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While waiting on the sidelines for his ACL to heal, UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz has been impressed by interim champ Renan Barao.
Most recently Barao submitted Michael McDonald with an arm-triangle choke Saturday at UFC on Fuel TV 7.
"He's proven to be the best guy in the division underneath me," Cruz told the Sherdog Radio Network's "Beatdown" show. "He's proven that. It's been impressive how he's been winning."
Cruz expected Barao to get past McDonald. With that said, though, he did give McDonald a chance in the early rounds due to his punching power.
"I was giving him the best chance to maybe put Barao down with one of those punches, but I kind of had a feeling McDonald was going to get stuck on the headhunt with Barao," Cruz said. "[Barao's] got a very tight defense. You've got to open him up. You can't just look for that one-punch knockout because Barao's got very good boxing fundamentals and he understands boxing really well. You can't just throw a one-punch knockout and land it. You've got to set up your big punches. You've got to throw punches in bunches. You've got to go to the body to lower the guard from the head."
McDonald did hurt Barao early, but the Brazilian took over the fight before finishing it 3:57 into the fourth round.
"There's a lot that's got to go on to break down a guy like Barao, to be able to trick him and get through his defense, and I think also on top of that, Barao was twice the size of McDonald in there really," Cruz said. "He's a big [bantamweight]. He's cutting a lot of weight, I think, and that definitely had a big part to play. Once he got that bodylock, McDonald wasn't going anywhere. He took him right down with that quickly and just controlled him."
Despite the loss, Cruz was complimentary of McDonald. He believes the 22-year-old will only improve from going into the championship rounds with Barao, though Barao of course is the man Cruz looks forward to fighting when he's healthy.
"I look forward to testing myself against him," Cruz said. "He's a very worthy opponent and it's going to be a fun fight. It's one of those fights where it's a new puzzle to figure out. Nobody's been able to do it for over 19 fights now with Barao, and I would love that opportunity."
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Back on the subject of feral hog hunting, a few people have wondered just exactly how the hogs are typically dispatched once hunters catch up to them.
Well, nowadays serious hog hunters will use a team of dogs to bay and subdue the creatures. Hunters will catch up as quickly as possible either by foot or horseback and bayonet the animal. Not for the squeamish! The rationale is that haphazard gunfire is avoided while culling a greater percentage of the herd.
I was witness to such activity a few weeks ago in the nether regions of the Santee Delta, but the purpose of today's column is not to talk so much about that as to describe a remarkable structure that we more or less stumbled across.
There was a break in the activity and everybody was enjoying a lovely day in the woods. It was a cool February morning. The sun was out and there were no insects. Any, believe me, any day on the delta when there aren't any mosquitoes is truly remarkable because they're usually thick enough to fly up one's nostrils.
And then all of a sudden it appeared. First as a ghostly mirage hidden among the encroaching vegetation, and then slowly acquiring beautiful form and symmetry as we got closer, a ruin so ancient, unexpected and forgotten that all we could do was gaze in amazement. It was the old Peachtree Plantation house, now a decrepit but proud and symbolic relic of a culture, civilization and people truly gone with the wind.
The ruin, remarkably well-preserved overall, was the home of Thomas Lynch Jr., one of the youngest signers of the Declaration of Independence, who journeyed with his bride from Peachtree to Charleston only a few years after affixing his signature. From there they would sail for Cuba but never make it. Their vessel was lost at sea with all on board.
Without outing anyone in particular, I've heard the occasional claim (but never from anyone actually named Lynch) over the years that certain individuals are directly descended from Thomas Lynch. Whereas there are quite a few direct descendants of Arthur Middleton, Thomas Heyward and Edward Rutledge around here, there are none directly descended from Lynch because he had no children, which would tend to clear up any misunderstanding.
Well, having dispensed with that digression, Clemson University recently teamed up with the College of Charleston and published a study just released: "Documentation, Interpretation and Mitigation: The Peachtree Plantation Ruins." Through detailed site analysis and research, the following conclusion was made. "While Peachtree Plantation is in ruins, a study of precedent plantations of similar affluence, period and region helps to mold a vision of what it once was. In studying the fashions and trends of the time, a greater picture of what the Lynch family constructed can be gleaned. Precedents for Peachtree Plantation allow for a greater understanding of not only the appearance of the Peachtree house, but also for an understanding of its building techniques and site context."
Through no fault of their own, researchers cannot say for certain exactly what the house looked like. But enough of it remains to give the obvious impression that it had to be a grand and opulent structure. From the stately walls to the Flemish bonding and the high windows and archways, granite steps and massive fireplace, it radiates the story of plantation aristocracy and the rice culture. And yet the place is shrouded in mystery, with trees and Spanish moss nearly wrapping it in a Christo-like paean to Southern lore and mythology.
One can't help but let the house come alive — at least within the reaches of imagination. Built around 1762, one account describes Peachtree as "something of Baronial grandeur. For more than one generation it had been known as the abode of opulence, refinement and hospitality." The account continues with descriptions of Peachtree's Grecian porticos, spacious grassy lawns, stately oaks and impressive and varied gardens.
The house at Peachtree was burned about 1840, abandoned and essentially left to nature, the encroachment of which has and likely will continue to contribute to its deterioration. Some degree of restoration is of course conceivable, as outlined in the Clemson and C of C analysis. The property last changed hands in the 1980s and a protective easement was granted to the Nature Conservancy in 2005.
Remote, alone, stripped down and laid bare, the ruins at Peachtree tell a unique story, on its own terms, on one of the quietest, most intriguing, meditative, beautiful and fascinating sites in the state of South Carolina, if not the U.S.
Edward M. Gilbreth is a Charleston physician. Reach him at edwardgilbreth@ comcast.net.

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Infern0 wrote:"Mea puellae formam portis dat"
I translated the sentence as "My girl gives form/shape/beauty to the gates," but that sounds funny to me? Is this translation correct? I believe "portis" is the plural dative? "Formam" is the singular accusative?
furrykef wrote:Very strange sentence, I think. I don't think it does much good to translate such things unless either it appears in a text you're reading or there is some cultural context that it can shed light upon.
Infern0 wrote:is it declined as "antīquus" or "antīqus"?
Also, I was practicing the translation exercises in Chapter 3 of Wheelock's (page 21) and had a question for the translation of #10. The English sentence is "We see great fortune in your daugthers' lives, my friend." The translation that I worked out is as follows: "Hodiē fortunam magnam in vītīs fīlīae tuae vidēmus, amīcus meus."
I got a bit confused on which case to use for some of the nouns. I'm pretty sure "great fortune" is the accusative because its the direct object. "In your daughters' lives" can be rewritten as "in the lives of your daughters" in which case "daughters" would be genitive and "lives" would be in the ablative?
Oh, and for #11 of the same page, The English sentence is "He always gives my daughters and sons roses." My question is do we translate my daughters and sons using a single phrase? So the translation would be "Filiīs meīs rosās semper dat?" Is there a need to distinguish daughters from sons? In this case, the declension would be the same for both, but theoretically, if the declensions were different, do we need to translate both separately? Or is it like Spanish, where the masculine term would also translate as both male and female together?
furrykef wrote:Infern0 wrote:Also, I was practicing the translation exercises in Chapter 3 of Wheelock's (page 21) and had a question for the translation of #10. The English sentence is "We see great fortune in your daugthers' lives, my friend." The translation that I worked out is as follows: "Hodiē fortunam magnam in vītīs fīlīae tuae vidēmus, amīcus meus."
Hodiē magnam fortūnam in vītārum fīliārum tuārum vidēmus, amīce mī.
Infern0 wrote:I'm working on a translation and I need some clarification on word order. I know there isn't a definitive word order for Latin, but I was wondering if my translation would be ok. The English is "The rumors ought to warn the farmers in my fatherland"
I translated it as: "Famae agricolās in patriā meā monēre debent."
Infern0 wrote:I also wasn't sure if the ablative case is correct for "patriā meā."
Infern0 wrote:It bothers me a bit that word order can be a bit arbitrary (but that could be because im just a bit OCD lol).
furrykef wrote:Another rule that's good to know is that adjectives generally come after the noun (much as in Spanish, etc.), except for adjectives of size, beauty, quantity, and a few other things, which typically precede. Likewise, genitives almost always come after the noun they modify... but only "almost".
Infern0 wrote:English: "The danger to the good son is small."
My Latin Translation: "Perīculum ad fīlium bonum est parvum"
I wasn't exactly sure if I should use the accusative or the ablative case here. So far, we've mostly used the ablative with prepositional phrases, but Wheelock says that the accusative is often used with preposition "to." I'm also not sure if "ab" is the correct word to use in this sentence as well.
Infern0 wrote:English: "The evil war terrifies many people."
My Latin Translation: "Bellum malum multum populum terret."
Infern0 wrote:Since Latin word order is slightly arbitrary, does one just look at context in a case like this where you can take the sentence different ways?
Infern0 wrote:English: "The greedy men ought to love leisure."
My Latin Translation: "Virī avāvī ōtium amāre debent."
Latin: Virī stultī culpāre nōn possumus; magnus numerus sānum erant.
I put it in the accusative because I think men would be a direct object in this situation, right?
victoriaw wrote:Do you also know which other languages besides Latin and Slovenian have cases like nominative, accusative, dative, genitive?


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HOUSTON, Texas – A pair of late goals from Houston Dynamo midfielders Ricardo Clark and Boniek Garcia sent the New England Revolution to a 2-0 loss on Saturday night in the club's first-ever visit to BBVA Compass Stadium.
Brian Ching came off the bench to help set up both goals, picking up the secondary assists on Clark's opener in the 77th minute and Garcia's insurance strike deep into stoppage time. Both goals were generated from right-wing crosses as Clark finished a low feed from Brad Davis and Garcia volleyed home a looping cross from Warren Creavalle.
The win kept Houston (13-8-10, 49 pts.) in the fifth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, one point ahead of the Columbus Crew with three games remaining. For New England (7-16-8, 29 pts.), it was a fifth consecutive road loss.
Benny Feilhaber returned to the Revolution's starting lineup for the first time since Sept. 1 as one of four changes to the squad which played to a 1-1 draw with the New York Red Bulls last weekend, but goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth retained his spot between the pipes for a second straight game.
Feilhaber had the game's first real chance in the 18th minute when he curled a 25-yard free kick over the wall and toward the upper left corner, forcing Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall into a quality save. Moments later Darrius Barnes had a bid but couldn't control Dimitry Imbongo's volley across the face of goal, while Imbongo's immediate follow-up was cleared away.
The majority of the chances continued to come from distance in a relatively uneventful first half, with Hall making a pair of simple saves on efforts from Imbongo and Clyde Simms, and Shuttleworth diving to his left to stop a low drive from Calen Carr.
Carr threatened again in the 58th minute when he was played into the right side of the box but his shot flashed high and wide of the near upper corner. One minute later Jerry Bengtson went close with a header at the other end, bouncing an effort wide of the right post from Fernando Cardenas' left-wing cross.
Shuttleworth produced a stunning save in the 73rd minute to temporarily keep the game scoreless. Ching's clever pass sent Will Bruin into the left side of the box and the Dynamo forward cut inside to open up space for a shot. Bruin's low effort was headed inside the far post but Shuttleworth reacted quickly to push the shot wide.
There was nothing the Revs goalkeeper could do in the 77th minute, however, as Clark finally broke the deadlock with a deft finish. Ching put Davis down the right channel and the Houston winger delivered a cross with his weaker foot. Clark got the slightest of touches on the cross, guiding the ball off the far post and into the back of the net.
Shuttleworth came up with a string of fine saves as the Dynamo poured on the pressure after the opener but the home side eventually produced a second in stoppage time. Ching sent Creavalle down the right wing and the defender's looping cross reached Garcia at the back post, where the Honduran finished with a sumptuous full volley.
The Revs will be on the road again next weekend when they head to PPL Park for a meeting with the Philadelphia Union on Saturday, Oct. 6.
New England Revolution at Houston Dynamo
September 29, 2012 – BBVA Compass Stadium (Houston, Texas)
Houston Dynamo 2, New England Revolution 0
Scoring Summary:
HOU – Ricardo Clark (Brad Davis, Brian Ching) 77
HOU – Boniek Garcia (Warren Creavalle) 93+
New England Revolution: Bobby Shuttleworth, Kevin Alston, A.J. Soares, Stephen McCarthy, Darrius Barnes (Diego Fagundez 83), Fernando Cardenas, Benny Feilhaber, Clyde Simms © (Juan Toja 46), Kelyn Rowe, Dimitry Imbongo (Blake Brettschneider 78), Jerry Bengtson
Substitutes Not Used: Matt Reis, Mike Roach, Blair Gavin, Alec Purdie
STATS: Shots 14, Shots on Target 4, Corner Kicks 4, Saves 5, Fouls 14, Offsides 3, Passes (percentage) 230 (63%), Possession 35.6%
Houston Dynamo: Tally Hall, Kofi Sardokie, Bobby Boswell, Jermaine Taylor, Corey Ashe, Brad Davis © (Warren Creavalle 91+), Ricardo Clark, Adam Moffat, Boniek Garcia, Will Bruin (Cam Weaver 74), Calen Carr (Brian Ching 65)
Substitutes Not Used: Tyler Deric, Luiz Carmargo, Macoumba Kandji, Andre Hainault
STATS: Shots 16, Shots on Target 7, Corner Kicks 9, Saves 4, Fouls 12, Offsides 6, Passes (percentage) 414 (79.7%), Possession 64.4%
* Note that all statistics are unofficial
Misconduct Summary:
NE – Fernando Cardenas (caution) 54
HOU – Bobby Boswell (caution) 60
NE – Dimitry Imbongo (caution) 62
HOU – Will Bruin (caution) 62
NE – Juan Toja (caution) 68
Referee: Drew Fischer
Assistant Referees:George Gansner, Jonathan Johnson
Fourth Official: Baldomero Toledo
Weather: Rain and 75 degrees
Attendance: 22,039
Team Records
New England Revolution: 7-16-8 (29 pts.)
Houston Dynamo: 13-8-10 (49 pts.)
- With the loss, the Revs moved to 6-3-5 all-time against Houston, including a 4-2-1 mark in away matches
- This was the Revs' first-ever match at BBVA Compass Stadium … the Revs were previously 4-1-1 at Robertson Stadium
- The Revs are 0-2-2 in their last four matches against Houston
- The loss dropped the team to 7-16-8 on the season, equaling the team's 2011 loss total
- After being shut out tonight – the 11th time this season – the club tied its record for most times being shut out in a season (11 – 2010)
- Tonight's two-goal loss was just the team's second multiple-goal loss of the season … the only other loss this year in which the team dropped a game by more than one goal was on March 17 in a 3-0 loss – with 10 men for almost 80 minutes – at Kansas City
- Benny Feilhaber made his first start since Sept 1 – a 0-0 draw with Philadelphia at home
- Fernando Cardenas also made his first start since Sept. 1 … on the season, he now has eight starts
- Bobby Shuttleworth made his second consecutive start and his fourth start of the season … he is now 1-2-1 on the year with a 1.00 goals against average
- Bobby Shuttleworth's five saves were one shy of his single-game high of six, which he recorded on Oct. 10, 2010 against Houston
- Ryan Guy was unavailable for tonight's game while he wrapped up his first-ever international duty with Guam … he played in the Paulino Alcantara Peace Cup in the Philippines this week
- Dimitry Imbongo made his third start of the season and had five shots


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UC Davis researcher M. Eric Gershwin has been recognized with the first Vasco da Gama Award for Explorations in Autoimmunity by Medinterna Association, an international organization dedicated to improving therapeutic strategies for immune-system diseases.
Given during the association's 11th annual meeting held February 6-9 in Porto, Portugal, the award is named for the 15th century Age of Discovery explorer famous for forging new sea routes to expand spice trade between Portugal and India. Nearly 400 of Gershwin's colleagues in immunology from 15 countries were present as he received the recognition.
"Like da Gama, Dr. Gershwin has been fearless in establishing new and valuable paths of understanding," said Carlos Dias, president of the Medinterna Association and head of the Medicine Department at S. João Hospital in Porto. "His innovative thinking and discoveries have helped the scientific community make significant progress in finding answers to some of the toughest diseases in medicine."
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IT outsourcing relationships have certain similarities to human liaisons of the romantic – and physical – kind. There are long-term relationships, which, like marriages, survive but endure many bumps and arguments along the way. There are those who tire of their partners and change them regularly, or those who view it all as just another transaction, and opt for the cheapest price over quality as they search for instant gratification.
And like notions of human relationship dynamics, our view of IT outsourcing is constantly changing.
Selective sourcing is suddenly in vogue as if we had just sanctioned a widespread social switch to multiple partners, each of whom satisfies a different but very particular need.
Breaking down the big contracts into smaller chunks is the opposite of outsourcing monogamy, and a trend that has gained greater momentum with the growth of process outsourcing, applications management and the temptation to buy functions from offshore.
Analyst firms are keeping track of the morphing outsourcing environment, and providing pointers for enterprises. A recent Meta Group report, for instance, says 80 per cent of organisations will outsource at least one function by 2005. And, while 70 per cent of that group will renew their outsourcing contracts, many will reduce both the scope and the duration of the original agreement.
"Vendor performance may factor into the decision to cut back on existing outsourcing arrangements, yet the trend is really driven by the need for organisations to regain control of their IT strategy and architecture," says Dane Anderson, Meta senior research analyst.
Continued growth
"The growing popularity of asset-leasing arrangements and the increased focus on business and IT alignment are also playing important roles in the decision to curtail outsourcing engagements."
Despite the reductions in scope and duration of outsourcing, the analyst firm believes outsourcing will continue to grow as a viable option for organisations seeking to remain competitive during the next decade.
Forrester, on the other hand, says even when the bulk of IT is outsourced, several key functions should be retained because they supply continuity for clients of IT, provide for the oversight of the outsourcer, are highly specific to the way the business operates, and are strategic to the organisation. To some extent, the mix will vary with the reason for outsourcing, says Forrester. The bottom line: All organisations will need to retain some expertise in strategic functions, such as project oversight, architecture, planning, vendor management and security.
In 2004, there is no doubt the outsourcing landscape has changed, and continues to change significantly, as users grow in experience and know more about what they want. Some of them share their experiences with MIS.
Sparks didn't exactly fly when Auckland City Environments (ACE) received a tender from Datamail, a subsidary of New Zealand Post, to handle its mammoth project to transfer its property files into digital format.
ACE is the regulatory business unit of Auckland City Council. It produces building and resource consents, and administers the Building Act, district plan and by-laws. It is the biggest local body in the South Pacific (apart from Brisbane City Council), and its customers range from property developers behind big value projects like SkyCity, to residential owners.
A re-engineering project five years ago included a survey of customer satisfaction and the results were not something to be excited about. They were "very low" at around four, out of a possible 10. "Our customers were driven by costs, reliability of information and timeliness," says Rachel Hill, ACE information manager. "We needed to speed up the consent process, we needed to contain costs and we needed to make it more reliable."
"We didn't understand how fundamental information was to our business. We thought consenting and enforcement was all we were about. We found that if we made information available concurrently and improved the integrity, then that would effectively speed up our processes.
"Paper files meant long wait periods for our staff and customers; it also meant that there were gaps and inaccuracies in the content. So, one of the decisions made was to convert a large repository of information to electronic images."
The files, however, were in different media, including paper, microfiche and aperture cards, making them difficult to read, file and analyse. ACE decided to take care of scanning and converting new information but to outsource the scanning of the historical files.
"Scanning was not our core competency," says Hill on the decision to outsource the job. ACE was faced with the choice of trying to do the job and not doing it well, or getting an expert to do it. "We decided to get the experts."
ACE worked with KPMG Consulting (now BearingPoint) as its systems integrator in determining what should be in the RFP, and how to evaluate the responses.'
Sleuthing on the job
Since Hill had no experience with scanning, she did some sleuthing to identify potential suppliers.
"It is not likely you would look in the phone book and say, 'let me find some scanning partner'." She was also concerned not to make the choices too narrow, or too wide.
Hill went down the supply chain and approached providers of scanning equipment and asked them which "good companies" used their equipment and how they worked with them. The possible suppliers were then invited to join the tender.
Some of the smaller players formed consortia. Hill thought there would be
pros and cons with having a consortium.
Potentially, each company would compete with each other internally to deliver the best service, but they could
also operate quite independently and she decided that having to manage the
potential variability in delivery could be problematic.
She likewise had concerns about giving the contract to one large company.
"I have worked in production management and once you get into these large companies, often there is a bit of a honeymoon period."
Once they have got your contract, they could just relax, move their attention to new and more interesting clients.
"I promoted a smaller company as I believed a company with a bigger investment in this contract would try harder in a long run."
She expressed these concerns to KPMG Consulting, over Datamail, a large imaging company, which won the contract after meeting all the tangible, measurable criteria.
The success or failure of the contract depended not only in meeting these tangible outcomes but also on the relationship – and the durability of that relationship – between both parties, she states.
Today, the conversion of millions of records to digital format is already halfway through. "Our target was to get 80 per cent of application processing using electronic property files within four years. We achieved that in two-and-a-half years."
What set the contract apart was the absence of penalties. "I don't think they work at all, the thing is actual performance." The contract instead had "very strict" performance indicators.
"If they didn't meet those, they would lose the contract at any renewal period," says Hill.
"It was a question of dealing with performance problems as we went along and congratulating them obviously if they met them. We ironed out issues as we went along rather than let these build up."
"If they didn't stack up, then we would go back out to market. And that was tough."
"We pulled together a document that has got every clause in the contract in it, and what their performance criteria are. It is a collaborative document, and then we signed it off."
Hill meets with Datamail channel manager Nigel Grange every quarter and discusses the review document. This is based on the daily interactions and monthly operational meetings between staff at both organisations.
"What I had seen happen in other contracts is they all start up, 'Sure we are going to do it all and do it well – trust us.' Once it is running smoothly, the supplier thinks, 'Okay it is running smoothly, let's not worry about it.' It all starts to turn bad and then you start being reactive, and so on until it's a disaster. It is all about being proactive. It's about building a relationship where both parties understand and value each other's business; where there is regular, open communication with consequences for non-performance and recognition of good performance."
Datamail, on the other hand, had to revise its processes for the ACE job. Prior to the ACE contract, Datamail had always worked on one type of media at high volume. The ACE documents, however, were of different media and sizes. In effect, it built a new production process around this particular contract. Datamail parlayed this new process into getting similar outsourcing contracts from other agencies, using ACE as a reference.
It was not a one-sided effort because Hill says the council staff also had to comply with their obligations. "In any contract there has to be profit on both sides," she says,"and this need not be in dollar terms. That is something we have to teach our staff as well, so getting all that working cohesively was quite a challenge. At the end of the day, however, the results and outcomes show how effective this approach has been."
She sums up the key success factors for projects of this scope and genre: "You have to start out how you mean to go on. Setting high standards, non-negotiable performance criteria and building a lasting relationship are of prime importance."
A new experience
Outsourcing was untrodden territory for the Tauranga City Council. The in-house IT department usually handled the technology projects, but the scope of its recent network infrastructure revamp prompted the council to look for an external partner.
The major upgrade to the business systems included a new customer relationship management, purchase ordering and document management system. The council was also extending its main office, which required the physical re-cabling of the building.
"This project came up at an already busy time for us, so being able to hand this over to Gen-i was great," says Robyn Dines, manager information systems. It was, however, a challenge to get the technical staff to hand the project over to someone else, she relates. "My staff grilled the Gen-i people very hard and really made them jump through hoops to prove that they came up to our expectations."
The new network has been running since, and there was minimal disruption to the council's daily business during the rollout.
For other agencies contemplating a similar foray, she says: "It's really important that you have the right people mix in the project, that there is excellent, open communication and that you have a high level of trust in your outsourcer."
Tower New Zealand, on the other hand, is no stranger to outsourcing, having inked contracts with local and offshore partners (see the special report on offshoring in MIS New Zealand July 2004). Tower has just signed a $25 million five-year deal for HdS to host and support core customer systems and provide full redundancy and disaster recovery services for three Tower businesses in New Zealand.
Ed Saul, Tower Group's chief information officer, says the deal fits into Tower's technology strategy of working with specialist third party companies to deliver components of its infrastructure to reduce costs and simplify its technology architecture.
"IT infrastructure is a commodity we would rather rent, than own and manage ourselves," says Saul. "The ongoing strategic thrust is to deliver more benefit from technology, which will help drive cost out of the business and establish the platform for growth."
He believes in incentives for both parties to extract maximum value from the relationship.
"Both companies share in the risks and rewards," he says. "We have service levels that they need to achieve and they get this small additional payment if they achieve those service levels. If they fall below those service levels, we pay them less than what the standard payment would be. We review that every few months. It's either they get a bit of extra or they get a bit less depending on whether they achieve their service levels."
Riding out the turbulence
In corporate Australia, one of the longest outsourcing relationships has been the more than 20-year liaison between financial services group AMP and CSC, which has just been renewed until 2007.
Despite the turbulence at AMP, the company has stuck with CSC, and also with another long-standing contract with the Kaz Group, which dates back to 1988.
According to Lou Pagano, AMP's alliances director, the CSC relationship has also had its ups and downs.
While happy enough with the relationship now, Pagano says there was a time after the contract was renewed in 2000 when he believes CSC "dropped the ball".
While AMP was satisfied with the agreement, Pagano says the situation soon started to go rapidly downhill, partly because of changes at CSC. The new AMP deal, built off the back of the company's acquisition of GIO, had given CSC real scale in Australia for the first time. As a result, it had gone out and found a number of significant new clients.
Servicing them all adequately with its existing resources was creating strains on CSC's service levels, and Pagano says relations with AMP soon became frosty. "I think they were thin on the ground across everything, and we found we had also underestimated the size of the GIO acquisition, so there was a lesson for us in due diligence," says Pagano.
The immediate AMP response, he says, made the problems worse.
"Instead of managing through an appropriate governance forum, what we did was try and bring in people who knew more about technology than CSC did," says Pagano. "We had a desktop problem, so we hired a desktop expert to come in and tell us if they knew what CSC was doing."
Realising it was "nowhere near" benchmark performance levels, AMP decided to get serious about its governance levels and realised that, while it had outsourced responsibility, "we hadn't outsourced accountability".
The result was a new, co-operative approach that got the partners talking to each other again, and which has saved the relationship, leading to the most recent contract extension. "One of the things we had to do to change the course of our relationship with CSC was actually to own up to the problems on both sides."
Pagano says AMP and CSC "got back to basics" and created regular governance forums and reporting processes to track and monitor performance. "We changed that blame culture and finally understood that if our suppliers fail, then IT at AMP fails," he says. "It was a cultural shift and it allowed the governance forums to gain a new focus and the focus was not just how do we get CSC to better improve its service delivery dynamics but how do we enable CSC to do that?"
A recent entrant into the outsourcing market is flagship airline Qantas, which has just announced an A$1.4 billion (NZ$1.52 billion), 10-year data and communications deal with IBM and Telstra.
Qantas chief information officer Fiona Balfour says that, up until now, Qantas believed its internal capabilities were at least as good as it could buy from an outsourcer. It had outsourced its reservations to Amadeus in 1999 in a US$1 billion deal also negotiated with equity partner BA, and outsourced its desktops to Telstra two years ago, but had kept its core infrastructure in-house.
But with the data centre now 35 years old – five years beyond its design life – Balfour says it was time to look at alternatives, and the main outsourcing providers now had the "critical mass" to service a company the size of Qantas.
"The other driver for us was a desire to change from having fixed IT costs to a more flexible arrangement where we could access on-demand computing, so that when we have a growth phase, we can add capacity at pre-ordained prices, and when we have something bad happen to us – like SARS – we can let go of costs very quickly," says Balfour.
The Qantas deal, despite being the biggest in Australia so far this year, has been criticised by some financial analysts for not going far enough. The airline will be left with about 700 IT staff, and the analysts are keen for Qantas to strip out as much as it can in the way of labour costs.
"It's nice financial analysis but it shows they know more about understanding balance sheets than running an IT shop," says Balfour. "We are keeping control of where we add the greatest value – architecture, policy and application development.
"That doesn't mean you cut the code on every application yourself, but you absolutely manage the process of integrating that technology back into your organisation."
Balfour remains sceptical she can find better skills at a better price from an outsourcing provider for these services.
"By keeping things like architecture and development in-house, we've got absolute control over the priorities of where resources are allocated, and the quality of resources allocated to various tasks," says Balfour.
"There are a whole lot of good reasons why you want to keep control of that, and that's the bit the outsourcers put the margin on, and why would you want to pay that margin if you can do it yourself?"


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From Quartz, a nice visual on today's jobs report. Among the generally good-but-unexciting news, here's a tidbit: the number of Americans working part-time because their hours were cut back or they couldn't find a full-time job dropped by more than 250,000 to just under 8 million. — Lauren Weber
If you think you're unhappy at work, check out Bloomberg Businessweek's featured story on Dish Network, which the magazine dubs "the meanest company in America" because so many employees have complained about being miserable there. –Leslie Kwoh
Harvard Business Review ranks the world's 100 best-performing chief executives. You'll have to click through to see who's number one, but we'll leave you with this interesting tidbit: only 27 of the top 100 chiefs hold business degrees. –Nikki Waller
Also from Businessweek, a piece on why no good business executive would ever face a fiscal cliff. "First," the author insists, "he or she would know how the company's money is being spent and how much everything costs." –Leslie Kwoh
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The half-hour series features the iconic character living in a city, attending school, and at the center of a peer group that works together to give back to the community -- having both real-life and magical adventures along the way.
Set in the fictional city of Playa Verde, Dora and her friends go on adventures, whether it's rescuing a lost stuffed monkey for a little boy in the hospital or returning a ring to an ancient Mayan Princess.
Dora uses the help of a Map App on her smartphone and a magical charm bracelet to navigate the city and overcome obstacles along the way. In this new series, Dora continues to show she is a good friend, leader, and problem-solver with a group of new friends – Kate, Naiya, Emma, Alana and Pablo -- who share her passion for learning and exploring.
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Some progress has been made in treating HIV/Aids across the world. The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported that 20.9 million people around the world are on HIV/Aids treatment today. Here is an overview of the HIV/Aids epidemic:
HIV/Aids is still a human rights issue
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General released a statement saying that since the very beginning of the epidemic, the HIV response has been centered on human rights, equity and communities, the very foundations upon which universal health coverage has been built. He has outlined that as the HIV epidemic evolved over the years, it is the vulnerable, marginalized communities and individuals that have been disproportionately affected.
He also said that meaningful involvement with communities mostly affected was good health practice and that the HIV response played a large role in transforming the public health system.
More people are receiving treatment today for HIV/Aids
Today almost 21 million people are receiving antiretroviral therapy that is enabling them to live full and productive lives. That makes up 53% of people infected with HIV. Every day, fewer people are becoming infected with HIV and fewer people are dying. But these successes are masking the many disparities and challenges that persist.
Marginalised communities are still left behind in the fight against HIV/Aids
Young women, people of colour, adolescents, migrants, displaced persons, homosexual men, transgendered people, people who inject drugs and prisoners represented 40% of new HIV infections in 2016.
Europe's HIV/Aids rate is growing at an alarming rate
WHO has reported that in 2016, 160,000 people contracted the virus that causes Aids in the 53 countries that make up the organisation's European region. This is the highest rate of infection since records began. About 80% of these infections come from Eastern Europe. WHO's European regional director, Zsuzsanna Jakab said this was disturbing because a lot of patients tested had already been living for several years with the virus that causes Aids. In the eastern part of the WHO European region, one in three people are unaware of their HIV status. In the rest of the Region, the figure stands at one in seven.
White House omits LGBT, people of colour in its Aids Day statement
The White House has excluded LGBT people and people of colour from its World AIDS Day proclamation. Unlike Obama's statement when he was president, President Donald Trump did not mention the communities affected by HIV the most. He instead took a general approach in a letter saying: "On this day, we pray for all those living with HIV, and those who have lost loved ones to AIDS." The letter lists a general review of statistics and the work of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. It concluded with a call from Trump "to remember those who have lost their lives to AIDS and to provide support and compassion to those living with HIV." There was no mention of PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis) as a strategy going forward and he merely mentioned he would invest in "testing initiatives".
New high-quality antiretroviral therapy to be launched in South Africa, Kenya
After a breakthrough pricing agreement, it has been announced that the first affordable, generic, single-pill HIV treatment regimen containing dolutegravi will be launched in South Africa and Kenya. The agreement is expected to accelerate treatment rollout as part of global efforts to reach all 36.7 million people living with HIV with high-quality antiretroviral therapy.
Brazil begins PrEP roll-out on World AIDS Day
Brazil's Ministry of Health will start provision of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention in key higher-risk population groups through 35 sites across the country, beginning on World AIDS Day, 1 December 2017. The Ministry has estimated that in the first year, 9 000 men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers and transgender people will be offered PrEP through Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), Brazil's national health service.


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CHICAGO, IL (Feb. 11, 2012) – The Chicago Fire used Daniel Paladini's 49th minute strike to defeat Chivas USA 1-0 in MLS Preseason action Saturday afternoon at the Oxnard College Soccer Complex in Oxnard, Calif. Fire head coach Frank Klopas gave two different XI's 45 minutes each in the match.
Playing in his first preseason game since rejoining the side from last month's U.S. Men's National Team camp, goalkeeper Sean Johnson was called into action in the 22nd minute when a giveaway at the back saw Chivas striker Michael Lahoud in alone on goal. The speedy forward charged ahead before firing a low blast off Johnson's shin to keep the match scoreless.
Into the second half, the Fire found the lone goal of the game just after the break when midfielder Daniel Paladini picked up a loose ball at midfield. The Northridge, Calif., product drove towards goal before hitting a low blast that beat Chivas substitute 'keeper Tim Melia inside the right post in the 49th minute.
The Fire return to preseason action on Wednesday, February 15 when they fact the Portland Timbers at The Home Depot Center at 1:00 PM CT. Fans can follow the game live viawww.twitter.com/ChiFireMatch.
The Fire host Opening Day at Toyota Park against the Philadelphia Union on Saturday, March 24 at 7:30 PM CT. Chicago Fire Season Tickets are available by calling 1-888-MLS-FIRE (657-3473), viaTicketmaster or by heading to the club's official website at Chicago-Fire.com.
- Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson saw his first minutes of preseason, having rejoined the team in Ventura this week following a month-long U.S. Men's National Team training camp in which he received his second cap in a 1-0 victory vs. Panama on January 25.
- Fire captain Logan Pause remains in Chicago with his wife after the birth of the couple's daughter. Set to attend the Comcast SportsNet Awards on Monday, February 13, Pause will rejoin the team the following day in Ventura, Calif.
- Defender Gonzalo Segares (injury precaution) and newly arrived midfielder Rafael Robayo were held out of Saturday's match. Having just joined the team this week after completing the visa process in Colombia, Robayo is expected to be available for selection in next Wednesday's match vs. the Portland Timbers.
Chicago Fire 1 – 0 C.D. Chivas USA
Chicago Fire: Sean Johnson; Dan Gargan, Jalil Anibaba, Cory Gibbs, Ivan Guerrero*; Marco Pappa, Pavel Pardo ©, Patrick Nyarko; Sebastian Grazzini; Federico Puppo, Dominic Oduro
Second Half: Jay Nolly; Tony Walls**, Austin Berry, Kwame Watson-Siriboe, Hunter Jumper**; Victor Pineda, Daniel Paladini, Michael Videira; Corben Bone; Kheli Dube, Orr Barouch
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C.D. Chivas USA: Dan Kennedy (Tim Melia 46'); James Riley (RJ Allen 60'), John Valencia (Rauwshan McKenzie 60'), Heath Pearce (David Lopes 60'), Ante Jazic (Jorge Villafana 46'); Oswaldo Minda (Blair Gavin 60'), Alejandro Moreno (Markie Delgado 60'), Nick LaBrocca (Peter Vagenas 46'); Mike Lahoud (Casey Townsend 60'), Cesar Romero (Chris Cortez 60'), Laurent Courtois (Ryan Smith 46')
Scoring Summary
CHI – Daniel Paladini (unassisted) 49'
CHI – Daniel Paladini (unassisted) 49'
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Numpy 0.9.2 is the successor to both Numeric and Numarray and builds and uses code from both. This release marks the first release using the new (but historical) Numpy name.
The release notes are included below:
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Release Notes
NumPy 0.9.2 marks the first release of the new array package under its new name. This new name should reflect that the new package is a hybrid of the Numeric and Numarray packages. This release adds many more features and speed-enhancements from Numarray.
Changes from (SciPy Core) 0.8.4:
- Namespace and Python package name is now "numpy" and "numpy" instead of "scipy" and "scipy_core" respectively. This should help packagers and egg-builders.
The NumPy arrayobject now both exports and consumes the full array_descr protocol (including field information).
- Removed NOTSWAPPED flag. The byteswapping information is handled by the data-type descriptor.
- The faster sorting functions were brought over from numarray leading to a factor of 2-3 speed increase in sorting. Also hanged .sort() method to be in-place like numarray and lists.
- Polynomial division has been fixed.
- basic.fft, basic.linalg, basic.random have been moved to dft, linalg, and random respectively (no extra basic sub-package ayer).
Introduced numpy.dual to allow calling of functions that are both in SciPy and NumPy when it is desired to use the SciPy function if the user has it but otherwise use the NumPy function.
- The "rtype" keyword used in a couple of places has been changed to "dtype" for consistency.
- Fixes so that the standard array constructor can be used to construct record-arrays with fields.
- Changed method .toscalar() to .item() (added to convertcode.py)
Added numpy.lib.mlab to be fully compatible with old !MLab including the addition of a kaiser window even when full SciPy is not installed.
- Arrays of nested records should behave better.
- Fixed masked arrays buglets.
- Added code so that strings can be converted to numbers using .astype()
- Added a lexsort (lexigraphic) function so that sorting on multiple keys can be done -- very useful for record-arrays
- Speed ups and bug-fixes for 1-d "fancy" indexing by going through the flattened array iterator when possible.
- Added the ability to add docstrings to builtin objects "on-the-fly". Allows adding docstrings without re-compiling C-code.
Moved the weave subpackage to SciPy.
- Changed the fields attribute of the dtypedescr object to return a "read-only" dictionary when accessed from Python.
- Added a typeNA dictionary for the numarray types and added a compare function for dtypedescr objects so that equivalent types can be detected.
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Tayra, Greyheaded Tayra
(Eira barbara)
Facts about this animal
The tayra is a relatively large marten species, reaching a head-body length of 56-68 cm, a tail length of 37-47 cm, and a body weight of 2.5-5 kg. Adult males are 30% larger than females and have a well visible scrotum. Females have four teats.
The tayra has a long tail clothed in black hair, which is slightly longer than elsewhere on the body, and muscular legs with naked soles and non-retractile claws.
The head is broad and flattened on top,with a slightly pointed muzzle, the neck is long and muscular, the eyes are dark and large, the ears are short and rounded, the nose pad is black.
The fur is short and coarse, with soft, brown underfur. Back, legs, feet, and tail are dark brown to black, contrasting sharply with head and neck, which usually are grizzled tan, greyish brown, or pale yellow.
The tayra is a solitary animal, diurnal with activity peaks at dawn and dusk. It is a good climber and forages on the ground as well as in the canopy.
The gestation period lasts for 63-67 days. Differently from many other mustelids, there is no delayed implantation of the embryo. A litter consists of 1 to 3 cubs, twins being most common. The cubs weigh about 100 g at birth. They are born completely haired, with eyes and ears closed. They will stay in the den for about 50 days, and then travel with their mother for another 150-250 days.
The tayra feeds on fruit, invertebrates, live vertebrates and carrion.
Did you know?
That tayras are able to kill prey animals that are larger than themselves? In Misiones tayras have been observed to capture brockets (Mazama nana) which they chased for hours and started eating them while the animal was still alive. In the canopy, tayras catch squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sp.), tamarins (Saguinus sp.), and squirrels (Sciurus sp.) and large lizards. Also arthropodes constitute a substantial part of their diet.
|Name (Scientific)
|Eira barbara
|Name (English)
|Tayra, Greyheaded Tayra
|Name (French)
|Tayra, Martre à tête grise
|Name (German)
|Name (Spanish)
|Hurón mayor
|Local names
|Cabeza de viejo, Eirá, Gato cutarra, Gato negro, Irará, Manco, Perico ligero, Tayra, Tejón, Tolomuco, Ucati, Ulama, Viejo de monte
|CITES Status
|Appendix III (Honduras and Austria)
|CMS Status
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|Central and South America: Northern Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Southern Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, Venezuela
|Tropical forests
|Wild population
|Unknown, but decreasing (Red List IUCN 2011)
|Zoo population
|40 reported to ISIS (2008)
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How this animal should be transported
For air transport, Container Note 82 of the IATA Live Animals Regulations should be followed.
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Why do zoos keep this animal
The Tayra is not a threatened species, and is rather unfrequently kept by zoos outside the range states. The zoos keep it primarily for educational reasons, as an example of a terrestrial neotropical mustelid species, and as an ambassador for its threatened habitat, the tropical forests of Meso- and South America. They are particularly suitable for this purpose as they are active during the regular opening ours of the zoo.
In the species' range, tayras are often kept by private persons, and zoos may keep animals for animal welfare resons as they may have to care for abandoned or confiscated pets.


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The existence of anything is either:
1) Obligatory.
2) Possible.
3) Impossible.
Before we existed, our existence was "possible". There had to be an outside force to divert the odds of our existence to the "existence" side.
Therefore, one who says: "It is possible for there to be a God" is in fact saying that there is an outside force that is capable of making God exist.
This goes against the concept of God.
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The EJS Cellular Automata (Rule 90) model displays a lattice with any one of a finite number of states which are updated synchronously in discrete time steps according to a local (nearby neighbor) rule. Rule 90 is a specific nearby neighbor rule following the classification scheme developed by Stephen Wolfram that produces a Pascal triangle mod 2 (Sierpinski gasket) if there is a single initial cell with a value of one. You can modify this simulation if you have Ejs installed by right-clicking within the plot and selecting "Open Ejs Model" from the pop-up menu item.
The Cellular Automata (Rule 90) model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (Ejs) modeling tool. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the ejs_ms_explicit_Automata1DRule90.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. Ejs is a part of the Open Source Physics Project and is designed to make it easier to access, modify, and generate computer models. Additional Ejs models are available. They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or Ejs.
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It seemed like there's been so much going on in education and learning. Today I'm sharing the best, most talked-about articles.
(For more great links to education articles, visit Parent Cortical Mass, my go-to site for reading material.)
U.S. Needs a New Educational Model for Economic Growth, U.S. News
The Future of Education: Creating Your Own Schools, MindShift
Against Accelerating the Gifted Child, New York Times Motherlode
Young, Gifted and Neglected, The New York Times Opinion Pages
Why Parenting is More Important than Schools, Time Magazine
Pew study reports: Younger Americans Reading More, School Library Journal
Small Changes in Child's Sleep Can Have Big Impact at School, Los Angeles Times
A Year of Being Well, free book for parents from Michael & Susan Dell Foundation & Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Pumpkins Help Kids Learn About the Elections, Imagination Soup
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) for Kids, November 1 - 30
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Teens are invited to a teens-only showing of "Jumper" (2008), starring Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, and Samuel L. Jackson, at Warwick Public Library on Tuesday, Dec. 27at 3:00 p.m.
When David discovers he can teleport, he uses his power to raid bank vaults, meet girls in London, and lunch on the pyramids. It's a fun life, but David's freewheeling days end when he meets others who can teleport, too, and discovers that they're being hunted by a secret organization that's dedicated to eliminating them all.
Kick back for a vacation-week event with thrills, action, and free snacks.
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It is worth an hour or so of anyone's time to meet, or re-meet, the educator who is about to become the first woman superintendent of Hood River County School District.
Dr. Pat Evenson-Brady looks upon the current state budget crisis as "a window of opportunity."
"The budget situation is awful and it is not going to get any better. This is a window of opportunity. This is a chance to think carefully about our values. If there is one thing we need to do, what is it? If there are two things we need to do, what are they?"
Barring some unlikely problem as the school board reviews Evenson-Brady's references, she will be appointed effective July 1. Evenson-Brady is no stranger: she lives in Hood River, and served as assistant superintendent for the district and earlier as Westside Elementary principal in the 1990s.
At Monday's community meeting only one member of the public joined the teachers, principals and school board members to meet with Evenson-Brady. It won't be the last such opportunity: another session is Tuesday from 4-6 p.m. at Wy'east Middle School to meet Evenson-Brady and ask her questions. Anyone doing so will meet someone with sharp humor and a can-do attitude in the face of great difficulty.
"The danger at this time in Hood River is we have to keep Hood River an excellent school system," Evenson-Brady said, in a manner that expresses hope along with the wry experience of having done the tough work of cutting budgets. (ESD has seen half its programs cut over the past five years.) She looks at the big picture in terms of Oregon's problems funding education and nearly all of its social service programs.
"The danger in Oregon is we could lose what we consider our quality of living," she said.
The most encouraging thing about Evenson-Brady is her high concern with what happens with instruction. In answer to the suggestion that the district tighten its attendance policy, Evenson-Brady said, "How we respond as a system is important; not with attendance as an icon. To me it's really important to change what's going on in the classroom. What we need to say to those kids is 'you are important. We do something in the classroom every day here that is important'."
Though straight forward, Evenson-Brady did not pretend to have all the answers.
"What we're told from the state level is that voters don't believe that they are getting good value for their dollars," she said. "The public has to believe they're getting good value, so somehow at the same time we are asking 'how are we going to survive' we have to say, 'we are doing great.' And how do you do that? It's not easy."
The school board has not hired Evenson-Brady; it will weigh what feedback it gets from community and staff meetings, and reference checks and site visits are planned, in order to get a rounded view of Evenson-Brady's work.
That said, Evenson-Brady appears to be exactly the right person at just the right time, given her knowledge of the district, the fact that she already lives here, has worked closely with the district while with ESD, and her evident high regard for the staff and students of the district.
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Pesya and I headed down the 280 to San Jose for A Season in Hell, the debut solo showing of the always wonderful Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch. The show ends November 22nd so make sure to make your way to San Jose to check out his new paintings and amazing wall installation. Oh yeah.
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Don't expect too much out of next products to come out of Motorola. Google CFO Patrick Pichette has gone on the record at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference saying that the next Motorola products being readied for release are not, "wow by Google standards."
As Android entusiasts everywhere are waiting on pins and needles for Motorola's first true Google phone, this comes as a sobering blow. The Motorola X Phone, rumored to provide an experience only Google and Motorola can, originally pegged with an I/O release date, must still be months away. Pichette reiterated what other Google executives have said in the past several months, that Google still has an established product pipeline to work through at Motorola, and that it may be awhile until Google developed hardware is being pushed out. It was originally thought that perhaps the Razr HD, Maxx and M were the last major handsets designed without Google influence, but that doesn't appear to be true.
Unless the X Phone isn't the Google phone we've all been waiting for, don't expect an I/O unveiling and July release as originally rumored. Hopefully, Google will continue to get Motorola in order, and we'll finally see the fruits of their labor later this year. Until then, don't hold your breath.


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Indiana Secretary of State Declares Victory in Two Year Fight with Phony Billing Companies
Judge orders over $800,000 in fines and restitution against two individuals masquerading as state agency officials at the center of Indiana Secretary of State and Attorney General joint investigation.
INDIANAPOLIS (July 18, 2011) – On the heels of the 2011 National Association of Secretaries of State Summer Conference, Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White announced today that a two year investigation carried out by his office and the Indiana Attorney General has resulted in over $800,000 in fines and restitution to be paid by two California-based scam artists who preyed upon Indiana business owners. A case that can serve as an example for other states around the country seeking to stop what has become a recurring problem for officials charged with overseeing the creation and upkeep of state corporations.
The scammers, Aaron Vincent Williams and Lisa Diane Newberry, ran two corporations – International Corporate Marketing, Inc. and Papillon Global Marketing, LLC – for the sole purpose of sending businesses false compliance notices. Indiana companies were sent misleading notices disguised as official government correspondence, soliciting payment of money to keep businesses compliant with state regulations.
Unsuspecting business owners and harried bookkeepers would then obediently send the requested $100-150 payments to post office boxes located in Indianapolis that would be automatically forwarded to the scam headquarters in California. As a result, many businesses found themselves out the "required" amount and sometimes out of compliance with the state – thinking any required paperwork had been submitted.
While similar scam operations have arisen in the past, Indiana drew a line in the sand and set out to uncover the extensive and complicated information necessary to gain a judgment against Williams and Newberry. The cooperation between the Offices of the Indiana Secretary of State and Attorney General led to judgments of $320,850 against Newberry and Papillion Global Marketing, LLC and $514,800 against Williams and International Corporate Marketing, Inc.
"Our National Association of Secretaries of State keeps us updated on similar scams in other states," White said. "We know we've been targeted before, but instead of just issuing an alert, Indiana took a stand and invested the time and resources into creating a blueprint to go after these bad actors in the future and in other states."
White's hope is that other states look to this case as an example of how to go after this particular type of scam – something proactive and defining rather than the typical alert.
"This judgment is meant to send a message to those thinking Indiana is ripe for the picking when it comes to this type of scam," White said. "We're on to you, we now have a game plan to fight you, and we will win. We're going to share this with all others who seek our assistance."
White added that the favorable judgment could not have been made possible without the assistance of Deputy Attorney General Jeremy Comeau and his office's special investigator John Barrett." Indiana victims will be eligible to receive restitution if and when it is collected from the out-of-state offenders.
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|2012-10-10, 07:48
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Age: 26
Gundam SEED easily. It was my first Gundam series, and while I haven't seen any series that came before it (I fully plan to however) I still feel it was the overall strongest series in modern times. The cast was extremely well developed, the plot was well done (if nothing new), the battles were good fun when they weren't overusing stock footage, and the music was absolutely spectacular. And of course the mecha was extremely refined and well done, capturing the perfect balance between something that looks like a toy and a machine of war.
I would actually say Unicorn, but as that has yet to finish I will wait before I say it's my favourite. Many of the modern Gundam series have had extremely strong beginnings or middle sections and then (at least for me personally) fallen short when it comes time for the all-important climax, so I'll wait and see if Unicorn can conclude at the same level of quality it has shown up until now before I say it beats SEED as my favourite.
|2012-10-19, 21:55
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Milwaukee
Age: 27
Its always a tough chocie for me since the are quite a few I hold in high regard. At this point in time I'd say my favorite is Gundam 0083. It had some of the strongest/well done characters out of any Gundam show and plenty of memorable action sequences and mech designs. Gato is definitely one of my favorite characters in all of Gundam. And dang was the music great as well.
I have a feeling though that Unicorn will take my top spot by the time it is over.
Close seconds to those two series for me though are the original Mobile Suit Gundam, Gundam ZZ, and Gundam 08th Team. I'll also give an honorable mention to G Gundam since it was just an all around fun DBZ like Gundam series.
|2012-10-19, 22:47
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Eh, I felt the character development of 0083 was a little weak honestly.
I mean, Kou definitely got better as a pilot, but not really as a person. I don't even know WHAT to say about Nina, lol. Gato was pretty much the same throughout. Cima could've been more interesting if they managed to work in her backstory, but at first, we knew nothing about her or her past (until the Mayfly in Space Drama CD or something), so it's hard to really care.
In the end, all 0083 really was was just to create a bridge between MSG and Zeta (and, at least with the New Translation version, Zeta also connected to it with the cameos of the GM Custom and GM Cannon II being used by the AEUG, and even Advance of Zeta by having a small glimpse of the Hazel Gundam).
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Indonesia
Man, If there really is a cameo of Hazel, that'd give me a reason to watch it again. To be honest, I don't like the New Translation movies. The differences between old & new animation is jarring and the story is compressed as hell to the point that I (who have seen the original series) can't keep up at some certain points.
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Sadly, it's just a barely discernible background cameo in the 3rd New Translation movie and nothing major, and it's the Advanced Hazel. Still, better than nothing.
Spoiler for Cameo:
In terms of the movies themselves, sort of like the MSG trilogy movies, it basically cuts out a lot of filler stuff and only plays out the more important parts from the series, so it can feel a bit rushed at tiimes considering some developments in story and characters aren't as prevalent as they would be in a full length series (a couple of the reasons why many believe Gundam F91 would've been much better as a series than a single movie).
Char's Counterattacks works as a movie because we already got all that development of Amuro and Char from MSG and Zeta already, so there isn't as huge a need for such development, which allowed more focus on the current situation without worrying about squishing it in and disrupting the flow.
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|2012-10-21, 07:04
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Since I'm not a big fan of the UC series despite the fact that I respect them, here is my top 3 :
- Gundam AGE
- Gundam 00
- Gundam SEED
Yeah, the quality is questionable but I like their Mobile Suits' designs and the way of how the pilots' powers are displayed : glowing eyes, aura, etc...
|2012-10-23, 02:42
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Anywhere I can draw inspiration from
Age: 36
AU Gundam would be Gundam 00 and Wing a close second (Wing actually introduced my to the Gundam franchise, back on Toonami in the 90's)
From UC era is the original and Zeta.
All-time favorite is the 8th MS Team. Nothing better than guerrilla warfare! Also I'll have to add War in a Pocket, because that was a tearjerker for me.
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Age: 28
Favorites? From Universal Century it has to be the original Gundam. Zeta felt like a classmate who tried being "dark and edgy" in order to be cooler so I only like its movies.
From other timelines my favorite is Gundam SEED. Wing and 00 come close in a second spot with the former one taking the advantage.
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My favorite is Destiny, yes I am aware of all the complaints and have seen every major gundam work to date. Victory is my second favorite with Seed in third, X in fourth, and season 2 of 00 plus the movie in fifth. In all fairness I did watch AU series before seeing the UC stuff so.... yeah.
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|2013-04-12, 20:39
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: You're Worst Nightmare
Damn well I've barely seen the UC versions except for the original and 0083... they were okay and definitely are good, but i just like the AC alot better ya know.
Can't seem to find 08 MS team really want to see that one.
My Top 3
1st: Wing
2nd: 00
3rd: G
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