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WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, 2009 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today requested comments and suggestions for improving the operation of its Facility Guarantee Program (FGP). The changes are designated to lower costs and improve the program's effectiveness and efficiency, and ultimately, expand U.S. exports of agricultural products.
"This program provides valuable credit guarantees that help finance facility improvements, which, in turn, helps to increase sales of U.S. agricultural exports," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "Emerging markets often lack the infrastructure to support increased trade, but by improving this program, we can open new markets for American agriculture."
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John PolliniProfessor of Art History and History
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Curriculum Vitae
|Ph.D. Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California at Berkeley, 1/1978
|M.A. Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California at Berkeley, 1/1973
|B.A. Classics, magna cum laude, University of Washington, 1/1968
Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
|Professor, Department of Art History (Joint Professor in Department of History and Adjunct Professor in Department of Classics), University of Southern California, 1991-
|Dean of the School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, 1993-1996
|Chairman of the Department of Art History, University of Southern California, 1990-1993
|Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Department of Classics (adjunct appointment), University of Southern California, 1987-1991
|Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins University, 1980-1987
|Curator, Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum, 1980-1987
|Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins University, 1979-1980
|Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Classics, Case Western Reserve University, 1978-1979
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
|Professor Pollini's research is concerned with methodologies of classical art and archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, epigraphy and numismatics. His other scholarly research interests include ancient religion, mythology, narratology, rhetoric and propaganda. Over the years Professor Pollini has excavated at the Greco-Roman site of Aphrodisias, Turkey, and the Etruscan site of Ghiaccio Forte, Italy, and participated in the underwater survey of the port of Tarquinia (Gravisca), Italy. Since 2010 he has been involved in excavations in and around Rome in connection with USC's summer excavation course in Italy. Trained in the methodologies of classical art and archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, epigraphy, and numismatics, Professor Pollini is committed to interdisciplinary teaching and research. Professor Pollini has lectured widely both in the United States and abroad. He has published numerous articles and authored several books.
Research Specialties
|Classical Art and Archaeology (Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology)
Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
|Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Cotsen Fellow
|Pollini, J. (2012). From Republic to Empire: Rhetoric, Religion, and Power in the Visual Culture of Ancient Rome. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
|Pollini, J. (2005). Terra Marique: Studies in Art History and Marine Archaeology in Honor of Anna Marguerite McCann on the Receipt of the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America. Oxford, England: Oxbow Books.
|Pollini, J. (2003). The deNion Head: A Masterpiece of Archaic Greek Sculpture. Mainz, Germany: Philipp von Zabern.
|Pollini, J. (2002). Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization: The Cobannus Hoard.
|Pollini, J. (1990). Roman Portraiture: Images of Character and Virtue, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, 1990.
|Pollini, J. (1987). The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar. Fordham University Press.
Honors and Awards
|National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Recipient, awarded for the third time, 2015-2016
|Invited Scholar in Residence at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, 5/26/2016-7/1/2016
|Getty Residential Scholar Grant, Fall 2015
|Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship in Archaeology (14 lectures at various venues in U.S., Canada, and Europe), 2012-2013
|Invited Scholar in Residence at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin , 9/7/2011-11/7/2011
|Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2007-2008
|American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Recipient, awarded for second time, 2006-2007
|Whitehead Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2006-2007
|Departmental Nominee for University Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching 2002, 2002-2005
|Mellon Foundation Award for Excellence in Mentoring, 2004-2005
|Departmental Nominee for University Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching 1998, 1998-2001
|Elected Life Member, German Archaeological Association, 2000
|National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Recipient, awarded for second time, 1995-1996
|American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Recipient, 1987-1988
|National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Recipient, 1983-1984
|Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1978-1979
|Fulbright Award, Fellowship to Italy, 1975-1976
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|Director: Visual Culture of the Ancient World (Old World, New World, Asia) (VCAW), a consortium of institutions and museums in the Los Angeles area (International Museum Institute at USC, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Villa Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Natural History Museum), 2010-2013
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Fred Worth is in his first season as the director of baseball operations for the Wake Forest University baseball team after joining the staff this summer. As the director of baseball operations, his duties include coordinating the team's daily schedule, team travel and meals, supervising the baseball youth camps and handling various other administrative responsibilities.
A veteran high school and collegiate baseball coach in Ohio, Worth brings a wealth of experience to his position. He spent 21 years as a high school head coach, compiling a career record of 279-91. After three seasons at Lehman Catholic High in Sidney, Ohio, he became the head coach at Miami East High in Casstown, Ohio.
Worth sent numerous players to college and professional baseball including former Oklahoma State great Mike Day who was named the College Catcher of the 1980s by ESPN. Worth earned 11 league coach of the year honors, five district coach of the year selections and was the coach of year for the state of Ohio in 1986 after leading Miami East to a 30-4 record.
In 1995, Worth moved into the college ranks as the hitting coach for the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio. During his 12 years with the Oilers, he helped produce 15 players who were named to the all-conference team. His 2007 Findlay squad broke every existing school offensive record while finishing among the national Division II leaders with a .313 batting average and a .478 slugging percentage.
A native of Troy, Ohio, Worth, 55, is a 1974 graduate of Ohio University with a bachelor's degree in education. He earned his masters in education administration from Findlay. A nationally-recognized guest speaker on the mental approach to hitting, Worth and his wife, Janet, are the parents of three children and four grandchildren.


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A funny thing happened on the way to the coronation of Rahm. People started to remember their street not being plowed, the furious murder rate, the shuttering of schools and the indifference signaled to our poorest citizens. Yep they remembered. Unlike four years ago, Rahm now had a record to run on and a great many people find this record wanting. Good on you Chicago.
Jesus "Chuy" Garcia is woefully underfunded he does not have one-tenth of what Rahm has; but with a lot of help from Bob Fioretti and Willie Wilson, he had enough to force this race into a runoff.
Mark my words Garcia is infinitely more likable than Rahm—he doesn't carry himself like a smug, condescending automaton. There is a real human being in there who, four years after becoming a citizen, ran for office because he believed freedom demanded participation. He came in with Harold Washington and for a time helped change the way people thought about Chicago politics. Even with the seventies porn-'stache, Chuy is capable of a genuine smile that isn't just politics. Read the rest of this entry »


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ConnectLine is a series of devices that help you to connect to a wide variety of communication and entertainment applications – transforming your hearing aids into a personal wireless headset. ConnectLine enhances communication across the board. Face-to-face conversations are clearer and easier to control. Watching TV, listening to music, video chatting and talking on the phone are simpler than ever before.
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The Occidental College campus covers more than 135 acres (55 hectares) in Los Angeles, California. One of only a few small liberal arts colleges in the nation to be located inside the limits of a major metropolitan area, Occidental is located about 6 miles (10 kilometers) from the downtown area. It was founded in 1887 as a Presbyterian institution but cut its religious ties some 30 years later to become independent and nonsectarian. Among the many highlights of this Spanish-style campus are an electronic music studio, a small nuclear reactor, and the largest preserved collection of Neotropical birds in the United States. The college also owns an oceanographic research vessel. About three fourths of the students reside in campus housing, and freshmen are required to live on-site. Each residential unit has fewer than 100 students, and many are centered around a theme in order to bring together people of similar interests.


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Challenger Anniversary...
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Posted 28 January 2013 - 07:07 PM
Jan 28th, 1986...
Posted 28 January 2013 - 07:35 PM
I will never forget that day. I was at work where I sold computers, did software installs and some TV/VCR repair so I had a TV playing. Everyone else in the office building kept coming into my tiny office space so I finally parked a TV out on the counter where it could be watched. Had people in and out all day. Lots of tears.
Posted 28 January 2013 - 08:05 PM
I had stayed home from work that day to watch the raw feed from NASA on my big dish satellite TV. Watched all the pics of ice on the gantries and then the real time loss. Then hours of pics of debris falling and beginning recovery. Sickening and tragic!
Posted 28 January 2013 - 11:34 PM
I had to leave before the launch to make it to class on time. It was a linguistics class, so nobody was following it. I didn't find out until hours later. My heart was broken.
Posted 29 January 2013 - 07:03 AM
I was in high school during a drafting class when we got the news. I was at Cape canaveral for her maiden voyage it was the most fascinating thing I ever saw in my life so inspiring.....Then my son and I were listening to the Columbia reentry and sdaly he had to experience a shuttle disaster.
Posted 29 January 2013 - 10:13 AM
A very sad day, indeed. I remember it well.
Posted 29 January 2013 - 12:47 PM
I was at work. We were working on a proposal to NASA to help provide shuttle training and one of the Apollo astronauts was working with us. We had a couple of TVs in the big "war" room where we were working and we were all watching the launch. After the accident, none of us could get back to work. We were emotionally destroyed. Terrible day!!
Posted 30 January 2013 - 10:16 AM
Most amazing was the announcement of this tragic accident at NASA-JPL in Pasadena California, where the world press were awaiting images of the planet Uranus taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft (closest flyby of Uranus occured on 24th January 1986)...
Posted 31 January 2013 - 01:51 AM
What a sad day it was I was at a meeting at SLAC and we were discussing something silly like no-one could figure out how to get the positron element working? Anyway I remember this fellow crashing into the conference room "turn on the TV, the shuttle just blew up!" Disbelief turned to astonishment. A catastrophic failure. Everything in the follwing minutes / hours seemed surreal. For some reason I kept thinking of Apollo 1...
Posted 31 March 2013 - 12:39 AM
I was working for TTM Time Telephone Marketing calling people to renew magazine subscriptions.
Everything stopped we watched the TV monitors. I thought this was in the summer.
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May 29, 2009 | The Times of India
Tata Motors rolls out World Truck
India's largest automobile company by size Tata Motors, on Thursday, launched a new range of premium trucks called the 'World Truck', which is expected to give its commercial vehicles business a much-needed push. At present, Mercedes and Volvo are in the higher end truck segment.
The product has been jointly developed by Tata Motors and its two subsidiaries — Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company in South Korea and the Tata Motors European Technical Centre in the UK.
The auto major has made an investment of Rs 1,000 crore in developing the world truck. The new trucks will have a capacity that ranges from 10 to 75 tons and is expected to be priced at a premium compared to its current range. "This is meant to be for transforming the way we do trucking in the country," said Prakash Telang, executive director for Tata's commercial vehicles business.
The company will not immediately phase out the current range of trucks. It is believed that at a later stage, the company may also export the World Trucks to other countries. The range of trucks includes multi-axle trucks, tractor-trailers, tippers, mixers, and special application vehicles.
"Besides India, we will also gradually be introducing (World Trucks) in South Korea, South Africa, the SAARC countries and the Middle East," the company said in a statement.
This move to introduce new range of trucks is viewed as the company's attempt to transform itself into a global auto power. Tata Motors in April sold 37,462 vehicles in India and exported 1,261 units.
Menawhile the the Tata Motors is negotiating with the Jharkhand government to acquire 300 acres of land to set up a vendor park on the lines of the one in Pantnagar (Uttar Pradesh), a senior company official said. Such a facility would help vendors keep their operational costs low, he said.


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Mphasis direct channel disappointed with a 5% q-o-q decline (on an organic dollar revenue basis) in Q2. This, combined with managements guidance of continued declines in the HP business in the near-term, is likely to lead to an organic revenue decline of 4% over FY12-14F.
Margins also disappointed with an 80-bps q-o-q decline and further decline seems likely in Q3FY13F on account of wage hikes. MphasiS, despite flattish earnings growth over FY12-14F, trades at ~13x FY14F EPS of R38.8, which is a ~15% premium to Wipro (10% EPS CAGR over roughly the same period). We maintain our reduce rating.
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Arsenal boss Wenger maintains he has no regrets over Fabregas
Arsene Wenger is adamant there are no regrets about not re-signing Cesc Fabregas following the former Arsenal captain's impressive debut for Chelsea.
Arsene Wenger is adamant there are no regrets about not re-signing Cesc Fabregas following the former Arsenal captain's impressive debut for Chelsea.
Fabregas left Arsenal in 2011 for boyhood club Barcelona and Wenger had the option to bring the Spain international back to Emirates Stadium this summer.
Wenger decided against pursuing a deal and Fabregas instead signed for Chelsea, making an immediate impact for Jose Mourinho's side in Monday's 3-1 win at Burnley.
Arsenal boss Wenger conceded it was 'strange' to see Fabregas playing for another Premier League, but his only regret is that the 27-year-old ever left his club in the first place.
"I watched the game, yes," said Wenger regarding Fabregas' performance against Burnley. "It was [strange seeing him in a Chelsea shirt].
"You have to accept that professional players move from club to club and it was difficult for me to see him leave us. After he has left us for one club, you accept the idea that he can move to some different clubs. Of course it was a bit strange but he had a good game.
"I have no regret about [Arsenal not re-signing Fabregas] at all. My regret is that he left us."
However, Wenger believes that current Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey has the potential to replicate Fabregas' impact for the club.
He added: "Yes. That's good in life - somebody moves out and somebody else takes over.
"Aaron Ramsey has a different style to Fabregas. He has developed into a player with huge potential and I think there is more coming out of Aaron Ramsey in the future.
"He's younger than Cesc and the potential is there to get more out of Aaron."
Meanwhile, Arsenal head to Everton on Saturday and Wenger has acknowledged his admiration for Romelu Lukaku, who completed a £28million permanent move to Goodison Park from Chelsea this summer.
"I like Lukaku very much because he has a good mixture of physical presence and technical quality," said Wenger. "I like his attitude. It is full of desire and that is a big part in the success of a center-forward.
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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> comp.databases.theory -> Re: Constraints and Functional Dependencies
On Feb 24, 10:08 am, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Marshall wrote:
> > One can express unboundedness, but since I was proposing
> > limiting what one can quantify over to named relations, and
> > since the natural numbers are something other than that,
> > (an infinite set) my expressiveness restrictions make it
> > impossible to express the unboundedness *of the natural
> > numbers* specifically.
> Suppose one has an extent function that returns a relation representing
> the extent of a type. Then "extent(natural)" is the name for a relation
> representing the set of all natural numbers.
> However, in a real computer, the natural type will be finite not
> infinite and the unbounded constraint above would always fail (except
> for empty relations ironically).
I would phrase that differently: in a real computer, the basic numeric type will be a finite moduo type, like the familiar 32 bit in from C. But yeah.
There are languages out there (scheme?) for which the basic integral
type is an arbitrary precision integer. Of course "arbitrary
is not the same thing as "infinite". But an arbitrary precision type is
nonetheless qualitatively different from a modular int type, because in the case of the second, the limitation is on the type itself, but in
the case of the first, the limitation is on the machine, not the type.
(Actually most arbitrary precision types are probably also finite and hence not truly arbitrary precision. I would expect a size limit of 2^32 bytes or words. Even in that case though, the type limit exceeds or approaches the machine limit. And even that limit can be broken, say with run length encoding.)
(Another aside: arbitrary precision isn't as useful as one might
In fact I can only recall one instance in my entire career in which a 64 bit int wasn't sufficient: representing $250,000 in millionths of old Turkish lira. Ha ha! In another forum I recall someone saying that just 40 digits of pi was sufficient to calculate the circumference
of the universe to within one centimeter.)
> How does one express that R has at least one tuple? Or that a specific
> instance exists?
> Would the following do?
> exists R(a): true
> exists R(a): a = literal
Yes and yes, I would say. I asked that first question a while ago and Jan Hidders answered with "an empty existential constraint", which I take to mean
exists R():
> If that works, I suppose one could describe the extent of the natural
> numbers as:
> (exists extent(natural)(value): value = 1)
> and
> (forall extent(natural)(value'):
> exists extent(natural)(value''):
> value'' = value' + 1
> )
> Of course, a finite computer would have to amend the above as follows:
> (exists extent(natural)(value): value = 1)
> and
> (forall extent(natural)(value'):
> value' = max(natural)
> or exists extent(natural)(value''):
> value'' = value' + 1
> )
> Assuming a max function that returns the largest value in an ordered type.
That modification would be necessary if the software was going to
do the computation. However there are algebra and proof assistant systems
that don't need to make that modification because they don't do the computation
but rather they instead just manipulate the symbols. Maybe later I'll see if I can coax Coq into verifying a proof of the unboundedness of the
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TDA2030 is a monolithic integrated circuit in Pentawatt package, intended for use as a low frequency class AB amplifier. It provides 14W output power (d = 0.5%) at 14V/4Ω at ± 14V or 28V, the guaranteed output power is 12W on a 4Ω load or 8W on a 8Ω
TDA2030 10W audio amplifier circuit
TDA 2030 audio amplifier can output 20 W but in this schematic we have reduced the power to 10W and we use 10w speakers.
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Alcohol abuse ranked a leading risk factor for diseases
Researchers discover genetic connection that may be able to aid in early prevention
The overconsumption of alcohol kills 2.5 million people each year around the globe, according to the World Health Organization. It is a major factor in many neuropsychiatric disorders and a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, cirrhosis of the liver and various cancers.
The effects of alcohol abuse are felt far beyond the physical and psychological effects of the drinker. From drunken driving fatalities to booze-fueled violence and other behavioral disorders, alcohol abuse leaves a lasting, damaging mark on individuals and society.
Dr. Marc Schuckit is a distinguished professor of psychiatry at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and editor of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. He has spent his career studying the causes and effects of alcohol use and abuse. We asked for a status report.
Q: Where do you rate alcohol consumption as a social and public health problem? Is it trending up or down? Where do you see the most cause for alarm?
A: It's close to number one. It's a worldwide problem. Alcohol use is one of the leading risk factors in the overall burden of disease, especially among men age 15 to 60. The U.S. has an average consumption rate per person per year somewhere between eight and 10 liters of absolute alcohol. That's somewhere in the middle among countries worldwide, but it's still one heck of a lot of booze. Alcohol use disorders, such as dependence and the problems associated with these conditions, are much more common than, say, illicit drug disorders, as important as they are.
Whether the problem is trending up or down depends upon who you're reading. Excessive alcohol consumption has been a bad problem for decades. Not a lot has changed. It remains a bad problem.
Q: To what degree can abuse and dependence on alcohol, or alcoholism, be attributed to genetics? Does a biological predisposition outweigh all other factors?
A: If you use the general definition of alcohol abuse and dependence, this basically reflects severe repetitive problems with alcohol. The condition is roughly 60 percent genetic. Nonetheless, that still means the environment and environmental interaction with genetics is almost half the picture.
The fact that researchers are now finding some genes related to the disease can help with identifying it and people at higher risk. This knowledge can help start early prevention. It's also possible that understanding something about the genetics will help with treatment, though not always.
Q: One of your major studies concluded that sensitivity to the effects of alcohol strongly influences risk of alcohol dependence. Can you elaborate?
A: One of the characteristics through which the genes for alcohol abuse and dependence operate is the ability to consume fairly large amounts of alcohol, but have relatively little effect. This is associated with a probability of drinking a lot more per occasion than some other people and carries a higher risk for alcohol problems in the long run. Depending upon a range of factors, including their genetic makeup, other people experience a lot of effects after a few drinks, which means they have a higher sensitivity per drink, a characteristic often related to a lower alcoholism risk.
We think we've found some of the genes that are associated with the low alcohol sensitivity (or low effect per drink) and that we may be able to use this information to identify people at greater risk and educate them. This would be very useful when working with, say, adolescents.
Q: In your opinion, what has been the most interesting or surprising discovery in alcohol research over the last decade or so?
A: For me, it's the findings about alcohol sensitivity, which are the opposite of what we initially thought. We had hypothesized that the people at high risk for alcohol abuse and dependence were those with higher effects, but that's not what we found. People who can drink a lot without obvious effect tend to drink a lot and they hang out with other people who drink a lot.
Using imaging research, it looks like this low sensitivity to alcohol may be related to how the brain is processing information. People who have a low sensitivity process some kinds of information with a little bit less efficiency than others. They're as smart as anybody else, it's just a different intensity in the way the brain is working. That, in turn, might interfere with their ability to recognize effects of more moderate doses of alcohol.
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Where do creative PR and other marketing, positioning and communicating ideas come from?
Experts recommend checking a broad range of media, including those you may not have encountered unless you go non-digital and take a newspaper or two to breakfast and a magazine or two to lunch.
In interviewing more than 20 applicants (ages 22 to 34) for jobs at Gable PR over a two-month period, I asked where they got their news. We were in a small conference room, with several different newspapers scattered on the table. All said online. One said she occasionally read the weekly business journal. I thumbed through a local daily and a weekly business journal with a couple of candidates just to see the reactions. None was aware of how the publications were organized but enjoyed following the flow of the news, something not often experienced online.
It's too easy to subscribe to different digital news trackers and feeds, click on a promising link when one arrives, check out the single story and then move on to another link to a different story. The process is efficient and valuable for following certain topics, people and organizations. The missing parts for anyone in communications: the joy of discovery of new topics and nonessential information that can broaden your base of knowledge, providing new stimulus for future creative thought.
As a former print journalist, I have always started the morning with newspapers, even in today's digital era. I subscribe to two local daily newspapers (one regional metropolitan, one business and financial) and The Wall Street Journal. During the week, I get hard copies of the local weekly business journal, the Sunday New York Times, and a dozen magazines (news, business, science, wine, management). In reading the physical product, one sees how the editors ranked the importance of the news based on story and photo placements. You get a sense of the world as you move page to page. And this is where discovery occurs — finding odd little features or analytical pieces you might not have seen elsewhere, adding to your intellectual database. I find stories that I missed in scanning through the digital editions of several of these publications.
Stephen King, in is book On Writing, talked about where his ideas came from. "There is no idea dump, no story central, no island of buried bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky; two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up."
If we are coming up short on creative ideas for our clients during a brainstorming session, we'll take a break for a day or two, assign further reading of the media covering our client, its competitors' materials and general business media. We then ask each individual to come back with their top three ideas and compile the results for further brainstorming. The quality of the creative thought rises considerably as do the results for our clients, from positioning, to media stories, feature pitches, new product introduction ideas, conference speech topics, promotions and staging events for broadcast coverage, among other things.
For example, in helping position a new company and its software products for launch, the team read competitive coverage, marketing materials, trend stories in the industry and local news stories on some of the major customers in the space. They looked for what was there and also what wasn't there — the ying and yang of creative thinking. The result: distinctive positioning for our client that became the foundation for a long-range strategic plan to help it break out of the competitive clutter and grow.
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Just over two months before the November election, C-Tran on Tuesday kicked off a series of open house meetings on a measure that holds big implications for the transit agency's bus and paratransit service.
Officials went to the outer reaches of C-Tran's service area for Tuesday's meeting in La Center. The city isn't served by any fixed-route bus, only the dial-a-ride Connector service that links with the rest of the C-Tran system three times daily. That would drop to two if voters reject a proposed sales tax increase this fall.
"It's very important to the citizens here," said La Center Mayor Jim Irish, also a member of the C-Tran board. "This is their ride."
Proposition 1 would bump C-Tran's local sales tax rate by 0.2 percentage points, to 0.7 percent. That would translate to an extra 2 cents on every $10 purchase for consumers.
The tax hike would raise an additional $8 million to $9 million to keep existing bus service intact, along with the federally required C-Van service for disabled riders. C-Tran officials have said total service will be cut by 35 percent should the measure fail. Among the other proposed cutbacks: a dozen weekday bus routes, plus all Sunday and special event service.
Should that happen, the agency would have a tough time meeting the needs of all its passengers, said C-Tran spokesman Scott Patterson.
"It's not going to be an easy balance to achieve," Patterson said. "And there are going to be people who are left out at the end of the day."
C-Tran is currently drawing down reserves at a rate of $6 million to $7 million each year. At that pace, the funds will dry up by 2013, Patterson said. Cutbacks would have to happen before that time.
The agency has about $43 million in the bank right now, Patterson said. But after the budget deficit and other capital commitments over the next two years, there's not much left by the end of 2012, he said. The agency has tried to buy more time with fare increases and recent staff reductions, he said.
"We knew this day was coming," Patterson said.
Opponents of Proposition 1 have said citizens can ill-afford a tax increase in a still-down economy. They've also questioned the efficiency of C-Tran's existing operation, which has run a deficit since losing much of its state funding in 2000.
Pushing for the measure is Keep Clark County Moving, a political action committee formed earlier this year. Two of its strongest voices attended Tuesday's meeting.
Vancouver resident Harry Kiick has epilepsy and travels with a service dog. Robert Chu, who lives in the east Vancouver area, is visually impaired and can't drive on his own. Both said they rely on C-Tran's fixed-route buses and C-Van service daily.
"I do everything," said Kiick, listing volunteer and church activities, veterinary appointments and shopping trips among his uses. Chu described a similarly busy schedule that includes work and trips to the Washington State University Vancouver campus.
"None of that would be possible without C-Tran," Chu said.
C-Tran plans eight more open house meetings across its service area between now and the end of September.
This fall's vote is one of two sales tax measures C-Tran plans to put to voters. The other, likely in 2012, would fund the operation of future high-capacity transit options including light rail. Officials have stressed that Proposition 1 would not fund light rail or any aspect of the Columbia River Crossing project.
Voters will decide the fate of Proposition 1 on Nov. 8.
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Columbus police are investigating after a man said he was robbed outside his southwest Columbus home.
The alleged robbery happened around 6:45 a.m. in the 800 block of Cherry Bud Dr. near Hall Rd.
The victim told 10TV that he was inside the house with his wife and children when he heard a knock on the front door and did not answer.
A short time later he walked outside to see if anyone was around.
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Dollars and Sense: Bring on the earnings reports
Earnings season. We're fully into earnings season on Wall Street. What we have learned so far is that, in general, traders like what they see. The markets were mixed on Friday, with the S&P 500 up but the Dow down, slightly. But every other day last week, the markets rose. The fear that stocks were overvalued relative to earnings drove stock prices down in the first quarter. That fear became acute when analysts started revising earnings estimates downward. But now that we're actually seeing earnings reports, they indicate prices are in line with historical price-to-earnings ratios. Goldman Sachs, General Electric, Morgan Stanley, Pepsi, Coke, and Johnson and Johnson all topped analysts' earnings estimates last week.
Not recovering, but recovered? So are all these positive earnings reports a sign that the economy is not recovering, but officially recovered? You could make that case. I was in New York City last week, and the mood was very upbeat. The stores were packed. The hotels were booked solid. I walked down Wall Street and tourists formed a line to have their picture taken sitting on its iconic bronze bull statue. Of course, these very superficial indicators do not mean the economy is healthy, but there's no doubt that things are trending in the right direction. We have gotten some good employment news in the past few weeks. New claims for unemployment benefits continue to trend downward. We're now seeing weekly numbers consistently below 325,000. That's a sign the economy is creating jobs. That said, the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, above the Fed's target of 6.5 percent. Even that number is historically high for a U.S. economy that is booming. So, I think we have to say that this economy, while showing some signs of strength, is far from robust.
Global issues. And problems in Ukraine are still affecting the markets. Take last Tuesday, for example. Stocks were up early in the day, but tumbled later on news that Ukrainian troops had seized an airfield from pro-Russian forces. That news got sorted out and the markets ended the day up, but it goes to show how vulnerable the markets are—rightly or wrongly—to this kind of news.
A market miscellany. Other news affecting the markets and the economy was generally positive. Lower gasoline prices meant the consumer price index rose just 0.2 percent in March, which suggests inflation is under control. Yahoo, which has been beaten down by the tech slump of the past few weeks, surged more than 6 percent on news of big revenue gains from the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, in which it owns a 24 percent stake. That was not just good news for Yahoo, but a sign that China's economy continues to grow. Here in the United States, retail sales jumped a larger than expected 1.1 percent jump after a weather-challenged February.
The week ahead. Earnings season continues. It's a light week for government economic reports, and even the reports it will release—new home sales, for example—are not likely to move the markets much. The durable goods report on Thursday is the only one the markets as a whole are likely to pay much attention to, and it probably won't trump earnings releases. So unless we get some sort of international crisis, earnings reports will continue to drive the markets for the week ahead.


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Spiced Butternut Squash Vanilla Pudding
Serves: 1-2
1 Medjool date (soaked in hot water for 5 minutes)
1 cup Butternut Squash Purée
1/2 large or 1 small avocado
3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice
seeds of 1/2 vanilla bean or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch sea salt
1. Soak date in very hot water for 5 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, add all other ingredients to a food processor.
3. Slice date into pieces and add to food processor, blend for a few minutes until completely smooth.
4. Serve immediately or chill in refrigerator before serving.
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text: Price Features Security Speed Customer Service Summary Zoolz is built entirely on Amazon AWS architecture. It is nothing new, but what's new is that Zoolz's Cold Storage service is built on top of Amazon Glacier, and gives you very affordable storage space at just $3 for 100GB. The software is polished, refined and simple to use although right now only Windows version is available. Read below for more details or you can sign up now. Visit Zoolz » Zoolz is new kid on the block among cloud-based backup service providers. In fact, both Zoolz and its parent company Genie9 are relative newcomers to this space. But what they have been doing are cutting-edge stuffs targeting both home and business users. At a first glance, Zoolz looks like something Microsoft is now doing. The interface reminds us a lot about Microsoft SkyDrive and Windows 8 – clean, crisp, bold use of imagery and grid layout, big rectangular buttons. But then, on second look, you will see that Zoolz design aesthetic is an indicator of company's edginess and innovations in cloud backup field, not a blatant imitator of other players in the industry. From the site, you can easily determine that Zoolz is different. Very different. It has very interesting features which are clearly targeted towards business users, but the pricing is quite fair and even personal users can afford Zoolz services without breaking a bank. And some of their features are really interesting – things like Cold Storage, which is built on top of Amazon Glacier. More on that later. You will get our full review after the break. But before that, here are a few key takeaways about Zoolz: 100GB Glacier storage for $3, unlimited computers, no limit on bandwidth and file size, oh and deploy thousands of users in minutes. [inner_ad] Pricing Plan Zoolz has an interesting elastic pricing model, which basically is pay what you use. Just like cloud hosting services, you can upgrade and downgrade your storage needs and users at will. There are two kinds of storage: Instant Storage and Cold Storage. Each one works a bit differently from the other. And at absolute minimum you need to get 50GB Instant Storage and 1 user. The following are pricing for each elements in an Zoolz account. Instant Storage – $8 per month for every 50GB. Cold Storage – $3 per month for every 100GB. Users – $2 per month per user. Servers – $10 per month for each server. So for starters, 50GB of Instant Storage and 1 user will cost $10 per month. If you want 100GB of Cold Storage, then it will be $13 in total. Unless you want to backup Windows servers, you don't need to add in any servers. So if you want something like 100GB Instant Storage (which is something you use for regular backups) and 200GB Cold Storage (based on Glacier, should use mainly for archiving purposes for files that don't need frequent updates or access), then your cost is $24 per month. If you compare this to other competitors in the market, you might say it is pricey. But here is a catch – you can't compare Zoolz with personal plans of other providers. For direct comparison, you will have to compare with business plans of other cloud-based backup service providers. Sure, you can use Zoolz for personal usage, but all features Zoolz provides are primarily for business users. For instance, Carbonite Business will set you back about $75 per month (in reality, $898 per year since Carbonite only has yearly payment plan) for 1TB storage, while MozyPro will set you back for $379.99 per month. JungleDisk Workgroup Edition will cost $152.5 per month (since they give 10GB per user for free). In all fairness though, 1TB storage from Zoolz here is not just Instant Storage. It is more like 50GB Instant Storage and 1TB Cold Storage. But how many of our backup data do we access and update regularly? Many files are actually there for months without being touched in reality. If you feel like the price is a bit high to jump in and subscribe immediately, there is a 14-days free trial for 50GB Instant Storage and one user, as well as a demo account available. You will have to find the demo in Pricing page though, not in other pages which is annoying in our opinion since they should have put it somewhere more prominent. Visit Zoolz » Features Before you continue reading this, we suggest you to grab a cold drink and maybe some snacks. It's gonna be a long one. Trust. Continuous Backup. Zoolz software will monitor file changes and backup your files as you update them. Backup anything. You can backup multiple computers, external hard drivers and even network drives onto Zoolz. There is no limit. Multiple performance modes. There are four backup performance modes: turbo, smart, battery saving and presentation. Each one will use your system resources differently. Advanced file filtering. You can filter by type, size, date and expression. 3 level data deduplication. Machine level, company level, and global. This is very useful for organizations with a lot of users so that you won't be backing up same file twice and waste your storage space. No limit on individual file size. Whether you have 25GB MySQL database file or 10GB Lightroom files, you can backup them all. There is no cap. Several backup policies. You can configure what you want to backup, and what you don't want. And if you are an admin, you can configure what each users can backup and what they can't. And you can also set backup schedules and frequency. Advanced user management. Admins have the ability to configure the user-™s data selection, privileges, and settings all from one centralized location. Not only that, you can add new users locally and globally just by inviting them over email. You also get the ability to suspend, archive, delete computers and users with ease. You can set storage limits all policy changes you make are reflected instantly on other people. Mobile Apps. You get apps on both Android and iOS devices. No word on Windows Phone or other platforms. File retention rules. Basically, you can set file retention rules on your own. Lightweight Client Software. Most computation is done at the backend so the client software is very lightweight. Share files. You can easily share files via email and link generation. You can also protect your shared files with password. There is no limit on how many files you can share or size. Expiring Links. This is the ability to expire links after one download or by days. Copy, Encrypt, Ship. This is unique service Zoolz offers. Basically, you can use a utility software provided by Zoolz to copy and encrypt your data on an external hard drive and ship it to Zoolz, then they will process your files onto the cloud without any knowledge about content of your files. Oh and you can use this service anytime you want to add a file, not just for initial seeding period. This is especially useful for companies with a lot of data. Cold Storage. Built on top of Amazon Glacier storage infrastructure, it is meant for backing up rarely accessed files that don't need frequent updating. It is designed for archiving purpose and the cost is very low, although there is 3-5 hours delay in restoration. But for backed up photos, you can preview them without having to wait. Web console. Apart from uploading files, all other functions can be done from the web interface. You can also access and download your files using web-based interface too. Instant search. A powerful search engine is built-in Zoolz web interface so that you can easily search among your files. Easily switch between multiple computers. If you are backing up multiple computers under the same account, you can easily switch between each computers under the same account Advanced reporting. You can get all sort of reports about your backups, including users across the globe and monitor each user's bandwidth usage. Easy restoration. You can do restoration via Web interface (you will download ZIP files) or using the client software. You can pause and resume your restores. You can restore to original file location or to different destination too. Backup Windows servers. There are several features under this such as: Continuous Data Protection; constantly monitors changes Server level deduplication that supports encrypted drives Backup while logged off Open File backup support [inner_ad] Security Zoolz is actually built on top of Amazon AWS architecture, which is trusted by organizations like NASA, NASDAQ, National Institutes of Health and many others. There are 3 levels of encryption: 256 AES on machine, 128-bit SSL for data transfer, and 256-bit AES server side encryption. Data are stored on Amazon S3 and Glacier servers. According to Zoolz, this kind of security complies and surpasses with all laws and regulations required for data processing, transferring and storing such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPPA, PCI-DSS, GLBA, FISMA, and the Joint Commission. Customer Support Zoolz has a whole section of their own Wiki with a lot of articles on how to use the service and its client software. It is pretty comprehensive. And while they don't mention telephone support on the website, you can contact them for email support through the website. However, since they are catering to business users, our take is that they will have telephone support as well. It is just surprising thing that they don't have a 24/7 telephone support. We haven't actually tested any customer support query with them, since most things we want to know are already on the Wiki. If you are Zoolz customer, you should really give it a try. It's comprehensive and useful. Not only that, the software has step-by-step easy to use wizards so that helps a lot too. Visit Zoolz » The Process Signing up to Zoolz is easy. In fact, they won't ask you for anything like your credit card number up front. There is no immediate sign up link from the homepage though. So either you download Zoolz client software, install it and sign up from there, or you will have to go to sign in page and then click on sign up link there. Apart from that, signing up is actually easy. You only need to enter your name, email address and password. Then voila, you are done and will automatically get 14-day trial account with 50GB Instant Storage and one user. When you first sign in, it will ask you to download client software. It is only 4MB but during installation the software will download a few more necessary files, so it's better to have Internet connection when you install it. Downloaded files aren't too big though, and it's quite fast. Zoolz web interface dashboard is pretty simple and very easy to understand. And somehow, the aesthetic still reminds us of current Microsoft aesthetic style. Here we will be using Zoolz demo account since it has more users and Cold Storage for us to test and play around with. From the dashboard, you can add users, add server, create new backup policy, view your backup computers, or purchase more storage/users/whatever you need. My Computers tab will bring you to web-based file browser. You will see your computer name in the drop down list at the top, which is how you can switch between multiple computers you backup from. Each computer will have its own list of things you backup, so you won't feel confused. File browser interface is quite simple and in fact very intuitive to use. What you see as Desktop, Documents, Music and such are Zoolz Smart Selection categories. More on that later when we actually go to the client software usage. File sharing is quite easy, you just have to right click on any folder or file and click Share. You can generate a link to share, or send an email. Or you can choose to share on social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. For link or email, you can set password and expiration. For expiration, you can choose to expire the link either after one download or on specific date. It can also send you delivery notification when someone has downloaded your shared files. Both password protection and expiration options are not available for social media sharing though (unless you manually post shared link on your social networks). You can actually view many types of documents and photos directly in Zoolz web interface. For photos, you can view them in a list or as thumbnails. You can even view them as slideshow. In Users tab, this is where you manage your account users. You can add users through three means: manual, invite via email or multiple entry using CSV. You can set storage limit on each user, as well as backup policy. The Users page will also show how many computers a user has backup, used storage, and last activity. Servers tab is where you add Windows servers for backup purposes. After adding, you will be prompted to download server setup client software, which you have to install on your server. We didn't explore this area thoroughly. Policies tab is where you go to define backup policies. You can set specific policies as well as configure Global Settings which are basically about file retention (you can set either specific amount of versions or days) and wildcard expressions of specific file extensions. For policies, you can set anything from which Smart Selections are allowed, what manual selections are allowed and exempted, performance modes, backup schedule and bandwidth throttling. Then you can assign those policies to each users or computers. In Reports tab, you will find out bandwidth usage, billing and where your users are located. Zoolz client software is also really easy to use and boy, it truly reminds us about Microsoft Skydrive! The client's dashboard is simple, and it indicates your backup process, and let you choose your data, configure settings, or do restoration. In Data Selection, this is where you can choose what data you want to backup to. You can rely on Smart Selection and let Zoolz client does all the jobs. Or you can go to My Computer and manually select folders and files you want to backup. In Cold Storage tab under Data Selection, this is where you select files and folders you want to archive in Cold Storage. You can directly buy more space for Cold Storage in that tab too. Restoration is also pretty easy. If you don't want to download all your files and folders from the Web interface, you can choose to restore from the client software. You can restore to original location, or to an alternate location. You can also choose if you want to replace existing files. Then you can choose which computer backup you want to restore, and what backup files you want to restore. In Settings tab, this is where you go for bandwidth throttling, schedule throttling, changing backup schedules and such. Nothing confusing or too many settings for users here, actually. [inner_ad] Conclusion Zoolz is very new, but they are among the first few of those that have built a service on top of Amazon Glacier. Glacier is very interesting solution that is set out to replace tapes and other archiving solutions. So it is not your run of the mill online storage for sure, but other than technical users, it does not have its own easy to use interface for end-users (much like S3). Even though base pricing is a bit higher than others, we will have to welcome what Zoolz is doing here – providing us with very affordable Glacier storage and easy to use software. Oh and speaking of client software, Zoolz said they are compatible with Mac OS X but so far, the client software is only available for Windows users. So if you are a Mac user, you will want to hold out on buying Zoolz storage for now. If you are using Windows, and have a lot of things that you don't often access to backup (like RAW files of photos), then Zoolz is definitely for you. For business users, the jury is still out there but we have a feeling that Zoolz will soon force other competitors to build solutions on top of Amazon Glacier. Share on twitterfacebookgoogle+LinkedInEmail Published 2012-12-12 Written by Pete Zaborszky Pete runs Best Backups and wants to get detailed information to the readers. He is dedicated to being the best and providing the highest quality at anything he does. You can also find him on Twitter or Google+ 11 responses to "Zoolz & Cold Storage Review" Price Features Security Speed Customer Service Should have read the reviews on here before signing up to Zoolz. In a nutshell, couldn't get Zoolz to work on my Mac. The level of support offered (even if you've paid for Premium Support as I did) is pitiful. I still don't have it working although they've happily taken my money. Not only that….and here's the big one. If I do finally get the backup working and want to have a look at a file I've uploaded it takes 3 to 5 HOURS to download the file. Yup, 3 to 5 HOURS!!! Reply Price Features Security Speed Customer Service Zoolz can't be trusted. Last Black Friday they offered a super deal – $90 for 5 years of unlimited storage. I took them up on it and it worked ok for 8 months (they throttled my uploads after 150 GB). Then I got a letter from their legal department containing a large FBI logo claiming I had a program that I didn't own. After I proved that I DID own the program, they replied that they still wanted to terminate my subscription – and promptly did. That was it, no discussion, no recourse. My guess is they saw the Black Friday buyers as a liability and basically fired us, hoping we would go quietly because of the big scarey FBI logo (that the can't legally use). Zoolz is based in Boston, the legal department is in London and all tech support is from Amman, Jordan and they only work during the day in Amman. My 2 tech support issues had to be resolved in the middle on my night. Stay away from Zoolz! I am now using AltDrive.com and have found it to be fast and reliable. Reply Price Features Security Speed Customer Service Beware, Zoolz customer support is virtually non-existent; they don't reply to emails leaving one on their own to solve any issues! Furthermore, Zoolz will delete your account if you are having problems and can't use their backup service leaving you without any backup. Reply Price Features Security Speed Customer Service I signed for zoolz home. I have large ammount of music, movies and pictures. I have choosen it because of the unlimited data and file sizes. It took a while and finally when all my data was uploded what is my surprise when my account have been suspended. They claim i am using it of business pourposes and now forcing me to sing to Zoolz business wich, of course, is much more expensive. I am a home user!! Makes no sense they offer you unlimited when u cant use it unlimited. Be aware…if u have large files and large ammount of data DO NOT SIGN TO ZOOLZ! Reply Price Features Security Speed Customer Service The reviews i had previously read looked great, the software installer looked nice and the pricing was great. The installs went fine but a month later when i go to check on things almost nothing has been backed up, only 1 file, when i selected about 5GB worth of data. I have emailied support and they have asked me to send log files, to resinstall the software and yesterday they asked me to download the latest update. Still, nothing is fixing my problems. I suspect this company is overseas and does not have support during normal US business hours. At this point I have paid quite a bit of money and im about to file a complaint with my credit card company and demand a refund. I have been more than patient but this just does not seem like an enterprise level product. I have asked one last time for someone to contact me and i will update the review based on that. For now i would HIGHLY advise avoiding this product for business, maybe its OK for home use but i wouldnt even use it for that as it just does not work correctly. If the support was there it would be a different story but being told to send log files, reinstall software, install updates etc.. without someone offering to speak on the phone is what kills the deal for me. Reply Price Features Security Speed Customer Service I have a Zoolz unlimited account with a 5 year subscription. I read this report with interest. The information regarding file sharing is NOT correct. Right clicking on the photograph (in any window) does NOT show a 'share' facility. Also, there are NOT 4 back-up modes – only 2 (smart and turbo). I suggest that this report might (I don't actually know) may be based on a business edition of the software, not the personal edition (and most people reading this would want to buy the personal version). There are other anomalies too, so read all this with a wary eye on the facts if you want to subscribe. Check the Zoolz website first and try it out before buying to make sure it does what you want it to. The Zoolz facility seems to work ok. I don't yet know what there customer service is like (hence only 1 star rating). No one knows what the long term reliability will be like either, so only 1 star for that.With regard to displaying your photographs, it does NOT display .psd format photographs (although you can save them) although it does display Canon RAW files (CR2) and Adobe .dng format files. I've only been using Zoolz for a week and it's a case of so far, so good. I haven't yet tried downloading any files I've back-up, so it's early days so far. Reply Price Features Security Speed Customer Service Stay away. I have Windows SP2, this software (home version) would not fully install. The client software did not include the provision for selecting the files to backup. I tried a number of different fixes all to no avail. I emailed their support department, no reply. They promise a response within 24 hours. Nope. Then I submitted an online tech support ticket. Waited a couple more days, no response. Then I called their sales phone. After 11 rings a heavily accented man answered. I told him I wanted a refund, and of course he tried to convince me I needed tech support. I insisted on a refund; he said he couldn't do one over the phone, he could only do it through email. He told me he would email me immediately. It's been over a week, no reply. Now I have to file an investigation with my bank to get a refund. My experience would have to be termed an outright ripoff. Reply Price Features Security Speed Customer Service In this page zoolz is marked as "Mac Compatible", however to my knowledge it is not. There is a post in the zoolz wiki, dated November 2011, stating that the company is working on a Mac implementation, but to date (September 2013) there's still no support for the Mac. My understanding is that as of today on a Mac the zoolz storage can be accessed via web, in order to perform a restore for instance, but there's no Mac App to carry out the backup. Reply Price Features Security Speed Customer Service Do not use Zoolz for business purposes. Support is virtually non-existing; feedback on issues may take weeks. White-labelling/rebreanding, although promised several times now, still not available. They are just not ready for this. Reply Price Features Security Speed Customer Service Got my free account. Downloaded the desktop. Started eating up memory like crazy. Got at least one blue screen, and a couple of different messages that my computer was low on memory and I needed to close programs (never happened before Zoolz. Went to website and could find no contact information. I'm glad to have the free storage, but I won't be using the desktop app. Reply Price Features Security Speed Customer Service Signed up a few days ago and they are great! Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Name * Email * Price Features Security Speed Customer Service


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08/11/2007, Florida, Grenada
A wave is predicted to come of off Africa in the next couple of days that the forecasters are fairly stirred up about. I don't like that kind of foreshadowing. We'll keep an eye on this one.
We took a trip inland today to do some hashing. I had no idea what this was before we arrived in Grenada. The Hash House Harriers are apparently world wide. The story, as I have heard it, is that some Brit ex pats in Indonesia used to hang out on Saturdays at the Hash House and drink. At some point someone decided that they could drink more if they did a hike right before the drinking. The rest is apparently history.
Each hike is different and somewhat ad hoc. One of the regular hashers is assigned to Set the Hash (establish the route) by the Hash Master. The Hashers in Grenada go out every other Saturday and once a year they trek to Cariacou for a special Hash.
We caught a right with CYM (they have a really fast dinghy) to the Carenage where the newbies wait for a ride to the Hash. The regular hashers stop by and pick up everyone they can at no charge. We got lucky enough to catch a ride with Arthur, a native Grenadian. He worked at a museum associated with one of the old Rum Distilleries on the island. It was a long ride to the town of Florida but Arthur made the ride interesting and gave us lots of information about the places that we drove by.
Florida is a little town up in the mountains in the center of Grenada. It started to rain right after we arrived. It stopped right after we left. The hike was awesome. It literally trekked right through the jungle. No path to speak of other than the one the folks in front of you had trod down.
The Hash setter drops confetti on the ground to mark the course. The setter for this hike got a late start and didn't hook the trail up with the other half that had been marked. The rain made tracking the trail down a little difficult as well. Hashers have their own lingo for these situations. If you call out to folks ahead of you they will say, "On On!", to indicate that the trail is afoot and you should head their way. However, if you hear, "On Back!", you know things have gone south up ahead and you need to go back to look for the place that you lost the trail. We on backed all the way to the start since our half of the trail never met the other half. It was still a great hash and we hope to do it again in a couple of weeks. I really enjoyed being in the rain forest and some of the vistas were fantastic.
At the end of the hike folks hang out and mix over beers. During this window, hash virgins, are singled out for indoctrination. We discovered that this involves running a gauntlet while everyone sprays said beer at you. At the end you get a certificate that supposedly protects you from such wasteful beer spraying in the future. We were already soaked so it wasn't so bad.
The little restaurant/bar that was hosting the hashers had started to prepare the national dish, Oil Down. It is a delicious mixture of dumplings, chicken (often but not always), Saffron (this is the local name but I think it is turmeric), bread fruit, coconut milk, and other ingredients. Our ride had to go before it was finished but it smelled great and we ended up having some for lunch later in the week.
We all felt bad for Arthur's car, because to the man, Peter, Debbie, Josh, Mathias, Hideko and I were all soaked with beer. I guess he knew it was going to happen anyway. Serves him right for not telling us.
Arthur dropped us off at the yacht club where Peter had tied up the dinghy. We all thanked him heartily for the wonderful hospitality. Back at the boat we stayed conscious just long enough to take a shower. We slept soundly.
08/10/2007, Saint Georges
It was another flat calm day in the Ross Point anchorage. We declared it official catch up on your reading day and proceeded to do so. We dinghied into the lagoon for dinner at Port Louis with the Audrey crew and CYM. The food and music were both great. The tunes were loud so discussion had to give way to dancing.
08/09/2007, Ross Point
We were enjoying the Ross Point Anchorage. It is not as pretty as Morne Rouge but it is very close to the port. It is also just a hop around the point to Grand Anse. You have to look around for reasonable depth and good bottom in this anchorage but there's lots of space when you find it. Hideko and I really like to anchor out. Marinas and close harbors have their advantages and are nice from time to time but there's nothing like space, facing into the wind and being able to swim (without being scared) right off the back of your boat.
Hideko decided to do just that this morning. She got on her snorkeling gear and head out to explore the area around the boat. I had found some eels hiding in rocks and a lot of other interesting sights while taking a break from the bottom cleaning yesterday. I walked forward to watch Hideko swimming out. As I did I noticed a huge black shadow in the water. I got very concerned and started calling to Hideko as I jogged up to the bow. Then I realized that it was a Manta Ray! His little white wing tips would come out of the water every now and again.
When I got Hideko's attention and pointed the Ray out she swam over. She swam with the Manta for a minute or so and then he took off faster than she could keep pace. That was the first Manta sighting in the wild for both of us, and not soon forgotten.
I went through another two tanks of air completing the bottom clean up. What a job. The barnacles and the grassy algae at the waterline are evil. We are at the 10 month point with the bottom paint. I think the bottom is probably still good for another six months to a year. The waterline is another matter. It is hard to get rid of the grassy stuff and you scrub the waterline more often. I don't think that there's any paint left at the waterline. I'd like to hold off as long as possible on the next bottom paint because I'd like it to be fresh for our Pacific crossing in April. Services get pretty sparse between Panama and New Zealand.
Hideko made fantastic Churasco Steak sandwiches as a treat for completing the bottom cleaning. Our friends Jenny and Kenny who own the Wake Zone at the Lauderdale Marine Center gave us the recipe. I wonder how they're doing and whether they've gone off sailing.
Peter and Debbie invited us over for dominoes tonight. We had a nice time and got a tour of CYM which is a Prout 50. I never realized Prout made a 50 until I saw CYM. It is a great boat and very well built. They have an Aero rig which is pretty wild. Peter and I wiled away the evening discussing catamarans. It is nice to have another cat skipper to jaw with from time to time.
08/08/2007, Saint Georges
Hideko and I were really enjoying the convenience of the lagoon. Free wifi, Island Water World is across the street, there are several restaurants, the capital is across the way and even the grocery store even has a dinghy dock. On the down side the rain has brought all of the trash thrown into the creeks and rivers upstream into the lagoon. Plastic bags and other unidentifiable objects have been drifting by since last night. My bottom is already in need of attention and I don't want to make matters worse. The bugs are really bad right after the rain also. Add to that little breeze, questionable anchoring practices and close quarters.
We decided to move outside later in the afternoon. This decision set off a raft of plans for taking advantage of the lagoon today. We picked up a few things at Island Water World and visited the Ace Hardware/Napa store across the parking lot. When the grocery store opened we ransacked the place. I had never seen Little Star so full. Good thing it was only 100 feet back to the big boat.
Later in the morning we met Audrey and See You Manana for brunch. We met some new cruisers there as well and had a great time discussing various travels around the Caribbean. Cruisers are always trying to pick each other's brains for info on future anchorages. It's great when you run across someone going the way you came and coming from the way your going. This is usually a good opportunity for a chart swap as well.
Peter and Debbie on CYM have two sons enrolled in the Yacht Club's sailing schools. It is an amazing deal and gets the kids out on little cat boats every day for a few weeks. The kids were really enjoying it.
CYM was having some maintenance done and Peter wanted to swap out one of his folding props. We decided to both move out to Ross Point and do the job with SCUBA. So after our relaxing breakfast (for the first time every I think the carib folks were thinking we were taking our time!) we motored out of the harbor to the anchorage at the point.
Although we were only in 10 feet of water I asked Peter to go through the Discover Scuba session with me. He was a great sport and we knocked the basics out quickly. Peter had all of the tools setup in a net hung off of the rail. Once we were under the boat it took a while to get the folding prop off. Lots of parts, many very small. We didn't lose anything I'm happy (and surprised) to say. I am famous for dropping important things into the ocean. I am very close to buying one of those underwater metal detectors just for this reason.
We took a little break after getting the first prop off which took the better part of a half hour. The prop Peter was putting on was a one piece. I was ready for a similar process but the one piece took two minutes to get secured. As I swam back to Swingin on a Star I saw the grassy algae waving in the current. Ug.
I bit the bullet and started scrubbing. You typically want to brush the bottom very lightly so that you take off only the outermost layer of paint and the critters along with it. Unfortunately barnacles, and I had a lot, don't come off unless you really get after them. The grassy stuff at the waterline also takes a bit of elbow grease to get rid of.
I went through two tanks (which is some serious bottom time at 3 feet average depth). I had one hull really clean and made a little impact on the other. One part that needed no cleaning at all was the props. We had them painted with Prop Speed and the stuff is amazing. It is really expensive but it work like magic. The drive legs were worse than the rest of the boat however. I always worry about these because on a saildrive boat the raw water for the diesels is drawn up through the drive leg. When the little vents get grown over you get water flow restriction. I think that I may spring for Prop Speed on the drive legs and the props next time around.
Topside Hideko had noticed a skiff on a mooring in front of us that had taken on so much water in the rains that the boat was swamped with the outboard totally submersed. Some folks were trying to swim it to the shore. Hideko went out to give them a hand and ended up towing the boat ashore, not to mention giving the kids a ride.
08/07/2007, Saint Georges
We had a bit of weather move by this morning. Some time around mid morning we saw a bit of west wind. I watched things for a bit to see if it would follow through. It did, enough for me anyway. It was light but the boat was slowly sliding west and nearing the anchor. I think we could have gone all the way west and still been afloat but I wasn't completely sure. Beaching your boat is one of those things you want to be sure about.
We picked up the anchor and decided to move to the lagoon to see what that was like. Two of our friends, the boats Audrey and See You Manana, were already there and enjoying the proximity to the stores and restaurants. There's a bit of reef on the sides of the harbor entrance so we followed the shipping channel in. This takes you right to the cargo ship dock. Just in front of the dock you take a right and follow the markers in to the lagoon.
The lagoon is about 12 feet throughout and was very crowded on this particular day. We went all the way to the back near the market's dock and took a spot that the guy next to us said had poor holding. We set the anchor with no real problem and we were definitely holding.
It rained a lot today and the wind did a bit of light and variable on the anchorage. This caused the usual collision scare and set up some anchor fouling for the bigger winds to follow. Boats were constantly moving about the anchorage reanchoring. In my book this is a sign that you should leave. It kept raining off and on all day though so we stayed put for the night.
Our Splendid washer/dryer broke down when the genset overheated in Rodney Bay. We have been wanting to fix it but have had a hard time figuring out who at Splendid to contact and then how to contact them.
Island Water World is right on the lagoon and they offer free wifi for the boats in the area. Very kind of them! After a lot of hard work by Hideko, she got on a chat with the Spendid rep over the Internet. Our washer/dryer is in the bow in front of the owners bathroom. It is tricky to get behind it and that was, of course, the first thing the rep wanted us to do. Hideko looked at me. I looked at her. Then I said, you're the smallest!
Hideko climbed up behind the Splendide and took the back off as I typed frantically at the factory rep. After a bit of work we, surprisingly, got it working. A lead had come loose on one of the sensors.
We are not at the one year mark yet but my goal is to have everything setup the way I want it and working properly by then. We are getting close to this elusive state. A big part of it is learning the multitude of things you need to know to take care of all this stuff. A cruising boat is basically a power plant, a water district, a weather station, a radio station, a gas company, a home, and, oh yeah, a boat. There's a lot to know just to be able to operate everything properly not to mention performing the necessary maintenance and handling the unexpected.
08/06/2007, Grenada
I started cleaning the bottom today. I did some underwater work on the boat in Leverick Bay, BVI, but have not touched it since. There is a coral reef on the bottom of our lovely boat.
Things got going in the Maya Cove lagoon in Tortola. We were there for a few weeks and it was not a source of pure spring water. Next we sat in the Saint Martin lagoon for a few weeks getting some work done. I wasn't getting in that water either and I was scared of what was happening down there. After that we were underway with a purpose. Now that we're in Grenada and in a fairly safe zone, hurricane-wise, we have finally started to slow down.
Some say that cruising is working on you boat in exotic places. That is certainly part of it. I spent about 4 hours scrubbing today and I have barely made a dent. I'm guessing that I'll need two or three more such days before she will be respectable again.
We are really enjoying the beautiful Morne Rouge setting. There are a fair amount of pleasure boats and folks on the beach during the day but the early morning and evenings are very peaceful.
08/05/2007, Grenada
It was flat calm this morning. I know I've been saying that but today it was crazy flat. We decided to head down toward Saint Georges but there was really no wind so we up anchored and motored down the coast.
Saint Georges is a pretty town. The Carenage bay is basically a flooded volcano with a charming town climbing up the hill sides from the harbor. There's a cruise ship dock on the Caribbean Sea side and a shipping quay at the southeast side of the harbor. Just past the shipping dock is a channel that leads to the Lagoon.
There is a marina in the lagoon and many boats anchor in the lagoon itself. There was a second yacht club on the west side of the lagoon which has been leveled and the new Port Louis Marina is on the way. The Port Louis Marina will ultimately take up the entire lagoon but presently there's just a construction dock and a nice restaurant. Good burgers here.
As we cruised by we noticed that the lagoon was fairly crowded. They don't like cruising yachts anchoring in the Carenage, but there is an anchorage right outside the harbor on the south side by Ross Point that is pretty good and close to the town. The anchorage doesn't have a nice beach of its own but it is close to Grand Anse which is lovely.
We ended up passing the Saint Georges area by, and on Hideko's guidance, we headed for a little harbor called Morne Rouge. You are not allowed to anchor Grand Anse but Morne Rouge is just to the south and said to be just as beautiful. They don't list Morne Rouge as an anchorage in the guide because inside the actual bay the depth is in the 5-6 feet range.
Not a problem for us. We crept into the bay slowly looking for a good spot to drop the hook. There are not many sand patches here and the bottom is more generally littered with live rock and coral rock. There are lots of creatures living in environments like this and big swinging chains aren't very conservation minded.
After some looking we finally found a good patch of sand in about seven feet of water. We were still pretty far out but if the wind shifted west we would swing into some sand on the shallow side of the anchor. Things were settled for the foreseeable future though so we decided to stay. We took a swim to look the anchor over and enjoy the clear refreshing water.
Many of the locals were enjoying the sun on the beach. The carnival in Grenada was starting to heat up. I don't exactly understand how the carnivals schedule out but at least a weeks worth of festivities are involved and things get more and more crazy toward the end. All of the islands do their carnivals at different times also. I'm fairly certain that you could start with Trinidad in February (supposedly the mother of all carnivals) and keep carnivaling all the way to August in Grenada.
Hideko, Roq and I relaxed in the cockpit to enjoy the cooling evening and the amazingly flat Caribbean Sea. Once the sun is down it doesn't take long before we're down for the count as well. We turned in and just as I was getting to sleep I heard a ruckus to the south. I looked out of the boat and fireworks were going off. We rousted ourselves to enjoy a nice fireworks display (I think launched from the airport). There's no better place to watch fireworks from than a boat in the bay! The unexpected things are some of the best experiences in cruising.


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Four people, including a teenager, were hospitalized after a collision in Loxahatchee on Sunday afternoon.
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said a car and a pickup truck collided.
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Faculty members Lindsay Hoffman (CPC Coordinator of Technology Research), Phil Jones (political science) and Dannagal Young (communication) report on their interdisciplinary collaboration in two separate publications in the respected journals Computers in Human Behavior and New Media & Society. Read about it in UDaily.
The study, titled "Does My Comment Count? Perceptions of Political Participation in an Online Environment," addresses the question whether, when people engage in political behavior online -- "liking" a candidate's Facebook page, tweeting their thoughts about a political platform, or signing a virtual petition -- they view their activities as influencing the functions of government (participation) or as communication with others.
An earlier project, the first funded scholarship from the Center for Political Communication, Civic Engagement 2.0 examined the role of the Internet in political discourse. Faculty from UD's Departments of Communication and Political Science and International Relations teamed up to examine the ways people participate online and how they perceive these activities.
First year funding for this project was provided by a grant from the Unidel Foundation to the UD College of Arts and Sciences' Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center.
Is there an enthusiasm gap between Republicans and Democrats online?
How active are young people in online politics?
Who has the loudest voice online?
How much to you pay attention to public affairs info?
What do you do online that's politically engaged?
What do you do offline that's politically engaged?
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