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The Sony Xperia Z (nee Yuga) and Xperia ZL (nee Odin) have been getting their fair share of rumour treatment of late. Most recently we saw the pair posing together in a purportedly official press shot.
Now we have the strongest indicator yet that the Sony Xperia Z will debut at CES, as it's been leaked directly from the show's floor.
We don't have any official Sony Xperia Z specs to chew on just yet, but there's a genuine-looking pic showing the handset beside what appears to be the hand of a Caucasian male.
Rumoured Sony Xperia Z specs include a 5in 1080p display, making it the largest Sony smartphone to date. Currently, the largest Sony handset is the 4.55in Xperia T.
Other Sony Xperia Z specs are said to include a quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 13MP rear camera.
The Sony Xperia ZL is also expected to make an appearance at CES 2013, though it's not clear how it compares to the Xperia Z (other than coming in a more compact shell).
We'll inevitably have more on the Sony Xperia Z (and probably the Xperia ZL) later in the week.


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How enterprise architecture and service-oriented architecture "fit together" probably will be something you'll be reading more about in the coming months. I say this because there have been several conferences, white papers and presentations on the topic lately.
Now, some people who read this blog eat and breathe SOA and/or EA.
For the rest of us, here's the deal, in short:
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a strategic management discipline, according to a definition from a recent EA Directions presentation.
The goal of enterprise architecture is to break down information silos and allow information to flow between the business units and business processes. Needless to say, it's a practice, with a formal methodology and various styles.
It seems obvious that SOA would help with EA, but since SOA is still in the early stages of adoption, everyone's still trying to figure out how SOA will fit in with EA.
The answer, according to a recent white paper from The Open Group, David Linthicum and various others, is simply that SOA is an architecture that supports services and, therefore, one way to do EA. Eventually, SOA will become a core EA discipline. That makes sense.
The problem is in the details. For instance, how do you apply EA methods to SOA? Are there certain stages of EA development that have to be amended to accommodate SOA? Well, yes, it turns out, there are. So how do you deal with that? And just how does SOA fit in with existing architecture styles?
And there's a long way to go before those questions are worked out in the EA and SOA community. To give you an idea of how much work remains to be done, consider this: The Open Group, which deals with EA standards, just this month issued a white paper defining SOA.
It also outlines how the Open Group's Architecture Framework -- an EA practice -- applies (or doesn't) to SOA, then proceeds to list the plethora of SOA issues the group still needs to tackle, including governance definitions and processes, an open-standards maturity model, and the application of service-orientation to IT infrastructure. (Since, really - as the white paper points out - when most people talk about SOA, they mostly mean SOA as it applies to the applications architecture.)
David Linthicum recently spoke about SOA and EA at the Open Group's 15th Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference. There, he made the following statement:
"Five years from now, we won't be talking about SOA... It will all be folded into EA."
As yesterday's InfoWorld blog post shows, conference-going bloggers had a lot to say about his comments and the topic.
Some of this conversation about SOA/EA may go beyond your need-to-know level. So, bottom line, what does this mean for the business?
"Can EA and SOA Get Along?", a great free Webinar, can help you understand what this issue means in the real world, both in terms of hurting your SOA efforts and working against your EA strategy.
It's presented by the Linthicum Group and EA Directions and lasts for about an hour and a half. If you don't have time for the full presentation, skip ahead to minute 55, where it begins to discuss exactly what businesses should expect from EA and SOA, what can be done within your organization to bring SOA and EA together, and enterprise governance - which brings together governance of EA and SOA.
You can find a link to the Webinar from Linthicum's blog or go directly to the EA Directions site. You'll need to sign up for free registration to access the presentation.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
shamcey: third runner-up
this is simply for posterity. congratulations, shamcey supsup, for making it as third runner-up at miss universe 2011. i love the way she answered the question given her—it was so full of conviction, as a beauty queen's answer should be. it was the perfect question for a catholic girl. unfortunately, not everyone will agree with her—maybe the judges too? religion is a sensitive issue. even i don't discuss it. but watching her in those two hours, i believe she did her country proud. shamcey, ikaw pa rin ang miss universe ng buhay namin! (cheezy! tee-hee...)
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Summer is so crazy busy and sometimes it just ends up that you have to do a meal that was pulled from a box. Yes, I'll admit it. We had taquitos! LOL
I was feeling a little guilty about serving my kids something out of a box, so I went and got some spinach leaves out of the fridge and wrapped one of my taquitos in it before I dipped it in salsa and sour cream. It actually was pretty tasty!
Once the kids saw me wrapping my dinner with a leaf, they ALL wanted leaves. I had to go back to the sink several times and prepare even more spinach leaves. The leaves became a real hot commodity! So, without even trying, my kids enjoyed a whole bunch of spinach for dinner. :)


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Two jewels in the Crown ~ An Insta-Diary of the Races…
It was on the bucket list and so far, two of the jewels in the Triple Crown of Horse racing are in the bag and we are off to Belmont in a few short weeks to collect the third! I had inside information on a little California horse leading up to the Kentucky Derby by horse handicapper and family friend, Gabby Gaudet. After following his races and his story, I was hooked on California Chrome only to find out he was the favorite at Derby and many thought that was a bad omen. Everyone tried to talk me out of it but I stuck by him and boy was that exciting!
I didn't grow up on a farm or taking riding lessons but something stirs deep within me in the presence of these majestic animals. It started even before my daughter was diagnosed with Autism and began taking therapeutic horseback riding lessons and I began to host my annual Strut & Sip for Autism Fashion Show that has donated over $120,000. in rider scholarships. It's the connection they make with special needs kids, the way California Chrome loves to soak up the media attention and how Secretariat just seemed to know what they said about him going into Belmont when he won by 31 furlongs….they are somehow almost human and our connection with them is undeniable.
From the minute you step off the plane (hat boxes in tow) in Louisville and are greeted by pretty girls in party dresses and hats handing out Bourbon truffles, and you see the horse shoes of fresh roses adorning the walls of the airport, you know you are in a town that truly honors these animals and this sport. I wasn't feeling a dress for the occasion, so I sported a high waisted black pencil skirt by Three Dots, a periwinkle blue Abeline blouse, a black hat by Hats in the Belfry and nude ankle strap Sam Edelman heels. My sis donned a beautiful black lace full skirted party dress from Ted Baker, Stewart Weitzman wedges, hand beaded Dori Csengeri earings from Israel, and a lilac hat from Nordstrom. Our hotel had the most charming hat guru in their lobby pop up shop who 'bumped us up' by giving our fabulous but not quite 'derby worthy' hats a little something extra with feathers and such that he clipped in. We were off to the races and fitting in nicely.
Churchill Downs lives up to its namesake and puts on a royal spectacle of an event. All the photos are from my Instagram since no detachable lens cameras are allowed on site. Every southern belle and fella in the South and beyond seemed to be in attendance decked in spectacular big brim hats, en vogue facinators, pastels, pinstripes and bow ties. The people watching was an event unto itself and we did our best to capture some of it. Every ensemble outdid the next and everywhere you looked was a pack of perfectly coiffed spectators, race enthusiasts and celebrities taking in the palpable excitement. Many 'Derby Virgins' like us added to the frenzy and drew the second largest crowd in Churchill history. After downing the obligatory Mint Julep, I opted for a Champagne split (that came with a gold funnel for drinking out of the bottle) and convinced a wealthy Columbian business man next to me to go put his money back on his first favorite, California Chrome, and ignore his buddies naysaying about omens. He did and he won big!!! There is nothing quite like sitting on the home stretch when the thunderous roar of the horses comes past and especially when your horse is in the lead! If you have never been to a race, there are races every day around the country and you simply must experience it. Take a group of girlfriends and wager for picking up the tab at dinner or buying the next round of cosmos. Anyone can access this sport and I promise, it will not disappoint!
After meeting a super fun group of people in our hotel lobby bar, we split a cab (pricey in Louisville) and headed downtown to the 21c Museum Hotel's hot spot, Proof on Main. The vibe was very cool, the food was excellent and the fact that it is connected to a modern museum through the lobby is so unique. We managed to inadvertently crash a $140 a ticket Derby Party by cluelessly sashaying past the registration table and down the stairs to an amazing party with the best 80's cover band ever! It was a late night of dancing, cocktails and making new friends (oh and bumping into Kris Humphries, but I'm not sure that counts as cool) and we made a pact to come back every year.
Back in Maryland, it was time to gear up for the Preakness Stakes. I was invited by Dan Tordjman, a brand ambassador for America's Best Racing, to attend several Preakness events, starting with a tour of historic Sagamore Farm. Kevin Plank, the University of Maryland graduate and genius entrepreneur behind Under Armour, purchased the farm previously owned by the Vanderbilt family and is restoring it to, and arguably beyond, its former glory. He is pumping an excitement back into Maryland Racing and should be commended for his absolutely incredible dedication to the sport of horse racing and the care of these animals. We toured the historic indoor track, the famous stall of Native Dancer, aka "the Grey Ghost," the new jockey quarters, the race track made with Under Armour fabric fragments for extra cushion, and the most well kept horse barn I have ever seen (not even a hint of horse odor in that barn!) On the horizon is the distilling of Sagamore Whiskey since the water temperature and ground conditions of the on site mill are identical to that of Bourbon Country Kentucky. A brilliant operation from top to bottom!
America's Best Racing hosted a mixer at Mt. Washington Tavern where I picked Gabby's brain about her horse choices for the weekend and met the lovely Miss New York City and Miss America hopeful. Friday I headed to Black Eyed Susan Day (dubbed by locals as "Girls Day at the Track") with the hubby in tow to judge the Susan G. Komen Survivors Fashion Show. I wore another fantastic hat by Hats in the Belfry and a Ralph Lauren Navy/White printed silk jersey dress. I was overwhelmed to be in the presence of these women, dressed to the nines by area retailers like Cupcake and Octavia Boutiques and glowing with the very essence of life itself. I took a moment to recall a dear friend who lost her battle years ago and another who is living through it now and was simply in awe of these women standing here, looking radiant as ever. It was truly an honor to be a part of that and one of the reasons the new management of Pimlico is doing such a great job to bring back that race coarse. They are courting women to bring them into the sport and it seems to be paying off.
After the fashion show we settled into our spot in the Maryland Jockey Club tent, noshed on some of the catered offerings and downed a Black Eyed Susan cocktail before piling over the program and "getting to work" (as the husband puts it) choosing my picks for the upcoming races. I look over the stats, and the connections and then just try to get a feeling of who I like. Gabby came on the jumbo-tron 15 minutes before each race with her picks and we bet on any horses where she and I overlapped. I won 5 straight in a row, including the Black Eyed Susan Stakes. We don't bet large money so it's not that crazy, but it is definitely fun and addictive in a nonthreatening way. We meandered over to the infield concert after the races (much cleaner since banning the BYOB 5 years ago) and listened to the Fray for a few sets. We capped off the evening with dinner at Wit and Wisdom at The Four Seasons in Inner Harbor East. All in all, it was the perfect date!
The next day brought more sunshine, so I headed to the Preakness sporting another big hat from you guessed it, Hats in the Belfry and a DVF wrap dress in the colors of the Maryland flag. This time I grabbed my other sister who sported my black hat from Derby and a darling black BCBG shift. She correctly picked the number 2 and 3 horses on a whim and I, of course stuck with my guy (and also chose correctly on the number 3) and California Chrome took home the second jewel in the crown. Now, if we only knew to combine our bets for the trifecta….oh well. Next up ~ the Belmont Stakes in New York. I hope to see you there!
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Awkward Goat Moment.
Had an awkward moment this afternoon.
We were petting the goats when one of them managed to shove her head through a square in the fence! It was kind of funny at first, until we realized it was actually completely stuck. When she tried to pull her head back through the fence her horns would catch and prevent her from getting out of the headlock position.
This was when only one horn was through the fence square. Soon both horns were stuck through it.
Then it got extremely awkward when all of the male goats decided to take this prime opportunity to gang rape her. One of the long bearded pregnant female goats ran up and started repeatedly head butting all of the goats involved in the…orgy. I'm not sure if she was annoyed at the chaos or trying to rescue her female friend from repeated rape.
My girls have seen the ducks do this, but somehow it was more horrifying to them with the goats. Probably because the poor goat with her head stuck was bleating in terror!
Finally Tyler was able to hold the goat's head tightly in the right position to shove it back through the fence.
I am very surprised at how much Tyler likes the goats. He was actually asking me questions about goat breeds and goat care. (Because obviously I've already over researched owning goats over the past three years, just in case…)
They are hysterically funny creatures. And friendly too! Kind of dog-like, actually. Except with "rectangly rectangle eyes that are not right" as Ada would say.
This is my favorite goat. It's a she goat.
She *loves* to be scratched behind her horns.
This is the sassy pregnant mama goat with the beard who was doing the head butting.
The little goat just underneath the one eating the apple is named Baby Frank. He's recently weaned.
These horses are so shy. We have yet to actually touch them, even when offering treats.
Ada didn't want to leave the goats.
I had to tie Hank to the porch so that we could pet the goats. He barks and scares them if he follows us up there.
Luckily he doesn't mind napping right there…for hours. When I unclipped his collar to let him free he thumped his tail and resumed snoring.
We're building hoop coops out of cattle panels for the chickens.
This is how it looks half done, in its current state.
It still needs chicken wire on the front and back, and the super strong tarp over it. The tarps were in the mail at our house in town when I got home tonight.
Side view.
I can't wait to get it finished! Then we have to build the second one…
They are 8×8 feet, and a little over six feet tall inside. They're so strong you can hang the feeder and waterers from the top.
I'm going to put Premier electric poultry netting around them, but I haven't ordered it yet. I hate how expensive that stuff is!
Everyone I've talked to and everything I've read says it's totally worth it though.
Both the electric poultry netting and the hoop coops can be moved around so that the chickens have plenty of fresh grass and bugs! Basically they're free range chickens without the neighbor's dogs eating them. (Hopefully.)
We sat out on the porch and watched a big thunderstorm come up over the hills.
After the storm!
This picture above was taken while standing right here, in my kitchen:
The cabin is really rustic. But in a fun, quirky way.
I can't wait until we get our beds moved in. It already feels weird to come back to the suburb and our other house. It's so vastly different.
I'll choose the cabin and that view any day!
The only major, major downside is the internet. The speed is 1.5 compared to the 10 or 11 we have here in town.
1.5 is so slow that it barely functions. I'm not sure how I will upload pictures or anything. Netflix works, but it's blurry. Even Facebook is slow to use.
That's the best option. We explored every possibility. Maybe they'll upgrade the service out there soon? Just a few miles away they don't even have the ability to use wifi, so we're lucky in that regard.
With no cable, poor internet, and living way out in the boonies we are definitely going to be in an isolated bubble. Good thing there's lots to do outside.
By the way, because several people always ask: All the photos in this entry are iPhone pictures. I took them using the VSCO CAM app, and used the filters from PicTapGo app to adjust the contrast and everything. Those are my two all time favorite photo apps!


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The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds did some research showing compassion can be trained. Some audio and scripts used in the study for compassion (traditional metta or loving kindness meditation) and reappraisal are available for download.
Some quotes from Daniel Dennett's new book:
The mind? A collection of computerlike information processes, which happen to take place in carbon-based rather than silicon-based hardware.
The self? Simply a "center of narrative gravity," a convenient fiction that allows us to integrate various neuronal data streams.
The elusive subjective conscious experience — the redness of red, the painfulness of pain — that philosophers call qualia? Sheer illusion.
Human beings, Mr. Dennett said, quoting a favorite pop philosopher, Dilbert, are "moist robots."
On Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Kant's insight was that, in order for the knowledge we get from our senses at any given moment in time to mean anything, our minds must already be distinguishing it and combining it with the information we get in prior and subsequent moments in time. Thus there is no such thing as a pure impression in time — no absolute, frozen moment in which we know the sun is rising now without being able to infer anything from it — because such a pure moment without a before or after would be nothing at all.


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- WHO SHE IS: The "Bravest Woman in Mexico" was a twenty-year-old new mother and college student named Marisol Valles Garcia. In 2010, her actions made headlines and inspired people around the world and set the stage for several new plays, including Matthew Paul Olmos's so go the ghosts of méxico, part one: a brave woman in méxico which opened in 2013 at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in Manhattan.
- WHAT THE "BRAVEST WOMAN IN MÉXICO" DID: After the previous police chief of Valles Garcia's hometown was tortured and beheaded a year earlier, nineteen people passed up the dangerous job before Marisol Valles Garcia was sworn in as police chief on March 1, 2010. In the years after Mexican president, Felipe Calderón, declared war on the cartels in 2006, police officers and political officials have been targeted in drastic numbers and in horrifying ways. (Upon election, one mayor said that though "the fear is always there… if you have courage and the desire to make a contribution, that outweighs the fear." Nine months later, that brave and optimistic voice was silenced when the mayor was found beaten to death with his hands tied behind his back.)
- WHERE SHE'S FROM: Valles Garcia's hometown of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero (or Guadalupe Districto Bravo) is a small town on the Mexico-Texas border near Ciudad Juarez in the Northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Valles Garcia's memory of Praxedis as a place where people were "able to go out without fear" began to fade when her hometown found itself smack dab in the middle of a turf war between Juarez and Sinoloa, two rival cartels fighting for control of the main highway in the region.
- WHEN SHE SOUGHT ASYLUM: After four months of menacing phone calls, intimidation, and threats, the bravest woman in Mexico received a call from a familiar voice telling her that "some people" wanted to meet her. Someone was on the way to pick her up. Without hesitating, or even packing a suitcase, she fled across a footbridge with her family (her husband, mother, sisters, and one year old son) to seek asylum in the United States. In an interview given once she was safely in El Paso, Valles Garcia explained, "I came here for the security my country cannot provide for me. The fear will never go away. What I experienced is a fear that will last a lifetime." The intense fear she described has become an assumed part of the job. Cartels often offer police officers and public officials "plata o plomo" ("silver or lead"); The understanding being that when bribes fall short or fail to impress, bullets are the assured plan B. Through corruption and intimidation, many police and military officers have become part of the armed wings of the cartels.
- WHY SHE BECAME POLICE CHIEF IN THE FIRST PLACE: To use Valles Garcia's own words, she "took the risk" because she wanted her son "to live in a different community than the one we have today." She had a vision to keep children in schools and to provide steady jobs to widows of the drug war. She planned to leave fighting the cartels to the state and federal police, focusing her efforts on "preventative programs for schools and neighborhoods, rehabilitating public spaces and fostering better relationships between neighborhoods in order to improve general security." She hired a police force that was mostly female (nine out of her 13 officers were women) and mostly unarmed (there would be only one patrol car and four guns between all the officers). Because she felt it was more important that her officers have the few guns available, Valles Garcia insisted on working unarmed herself. In response to some merited incredulity at her decision to work without a gun, she simply responded, "The weapons we have are principles and values, which are the best weapons for prevention." Though she acknowledged that "there [would] always be fear," she was determined to achieve for her municipality a future of peace and safety in the face of danger and horrific violence.
- HOW CLOSE TO HOME HER STORY HITS: Stories like Marisol's are not far off in some distant land – especially for those of us in Texas and the rest of the American Southwest. In the estimation of the U.S. Department of Justice states, the "greatest organized crime threat to the United States" is that of the Mexican drug cartels, which are currently estimated to have a strong presence in over 200 U.S. cities, stretching from L.A. to Chicago. In 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that because the United States' "insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade," the U.S. "bears shared responsibility for [the] drug-fueled violence sweeping Mexico." The drug war and everything that comes with it is happening on and just across our border and in our major cities; It's right in our backyard.
THE CHANGE SHE WANTED TO BE IN THE WORLD: Why did the cartels see Valles Garcia and her mostly unarmed police force of thirteen officers as a problem? For Valles Garcia, the answer is the positive change that was starting to unfold in their community: "We were helping the people they were recruiting from. I don't think they liked that. We were trying to help them make a better life." Hearing Valles Garcia's story, it is easy to get disheartened (to put it mildly). In the midst of extreme violence and ongoing tragedy, one bright, hopeful message flickered for its brief moment, then was extinguished again- just as quickly- into darkness. But Valles Garcia does not believe that the work she and her officers did was in vain. She believes that they "at least made a difference, gave people a little hope." In the words of our playwright, Matthew Paul Olmos, "The significance of her ideas that we could solve these conflicts by community improvements instead of armed conflict – are still being felt." In her determined optimism when she first accepted the job, Valles Garcia reminded her community that "we're all afraid in Mexico right now, but we can't let fear beat us." This rallying cry that inspired the world earned her the nickname "La Adelita" with Juarez locals. "La Adelita" is a folk song born of the Mexican Revolution whose heroine has become the archetype of the female warrior in Mexico, a symbol of power and bravery. Symbols tend to outlive soldiers, and as the waves of Valles Garcia's story continue to resonate, ripple, and resound, there is at least some small hope that maybe we haven't seen Mexico's last Adelita.
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Kobe Bryant's Latina Wife Gets His Three Mansions, Report Says
Kobe Bryant's soon-to-be ex wife is winning big these days.
The Mexican basketball wife, who filed for divorce from the L.A. Lakers star last month after he reportedly stepped out of the marriage, just got all three of Bryant's mansions worth close to $18.8 million, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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And this is only the beginning of what Mrs. Bryant is expected to get, as the divorce with Kobe Bryant is finalized.
The Los Angeles Times says experts believe Vanessa Bryant will get around $75 million and additional funds in child support.
The properties that Mrs. Bryant has transferred to her name include the mansion inside the Pelican Hill Resort which is still under construction worth $ 11.2 million, their other Newport Beach home which was co-owned, worth $2.9 million, and the home which was under Kobe Bryant's trust worth $4.7 million.
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Vanessa Bryant claims she caught her husband with "multiple women" over the years, but she felt the latest incident was the final straw, prompting her to file for divorce.
Vanessa, whose parents are both Mexican, was not believed to have been a favorite of Kobe's parents. Joe Bryant, Kobe's dad, had reportedly turned his back on the relationship because the family did not approve of Vanessa. It's been widely reported that his parents weren't crazy about him marrying a Latina.
Bryant, meanwhile, was being linked to one of socialite Kim Kardashian's best friends, according to RadarOnline.
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The website cited unconfirmed reports that the 33-year-old has been on very friendly terms with 27-year-old Carla DiBello for the past two years.
DiBello, a producer on the reality TV series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and "Kourtney and Kim Take New York," has been close friends with Kardashian for a while, traveling around the world with her on work trips.
Prior to becoming a producer, DiBello worked as Steve Wynn's assistant at his hotel casino in Las Vegas, as well as in other posts in the hotel industry.
Kobe Bryant has already moved out of the couple's mansion in Newport Coast, Calif.
Vanessa Bryant stuck by her husband in the infamous press conference, pictured above, when he was accused of sexually assaulting an employee at a Colorado hotel in 2003. The NBA star admitted to having sex with 19-year-old Katelyn Faber but denied assault. The criminal case was dropped, and a civil suit filed by the woman was later settled out of court.
The fate of her $4 million diamond ring, an apology gift given to her in 2003 from her soon-to-be ex-husband, is to be determined.
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Academy Model
One key priority of Preserving the Vision, the strategic planning process for Catholic education in the Diocese of Brooklyn, is to transition all schools to academies by 2017. The main difference between a school and an academy is in the governance model. A Catholic school is governed by the parish, so the pastor is directly in charge. An academy is governed by a two-tiered board that is comprised of a Board of Directors and a Board of Members.
The Board of Members is comprised of pastors aligned to the academy, the bishop, and the superintendent. Together, they function as prime sponsors of the academy. They appoint the Directors and ensure the overall Catholic identity of the academy and its programs. In some cases the Board of Members oversee multiple academies.
The Board of Directors is composed of lay people who function as the governing body of the academy. They select the principal and serve as immediate supervising body. They are passionate about Catholic education and share their expertise in areas of: finance, facilities management, institutional advancement, marketing and public relations.
The principal is the instructional, educational, and spiritual leader of the academy, and chief educational operating officer. He or she also communicates directly with the Home/Academy Association.
The Home/Academy Association is comprised of parents who have children in the school. It serves to support and enrich the educational and formational endeavors of the academy, and works to promote a connection from home to academy.
The teachers and the staff members fulfill the mission of the academy. The teachers plan, guide, and evaluate the learning process of the students for whom the teachers are responsible within the framework of the academies philosophy, organization, and curriculum. The staff implements the mission through their assigned responsibilities.
Our Board of Directors
- Edward A. Bolan – Board Chair
- Brother Ralph Darmento – Board Mentor
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What identification does a Notary Public require?
Following the implementation of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007, notaries are now obliged to keep sufficient evidence on their files of the identity and the address of all their clients before they undertake any work.
Each person whose signature they are to certify must provide one of the following original identification documents at the time of the appointment.
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- Certificate of incorporation
- Latest report and audited accounts
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- In that case please write (but do not enclose any original documents) with full details of your complaints to The Secretary of The Notaries Society, Old Church Chambers, 23 Sandhill Road, St James, Northampton NN5 5LH, email: email@example.com Tel: 01604 758908. If you have any difficulty in making a complaint in writing please do not hesitate to call The Notary Society/The Faculty Office for assistance.
- Finally, even if you have your complaint considered under The Notaries Society's Approved Complaints Procedure, you may at the end of that procedure, or after a a period of 6 months from the date you first notified me that you were dissatisfied, make your complaint to The Legal Ombudsman*, if you are not happy with the result;
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FascinatE Project
Using the in-house Finite Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) software it is possible to make simulations of sound propagation in rooms with complex geometries and with different absorbing boundaries, this makes for an accurate test bed for all sorts of reproduction techniques in different rooms. Shown here is a wave field synthesis (WFS) system modelled in a large hall. This allows us to see how the room affects the accuracy of the WFS reproduction.
The four different views shown on this video are the front, top and side views of the room and the top corner shows the room impulse response as measured by a receiver in the room (marked by a yellow square)


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Acute hepatic porphyria is a term encompassing four types of porphyria, in which the production of toxic heme precursors occurs in the liver and causes acute attacks of abdominal pain, nausea, neurological and mental changes, as well as hypertension and pain in the head and neck and/or chest. The diagnosis is made by detecting specific heme precursors in urine or feces. Hematin, symptomatic therapy and liver transplantation are used as therapy.
The clinical presentation is quite similar across all types of acute hepatic porphyrias. The "acute attacks" are the hallmark of these disorders, most frequently encountered after puberty in women [5]. Most important symptoms are related to the gastrointestinal tract and include intense and nonspecific abdominal pain that may be cramping, constipation, nausea, vomiting, decreased bowel sounds and diarrhea in some patients [1] [3] [5]. Head, neck and chest pain are seen in approximately 50% of cases, as are hypertension, tachycardia, mental changes (restlessness, anxiety, insomnia, disorientation, paranoia and hallucinations) and convulsions [1] [9]. Muscle weakness, tremor, diaphoresis, dysuria, dark urine, bladder distension and severe neuropathy may be encountered as well [5], and a missed diagnosis may lead to severe and irreversible motor neuropathy [2]. In addition to acute attacks, some forms may be accompanied by cutaneous symptoms, such as HCP, in which photosensitivity and blistering skin lesions (vesicles, bullae and erosions with scarring) are constitutive features [1] [5].
To make the diagnosis of acute hepatic porphyrias, a thorough patient history that will reveal presence of any of the mentioned porphyrias (having in mind the autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance), recent use of drugs or habits that may have precipitated the attacks, as well as history of similar symptoms, is essential. Together with a thorough physical examination, sufficient information can be gathered to suspect porphyria as an underlying cause. To confirm the diagnosis, urine and fecal testing for heme precursors and toxic metabolites should be performed. A distinction between subtypes can be made based on the obtained findings. AIP is suspected when markedly higher levels (20-100x higher) of ALA, PBG and uroporphyrin are found in urine, whereas detection of high coproporphyrin III levels in urine and stool, in addition to ALA and PBG in urine, is highly specific for HCP [5]. VP, on the other hand, is distinguished from HCP by confirming the presence of protoporphyrin in stool [5]. Urine and stool samples should be obtain during or right after the acute attacks [2]. A definite diagnosis is made through genetic tests, specifically polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which will detect the exact type of mutation [1].
Initial therapeutic measures of acute hepatic porphyrias are focused on symptom alleviation - management of tachycardia, electrolyte dysbalance (hyponatremia is common, and often the cause of seizures) and gastrointestinal irritation [8]. Phenytoin or valproic acid should be avoided in management of seizures, as they may cause more severe symptoms [2]. Instead, benzodiazepines, gabapentin, magnesium and propofol (in the setting of refractory seizures) are used. Intravenous administration of hemin (a synthetic form of heme), however, is the mainstay of treatment, especially when dealing with acute attacks [2] [10]. Hemin is able to expand the pool of heme in hepatocytes, which produces a negative feedback mechanism that will reduce the production of heme precursors, most notably ALA [2]. Intravenous infusions will lead to resolution of symptoms within 3-4 days, and the lipophilic form (hematin), or heme arginate, is given in doses of 3 mg/kg per 24 hours as a single dose for 4 days [9]. For more severe enzyme deficiencies that cause recurrent life-threatening attacks and predispose patients to progressive motor neuropathies, liver transplantation may be indicated, but proper follow-up and rigorous anticoagulant therapy is mandatory, since a very high risk for hepatic artery thrombosis has been noted [9].
Before the introduction of modern critical care and directed therapy, mortality rates exceeded 35%, but with early identification and increased awareness of the disorder, patients achieve a good prognosis through long-term monitoring and avoidance of factors that are known to induce acute attacks [2]. However, numerous complications may arise, especially if the diagnosis is made late, most important being irreversible nerve degeneration (characteristic for AIP), renal insufficiency, chronic hypertension and hepatocellular carcinoma, which seems to be age-related and more commonly encountered among patients suffering from ongoing liver disease [2] [6].
Acute hepatic porphyrias are all caused by genetic deficiencies of enzymes involved in one of the steps of heme synthesis, many of which occur in the liver. Although only 15% of total heme is synthesized in the liver, genetic mutations reduce enzymatic activity by 50% in AIP, HCP and VP, whereas 95% reduction is seen in ADP [5]. Apart from an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance seen in ADP, all hepatic porphyrias are caused by autosomal dominant mutations, leading to accumulation of neurotoxic substances in the liver, presumably γ-aminobutyric acid analogs and/or porphobilinogen (PBG) [5].
Prevalence rates of acute hepatic porphyrias significantly vary across different types and geographical regions. Overall prevalence rate of AIP in Europe is estimated at 1 in 75,000 individuals, ranging from 1 in 1,000 in northern Sweden to 2 in 100,000 in Finland, while Argentina reports rates of 1 in 125,000 individuals [1]. On the other hand, valegriate porphyria (VP) is most commonly encountered in South Africa, where 1 in 300 individuals suffer from this type of porphyria due to founder effect [6]. Other countries report much lower rates (2 per 100,000 in Finland and 1 per 600,000 in Argentina) [1]. Up to 2015, only 6 cases of ADP are reported [6]. Numerous precipitating factors or events are well-established inducers of acute attacks: lipophilic drugs (rifampicin, sulfonamide antibiotics, barbiturates and hydantoins) [6], corticosteroids, androgens, alcohol, organic solvents, pesticides, but also profound emotional stress, caloric deprivation that leads to severe fasting and physical effort [1] [6]. It must be noted that some types of hepatic porphyria, such as AIP, are more prevalent among women [6].
Heme formation is a complex metabolic pathway involving eight different enzymes, all being potential targets for genetic mutations and the occurrence of porphyrias [7]. 85% of heme is formed in erythrocytes, and only 15% in the liver, but about 80% of heme synthesized in this organ is necessary for activity of cytochromal P450 enzymes and the electron transport chain in the TCA cycle, which are essential for degradation of toxic chemical and energy formation, respectively [1]. In the setting of genetic mutations that cause deficiencies of enzymes involved in heme synthesis, the pathogenesis of porphyrias stems from insufficient heme production and consequent hepatic accumulation of its precursors, in the attempt to accelerate the production of heme. As enzyme deficiencies impair the ability of the liver to produce heme, these precursors accumulate and become toxic (presumably γ-aminobutyric acid analogs, ALA, and/or porphobilinogen) and their deleterious effects develop through interaction with γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) or glutamate receptors, the sites where main neuronal transmitters exert their effects [2] [5]. For symptoms to appear, however, the accumulation of these metabolites is not sufficient, but intake of certain drugs, stress, or severe caloric deprivation causes further saturation of cytochromal enzymes and even larger accumulation of toxic metabolites, eventually breaching the threshold of tolerance by the body resulting in the onset of symptoms.
Genetic counselling may be highly recommended for families with a positive history for porphyrias. For those in whom the diagnosis is confirmed, several preventive measures may be of significant benefit [2] [8]:
Porphyrias are a group of genetic disorders that arise as a result of deficiency of enzymes involved in the formation of heme, a vital constituent of hemoglobin and cytochromal enzymes that participate in metabolism of numerous drugs in the liver and in the tricyclic acid cycle (TCA), where they are necessary cofactors in the electron transport chain [1]. Based on the onset of symptoms, porphyrias are generally divided into acute and non-acute, and a further classification according to the type of symptoms (neurovisceral and/or cutaneous) can be made as well [1] [2]. Additionally, porphyrias can be classified into hepatic and erythropoietic, depending the site of overproduction of toxic metabolites [3], and four hepatic porphyrias are recognized in literature [4] [5] [6]:
Two main features are shared by all porphyrias. Firstly, the onset of symptoms stems from accumulation of toxic substances of the heme pathway due to enzyme deficiencies; and secondly, these metabolites are not sufficient by themselves to cause symptoms [4]. Acute attacks are precipitated by various factors and events, including alcohol, pesticides, organic solvents, caloric deficiency, corticosteroids, and numerous lipophilic drugs (barbiturates, rifampicin, sulfonamide antimicrobials etc.) [1] [6]. For this reason, the diagnosis of hepatic porphyrias can be made by detecting heme precursor metabolites in urine or feces after use of certain drugs, substances or nutritional-related effects. Treatment principles comprise discontinuation of potentially hazardous drugs, administration of hematin (a synthetic form of heme that inhibits production of toxic metabolites), dextrose, symptomatic care, and in most severe cases, liver transplantation [8].
Porphyrias are a group of inherited disorders that cause insufficient formation of heme, a precursor of hemoglobin and a vital constituent of various liver enzymes involved in metabolism of numerous drugs and toxic substances. Based on their clinical features and site of occurrence, they can be divided into acute or non-acute, hepatic or erythropoietic (originating from the liver or red blood cells, respectively) and neurovisceral or cutaneous, implying that symptoms may be related either to the nervous system and internal organs or the skin. Acute hepatic porphyrias are a group of disorders in which enzyme deficiencies cause insufficient formation of heme in the liver and subsequent accumulation of toxic metabolites of this pathway in the same organ. Delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase deficiency (ADP) porphyria, acute intermittent porphyria (AIP), hereditary coproporphyria (HCP), and variegate porphyria (VP) are representatives of this group. For symptoms to appear, enzyme deficiencies are not sufficient by themselves, but additional factors are necessary to trigger their onset. Examples are use of drugs metabolized by enzymes that use heme as its substrate, such as rifampicin, barbiturates, and sulfonamide antibiotics, whereas corticosteroids and androgens, profound fasting due to starvation, emotional stress, exposure to organic solvents, pesticides, and alcohol are other notable examples. The hallmark of hepatic porphyrias are "acute attacks" of nonspecific and intense abdominal pain accompanied by nausea, vomiting, cramping, constipation and deceased bowel sounds, hence the term acute hepatic porphyria. Additional signs include head, neck and chest pain, hypertension, seizures, mental changes (restlessness, anxiety, confusion, insomnia, disorientation), and neuropathies that can induce severe muscle weakness. The diagnosis can be made by detecting toxic metabolites in urine or feces and genetic testing may be performed as a confirmation. Treatment initially focuses on alleviation of symptoms through stabilizing blood pressure and seizures, as well as gastrointestinal complaints. The mainstay of therapy, however, is administration of synthetic heme (known as hematin or heme arginate), which increases the pool of heme in the liver, thus reducing the production of toxic metabolites. Because acute attacks may be recurrent and severe, and even life-threatening, liver transplantation may be considered. For the same reason, a late diagnosis is detrimental, as current therapeutic modalities and preventive strategies (avoiding use of drugs or other factors that can precipitate the onset of symptoms) can successfully treat the condition and prevent long-term sequelae.


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Switching Stanford News to MailChimp
We just completed a transition of our Stanford News daily email newsletter, Stanford Report, from using an internal email system to MailChimp. We decided to make the switch primarily based on MailChimp's intuitive UI, robust features and excellent customer support. Here's a brief overview of the process:
- The first step was testing our current HTML email newsletter in MailChimp
- We explored the idea of a full redesign. In the sake of time, we thought a redesign and migration would be too large of an effort to complete before winter break. So we decided to just focus on transitioning to MailChimp now and then pursuing a redesign next year
- I looked at few different approaches for migrating our existing design, including importing and modifying existing MailChimp themes
- I decided the best approach was to build a new template from scratch, referring to MailChimp's Knowledge-Base as I went
- After the email development was completed I had it reviewed by our graphic designer and director of web development (my boss)
- Next I sent out test emails using existing news story copy and art
- Towards the end of development, I contacted support about a merge tag question. To my surprise, I received a response from the CEO, Ben Chestnut. I was blown away by this. Most companies outsource their support leading to frustrating customer experiences. To have my question answered by the CEO was really impressive and confirmed to me that we had made the right choice
- I setup training sessions with our three editors, who will be the ones actually using MailChimp each day to send out the newsletter
- The next week our editors would send out the exact same newsletter using the old internal system and MailChimp (MailChimp just used a small list of our team)
- We had some lessons learned during that week and had no issues with the Thursday and Friday newsletters
- On Friday, December 14, we queued up our final newsletter using the old system – it was delivered on Monday morning at 4am
- On Monday, December 17, we completed the transition to MailChimp and queued up our first issue to be delivered Tuesday at 4am
- A few of us got up early to ensure there were no problems – everything went perfectly
The switch was a success:
- Creating the emails, editing copy, scheduling, etc. is much easier and faster
- For example, adding images to the email is much more streamlined process, just click upload and it's there. Our old system required manually uploading each image to our server via FTP and then manually linking to it
- After the emails are sent, MailChimp automatically archives them. We used to have to do this each day manually, saving the email as an HTML file and uploading to our server
Here's the Stanford Report main page and our first email newsletter delivered by MailChimp:


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Attacks on Ahmadias
No move to arrest attackers, instigatorsStaff Correspondent
Although fundamentalists openly attacked a mosque of the Ahmadia sect in Nakhalpara Friday noon and caused communal disturbance, the government has done nothing to arrest the culprits till yesterday.
All it did was to deploy police in the disturbed Nakhalpara area where over 60 people including 17 cops were injured in the Fridays attacks.
Tejgaon Police Station sources said they did not receive any directives to arrest anyone. No case or investigation has been initiated to book the attackers or the instigators who want the Ahmadias declared non-Muslims.
However, police recorded a case against unidentified persons for attacking cops on the spot.
Meanwhile, militant groups like Hifazate Khatme Nabuwat Andolan, Bangladesh brought out a demonstration in the city led by one Abdul Hannan and demanded that the Ahmadia be declared non-Muslims. The law-enforcers did not intercept the demonstration that made insinuating remarks against the Ahmadias.
The Ahmadias in Nakhalpara meanwhile remain confined to their area, specifically to their mosque in fear of further attacks. Some 60 policemen were seen guarding the place.
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is learnt to have directed the law-enforcers to ensure that no communal attacks on religious sects occur.
We are neither involved in politics nor craving for any worldly gains. Then why are we being targeted? Abdul Awwal, a spokesman of Ahmadia Muslim Jamaat, said.
Our people across the country are now under attacks, Moulana Moazzem Hossain of the Ahmadia mosque at East Nakhalpara said.
Under the banners of Khatme Nabuwat Co-ordination Commmittee, Jaise Mustafa, Imam Sanghati Parishad, Aamra Dhakabashi, Nabi Darodi and Darade Rasul, they are now united to unleash attacks to evict us from the land, he said.
The worst attack was made in Khulna on October 8, 1999 during Juma prayers when a time bomb planted in a mosque exploded killing seven Ahmadias and injuring 27.
Shah Alam, a follower of the Ahmadia sect, was killed at Roghunathpur in Jhikargachha, Jessore on October 31 and his wife filed a case accusing 16 the same day. But the killers filed a false case on November 16 accusing four Ahmadias, said another top Ahmadia leader.
Some people attacked Bakshibazar Ahmadia mosque and vandalised it on October 29, 1992.
Besides, extremists confined some 13 Ahmadia families of Bhabanipur in Kushtia since the beginning of Ramadan and thratened to kill them on the Eid day.
Bigots in Ambarnagar of Laxmipur tortured many Ahmadias and vowed to drive them away before the Eid.
The Ahmadias of Fazilpur of Feni are also under threat and found no help of the law-enforcers despite requests.
Moazzem Hossain said the main difference between them and the other Muslims is that the Ahmadias believe Imam Mahdi, who according to the Muslim faith will appear to show the way to light, has already been born and died.


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The end-of-season win-bonus package paid to Manchester City's triumphant squad for securing the club's first Premier League title in May was a huge £6.2m shared between 24 players, The Independent can reveal.
The club's bonus scheme, agreed at the start of the season with the entire first-team squad, decreed that the players would receive £5.2m for winning the Premier League and an extra £1m for it being an unprecedented achievement for City in the modern era.
However, City's players earned nothing for their Champions League performances. They stood to net a massive £7.25m if they won the competition – a long shot, given that it was their first appearance in the new format – but went out in the group stages despite having accrued 10 points. Any bonus for the City players was contingent on them progressing to the knockout stages of the competition.
The bonus schedule gives a fascinating insight into the incentives for City's squad, upon which owner Sheikh Mansour has spent £452m in transfer fees alone over four years, to follow up their FA Cup triumph in 2011 with more silverware. All leading clubs pay their players bonuses which, under Football Association rules, have to be agreed upon at the start of the season.
City's players would have collected £4.7m even if they had finished second to Manchester United on the last day of the season and there was £4.2m at stake for third place. Sergio Aguero's injury-time goal against Queen's Park Rangers on that frenetic last day of the season was effectively worth £1.5m to the squad bonus pool, quite apart from the history it made for the club.
Had Roberto Mancini's squad finished fourth they would have earned £3.7m although there was a caveat to that bonus that it would only be paid in the event of fourth place also qualifying the club for this coming season's Champions League competition. In the event, the team that finished fourth, Tottenham Hotspur, were denied that place by Chelsea's triumph in the competition.
The payments were made pro-rata with a basic calculation over the league season dictating that one league appearance was worth £11,472. Joe Hart was the only City player who played in all 38 league games, earning him £446,212.
Nevertheless, even the bonus payments are eclipsed by the huge wages paid to the City players. On £220,000 a week, Yaya Touré would effectively have earned the same amount net in one month as Hart earned gross in his bonus payments for the entire season.
Many elite clubs who pay such vast basic wages to players are now incentivising them with lump sum payments according to what they win at the end of the season, rather than the traditional win bonus paid according to individual results, that were the norm in the past. However, some players will have additional bonus schemes built into their contracts
Under City's bonus schedule, Owen Hargreaves, Nedum Onuoha and Abdul Razak will all have earned the minimum £11,472 payments for their single league appearances. David Pizarro earned £58,710 for his five, consolation for missing out on a winners' medal, which requires 10 appearances.
The squad would have shared £1m for making the quarter-finals of the Champions League, £2m for reaching the semis and £3m for finishing runners-up. By contrast, winning the Europa League, from which they eliminated in the last 16, would have been worth the relatively modest total of £828,000 to the players' bonus pool.
The hierarchy of the financial value of the other domestic competitions is also telling. The squad were on £500,000 to win the FA Cup and £250,000 to win the Carling Cup.
Source: Independent


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Foggy Fall Morning
Last Tuesday we woke to a frosty, foggy fall sunrise. And of course I had to rush out and grab some photos. Something as gorgeous as that just had to be documented!
I have rarely seen such a thick fog. I thought it was funny how the tops of the trees were covered in the fog, but it faded towards the trunks.
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Winter 2011 Earring Collection
"Ice and Frost"
Warm sweaters, sipping hot chocolate or hot cider, snuggling down into blankets next to a crackling fire. The Frost and Ice collection is a beautiful neutral collection of etched glass beads reminiscent of frost and ice paired with hand-formed Argentium (.925) silver. Perfect for a glittering winter event and neutral enough to wear year round.
I created a 12-piece collection of earrings for a winter show. I will be posting these earrings to my Artfire store. This collection will be available through December 15. Each piece will be made upon order, so allow at least 2-3 days for creation before being sent.


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Mushrooms Stuffed with Sun-Dried Tomatoes
Adapted from Gourmet, March 1996
1/2 ounce dried tomatoes (about 5, not packed in oil)
2 tablespoons olive oil
18 white mushrooms, stems pulled out and chopped fine and caps reserved
1/2 cup finely chopped shallots
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/3 cup fine dry bread crumbs
1 large egg yolk, beaten lightly
1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves, washed well, spun dry, and minced
1/2 teaspoon dried basil, crumbled
2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan
Preheat oven to 400°F.
In a small bowl soak tomatoes in hot water to cover 5 minutes. Reserving 1 tablespoon soaking liquid, drain tomatoes well and chop fine.*
Lay mushroom caps, stems removed, face down on baking sheet either lightly sprayed with cooking spray or parchment paper. Bake them approximately 10 minutes, or until their liquid puddles underneath. Remove from the oven. Carefully pour off liquid that has gathered in the bottom of the pan, and then again, carefully, turn mushroom caps over so they are ready to be filled.
In a small skillet heat oil over moderate heat until hot but not smoking and cook chopped mushrooms stems, shallots and garlic, stirring until shallots are softened. In a bowl stir together mushrooms mixture, bread crumbs, tomatoes, reserved soaking liquid, yolk, parsley, basil, and salt and pepper to taste. Mound stuffing in reserved mushroom caps and arrange caps in a lightly greased shallow baking dish, or the same parchment-lined pan you've roasted your mushrooms in. Sprinkle mushrooms with Parmesan and bake in middle of oven 15 minutes.
Makes 18 hors d'oeuvres.
* Can skip this step if using oil-packed tomatoes, as I did.


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Add this to the Steve Jobs will get it in the next release file…
You may remember back in the middle of November we told you about a new company called Fuze and their Fuze meeting solution that allowed for video conferencing via the The Samsung Galaxy tab or any other Android device running 2.x or better and with a front facing camera. We saw the Fuze product at the recent Pepcom show in New York City.
They announced early Thursday that they have now moved their Fuze Presence technology into a beta test. Fuze presence takes the video conferencing concept found in Fring, Qik and Yahoo Messenger and adds multi participant functionality. Users can login and video conference from any camera enabled device. Android phones, Android tablets, laptops, desktops and iPhones can fully participate in the video conferencing, iPads can log in to the service and watch the conference (they don't have cameras yet)
Fuze Box's technology will allow business users and families the option to video conference virtually anywhere in the world. For more please see our previous story here.
Source: Fuze Box


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I listened to the BBC World Service's Click podcast this morning during my commute and learned that Posti (Finland's postal services provider) is testing drone delivery.Posti has a video of the "robottikopteri" in action on its YouTube channel.
Coincidentally, on my walk home last night, I heard the sound of a quadcopter flying around somewhere my neighborhood. A telling sign of the times? Will we all soon need to get used to the overhead drone of UAVs?
For a deeper discussion on the many possibilities, pros and cons, that may result from drone/UAV tech, check out these episodes of Click:


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MPs in the influential Treasury committee are calling for the FCA to separate out its enforcement division following a damning report in the collapse of HBOS.
In a report published yesterday, the committee said an "independent enforcement function" should sit between the FCA and PRA.
It says the current system – where one body supervises, applies and prosecutes the law – is "outdated and can be construed as unfair".
It adds: "Separation would allow all three regulators – the FCA, PRA and an enforcement body – to enjoy much greater clarity over their objectives.
"There is a danger, especially with the FCA, that its multitude of objectives and initiatives are leading to regulatory overload. An FCA with fewer objectives, and a single separate body responsible for enforcement, would probably result in better accountability and better outcomes.
It adds: "The Treasury Committee expects the Treasury to appoint an independent reviewer to re-examine the case for a separate enforcement body."
The recommendation is part of the committee's review of several reports in to the failure of HBOS.
Only one former HBOS director, Peter Cummings, was fined in the aftermath of HBOS' failure.
The FCA was criticised in December 2015 after admitting it would be unable to fine any former HBOS executives because the bank's failure fell outside the six-year statute of limitation on fines.


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You can clone or download the template for my github repository: Lambda Serverless CI/CD
Serverless application using AWS lambda let you run code without provisioning or managing servers [1].
Not having to provision or manage servers doesn't imply that you can fire your DevOps team. It merely means that some aspects of running your application lifecycle got a little bit easier, but you still need to think about how to manage and operate serverless applications.
Two years ago we didn't have the ecosystem of tools that we have nowadays. I specifically talk about the Serverless Framework.
With the Serverless Framework, you can quickly setup and deploy a serverless application, but that is as far as serverless go, you still need to think about building, packaging, and continuously integrate and deploying the application.
CI/CD pipeline
I have created a sample CloudFormation template that generates a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild. It deploys a lambda functions to a staging environment. After an approval step the function is deployed to a pducttion environment. These are the steps in more detail:
- Deploy the application to a staging environment
- Install and package dependencies
- Deploy using the serverless framework
- Approval process
- User must manually approve the deployment to production (ideally after staging has been tested)
- Deploy the application to a production environment
- Install and package dependencies
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Each deployment process runs on CodeBuild, and you can select the docker image that it uses for the build process. By default it runs a custom image that I have created which is a wrapper of the Amazon Linux
2017.09 image, it has pre-installed nodejs 8.8, python3.6, numpy and pandas. While this is an image aims at data science applications, it can be used to create any python3.6 applications.
To get started with the template all you have to do is:
- Copy the buildspec.yml and deploy.sh files to the root of your repository
- Create the cloud formation stack and plug in the given parameters for your repository using the serverless-codepipeline-cicd_cfm.yml CloudFormation template
- Your repo must contain a valid serverless.yml in the root of the project
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His stay at the home of poet Maya Angelou, he was sure, would include what it always did: hours of storytelling and laughter, excellent barbecue and a houseful of happy friends.
On Wednesday morning he received the hard news that would soon reverberate around the world: Ms. Angelou, the internationally renowned author and humanitarian, was dead at 86.
"The word that comes to mind is 'devastated,'" said Watkins, a retired John Hopkins University heart surgeon...


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the independent farmstead — food from grass
Posted in the daily grind on March 16, 2016| 1 Comment »
lost calf
Posted in all-grass dairy cows, the daily grind on March 16, 2016| 2 Comments »
A newborn calf is hard-wired for just a few things, but he does them very well: he can stand, walk, search for his dinner and get it put away, keep close to Mama and take long naps, all within the first few hours of birth. He's almost always generously gifted at all those activities, and with every twelve hours he gets better at them. So when the college kids who came up from Florida to spend a few days at the monastery reported that they'd gone down to the pasture to look at the day-old bull calf and he wasn't there, we just smiled. He was there, we were certain; calves are always near their mothers. After a good meal they'll couch down somewhere within a short distance — a few dozen yards at most — from Mama and take a good snooze. A lump of brown calf and a lump of dirt, or pile of leaves, look almost identical, and a newborn can hide behind a pebble or a blade of grass, so there's little use looking for them until they get hungry, but they're there. But as the afternoon wore on, no calf appeared; and the cows in the small paddock were restless, calling with the regularity of a bell tolling, sometimes for ten or fifteen minutes on end, for that little calf, and he didn't appear. 'Those kids got the cows stirred up', said Shawn, so we dismissed the event and went and milked the cows.
But afterward, as Delphinium, who is the calf's mother, and her paddock companions, who only think they are, continued to call, I went out and looked around myself. The paddock they were occupying is at the edge of the woods, and the woods are at the edge of a steep gully (a 'holler', in the Appalachians), and all the grass for miles around is dead and short, with nothing more substantial than the skeleton of a stem of Queen Anne's lace behind which a calf could hide. In the woods there are many fallen trees, often piled on one another, black in that mizzle rain and rotting, bound together with greenbriar and grapevine, creating lots of places where a calf could hide — or get stuck. Shawn took the milk home and I made a circuit of the paddock, then of the perimeter within twenty yards, then further. In the next hour and a half I quartered the edge of the woods three or four times, followed the holler back several hundred yards, then went up toward the road. I discovered an old spring tank full of algae and frogs (it was the frogs told me it was there), and came back across the front pasture, tearing through briars, searching, calling occasionally, praying often, sometimes hearing moos not shrill enough for a baby calf, and getting thoroughly soaked in the drizzle. In the end I went home to eat cold spaghetti.
'Calves don't wander off,' the guys reminded me. 'He's there.'
Calves don't wander off. He was there; and in the morning he greeted the milkers by racing around them in an erratic orbit as they drove them milk cows up to the barn.
Posted in the daily grind on March 14, 2016| 2 Comments »
While the laying hens are in tractors in the garden, we cleaned out the litter in the hen house and whitewashed. One gallon of sour milk, four cups of salt, and twelve of mason's lime, made a good thick wash that went on pretty smoothly — for whitewash, which isn't like paint — and dried a nice clean, bright white. We can't help thinking a coat of whitewash is equal to an hour of artificial lighting, as a daylight extender. And better than either are our plastic-covered tractors, which keep the earth thawed under the hens' feet and give them somewhere they can scratch. Leaves bagged last fall and stored dry make good litter; with hen guano, they should also prove a high-nitrogen fertilizer, or so we hope.


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- Maximum Capacity: 300 pounds
- Preset Programs: 17
- Motor Horsepower: 2.5 HP
- Maximum Speed: 11 MPH
- Running Surface: 20 x 56 inches
- Heart Rate Monitor: Yes
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With the LifeSpan TR 1200i, users can enjoy an excellent selection of training programs to provide you with intense fitness challenges. The 17 training programs are especially focused on general health enhancement, weight loss and stamina training. Athletes can also benefit from two customizable programs and two MyZone heart rate control programs. Therefore, you can personalize your session and train according to your own pace stamina and metabolism. Best of all, the machine even features a MyZone Interval Program, whereby the machine alternates between high and low intensities. According to fitness experts, this type of workout is recommended for anyone who wants to lose a lot of weight in just a few months. This particular program even enables users to manually enter their own maximum and minimum heart rate.
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The TR 1200i is enhanced by a 2.5 CHP motor which is versatile enough to suit walkers, joggers or runners. As far as speed is concerned, this machine can easily go up to 11 MPH, which is quite a refreshing change from the regular 10 MPH that are found in most other treadmills. To boost your motivation, the unit also comes with a headphone jack, speakers and even a handy iPod port.
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The two-ply belt is cushioned and comfortable enough to provide adequate support while protecting your knees and ankles from impact. In fact, the cushioned deck is even supported by shock absorbers. Measuring 20 x 56 inches, the belt is wide and long enough to sustain vigorous jogging and walking. However, it may not be entirely suited for high-intensity running. For your comfort, additional buttons are located on the handlebars. In fact, the handles are thick, sturdy and textured enough to provide you with a firm grip if you like to hold on to them during more vigorous training sessions.
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With several awards to its name, this treadmill is certainly worth every cent. Guaranteed to provide you with an efficient and fluid stride, the unit can help you lose up to 10 pounds in just a few weeks. The LifeSpan TR 1200i Folding Treadmill is protected by a warranty of one year on labor, three years on parts and lifetime on motor and frame.


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Baecation -2baba, D'banj in new single
2baba, D'banj in new single-'Baecation'
African legends, Oladapo Oyebanjo, a.k.a D'banj and Innocent Idibia, a.k.a 2face have finally released the visuals for their new single titled BAECATION.
Before the release of the song, there had been several pictures of D'banj and 2Baba hanging out with their wives tagged #Baecation in anticipation of the collaboration.
Also, the new single, a love tune, is reportedly dedicated to their wives
The video was directed by renowned video director Sesan perfectly compliments the audio and guaranteed to be on the lips of fans and music lover.
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Pastor accused of breaking member's marriage
Mr Tertsea Daagu, a member of the NKST Church, has accused a Pastor of the Church, Terlanga Unongu, of "causing confusion" in his relationship with his wife, Wandoo Daagu.
Daagu stated this during his defense in a divorce case brought against him by his wife, before a Makurdi Upper Area Court.
"I have never beaten my wife or accused her of adultery; it is my wife that admitted before our NKST Church Committee that she has committed adultery with one Rev Terlanga Unongu, a Pastor of the Church.
"I have not accused my wife of having an affair, but she has confessed to having an affair with Rev Terlanga Unongu.
"In 2007, she confessed to having an intimate affair with the Pastor when the Church committee took up the matter. I have the evidence with me written in Tiv language.
"Though the committee could not give an appropriate resolution, we appealed to the General Synod where a resolution was passed."
He denied ever beating the woman, and claimed that she left his house with the approval of her father.
Daagu said that he was not opposed to divorce, adding that he was also not opposed to his wife having full access to their three kids.
It was gathered that Mrs. Wandoo Daagu had petitioned the court to dissolve the marriage, citing alleged brutality and "unnecessary" accusations of infidelity.
Wandoo, who said that she married her husband according to the Tiv Native Laws and Customs at Amua, Gaav in Konshisha Local Government Area in 2000, told the court that there was no longer love between them.
"We have three children; after nursing our last daughter, my husband started accusing me of being unfaithful.
"He kept attacking me and would be beat me up at the slightest provocation. I reported this cruelty to his parents, but instead of intervening, they took sides with him," she said.
Wandoo said that she left Daagu's house in 2008, when the cruelty became unbearable.
"Since I left his house, my husband has never visited me or my parents to discuss our issue. He has no respect for my parents," she said.
She urged the court to dissolve the marriage and grant her full access to their three children.
The Judge, Ms Adole Akintomide, has adjourned the case to Dec. 14, for judgment.
South Korea to donate $8m in aid for hungry North
South Korea approved $8 million in humanitarian aid for the impoverished North on Wednesday, authorities said, with negotiations over Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal deadlocked and inter-Korean relations at a standstill.
It will be the first such aid Seoul has provided Pyongyang since 2015 and follows the North's lowest recorded harvest for a decade, according to the United Nations.
The donation — to be made through the UN — comes as President Moon Jae-in seeks to salvage diplomacy between Pyongyang and Washington following the breakdown of the Hanoi summit when Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump failed to reach a deal on the North's nuclear programme and sanctions relief.
Pyongyang has since largely cut off contact with both Seoul and Washington, with the South's unification minister saying this week he had last spoken to a North Korean official at the beginning of May.
Seoul's Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean relations, said the government had approved a plan to provide the funds amid concerns over the "worsening food situation".
It will be given $4.5 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) to help address malnutrition, along with $3.5 million to UNICEF for health issues among children and pregnant women.
More than 10 million North Koreans — 40 percent of the population — were suffering from severe food shortages, according to recent UN estimates. The figure is similar to recent years.
"WFP and other international bodies have requested assistance to the North on the back of concerns for deteriorating conditions among the vulnerable there," the ministry said in a statement.
It is the first humanitarian aid implemented by Moon's government, but a North Korean propaganda outlet has already dismissed it as "non-essential" for inter-Korean relations.
If the South "sincerely wishes for sustained development, peace and prosperity", it should implement the inter-Korean economic joint projects agreed last year instead of "raising the issue of humanitarian aid", the state-run Uriminzokkiri website said in a commentary last month.
Several sets of sanctions, imposed on the North over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, currently block many proposed developments.
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Tragedy as gunmen behead businessman in Rivers
Gunmen on Wednesday night killed and beheaded a middle-aged businessman simply identified as Chima.
It was gathered that the victim was shot and killed before he was beheaded by his assailants in the presence of his wife at Rumuekini community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated that the incident happened around 11:00 p.m., adding that the killers put off the victim's power generating set as a ploy to lure him out of his house.
It was gathered that the victim came out to check why his generator suddenly went off but was accosted by the gunmen, who shot, killed and beheaded him.
The source said, "The incident is shocking. Last night, Chima sat outside with his brothers and friends at a joint on the school road.
"Later around 11:00 p.m., we heard that he was attacked in his house. We heard that the killers turned off his generator and when he went outside to find out what happened to the generator, he was attacked.
"Immediately he came out, the boys shot him. He managed to run back into his house with the bullet, but the boys followed him, killed him and cut off his head."
Another source explained that the hoodlums had ordered the wife of the deceased to bring a kitchen knife after they had killed her husband.
It was learnt that the gunmen used the kitchen knife to behead their victim and also ordered his wife to carry the head of her husband in a bucket into a waiting car before they zoomed off.
The killing and beheading of late Chima on Wednesday occurred despite the state governor's stern warning to sanction Local Government chairmen and traditional rulers who condone criminality in their domain.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer in Rivers State Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed the incident.
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If you like bargains, yard sales and flea markets, then this is the trip for you! Today we head to the Buffalo area for the largest Garage Sale, Flea Market & Antiques Sale in Western New York State! Hundreds of vendors, tons of food trucks and tens of thousands of bargain deals to be had. And for those who prefer traditional mall shopping, we will also be stopping for about 2 hours at the Walden Galleria Mall.
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