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The abstraction of Accumulated Amusing Albatross (CSR) has been anxious with the charge for a able and moral anatomy which reflects the added amusing and cultural behavior of the society. For this anatomy to be developed there is a charge for support, not alone from governments, but from all stakeholders, not the atomic from the clandestine business sector.
Over time, the clandestine area has consistently been accountable to accessible scrutiny. What we accept today by accumulated amusing albatross has been afflicted awfully by our assorted bread-and-butter systems, the change of the avant-garde association and the actualization of theories of Accumulated Albatross itself.
The 1909 case of Cadbury is a notable archetype to acknowledgment in an attack to putting CSR in context. These issues were in abounding means the aforementioned as those today. Firstly, companies were again and are now acquainted by abounding to accept a assignment to advocate assertive animal rights, even if there is no acknowledged liability. Secondly, Companies that acquirement bolt or bogus appurtenances were captivated to accept access over, and albatross the behaviour of their producers. These attack were credible in the 1909 cloister case and are axial to areas to avant-garde accumulated amusing albatross such as ethical trade.
Corporate Amusing Albatross came into accepting in the 1960s and aboriginal 1970s afterwards abounding bunch corporations formed the appellation stakeholder, acceptation those on whom an organization's activities accept impact. It was acclimated to call accumulated owners above stakeholders as a aftereffect of an affecting book by Edward Freeman blue-blooded 'Strategic Management; a stakeholder access in 1984. Proponents altercate that corporations accomplish added connected appellation profits by operating with a perspective, while critics altercate that CSR distracts from the bread-and-butter role of businesses. Others altercate CSR is alone window dressing, or an attack to pre-empt the role of government as a babysitter over able Bunch Corporations.
The appellation 'Corporate Amusing Responsibility' could aswell be referred to as Accumulated Conscience, Accumulated Citizenship, and Amusing Performance. It is a anatomy of cocky adjustment chip into a business model. CSR activity functions as a built-in, automated apparatus whereby a business monitors and ensures its alive acquiescence with the spirit of the law, ethical standards, and all-embracing norms. The goals of CSR is to embrace albatross for the company's accomplishments and animate a absolute appulse through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all added associates of the accessible apple who may aswell be advised as stakeholders.
CSR is blue-blooded to aid an organization's mission as able-bodied as a adviser to what the aggregation stands for and will advocate to its consumers. Development business belief is one of the forms of activated belief that examines ethical attack and moral or problems that can arise in a business environment. ISO 26000 is the accustomed all-embracing accustomed for CSR. Accessible area organizations (the United Nations for example) attach to the amateur basal band (TBL). It is broadly accustomed that CSR attach to agnate attack but with no academic act of legislation. The U.N has developed the assumption for amenable investment as advance entities.
The apple Business board for acceptable development in its publication; authoritative Acceptable Business Faculty by Lord Holmes and Richard Watts, authentic accumulated amusing albatross as the continuing charge by business to behave ethically and accord to bread-and-butter development while convalescent the superior of activity of the workforce and their families as able-bodied as the bounded communities and association at large.
A able-bodied managed CSR helps in acknowledging the business Objective of the company, body relationships with key stakeholders whose assessment will be a lot of admired if times are hard, and should abate a business amount and aerate its effectiveness.
Criticisms and Counter-Criticisms accept trailed the abstraction of CSR and it has been accustomed audience, would accept portended doom to the actuality of the CSR. One of the challenges faced by this abstraction is the claiming of analogue that humans use. We accept actuality that we are talking about albatross in how the aggregation carries out its amount activity – not artlessly about companies giving money abroad to charity.
Some key arguments and some responses that accept emanated from the abstraction of CSR are:
1. Businesses are ancient by their shareholders – money spent on CSR by managers is thefty of the applicable acreage of the Owners who are the company's Shareholders. This acutely is the articulation of the laissez faire 1980s, still accepting accustomed able articulation by advocates such as Elaine Sternberg who argued that there is a animal appropriate case adjoin CSR, which is that a stakeholder access to administration deprives actor of their acreage rights. She added declared that the objectives approved by accustomed angle of amusing albatross are absurd. Not all aspect of CSR are accusable of this however, Sternberg added that accustomed decency, bluntness and candor should be accustomed of any corporation.
2. The arch companies who address on their amusing albatross are bassinet cases – they argued that a lot of able business leaders don't decay time with on CSR. This altercation was that CSR were simple corrective disclosures advertence added that if surveys are agitated out of the a lot of admired Business leaders, you will generally acquisition names there, such as Bill Gates of Microsoft, a few years ago accept not accomplished their apple chic cachet by arena nice, Welch is still remembered for the barbarous downsizing he led his business through, and for the ecology corruption incidents and prosecutions. Added pointing out that Microsoft has had one of the accomplished contour cases of blowing bazaar ascendancy of contempo times and Gates has been able to accomplish the cyberbanking Cachet area he can accept to accord lots of money abroad by accepting adamant in Business. They opined that this actual point accustomed that Absolute Men don't do CSR and that we don't reside in a apple area advantage is consistently apparent to be rewarded.
3. Companies are too active actual harder times to do this; we can't allow to yield our eyes off the brawl – we accept to focus on amount business. – They argued that it was able-bodied for the big companies who could baby out huge sums of money for CSR and that their companies lacked such accommodation to carbon aforementioned activity to the society. Advertence added that for those angry for survival, it's a actual difficult for them to do likewise. Advertence that, you can't go spending money on accidental basal if you're laying humans off and assurance is Rock Bottom. And the odd bit of volunteering agent will not accomplish any aberration to the Association if they feel contemptuous and abrogating about how the aggregation operates. They appropriately argued that managing your Amusing albatross is like managing your business and that you can never do it too well. That no amount how abundant you try to amuse the society, it would never bees apparent as abundant abundant and so what was the point of agreeable it an exercise in futility.
4. It's the albatross of the politicians to accord with all this stuff. It's not our role to get involved. This appearance is of the assessment that Business has commonly been above chastity and accessible policy. We will do what we are accustomed to do. They are of the assessment that the government should be alone answerable with the albatross of apprehension casework and accouterment a acknowledged framework that says what the association will subscribe to, and that there is no point for instance acceptance smoker to abide acknowledged – even authoritative ample tax cancellation from it – and again acting as admitting tobacco companies are all anon above the pale.- if you anticipate its so dreadful, you should accomplish it illegal. If not, again we all should get on with the job of affair the appeal out there of Adults who can accept for themselves.
5. I accept no time for this, I've got to get out and advertise added to accomplish our accumulation line. This accumulation of humans are of the assessment that they do not accept abundant time to additional for the beheading of CSR and that they bare to access their time and activity on affair the accumulation band neede3d for the aggregation to survive competitively.
6. Corporations don't absolutely affliction – they are just out to spiral the poor and the ambiance to accomplish their atrocious profits. Some corporations don't absolutely affliction about accidental to the development of their host association but are arch angled on harming the ambiance for the account of their business. Examples of such companies are the Oil and Gas Exploration companies who just accumulate aspersing their host ambiance after able advantage or apparent apprehension CSR's that are absolutely adequate to the akin of abolition they accept acquired to their actual environment, and this has led to accumulation insurgence adjoin them area the host communities yield up arm adjoin them and accomplish the arena uninhabitable for them to operate. This has been apparent in Nigerian Communities like the Ogoni's In Rivers State, area the adulterous and atrocious activities of Oil Companies accept fabricated their by itself adored apple-pie streams and air attenuated for them to absorb and breathe respectively.
It will not be out of abode to altercate the abstraction of Accumulated Amusing Albatross after demography into application how it is been perceived in added locations of the world. CSR, the set of accustomed to which a aggregation subscribes to in adjustment to accomplish its appulse on society, has the abeyant to accord acceptable development and abjection abridgement in the world. What can be questioned admitting is if the CSR archetypal developed in the west are the best ill-fitted for CSR institutional and administration models exported to added regions of the apple are not consistently actual successful. In the ablaze of this, it is accounted pertinent that assorted models from above the apple are advised with a appearance to arresting a antithesis on the charge for CSR.
Traditionally in the U.S, CSR has been authentic added in acceding of Altruistic Model. Companies accomplish Profits, Unhindered except by accomplishing their assignment to pay taxes. Again they accord a assertive allotment of the profits to accommodating causes. It is apparent as baneful the act for the aggregation to accept any account from the giving. The Americans do not see accumulated amusing albatross as something that has to do with behavior or acceptable ethics; rather they see it as something that is done maybe to apperceive an administrator as a philanthropist. This is axiomatic on the assorted criticisms that accept been levelled adjoin the concept. One could artlessly sum up a cessation that Organizations would commonly not wish to absorb the ability of amusing admiration to their assorted association unless it is fabricated compulsory. For all Business Entities to be socially amenable there has to be an accomplishment of laws advertence its coercion and the after-effects of defaulting.
The European Archetypal is abundant added focused on operating the amount business in a socially amenable way, complemented by investment in communities for solid business case reasons. This archetypal is added acceptable because:
Social Albatross becomes an basal allotment of the abundance conception activity – which if managed appropriately should enhance the competitiveness of business and aerate the amount of abundance conception to society.
When times gets hard, there is the allurement to convenance CSR added and bigger – if it is a altruistic exercise which is borderline to the capital business, it will consistently be the aboriginal affair to go if times gets hard.
However, the Business analogue of CSR is declared as Operating a business in a address that meets or exceeds the ethical, legal, bartering and accessible expectations that association has of business.
On the Added hand, the European Commission hedges its bet with two definitions captivated into one:
1. As a abstraction whereby companies adjudge voluntarily to accord to a bigger association and a cleaner environment.
2. A abstraction whereby companies accommodate amusing and ecology apropos in their business operations and in their alternation with their Stakeholders on a Voluntary Basis.
When both are alarmingly reviewed, they broadly accede that the analogue now focuses on the appulse of how you administer your amount business. Some go added tan others in prescribing how far companies go above managing their appulse into the area of acting accurately alfresco of that focus to accomplish a addition to the accomplishment of broader and civic goals. It is a key difference, if abounding business leaders feel that their companies are ill able to accompany what boarders civic goals and activists altercate that companies accept no autonomous angary to yield such roles.
Public Assessment is absolutely not to be underestimated in Business as this could actuate the Fate of a Business Entity to Exist and attempt favourably with its counterparts. If the affair of the Attack of Going-Concern is to be fabricated manifest, it is accordingly pertinent that the Acceptability and Image of the Aggregation is able-bodied Accustomed and handled in a way that will accomplish the Aggregation arise in acceptable ablaze by assuming Features of a Acceptable and Amenable Business Set up. This can alone be fabricated accessible if the Aggregation shows accurate and Germane Interest in the abundance of its citizenry through assorted practices of Accumulated Amusing Albatross Gestures. No Agnosticism humans wish to accessory themselves with Businesses that are able-bodied accustomed in acceptable reputations. Accordingly the charge for a concerted and advised accomplishment is approaching to accompany this course.
Goodwill as we all apperceive is abstract in nature. Its aggregate or Amount can never be summed up in Measure and this could be the appropriate agency amid one business and the other. Architecture a acceptable business acceptability as a amenable business accouterments sets you afar from your equal. This makes an alignment to be broadly accustomed by the humans by accepting a faculty of belonging, Boost Competitive Barter Advantage amidst competitors, and become a abettor in progress. Perception in Business is not to be underestimated as it could be the Thin Band amid Prosperity and Doom.
A able-bodied managed CSR helps in architecture a Acceptable accord with key stakeholders whose assessment will be a lot of admired in times of Adversaries and uncertainties, and it aswell reduces business amount and aerate its effectiveness. Ultimately, This aswell could access the people's best of Accomplishing Business. A lot of appropriately, it is all-important for a aggregation to be apparent as a abettor in advance rather than accepting apparent as the People's Enemy. This of Advance would affect Business Adversely. It could Even Amount the Business Its life. Some barter don't just adopt to accord with amenable business outfits, but they assert on it. Generally times Some companies are apparent favouring food to business apparel who authenticate amenable behavior as this can accept a Absolute appulse on how they are perceived by customers.
However, Business Managers Should see Accumulated Amusing Albatross as a Means to advance a acceptable Accord amid their firms and the Association for their own good. Based on the Foregoing, It is accordingly important for it to accomplish the a lot of of its accumulated amusing albatross activities by publicising them by ensuring that customers, suppliers and the bounded association apperceive what it is doing. CSR lends itself to Acceptable News Stories. Publicity such as this can aftermath the Magic of application CSR to win lots of contracts.
It is a accepted actuality that humans wish to buy from businesses they account and in earning this respect, a close has got to acquire it by accepting socially responsible.
(Governance and accumulated Amusing Albatross in Nigeria)
A fast growing trend in the business apple is the change of Accumulated Amusing Albatross bales by Multinationals and added Accumulated Bodies. This is not alone with accessible outcries over the adverse aftereffect of circadian business activities of the companies, how it affects the environment, abridgement and the lives of the host communities.
Corporate Amusing Albatross is a set of accustomed to which a aggregation subscribes in added to accomplish an appulse on society. Its abeyant to accord to acceptable development, abjection reduction, caters for the accessible and chief citizens as able-bodied as contributes to civic abridgement and clandestine enterprise. This in contempo time is fast acceptable an acknowledgment average for accidental corruption of amusing albatross and aegis of the ambiance in the clutter for maximizing profit.
From the Oil Multinationals in the agitated Niger Delta arena of Nigeria, Telecommunications Giants, biologic makers, down to the circumscribed cyberbanking sector. It has become en faddy to appoint in awful publicized accommodating and altruistic ventures as an act of Accumulated Amusing Albatross (CSR) to augment the abused public. Over time, Multinationals in Nigeria artlessly signs agreements with aboriginal government after aberration to the actual host communities. This of advance is what abreast the alternation of assorted abiding ailment in the Oil Rich Niger Delta, as the multinationals for decades accept connected to breach ecology rules to the damage of the host communities like Ogoni acreage as able-bodied as accepting accomplices in the barbarous corruption of animal rights in these communities by alternating noncombatant and aggressive government.
When the callous government of the backward dictator, Gen. Sanni Abacha hanged frontline Author and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight added associates of the Movement for the adaptation of the Ogoni Humans (MOSOP): Adjoin bounded and all-embracing clamor in 1995, Oil Multinationals like carapace could not absolve itself from the abetment in the killings because they bootless to accommodated the accepted claims of the host-communities for abridgement of ecology corruption through spillage and Gas afire after actual Compensation. Carapace would accept been accounted socially amenable if it has advisedly provided application for the host communities, Amusing Infrastructural development and transaction of Royalties and Advantage for such abuses rather than cheating the host communities in bunco with a Non-chalant government who abide to avoid this until the cloister judgement of advantage adjoin carapace on the Ogoni Martyrs.
To Curb such abuses, Budgetary Albatross of government to the citizenry accept to accord to the Amusing Accumulated Albatross activities of the accumulated apple to the people. This will advice to appease the aggressive abandon in the ever-restive Niger Delta and the South Eastern area of the country area militancy, Pipeline corruption and a lot of recently, the aggressive abduction of both expatriates and targeted individuals of huge Ransom are on the increase. Contempo History has apparent the aftereffect of Aggression on civic security, socio-political activities as able-bodied as the economy. A glimpse of this is the agitation that led to the acknowledgment of the accompaniment of emergency in Bayelsa Accompaniment in 1998 and affected abandonment of oil multinationals from the region, fractional and final abeyance of the country's oil output.
The Contempo settlements of victims by biologic behemothic Pfizer all-embracing congenital in a accusation over the ill blighted Trovan antibiotics acceding on accouchement during a meningitis beginning in Kano accompaniment is addition corruption of Accumulated Amusing Responsibility. The aggregation and the anxious parties agreed to adjustment of $75million. A Pfizer agent as quoted by the Associated Press absolution of 29th July 2009 assert that Pfizer stands by the 1996 abstraction it conducted with the approval of the Nigerian Government at accord of the participants' parents pr guardians was taken and the abstraction was constant with Nigeria's laws.
The bent corruption of our Accouchement as beginning Guinea Pigs by Pfizer: if alleged aloft for advice by the government in the bosom of an ancient beginning is untenable. It does not absolve Pfizer anatomy this adverse adventure and it is an allegation on the government as an abettor back they bootless innocent victims, the Accouchement in the built-in acquittal of the accessible budgetary albatross activity to the aborigine as anointed in the Budgetary Albatross Act 2007. By not blockage for facts on the accident of such aberrant acceding on these innocent children, government appropriately became an abettor in this gross corruption of Amusing amends both from the bunch and from the government. This fabricated Richard Altshuler an Activist to altercate that the adjustment acceding abbreviate accuse the victims and allowances Nigerian admiral in millions of Dollars. Even the government is accepting over$10 actor as activity cost.
Moreover it negates the belief of Accumulated Amusing Albatross if Pfizer desires remittance of the extra funds from the adjustment money to its coffers as adjoin beforehand acceding that the $30 actor extra go into the architecture of a hospital in the accompaniment metropolis. Added so, to distort this about-face of contest as a absolute Accumulated Amusing Albatross In its cocky will be an Aberration. This is because not even the advantage money which is a castigating activity can actual the animal event.
Coming to the telecommunication sector, multinationals in this area are aswell in the altruistic alacrity of CSR. MTN for archetype came up with its MTN Foundation and its pet project, Accouchement at Accident Empowerment Arrangement (CARES) to accommodate psychosocial Abutment to aid the adolescent to abound up in a Amusing and cerebral environment. This activity targeted at accouchement who accept absent both parents: a commendable action no doubt. But they accept to be apparent accomplishing above this in the aspect of allotment lots of scholarship and donation of laboratories and blight analysis equipments a part of added bales to schools and teaching hospitals all over Nigeria.
In the ablaze of the foregoing, a Holistic access is adored to accurate Accumulated Amusing Albatross in our society. The government accept to actualize the enabling ambiance by aggressively arrest the issues of security, ability and abjection to the bearest minimun. appropriately the Multinationals accept a best to reside up to the assumption of Amateur Basal Line; accomplish Profit, affliction for the ambiance and advocate amusing justice. While the federal government attempt to bear on aegis to clandestine enterprises, acceptable babyminding to the citizenry and its added commitments to its bunch partners, notwithstanding, the Nigerian government accept to be aces of the people's assurance by allegorical the multinationals to stop application bifold accustomed on the blockage of oil spillage, gas afire abolishment timeline as able-bodied as fair affairs with labour unions in their business dealings.
In the ablaze of the foregoing, a Holistic access is adored to accurate Accumulated Amusing Albatross in our society. The government accept to actualize the enabling ambiance by aggressively arrest the issues of security, ability and poverty, Appropriately the Multinationals accept a best to reside up to the assumption of Amateur Basal Line; accomplish Profit, affliction for the ambiance and advocate amusing justice. While the federal government attempt to bear on aegis to clandestine enterprises, acceptable babyminding to the citizenry and its added commitments to its bunch partners, notwithstanding, the Nigerian government accept to be aces of the people's assurance by allegorical the multinationals to stop application bifold accustomed on the blockage of oil spillage, gas afire abolishment timeline as able-bodied as fair affairs with labour unions in their business dealings.
There are three key strands of CSR announcement in Nigerian Organization; they cover Philanthropic, bread-and-butter Abutment and Compensatory. Philanthropy refers to a altruistic and accommodating account projected to the humans by the accumulated organizations. Firms through their benevolent activities accomplish the humans to feel acceptable about their operations. The firms in the bounded communities accept generally boarded on donations of bare sum to association development, cultural practices and celebrations.
The added fiber of CSR accomplished in Nigeria is tagged as Bread-and-butter Support. In this case, the accumulated organizations advice by accouterment amusing amenities like carriageable water, architecture and aliment of schools, aliment of parks, advance of basal and primary healthcare scheme, ablution of empowerment schemes, for the beneath advantaged etc.
The third is the Compensatory CSR fiber which is gradually accepting ground. Organizations atone the Nigerian government, communities, and individuals for assertive operational breaches that accept occurred during the assembly process. These three expressions of strands of CSR can be apparent in the several organizations in Nigeria such as the United Bank for Africa, (UBA), and MTN Nigeria.


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ECU, not EZU
Wow, that was an odd article about Terry Holland [Hotseat, September 23: "Go East (Carolina), young man"]. You seemed to go out of your way to bash ECU without acknowledging how far it has come since its "EZU" days of the '50s and '60s (an undeserved moniker even then).
ECU is now a major doctoral research university with some of the highest athlete graduation rates in the country (top 25), among the same esteemed group as, yes, UVA. And the list of achievements goes on.
It's something Terry Holland understands. With a bit of research, you could have understood this too.
Ward Duft

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text: Hmmm... we have something similar, but not quite the same. We have a master w/ 100base-T to the world, gigabit fiber to a 24-10/100 + 2-1000 switch and 16 slaves (not diskless) with 10/100 and gigabit interfaces. We only have 16 ports on our gigabit switch and out master is a different type of machine from the 16 slaves. We have successfully convinced the machines to communicate over the gigabit exclusively while communicating with the master over the 10/100. You do need to use the Scyld MPI though. I seriously doubt that you will get another MPI running as is. Anyway, what we did was: after bringing the nodes up: bpsh -a route add -host 192.168.1.1 eth0 bpsh -a route del default bpsh -a modprobe sk98lin then on each node: bpsh <node> ifconfig eth1 up <nodes current IP> Then to run an MPI job that DOES NOT run on the head: NO_INLINE_MPIRUN=true bpsh 0 mpiapp -p4pg /tmp/pgfile where /tmp/pgfile is a p4 process group file. This is a real sketchy config so don't expect too much support on it just yet ;-) On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Dave Johnson wrote: > I've gotten myself involved in bringing a small cluster up and > into production. I'm learning as I go, with the help of the > archives of this mailing list. Unfortunately the searchable > archives at Supercomputer.org seem to be off line (I get internal > server error), and out of date (the last messages seem to be from > around May 2000). > > The current setup is one master with 100base-T to the world, gigabit > fiber to a 16-10/100 + 2-1000 switch, and 12 diskless slaves with > 10/100 and myrinet interfaces. The Scyld release of last Monday is > up and running, and I can bpsh to my heart's content. > > I'm stuck at the point of trying to deploy MPI. Scyld supplies mpi-beowulf > which does not appear to me to use bproc, and /usr/bin/mpirun and mpprun > which do. I've built the mpich-gm from Myricom, but their mpirun command > does not grok bpsh, and expects either rsh or ssh daemons on each slave. > > I've tried a number of approaches that start out looking like they might > work, but have gotten stuck after a few hours down each cowpath. > > Here is a list of some of the snags (I've lost track of some others): > > bpsh is not a full blown shell, doesn't deal well with redirection, changing > directory before running a command, and in particular it can't be swapped for > rsh or ssh when configuring mpich (ie -rsh=bpsh). > > The master node is outside the myrinet, I haven't a clue how to get > it to cooperate with the slaves over ethernet yet have the slaves > use myrinet as much as possible. > > I tried hacking on the first test in mpich-1.2..4/examples/test > (pt2pt/third) that you get when you do make testing or runtests -check. > Tried to get it to use /usr/bin/mpirun. Had to get rid of -mvhome and > -mvback args first, then tried to use bpsh to start up the mpirun on > one node, hoping it could use GM to start up on the other slaves. > After creating the directory in /var where it could create shm_beostat, > > Now I get truckloads of errors: > shmblk_open: Couldn't open shared memory file: /shm_beostat > shmblk_open failed. > > I suppose these might be from the other nodes, expecting everyone is > sharing /var, but I'm leery of nfs mounting all of the master's /var > on each slave. > > I tried applying the Scyld patches against the 1.2.0 mpich sources to > the 1.2..4 sources from Myricom, but most of them went into the mpid/ch_p4 > directory, which is not built when --with-device=ch_gm is specified. > > Then I thought I'd look into the mpprun sources, but I couldn't get > them to build even before I started hacking on them... decided to look > elsewhere for a while. > > Tried getting sshd2 up and running on a slave node. So far it insists > on asking for my password and won't accept it at all. > > Has anyone got a working cluster anything like the one we're building? > What did you have to do differently to make the various packages and > drivers play nice with each other? Where did I go wrong? > > Thanks, > > -- ddj > > Dave Johnson > ddj at cascv.brown.edu > Brown University TCASCV > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Underwood Parallel Architecture Research Lab (PARL) keithu at parl.clemson.edu Clemson University


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Author Notes: One night last September, my husband and I had dinner at our friends' Deb and Paul's house. Paul had marinated a butterflied leg of lamb to grill on their rooftop patio, and he headed out there well after dark. The fall's earlier sundowns have never stopped people from grilling, but grilling in the dark usually involves a jury-rigged move with flashlights. Paul, an excellent cook, has come up with a nifty solution: he wears a camping headlamp from L.L.Bean. Nerdy, you say? I think not, after tasting his perfectly grilled lamb. (photo by Deborah Copaken Kogan) —Amanda Hesser
Serves: 8 to 10
8-pound leg of lamb, boned and butterflied
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
cloves garlic, chopped
sprigs rosemary, leaves stripped and chopped
Olive oil
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- In the morning, cut the lamb into 8 manageable pieces. Trim off excess fat (not all of it) and pat dry with paper towels. Lay the lamb in a roasting pan or large baking dish. Season generously with salt and pepper.
- In a small bowl, combine the garlic and rosemary with 1/4 cup olive oil. Make small incisions in the lamb pieces and push in the garlic and rosemary. Rub the lamb with more olive oil, then cover and chill for at least 4 hours and up to 10 hours. Take the lamb out of the fridge at least 30 minutes before grilling.
- Heat the grill to medium high, then lower it to medium. Lay the lamb pieces on the grill and cook for 7 to 10 minutes per side, depending on the thickness of the meat, for medium rare. If grilling at night, use headlamp to check grilling progress! Remove the lamb pieces as they finish cooking and let rest for 5 minutes. Slice and serve with any juices that collect at the bottom of the dish.
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A winner was selected from 19 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
BuzzStream is a social CRM that helps companies manage relationships with bloggers, journalists, Twitter users, and webmasters. We have 2 products, one of which went live in May and is revenue-generating, the other is in private beta.
In preparation for the release of our second product, we need to replace a set of "temporary" icons with 13 custom icons for our web app application (3 of the icons will need 2 versions to represent the two distinct states they may have).
The typical user is a PR professional, technology marcomm manager, inside SEO manager, or SEO consultant. They are used to, and expect, a Web 2.0 style.
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- Deliver 13 icons in 3 sizes: 60x60, 40x40, and 20x20 (3 icons will need an on/off state)
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
New Trailer for The Hills
9 comments:
- I am Trish Marie said...
I am so excited for The Hills. Can't wait.
- February 27, 2008 at 7:22 PM
- Paige said...
How cute are those dresses! cn't wait for the dramz!
- February 28, 2008 at 12:56 PM
- About Emily... said...
I love Whitney's dress! I must admit, the Hills is my guilty pleasure also- good thing I know when it's coming on again- I've been waiting to see what happens with them in Paris!
Emily@ Material Girls
- February 28, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Okay, this post and these comments have totally made my day! I thought I was the only "grown-up" who watches this show! hahahahahaha. Hubby bought me the first two seasons as gifts...
- February 29, 2008 at 8:43 AM
- Sheri said...
Oh, the drama looks fantastic! But come on... not more Justin Bobby! When is Audrina going to learn?
Thanks for posting this, Paloma. You know it made my day to watch it.
- February 29, 2008 at 10:08 PM
- cupcake monkey said...
One of my guilty pleasures, too! :)
Love your blog!
- March 1, 2008 at 4:53 PM
- Jennifer said...
omgah I cannot wait.
- March 1, 2008 at 10:25 PM
- Jennifer said...
I can't wait either!!! I have been with these girls since the first season of Laguna!
- March 5, 2008 at 10:22 PM
- Topsy Turvy said...
I'm way too old to be watching this show, but I think I'm vicariously re-living my 20s through Lauren and friends. Working as an intern in Paris??? How lucky! And those dresses ARE adorable! Lana
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Ever wonder what is in a Reviewers Guide?
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards | April 2, 2012 - 12:13 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: NVIDA, gtx 680, reviewer guide
A long held tradition in the hardware reviewing world is to accuse reviewers of biasing their reviews by only running the benchmarks that the manufacturer wants you to run and providing slanted results. It really doesn't matter if every single site comes out with similar results, for some if a review doesn't fit their personal bias it is obviously flawed. As [H]ard|OCP mentions, there was a time when Reviewer's Guides did resemble something along those lines but they have changed over time as suppliers realize the more biased they attempt to make their guidelines, the less likely a review site is to follow them.
These guides are now more of a mix between a white paper and a lengthy PR release, with relatively in depth discussions on the capabilities of the product along with highlights of what the company feels are the key features on the new product. [H] has posted the document which arrived with their GTX 680, discussing features and yes ... suggesting the appropriate games with which to show off their cards features, though what game could you test PhysX with other than Batman?
"Many times we have been asked what exactly CPU and GPU companies "require" of us when working on a review of yet-to-be-released hardware. Published here is the Reviewers Guide from the recent NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 launch in its entirety. Besides it being a great geeked-out read, you will likely learn a few things."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Adobe Lightroom 4 reviewed @ Ars Technica
- GNOME 3.4: Are We There Yet? @ Linux.com
- Coolest jobs in tech: hackers for hire @ Ars Technica
- 25 Years of IBM's OS/2 @ Slashdot
- Flying Car Makes Successful Maiden Flight @ Slashdot
- Apple's LLVM 3.1 Clanging On Intel Sandy Bridge @ Phoronix
- Intel to launch own-brand Z77 motherboards on April 8 @ DigiTimes
- Haswell's GPU prowess is due to Crystalwell @ SemiAccurate
- Dell to buy Wyse to extend its cloud client range @ The Inquirer
- Icy Box IB-PL500D Powerline Network Adapter Kit @ Rbmods
- The NVIDIA Ninja Graphics Tech Report @ TechARP
- Weekly Giveaway #25: Infused and In-Win Dragon Rider Black Chassis @ eTeknix


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What we learn in this all-pain/no-pleasure episode is that marriage feels like a life sentence, weddings are miserable events, honeymoon sex is dangerous and leaves a bride covered in bruises, and pregnancy is a torment that leads to death in exchange for birth.
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In the end, given how little goes on in Breaking Dawn - Part 1 despite the major plot points, what you're left with is to gaze at the three leads, all of whom have their constituencies and reasons for being eminently watchable. The only hope is they'll have more to do next time around.
Absorbing, if somewhat slow-paced, and has without doubt the most blood-curdling scene of live childbirth in a PG-13 movie.
It is in many respects the best installment of the franchise as its stars go from sullen kids to sullen young adults, where their expressions look more natural.
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Sexy honeymoon, disturbing pregnancy dominate latest movie.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this next-to-last installment in the Twilight series is sure to attract throngs of tween, teen, and adult fans of the book-and-film phenomenon. But parents of tweens and younger teens should know that this adaptation faithfully follows the book's mature, disturbing storyline concerning an extremely dangerous pregnancy. Although the action-based violence is mostly confined to a couple of werewolf vs. vampire skirmishes, the birth scene is like something out of a horror film; it's brimming with blood and gore and agonizing pain (though still less than what was in the book). Also, after three movies of abstinence, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) finally consummate their relationship in a bed-breaking honeymoon scene that shows a lot of skin but nothing R-rated. Families wary of discussing abortion or family planning should know that much of the film deals with those issues. There are also some sad/poignant goodbye scenes.
Messages: Bella doesn't rely on Edward to make an important, possibly self-sacrificing choice for her (having their baby). And despite the controversial pregnancy, the movie offers a positive outlook on what constitutes a "family" and how love can take many different forms. But Bella and Edward's marriage remains a sticky issue, since it's not widely considered a good idea for teens to consider marriage right out of high school.
Role models: For once, it's Bella -- not Edward -- calling the shots, so regardless of how you feel about her decision regarding her pregnancy, it's hers to make. The Cullens are all selfless, generous, and peace-loving vampires. Jacob is at his best in this installment. Despite disagreeing with Bella, he guards her life -- and just when you think he's going to do something monstrous, he redeems himself.
Violence: (Note: Potential spoiler alerts.) Although, action-wise, this isn't the most violent of the Twilight movies, the extended and unforgettably bloody birth sequence seems straight out of a horror movie (though it's still far less bloody than the description in the book). There's also lots of pain during this scene, including scalpel cuts, the sound of breaking bones, and many screams. At one point, viewers briefly see Edward biting his way through Bella's uterus; he then pulls out the bloody baby, while Bella is also covered in blood and seems about to die. Edward then attempts to revive her with his venom by biting her on all of her pulse points. Bella looks frighteningly emaciated and on death's door throughout her pregnancy, and there are a few minutes when it seems she actually has died. There are several conversations about abortion, "getting rid" of the pregnancy, and "fetus" vs. "baby" debates. Bella drinks blood on several occasions like it's a milkshake. The wolves fight each other and, in one scene, the Cullens. Jacob looks poised to beat Edward up on a couple of occasions and even agrees to kill him should Bella die in childbirth. A brief cameo by the Volturi shows their humorous (to them) decision to have a human employee killed; in a bloody nightmare sequence, the Voluturi also kill many key characters -- their bodies are shown. A flashback shows Edward violently biting and killing three unsavory men.
Sex: After sharing a couple of passionate kisses and getting married, Bella and Edward finally consummate their relationship on their honeymoon. Viewers see bare backs and other flashes of skin as Bella and Edward skinny dip (backs, chests, and a quick glimpse of Bella's breasts from the side as she embraces Edward), make out passionately in the water, and then move to the bed; there are also breathing sounds, lingerie shots, etc., and Edward is seen on top of Bella and consequently breaks the bedframe with his passion (he also bruises Bella). On another occasion, Bella has a sexy dream and wakes up pleading with Edward to make love. She also wears pretty skimpy lingerie and swimsuits. After the honeymoon, the romance is limited to one quick glimpse of the wolves and their mates kissing on the beach and some chaste embraces.
Language: Less swearing than most PG-13 movies. Words include "pissed off," "crap," "bloodsucker," "damn," and "hell."
Consumerism: The entire Cullen household is outfitted with Apple computers, Bella and Edward drive around in a Volvo (a car that's also available in real life), and there's a Tampax product placement. Off-camera, the movie franchise has huge merchandising tie-ins with cosmetics, apparel, accessories, toys, and more (even wedding dresses!).
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Adults enjoy champagne (Bella's parents a bit too much) at Bella and Edward's posh wedding reception.
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STOCKTON - The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday overturned a county Planning Commission decision and denied a permit to expand an Acampo winery.
St. Jorge Winery got the Planning Commission's OK a year ago to increase the number of events that could be held at the winery. Called marketing events, they are meant to promote a winery's wares and can include parties, weddings or other events where its wine is served.
The types of events have been at the center of clashes between neighbors and the wine industry as it flourishes amid existing farms and homes in rural San Joaquin County.
The events can promote the wine and help build the reputation of the local wine region, but they can draw ire from neighbors seeking peace and quiet in the countryside and protests from farmers who see a threat to the county's agricultural industry.
Sides were divided along the same lines in the St. Jorge expansion plan. Its approval was appealed by neighbors, a challenge supported by the San Joaquin Farm Bureau Federation.
"St. Jorge's primary mission is not promoting wine," said David Isola, a neighbor who brought the appeal. Its mission was to become a "full-service event destination," he said.
The winery also asked for permission to build a commercial kitchen and a wine garden and stage that county inspectors described as an amphitheater. Both had already been built, according to county staff.
County inspectors reported discovering the kitchen when looking at what was supposed to be equipment used in a "wine lab" to sterilize bottles. There was a permit for that equipment, but not for the stage area, which would need to be removed, according to the county.
The winery owners admit they made mistakes, but they have complied with the county's requests, said Christopher Powell, an attorney representing the winery. On Tuesday, the winery changed its request. It no longer asked to expand the number of events but still requested the kitchen and wine garden, where only non-amplified music would be played, he said. "St. Jorge Winery is not an event center. ... It makes great wine," he said. "They are a winery at their core."
But it did not sway the board, which overturned the approval with a unanimous vote.
"One thing that bothers me ... is just a pattern of violations," Supervisor Bob Elliott said.
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Duncan Williams, 90, the founder of Palo Alto's Winter Lodge skating rink, died from complications of a brain tumor today (April 11).
Williams was commended by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on the 50th anniversary of Winter Lodge, in 2006. In the proclamation from the county, Williams was noted as having "brought with him to Palo Alto the joy and excitement of community outdoor ice skating." It also noted that Winter Lodge is now one of the three largest skating schools in the United States.
He was born June 6, 1920, in Evanston, Ill., and studied engineering at Dartmouth College. He earned his graduate degrees in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
He met his wife, Mercedes, on the beach at Lake Michigan when they were teenagers. They married in 1942.
He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II, then taught engineering at the University of Wisconsin for nine years. He moved to Ladera, Calif., in 1956 to work as a civil and mechanical engineering professor at San Jose State University.
His fond memories of ice skating outdoors in Illinois and Wisconsin made him want to recreate the experience in California, Winter Lodge's Executive Director Linda Jensen said.
"No one had ever done that before. It was his big experiment," she said.
He decided to open a rink on Middlefield Road in Palo Alto because of the open space and increasing number of young families, Jensen said. The Winter Club was opened in 1956, offering recreational skating and lessons to kids and adults, as it still does today.
He utilized his engineering background to develop a system of refrigeration and brine to maintain an outdoor ice rink in Palo Alto's mild weather, making the rink the first of its kind west of the Sierras.
He retired in 1983, after his lease expired. When The Winter Club was then threatened with closure, a community group was founded to help save the rink. In 1986, Palo Alto residents passed an initiative asking the city to acquire the land from the owner and preserve the skating facility. It's now supported and run by a nonprofit group.
After retirement, he maintained an active interest in Winter Lodge (as it was renamed) and was a familiar, friendly face to many.
"Any time we needed help, he would be here. He was really proud of it. He was sort of everybody's grandpa," Jensen said.
He was also a volunteer tutor at Hillview Middle School in Menlo Park for 19 years, helping English-language learners. He also tutored adults in English after he and Mercedes moved to The Sequoias Retirement home in Portola Valley eight years ago.
Family members recalled him as kind, humble and witty.
He is survived by his wife, Mercedes Williams of Portola Valley; sons and daughters-in-law Jeff and Katie Williams of Georgia, Dave Williams of Cloverdale, Calif., Don and Elaine Williams of Sonoma, Calif., and Tom and Vicki Williams of Belmont; and five grandchildren.
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by Robert Gehrke
February 1, 2012
A state senator is wading into the contentious issue of "personhood" — when a fetus becomes a human being — which has been a deeply divisive issue in other states.
Freshman Sen. Aaron Osmond, R-South Jordan, said he was approached by individuals, whom he would not name, seeking the legislation and he has opened a bill file titled "Joint Resolution on Human Life" to begin a dialogue with interested groups.
"I really want to be careful with it because I recognize the sensitivity of this," Osmond said.
He said he hasn't decided if he will need a constitutional amendment to define when life begins. But he has opened a file for a resolution, which could simply state the sense of the Legislature or it could be the first step to amend the Constitution. If the resolution receives a two-thirds vote from both the House and Senate, the constitutional amendment could be put on the ballot for voter approval in November.
"That's where we're headed. There's no doubt we're trying to define when life begins, when a person becomes a person," Osmond said.
Karrie Galloway, director of Planned Parenthood of Utah, said she hopes to meet with Osmond about the issue next week, but the title causes her great concern.
"There has been a movement in the country for the personhood amendments, and it concerns us if that's the direction he's going," Galloway said. "Does he realize the implications for the state of Utah?"
She said she wants to find out whether Osmond is seeking binding legislation or is instead looking at a nonbinding resolution or declaration from the Legislature, which wouldn't draw much opposition.
"If we're talking about a sense of the Legislature with a resolution, I know the sense of the Legislature and I won't be surprised," Galloway said. "But if they are considering changing the constitution of the state of Utah, which will impact a whole lot more than abortion, it will impact contraception, in-vitro fertilization, it will impact the lives of so many people, which is the reason one of these things has never passed."
In Mississippi last year, there was a major clash over a proposed amendment stating that life begins at fertilization. Advocates on both sides spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, and religious and political leaders were divided over the issue, which ultimately was rejected by 55 percent of voters.
The Colorado-based group Personhood USA has committed to putting similar initiatives on the ballot in a dozen states, including Florida, Montana, Ohio and Oregon this year. Colorado voters rejected the personhood amendment in both 2008 and 2010.
But Osmond's effort is more homegrown.
Gayle Ruzicka, president of the Utah Eagle Forum, said the idea of a personhood amendment arose last week during the Eagle Forum's Family Action Coalition meeting, which Osmond attended.
"Senator Osmond was excited to work with us on pro-life legislation," she said. He offered to open the bill file, which had to be initiated this week, and Ruzicka said the group is still working through specifics of what form they would like the legislation to take.
"At this point we're just looking at it because that's what you have to do. We've got attorneys and others looking at it," she said. "We'll probably decide in the next few days exactly what we're going to do."
Ruzicka said she's not surprised that Planned Parenthood would be concerned. She said the organization has opposed all of the pro-life bills the Eagle Forum has backed, and she expects they will oppose this one, too.
The Eagle Forum's family coalition, Ruzicka said, has developed the ideas all on its own and hasn't met with any outside groups or looked at efforts in other states.
"Whatever we do," she said, "it's going to be our own."
Osmond is in his first legislative session after being chosen last spring to replace Sen. Chris Buttars, R-South Jordan, a veteran of Capitol Hill culture clashes, who sided with the Eagle Forum on numerous abortion bills and gay and lesbian issues.
House Minority Whip Jennifer Seelig, D-Salt Lake City, said she doesn't know which direction Osmond plans to take, but if he does proceed, she said, "We better have a very clear understanding, a factual understanding, of what it is we're talking about."
"I hope the conversation is based on peer-reviewed scientific evidence," she said. "The issue carries enormous potential for a huge amount of government intrusion in a deeply personal aspect of the lives of people, their families and their faith."
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