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Nashville, Tenn. – Tennessee State administrators, coaches and support staff gathered on Tuesday night to honor all of TSU's student-athletes in the annual sports banquet.
Among those receiving awards were men's basketball Robert Covington and women's basketball Simone Hopes, who were selected as the school's Male and Female Athletes of the Year.
After brief introductions by Athletics Director Teresa Phillips and President Glenda Glover, each sport's head coach advanced to the dais to hand out their respective awards.
Up first was Parrish McGrath who named Cameron Scitern the men's Most Valuable Player and Denisha Mumford on the women's side. Scitern was also honored as the team member with the highest GPA while Bria Norris took home the women's academic achievement.
Tennis coach Robert Cain was next, and although he didn't give any athletic awards, he did commend his team for its hard work all season long. London Thomas and Jared Asher were honored for their educational excellence.
Jeff Dabney approached the podium following Cain and he named Jennifer Givens as the softball team's MVP. Tayler Shimizu was also recognized as the player with the highest grade point average.
Representing four sports, Chandra Cheeseborough gave Most Valuable Player awards to Oteia Prince and Adrian McDaniel for the women's and men's cross country teams. Ashontae Jackson and Royce Dates won the accolades for the TSU track and field squads. Taking home the team's academic honors were Donnie Johnson and Jonathan Owens for the Flying Tigers, while LaTia Carney was recognized for the Tigerbelles.
Volleyball head coach Kathy Roulhac named Erika Moss and Naomi Wells Co-MVPs while Calasia Williams was acknowledged as the Tiger with the highest GPA.
Rod Reed followed to hand out a number of football-related distinctions. Among those chosen were Daniel Fitzpatrick (Defensive MVP), A.C. Leonard (Offensive MVP), Jamin Godfrey (Special Teams MVP), Samquan Evans (Defensive Line MVP), Sherman Carter and Rogers Gaines (Co-Offensive Line MVPs), Trabis Ward (Offensive Back MVP), Nick Thrasher (Most Improved and Academic Excellence Award), Andrew Taylor (Spirit Award), Steven Godbolt (Defensive Back MVP) and Travis James (Courage Award).
The TSU basketball teams doled out their awards next, starting with women's coach Larry Inman. He awarded Simone Hopes as the team's Most Valuable Player and Kesi Hess as the squad's Most Improved. Chelsea Hudson and Avery Jones also shared the club's top honors for their work in the classroom.
Travis Williams wrapped up the coaches' awards as he chose Patrick Miller and Kellen Thornton as the men's basketball team's MVPs. Miller also took home the squad's Academic Award, as well as the Defensive Player of the Year honor. Covington won the Coach's Award, Tashan Fredrick earned the Pride Award and Jordan Cyphers attained the Leadership Award.
Assistant Athletics Director for Academic Services Dr. Johnnie Smith closed the night by recognizing Johnson and Owens as the male student-athletes with the highest GPA and Shimizu as the top female performer.
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Next to black, this might be our favorite suit color for 2018. It's a hue that looks great any season and adds a bit of warmth and romance to your groom's style.
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This hue is our number one pick for summer 2018 weddings. From a beach soiree to a Southern charmer, it's light, fun and fresh and perfect warm weather fetes.
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An all-white suit might feel a bit stark and compete with the bride's style—but add a tweed jacket and you've got two-tone perfection.
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Developing a sweet corn variety from scratch could take up to a decade.
Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc., has found a faster way to bring a new product to market. The Oxnard, Calif.-based company has taken genetic traits already proven in field corn and transferred them to sweet corn.
The result is a new variety that promises to improve on the company"s line of Performance Series sweet corn.
Global product manager John Headrick said that new variety, dubbed SV9010SA, had high grower demand based on a few years of testing when it was made available in the fall.
Headrick said the new bicolor variety has built-in defenses against above- and below-ground insects, and it has tolerance to Roundup WeatherMAX and Roundup PowerMAX herbicides.
The corn"s plant protection and weed control traits combine to give SV9010SA excellent yield potential because growers harvest more full, quality ears. Headrick said taste and nutritional value are similar to conventional sweet corn.
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For a Lost Soldier was originally released in the Netherlands as Voor een veloran soldaat. Using a flashback framework, the film deals with a gay "coming of age". Forty years after the fact, choreographer Jeroen Krabbe recalls a wartime romance. During the Allied liberation of Holland, the young Krabbe (played as a youth by Marten Smit) entered into a tender relationship with a Canadian soldier (Andrew Kelley). Back to the present, Krabbe attempts to incorporate his experiences in his latest ballet work...more
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I am writing as a concerned citizen of Reinbeck, a parent and a grandparent. On the Friday before Memorial Day, there was a tree trimming going on at the city park. Thinking that the holiday was only a few days away, that the debris would be cleaned up, after the holiday and until the 4th of June, 11 days later was the large sticks and limbs removed. I watched as kids played in the brush and families stopped, but didn't stay as it looked like a war zone, or tornado had hit. My understanding after contacting City Hall last week and then again this week that the Park Board was responsible for the war zone. I contacted a board member and the problem was brushed off as a problem with the part time Park Board employee. What can he do to clean up your mess with no equipment to clean it up with? Why do you expect someone to clean up a mess of that huge magnitude with no equipment? I seriously think you owe the part time employee an apology and just thank your lucky stars that no one was injured on your mess. Hopefully in the future you will get your ducks in a row before embarking on a large project as this again.
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Killswitch, Ex-Lover Blocker and Never Liked it Anyway might not mean much to those of us who aren't in the dating world, but they're becoming valuable tools to people such as Euclid resident Bettye Dewey who are trying to manage relationship breakups in the age of social media. "The pain of a breakup (now) is nourished by an endless real-time stream of Facebook status updates, Instagram photos and tweets about one's ex," The New York Times reports. "Until recently, anyone with two fingers and a smartphone was subjected to this kind of self-torture. But a new set of apps and websites created to ease the pain of breakups may be changing that." Killswitch is a mobile app that promises to "seamlessly and discreetly remove all traces of your ex from your Facebook." It was released, defiantly, on Valentine's Day, the newspaper notes. Ex-Lover Blocker tries to tackle the impulse to reconnect. "Anytime you try to call an ex, the app sends a text message to your closest friends so they can come to your rescue before you make a tragic mistake," The Times says. (It also posts an update on Facebook alerting the world of your imminent transgression.) Ms. Dewey, 29, favored Never Liked It Anyway, a website "on which spurned lovers can sell gifts from their exes that are too painful to keep," the newspaper notes. It's essentially "the digital version of throwing your ex's stuff onto the street for a profit." The Times says Ms. Dewey's marriage to a wealthy man ended bitterly two years ago when she discovered that he was having an affair — and buying another woman duplicates of gifts he bought for here. "After they split, Ms. Dewey was left with a pile of Louis Vuitton purses, Dolce and Gabbana dresses and Chanel jewelry that she didn't want to throw away, but couldn't bear to look at," The Times reports. "So when she found Never Liked It Anyway, she was thrilled." She tells the newspaper, "I mean, cathartic isn't even the word. I feel like I am puking this stuff out of my life."
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As reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on March 20, 2013
As reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on March 20, 2013
S. 622 would authorize the collection and spending of fees by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for certain activities to expedite the development and marketing approval of drugs for use in animals. Fees would supplement appropriated funds to cover FDA's costs associated with reviewing certain applications and investigational submissions for brand and generic animal drugs. Such fees could be collected and made available for obligation only to the extent and in the amounts provided in advance in appropriation acts. The legislation would extend through fiscal year 2018, and make several technical changes to, FDA's existing fee programs for brand and generic animal drugs, which expire at the end of fiscal year 2013.
CBO estimates that implementing S. 622 would reduce discretionary outlays, on net, by $7 million over the 2014-2018 period, assuming appropriation actions consistent with the bill.
Pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply to this legislation because it would not affect direct spending or revenues.
S. 622 contains no intergovernmental mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA). The bill would impose private-sector mandates, as defined in UMRA, because it would require manufacturers of drugs for use in animals to pay specified fees to FDA. CBO estimates that the direct cost of complying with these requirements would not exceed the annual threshold established by UMRA for private-sector mandates ($148 million in 2014, adjusted annually for inflation).


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EDWARDS v. BILLMEIER et al
Plaintiff: MACK EDWARDS
Defendant: ROBERT BILLMEIER, MICHAEL GRILLO, MICHELLE GASPARIAN, PHYLLIS OLIVER and CHARLES ELLIS
Case Number: 3:2018cv01857
Filed: February 8, 2018
Court: New Jersey District Court
Office: Trenton Office
County: Mercer
Presiding Judge: Anne E. Thompson
Referring Judge: Lois H. Goodman
Nature of Suit: Prisoner: Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights
Jury Demanded By: None
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BLACKFOOT — All eighth-grader Annette Thelin could say about her new school building was that "it's amazing" and "it's going to rock."
Thelin, a student at Idaho Science and Technology Charter School, got to look inside the new building Thursday during an open house. She, along with several of her classmates and future ISTCS students and their parents, toured the facility, which was constructed over the past year behind the modular buildings the school once called home.
Today, the school is contained to one building and features a new technology lab, music room with piano lab and several classrooms equipped with high-tech smart boards.
"This has been a long time coming," Larsen said. "We've dreamed about it. Now it's a reality."
Larsen said the technology lab has allowed for the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curriculum to grow. Students will spend the year rotating through 12 stations including rocketing and space, weather, electricity and robots.
"It's what we envisioned from the beginning," Larsen said.
In addition, the school now has room for a 15-piano music lab. The piano lab enables music teacher JeNene Anderson to listen to an individual student or all 15 at once. Anderson also teaches strings, orchestra and choir.
"It's an integral part of our program," Larsen said.
There are 11 total classrooms. The new building also has a gymnasium and lockers.
The building was constructed by Hogan & Associates Construction of Utah.
The school is at 21 North 550 West. Its phone number is 785-7827.


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Arnold Schwarzenegger is the latest Hollywood star to chime in on guns and gun control. Like many Hollywood actors he is standing in the line marked "we had nothing to do with it" as far as personal responsibility or even tacit culpability is concerned.
Schwarzenegger has starred in films such as, "Predator," and "The Terminator" which are loaded with gun violence. His next offering of gratuitous and graphic violence is called, "The Last Stand." NRA's chief Wayne La Pierre has noted that the new film is loaded with unnecessary violent depictions of a sheriff who is trying to stop drug cartels from slipping over the border.
Let's see, the head of the Rifle Association saying there is too much violence in films while the actor paid millions of dollars to show the world the worst men can do with guns says , it just ain't so!
Schwarzenegger claims the blame, and any chance of solving the violence problems of the nation, lies with mental health improvements, gun laws and parents. No changes are needed in Hollywood. The sainted celebrities are simply – entertaining us.
No statistics are available to show what percentage of people there are which cannot discern between fantasy and reality and those whose mental integrity, needed to categorize the real from the feigned, is below the safety line, but it is clear that Hollywood has no plans to acknowledge or accommodate such reports even if they did exist.
Does it take scientific affirmation or a statistical analysis to prove that somewhere, there is someone, who can't tell the difference between entertainment and real life? How many people like Hinckley, Manson, Sirhan, James Holmes and Adam Lanza must we endure before Hollywood answers up and takes some responsibility for its unbridled preoccupation with violence?
The "Terminator" said "Everything has to be analyzed and no stone must be left unturned" in regards to the Connecticut child shootings. He has not included the stone that covers Hollywood, which, if uncovered, would certainly produce a mass of squirming creeping lowlife specimens darting around to avoid the light of a full blown scrutiny.
Yes, better mental health techniques would help, but as long as modern psychology can't make the distinction between demonic activity and mental illness due to the dismissing of scripture (Mt 4: 24) and overworked separation laws, don't hold your breath waiting for psychology to solve the problem of violence in America.
Yes, better parenting would help with the violence problems we are seeing, but most parenting today is merely providing shelter and help to get through public school. Family life where authority is established and order and discipline are normal is almost non-existent in the culture of the day.
Yes, gun control would help, but if registrations, background tests and safety instructions aren't working then what could possibly be done to improve the laws already in place. The geniuses of today's nervously scrambling army of liberal leaning loudmouths are thinking that if they suspend one law (2nd Amendment) they will have solved the problem. Here we see ordinary deductive reasoning pulverized by gross stupidity. Is it the increase in moral decadence and violent depictions, or the increase in legally registered firearms that is causing the problem? Here is where you may insert the proverbial –duh!
Yes, it would help if we forced Hollywood and other media (TV, gaming, cable, printed media and Films) to tone down the indulgence with all that is grossly violent, but they are denying that they are complicit in any way. Hollywood's answer is – denial.
Yes, modern thinking is in error, but much more than that, it is often downright – goofy. The wise King Solomon said "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Pr 22: 6)
Then along comes modern man who pump visions of senseless, gratuitous and inhuman violence on their young for years during their formative years, and then they expect them all to come out of those years with good character, spotless records and high intelligence. What comes next is a smooth transition out of all the dark indulgence, to becoming contributors to all that is good in our civilization.
It is Solomon's warning in reverse, train up a child in the way he shouldn't go, and when he is old you will have hell on your hands!
Hollywood's denial is so far beyond simple naiveté that I cannot find a word to suffice. For the moment "goofy" will have to do.
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"These are exhilarating times to be arts librarians," said Darwin Scott, librarian of the Mendel Music Library at Princeton. Today's Lunch 'n Learn session explored just how exhilarating – and challenging– it is to deal with new modes of delivering various media to library patrons, when the media exists outside the traditional collection of books, manuscripts, disks, drawings and other tangible assets one usually thinks of as library holdings. The presenters represented the three main arts repositories at Princeton; Darwin Scott was joined by librarians Sandy Brooke (Marquand Library of Art and Archeology) and Hannah Bennett (Architecture Library), to discuss their respective collections.
Sandy Brooke began the session by describing the tension between a library's mission to collect, provide access, and preserve for the future, in an age where digital media seems to be increasingly difficult to quantify in terms of ownership, shared access, and sustainability. "Old literature is good literature for art historians," Brooke said, explaining that scholars rely upon important documents from past centuries. Marquand's holdings are still largely print-based, she noted, however, there is an increasing number of digital versions of both text- and image-based references. Art has traditionally been studied through surrogates, whether photographs, drawings or descriptions of works that are either housed in remote places, or may no longer survive.
A new form of art–that which is born digital–presents certain challenges to those who would study it, because the delivery medium is no longer a surrogate for the work, but may be the work itself. Digital art is often recorded on perishable media, the formats of which can migrate to incompatible formats in a fairly short period of time. It might be posted directly to the web, and lost when its link later disappears. The work itself might be a record of an ephemeral event that is almost impossible to capture in its entirety. When offered for distribution by a vendor or dealer, its licensing terms can be extremely limiting and restrictive with regard to how the work can be later viewed, shared, or migrated to more stable digital formats.
Such licensing terms, Brooke noted, are much more restrictive than the terms of fair-use usually applied to educational use of copyrighted materials. Many digital objects handled by dealers and vendors are delivered with the idea of restricting access to them, thus creating an artificial scarcity. Ensuring future access to this media that comprises an original work is uncertain, since access is often provided via an online resource with a fee-based delivery method. If the online resource were to go out of business, its digital content might well be lost.
Brooke showed several still photos of Rist's work found in ArtSTOR, an online database for the study of art history, but found no images of the 2008 MoMA installation. The artist's own website contains links to her gallery and some visual references to other video projects, but not the MoMA installation. The MoMA website has some valuable documentary video footage about Rist's installation, but there is no video that presents a complete idea of what it was like to experience the complete work in situ. A YouTube search offers the MoMA videos again, along with two amateur videos made by people who attended the exhibit while it was at the MoMA; one of these videos, obviously shot with a cell phone, is enhanced by a sound loop provided by the amateur videographer–however it is music composed by the phone's owner that has nothing to do with the original installation. Since Rist's works tend to deal in dreamlike, distorted imagery, it's almost impossible to tell whether the distortions seen in the YouTube clips were intended by the artist, or simply a result of a highly-compressed, low quality copy of the original work. Authorized digital copies of such ephemeral works are typically priced at hundreds of dollars apiece, so collecting them on any scale is beyond the financial resources of most repositories; trying to capture something tangible and complete about such works, as Brooke demonstrated in the searches described above, is no easy matter.
For the moment, Brooke concluded, the sustainability of this kind of digital art is uncertain; questions of rights, of access, of preservation are only partially answered by current means of distribution. Guerilla websites such as ubu.com, a web-based educational resource that operates on a gift economy, posts avant-garde works under an assumption of fair use. Ubu.com was created in protest to the marginal distribution of these elusive works, but the fact that the site sometimes knowingly violates copyright in posting links makes their sustainability tenuous, at best. Many of the sound and video works on the site are represented by highly compressed video and audio files introducing uncertainty as to their accuracy; as with the YouTube video of Pipilotti Rist's video installation, it's impossible to say whether the files represent the artist's vision–or the technological limitations of a bad digital copy. More sustainable solutions may be in the future, however. Brooke mentioned the Electronic Arts Intermix site, a not-for-profit venture that is trying to preserve digital art for cultural repositories such as libraries and museums. An educational streaming solution to providing high-quality copies of video art for art libraries is one licensing model being considered by this organization, which has preservation and sustainable access to video art as its two chief missions.
Architecture librarian, Hannah Bennett, next described some of the unusual challenges faced by those wanting to preserve records of contemporary architectural works. Long gone are the days of architectural drawings being produced i
n drafting rooms, with paper being the medium that recorded a building's design from first inspiration to the delivery of final plans to builders. Digital rendering of architecture is now the standard method for design, a method that creates a dense stream of information that originates from architectural offices, and eventually results in documents that builders can work with to construct the building. In fact, the transmission of architectural information from architect to builder these days is commonly referred to as BIM – building information management–where the information critical to making the building is captured, but certain aspects of the design process might not be preserved. This partial capture of data creates a new level of complexity for those who would like to study the entire history of an architectural work.
Most information that is ultimately transferred to builders, Bennett explained, is taken by sampling from the complex array of digital data that is generated in the design process. As illustrated, Bennett showed several examples of architectural renderings, including some of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by architect Frank Gehry. Gehry, in common with other architects currently in practice (including many of Princeton's faculty members in the School of Architecture), developed a pioneering proprietary software program, CATIA, to realize his particular design methods. Other firms have since developed their own software unique to that particular architectural office or project..
Bennett showed some examples of design sketches made by Princeton faculty member, Axel Kilian, and demonstrated the CADenary software that Killian developed for his own design practice. These tools allow for amazing flexibility in terms of drafting complex shapes, but their uniqueness means that it may be a challenge to read the files they produce in the future. Bennett commented on this reliance on technology, saying that "design language has now become internal to tools, rather than to the form." As enriching as a complex design such as Bilbao is to architecture, preserving the output of many different proprietary software packages presents a set of preservation challenges for custodians of architectural history.
Bennett enumerated the queries posed by these new design tools. "How will they maintain technical currency?" she asked. "How will we archive them?" And, ultimately, "how will we present them to the future scholar?" Bennett concluded her portion of the talk by showing some hanging loops of chain used by Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926) to explore the catenary curves he often used in his architecture – in a photograph someone just happened to take of that experiment. "Older material can be equally valuable" Bennett said, citing this early architecture experiment exploring forms that are very hard to draw using traditional drafting tools. Today's computer-generated architectural designs present a myriad of such capture-able design moments – and librarians need to find a way to preserve them for future scholars.
Darwin Scott, librarian at Mendel Music Library, concluded the Lunch 'n Learn by discussing various online databases used to present digital copies of music and the performing arts. Scott mentioned that rights management is a major consideration in this area as well as in other forms of the arts, even though the resources for presenting them via subscribed services are more numerous.
Rights issues, particularly in the case of theatrical works, become more and more complex as more people (and their intellectual property) become involved in a production. "Most recordings of Broadway shows are illegal," Scott noted. Older forms of media that preserved works such as concerts, or plays were "collectable objects." Tapes, disks, LPs and other media at least provided one way that an event could be captured and preserved–and purchased to form part of a collection. By contrast, streaming libraries of musical and dramatic performances provide subscribers with thousands of recordings for an annual fee, but this model provides an interesting challenge for a library collection, since the library does not in fact "own" the content to which it subscribes. This raises important questions about sustainability and preservation.
Several vendors of streaming services promise that they will provide a form of perpetual access to the material in their library to subscribers in the event they go out of business. This usually means that data files will be available in some form for bulk download, but perhaps not with a sustainable model to preserve the user interface that makes it possible to use them. Scott mentioned some commercial streaming services that are available to retail consumers. Until recently, institutional clients had been shut out of the distribution model for these popular services. However, some distributors are now bridging the gap by providing high-quality streaming subscriptions for libraries and other cultural institutions. Scott demonstrated a few of these services, using the Quick Links section of the Mendel Music Library's home page, and Scott's own Lib Guide list of links to music and performing arts resources.
The Naxos Music Library, various collections from the Alexander Street Press, and DRAM (The Database of Recorded American Music) were among the collections that Scott featured in his presentation. Naxos, a respected record label, offers a large collection of musical recordings of various genres, including classical, jazz, folk, blues and world music; DRAM also offers streaming music; here, the focus is on American composers and performers. The Alexander Street Press offers a wide variety of sound and video offerings, including Opera in Video, Dance in Video, and Theater in Video. The videos offered from the Alexander Street Press not only will play on your computer, but are captured in a high enough resolution to project on a larger screen. A new service from Alexander Street even allows you to stream some of this content of these collections to your compatible mobile device (currently supported are iPhones on a 3G network or better, and devices running the Android OS) by using a link, a text message containing the link, or a QR reader on the device. These links stay current for 48 hours, allowing plenty of time to enjoy the content. Recent enhancements to the library's online catalog also allow direct links to many of these digital assets via searches done in Princeton Library catalog.
The session concluded with Darwin Scott's summation about it being an exciting time to be an arts librarian; the challenges presented by the diversity and volume of new media types also make this a wonderful time to be a subscriber to many online resources that make it possible to experience art, architecture and the performing arts in increasingly accessible ways. The fact that old media has little in common with new forms of delivery presents challenges for librarians and for patron access, but as sources for these materials become increasingly more numerous and more diverse the end user and the scholar can only benefit–and enjoy.
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In case you forgot, what makes this an exotic piece of hardware? Well, it comes with a PA Semi dualcore PA6T-1682M running at 1.8GHz. This is probably your only chance to get your hands on a processor made by Apple that's not stuck in a Mac. That alone makes it pretty extraordinary. Add to that the 'Xena' 500MHz XMOS XS1-L2 124, and this board is unlike pretty much anything else out there. I'm not knowledgeable enough to really understand what developers can do with such an XMOS chip, but I'm sure you guys can enlighten me.
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"If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. " ... "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ... "God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean." ... ...Albert Einstein...
Monday, February 28, 2011
Firefly Cupcakes
59 comments:
- Nikki Hootman said...
- February 28, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Those are awesome... That's one lucky birthday dude!
- April 20, 2011 at 8:15 AM
- Carole said...
Those are great and creative cupcakes. I may have to learn to play with ganache too...if I understand what you said correctly. Does one buy ganache or make it? I like little fiddly activities, not meant in a negative way at all, it allows me to focus and shut out the extraneous crap...uh oh attitude alert. Anyway, well done!
- April 20, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- Miles said...
Well now, those are just utterly and completely awesome.
- April 20, 2011 at 10:05 AM
Happy Birthday to the lucky fella! You're lucky twice over, dude: First off, you married an obviously talented woman and 2) She made you FIREFLY cupcakes w/3D characters! AWESOME!!! I LOVED these pics; I think the characters turned out wonderfully! Thanks for sharing and brightening up my day. :)
- April 20, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- A said...
This is awesome!! I wish I had the talent to do that! I've never worked with fondant though and I'm not artistically inclined.
- April 20, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- Lindsay said...
SOO cute! Nicely done and one lucky husband!
- April 20, 2011 at 10:21 AM
- Michelle said...
These are awesome! Good job Browncoat. ;)
- April 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM
- Sarah said...
- April 20, 2011 at 10:27 AM
this is made of win! very cool looking and creative :D congrats
- April 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM
Saw this retweeted on twitter. AMAZING!
- April 20, 2011 at 10:31 AM
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- April 20, 2011 at 10:35 AM
- Kat said...
I just saw this via Sean Maher's Twitter feed. They are shiny! So amazingly adorable.
- April 20, 2011 at 10:35 AM
- Alyson said...
Another Twitter viewer. These are a glorious work of art. I am torn between hiring Jayne to track you to your house so I can devour them, and preserving them forever in shellac. Gorgeous! Kudos.
- April 20, 2011 at 10:41 AM
Another Twitter follower =) Can I just say I am EXTREMELY jealous of your talent?
- April 20, 2011 at 10:56 AM
fantastici!! I'm italian and I love Firefly! you are incredible :)) a big hug from Italy
- April 20, 2011 at 11:03 AM
That'll be the best birthday ever!
- April 20, 2011 at 11:10 AM
- Gwen said...
Vivian, you are amazing! This is a beautiful work and gift, congrats!! :-))
- April 20, 2011 at 11:13 AM
- Felicia Herman said...
Full of Win!
- April 20, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- Mary said...
The crew of Serenity would be proud. Your husband is one lucky man.
- April 20, 2011 at 11:32 AM
- Zombied said...
You have made my day. You should totally sell these and post to London! I want one!
- April 20, 2011 at 11:36 AM
Another Twitter-head, who caught Sean's tweet. Being a fellow Browncoat, I can only say, these are so awesome!! Absolutely SHINY! Lucky hubby. Happy birthday, man. Would love to see more Firefly treats... LOL
- April 20, 2011 at 11:41 AM
- Christina said...
That is the shiniest thing this side of the verse! You've got the luckiest husband ever.
- April 20, 2011 at 12:17 PM
Yet another Twitterer here. They are all amazing but my favorite is Kaylee and her cool little wrench!
- April 20, 2011 at 2:09 PM
- Heather M. Gardner said...
Found you through Whedonesque! Awesome job you did. They look great! Lucky man!
- April 20, 2011 at 2:18 PM
Wish someone would make these for me for my birthday... true love, right there :)
- April 20, 2011 at 2:20 PM
Saw this on Whedonesque...
I cannot believe the amount of work, dedication and creativity that you put into this. It is truly amazing!
I love making cupcakes myself, but they usually end up pink and glittering, and I've never made anything like those little dudes.
This is so awesome! Really really sweet birthday gift.
- April 20, 2011 at 3:09 PM
Saw this through facebook repost..its getting around. Its wonderful!! Great job! I especially love what you did with Jayne's hat!
- April 20, 2011 at 3:31 PM
- Romie said...
where? and How much?
- April 20, 2011 at 3:34 PM
- C said...
Sean Maher retweeted - LOVE the cupcakes.
Fondant is hard, so props to you for geetting that much awesome work done with it, and if I read your comments correctly, with a baby. :)
- April 20, 2011 at 3:43 PM
- monkey said...
Cutest. Thing. EVER!!
- April 20, 2011 at 3:56 PM
Pretty freaking epic!
- April 20, 2011 at 5:11 PM
This si so cool ! I want this cupcakes for my birthday ! :)
- April 20, 2011 at 5:19 PM
- Michelle D. said...
SHINY! You must be the BEST wife EVER! I wish I had this talent. I so want this for my birthday!
- April 20, 2011 at 6:14 PM
- Michelle D. said...
Oh! And you're my hero.
- April 20, 2011 at 7:51 PM
- Firefly said...
Saw this on, believe it or not, the Browncoats group on a fetish website. (If you're vanilla, don't ask.) This is the most fantastic thing I've ever seen made out of food, and so cute it'd make the Operative crack. Epic dessert crafting win!
- April 20, 2011 at 8:23 PM
Great job! You did a great job capturing each character. I didn't even need the captions to identify them. :)
- April 20, 2011 at 9:13 PM
here via whedonesque (doncha love the intarwebz?) so cute and spot on!
- April 20, 2011 at 11:41 PM
- allthingsjennifer said...
This is pretty much the best thing ever. :)
- April 21, 2011 at 7:14 AM
- The Absence of Alternatives said...
I saw this on Twitter. I bow down to your mastery. WOW is the only thing I could say. WOW.
- April 21, 2011 at 8:17 AM
- jeffp said...
I found you via geeksaresexy.net, of all places, and I am glad I did. Posted it to my wall on Facebook too, and I know others have found you from there.
Very well done! Lots of fun!
- April 21, 2011 at 5:54 PM
- Adam said...
Those look amazing! Thanks to Whedonesque.com for posting a link so I could check this out!
- April 22, 2011 at 8:18 AM
- Cake Done Right said...
These are FANTASTIC! Your little people figures are perfect! Thanks for sharing:-)
- April 22, 2011 at 10:00 PM
- Ronna said...
Your cakes are fantastic. I love, love your sushi cupcakes! I am now a follower. Keep up the great work. I have a blog...full of all sorts of stuff...but some cakes too. Here's a link to the cake stuff! Hope you enjoy.
- April 26, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- Heaven is a Cupcake said...
As a big fan of Firefly and cupcakes I can say that these are absolutely amazing! Well done :)
- April 26, 2011 at 1:28 PM
- mynamewastakenagain said...
Browncoats are the best fans. 有光泽
- April 26, 2011 at 2:24 PM
- JavaChick said...
So, so awesome. Fantastic job!
- April 27, 2011 at 1:28 PM
- Vivian said...
Oh man! WOW!!! Thanks sooo much!!! :) You all are tooo sweet! Yeah! It was a lot of fun making them!! I still wish I could've made Serenity into a 3D cake.. but maybe next time! :)
- April 27, 2011 at 2:38 PM
- phlegmfatale said...
Jayne's little hat is perfection. Someone should make a statue of that man. Oh-- wait!!!
- May 1, 2011 at 11:28 AM
Somebody posted this on Facebook and I had to come over and say they are so amazing! These and the sushi cupcakes mean I have no choice but to follow your blog. You are awesome and you should feel awesome.
- May 3, 2011 at 12:38 AM
- MsTurtle said...
these really are Amazing!! thanks for making them and posting them for all of us to see :)
- May 4, 2011 at 7:27 PM
These are AMAZING! <3 LOVE firefly and cupcakes and why NOT put them together!! :D :D :D Great job!
- May 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM
- DJ said...
<33 - What a lot of work, well done!
- May 31, 2011 at 1:14 PM
You are so AWESOME!!!
Congrats, they look just perfect. =)
- July 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- SurlyGurls said...
These cupcakes are sooo awesome!
We've included them in our post of incredible Sci-Fi Cupcakes - (http://surlygurls.net/2011/10/08/conspectus-sci-fi-cupcakes/) - with a link back to this page.
Thanks again for posting the photos of your incredible treats!
- SurlyGurls
- October 8, 2011 at 2:27 PM
- TABC Certification Online said...
These are just amazing! How did you do all that pretty little people in the cupcakes? Really adorable! Wow! I'm speechless! BTW what is your recipe for the cupcake?
- October 10, 2011 at 2:25 AM
- Kris Estrada said...
Happy Birthday to the lucky fella! You're lucky twice over, dude: First off, you married an obviously talented woman and 2) She made you FIREFLY cupcakes w/3D characters! AWESOME!!! I LOVED these pics; I think the characters turned out wonderfully! Thanks for sharing and brightening up my day. :)
- October 31, 2012 at 11:42 PM
- Adam Redgrave said...
I am getting married this year to another Firefly fan. Any chance I could pay you to recreate the figures on the cupcakes and send them to me?
- April 3, 2014 at 7:45 PM
- Vivian said...
Hi Adam! Congratulations!!! How exciting! :) And Wow!! What a compliment! :) When is your wedding? I'm not a pro or anything - so I'd be happy to make them for you just for fun! I don't always have very much time though.. Just send me an email and I'll see what I can do :)
- April 24, 2014 at 2:25 PM


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Cisco CIO Summit 2012: Starting with the customer, and ending with IT in mind
We've all heard the sayings "put the customer first" and "the customer is always right." According to Forrester Research, the days of manufacturing, distribution, and information being the primary ways successful companies dominate their industries are gone, and the new "age of the customer" is here. Newly empowered, informed, and demanding buyers are radically redefining the conversations, strategies, and planning of top IT leaders around the world. This year at the CIO Summit hosted by Cisco, I had the privilege to engage with seventy-eight Chief Information Officers from large enterprises and organizations who shared similar sentiments.
I always look forward to this event because it's one of the best opportunities to listen to our customers—their success stories and remarkable innovation, as well as their challenges and goals. This year, as I reflect on my key takeaways, there really is one common thread throughout all of the conversations—the empowered customer.
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1. Cost Management—Organizations are looking for ways to cut costs in running the business in order to reinvest those savings for generating new business.
2. Security—IT needs a distributed model for security to easily identify users and control access. The solution must balance the cost of security with the complexities.
3. Integration of technologies coming together—CIOs want to adopt an architectural approach in everything they are doing.
4. Collaboration—Many are still defining collaboration for their respective organizations. Above all, CIOs want high interoperability (ease of use) among collaboration tools. They want to increase productivity through top-notch communication and collaboration.
5. Data Center—CIOs have bought into Cisco's Unified Fabric Data Center approach and want more information about how to implement it as the foundational architecture to build all other transitions on.
6. Speed—Customers want solutions faster so they can realize the innovation from these technologies and deliver them sooner to customers.
IT is being asked to partner with the business more than ever before and it's clear that the end customer is shaping the strategies of each of these priorities. Even when a priority like collaboration may seem to be company focused, it's still about enhancing the employee, partner, and customer experience. In short, the customer/client obsession has permeated all of IT strategies to the point that it is part of the fabric and no longer inseparable.
So what does this mean for the future? IT organizations that are truly customer-centric will continue differentiating and separating themselves from the pack. And in the final say, the customers will have the last word!
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I think security is becoming more and more important as threats are beginning to be perceived more in the mainstream media, so the CIOs have more stake holders want to ensure they are protected. Really interesting read, thanks Marie!


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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rules require health care providers to define and communicate the methods used to safeguard private medical information. The state of Tennessee has determined that many HIPAA procedures don't apply to university student health centers as currently written; however other more stringent state and federal privacy laws do apply, and SHS follows these regulations as well as many HIPAA based privacy and security safeguards.
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To obtain a copy of your medical records, please fill out the Release of Medical Information Form and upload it to the Medical Patient Portal.


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The squeal of tires just moments before a ceremony to officially open Cardinal Gateway, which connects the East Broad and Wallace Drive campuses of Gadsden State Community College, served as a reminder just how important a new traffic light is.
The squeal of tires just moments before a ceremony to officially open Cardinal Gateway, which connects the East Broad and Wallace Drive campuses of Gadsden State Community College, served as a reminder just how important a new traffic light is.
Gadsden State Community College President Ray Staats said Monday marked a milestone for the college by connecting the two campuses that have operated for 27 years with a busy highway between them. About 24,000 vehicles a day travel that stretch of highway.
The traffic light is on George Wallace Drive just south of Interstate 759. It now is marked as Cardinal Drive — East toward the East Broad Campus and West toward Wallace Campus.
It's aptly called the gateway entrance, which leads to both campuses.
"Whether you're turning right or left, you'll know you're entering Gadsden State Community College," Staats said.
Before the traffic light, the intersection was dangerous, especially for those who were driving straight across George Wallace Drive to go from one campus to the other.
"It was dangerous to turn in and dangerous to turn out," Gadsden Mayor Sherman Guyton said. "Gadsden is the City of Champions, and this is another star on the wall."
Staats was joined by Chancellor Mark Heinrich of the Alabama Community College System during festivities that began with a parade from the Automotive Service Technology building on East Broad campus through the campuses for a ribbon cutting at the Cardinal Gateway.
Heinrich said improvements such as this are positive and a step in the right direction.
Mary Scott Hunter, District 8 representative on the state Board of Education, also attended the festivities and was among those who spoke at a short ceremony inside the Bevill Center.
"I have always believed things should look good and should be clean, be safe and beautiful," she said.
Hunter said Gadsden State Community College is involved in many partnerships.
"We're very excited with strategic planning efforts," she said. "It sets this college, this community and this area on the path to success."
Construction on the Gateway Project began in July and was designed to improve safety for students, staff and visitors, alleviate a traffic hazard, and connect the East Broad and Wallace Drive campuses.
The project cost about $1.5 million. Consulting engineer firm Jones Blair Waldrop and Tucker was in charge.
The campus Gateway features a new road with a four-way traffic signal and is designed to better accommodate students and visitors. The intersection also includes a crosswalk equipped with a "push to walk" feature giving pedestrians easy access between the campuses.
The new design includes additional parking spaces at the Wallace Hall Fine Arts Center.
The project included new curbing, gutters and sidewalks.
"We are proud of the improvements to the campuses and confident that students and community will enjoy the ease and safety that these new entrances provide," Staats said. "We are excited about the completion of this project as the first step in revitalizing our Gadsden State campuses. The Gateway greatly improves student and employee safety and access."
To kick off the day's festivities, an open house took place at the Automotive Service Technology building on the East Broad campus.
The facility is equipped with four new vehicle lifts, eight bays for student instruction and classroom space. Four-wheel electronic alignment is performed on vehicles using the latest technology with the new Hunter electronic lift and laser alignment machine.
The new facility allows students a real-world experience that parallels a service department in an automobile dealership, Staats said.
Renovations also have been completed to the Bevill Center on the East Broad campus. A world-class facility with a professional office suite for Alabama Technology Network-Gadsden has opened. A new lecture hall that seats 100 also was updated and renovated.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 5, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ChemoCentryx, Inc. (Nasdaq:CCXI) today announced that Thomas J. Schall, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of ChemoCentryx, is scheduled to present at two upcoming investor conferences.
- Lazard Capital Markets 9th Annual Healthcare Conference, The Pierre Hotel, New York, NY
-- Tuesday, November 13, 2012, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time
- J.P. Morgan SMid Cap Conference, J.P. Morgan Conference Center, New York, NY
-- Thursday, November 29, 2012, at 10:15 a.m. Eastern Time
Live audio webcasts of the Company presentations can be accessed via the Investors section of the ChemoCentryx website at www.ChemoCentryx.com. The archived webcasts will remain available on the Company's website for fourteen (14) days following each presentation.
ChemoCentryx, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing orally-administered therapeutics that target the chemokine and chemoattractant systems in order to treat autoimmune diseases, inflammatory disorders and cancer. The chemokine system is a biological network that regulates inflammation via a collection of secreted chemokine molecules, or ligands, and their specific cell surface receptors. Based on its proprietary drug discovery and drug development platform, ChemoCentryx has generated multiple clinical and preclinical-stage programs, each targeting distinct chemokine and chemoattractant receptors with different small molecule compounds. The Company's most advanced drug candidate, vercirnon (also known as Traficet-EN, CCX282 or GSK1605786), a specific CCR9 inhibitor, completed a multi-national clinical trial, called PROTECT-1, in patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease, where it demonstrated the ability to induce a clinical response and to maintain clinical remission, and is now in Phase III clinical development. The Company's lead independent drug candidate, CCX140, a CCR2 inhibitor, has been shown to be safe and well tolerated while demonstrating clinical activity on glycemic indices in a Phase II clinical trial in type 2 diabetics, and is now in Phase II clinical development for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy. Other clinical programs include CCX354 (also known as GSK2941266), a CCR1 inhibitor which successfully completed a Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, and CCX168, a C5aR inhibitor in Phase II clinical development for the treatment of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis. ChemoCentryx also has several programs in advanced preclinical development.
Source: ChemoCentryx, Inc.
CONTACT: CHEMOCENTRYX Susan M. Kanaya Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer; or Markus J. Cappel, PhD Chief Business Officer 650-210-2900 firstname.lastname@example.com BURNS MCCLELLAN: Media Inquiries: Justin Jackson 212-213-0006 firstname.lastname@example.com
Source:ChemoCentryx, Inc.


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Supporters of Cherry Point are approaching city and county governments with requests for money to help fund lobbying efforts.
Supporters of Cherry Point are approaching city and county governments with requests for money to help fund lobbying efforts.
Allies for Cherry Point�s Tomorrow has formally requested $14,200 from New Bern in its 2013-14 budget.
New Bern Alderman Denny Bucher, who eight months ago was on the ACT legislative committee and is now a board director for the group, said he didn�t know of an organization more important to the area because it lobbies for Cherry Point, which has a strong economic impact in the area.
Bucher said the president�s budget this year is looking at implementing base realignments and closures, called BRAC, throughout the military.
"If that happens, it could have real repercussions to us," Bucher said.
ACT is asking the city for $14,200 in the upcoming budget. In 2012-13, the city appropriated $4,123 to the organization.
In a letter to New Bern city manager Mike Epperson regarding budget requests from ACT, Havelock Mayor Jimmy Sanders, who is the president of ACT and mayor of Havelock, said times were difficult for Cherry Point and the Fleet Readiness Center East repair facility because of sequestration budget cuts and the possibility of another BRAC.
"If Cherry Point were to close, it would take with it over $2 billion in annual economic impact and about 5,000 jobs from Carteret, Craven, Jones and Pamlico counties," Sanders said in the letter. "� Every local government would feel a dramatic negative impact. Property values would collapse, tax revenues would dry up and new growth would immediately grind to a halt. It is in every citizen�s interest to protect Cherry Point and every local government organization and business should contribute to the effort."
To continue lobbying and educating the public, ACT has conceived an annual, ongoing local funding strategy that asks cities and counties for financial support in relationship to the number of residents they govern within the region.
Because Craven County is home to Cherry Point and is the most populous of the four counties, Craven would be asked to take the lead, Sanders said.
"However the loss of Cherry Point�s economic impact and jobs would affect everyone from the largest county to the smallest town," the letter said. "Every single jurisdiction organization and person will suffer if Cherry Point goes away and each must help ACT according to the relative impact of Cherry Point�s loss and their ability to participate."
ACT plans to ask Havelock for $10,000 in the city�s upcoming budget. Havelock officials are continuing work on the upcoming budget and have not made a determination on how much money, if any, ACT will receive from the city.
Rick Hemphill, Craven County finance director, said ACT is requesting $25,000 from the county for the 2013-14 budget. Last year, Craven County did not appropriate any funds directly to ACT, but did pass on $65,000 from the N.C. Department of Commerce, he said.
In past years, Craven County has appropriated $7,500 to ACT, Hemphill said. He added Craven County has not started its 2013-14 budget deliberations yet.
The $14,200 requested from New Bern, the $25,000 from Craven County and other money from counties, cities and the private sector would support the management, administrative, financial and public outreach activities of ACT.
Marc Finlayson, consultant to ACT, said the board was hoping to set up shop permanently. ACT usually gears up only during BRACs, like in 1993, 1995, 2003 and 2005. But Finlayson said more could be done each year to help support Cherry Point.
ACT�s goal for the upcoming budget is $125,000 from local sources. It is also trying to get funding from the state, but there is nothing in the governor�s budget as yet, Finlayson said.
This year�s requests were determined based on the per capita of the towns and four counties of Craven, Jones, Pamlico and Carteret. For example, all of the populations of towns and counties were totaled. Then the population of Craven County was taken out and determined to have 54 percent of the population, which would be $25,000 toward the goal.
Requests at some of the smaller towns could be as low as $100 or $200, Finlayson said.
Besides Finlayson, ACT has lobbyists from a law firm working with the state government, and a consulting firm lobbying at the Pentagon and Congress.


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Huawei Coughs Up Down Under
Oct 24, 2012 11:45 AM PT
Huawei has offered Australian authorities unfettered access to its software code in an effort to combat the perception that it is a security risk, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
In March, Huawei was barred from participating in the construction of Australia's National Broadband Network because of security concerns. More recently, the Chinese telecommunications giant was dubbed a security threat in a U.S. congressional investigation.
Huawei has not been transparent enough, the company's Australian Chairman, John Lord, admitted this week. To help remedy this, he has proposed establishing a national cybersecurity center that would evaluate all overseas technology products.
The UK, where Huawei has been allowed to operate, has this type of independent evaluation for cybersecurity threats.
According to ABC, this recent announcement is part of an ongoing PR campaign by Huawei in Australia. In addition, Huawei, which has 900 employees in the country, signed a multimillion-dollar sponsorship agreement with a professional rugby club.
Lord reportedly added that the company wants to prevent the security debate in Australia from becoming "distorted" like it has in the U.S.
Netflix Eyes Asian Partners
Netflix is contemplating partnerships with local companies in Asia as it continues its expansion around the globe.
According to GigaOm, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told listeners on the company's third-quarter earnings call that it is difficult for Western companies to fly solo in the Asian market. Thus, establishing a partnership with a local outfit is something Netflix is exploring.
Hastings had reportedly ruled out such partnerships for continental Europe, where it is also trying to establish its brand.
Netflix has run into various problems as it seeks a foothold in Latin America, Europe and, closer to home, Canada, where the company has faced a handful of challenges.
As for the earnings part of the third-quarter earnings call: Netflix added 1.16 million domestic streaming subscribers in the third quarter -- missing analyst estimates of 1.43 million -- and lowered its subscriber forecast from 7 million to 5 million. As Bloomberg reports, the company's third-quarter income fell 88 percent, to US$7.68 million, from $62.5 million a year ago.
US Blames Iran for Saudi Cyberattack
U.S. intelligence officials say that Iran carried out the destructive cyberattack on Saudi Aramco, a Saudi Arabian state-owned oil company.
According to The New York Times, the attack, which came in the form of a virus unleashed on Aug. 15, erased data on 75 percent of the company's PCs, including documents, spreadsheets and emails, and replaced those files with an image of a burning U.S. flag.
U.S. officials didn't offer specific evidence for their claim that Iran perpetrated the hack.
The virus forced Aramco to replace hard drives on tens of thousands of PCs, according to The Times. Aramco also summoned American cybersecurity experts to examine the virus.
As The Times reports, clues within the Aramco virus, known as "Shamoon," may have been explicitly designed to throw investigators off Iran's scent (if, in fact, Iran is responsible). For example, Shamoon's code contained the term "Arabian Gulf." However, Iranians call the Arabian Gulf the "Persian Gulf." In fact, earlier this year Iran threatened to sue Google because Google Maps has the body of water labeled as "Arabian Gulf."


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Strategic Leadership: The Essential Skills
Part 1
The storied British banker and financier Nathan Rothschild noted that great fortunes are made when cannonballs fall in the harbor, not when violins play in the ballroom. Rothschild understood that the more unpredictable the environment, the greater the opportunity— if you have the leadership skills to capitalize on it.
Through research at the Wharton School and at our consulting firm involving more than 20,000 executives to date, we have identified six skills that, when mastered and used in concert, allow leaders to think strategically and navigate the unknown effectively: the abilities to anticipate, challenge, interpret, decide, align, and learn. Each has received attention in the leadership literature, but usually in isolation and seldom in the special context of high stakes and deep uncertainty that can make or break both companies and careers.
This article describes the six skills in detail. An adaptive strategic leader—someone who is both resolute and flexible, persistent in the face of setbacks but also able to react strategically to environmental shifts—has learned to apply all six at once.
Do you have the right networks to help you see opportunities before competitors do? Are you comfortable challenging your own and others' assumptions? Can you get a diverse group to buy in to a common vision? Do you learn from mistakes? By answering questions like these, you'll get a clear view of your abilities in each area.
The self-test at this article's end (and the more detailed test available online) will help you gauge your strengths and weaknesses, address deficits, and optimize your full portfolio of leadership skills.
Part 2
Most organizations and leaders are poor at detecting ambiguous threats and opportunities on the periphery of their business.
Coors executives, famously, were late seeing the trend toward low-carb beers. Lego management missed the electronic revolution in toys and gaming. Strategic leaders, in contrast, are constantly vigilant, honing their ability to anticipate by scanning the environment for signals of change.
We worked with a CEO named Mike who had built his reputation as a turnaround wizard in heavy manufacturing businesses. He was terrific at reacting to crises and fixing them. After he'd worked his magic in one particular crisis, Mike's company enjoyed a bump in growth, fueled in part by an up cycle. But after the cycle had peaked, demand abruptly softened, catching Mike off guard.
More of the same in a down market wasn't going to work. Mike needed to consider various scenarios and gather better information from diverse sources in order to anticipate where his industry was headed. We showed Mike and his team members how to pick up weak signals from both inside and outside the organization.
They worked to develop broader networks and to take the perspective of customers, competitors, and partners. More alert to opportunities outside the core business, Mike and the team diversified their product portfolio and acquired a company in an adjacent market where demand was higher and less susceptible to boom-andbust cycles.
To improve your ability to anticipate:
Talk to your customers, suppliers, and other partners to understand their challenges.
Conduct market research and business simulations to understand competitors' perspectives, gauge their likely reactions to new initiatives or products, and predict potential disruptive offerings.
Use scenario planning to imagine various futures and prepare for the unexpected.
Look at a fast-growing rival and examine actions it has taken that puzzle you.
List customers you have lost recently and try to figure out why.
Attend conferences and events in other industries or functions.


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One of my more recent projects has been to research the history of Union Cemetery in Sharon Township.
This beautiful burying ground sits atop a hill with a lovely vista overlooking the prairie land to the west. In the far distance, the smoke stack from the Coffeen power plant is visible.
Shortly before his death, the Rev. Glenn L. Sharp, wrote a brief history of the Union congregation, telling that the first church, built of logs, was erected about 1835 by the Protestant Methodist congregation.
The first column I wrote for this newspaper was published in January 1997. It was written about the life of Christiana Holmes Tillson of Montgomery County.
Christiana's husband, John Tillson, came to Illinois in June 1818, as an agent for Eastern land speculators. Christiana wrote of their early life in Illinois in the book, "A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois."
This weekend, we have the opportunity to pay tribute to those special men and women who have sacrificed for the rest of us by serving in the military.
As we observe Memorial Day on Monday, we will be reminded of the ways those courageous individuals have placed our well-being above their own comfort and safety. In some cases, they actually laid down their life as a sacrifice to keep our nation free.
It's a monumental debt that we owe. But it's one that all too often we forget.
In 1987, Dorothy Ridlen became a member of our family.
Aunt Dorothy had been widowed for a number of years when she met great-uncle Wilbur Meyer at a Primitive Baptist Association meeting.
Wilbur was 78 at the time, and also widowed. The two hit it off, and a year later they were married.
Before her retirement, Aunt Dorothy worked as a licensed practical nurse in Granite City. While living there, she became interested in dolls and doll repair. Many china head dolls became display items once again after Aunt Dorothy rebuilt their bodies and sewed new clothes.
As area high school seniors prepare to close out their high school days, we offer our congratulations – and we urge them on to even greater accomplishments.
Graduating from high school is a great thing, a milestone to be celebrated. Along the way, many area students have distinguished themselves in the classroom, as well as by excelling in extracurricular activities and in the athletic arena. Those activities produce learning opportunities that can't be duplicated in the classroom.
The fourth in a series of public meetings about the possible bypass routes of U.S. Route 51 was held last Wednesday in Vandalia.
Like the previous hearings hosted by the Illinois Department of Transportation, it was only modestly attended, and few questions were asked. We'd like to see more involvement by local residents.
The potential impact of the bypass on our community is significant, depending on where the final route goes.
Nathan Burgess was hanged at half past 1 o'clock on Friday, June 18, 1875.
The gallows was erected on the front portico of the Effingham County Courthouse for carrying out the sentence because the trial had been moved to Effingham County on a change of venue.
Found guilty of the murder of Joseph Robbins, Burgess mounted the 13 steps leading to the gallows platform, accompanied by three clergymen of his choice.
Does your garage look like a disaster area? Is every nook and cranny crammed with the carcasses of once-useful items that never will be used again?
How about the basement? The attic?
It's time to take charge. It's time to drag those treasures to the curb and send them on their way.
Yes, it's time for Vandalia's annual cleanup week. The promotion runs May 10-14.
Once each year, the city allows city residents to unload all the unwanted items that have accumulated around their homes.
There are many cemeteries scattered about Fayette County – more than 230 at last count.
Thanks to the work of volunteers from the Fayette County Genealogical & Historical Society, headstone readings from all known county cemeteries have been recorded and published. This leaves about 30 cemeteries that are known to exist, but their location has been lost over the years.
The young bank clerk yawned and reached for his coat. James Kelley had worked into his supper hour again that evening and was anxious to leave the State Bank building in Vandalia where he worked.
It was more than a decade ago that Sandy Leidner, while serving as Vandalia's mayor, had a vision to improve the community's downtown business district. On Monday, we will celebrate that vision becoming a reality.
Leidner, and others, realized that Vandalia's downtown would never be like it was prior to the introduction of large retail department stores. But she also realized that the downtown would suffer even greater damage by letting the streetscape, and the infrastructure beneath it, continue to age and deteriorate.
Unless you've been locked away in a cage in recent months, you've noticed that virtually every government entity has begun initiating significant budget cuts.
In this week's issue alone, we have stories about the city of Vandalia approving furlough days for all of its full-time employees and the Vandalia School District cutting staff and programs.
The 1878 History of Fayette County makes mention of all the "firsts" to occur in each township in the county – the earliest settlers, first birth, first death, first marriage, first mill, first school, first burying ground and, in the case of Pope Township, the first murder.
How can you tell that spring has arrived? The sound of mowers and the smell of cut grass. The chirping of birds. An increase in the theft and vandalism of personal and public property.
Vandalia's police officers have been kept busy recently handling numerous complaints of criminal damage to property and theft, as well as several reports of the passing of counterfeit bills.
Any time a new company comes to town, we're ready to celebrate and welcome them with open arms.
We ought to welcome growth by existing local firms with the same enthusiasm. After all, both types of growth bring valuable jobs and expanded opportunities to our community.
This week, we have reason to celebrate. Rural King's plans to move into the former home of Orgill and significantly expand its business here was given approval by the Vandalia Planning Commission. The issue now goes before the Vandalia City Council for its approval.
John J. Brown, who went on to become a well-respected Vandalia attorney, was a boy of 7 when he, along with 26 other boys, including his brother, William, were brought to Fayette County on what was called the "Orphan Train."
John J. and William Brown, both born in New York City, were the sons of John and Mary Brown, immigrants from Dublin, Ireland. Following the death of their parents in 1858, the boys were placed with the New York Orphan Asylum.
In March 1969, the five-story Evans Hotel in downtown Vandalia was destroyed by fire. More than four years later, the northwest corner of Fourth and Gallatin streets was still filled with rubble.
That's what city officials are trying to prevent now, six weeks after a fire destroyed four downtown buildings and caused major damage to a fifth.
This situation is not unlike any others when fire destroys property; the city has guidelines to follow in requiring property owners to take care of the damage.
Nearly two months ago, we urged the city to do whatever it could to get Gallatin Street open. Having been closed to vehicular traffic since October, we felt it was high time that the merchants there were given some relief. At that time, very little work remained to be done, yet the barricades stayed in place.
Last week, the barricades came down.
A little more than a year after workers dug up the first section of Gallatin Street, there's light at the end of the tunnel or, more specifically, light at the east end of Vandalia's downtown business district.
The 400 block of Gallatin Street was opened to traffic on Tuesday afternoon, and city officials say the 300 block – the final block of the downtown enhancement project – could be opened up as early as Friday.
All of us can't depend on someone like Larry Peyton driving by at the right time; therefore, we need to make sure that we have smoke detectors in our homes … and that they're working.
Peyton was driving by Washburn Trailer Court at Vandalia Lake early Saturday morning when he noticed smoke coming from one of the mobile homes. As the residents heard Peyton pounding on the door, they noticed that their smoke detector was beeping, giving them time to get outside safely.
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Funny That HBO Is Putting Shows Online, Just As Parent Time Warner Starts Charging Extra For Bandwidth
from the coincidence? dept
It is true that both of these programs are merely tests -- and they're tests in totally different markets right now. However, the HBO online video will only be available to Time Warner customers. The Hollywood Reporter story suggests that it's a case of two parts of a business not communicating with one another -- but I'm sure some more conspiracy-minded thinkers will naturally assume it's really Time Warner's attempt to squeeze more money out of people. Sure, it will say the HBO streams are "free," but just wait until you get that broadband bill... Of course, there is also another possibility. The Hollywood Reporter story mentions the possibility that Time Warner would create a special "exception" to the bandwidth rule if that bandwidth was for watching Time Warner-only videos. That, of course, is exactly the sort of thing that will be sure to get network neutrality advocates up in arms, though it's a subtle shift from traditional network neutrality claims. This time it won't be about "better quality," but about which content counts towards a bandwidth cap.


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Who can save us from summer blahs? The Greatest American Hero!
So almost all your favorite TV shows are on hiatus now. But don't panic! There's still new Futurama, plus a Greatest American Hero marathon. But more importantly, some of the strangest programming of the year airs during these summer doldrums.


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Jonathan D. Ostry is Deputy Director of the IMF's Research Department. In his current position, he oversees policy and research work related to the IMF-FSB Early Warning Exercise, vulnerabilities exercises for advanced and emerging market countries, multilateral exchange rate surveillance, and issues related to the international financial architecture. Past positions include leading the division that produces the IMF's flagship multilateral surveillance publication, the World Economic Outlook, and leading country teams on Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Singapore. He is the author/editor of numerous books on international macro policy issues and articles in scholarly journals.
Latest posts:
- All Hands on Deck: Confronting the Challenges of Capital Flows
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- Are Capital Flows Expansionary or Contractionary? It Depends What Kind
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- Managing Capital Flows in Frontier Economies
- Treating Inequality with Redistribution: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?
- International Policy Coordination: The Loch Ness Monster
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