell is inviting judgment, as if in some way the attention of the reader will allow her to atone for her mistakes. But for all that Powell is unlikable for much of her story, at least the book is honest — which, for a food book, is rare and remarkable.
In truth, the food world can be a bit too clean. The internet drips with pristine and lovely pictures of fairytale cupcakes, caramelized roasts and vibrant bins of farmers' market produce, and apart from the masculine bravado of Anthony Bourdain and his acolytes, it can get a little cloying. Life is messy; food is messy. Above all, heartbreak is messy. Powell's book is messy, and even more, it's messy without glamorizing the mess. It's a real trainwreck that at times is very uncomfortable to read.
This is the Julie/Julia Chick?
Powell's first book, Julie and Julia was a different brand of food writing entirely. While it was occasionally confessional — it was based on a blog, after all — it was cute overall, and the gimmick was fun. It was also certain to overshadow any other book Powell would ever write. So it's no wonder that she threw cutesiness to the wind: Cleaving is too intimate, too awkward, and too sexual, and I admit, there were times when I was embarrassed by her candor. I can't help but wonder whether that's because I read Julie & Julia, not in spite of it. Was it because I wanted Powell's marriage to be as perfect as Julia Child's as badly as she did? Is it because I feel as though I know the Powell and her husband, and feel bad for them?
Whatever the answer to Powell's calculated overshare, it clashes — badly — with the meat content. This feels like two books thrown together, and it's not clear what (outside of that initial metaphor) is supposed to tie together butchery with the story of a collapsing love life. It's clear that Powell was trying to be daring as a writer and memoirist, and I'm sure in many ways it was liberating for her. But I have the feeling she got more out of it than her readers will.
–Paula Forbes


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From the minds of artist David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim emerge the Uglydolls! What started as a drawing of an orange creature known as Wage has turned into a whole new world of Ugliness and fun.
Since their creation, Wage and his friends have been featured in many publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Giant Robot Magazine, Sony Moca of Japan, Business Week, and more.


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Atlanta, New York, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Spokane, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver and most recently Santa Monica have all taken decisive action and legalized urban beekeeping. Los Angeles currently outlaws beekeeping in residential areas, and the city's policy is to exterminate all feral honey bees. With worldwide bee populations threatened with Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and urban beekeeping more popular than ever, this policy needs to change. We believe it to be a necessary and just measure requiring immediate action.


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You may have noticed that I love drawing your attention to Mage blogs.
Primarily because there seem to be so few, then suddenly out of no where one appears.
The problem I find is that no sooner have I found the one, then I find a little trail leading to another and another and another.
So today I am going to share some Gifts (Blogs brought to my attention) and discoveries (blogs I stumbled across).
A new Mage blog, but judging by the 3rd post, a song, we have lots to look forward too!
Eury dropped a note in my about page… A Gift!
As I said in my initial response…
When I read your blog url http://sheepblinkinvis.com/ I "read" sheep in bikinis…. so I had to go look… still I wasn't all that disappointed when I realized it was Sheep-Blink-Invis… still Sheep in bikinis would be something to see….
Another new blog, thankfully Sprink linked a blog post to my Noobaggedon post, thus a Gift!
Cathy, who I have mentioned before for her guest spots on The WoW Street Journal, has started up her own Mage Blog, Magerly Different. Early days, but make sure you check out her blog and leave comments so she knows she isn't alone.
No, not a mage blog, but Cass wrote to tell me that her Not Another Mage Blog has gone the way of the Dodo, but she is still writing, just with a new bent.
DPS …We Deliver: Discussions about the Mage class in World of Warcraft
Dispite similarities between this Mage blog name and a certain Hunter Blog (DPS: We Deliver: The ongoing evolution of a Huntard) this is a Mage blog.. which the URL will clarify if nothing else…http://fireandfrost.wordpress.com/
World of Warcraft Mage Guide to Raiding: A simple, direct guide to help WoW mages perform in raids
This blog has been around for a while… since February.
I am kicking myself that I didn't discover it sooner, heaps of information for your raiding Arcane or FrostFire Mage.
Highlights include Arcane and FrostFire how to's, and clear Mage specific guides to a couple of Naxx bosses and he's working on the Ulduar bosses now.
I hate it when I find out about stuff so late…
Karch, why didn't you call?
Any other lurkers?
If you are a Mage, with a Blog and are lurking out there, please drop by and give me the good news… Sure I don't have enough time to read my feedreader, but you can be sure that the Mage blogs come first!
Gnomer and Out!
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• A summary of reports on Memorial Day and summer travel.
Whether you're headed to the nation's No. 1-ranked beach – Coronado, near San Diego – or going to stand in line for rollercoasters like Disney World's new family-style Barnstormer or Coney Island's new Italian screamer, or just packing off to visit Grandma, Memorial Day weekend is America's start of the family summer vacation season.
Pools will get filled, barbecues will be dusted off, and airline schedules will get Googled as a taste of summer heat blankets the US – high 80s and 90s are forecast for much of the US.
The summer vacation season stretching 101 days begins and ends with federal holidays – Memorial Day, honoring the men and women who died while serving in the US armed forces, and Labor Day celebrating the social and economic achievements of American workers.
More than 34.8 million people will travel more than 50 miles during Memorial Day weekend, a 1.2 percent increase over last year, estimates the AAA. Of those on the move, 30.7 million (88 percent) will be driving. Gas is 20 cents cheaper than a year ago, with the current national average at $3.66 per gallon. South Carolina has the lowest price in the nation at $3.33 and California the highest with $4.32.
Looking to minimize holiday traffic fatalities, the national "Click It or Ticket" seat belt and child-restraint awareness campaign will have extra law enforcement officers on the highways. Virginia and Kentucky are two states that are increasing enforcement for seat-belt and child-restraint use.
Even though most travel will be on the ground this weekend, air travelers are advised to still leave plenty of time to get through airport security. ABC News reported that the busiest towns for air travel this weekend are expected to be Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Denver, Seattle, and Boston.
Chicago officials, for example, expect 1.5 million people to pass through the city's two international airports, Midway and O'Hare, a 3 percent jump from last year. O'Hare will feature the United Service Organization's jazz band to serenade the traveler crowds.
Airlines say the Memorial Day is a good time for travelers to think about summer air reservations, suggesting that reservations be made two to three months in advance if you want your family to be able to sit together. Some irlines are starting to reserve window and aisle seats for passengers who are willing to pay extra – about $25 each way. Base fares are also on the rise: the average roundtrip summer ticket will cost $431, or 3 percent higher than last year, forecasts Kayak.com.
And where will people go?
Close to home are the all-American flag-waving parades in small towns and cities. One parade threatened with cancellation because of financial and participation troubles in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. was resuscitated after a local resident, Paul Brisson, started a Facebook campaign (with 540 likes) to raise the minimum $1,500 needed and find volunteers.
Major theme parks are on a renovation binge in this era of ever-increasing need for speed and thrills – sometimes delivered virtually on the couch at home with video games.
Brooklyn's seaside attraction, Coney Island, is opening a new rollercoaster (made in Italy) and go-kart track – part of a redeveloped Scream Zone and other plans to include movie theaters, restaurants, and hotels.
Universal Studios Hollywood opens early this weekend – 7:30 a.m. – to give people a chance to try its new Transformers ride, inspired by the movie.
Disney Parks is also completing renovation of Fantasyland, the parks largest project in 40 years.
"It's a big deal," said Dennis Speigel, president of Cincinnati-based International Theme Park Services. "Parks have realized it takes more than a Space Mountain by itself or one ride and attraction. It has to have a combination of all the elements now."
Part of the Disney expansion opened in April including one of two dueling Dumbo rides, a Barnstormer family roller coaster. Opening later this year is a Princess Fairytale Hall where visitors can meet Disney princesses. In June, Disneyland California Adventure will unveil Cars Land, a replica of the film's town, Radiator Springs.
There are nature-themed parks as well: the National Parks. Yellowstone, in Wyoming, opens today for the summer season. Fishing season in the park starts tomorrow.
And then there's the beach. A study released Wednesday rated the top beaches in the United States.
Coronado Beach, across San Diego Bay from downtown skyscrapers, was ranked No. 1 by Stephen Leatherman, a professor at Florida International University's Laboratory for Coastal Research who has been studying beach environment and safety for 20 years. He bestowed the ranking on the 1.5 mile beach for its warm climate and stunning backdrop.
"I think it's one of the most super beaches around," said Leatherman, also known as "Dr. Beach."
Criteria for judging the best beaches include the sand's look and feel, water quality, crowds, facilities and weather. Other beaches that made the top of the list are Kahanamoku Beach in Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii; Main Beach, East Hampton, N.Y.; St. George Island State Park, Florida Panhandle; Coast Guard Beach, Cape Cod, Mass.; Beachwalker Park, Kiawah Island, S.C.; and Cape Hatteras in North Carolina.


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The best politicians care about how laws and programs affect people but don't mistake disagreement for personal attacks.
But, even after Maine's Legislature finished its budget business, Gov. Paul LePage appeared to feel personally put upon.
Despite prevailing on many issues, in part by vetoing a record number of bills and having the vast majority of the vetoes upheld, the governor's budget was set aside while another was adopted.
With the budget battle behind him, LePage's Saturday radio address cast policy differences as personal.
Said LePage, "Politicians work around the clock to kill common-sense legislation, just because I proposed it. They would rather ignore the best interests of Maine people than see the governor get good legislation passed. That is truly offensive."
The governor continued, "Being hateful toward me is one thing. But punishing Mainers just to see me lose is absolutely disgraceful.
Somehow LePage seems to think that more than two-thirds of legislators, Republicans and Democrats, adopted a budget that they believe is against Mainers' best interest simply because they want to hurt him.
In other words, the governor believes that everyone holding an elected office in Maine who took votes counter to the governor's preferences acted out of nefarious motives.
The governor expressed similar ideas just days earlier, in terms so crude they went viral, spreading through national news outlets.
LePage said, "Sen. Jackson claims to be for the people, but he's the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline. He is bad. He has no brains, and he has a black heart."
After focusing on this single individual, LePage focused on himself.
After a reporter said that some might find his vulgar comments offensive, LePage stated, "Good. It ought to [offend], because I've been taking it for two years."
Referring to those remarks in his radio address, the governor said it was "straight talk" and "the only way I can get your attention."
OK, these comments certainly got a lot of attention, but not all publicity is good publicity. And not all direct statements ring true.
Rather than acknowledging that legislators disagree with him and support bipartisan compromise to govern, LePage believes legislators have chosen to hurt Mainers.
Understandably, LePage thinks his policy proposals are best for Mainers today and generations to come. But plenty of people disagree; they don't think the LePage path would help Maine.
LePage speaks a lot about Maine needing structural change in taxing and spending, and he embarked on this priority from the start.
Last session the Legislature passed income and estate tax cuts that most benefitted high income people. Others got small cuts.
But that tax policy was just part of LePage's desired structural change.
Half the budget hole this Legislature faced was due to those initial cuts.
This year the governor proposed cutting all municipal revenue sharing. Less aid to towns and cities, along with requiring school districts to pick up funding for teachers' pensions, shifts costs to property taxpayers.
LePage's budget would have ended the Homestead Exemption for those under 65, along with the Maine Residents Property Tax and Rent Refund Program. These would have raised property taxes for hundreds of thousands of Maine people.
While the legislators' compromise reduced revenue sharing, the cut is less than LePage proposed.
Believing that taking federal health care dollars is bad for Maine, the governor blocked expanding Medicaid for low-income working people.
Studies show that previous Medicaid expansions saved lives and improved health. Most Mainers, beyond the 70,000 whose coverage is at stake, disagree with the governor.
When legislators counter LePage, their aim is better policy as they see it, not differing with the governor just because.
Voters picked these legislators less than a year ago, sweeping the Republican Party out of its short-lived legislative majorities.
Maine people like the idea of working across party lines.
Legislators did that. A Medicaid expansion compromise passed with votes from Democrats and Republicans, but fell just short of a veto override. Avoiding a government shutdown, legislators enacted their bipartisan compromise.
With his background as a business executive, it may be hard for LePage to bear democratic disagreement.
But, truly, it's not black-hearted, not personal and not meant to hurt Maine.


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It's Perilous, not Perolous
When you hear the National Anthem 72 times during the course of a season, there are a few things that inevitably find their way under your skin. The first is those singers who treat the National Anthem like an American Idol audition and carry out every note to show their "range," thereby increasing the length of the song from its intended minute and a half to an excruciating five minutes. It's reminiscent of the classic Dancin' Homer episode of the Simpsons where Bleeding Gums Murphy is singing the National Anthem at a Springfield Isotopes contest and a clock behind him reads 6:45. As he continues through the song, the scene shifts to the Simpsons sitting slumped in their setas in left field bleachers before finally Bleeding Gums wraps up the song as the clock behind tolls 7:00. Nothing can zap the energy from a crowd like a long National Anthem.
The second, and granted this is pretty nit-picky, is people's insistence on singing about the "per-OL-ous" fight instead of the "per-IL-ous" fight. In the history of mankind, nothing has ever been in "perol."
With those two valuable nuggets of information, the Isotopes invite all of those interested in singing the National Anthem to come to Isotopes Park this Saturday, March 14 for open tryouts. There is no need to reserve a spot, just show up to the park beginning at 10:00 AM and check-in. Anthem auditions begin at 11:00 AM and will last until 1:00 PM.
The auditions are part of a big day at Isotopes Park that includes an Open House complete with guided tours of the ballpark, a Select-A-Seat where prospective season ticket and mini-plan holders can literally pick their seat for the upcoming season, and the official on-sale of individual game tickets. Everything starts at 10:00 AM and fans can buy tickets at the Isotopes Park Box Office, at Ticketmaster outlets, by phone with Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000, or on-line at www.ticketmaster.com, or www.albuquerquebaseball.com. For the big dates (Opening Day, July 3, etc.) it's a good idea to get tickets Saturday or else you'll be in "peril" of missing out on all the great fun this year.
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So true!
For the record, the lyrics to Take Me Out To The Ballgame include "cracker jack," not "cracker jacks" as the majority of the fans dragged out on top of the dugout and handed a microphone insist on singing.
That's one thing that really ticks me off……when people say "cracker jacks" in the song. I have yet to hear anyone sing the song right. I guess I'm just a baseball purist. I probably couldn't sit through a National Anthem audition. I think it's a beautiful song, but to hear it sung that that many times in an hour would just be torture. I'm also looking forward to buying some cool merchandise at the Isotopes Shop.
Well I always sing like this "Buy me some peanuts and Dodger Dogs!". That reminds me when I went to San Francisco for the Fan Fest during the All-Star two years ago, my friend and I got booed when we sang it that way. We have the CD as it was the 100 year anniversary of "Take me out to the Ballgame". good times, good times.


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Millions together, searching for a signal from the stars
SETI@home is by far the most successful public participation project ever undertaken by The Planetary Society. In fact, it is the most successful public participation science project in history! As of 2012 more than 6 million people in 226 countries have taken part in the experiment, each contributing their computer processing time to the search for a signal from intelligent beings in the depths of space. More than a decade after its 1999 launch the project is still growing fast, attracting new participants with each passing day. But had it not been for the timely intervention of The Planetary Society, SETI@home would never have gotten off the ground.
SETI@home is the answer to one of the most persistent problems in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence: how to process the masses of data collected by SETI searches? Giant radio telescopes scan the skies, detecting radio emissions with remarkable sensitivity and recording all of them. Quite possibly, somewhere within all this radio noise there also a signal sent by intelligent beings light years away. Unfortunately, finding this needle of a signal in the enormous haystack of data requires almost unlimited computing time even on the largest and fastest computers in existence. SETI scientists, working with limited resources and even more limited computer time, usually have to severely restrict their analysis of the data just to arrive at any results at all. Sadly, this increases the risk that the true signal from ET, the signal that might be hiding in the data, will be completely overlooked.
But in 1998 two researchers from U.C. Berkeley. computer scientist David Anderson and SETI scientist Dan Werthimer, approached The Planetary Society with a novel idea. Instead of relying on strictly rationed time on one of the world's overbooked supercomputers, why not turn to a massively underutilized computing resource: the millions of personal computers sitting on desks and offices the world over, spending much of their time running mindless screen savers. If even a small portion of this computing power could be harnessed to process the mountain of SETI data they reasoned, then much of SETI's computing problem would be solved at a stroke. It was a simple yet audacious idea, and they had the perfect name for it: SETI@home.
Here's how it works: a sensitive receiver collects data at the Arecibo radio observatory in Puerto Rico, the largest radio dish in the world. The data is recorded on magnetic tapes (later disks) and shipped to U.C. Berkeley, where a mainframe computer chops it up into thousands of standard-sized "work units," and makes them accessible through the internet. Meanwhile, anyone with access to a personal computer is invited to download a simple SETI@home program from the web and install it on their computer. This "client" program automatically downloads a work unit from the web, and proceeds to process it whenever the PC is not otherwise occupied. When the processing is complete, the program sends the processed data back to Berkeley, and downloads a new work unit to process. The process continues indefinitely, and the mountains of SETI data are slowly but surely analyzed. If ET is hiding somewhere in there, it will surely be found.
When Anderson and Werthimer approached The Planetary Society, the fate of the project was hanging in the balance. For over a year they had been trying to raise money for their idea, approaching numerous companies in nearby Silicon Valley but coming up empty. The idea of involving the public in scientific research was a novel one and the Silicon Valley visionaries found it difficult to believe that many people would lend their personal computers to a SETI search. But The Planetary Society reacted differently: SETI was in the Society's DNA from the very beginning, and public involvement in science was at the core of its mission. SETI@home, which combines the two, seemed perfect. After careful consideration the Society donated $50,000 to help launch the project. It also arranged for a similar grant from Paramount Pictures, which was promoting its "Star Trek" movie franchise. SETI@home was off and running.
The rest is history: SETI@home went online on May 17, 1999, and was an immediate and unprecedented hit. Within a few months more than a million people across the globe were processing work units on their personal computers, and within a year the number was approaching two million. No one had expected this explosive growth, least of all Anderson and Werthimer, who had dreamed of recruiting perhaps 100,000 people. But the numbers just kept growing and growing, and there is no end in sight. With SETI@home, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence had captured the public's imagination.
SETI@home has come a long way since the early days of 1999. The old and near-obsolete receiver at Arecibo had been replaced by a state of the art multi beam receiver at the apex of the giant dish. The client program has been updated and searches for more types of signals with a greater sensitivity than ever before. On two occasions the search's most promising signals have been gathered together, and a special search conducted to look for an alien signal coming from their direction. ET's call has not yet been detected as yet, but at this rate, if it is hiding somewhere in SETI@home's work units, it will surely be found.
But SETI@home did something else as well, something that no one expected: It launched a radically new way of doing science. The project's explosive success opened scientists' eyes to the fact that the public is eager to take part in cutting edge scientific research, and is happy to donate its computers and other resources for the cause. And so, where SETI@home first tread, a long line of scientific projects has followed, each engaging the public in different and creative ways. Today the public is invited to take part in studies of climate change, cancer cells, protein folding, gravity waves, interstellar dust particles, and many many others. Thanks to SETI@home, researchers have begun to tap into the almost unlimited resource of public enthusiasm for science.
It was a modest $50,000 grant from The Planetary Society that made it all possible, and over the years we have stayed with the project, handing out additional grants to help it expand and grow. To us, SETI@home epitomizes something we have always believed in: that even a modest sum, invested in a grand vision, can have an outsize impact. At the Planetary Society we make it happen.
A review of Robert H. Gray's "The Elusive Wow: Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence."
Just when SETI@home is celebrating its 10th anniversary, its older brother, Project SERENDIP, is getting a general makeover.
In the beginning was SETI@home, the first large-scale volunteer computing project, launched in 1999 with seed money from The Planetary Society. Within months the project had millions of volunteers around the world joining to form the most powerful computer network ever assembled.
Become a member of The Planetary Society and together we will create the future of space exploration.
Help advance robotic and human space exploration, defend our planet, and search for life.


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Apple: Google Is Not a "Friend of the Court" in Samsung Case
In Apple's sprawling legal battle with Samsung, Google is hardly an impartial party. It's the author of the Android mobile operating system that the South Korean conglomerate has used to capture about one third of the global smartphone market. So for it to tender an amicus curiae, or "friend of the court," brief on Samsung's behalf and urge the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals to toss Apple's request for a sales ban on some Samsung devices could be viewed as questionable.
Apple certainly views it that way.
On Wednesday the company filed a brief opposing Google's participation in a joint amicus brief submitted earlier in the week by HTC, Red Hat, SAP and Rackspace. That brief argued, essentially, that highly complex devices like smartphones shouldn't be subject to sales bans because they use "trivial patented features." In opposing it, Apple takes no issue with that argument or with the intentions of HTC, SAP, Red Hat or Rackspace in submitting it. But it objects to Google acting as lead party on a brief in a case in which it has an obvious interest.
"Google is the developer of the Android operating system running on the Samsung smartphones that Apple seeks to enjoin in this case," Apple wrote in its opposition. "That interest conflicts with the traditional role of an amicus as an impartial friend of the court — not an adversary party in interest in the litigation."
Apple's view, then, is that Google is more co-defendant in this case than anything else, and it shouldn't be allowed to masquerade as an impartial, concerned party.
And for the iPhone maker to flat out state that is worth noting. Because since these lawsuits first began, Apple has gone out of its way to avoid attacking Google head on.
Not that this is an attack; it certainly isn't. But it is something of a challenge.
Apple's implication is clear: If Google's got something to say about the case, it should join it.
An interesting bit of messaging from Cupertino, which to date has been suing Android licensees as proxies through which to strike at Google.


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What is surplus line insurance?
Surplus line insurance is insurance placed with unauthorized insurers through surplus line agents or producers. A surplus line producer is one licensed to procure insurance under DC Code 31-2502.40.
What is a surplus line insurer?
A surplus line insurer is one that does not hold a certificate of authority to do insurance business in the District of Columbia, but a surplus line agent or producer procures insurance through a surplus line insurer.
What regulations are unauthorized insurers subject to?
The placement of insurance with an unauthorized insurer is subject to DC Code 31-2502.40. Risks insured by unauthorized insurers must be placed and serviced by District of Columbia licensed surplus line agents or producers.
May surplus line agents place risks with any unauthorized insurer?
No agent or producer shall procure policies from unauthorized companies (1) without exercising diligent effort to secure the required business in duly authorized companies; (2) whose standards of solvency and management do not meet the requirements necessary for the protection of the policyholders; (3) for any risk which could be placed with an authorized company except for abnormal provisions of the policy; and (4) which covers a risk of a class generally covered in the District by authorized companies and which authorized companies would cover at a rate not higher than that charged by authorized companies on other District risks of the same class.
Are surplus line insurers required to file Annual Statements with DISB?
Unauthorized insurers ("surplus line insurers") are not required to file Annual Statements with DISB.
Are surplus line insurers required to have a license or register with DISB?
No. Surplus line insurers are not required to have a license or register with DISB. Also, the District of Columbia does not have "approved" surplus line insurers and DISB does not maintain any such list.
What procedures does a surplus line agent have to follow?
The surplus line agent or producer must follow procedures outlined in DC Code 31-2502.40, including monthly reporting under affidavit of all unauthorized business placed during the month by the 10th day of the following month.
What records does a surplus line agent have to keep?
The surplus line agent or producer must maintain a separate account of the business transacted under DC Code 31-2502.40, which shall be open at all times to the inspection of the Commissioner.
Is surplus line business subject to District of Columbia tax?
Insurance business transacted under the surplus line statue, DC Code 31-2502.40, is subject to a premium tax of 2 percent of gross premiums. All premium taxes collected by the surplus line agent shall be reported and forwarded to the Commissioner semiannually on or before February 1 and August 1 of each year, for policies procured during the immediately preceding six-month period ending December 31 and June 30 respectively. Gross premium shall include the premium or charge specified in the policy and applicable to such insurance, and any and all other revenue earned or fee charged that is incidental to placing the risk. A Surplus Line Agent may only charge fees which are incidental and necessary to placing the risk. Any fee charged must be itemized separately.
What is the process for becoming licensed as a Surplus Line Agent or Producer?
An applicant may obtain a producer's license with surplus line authority by going to nipr.com. All applicants for surplus line authority must have or obtain simultaneously casualty authority. Also, non-resident applicants must have surplus line in their resident state at time of application.
For information on how to file insurance complaints send an email to [email protected] or call (202) 727-8000 and ask for DISB's complaints unit.


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John Clare
John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864 / Northamptonshire / England)
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I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
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Vintage Christmas
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I love the Vintage Christmas pack. I have a package sitting out on my desk that I am going to use today. Loverly! Ann, you will be missed! You have been such a great source of ideas and inspiration these past two years. Best of luck in Florida...
Ann you have been so awesome on webisodes. Really going to miss you! Good luck on all you do! God be with you!
Webisodes won't be the same without you Ann. Best of luck.
What beautiful cards.I live in Florida and if she is coming to the Tampa Bay area I would be delighted to show her around. I will miss Ann but have her projects to remember her by.
Ann, I will miss your quirky sense of humour as well as your terrific design skills in these webisodes. Best of luck in the future. P.S. I love this kit - so nice!
Will miss you Ann, but wish you all the best in your new Florida adventure.
Keep in touch and God bless.
I discovered these wonderful webisodes about the same time that Ann started making them. I had an accident, and I was stuck in bed for almost 2 months,unable to craft,during which I watched every single webisode. So sad to see Ann go, it's almost like losing a member of my family. Thanks to the both of you for helping me through a very difficult time- God Bless you always! You will be in my thoughts and prayers!
Ann - sorry to see you go. Thank you for your many ideas. Good luck.
this kit looks gorgeous... can't wait to try it... i loved at the cards and ideas... thank you...Ann i hope you will continue to do your cardmaking and be able to do videos too...
WOW - Christmas! - WOW This X-Mas kit looks great. So sorry to see Ann leave, we'll miss you, best wishes for a great future. I just love PapeWishes products and People and always tell everyone I know about your Web Site. I have always enjoy your Webisodes, can't wait till the next weeks one to be posted. Always so many great ideas and cards, you gals always seem to have a great time and are so fun to watch. Great Webisodes.
Thank you for another beautiful webisode. Ann, best wishes for a wonderful life, you are a very talented lady, and will be missed.
Awesome kit can't wait to use mine! Ann I'll miss you! Blessings from Canada ...Ginny
This isn't going on my wish list, it's going in my shopping cart right now! Great kit at a great price! Paulette, you've had some great Webisode partners but I think Ann has been the best! Good wishes go with you, Ann, on your new venture - we'll miss you!
I'll miss you, Ann! I can't believe it's been two years. I'm sure that you and Felix will have a great life in Florida.
Thanks for another great webisode! Anne, we will miss you. Best wishes and thanks for all your great instructions!! Will you be having another week of Webisodes soon?
I just love those!! Thanks for everything!!
This is an exciting video....love the vintage. I just sent in an order so I have to now wait. Love it!
Sorry to see you go,Ann.You've become part of a weekly tradition with me.Good luck to where life takes you.We'll surely miss you.
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"This isn't the first book to take on the challenge of explaining baseball intricacies, but I've never seen it done better. . . . When it comes to producing 'aha moments' of baseball enlightenment, the book indeed has a high batting average." —The Seattle Times
"Hample calls himself an obsessed fan—obsessed in a good way—and the product of his torment is a funny and informative guide for all levels of fans." —Yankees Magazine
"Engaging. . . . Hample's book is both deceptive in its simplicity (the basic rules, but also the ten different ways a pitcher can commit a balk) and surprising in its range." —Fortune