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A highly accessible introduction to LISP, this is for inexperienced programmers and programmers new to LISP. A LISP "toolkit" in each chapter explains how to use Common LISP programming and debugging tools such as DESCRIBE, INSPECT, TRACE and STEP.
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Martin Donovan is an American actor, writer, and director best known for appearing in Weeds, The Portrait of a Lady and The Haunting in Conneticut.
Career and life
Martin Donovan was born in Reseda, California on August 19th, 1957. Donovan was one of three other siblings, all whom were raised to be Catholic. After Martin graduated fom Crespi Carmelite High School, he attented Pierce College for two years. He soon attented American Theathre Arts, where he appeared in the plays Richard's Cork Leg and Private Life of the Master Race. In 1993 he and his wife moved to New York City, odd jobs like installing drapery to support his family. He later then oined the Cucaracha Theater on Greenwich Street.
Martin Donovan has appeared in fourteen episodes of the Showtime television series, Weeds. He has also acted with Parker in Saved! Pipe Dream, and The Portrait of a Lady. In 2010, Donovan wrote, directed and starred in Collaborator, portraying a once-successful playwright who is taken hostage while visiting his mother and childhood home. Other recent film appearances include The United States of Leland, The Opposite of Sex, Living Out Loud, In a Savage Land, Onegin, Heaven, Hollow Reed, and Nadja. He was most recently Douglas Cartland in Silent Hill: Revelation.
He has won SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by An Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Weeds. He has also won the National Socitey of Film Critic's Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Portrait of A Lady.
Donovan married actress Vivian Lanko in 1984. They have two sons and currently live in Vancouver Canada.
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While Dave Henigan's Grapevine football team is still searching for its first win of 2013, he keeps pointing to the most important elements where encouragement can be found.In four of Grapevine's first five games, the Mustangs have pretty much been in them through the first half. They've kept it within one or two scores. The problem comes in the second half, where the mistakes begin and games get away from the Mustangs (0-5, 0-2 in District 6-5A).Look no further than last Friday's 41-7 loss to Colleyville Heritage. Grapevine trailed 20-7, at halftime and had the ball to start the second half. But quarterback Sam Barry lost his helmet on the second play and had to come out of the ballgame. Replacement Adam Sandy came in, threw an interception and the Panthers capitalized to extend the lead. From there, Colleyville Heritage scored twice more in the period to win comfortably."It's turnovers," Henigan said. "When we turn it over in our end of the field, it just puts us in a difficult spot. When you give people a short field, your defense is going to break."When the Mustangs play at Irving (3-2, 1-1) on Friday at Irving Schools Stadium, they will enter the game with 15 turnovers (11 interceptions, four lost fumbles) in their first five games. Henigan knows that the lack of depth forces his team to play perfect."They don't like it. No one likes it," Henigan said. "But their attitude has been great. And really, the Tuesday and Wednesday practices before the Colleyville Heritage game were the best ones we've had all season."Irving, though, makes teams prepare for a little bit of everything. When Henigan and his staff broke down the Tigers, they counted 27 different formations. A tale of two seasonsLook at the first half of Grapevine's season and followers will tell you the Mustangs wound up playing one of the toughest schedules in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.Between Keller Fossil Ridge (4-1), Justin Northwest (4-1), Sachse (6-0), Hurst L.D. Bell (4-1) and Colleyville Heritage (3-2), those teams are a combined 21-5. The second half of the season is comprised of Irving (3-2), Euless Trinity (3-2), Irving MacArthur (2-3), Carrollton R.L. Turner (0-5) and Irving Nimitz (2-3). Those teams are a combined 10-15. Of course, Trinity is still Trinity, and it hasn't lost a district game in about 10 years."We're at halftime of our season," Henigan said. "As far as district goes, we are midway through second quarter. There are two choices. We either quit or we keep fighting. As coaches, there is only one option and that's to fight. Our kids will do that."• Irving MacArthur (2-3, 1-1) at Colleyville Heritage (3-2, 1-1)7:30 p.m. Friday Mustang-Panther Stadium, Grapevine The skinny: The Panthers got good news last week when senior quarterback Griffin Pickler was cleared to play against Grapevine after suffering an apparent head injury. While the offense still had its struggles, the Panthers pulled away. The defense must be ready for an explosive MacArthur team. Quarterback Logan Austin has already thrown for 1,026 yards and six scores. Colleyville Heritage has won the first three district meetings going back to 2010.
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In addition to Mediacom, AT&T may soon be in the area, and the competition could boost to customer service.
A twenty year contract between the county and Mediacom will end next year. Not a moment too soon for County Commissioner Jack Stone.
"We don't want to be locked in, not just Mediacom, we don't want to get locked in to anybody, we want to do anything we can to give the best service to the people of Dougherty County," said Stone.
And he says service is what has been lacking from the cable company. "Anytime you don't have competition, you get poor service. You got competition, you're going to get better service. That's a fact. It's just a fact."
Pam Roberts doesn't necessarily agree. She says her cable service has been fine, other than the bill. "The only problem I have is the bill going up more and more," said Roberts.
And perhaps long lines when she pays that bill. "So long I got out of line. I'll just come back later."
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It is generally accepted that Research in Motion (NASDAQ: BBRY) will not return to its former glory. The company is hoping to remain in the third top spot in market share, despite having no next-generation product on the market. Just before RIM reported its quarterly earnings in late-September, "professional" analysts wrote-off RIM. They under-estimated the company's ability to maintain its subscriber base, and cut its losses in half.
RIM shares are up 114% from its 52-week low. In this analysis, it will be argued that despite the massive rally in shares of RIM, investors should avoid it prior to its quarterly earnings report. RIM reports earnings on December 20, after the market closes.
Shares in RIM are up on excitement for Blackberry 10, and a subscriber base that held steady last quarter. RIM cut its quarterly loss in half, after shedding jobs and cutting operational costs:
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In the current quarter, investors should not expect subscriptions to grow. With Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Nexus 4's devices selling for just $299 (no-contract), the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5, selling at a rate at or above production rates, and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) on a renewed quest to increase Windows Phone 8 market share, RIM could disappoint.
RIM's valuation is less relevant than its weakening position against Apple and Google Android. In the last quarter, RIM's market share shrunk again:
Valuations are appropriate for RIM's current competitive position. The company has a book value of $17.88 per share, and trades at a price to book ratio of 0.7 times. What matters in the short-term that RIM reduced its costs. This protects the company's cash balance, and ensures the company is not over-spending on R&D for Blackberry 10.
Assume for a moment that Google and Apple are not RIM's main competition, because they are too far ahead. RIM's closest competitor is Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft. The market currently believes that Nokia will do well with its latest Microsoft smartphone device. Nokia is outperforming RIM on a 6-month comparison:
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Investors have every reason to be bullish on Nokia. Nokia's LTE unit doubled its revenue, and grew market share in LTE. Its maps unit is being recognized for its value, thanks to Apple's poorly released Map application. Finally, Nokia's Windows Phone 8 is beating management expectation in Europe (notably Germany).
RIM has yet to release Blackberry 10. They will miss strength from Christmas sales, and will only most-certainly capture loyal fans when finally released in early-2013.
RIM's story has not changed. Investors buying RIM now must recognize they are buying a company whose completive positioning in the marketplace is still weakening. Blackberry 10 ("BB10") will, without any doubt, launch successfully. Investors must consider how much premium to assign for this success. Developers are supporting the new operating system more strongly than they did for Playbook's OS 2.0. Loyal customers will pick a BB10. Enterprises will buy the Fusion server software, and upgrade their Enterprise Server software. Still, other companies are embracing BYOD, and iPhones and Androids will continue to be a competitive force RIM must face even after BB10 is released.
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Longboat Key Commissioner Jack Duncan and the rest of the Longboat Key Town Commission's efforts to spruce up the entrance of the dilapidated Colony Beach & Tennis Resort entrance is paying off.
Duncan has been working with Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association officials for weeks to remove a long, tilting palm tree in front of the former Colony sign.
The palm tree was recently removed and plants will be planted in its place.
"The palm is now gone and I'm hoping some inexpensive, well placed plants and flowers will make it acceptable," said Duncan Monday in an email to Longboat Key resident Ed Krepela. "We have been promised the entrance will be cleaned up."
Krepela was glad to hear it.
"The tilting palm and the shoddy appearance of the Colony entrance have been a topic of discussion between my wife and I for quite some time," Krepela wrote in an email to Duncan. "For not a lot of money the entire entrance of the Colony could be cleaned up."
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Do we really need a high profile Christian engaged to a woman while still being married to his current wife, even if they have been separated for two years? Particularly as the debate over gay marriage continues to rage. If Christians cannot keep their own marriages together it hurts their witness when advocating for not letting homosexuals get married. Dinesh D'Souza is one such example and claims he is not having an affair. From the Christian Post:
Dinesh D'Souza, the former president of a New York Christian college who recently came under fire after it was revealed that he was engaged to a woman while still married to his wife of 20 years, released an article to his website on Wednesday declaring he did not have an affair.
In the article, D'Souza claims World Magazine didn't present all of the facts when it reported that he and his fiancée, Denise Odie Joseph II, stayed in a hotel room together while in town for an apologetics conference in Spartanburg, S.C., in late September. D'Souza and his wife, Dixie, have been separated for two years but are still legally married.
"I met Denise three months ago. We are not and have not been having an affair. Nor did we share a hotel room in Charlotte," wrote D'Souza. The original report by the magazine quoted Alex McFarland, one of the conference's organizers, who said D'Souza admitted to him that he and Joseph stayed in the same room together, though D'Souza claimed "nothing happened" between them.
Tony Beam, who was also mentioned in the magazine's article and was another one of the conference's organizers, escorted D'Souza and Joseph between the airport, the conference and the hotel.
Beam told The Christian Post on Thursday that Joseph's arrival with D'Souza was somewhat unexpected to the event's organizers – they did not make plans for an extra hotel room for her. But D'Souza's assistant told Beam's assistant they would take care of it. Beam had forgotten that D'Souza was married at first, so upon their arrival he didn't question D'Souza when he introduced Joseph as his fiancée.
He later drove the couple from the conference to the hotel, and was present to make sure the check-in process went smoothly. He says they only checked into one room, though he acknowledged that Joseph could have possibly checked into another room later that evening.
"It was one room. In my presence, there was not a discussion about another room," said Beam…
This has already cost D'Souza his job and I doubt the collateral damage will be minimized to that. And what kind of woman, Christian or not, gets engaged to a man who is still married?
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Rock Band Blitz Announced - Shacknews Daily: Apr. 4, 2012
Change is coming to the Rock Band world with the announcement of Rock Band Blitz. The next game to carry the name will be a downloadable title on PSN and XBLA played with a standard controller instead of plastic instruments. The single-player game will be all about tapping along to any of the 3700+ songs available in the online Rock Band catalog. Fans have a new reason to hope for a proper Shadowrun RPG. Creator Jordan Weisman has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a 2D, turn-based tactical combat RPG for iOS/Android tablets and PC. And it's opening day for the MLB, which makes it a great day to fire up MLB 12 the Show, or start trying to win that million dollars in MLB 2K12.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Letting a U.S. agency audit Federal Reserve monetary policy decisions would undermine the U.S. central bank's independence and could hamper its ability to control borrowing costs and support the dollar as the world's reserve currency, a Fed official said on Friday.
Lawmakers are considering a measure that would let the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, review the Fed's decisions on monetary policy, in which the central bank sets targets for interest rates. The audits also would cover the Fed's discount window and open market operations.
"Enactment of the bill would tend to undermine public and investor confidence in monetary policy by raising concerns that monetary policy judgments in pursuit of our legislated objectives would become subject to political considerations," Fed General Counsel Scott Alvarez told the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee.
"These are not audits in the sense that a CPA or accountant would conduct an audit. They are really policy reviews, they are reviews that often times are involving interviews or depositions of participants, looking at records and coming to an independent policy judgment," Alvarez said, adding that the Fed's decisions could be seen as reacting to GAO findings and congressional criticism.
Alvarez also told the panel the Fed would appeal a court decision forcing the central bank to reveals the names of borrowers from the Fed's emergency programs and amounts borrowed. The U.S. Court for the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of Bloomberg News and ordered the Fed to make that information public.
In a similar case, Fox News Network is appealing a decision by the same court denying a request for the central bank to turn over information about borrowers
"Both cases are in the process of being appealed," Alvarez said today in response to questions at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Fed transparency. "I expect them both to be fully appealed."
The Fed has been under fire from Congress because of its actions to prop up financial firms during the financial crisis that sent the U.S. economy into recession and the expansion of its balance sheet to $2 trillion in obligations without lawmaker approval.
A long-time critic of the Fed system, Rep. Ron Paul, a Republican from Texas, proposed subjecting the Fed's policymaking to GAO scrutiny, and his bill has gained broad support. The House is debating Paul's proposal as part of broader measures to reform U.S. financial oversight and rules in the wake of lapses that contributed to the crisis.
Alvarez said Paul's measure, if enacted, would raise questions about the Fed's ability to act free from political pressure.
"Financial market participants likely would see this as a substantial erosion of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy independence," and undermine investor confidence in the U.S. central bank, Alvarez said.
He said the GAO audits would chill the "unfettered and wide ranging policy debates" among Fed policy makers and reduce their effectiveness.
Alvarez also said the proposal also could disrupt relationships with foreign central banks and governments, who would likely balk at entering into transactions with the Fed if they would be subject to such a review.
"These transactions, such as the deposit of international reserves and bilateral currency swap arrangements, help support the role of the U.S. dollar as a worldwide reserve currency and alleviate stresses in U.S. financial markets," he said.
Alvarez said the GAO had completed 14 audits of the Fed in areas that included consumer protection and has 14 additional audits in process.
However, the Fed's top lawyer said he had no objections to audits and controls on the use of special lending powers invoked to bail out Bear Stearns and American International Group last year and make loans to broker-dealers. This authority under section 13-3 of the Federal Reserve Act allows the Fed to take such actions if they identify unusual and exigent circumstances.
Rep. Barney Frank, the influential chairman of the Financial Services committee, said any audit authority over the Fed should be part of an overall regulatory reform package that considers the Fed's future role as a systemic risk regulator or shifts its consumer protection functions to a new agency. This also should place some new controls on the 13-3 authority, which greatly expanded the Fed's activities during the financial crisis.
Alvarez added that he believed that if Congress provided so-called resolution authority to he government to seize and wind down large, systemically important failing institutions, the special 13-3 rescue authorities may not have been necessary.
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Starr Pelerin of The Gunning Agency was named Chamber Volunteer of The Year.
The Wagon Wheel Restaurant, owned by Ray and Robbin Thatcher, was named Business of The Year.
"Without the dedication, drive, and true spirit of volunteerism of the many volunteers and especially those honored at the 2010 TACC volunteer appreciation dinner, this area, the community and the chamber would not be able to do all of the things they do," Courtright said.
"Within the area there are a wonderful group of dedicated community members," he added. "From the volunteers at the local emergency squads and fire departments who truly serve and are dedicated to all of us to the many businesses, committees, organizations, and individuals who work so diligently to provide opportunities, growth and events for the area."
The Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce represents more than 160 members. It cooperatively works with civic, social, cultural and educational organizations as well as local government to enhance living and working condition within the area.
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April Weather and Asparagus Salsa
Posted by Kim Tait on 04/26 at 10:21 AM
Mid-April felt more like July. We had full irrigation running on the crops in the fields since the beginning of the month, as we took turns waiting for the next available hose to water a greenhouse. It was dry, dry, dry!
Despite the weather, we made good progress in the fields. We got 6,000 onion transplants out, as well as half that many scallions and leeks. Adam and Woody got Savoy cabbage and head lettuce planted in the ground, as well as a couple beds of Asian greens. The garlic we planted last fall is already a foot tall, and the first asparagus spears are just starting to make their annual debut.
And once the asparagus really starts growing, it is one of those vegetables that needs to be picked daily, and it is easy to get some extra spears piling up in the refrigerator. Since necessity is the mother of invention, one gets creative in the kitchen, which is exactly what happens to us every year. This recipe is a delicious variation on fresh salsa. Enjoy!
Asparagus Salsa
1 cup cooked asparagus, chopped
1 small clove garlic, minced
1 cup tomato, chopped
1/4 tsp. salt or to taste
1/2 cup Vidalia onion, finely chopped
1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper
juice and grated rind of 1/2 small lime
1/8 tsp. ground cumin
1/3 cup Tait Farm Cherry Chipotle Sauce
freshly ground black pepper to taste
cilantro for garnish
Mix all ingredients together. Allow to sit one hour for flavors to meld. Excellent served with grilled fish, chicken, or tortilla chips.
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NRL judiciary will examine the tackle that has lead to Alex McKinnon's horror injury sustained by the twenty-two-year old during the Knights game against the Melbourne Storm. Nine News.PT3M12S http://www.watoday.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-35wav 620 349 April 1, 2014
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Newcastle Knights player Alex McKinnon, who was injured in a tackle in the match against Melbourne Storm, has been diagnosed as a quadriplegic, Channel Nine reported on Monday night.
McKinnon, 22, suffered the injury in a tackle last Monday. He was stretchered off the ground and taken to The Alfred hospital where he was placed in an induced coma while the full extent of his condition was being determined.
His parents Kate and Scott and partner Teigan Power were with him. Since then, he has undergone two operations to have a disc removed and to fuse his C4 and C5 vertebrae. The second operation involved a bone graft with a piece taken from his hip to support his neck.
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A statement released by the Knights on Sunday said McKinnon had had his assisted ventilation removed and could now communicate with his family.
Storm prop Jordan McLean was charged with a dangerous throw after the tackle and the club has indicated he intends to plead not guilty at an NRL judiciary hearing on Wednesday night.
The hearing is set to be one of the most emotive and complex in NRL history.
McLean, whose case was referred directly to the tribunal after the NRL match review committee agonised for hours last Tuesday about how to deal with the incident, was cleared to play in Saturday night's match against Canterbury in Perth.
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Williams passing has shed light on his overall health; both mental and physical.
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Film stars Julia Roberts, Matthew McConaughey and Halle Berry are among the first presenters announced for this month's Emmy Awards ceremony.
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CounterPath Corporation is a provider of desktop and mobile VoIP software products and solutions. CounterPath's product suite includes SIP-based softphones, server applications and Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) to cost-effectively integrate voice, video, presence and Instant Messaging (IM) applications into their VoIP offerings and extend functionality across both fixed and mobile networks.
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Story: Ever since he was a young boy, Natsume has been able to see impossible and incredible things. Although because of this miraculous gift his childhood is spent in several different houses all alone and bullied. Finally as a teenager Natsume is able to find a caring family to live with, but he keeps his gift to see youkai, demons, a secret. he finds the book of friends in the things of his deceased grandmother and looks inside only to find gibberish…. But when he carries it he meets Madara a powerful demon who tells him the truth of the book he carries, and ,determined, Natsume decides to return the multiple names that the book carries. This story follows Natsume and Madara in their everyday lives and adventures.
Plot: 5/5, This is an intriguing story that pulls me in every time I read it. I love how the plot is developing so far :D.
Characters: 5/5, The characters are all interesting and they have a feeling of "there is more to them than the eye can see" kind of thing. The minor characters that show up with their quirky and different personalities keep me on my toes and waiting for the next one to stumble upon him and the book of friends.
Art: 4/5, At times the art looks awkward and the clothes sometimes are a bit too baggy for my taste. Overall the art is nice to look at in my opinion helps add to the characters personalities.
This is an A manga!!! the story is great and it has plenty of suspense as well as some scary moments. If you like anything dealing with the supernatural then you will like this story :).
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"I said to Jeff, 'Really, you should give me an hour in prime time,' " he says. "In retrospect, I realize how incredibly audacious that was, but at the time, I don't think I did. But Jeff said, 'All right. Write the script, and we'll see.' "
It took a week to put the script together, but Tapper says that on the Saturday at the end his second week at CNN, he received an email from Zucker saying, "It's great. I love it. Let's do it."
Five days later, "the piece was airing in prime time," Tapper says. "And at the second commercial break, my wife turned me and said, 'God, you made the right decision.' "
So far, so good. But Tapper knows how quickly things can change in the TV news business when a new show doesn't work. And CNN has had plenty of those in recent years.
"I have a very candid and friendly relationship with Jeff, and it's been a pleasure so far," Tapper says. "Now, hit me up in a year, and we'll see if I have any complaints."
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Quick quote taken from the front page -
"Feed the Beast is a modpack for Minecraft. It adds a huge number of items, recipes and world-generation to the game, and is used in the YouTube series "Feed the Beast." The modpack centers on several famous mods such as IndustrialCraft and BuildCraft but the full list is extensive.
All of the mods in the pack have been approved by the modders to be included. The FTB launcher was first released on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, with a live-stream broadcast on the Feed The Beast website.
The launcher currently features eight different modpacks for you to enjoy, including a Beta version of the Feed the Beast modpack. The official modpack release is TBD and will most likely launch once Equivalent Exchange 3 is fully updated and stable."


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Our highly experienced band members have played with the cream of the music industry, including; Jimmy Barnes, Shannon Noll, The Cat Empire, Human Nature, Emmanuel Carella and The Australian Show band, to TV shows; Australia's Got Talent, Dancing With The Stars, Hey, Hey It's Saturday, Everybody Dance Now, The Today Show, Good Morning Australia, Rove Live, The Footy Show, to theatre shows; Jersey Boys, Moon shadows, Grease, Shout, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Rocky Horror, Spam lot and Gypsy, to international gigs in China, Singapore, Oman, Indonesia and Cyprus.
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These organizations will be here to recruit NWU students for internships or full-time employment. Some also have part-time and/or summer positions available.Bring copies of your resume and network at the career event of the year.
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Common Ground: Advancing Agriculture in Hawai'i
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Emerging science provides safer food as well as new business opportunities.
By: Jennifer sudick
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From early testing on plant pathogens, to seed selection as a method of developing the most successful plants, let's look at some of the ways technology is used in the field.
As more stringent federal regulations on agricultural safety come into effect, technologies such as RFID tagging, global positioning systems, and geographic information systems have become increasingly important in producing, tracking and understanding food. Hawai'i businesses, farmers, researchers, students and communities are at the forefront of testing and developing the technologies that will forever change how customers interact with food and agriculture.
Tracking Produce
In the produce business, quality can often hinge on a few degrees in temperature, and now the key to ensuring it may lie in a few small electronic tags.
This past fall, embedded in a shipment of avocados from Southern California, a high-tech system helped Hawai'i food distributor Armstrong Produce track temperature every hour throughout the six-day ocean journey to Honolulu.
Ensuring the freshness of produce during shipment is a big deal. If a product arrives spoiled, it can be difficult to determine where an error occurred in the supply chain, and both distributor and retailer can face major losses on food that can't be sold.
Not now. Using radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology attached to reusable plastic pallets, along with remote cloud information tracking, Armstrong Produce, one of Hawai'i's largest produce wholesalers, can track the temperature of a product from farm to store. This enables the company to identify weak links in refrigeration that can diminish shelf life by up to two weeks and create issues with food safety.
This is especially important as the Food and Drug Administration's Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed into law in January 2011, is put in place to ensure preventative measures are taken to enhance food safety.
"The big issue for us is that many times when we bring in loads of product they are often staged in areas where they are exposed to hot sun for hours at a time," says Tisha Uyehara, the company's director of marketing. "RFID provides us the ability to see when, where and for how long that cold chain was broken."
RFID ensures food safety and quality.
Armstrong has long advocated for food safety precautions, consistently auditing shipments and working closely with shippers and farmers to enforce strict standards of quality. A little over a year ago, the company implemented a pilot phase of the new RFID system, and tests have been conducted on shipments arriving from as far away as Taiwan. Armstrong currently has tags installed on about 100 pallets, which is less than 20 percent of what might be used in a single day.
Dr. John Ryan, the former administrator for the Hawai'i State Department of Agriculture's quality assurance division, is working with Armstrong on implementing the technology and collecting data. He is now president of Ryan Systems, based in California, where he works with companies to implement high-technology quality control systems.
"During the handling process, produce is supposed to be 55 degrees maximum," Ryan says. "During loading, it can be very irregular. If optimal temperature has been exceeded, you have lost a week or more of shelf life."
Armstrong had for years been using one-time-use, 15-cent, paper RFID tags that were printed at the farm, which would only show the farm name, produce type and box number. The newer, reusable Teleflex-brand electronic tags are about the size of a cell phone and can be read at distances of up to 100 meters with hand-held RFID devices. Temperatures, times and locations are then linked and reviewed on the web.
Agriculture grows visitor engagement and loyalty while reforesting Hawai'i.
Initial investment for the tracking system can easily exceed $10,000, with each tracking device costing $30, and handheld readers selling for several thousand dollars each. Since Armstrong is still testing the system, it hasn't incurred any up-front costs, Uyehara says.
As emerging technologies become more refined, Uyehara says the company hopes to grow the program to include devices that can detect variables including bacteria, insects and chemicals. This may help early identification of invasive species ahead of shipment arrivals, eliminating lengthy delays in identifying or quarantining species.
"There is great value in this kind of information that will help us be a better company overall," Uyehara says. "Down the line we see this as changing the face of the produce industry."
Planting Profits
When the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai was looking for a partner last year to help it plant a half million trees on the Big Island, it teamed up with Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods, a sustainable forestry company founded on the island in 2008.
The planting, one of the largest in a company-wide effort by Four Seasons to plant 10 million trees through its 85 hotels and resorts globally, allows guests to purchase and track each tree using innovative global positioning and geographic information mapping systems with RFID technology.
Launched in August 2011, the resort has already seen several thousand seedlings planted and is adding the option for guests to plant their own private Family Legacy Forests ranging in size from 50 to 1,000 or more trees. It costs $60 to plant one koa tree in the Legacy program, $1 of which is donated to the Nature Conservancy.
Guests at the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai can purchase and track trees through Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods.
"We've received lots of feedback about how good it feels to give back to such an amazing island, to help preserve it and help it grow," says Robert Whitfield, regional vice president and general manager for the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai. "We built a learning center, in which guests can meet with an HLH representative, learn about this initiative, watch a video showing why and where we're doing this and actually plant their own seedling, which will later be transferred and planted in the koa forest."
It's one of the largest commitments to Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods' efforts to reforest an area of the Big Island's Hāmākua Coast, under its legacy program, which plants trees for long-term reforestation. Combined with its tree-for-harvest program, which makes up about half of the total forest, the company grew from 20,000 trees on 40 acres in year one to more than 200,000 trees on more than 400 acres, with the goal of planting 500 acres annually.
The majority of the total forest is the native koa tree, but the company is also planting a sampling of other trees naturally found in the area, including other native species such as sandalwood, mamane and naio, which make up about 15 percent of the legacy forest.
Part of what makes this possible is the company's investment of about $250,000 into an advanced proprietary tagging system and highly specialized database. This allows Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods to track ownership, growth and maintenance of each tree, as well as provide individuals and companies with specific information that can be tracked online using a unique serial number.
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"When we were looking at planting trees as investments, we needed to develop a system to identify each tree, and match them to their specific owner," says Jeff Dunster, who co-founded the company with longtime friend Darrell Fox, after both left careers as merger and acquisition consultants. "Besides the tree-for-harvest model, our main passion is reforesting. RFID technology actually allowed us to audit right down to a single tree. We have found a way to make ecology and economy fit together."
The company, which started with Dunster and Fox, has grown to encompass more than 30 employees, volunteers and interns. They rely on a system of durable outdoor-use tags and remote readers to help them manage everything from the harvesting of seeds from the mother trees to the distribution of fertilizer. Trees can be tracked from seedlings to the moment they are processed at a lumber facility.
"The tags that we make for Hawaiian Legacy are made out of the same plastic as what is used in soda bottles," says Bill Compitello of Confidex, the Finland-based company that manufactures tags for uses including tracking beer kegs and construction equipment. "They are weather-resistant and recyclable, and the material lasts decades."
Depending on the use and quantity, RFID tags can range in price from 5 cents for a one-use indoor tag to $5 each for the more rugged variety, Compitello says.
"The best way to describe it is a license plate," he continues. "You can use that data stream any way you want." Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods has been able to collect an enormous amount of data on the life of a tree, down to the weather and soil conditions on the day it was planted. "We factor all of that into the survival rates and have a much better understanding of what they can withstand and what is optimal for planting," Fox says.
Fox and Dunster are confident that having a constant, trackable and reliable forest of koa trees will help boost the value of the wood. "With manufacturers, they would love to use koa, but they don't want to make the engineering, manufacturing and marketing commitments based on a supply which is not consistent," Fox says. "If you can have availability, you can have longer-term commitments from someone who can use this wood."
Finding Fresh Ideas
In Hawai'i, where it is estimated by the Rocky Mountain Institute that about 85 percent of all food consumed is imported, it can be difficult to find locally sourced products.
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Denise Hayashi, executive director of the Hawai'i Agricultural Foundation, is hoping to change that with a new smart phone app, called Lei Fresh, and website, LeiFresh.com. These portals are intended to help users discover what sorts of local foods are available at Hawai'i farms, stores and farmers' markets. The idea germinated about two years ago as an effort to increase purchasing of Hawai'i products.
"We want to make it easier for consumers to connect with local ag products at the retail level," says Melanie Kosaka, principal at Uapo LLC, who developed Lei Fresh and has experience with several other food-related apps. "Many consumers don't know when or where these local products are available."
Developed with a grant from the Island Innovation Fund, an arm of the Hawai'i Community Foundation that helps support new approaches to community challenges, the app is available for free download through iTunes. An app for Android phones is also expected.
Foods will be divided into four sections:
- Fruits and vegetables
- Dairy and eggs
- Fish, meat and chicken
- Locally made products such as honey.
Users will be able to search for the price and arrival date of items at specific locations; upload recipes; locate a farmers' market; and read about what's happening on the farm, with blog and photo posts from the grower.
Hayashi said she hopes to have up to seven retailers providing information by the app's launch this year, with Foodland and Whole Foods already signed up. Participating food providers go through a two-hour tutorial to ensure that they can quickly and easily update product availability and information.
The app and website will also include a detailed listing of farmers' markets across Hawai'i , with a monthly calendar showing locations, dates, vendors and featured products. To get involved, visit Hawaiiagfoundation.org or call (808) 738-6245.
Educational Investments
Twelve years ago, the nonprofit Maui Economic Development Board (MEDB) conducted a study that documented a significant brain drain in the state's science and technology jobs.
A teacher helps Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) student Kalei Miller.
Less than 1 percent of so-called STEM careers in the state—representing science, technology, engineering and math—were held by graduates of Hawai'i high schools and there were very few women, according to data collected by MEDB.
To help reverse the problem, the group founded the Women in Technology Project. Funded in part by grants from the U.S. Departments of Labor, Agriculture and Education, the project is starting to effect a turnaround. In a similar survey of more than 1,500 technical positions in 2009, 25 percent were held by Hawai'i high school graduates. It's a number the group expects to keep growing, due in part to a menu of programs incorporating hands-on technology in the classroom.
"Geo-spatial and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) were quickly identified as tools that could be deployed in our schools that would be age appropriate for the full education pipeline from elementary through college," said MEDB vice president Leslie Wilkins. "Also, the U.S. Department of Labor was projecting GIS as a top in-demand skill set."
Due to the group's partnership with Esri, the world's leading GIS software developer, and the State Department of Education, Hawai'i has become the first state in the country to provide GIS software to schools throughout its educational system, spanning grades K-12. Nearly 500 teachers have been trained in the program, in more than 200 schools to date.
The GIS software will be offered for free through 2014, allowing students and teachers access to high-end industry tools, including the virtual campus training. Since launching, the program has been used as a model for more than a dozen other states throughout the country.
"Our companies are realizing that it is good for the bottom line to invest in home-grown talent," Wilkins says. "We are starting to place a lot of our students in positions."
The STEMworks courses teach students GIS, along with many other industry-standard tools such as computer-aided design (CAD), often used by engineers and architects. Student-led projects have included the study of beach erosion on Kaua'i as well as GPS and GIS mapping of invasive species on Maui.
"It is project-based learning, where students select issues or community-based concerns that resonate with them and they play a part in building a solution," Wilkins says.
The Women in Technology Project partners with the Maui County Farm Bureau to help educate students about the future of Hawai'i 's agriculture industry. The group also developed the first clean energy curriculum in the state, along with an iPad app featuring information about solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and biomass energy.
"Like any industry, technology has become a pervasive part of agriculture," Wilkins said. "Agriculture is hard work, but there is not any other business or industry that is more relevant to our sustainability and our future. Technology is at the intersection of that."
Field Diagnostics
For most farms in Hawai'i , detecting pathogenic microorganisms such as E. coli is no easy process.
Tests can cost up to $100 and usually come with a three- to four-day wait while a sample is shipped to a dedicated laboratory facility. That can be a risky delay, especially if the crop has already been distributed to stores, explains Scott Shibata, president and CEO of Diagenetix, a new Hawai'i company founded to address the issue.
"This happens throughout the Mainland, as well," Shibata says. "Producers and processors don't wait for the result, as their product is perishable and extra days in cold storage can be expensive, so they ship it anyway, which is one of the reasons why you see food recalls happen."
Daniel Jenkins, researcher in CTAHR's Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering Department, conducts a field test in a Guatemalan potato field.
It's a problem that Shibata and several University of Hawai'i researchers, including Dr. Daniel Jenkins and his PhD student Ryo Kubota in the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, are working to solve. Under Diagenetix, they have developed and are testing a portable hand-held device that can be interfaced with a smart phone to give an accurate reading of a specific pathogen within 10 minutes.
"Every agricultural product you can think of has major pests and diseases that affect it, so there could be hundreds of things you could test for," Jenkins says. "It's a multi-faceted challenge which includes food-safety issues, quarantine issues and disease management at a local level."
Traditionally, agricultural diagnostics required growing pathogens in media over several days and then subjecting them to a battery of biochemical and biological tests. Advances in immunological and gene-based methods have greatly shortened the amount of time needed to get results, but the most powerful gene-based methods still require bulky, power-intensive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) instruments that can cost in excess of $20,000.
According to Jenkins, miniaturization of this technology to make it more portable reduces the energy requirement, but commercially available "portable" instruments are still relatively large, even more expensive than their laboratory counterparts, and require access to a power outlet, rendering them unsuitable for use in the field.
The technology developed by Diagenetix uses isothermal DNA amplification to detect pathogens, allowing the detection to occur in a very low-power handheld instrument. This platform is not only easier for farmers to work with in the field, but because it is gene-based, it also can provide highly precise typing of the isolated pathogen. For example, it can alert to a specific highly virulent strain of a pathogen, whereas traditional immuno-based tests—similar to a pregnancy test—will often lump together many closely related strains whether they are harmful or not.
Diagenetix's compact mobile technology can be used for detection of fastidious organisms such as the citrus greening organism, which cannot be cultured and for which no immuno-based solutions exist. The estimated cost: $500 for the instrument.
Monsanto employee using a single seed offloader.
Major agricultural disease organisms include cereal and soybean rusts; Ralstonia solanacearum, affecting a wide variety of plant species; the citrus greening organism; and the virus that causes foot and mouth disease in animals, Jenkins says. In a recent field test in Guatemala, Kubota used the device to detect a quarantine strain of the bacteria Ralstonia solanacearum in potato tissue within 15 minutes, without ever leaving the field. Diagenetix is also working with animal applications as well, planning trials of the device in several California egg farms to test for Salmonella. Further tests and funding are needed before the product will be ready for commercial production, Jenkins says.
"Most of these pathogens are nearly impossible to eradicate," he says. "Once they get into a field, the farmer really can't stop them. For example, Ralstonia can live in the soil for a long time, and it can render that field unsuitable for growing certain crops for years. High-consequence animal diseases such as foot and mouth disease can survive and spread on a variety of wildlife species once established in an area."
By identifying specific pathogens earlier, farmers and food processors can more effectively work to manage the disease and minimize the risk of widespread outbreak, as well as understand underlying problems with productivity, Shibata said.
"Oftentimes diseases exist which can ultimately result in diminished yield and quality, but which do not result in immediately observable symptoms. With our detection platform, farmers no longer have to wait to react to physical symptoms, but can accurately and quickly identify and resolve problems earlier," he says. "I see this as a management tool more than just a means of complying with increased regulations related to food safety and security."
Growing Precision
If the Midwestern U.S. is the corn capital of the world, Hawai'i is most certainly the crop's modern birthplace.
Kaua'i is home to four seed corn companies—Pioneer, BASF, Syngenta and DOW—collectively employing more than 400 people. And nearly every variety of corn currently produced in the past three years by Monsanto, the world's largest agricultural biotechnology company, can trace its roots back to a 270-acre research facility opened in 2009 on Maui.
"People look at corn and think of it as just corn, says Dr. Frederick Perlak, vice president of Monsanto's research and business operations in Hawai'i. Yet, "They all have different traits, different characteristics. There are thousands of different kinds of varieties."
Employees at Monsanto's Maui facility. INSET: Using a handheld computer in the field.
Corn is the largest crop produced in the U.S., according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, with more than 70 million acres harvested each year. The seed research Monsanto is conducting on Maui helps determine characteristics for corn that will grow best in different types of environments around the world.
For example, researchers can see if there is a susceptibility to disease in standing water and develop types of corn that do better in these areas.
"As a farmer, you want to squeeze the most out of every acre that you can because that's your profitability," Perlak says. "You cannot give those margins out, the seed is expensive, water is expensive, labor is expensive and you can't lose money because you are on the razor's edge all the time."
Monsanto bar codes each packet of seed and uses GPS tracking on its planting equipment to show exactly where those seeds are planted. Ninety percent of Monsanto's Pi'ilani farm is devoted to corn research, while the remaining portion is planted with soybeans.
Perlak says. "Anything that we can do to increase the validity of the data that we generate is well worth it. And we will spend a lot of money on equipment to get it right. A big part of our operations is that we have to get it right."
SOURCE: National Agricultural Statistics Service, Hawai'i Dept. of Agriculture
To grow its seed crops, Monsanto uses nearly 300,000 gallons of water a day at the Pi'ilani facility. Most of that is R-1 wastewater—a step below potable water—distributed to crops via a drip-irrigation system.
"There are challenges that come with using recycled water," Perlak says. "Things like making sure that you are mitigating salt accumulation in the soil. Those require high-tech solutions and constant monitoring."
New corn varieties take about 8 to 12 years to produce, Perlak says. The primary seed crop—accounting for more than 96 percent of the industry in 2008—grown in Hawai'i is corn, all of which is exported, according to a 2009 report commissioned by the Hawai'i Farm Bureau Federation (HFBF) and funded by the Hawai'i Crop Improvement Association (HCIA).
Hawai'i 's seed crop industry generated an estimated $247 million in economic value in 2010, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service and the Hawai'i Department of Agriculture. It's an industry that has shown a dramatic increase in value since emerging 50 years ago, due in large part to Hawai'i's year-round growing season, the availability of a highly skilled workforce, and access to natural resources such as land and water, the HFBF-HCIA report states. It accounts for more than 22 percent of all agricultural jobs in the state. Monsanto, which started its Hawai'i operations in 1968, now employs more than 400 people on Maui alone.
This competitive advantage has resulted in the location of five major companies that comprise the seed crop industry, according to Perlak, with the HFBF-HCIA report noting anticipated increasing economic and fiscal contributions to the state's economy, agriculture, life sciences and high-tech sectors.
Not Child's Play
After months of research and after-school meetings, hundreds of students from schools throughout Hawai'i gathered at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in early December to present new advancements in food science and safety as they competed on the state level of the 2011 Hawai'i FIRST LEGO League "Food Factor" challenge.
For the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students of Team International Deep-Fried Buffet, those months of work would boil down to a five-minute presentation on using DNA modification to mitigate the devastating effects of the Khapra beetle on rice crops.
"Because two-thirds of the world's population eats rice, if we solve this problem, we can help that much of the world be safer and healthier," says Punahou School eighth-grader and team co-captain Shannon Kwock.
The Khapra beetle is one of the top 100 invasive insects worldwide, typically infecting rice once it is stored, decreasing the total weight of a shipment by up to 70 percent.
"We found if we could genetically engineer the rice, farmers wouldn't have to keep spending money on pesticides," says Punahou School seventh-grader and team co-captain Jonathan Zerez.
The team's efforts earned them a project presentation award at the state level, and, like other inventions from the competition, could possibly result in a patent application, says team advisor Ann Kwock.
Part of a larger global program, the nonprofit Hawai'i FIRST LEGO League started in 2003 with six teams and has since grown to encompass 206 teams with more than 2,000 students ranging from the fourth through the eighth grade. The projects in this year's challenge, which focused on food safety, included combating inefficient refrigeration of food products and an advanced water filtration system.
As part of the competition, students also build and program a small autonomous robot using a LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit to complete several food-related missions.
Hawai'i FIRST LEGO League founder and president Sara Tamayose, a retired Mililani Middle School teacher, works to build support for the annual statewide competitions. The program costs more than $40,000 per year, relying on the support of donors and grants.
"The teams keep raising the bar," she says. "Many teachers have seen it is a great way to promote critical thinking, innovative problem solving and team collaboration."
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Cleveland, OH, United States (4E Sports) – The Cleveland Cavaliers have sent center Andrew Bynum and three future draft picks to the Chicago Bulls for two-time All-Star Luol Deng, who is expected to boost the team's small forward position.
Deng is expected to boost the backcourt tandem of Kyrie Irving and Dion Waiters as the Cavaliers push to end a three-year playoff drought.
The 28-year-old Deng is averaging 19 points, 6.9 rebounds and 3.7 assists in 23 games but he has been bothered by an injured Achilles that caused him to miss nine games over the past six weeks. He has returned to play in the Bulls' past three games.
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"We have worked to acquire and maintain flexibility in order to capitalize on opportunities such as this," Cavs general manager Chris Grant said. "Luol reflects all that we are striving for in building our team."
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The Bulls plan to waive Bynum and clear his $12.3 million salary off their books to have enough room for next season's draft and free agent marker. The move will save the team more than $20 million.
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The Bulls had said they wanted to keep Deng, whom they drafted in 2004 and signed to a $71 million extension in 2008. But talks on a new contract for Deng, who is scheduled to be a free agent at the end of the season, had stalled and the savings and the draft considerations were enticing.
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