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The takeover battle between suitor Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. and acquisition target Allergan Inc. has spilled over into the courts with Allergan filing a federal lawsuit Friday against Valeant, alleging insider trading and other offenses.
Allergan /quotes/zigman/217110/delayed /quotes/nls/agn AGN names activist investor William Ackman, whose Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund owns nearly 10% of Allergan, in the lawsuit.
Allergan charges that Pershing Square bought $3.2 billion in Allergan shares between February and April of this year while fully aware of Valeant's takeover intentions. Ackman's actions deprived shareholders who sold stock to him of $1.2 billion in value gains, the lawsuit says.
Valeant made its initial bid for Allergan on April 22 for $48 billion. It has since upped that to $53 billion.
The complaint is asking the court to declare that Valeant and Ackman violated securities laws and that it order rescinding of Pershing's purchase of the Allergan shares.
The lawsuit appears to be an attempt to thwart a coming shareholder vote on the merger by forcing Ackman to sell his stake in Allergan. Ackman's shares, plus his influence among investors, is considered critical in bringing the matter to a vote.
Later on Friday, Valeant and Ackman countered that the Allergan lawsuit was "frivolous" and "baseless."
"This is a shameless attempt by Allergan to delay the shareholders' fundamental right to call a special meeting and vote their shares," Ackman said in a prepared statement. "Allergan is threatened by our progress toward calling the special meeting. This scorched-earth approach is further evidence of the board's and management's entrenchment."
Valeant Chairman and Chief Executive J. Michael Pearson added: "We are disappointed that Allergan continues to stand in the way of its shareholders' right to voice their views on a transaction with Valeant. Despite Allergan's attempted roadblocks, we remain committed to pursuing this compelling combination, which will create an unrivaled platform for growth and value creation."
Allergan, meanwhile, says in its complaint that debt-laden Valeant — which it has accused of being a "serial acquirer" — did not have the cash to buy Allergan and so it sought the help of Ackman. Valeant also took several steps to make a tender offer for Allergan prior to reaching an agreement with Pershing Square, the suit alleges.
Shares of both Allergan and Valeant were off marginally in afternoon trades.
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Ontario County information technology chief cited for his efforts to leverage technology and development.
The government of Ontario County, located in New York's Finger Lakes district, serves a modest-sized population: just over 100,000. It's not the place you would think innovative ideas around IT and government would blossom. But that's just what's been happening as the county's CIO Ed Hemminger has been a longtime leader in using technology, not just for improving county services, but also for economic development.
Last week, New York recognized Hemminger's unique leadership by naming him State Public Sector CIO of the Year. The annual award recognizes CIOs who show exemplary leadership, strategic vision, innovation and collaboration.
In announcing the award, New York state's CIO Melodie Mayberry-Stewart cited Hemminger's ability to collaborate with different players in the public sector. "Ed has extended the role of the CIO," she said. "He has been instrumental in building closer ties between the state and local government IT communities, helping New York function more efficiently."
Besides pushing for greater state and local government collaboration for IT, Hemminger has become a leading advocate for using IT to foster economic development in the Finger Lakes region. He has partnered with the county's department of economic development to bring a high-capacity fiber-optic ring to Ontario County.
Hemminger believes a government CIO needs to take a broad view of how IT can serve a jurisdiction's needs. He makes the point that today all businesses are, in one form or another, technology companies. For that reason he felt it necessary that the county's CIO have a say in how Ontario County develops infrastructure to support the new economy.
"It's up to CIOs to take the initiative and get involved," he told Public CIO earlier this year. "When you see economic development start to thrive, you get a warm, fuzzy feeling because you know you are starting to really make a difference in the big-picture stuff, and that is a fun thing to do."
Hemminger received his award on April 10 during the third CIO Academy program held annually in Albany, N.Y. The CIO Academy is produced by Government Technology Executive Events, in collaboration with the state of New York's Office for Technology.

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I will now give you some ways of cracking your own system BIOS passwords.
These following methods are useful when you forgot your passwords or for some similar situations.
There are two methods of cracking Award Bios. They are:
1) Clearing the CMOS by opening the PC
2) Clearing the CMOS without opening the PC.
Before we start resetting the BIOS we can learn something about BIOS.
BIOS, it has the basic settings on your computer, such as how many kinds of disk drives you have, which ones are enabled and which ones are disabled and which ones are used for booting etc. These settings are held in a CMOS chip on the motherboard. A tiny battery keeps this chip always running so that whenever you turn your computer off, it still remembers its instructions.
To enter BIOS you can press DEL key or CTRL+ALT+ESC keys all at once or CTRL+ESC keys at once at bootup.
Most of the computers have a BIOS which can be configured to ask for a password as soon as the computer is switched on. If the Ask password at startup option is enabled, then as soon as the PC is switched on, a dialog box welcomes you and asks you for the password. You cannot override this and there is no way of disabling this because to enter the BIOS, you need to know the BIOS password. So what do you do now?
disable it by hacking into the BIOS setup. But theres a catch. To disable the BIOS password, you need to enter the BIOS. But as soon as you enter the BIOS, the BIOS ask for a password. The most common method of overriding this password prompt is by trying out some default BIOS passwords. Some of them are j262, AMI, BIOS, bios, setup, AWARD_PW etc. The best way to find the default passwords of various BIOS is to search at http://astalavista.box.sk, which is the best search engine for security-related matter. Before you start finding the default password, you should first note the company name and version number of the BIOS which is displayed on the screen each time the system boots.
If the default passwords did not work, then get ready for some serious hacking, try to reset the BIOS to its default settings so that it asks for no password at all.
To achieve this, try the appropriate method selecting from the following cases.
CASE 1: If no dialog box welcomes you by asking a password while booting, then follow this procedure to remove BIOS previous password and reset BIOS to its default settings (clearing the CMOS without opening the PC).
Type the code that follows as it is at the DOS prompt and then restart your system. Now no dialog box appears asking you to type the password, you have to reconfigure your BIOS settings from default to your required values.
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It works on most versions of AWARD BIOS. If it does not work, then search at http://astalavista.box.sk for the debug command for your BIOS version.
TIP: If you really want to learn more, then play around with the windows system files and try out new things. There is no way anything can happen to windows if you keep your backup files and your startup disk ready. I am sure if you try new things out yourself, you stand a better chance of learning new things.
CASE 2: If some dialog box appears at bootup asking you password to give access to the system, then do in the following way. (clearing the CMOS by opening the PC).
Open the computer and then look for a round lithium battery, it probably looks like a silver coin. So, remove the battery and after 30 second or so put it back. Some computers may also require you to reset the jumper, so look for a 3-pin jumper and reset it. For example, on most machines you will find a three-pin device with pinsone and two jumpered. If you move the jumper to pins two and three and leave it there for over five seconds, it will reset the CMOS.
KEEP IN MIND: Messing with the CMOS chip and the jumper is more dangerous than editing system files. So, do everything with utmost caution.
Now you had cracked the BIOS password and you encounter the windows login password dialog box.
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Reboot your system and wait for the message
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When you see this on the screen, press F8.
The boot menu will come up. Select option 7, to boot into DOS. Then go to the windows directly by typing the following at the dos prompt,
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TIP: Keys that will affect the boot up process are F4, F5, F6, F8, SHIFT+F5, CTRL+F5, and SHIFT+F8. Try them out and see what happens!!!
Then rename all files with the extension .pwl by typing the following command at the prompt:
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This above process will rename all the files with .pwl extension into files with .xyz extension.
You can also delete the files with .pwl extension by typing the following at the dos prompt:
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Now, when the windows password login pops up, you can write anything in the place where the password has got to be typed. As you have renamed (or deleted, although renaming them would be better as the victim will not know that his PC has been tampered with) the password files, windows cannot find that file. So it just takes the password you have typed as the original password.


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The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday said it has completed its final sale of common stock in American International Group , reducing its shares in the company to zero four years after a massive government bailout.
Treasury said it received $7.6 billion in proceeds from the sale of its remaining 234 million shares at $32.50 per share. Overall, Treasury and the Federal Reserve received a $22.7 billion positive return on their combined $182.3 billion bailout, the department said.
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It has long been assumed that St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson would opt out of the final year of his contract and enter free agency. Despite not hitting the necessary statistical plateaus to trigger the ability to void the final year of his deal, the Rams elected to allow Jackson the ability to do so anyway.
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According to Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jackson will void the final year of his contract and elect to test the free agent market. By choosing to void his deal, Jackson is leaving $7 million on the table he was scheduled to make next season. However, it was unlikely the Rams were going to be able to keep him on the roster at that price.
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Food in film may be the trending topic for fall. Witness these two items that arrived in my email box within days of each other:
Fine Cooking magazine reported there was a Best Food Porn category at the NYC Food Film Festival, which closed Sunday. But there's apparently a Chicago Food Film Fest coming in November (no details yet beyond the dates, Nov. 18-20, on the Festival/Fest website). FamilyFarmed.org and SnagFilms are conducting a Good Food Film Countdown to determine the best food films of all time. Film and food fans who vote for their top documentary and fictional food film will be entered to win free food and environmentally safe products for a year.
All this got me thinking about food and film, whether food provides the context for the entire movie like "Ratatouille" or "Babette's Feast" or "Eat Drink Man Woman" or just illuminates a vivid scene or two — think "Tom Jones" or "Five Easy Pieces." Then there's the concept of food porn which suggests movies ranging from one extreme to the other, from "Chocolat" to "Last Tango in Paris," whose famous butter scene with Marlon Brando probably has the nation's dairy councils still reeling. Here are 10 films to consider. Be warned: Some of these movie links may not be safe for at-work viewing.
1. "Mostly Martha": The simple spaghetti that Mario serves Martha's niece. A dish, and a scene, that brings home the comfort, love and healing power of food. — Colin McMahon.
2. "The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover": Largely set in an elegant restaurant called Le Hollandais, this violent, colorful 1989 film from Peter Greenaway ends in a culinary shocker that may turn you vegan on the spot. Helen Mirren shines as the much-oppressed Georgina. — Bill Daley
3. "Tampopo": Talk about food porn — art-house moviegoers never thought about eggs the same afterward. — Mark Caro
4. "Big Night": Celebrating the passion of cooking. Primo (Tony Shaloub), talking about the ersatz-Italian (but very popular) Pascal's: "Do you know what happens in that restaurant every night? Rape. Rape. The rape of cuisine." — Phil Vettel
5. "Chocolat": Left the movie craving a box of fine chocolates but would have settled for a monster-size Hershey bar. Stat. — Denise Joyce
6. "Goodfellas": The prison garlic scene with Paul Sorvino is delightful. — Cheryl Bowles.
7. "Nine ½ Weeks": Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger make food as porny as you can get without crossing the Brando-butter line. — Phil Vettel
8. "National Lampoon's European Vacation": I love the scene when Audrey has a nightmare about a constant stream of food coming and she keeps getting fatter and fatter. I also love Clark's line: "Hey look kids, there's Big Ben, and there's Parliament" over and over. Does that make me low-brow? — Matthew Wood
9. "Dinner Rush": The sausage and peppers and the line from the chef when one of his line cooks does not respond correctly: "You should have only one answer when I ask you a question: 'Yes, chef. No, chef. I don't know, chef.'" — Colin McMahon
10. "Marie Antoinette": The towers of food. — Christopher Borrelli
In case you are wondering, Fine Cooking's film is called "Dinner for Two: An Edible Valentine in Three Acts." Here's how the press release describes it: "Part food porn, part how-to, the short film documents the making of a three-course meal and includes romance, suspense, and murder."
As for the food film contest, the first round of voting runs until Oct. 31. The list will be narrowed from 170 films to five non-fiction and five fiction films. Then, until Nov. 28, voters will pick one of the top five ranked films in each category to determine their favorite food flick.
"We are excited to work with SnagFilms on the sweepstakes, to encourage families to celebrate food by watching and voting for their favorite foods films and to have the chance to win healthy foods and environmentally safe products," says Jim Slama, Familyfarmed.org founder and president, in a press release.


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Project Chariot:
The Nuclear Legacy of Cape Thompson, Alaska
Norman Chance
"In 1957, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission [AEC] established the 'Plowshare Program' to "investigate and develop peaceful uses for nuclear explosives." In early 1958, the AEC selected a site at the mouth of the Ogotoruk Creek near Cape Thompson, approximately 30 miles southeast of the Inupiat Eskimo village of Point Hope. Shortly thereafter, they developed plans for an experimental harbor excavation to be called Project Chariot. Late in 1962, after extensive scientific studies, the AEC announced that it "would defer further consideration of the proposed Chariot experiment," due in part to public criticism....
Douglas L. Vandegraft
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Part One of this case study traces the process of events from the initial design of Project Chariot to its cancellation in 1962.
Part Two addresses recent developments stemming from a 1990s investigation of contaminated radioactive soil that had been left at the site thirty years previously. Also included is a Postscript analyzing allegations that without their knowledge, the Inupiat and other Alaskan Natives were injected with radioactive iodine/131 in the 1950s as part of a U.S. military research project to determine whether soldiers "could be better conditioned to fight in cold conditions."
[There was] a general atmosphere and attitude that the American people could not be trusted with the uncertainities, and therefore the information was withheld from them. I think there was concern that the American people, given the facts, would not make the right risk-benefit judgments.
Peter Libassi, Chairman, Interagency Task Force on the Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation
We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organizat ion of society.
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In recent decades, increasing numbers of people have expressed concern about threats to the natural environment of the Arctic. In the 1970s, sharp criticism followed the above ground nuclear bomb tests by the People's Republic of China; tests which result ed in an eight-fold increase in radioactive pollution of Alaskan lichens, affecting the caribou that ate them; and a year later, the inland Inupiat Eskimo subsistence hunters.
In the 1980s, international research was initiated to study the growing problem of Arctic haze, a form of atmospheric pollution that absorbs light from the sun and thereby alters the temperature of Arctic air, a significant determinant of weather conditio ns throughout the globe. In the spring of 1989, the worst oil spill in American history occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound when the tanker Exxon Valdez went aground spilling more that 10 million gallons of North Shore crude oil in the sea and surrounding shoreline.
In the 1990s, even greater concern is being expressed over the production of humanmade chemicals that have affected the Arctic's atmospheric ozone layer, which is so vital to protecting organisms from lethal violet rays. Such threats to the Arctic environ ment carry implications not only for those living in the North, but for peoples throughout the globe.
In Arctic Circle's presentation on 'northern development and the global economy,' I addressed some of the key factors promoting this environmental degradation - concluding with the proposition that economic growth cannot indefinitely be sustained on a fi nite planet. Hence, the wisest course of action would be to distinguish between growth and development in which the latter represents an improvement in the quality of life without necessarily increasing the quantity of resources consumed.
However, at that time, I said little about the environmental injustice inflicted on northern Native peoples stemming the degradation to their homelands in the wake of recent development practices. Nor did I actively discuss the role played by governents in this degradation. This omission is addressed in the following case study. Indeed, the story of Project Chariot provides an immensely powerful illustration of how governments, caught up in the social and political events of the time, can act in ways th at are highly detrimental to the Arctic and its peoples. It is also a portrayal of resistance, courage, and eventual success. Perhaps most important is the implicit quesion it poses: To what extent are the underlying political motivations and social f orces present at that time still with us today?
One afternoon in early August of 1958, while standing on the bluff overlooking the Beaufort Sea, an Inupiat Eskimo from Kaktovik, Alaska watched as an umiaq with two men in it pointed their skin boat toward the village from the northwest. Propelled by a large outboard motor, it slowly made its way past the lagoon, eventually reaching the shoreline directly in front of the small settlement. A tall, well-built man then leapt from the bow and, with anchor in hand, deftly drove its point firmly into the sand. Joined by the other Inupiaq, both men began unloading food and supplies on to the beach. Soon, the visitors were surrounded by excited villagers of all ages, many of whom greeted them with considerable enthusiasm. Stories had been circulating f or some time that two people from Point Hope were planning to make the long journey north to Barrow and then 300 miles along the Beaufort Sea to Kaktovik. One of these expected voyagers was Dan Lisburne, a well-known leader from Point Hope. Now, he and hi s partner had finally arrived.
Situated at the end of a long spit of land projecting out into the Chukchi Sea 125 miles above the Arctic Circle, Point Hope was the farthest west from Kaktovik of any Inupiat settlement on the North Slope. It also had a well-deserved reputation as a close-knit community with strong leadership and local spirit. Lisburne had taken the trip partly for enjoyment; but more significantly, he wanted to share his experiences and learn those of oth er villagers living along the Arctic coast. One issue discussed with the Kaktovik Inupiat concerned problems the latter were facing following the forced relocations of their village by the Air Force. Of greater long range concern was the withdrawal of 45 00 acres of land for a military reserve - an area encompassing the entire surface of Barter Island including the village and cemetery. As one local villager described the event later on: "No one knew what this was about, or why. We were just told to move. "If I had known English then, as I do now, I would have fought to keep the village. We got nothing for having to move. It was not fair of them to do this."
While in Kaktovik, Dan Lisburne shared a similar apprehension about the possibility of the government taking over land south of Point Hope. This concern had arisen two months earlier, after several Inupiat returned home from a hunting trip to Ogotoruk Cre ek, 30 miles southeast of the village. Lisburne indicated that the Ogotoruk Creek valley was an important hunting ground for Point Hope people, providing them with large numbers of car ibou. While in the area, the Inupiat had come across government scientists undertaking a local survey. When asked what they were doing, the surveyors informed the hunters they were engaged in geologic research for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission [AEC].
Not knowing why scientists from the AEC were interested in Ogotoruk Creek, the Point Hope residents were curious. This curiosity eventually turned to anxiety as rumors began spreading that Ogotoruk Creek had been chosen by the AEC as the site for the det onation of a large nuclear bomb. Although precise information was unavailable, the rumors appeared to be true. The Atomic Energy Commission was indeed actively exploring the detonation of a massive atomic device. The blast, expected to be 100 times more p owerful than the one at Hiroshima, was tenatively scheduled to take place in 1962. Ground Zero was Ogotoruk Creek, 31.5 miles southeast of the Inupiat village of Point Hope.
Partly in response to broad popular opposition to the hazards of above ground testing of atomic weapons by both the U.S. and the USSR, the AEC had decided it could improve its public image by establishing a new program called `Operation Plowshare' - drawi ng on the biblical narrative in which swords were beaten into plowshares. From this "peaceful use of the atom" suggested the AEC, would come "a new age of atomic progress." The Program was for mally inaugurated on June 19, 1957. Still, no specific plan had as yet emerged.
Then, in October of that year, following Russia's space launch of Sputnik I, the American scientific community came under considerable pressure to achieve a major technological accomplishment of its own. At the University of California's Lawrence Radiati on Laboratory, scientists responded by recommending to the AEC that earth excavation offered the "highest probability of early beneficial success" in the Plowshare Program.
Actively supporting the proposal, Dr. Edward Teller, 'father of the hydrogen bomb' and director of the Radiation Laboratory, suggested that the AEC detonate a 2.4 megaton atomic device on t he northwest coast of Alaska in the region of Cape Thompson. Such an explosion would create a deep water hole to be used as a harbor for the eventual shipment of coal, oil, and other non-renewable resources thought to exist along this part of the coast.
After exploring several other possibilities, the AEC accepted Teller's proposal and on June 9th, 1958 publically gave it a name - `Project Chariot.' Four days previously, unknown to the people of Point Hope and other nearby Inupiat villages, Lewis Straus s, then chairman of the AEC, had requested the withdrawal from the public domain of 1600 square miles of land and water in the area of Cape Thompson - including land villagers had earlier sought under the Alaska Native Allotment Act.
That summer, while scientists were surveying the area surrounding Cape Thompson, nuclear physicist Teller and others connected with the AEC and California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory made speeches in Alask an cities pointing out the financial benefits the state would receive from the multi-million dollar investment of federal funds. Further assuring his audiences, Teller told them that "The blast will not be performed until it can be economically justified. "
Gaining support of the press, Teller and his associates were less successful in getting a positive endorsement by the state's financial leaders. Some were doubtful of the commercial viability of mineral deposits thought to be available along the coast. Ot hers rejected the idea that a harbor was needed to ship out whatever minerals were found. Still other dissenters associated with the science faculty of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, concerned citizens, environmentalists, and a few government off icials, were more vocal in their criticism of the blast itself and its implications for the safety of the people and wildlife of the region.
But Dan Lisburne and other Inupiat leaders from Point Hope, Noatak and Kivalina, the villages closest to the proposed blast, were not directly informed and thus remained largely ignorant about the plan. It wasn't until the spring of 1959, after watching a local movie, that Point Hope residents were called to an impromptu meeting by a visiting missionary from Kotzebue and told the rumor about the blast was true.
Although AEC officials excluded Inupiat villagers from early discussions about Project Chariot, they did continue to promote it before Alaska's financial community and state legislature - knowing their support was essential to its successful implementatio n. After holding numerous discussions with public officials and private industrial leaders, the Commission eventually succeeded in gaining approval from the state as well as Fairbanks and other city Chambers of Commerce. Plans for the detonation progresse d.
Acknowledging the skepticism of those questioning the Project's accruing any commercial benefit, the AEC also shifted the basis of its argument for the detonation away from possible economic advantages toward the experimental - calling it a massive test in "geographical engineering." As John A. McCone, the AEC's newly appointed ch airman testified before the U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, "We are seeking an alternative to the harbor in Alaska because, as I said to the committee once before , we couldn't find a customer for the harbor." Under the revised plan, presented in June of 1959, the Project's Environmental Studies Program director stated that an effort would be made "...to determine the effects of a nuclear explosion on the enviro nment - its rock substrata, soils, atmosphere, and biota, including man."
In the fall, Don Charles Foote, a young geographer working under contract to the Environmental Studies Program of the AEC, was asked by Commission staff to explain what he knew of Project Cha riot to the Point Hope village council.
But it was not until the spring of 1960 that official representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission came to the village to explain the details of the proposed blast. Foote described what happened in his follow-up report to the AEC:
To the detriment of the Commission and Project Chariot, the officials who spoke in March, 1960, made several statements which could not be substantiated in fact. Among other things the Point Hope people were told that the fish in and around the Pacific Proving Grounds were not made radioactive by nuclear weapons tests and [there would not be]... any danger to anyone if the fish were utilized; that the effects of nuclear weapons testing never injured any people, anywhere; that once the severely exposed Japanese people recovered from radiation sickness...there were no side effects; that the residents of Point Hope would not feel any seismic shock at all from Project Chariot; and that copies of the Environmental Program studies would be made immediately available to the Point Hope council upon the return of the AEC officials to California.
Foote's report went on to describe the AEC delegation's evaluation of how Project Chariot would affect the lives of the people of Point Hope. They were told that although there was no need to restrict the area where the men did their hunting, and that the detonation would occur at a time outside the normal caribou hunting cycle, it would be essential that hunters and dogs remain clear of "any remotely dangerous area;" and that it would be days, weeks, or months before hunters could pass through Ogotoruk C reek.
Finally, the residents were informed that, although the AEC would compensate them for damage to structures, there was little possibility, short of long and costly law suits, that awards could be made for personal or property damages. Still, a statement wa s made that some direct compensation would be forthcoming to the villagers prior to the explosion.
Not surprisingly, assurances that Chariot would not be a hazard to the subsistence way of life of the Point Hope Inupiat were sharply rejected by the village council. Immediately following the close of the meeting, the council voted unanimously to oppose detonation of the bomb. As Foote summarized the results of the meeting in his report of the event:
The net result of the first official presentation of Project Chariot to the people of Point Hope was to produce a profound lack of confidence in the sincerity of the AEC.
Shortly thereafter, protests became more widespread. William Pruitt and other scientists at the University of Alaska, along with those working within the AEC itself, pointed out that the tundra's "food chain" was peculiarly susceptible to radioactive fall out from recent atomic testing. Alaska's caribou, for example, were found to contain approximately seven times as much strontium 90 as the meat of domestic cattle in the southern part of the United States. This was because caribou fed on lichens, rootless plants deriving their nutriment from the dust in the air as it was carried down by rain and snow, thus directly absorbing the radioactive fallout before it became diluted in the soil.
Since the Inupiat ate the caribou, they already had a considerably greater intake of strontium 90 than any other Americans. Further above ground testing would only add to the already exis ting danger. The inland Inupiat of Anaktuvuk Pass, several hundred miles northeast of Cape Thompson, also spoke out sharply against additional testing. Located high in the Brooks Range, they relied more heavily on the caribou for their subsistence than an y other Arctic villagers. In a plea to the outside world, Simon Paneak, head of the village council, noted that the radiation levels "...keep getting higher and higher, and we just don't know what to do."
Finally, on March 3rd, 1961, the Point Hope village health council wrote to President John Kennedy opposing the proposed chain explosion stating that such a detonation would be:
...too close to our hunting and fishing areas. We read about the cumulative and retained isotope burden in man that must be considered. We also know about strontium 90, how it might harm people if too much of it gets into our body...We are deeply concern ed about the health of our people now and for the future that is coming.
The Inupiat of Point Hope and other North Alaskan villages all feared that the successful detonation of a large nuclear "device" at Cape Thompson would cause serious health hazards, immediately making the region and their way of life untenable. Within a year, Project Chariot was set aside by the AEC, due in large part to the rising chorus of protest mounted against the project by Alaska's northern Natives and many other organizations across the United States and throughout the world.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
As you may know, if you have read my other blog posts on pizza, I have not really cared for whole wheat pizza crust. I have been using about 1/3 whole wheat flour in my dough, with good results, but the whole wheat doughs I have tried have been awful! Until yesterday.
I have owned a copy of my baking hero Peter Reinhart's book, Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads (in addition to his classic The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread) for some time now, but I had not had the nerve to try his 100% whole wheat pizza dough recipe.
However, DH and I are following the Weight Watcher's Core Plan and so we are trying to eat whole grain products for the most part. After a month without pizza, we decided to use our remaining extra points for a pizza blow-out for lunch! I planned it a day ahead and made Peter's whole wheat dough.
The recipe calls for two pre-doughs, a biga (Italian bread starter), which has to be refrigerated overnight, and a soaker, which is some of the flour (in this case-- it can also be whole grains) with liquid and sometimes a little salt.
Biga on the left, soaker on the right. I used my home-ground hard red wheat flour, so the dough looked fairly dark. If you used white whole wheat, it would be more golden in color.
You probably have some idea of what a starter is (this one is started with yeast, not sourdough), but why use a soaker? Well, for one thing, flour soaks in liquid for several hours (12-24 hours, in this case), the gluten gets a head start in development. The two proteins that make up gluten begin to join together, which makes the dough more malleable and cohesive. For another, soaking hydrates the bran and germ, which are the harder particles that can cut the gluten strands and sometimes prevent whole grain doughs from rising properly. And, very importantly, soaking flour initiates enzymatic activity. Enzymes convert complex starches into simple sugars, which feed the yeast, which rises the bread. The soaker gives a head start to this process. The enzymic action develops the umami flavor compounds in wheat flour to "ripen" the dough and develop its flavor.
When you are ready to make the final dough, you turn out the soaker on a floured board and cut it into 12 pieces:
Then you get out the refrigerated biga, which has fermented for at least 8 hours,
and cut it into 12 pieces, too.
(NOTE: Peter Reinhart says: "... The surface of the soakers and bigas will sometimes darken due to oxidation--no harm but if you want to avoid it, lay some plastic wrap directly on the surface of the dough to keep it from reacting to the air...")
Then you place them in your stand mixer with the other ingredients for the final dough (yeast [he uses instant yeast added with the flour-- I didn't have any, so I used ordinary dry active baking yeast dissolved in 1 tablespoon warm water-- you have to use about 1/3 more regular yeast than instant], salt, a little more whole wheat flour, olive oil, sweetener of your choice).
Then, knead it. The dough, once risen, can be refrigerated for up to 24 hours before use, and it can be frozen, too.
The dough was moist and easy to handle. (See an alternative way to stretch the dough at this post.) Although the instructions said to divide the dough into 5 parts, I divided it into 4, so that we could each have a good-sized individual pizza, and then freeze enough for 2 more.
I added the topping just before I baked each pizza.
IMPORTANT NOTE (this applies to any pizza dough): If you have a pretty moist dough (such as a no-knead dough) and you are making a thin crust pizza, letting it sit too long with the toppings on it may make the dough soggy and very difficult to get it off the peel! (As you can see in the photo, it is already on my custom-made 12"-wide Mini SuperPeel. You can get the 14"-wide SuperPeel here.) Make sure to flour your peel (pizza paddle) and then sprinkle with plenty of cornmeal to make sure the dough will slide off nicely. If using a metal peel, or ordinary wooden (here's a 14" one and here's a 12" one) or bamboo (here's a 14" one and here's a 12" one) peel or pizza paddle, place a piece of baking parchment over the peel. You can slide it off onto your hot stone or pan along with the parchment! You could also do this with the SuperPeel, if your dough is too soggy.)
BTW, here's a post I did about using a cast iron skillet instead of a pizza stone-- love it!
The verdict?
We liked it! It puffed up nicely on the edges and it had a nice flavor-- not "muddy", which is the only way I can describe some whole wheat crusts. I found the rim of the first pizza crust I baked a bit dry, so I sprayed the rim of the second pizza crust with a little oil from my pump-sprayer during the last few minutes of baking, and that really improved it (also in terms of how it looked-- more golden).
Reservations? It was still a bit coarse for my taste, though, but that might have been our home-ground flour. I want to try it with white whole wheat flour and see if that makes a difference. I would probably also add a bit more salt.
One whole pizza crust (1/4 of the dough) was 9.7 points. It was worth it (we had saved up points)! I didn't want a measly 2 little slices-- I wanted it to be my whole meal! I figured that if I try the recipe again with a white biga dough, and the rest whole wheat (maybe white whole wheat), it might come up to my expectations better. If I use 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil in the dough, instead of 2 tablespoons, then the points will be pretty much the same as the a 100% crust (actually, slightly less-- 9.2).
So, stay tuned for updates!
BTW, I can't reproduce the recipe here, since it's not online anywhere, so I don't think he wants it posted all over the 'Net. The book is worth buying (both of them, actually), anyway, if you are a serious baker, and a good price on amazon even for the hardcover version.
Posted by Bryanna Clark Grogan at 10:15 AM
Labels: Peter Reinhart, pizza, vegan pizza, Weight Watchers Core Plan, whole wheat pizza dough, WW points
4 comments:
- Katy said...
I have that cookbook too and so far I've liked everything I've made. I'll definitely have to give the pizza crust a try!
Yours looks yummy!
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- Alisa - Frugal Foodie said...
Oh darn, what a tease! I guess I will have to get that book.
- Mon Apr 27, 08:25:00 PM PDT
- marieen said...
love ur blog and the food .. the cats are seriously cute.
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Semi-Custom Business Unit Creates New Revenue Stream For AMD
Subject: General Tech | May 13, 2013 - 10:28 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: x86, SoC, semi-custom chip, Patent, ip, APU, amd
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has an extensive intellectual property (IP) portfolio. The company has a range of products from CPUs and graphics cards to video acceleration hardware. It is also the only other major player to have a license to build chips with the x86 ISA. With the launch of its Semi-Custom Business Unit, AMD plans to take advantage of the engineering experience and patent portfolio to create a new revenue stream. AMD will work with other companies to create customized processors that integrate custom IP cores and technology but use AMD's existing products as a base to cut down on engineering time and R&D costs.
The first such customized chip is the System on a Chip used in Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console. AMD intends to market its modular SoC technology and custom IP integration services to makers of set top boxes, smart TVs, tablets, PCs, networking hardware, and High Performance Computing applications. AMD argues that using its Semi-Custom Business Unit to create a customized SoC is cheaper and faster to design and produce than a fully-custom design, which makes sense since most of the engineering work is already done. AMD could stand to make quite a bit of extra money here, especially if it can land design wins for governmental and industrial design contracts. Intel's x86 license scarcity may actually benefit AMD here, in fact.
AMD's Semi-Custom Business Unit consists of an engineering team led by AMD Corporate Vice President and General Manager Saeid Moshkelani. I think doing this is a smart move for the x86 underdog, and it will be interesting to see how well the division does for the company's bottom line.
ARM is a company that no longer needs much of an introduction. This was not always the case. ARM has certainly made a name for themselves among PC, tablet, and handheld consumers. Their primary source of income is licensing CPU designs as well as their ISA. While names like the Cortex A9 and Cortex A15 are fairly well known, not as many people know about the graphics IP that ARM also licenses. Mali is the product name of the graphics IP, and it encompasses an entire range of features and performance that can be licensed by other 3rd parties.
I was able to get a block of time with Nizar Romdhane, Head of the Mali Ecosystem at ARM. I was able to ask a few questions about Mali, ARM's plans to address the increasingly important mobile graphics market, and how they will compete with competition from Imagination Technologies, Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm.
We would like to thank Nizar for his time, as well as Phil Hughes in facilitating this interview. Stay tuned as we are expecting to continue this series of interviews with other ARM employees in the near future.
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Subject: General Tech | July 12, 2011 - 08:05 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: Netflix, streaming, ip
Today, Netflix announced significant changes to the movie rental service's pricing structure in addition to a new DVD only plan. Representing their lowest price ver for unlimited DVD's they have announced a new $7.99 a month plan for 1 DVD out at a time and $11.99 per month for 2 DVDs at a time. Netflix is further changing up the way DVD plus streaming plans work. Specifically, they are changing their plans into separate DVD only and streaming only plans. Customers would then further be able to add a streaming plan on top of the DVD plan to their account.
The unlimited streaming only plan will be priced at $7.99 a month while the unlimited DVD only plan will also be priced at $7.99 a month. Thus, the price of the lowest cost DVD and streaming monthly price will be $15 USD. The new prices are effective immediately for any new members while existing members will be subject to the price increases starting September 1, 2011.
Netflix claims that they have changed the prices in response to the realization that DVDs still have a long life and the previous model of $2 add on to the streaming plan for 1 DVD out at a time was not making them enough money cost effective. On one hand, customers are up in arms regarding the price increase for the same service they have been paying to for years, and on the other hand the price increase may allow Netflix to update its streaming catalog more frequently with new content. Regardless of the semantics, it is certainly a bold move by the company and it will be interesting to see how its customers react.
What are your thoughts on the pricing changes?


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American and US Airways have a lot to be thankful for, on Wednesday morning in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Judge Sean Lane approved a settlement with the Department of Justice paving the way for the merger.
The judge's ruling means American Airlines can exit bankruptcy and close the merger Dec. 9. The judge said he wanted to officially settle this before the Thanksgiving holiday.
The judge also shot down a lawsuit by a group of passengers and travel agents trying to block the merger. Attorneys claimed that combining airlines would reduce competition. The judge said they failed to prove how they'd be harmed by the merger.
"Today's rulings by the Court are another important step in our path toward emerging from restructuring and closing our planned merger with US Airways. The new American will compete on a global scale with a network that benefits our people, our customers and the communities we serve. With the court's rulings today, we now intend to close the merger on December 9," said American Airlines spokesman Mike Trevino.
While this is the last legal obstacle, The Allied Pilots Association believes it will take the better part of two years to finish this merger to negotiate collective bargaining agreements and sort out workers' seniority.
Employees believe they'll benefit from the merger and claim so will passengers with more hub options and international gateways.
The judge agreed and announced his decision over the phone from federal court in New York Wednesday.
"The court conquers, the many and substantial benefits that can be derived from the settlement, far outweigh the continued pursuit of the DOJ action and the risk and uncertainties associated there with," said Judge Sean Lane.
"We're happy. We worked very hard to consummate this merger. We're looking at bringing new leadership for American Airlines. It's going to rebuild this airline and create a company we can all be proud of. It's good for our corporation. It's good for employees, and it's good for the community," said Tom Hoban with the Allied Pilots Association.
"There may be some losers and maybe some folks in the general public end up paying higher air fare for their travel ticket. That's always a risk," said Mark Ralston, Bankruptcy Attorney.
There had been concern from the DOJ that the combined company would have too much concentration at airports like La Guardia and Reagan National, that was taken care of in this settlement,
A spokesperson for Southwest Airlines offered the company's congratulations today on the merger.
The combined airline will be called "American Airlines Group."
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Hello Mr. Vergel!
First of all, thank you for your work at TheBody. I was diagnosed no October 18, 2010, and this website was the first place where I felt "safe". The job you and your colleagues do here is extraordinary.
I've seen your answers about Whey Protein and similar supplements. However, I'm inclined to use Sun Warrior 'Classic Protein' ( www.sunwarrior.com/product-info/classic-protein/ ), since I'm lactose intolerant and into organics.
I've already tried it for couple of months, with great results against fatigue and weight loss. I'm working out and running 4-5 times a week and the muscular gain is visible. However, I'm concerned about the long-term use of the protein, specially concerning my kidney function.
My viral load is undetectable since February 2011 and my CD4 count raised for the first time this month, from 268 to 436, since the beginning of HAART and while taking Sun Warrior.
Since I'm on Atripla, Should I be concerned about long-term use of this (or any other) protein supplement regarding kidney function? Could this CD4 ascent be significantly related to the supplement?
Thank you and wish you the best.
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Interesting supplement indeed. The fact that they can make a vegan protein supplement with such complete aminoacid profile surprises me. I may have to try it myself since I cannot tolerate whey protein in any form.
Protein consumption has to be extremely high (much over 1 gram per pound of body weight per day) for your kidneys to be loaded. Your doctor checks your kidney function by having your creatinine blood levels checked. He/she also should have the lab calculated your creatinine clearance, which should always be at least 60 mL/min/1.73m2. Talk to him or her about it so that you can follow your kidney function, even if you do not take this supplement.
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It had been more than 15 years since the iconic No. 43 drove to Victory Lane.
So waiting through two days of thunderstorms and three red flags was relatively easy for Aric Almirola and his Richard Petty Motorsports team.
Almirola won the rain-delayed and rain-shortened NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, putting Petty's famed blue car back on top for the first time since 1999.
Almirola's first Cup win came on the same weekend Petty celebrated the 30th anniversary of his 200th career win. The 30-year-old Almirola was just a baby when Petty picked up that milestone victory.
"The 43 car is without a doubt the most famous car in our sport's history," Almirola said. "And to have that opportunity to drive that race car has been really special from the day that I stepped foot in it. All I wanted to do from the very first time I drove it was get it to Victory Lane. It took two and a half years I guess, but I finally did it."
The Coke Zero 400 was originally scheduled to go off Saturday night, but steady rain forced it to be postponed a day. When it did finally get started Sunday, it was interrupted several more times.
There were three red flags, two of them because of huge accidents that took out most of the 43-car field and several top contenders. Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick, Jamie McMurray, Carl Edwards, Kasey Kahne, Greg Biffle and Kyle Busch were among those knocked out of contention.
Biffle and Kahne started the second massive wreck, a 25-car fiasco that ended with Busch getting flipped upside-down in his No. 18 Toyota.
"It just felt like a slow carnival ride," Busch said.
Just seven cars avoiding both crashes.
Not surprisingly, Almirola was among them.
He became the first Cup driver other than Petty to win in the legendary No. 43 at Daytona. The previous time the 43 won was with John Andretti behind the wheel at Martinsville in 1999. So Petty's renowned car went 543 races without a victory.
Brian Vickers finished second, followed by Kurt Busch, Casey Mears and rookie Austin Dillon. Danica Patrick was eighth despite a late pit-road mistake, and reigning Daytona 500 champion Dale Earnhardt Jr. was 14th.
Almirola became the 11th driver to win this season as they jockey for one of the 16 spots in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Juan Pablo Montoya won the IndyCar race at Pocono Raceway, the highlight of a triumphant return to open wheel racing after seven years in NASCAR.
Helio Castroneves was second to make it a 1-2 finish for team owner Roger Penske. Montoya won for the first time in the CART/IndyCar Series since 2000 and had his first major victory since he won a road course race at Watkins Glen in NASCAR in 2010.
With double points awarded in the 500-mile races, Castroneves moved into a tie for the points lead with Team Penske teammate Will Power. Power was hit with a blocking penalty on Castroneves late in the race and had to serve a drive-through penalty, costing him a shot at racing for the win. He finished 10th.
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Hamilton, the 2008 champion, started sixth on the grid. The British driver leapt to fourth on the opening lap before it was red-flagged, and suspended for an hour, following a crash involving 2007 champion Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari and Felipe Massa of Williams.
Hamilton then took the lead after 29 laps as Rosberg retired with gearbox failure.
Hamilton came home 30 seconds clear of Finn Valtteri Bottas of Williams, who started 14th.
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Happily never after is more like it. After a Dec. 23 separation announcement — noting their prevailing "love and respect for one another" — things quickly got ugly between Bethenny Frankel and Jason Hoppy in their divorce and custody battle. Last week, Hoppy, 41, issued an aggressive rebuttal to the Skinnygirl mogul's Jan. 5 divorce filing, demanding child support, exclusive access to their luxurious Tribeca loft and primary custody of Bryn, their two-year-old daughter.
Why the about-face for the handsome, mild-mannered pharmaceutical exec, 42? A source tells the new Us Weekly, out now, that Hoppy (who still wears his wedding ring!) had initially intended to "play nice," but was shocked by how the Bravo starlet, 42, behaved in the aftermath of their split. "Jason is livid with how cold Bethenny has been with him since the the split," the pal tells Us. "He wants to make her pay."
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My name is Henric Dageus. I'm in the business of energy saving products.I think everyone should do their bit for the environment and do their utmost to reduce greenhouse gases to the extent it is possible. It seemed natural to start trading in energy products because I have long acted in the HVAC industry. The company is located in Sweden and is primarily aimed at the Scandinavian market.
My main clients will be property owners and operating organizations. The products are new, effective and innovation projection and I would like this to appear at first sight.
"Svensk Eloptimering", but "Svensk" doesn't need to be included in the logotype.
The logo can be abstract or include sinus curve or any other electricity-related symbol/icon.
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It needs to be able to be converted to 2 color printing, to press the clothes and cars.
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Original Letter from Santa Claus Hometown; at the Arctic Circle, Finland.
In his letter Santa wishes all good to the recipient and tells how good he/she has been. He also tells something about his living and all nice things that happen at the Arctic Circle. There is also a little surprise in the envelope.
You can get your own name to the letter. Put it to Nickname -frame.
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Why should I bother to include citations in my research papers?
- To give credit to authors/creators used
- To lend credibility to your work
- To help readers locate sources papers, projects, and speeches
When is it necessary to cite a source?
When quoting or paraphrasing someone else's ideas to avoid plagiarism
What exactly is plagiarism anyway?
Presenting someone else's ideas, words or material as your own
What does it mean if a source is "in the public domain"?
The source can be used freely by anyone.
What is it called when copyrighted works can be used for teaching, research, and other educational purposes?
"Fair Use"
Do I need to cite "fair use" sources?
Yes, always!
Which types of sources need citations?
All types: books and articles, interviews and speeches, government documents, reports, pamphlets, non-print media (videos, CDs, music) and computer software
Which style manuals are most commonly used at ESCC?
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Ask your instructor or Library staff for help.
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text: (1 of 4 in ENGLISH) Francis Kéré is an architect from Burkina Faso who designs sustainable architecture for the benefit of the people of his home continent. Kéré is motivated by a deep commitment to furthering the use and development of traditional building among local communities. His projects are designed to combine climatic comfort with low-cost construction, making the most of local materials and the potential of the local community, whilst adapting technology from the industrialized world in a simple and innovative way. Francis Kéré won the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004 for the primary school in his home village of Gando, Burkina Faso.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Heavy discounting took a toll on U.S. retail sales during the Thanksgiving weekend as shoppers spent almost 3 percent less than they did a year earlier, according to data released Sunday by an industry group.
That could be an indication of a more difficult season for many retailers. One bright spot this weekend, according to the data, was e-commerce as online sales soared.
The National Retail Federation estimated the average shopper spent $407.02 over the weekend, or 3.9 percent less than during the same weekend last year, because of lower prices it said would persist through the rest of the season.
"Retailers will continue to aggressively promote their in-store and online offerings, looking to entice today's very budget-conscious and value-focused shopper," said NRF Chief Executive Matthew Shay.
The NRF said 141 million people went shopping at least once during the holiday weekend, up from 139 million last year. But total spending was expected to reach $57.4 billion for the four-day period - which includes Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year - down 2.8 percent from $59.1 billion over the same weekend in 2012.
The big deals will also dent profit margins, analysts said.
"Sales will go up, but gross margins are going to be down. Doorbusters were what people were shopping for, more than the regular-priced stuff," said Ron Friedman, retail practice leader at the consulting firm Marcum LLP.
The Thanksgiving weekend is an early gauge of consumer mood and intentions in a season that generates about 30 percent of sales and nearly 40 percent of profit for retailers.
But many have given modest forecasts for the quarter. Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it expects no growth in its U.S. comparable sales, and Macy's Inc didn't raise its full-year sales forecast despite strong numbers last quarter.
The shorter holiday period this year - there are six fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas compared with 2012 - prompted retailers to begin offering bargains on Monday, earlier than usual, something Shay said likely pulled some sales forward to the first part of the week.
The NRF stuck to its forecast for retail sales to rise 3.9 percent for the whole season.
Chad Hastings, the general manager of Town East Mall in Mesquite, Texas, near Dallas, said shoppers were even more focused this year on specials, noting a higher correlation between the timing of doorbusters and the rise in shopper traffic at his mall over the weekend.
"Retailers are doing whatever they can to get that wallet share earlier," Hastings said. Town East Mall's anchor tenants include J.C. Penney, Macy's and Sears.
ComScore Inc, an analytics firm, said U.S. online sales rose 17.3 percent on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, outpacing sales growth at brick-and-mortar stores. ComScore has forecast a 16 percent jump in online sales for the season, helped by greater use of mobile devices.
The most visited e-commerce sites in order were those of Amazon.com Inc, eBay Inc, Walmart, Best Buy Co Inc and Target Corp, comScore said.
Retailers are also being aggressive online as they look to benefit from Cyber Monday, which falls on December 2 this year. Cyber Monday is the biggest sales day of the year for e-commerce.
J.C. Penney Co Inc and Macy's were among retailers that had already begun their "Cyber Monday" sales on Sunday, looking to keep the momentum going. Target was calling the occasion "Cyber Week."
The NRF predicted 131 million Americans would shop online on Cyber Monday, compared with 129 million last year.
RetailNext, an analytics firm, found overall shopper traffic between Wednesday and Friday fell 5.2 percent and that customers went to fewer different stores, doing more online research beforehand.
But shoppers spent more money in the stores they did go to, and Shelley Kohan, vice president, retail consulting at RetailNext, said that a website good enough to make shoppers want to visit a store is more crucial now than ever.
"Shoppers have more options," Kohan said.
Editing by Jan Paschal


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Download the latest versions of the Java 2 Development Kit (JDK) or Run-time Engine (JRE), and the accompanying documentation from:
Installation instructions and release notes for the JDK and JRE are available at the download page.
Make the binary distribution of the JDK executable and extract in a new directory:
chmod +x jdk-xxx.bin cd /usr/local/ .../jdk-xxx.bin
Install the JDK documentation by unzipping it in the JDK directory:
cd /usr/local/jdk-xxx/ unzip .../jdk-xxx-doc.zip
Change the ownership of the JDK directory and make it available as /usr/local/j2sdk/:
chown -R root:root /usr/local/jdk-xxx/ ln -s /usr/local/jdk-xxx /usr/local/j2sdk
If you need only the JRE, the installation would be like this:
chmod +x jre-xxx.bin cd /usr/local/ .../jre-xxx.bin chown -R root:root /usr/local/jre-xxx/ ln -s /usr/local/jre-xxx /usr/local/j2re
Using JDK version 1.5.0 caused our Tomcat server to crash every now and then:
For the (previously used) BlackDown Java for Linux distribution:
Find yourself a mirror for the BlackDown Java Development Kit at:
There you can download the latest versions of the J2 Software Development Kit (SDK) and Run-time Engine (RE).
Make sure you pick out the right version for the gcc library installed on your system. You can find out the version currently installed by typing:
Installation instructions for the Java Development Kit are available as INSTALL-j2sdk and INSTALL-j2re.
Make the binary distribution of the SDK executable and extract in a new directory:
Change the ownership of the J2SDK directory and make it available as /usr/local/j2sdk/:
Do the same for the RE:
Since we didn't install the JDK and JRE in our path, we have to add the bin/ directories to our $PATH environment variable. To make sure the Java distributions and classes can be found, we set the $JAVA_HOME and $CLASSPATH variables as well.
For the Bourne shells, create a file /etc/profile.d/java.sh:
if ! echo ${PATH} | grep -q /usr/local/j2sdk/bin ; then export PATH=/usr/local/j2sdk/bin:${PATH} fi if ! echo ${PATH} | grep -q /usr/local/j2re/bin ; then export PATH=/usr/local/j2re/bin:${PATH} fi export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk export CLASSPATH=.:/usr/local/j2sdk/lib/tools.jar:/usr/local/j2re/lib/rt.jar
Set its ownership and access rights:
chown root:root /etc/profile.d/java.sh chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/java.sh
Do the same for C shells, by creating the file /etc/profile.d/java.csh:
if ( "${path}" !~ */usr/local/j2sdk/bin* ) then set path = ( /usr/local/j2sdk/bin $path ) endif if ( "${path}" !~ */usr/local/j2re/bin* ) then set path = ( /usr/local/j2re/bin $path ) endif setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/j2sdk setenv CLASSPATH .:/usr/local/j2sdk/lib/tools.jar:/usr/local/j2re/lib/rt.jar
and setting its ownership and access rights:
chown root:root /etc/profile.d/java.csh chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/java.csh
Now the JDK should be available to everyone on your system.
You can test the Java engine by typing:
or create a file Test.java:
and test the compiler:


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'The Watch' -- 2 stars
R; 1:42 running time Timing is everything in comedy. When a neighborhood-watch volunteer was charged with shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin earlier this year -- in real life, that is -- 20th Century Fox changed the title of its forthcoming comedy from "Neighborhood Watch" to"The Watch"so as to disassociate. But following the Aurora, Colo., movie theater massacre, the scene of Hill (playing an erratic wannabe police officer) revealing his secret bedroom weapons cache to his pals, or the sight of Stiller and Vaughn firing and refiring and re-refiring their handguns into the body of a long-dead alien ... well, that second bit almost works, through sheer, hammering repetition. But it sticks in the craw. The whole movie does. -- Michael PhillipsRead the full "The Watch" movie review
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text: Joshua, Thanks for the info on the nfs server in RH9. We are using that distro unmodified out of the box, so to speak, so that is clearly blocks any possibility for fixing the problem in software. As for the hardware, it was described earlier as follows: [Old hardware generally: AMD Athlon 32-bit single (MSI KT4V) and dual (Tyan...) chip motherboards both running Redhat 9 one with the 2.4.20-8 kernels, though one is the smp version; NetGear GA311 NICs; and a NetGear GS108 8 port Copper 1 GB/s switch. The single processor motherboards have 32-bit PCI slots so their network speeds are limited to 300 kbps as shown by netpipe. All of the LEDs at the ends of the cables show 1000Mb connections.] Thanks again for your help. Mike At 10:26 AM 12/5/2007, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 at 9:55am, Michael H. Frese wrote > >>Clearly, this puts a premium on using tcp for nfs. All our >>attempts to do that failed. Well, both of them, anyway. In the >>first one, we unmounted the offending disk, modified its fstab >>entry, and remounted it. We were pretty careful in the second one, >>where we added tcp to the fstab argument, unmounted all the remote >>disks, restarted all the nfsd's, and did 'mount -a'. We got an >>error message in both cases that didn't obviously refer to the tcp >>argument, but the mount didn't happen. As I write this, I see >>references to tcp mount requests in the mountd man page, so maybe >>we need to do a bit more here. >> >>The Wikipedia article on nfs says this: "At the time of >>introduction of Version 3, vendor support for TCP as a >>transport-layer protocol began increasing. While several vendors >>had already added support for NFS Version 2 with TCP as a >>transport, Sun Microsystems added support for TCP as a transport >>for NFS at the same time it added support for Version 3." >> >>I'd like to know what version of nfs this server supports, but the >>man page on nfsd doesn't say. The man page on rpc.mountd says that >>it supports nfs version 2 and version 3, but that "If the NFS >>kernel module was compiled without support for NFSv3, rpc.mountd >>must be invoked with the option --no-nfs-version 3." Yet the >>/proc/procnum/cmdline for the running rpc.mountd doesn't show a >>--no-nfs-version argument. Clearly, both the kernel and the server >>need to support the use of tcp. > >Looking back through this thread, I don't see any details on the NFS >server, only the clients. What are the hardware and OS version of >the NFS server? > >Grepping through the kernel config for RH9 shows it definitely did >not support NFS over TCP *as a server*. If your server is newer, >though, and does support a TCP nfsd, then you may have to look at >other stuff (firewalls rules, TCP wrappers, etc) as to why the TCP >mounts didn't work. > >-- >Joshua Baker-LePain >QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin >UCSF >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Harvard - Remember the old joke about the dumb football player who majored in basketmaking at Jockstrap University?
The folks who wove more than 80 baskets now exhibited at Fruitlands Museum display dexterity, innovative use of natural materials and artistry that could only be learned from master artisans in villages around the world.
Some unknown person in Malaysia plaited rattan skin to make an ornate basket with a cumulus cloud pattern to hold seeds to sow a crop.
Very likely an Inuit woman in Alaska used coiled beach grass to weave the tall basket with arrow designs pointing toward its knobbed lid.
In northern Zimbabwe, an African wove together palm fronds to make the bowl-shaped basket decorated with linear patterns to winnow grains after the harvest.
They are among more than 80 baskets displayed in "The Ehrenkranz Basket Collection,'' one of two new exhibits just opened to help celebrate Fruitlands' 100th anniversary.
The entire collection of baskets was donated to the Harvard museum in 2013 by the family of the late Elaine Ehrenkranz who collected them throughout her life.
Works on display are from North America, including several Native American cultures, Africa, Ecuador, China, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Born in 1930, Ehrenkranz was a gifted painter who exhibited her abstract works in many solo and group shows. Throughout her life she collected baskets and boxes, especially Japanese lacquer boxes.
Executive Director Wyona Lynch-McWhite said she was delighted Ehrenkranz chose to give such "a remarkable collection of handmade baskets from indigenous populations all over the world'' to Fruitlands.
"We are overjoyed that the collection of so avid and discerning a collector as Elaine Ehrenkranz has found a home at Fruitlands. Her remarkable collection represents a broad range of origin, type and technique that will complement Fruitlands' existing basketry collection,'' she said.
Curator Michael Volmar said basketry was one of the oldest forms of human craftsmanship with the earliest known examples of baskets dating back 9,000 years.
He said the three common types of basketry include coiling, twining or plaiting natural materials including grasses, leaves or animal products such as horse hair or whale baleen.
Coiled baskets have an inner core of flexible materials such as split vines, grass or raffia palms which are wound around a core and shaped into a spiral center. The spiral coils are held in place with a sewing stitch that can be adjusted to effect their width or height.
Generally made by a pair of weavers working together, twined baskets are made around a foundation of supports called spokes. After trading positions, the wavers encircle the spokes, adding height and depth to the basket.
Often made with flat material such as split oak or ash, plaited baskets are constructed by weaving strips in an over-and-under twill pattern.
Chris Bergeron is a Daily News staff writer. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 508-626-4448. Follow us on Twitter @WickedLocalArts and on Facebook.
"The Ehrenkranz Basket Collection'' will be on exhibit at Fruitlands through Aug. 10.
The fine art of basketmaking at Fruitlands
Harvard - Remember the old joke about the dumb football player who majored in basketmaking at Jockstrap University?


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An activist blogger was murdered in Dhaka today.
A blogger and online activist, who was active in the Shahbagh movement, was killed in the capital's Pallabi area Friday night, prompting the Shahbagh protesters to return to their 24-hour demonstration.
Police recovered the body of 30-year-old Ahmed Rajib Haider, full with indiscriminate stab injuries, from near his Kalshi residence in Mirpur.
I know nothing about the Shahbagh movement, but if he was killed for being an activist, I know something about the movement's enemies, and thus a little about the movement by inference.
Pallabi police also confirmed that Rajib was an active participant of Shahbag movement.
Rajib used to write a Bangla blog nicknamed 'Thaba Baba'.
He had also written many blog on the country's Liberation War and Jamaat-e-Islami's wicked activities.
About eight hours before his assassination, Rajib posted a status on Facebook calling upon mass people to boycott Jamaat's media houses, coaching centers, cultural organisations and commercial institutions.
Ah. He was an opponent of Jamaat. Now he's full of stab wounds, and dead.
Thanks to Tasneem Khalil for alerting me.


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When Lt. Dan Choi finishes up with his trial, which will take place on Thursday, March 28, in Washington, D.C., he and I are headed to Jeju Island, South Korea's own little island paradise. Dan needs some paradise right now. He is on trial for contesting and questioning Don't Ask Don't Tell, which was later repealed, yet now he has to go to court, and face some possibly harsh consequences, for speaking out against it years ago.
Choi is an Iraq War veteran. He is an Arabic linguist — the kind of soldier desperately needed there — yet because he is gay and proud and refused to stay silent on the matter of the military's systematic homophobia, he was unfairly discharged and now has to stand trial. His work as a gay activist led to the eventual demise of Don't Ask Don't Tell, which allowed LGBT folks to serve openly in the military, and in a cruelly ironic twist of fate, is still being asked to pay for the "crime" of being gay.
I always hated DADT. It's foul and unbelievably disrespectful to the people who serve this country. They give up their lives in the name of freedom and democracy, they die, their bodies brought back in somber flag draped coffins to their grief stricken families, the entire time with DADT never once allowing them to fully be themselves. Don't ask, don't tell. Don't ask anyone who they are, don't tell anyone who you are — but still die for us, ok?
How is this acceptable? How is this possible? For the people who give so much, how could we return so little?
How is it that now that DADT is repealed, Lt. Dan Choi must still stand trial for it? I am so mad and I am so worried — I'd like to just run away right now with Dan to Jeju Island. We could escape and live on the beach in a hut made of braided palm leaves. I could use all the survival techniques I have learned from watching Man vs Wild. We could get incredibly tan and never wear shoes and squat in front of our hut drinking soju and no one would ever find us because we would fit right in. Two Korean needles in a huge Korean haystack. I would make us money by diving for abalone. We would be just fine.
Please tweet this and support Lt. Dan Choi @ltdanchoi
In doing so, we begin to pay back the enormous debt owed to the LGBT soldiers who serve this country. We owe so much.
How you can help, FROM LT. DAN CHOI:
On Thursday morning, March 28th in Federal Criminal Court, I stand trial for protesting back in 2010 against "Don't Ask Don't Tell."
The federal prosecutor has fiercely pushed this case for three years now, demanding the maximum punishment: 6 months in federal prison. To date, the government lost 5 of 6 protest cases against me, but they refuse to drop this one. Even after the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell," this seldom-used criminal charge against me remains: "Failure to Obey." My applications to re-enlist in the army were denied solely because of this trial. Whether it is to "teach me a lesson," or prevent my reinstatement, or bully those who practice free speech, the prosecution will not give up.
Nor will we. I ask you to please stand with me on this final lap, Thursday morning, March 28th.
The government is smart, powerful, intimidating and well resourced. But I stand on the principles learned in Basic Training: Defend freedom. Tell the truth. Never give up. Please join me, my fellow freedom fighters, international LGBT civil rights activists and people from all across the country who are flying in to send a clear message to the government: We will never stop defending our freedom to speak, serve and love.
Please let me know if you'll be there! I'll keep you updated about special gatherings and organizing.
Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/342518505852589/
Even if you can't, please spread the word and forward this message, or consider writing a letter to the judge!
USA v. Lt. Daniel Choi
E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse
United States District Court
333 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
8:00 AM on Courthouse Lawn –
Yoga Meditation and Interfaith Prayer
9:00 AM in Courtroom 6, (Second Floor) –
Love is still worth fighting for.
Lt. Dan Choi
If anyone here (esp. press) would like to write to the prosecutor and ask her why these criminal charges are still pressed so vigorously (See below) her contact is Angela George <firstname.lastname@example.com> at phone number 202-509-5379… she won't give me a straight up answer on:
(1) why this is so important to her office
(2) why she refuses to address me or any gay veteran by rank, as prescribed by AR670-1,
or (3) how much this has cost, with over 8 highly skilled US Attorney's on board for interlocutory appeals and writs, against one pro se (Latin for … up-shit-creek!) Defendant [i'm doing this pro se, mostly because it was Dr. Kameny's dying wish for me, and its a personal promise I made to him. I now realize how difficult that promise, and his own monumental legacy is, to uphold.]
AUSA Angela S. George, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia
555 4th Street, N.W., Room 4444
Washington, D.C. 20530
Her Supervisor: Guerrero, Gilberto (USADC):
The DoJ Appelate Team:
Ms. McCord, Mary B., Assistant U.S. Attorney:
Mr. Strand, Stratton Christopher, Assistant U.S. Attorney:
Mr. McLeese, Roy W., III, Assistant U.S. Attorney:
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