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MBDA National Director David Hinson, along with a 27-member delegation of U.S. corporate executives and minority-owned businesses, recently completed a China Business Opportunity Trade Mission to Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. The goal of the trade mission was to meet with potential corporate, government and university partners and attend the Minority Supplier Development (MSD) China Summit and Business Opportunity Fair.
The trip was organized by the National Minority Supplier Diversity Council (NMSDC) to foster business relations between American corporate and minority-owned businesses, corporate members of MSD China, and Chinese ethnic minority businesses that are not a part of the Han Chinese majority in China and Taiwan.
Director Hinson was a keynote speaker at the MSD China Summit and Business Opportunity Fair, held Sept. 1-2 at the Tasly International Conference Center in Tianjin. In his remarks, he encouraged participants to join in helping minority suppliers gain more business opportunities within the global economy.
The annual event brought together 80 corporate executives, minority supplier development professionals and purchasing executives, along with a host of Chinese and U.S. government officials, and about 100 minority business owners from China and the U.S. The Summit also included several delegations from ethnic minority regions within China.
"Among those core values that citizens of the United States and China share is the belief that we owe our success to the ingenuity, intellect and creativity of our people," Hinson said.
Over the course of the two days, the Summit provided a forum for an exchange of ideas and included workshops onBusiness Opportunities with Multinational Corporations; Starting a Business in China: Practical Advice from Experts; How Traditional Chinese Medicine Goes International; and The Development of Chinese Ethnic Minorities and Chinese Minority Business Enterprises.
MSD China is the country's first, national non-profit membership organization dedicated to enhancing the development of the 56 non-majority Chinese ethnic groups in business by connecting minority suppliers to corporations for procurement opportunities on a mutually beneficial basis.
The U.S. delegation attending the event included representatives from Dell, IBM, United Technologies Corporation, The Boeing Company, Hewlett-Packard Company, Marriott International, Inc., Merck, PepsiCo, and several minority businesses and leaders from the NMSDC. The China trade mission ran from Aug. 29 through Sept. 5.
Director Hinson's time in China also included meetings in Beijing to discuss MBDA's globalization program and objectives, investment opportunities in China, and current merger and acquisition trends. In addition, he met with the School of Continuing Education at Tsinghua University for an overview of its globalization program and to discuss minority business enterprise matching and the possibility of a joint program between Tsinghua and U.S. universities.
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We didn't even pause for a second when offered a chance to tour Mr. Jalopy's studio. Even if it meant a 600 mile roundtrip, we'd be there. You'll probably recognize Mr. Jalopy as the author of Hoopty Rides and as a frequent Make Magazine contributor know for his giant iPod and guerilla projector. Dorkbot SoCal organized a studio tour so that fellow hackers could pick up some of the Hoopty Rides secret sauce.
Mr. Jalopy spent a long time searching for his shop. He wanted a site that he could work in, but was self-sufficient. The location is paid for by a small retail shop upstairs plus a freeway visible billboard. It's and old car repair shop with two bays and some interesting quirks like 400hp water break dynamometer (gauges at top) and an old hydraulic lift designed just for cars with solid rear axles. He got a unused second Clayton 200hp dynamometer (above) for cheap and plans on combining the two to hopefully get a nice functional unit.
He pointed out the boombox TV he had built stating that it was the subject of an upcoming article. It won't be about the construction of the boombox though; the article is about Boombox: The Platform. He's quite fond of picking up boomboxes at garage sales because of what you get: an AC/DC converter, a battery holder, amplifier, speakers, lots of switches, buttons, and knobs, all for $1 and a nice box to boot. The monitor for this one was the cheap PSOne flip up screens we've mentioned before. The tuner is a fairly versatile and is designed for car use.
A common theme was was that Mr. Jalopy doesn't feel he knows how to do a lot of stuff, but that doesn't matter because he can manage by doing things he does know. Take the giant iPod for example. The big attraction is that the old console radio's buttons actually control the iPod. He didn't get hung up wondering how he was going to send the iPod commands over the serial interface; he just bought an AirClick and soldered wires directly to the board. Other good advice: Don't half-ass, build it so it lasts. Also, build in adjustment since you won't get it perfect the first time.
A minor attraction that I found very interesting was his Curta calculator. The Curta was invented by Curt Herzstark during WWII while he was a prisoner in a concentration camp and was popular up to the 70s. The side has 11 single digit sliders on screw shafts. Turning the crank on the top a full rotation adds the side number to the top result display. It also subtracts and does many more complex operations. Here's a flash demo of the device.
I'll add photo links as the come in, but for now you can view Garnet Hertz's, COOP's, and mine. Also, look for the tour on a future episode of BoingBoingTV (not Make:TV, I don't think that's been announced yet ;-)
We'd like to thank Dorkbot SoCal, Mr. Jalopy, and all the people we met for the wonderful experience.
UPDATE: Tim Odell's photos.


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Clotrimazole is a broad-spectrum antifungal agent that inhibits the growth of pathogenic yeasts by altering the permeability of cell membranes. The action of clotrimazole is fungistatic at concentrations of drug up to 20 mcg/mL and may be fungicidal in vitro against Candida albicans and other species of the genus Candida at higher concentrations. No single-step or multiple-step resistance to clotrimazole has developed during successive passages of Candida albicans in the laboratory; however, individual organism tolerance has been observed during successive passages in the laboratory. Such in vitro tolerance has resolved once the organism has been removed from the antifungal environment.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Former NFL players trying to sue the league over concussion-linked injuries argued in court Tuesday that the NFL "glorified" violence and profited from damaging hits to the head.
Players' lawyer David Frederick also accused the league of concealing the emerging science about concussions over several decades, even after creating a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury committee in 1994.
"It set up a sham committee designed to get information about neurological risks, but in fact spread misinformation," Frederick argued at a pivotal federal hearing to determine if the complaints will remain in court or be sent to arbitration.
U.S. District Judge Anita Brody's decision could be worth billions to either side.
About 4,200 of the league's 12,000 former players have joined the litigation. Some are battling dementia, depression or Alzheimer's disease, and fault the league for rushing them back on the field after concussions. Others are worried about developing problems and want their health monitored.
A handful, including popular Pro Bowler Junior Seau, have committed suicide.
NFL lawyer Paul Clement insisted that teams bear the chief responsibility for health and safety under the players' collective bargaining agreement, along with others.
"The one thing constant throughout is these agreements put the primary role and responsibility on some combination of the players themselves, the unions and the clubs," Clement argued.
"The clubs are the ones who had doctors on the sidelines who had primary responsibility for sending players back into the game," he added at a news conference after the 40-minute hearing.
Brody appeared most interested in whether the contract is sufficiently specific about health and safety issues to keep the matter in arbitration.
"The thing that concerns me is you say it talks about it 'all over,' " Brody said to Clement. "It has to be really specific. That's what I have to wrestle with."
Frederick said the contract is "silent" on latent head injuries, making the lawsuits appropriate.
Brody is not expected to rule for several months, and the cases could take years to play out if her ruling is appealed, as expected.
Former players and family members on hand for the hearing included Kevin Turner, a former Philadelphia Eagles running back now battling Lou Gehrig's disease; Dorsey Levens, a veteran running back who made a 2012 documentary on concussions called "Bell Rung," and Mary Ann Easterling, whose husband, former Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling, was the lead plaintiff in the litigation before he committed suicide last year.
Attendees might have momentarily thought they were on the playing field, as a power problem at the federal courthouse caused muggy conditions in the courtroom. The judge insisted that the well-heeled crowd of lawyers remove their suit jackets. Frederick did so, while Clement declined.
Both more typically find themselves at the U.S. Supreme Court, where Clement has fought gay marriage laws and state health care mandates, and Frederick has pursued consumer protection cases.
Their very presence signaled the importance of the litigation to both sides, on both financial and public-relations grounds.
One wrinkle in the litigation is what the NFL calls the "gap-year" players, who played from 1987 to 1993, when there was no collective bargaining agreement in place. The NFL, eager to avoid opening up its files in legal discovery, argues that those players were bound by previous contracts or contracts later in effect when they collected pensions.
"I certainly admit that the gap-year players ... are the most difficult cases," said Clement. But he said very few people played only those years, and not under a contract before or after.
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Proving God
By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Feb 29, 2012 | In Reviews
Robert J. Spitzer, SJ wrote an impressive book in 2010 entitled New Proofs for the Existence of God. It was impressive because Fr. Spitzer sought to update both the physical and the philosophical proofs for the existence of God, taking into account the kinds of problems which have been introduced by modern scientists and philosophers, problems which have shed doubt on the reliability of the traditional proofs. This is a task that could only be performed by someone well-educated in both science and philosophy, and Fr. Spitzer—former president of Gonzaga University and founder the Magis Center of Reason and Faith—is such a man.
I've completed the scientific portion of the book, which is based on the contributions of contemporary physics. I'll very likely return to the book again in this space when I've digested the philosophical portions. But before delving into modern physics, I'd like to make some important preliminary observations.
The Nature of Human Knowing
First, I am convinced that the human person interacts with reality in a manner so profound that individual disciplines, such as physics and philosophy, cannot exhaust or supplant it. The human person naturally perceives reality in its wholeness, including the natures and ends of things (though not, of course, all at once or infallibly). He can look at the wonders of nature and conclude, quite rightly, that there must be a creator. A scientist, who by definition can only work with the physically-measurable manifestations of being (not being itself), may develop theories of how things work that are very useful in their own way, but he can never exhaust the problem of causation, for he cannot plumb the ultimate mystery of being.
Similarly, a philosopher may develop a system to explain many aspects of reality, and his insights and deductions may help us to perceive the truth of many matters otherwise obscure. But the system will never perfectly mirror the reality, and to the degree that its principles are purely abstract, to that same degree there is a risk of departing from the essential nature of the real, which the human person is clearly constituted—by God or nature I have not yet said—to apprehend both immediately and whole.
A person already apprehends and knows reality in a deeper and more perceptive way before he becomes a scientist or a philosopher, a historian or a sociologist, a theologian or a literary critic. And his fundamental understanding of reality does not increase by virtue of specialization (which, by its nature, tends toward what is incomplete and lopsided) except insofar as whatever he learns in specialized studies leads him to refine and enhance, rather than supplant, that whole and human perception of reality which is his birthright.
For these reasons, the ordinary man need not be ashamed to look out at the world and make the connections native to his own mind and heart concerning the existence of God. Indeed, he will have to be trained very carefully not to make these connections, or perhaps be driven to sever them by his own distaste for moral constraints. Though scientists and philosophers may swirl around us in their hordes, the fundamental reliability of human perception, in its broad strokes and universal experiences, remains the best possible foundation for the recognition of the existence of God.
Alternative Arguments
Second, our knowledge of the existence of God is not limited to formal proofs, and indeed no formal proof is likely to be completely conclusive in itself, which is perhaps why St. Thomas Aquinas referred to his own proofs sometimes as "ways". Blessed John Henry Newman thought the strongest single argument for the existence of God came from conscience—the universal apprehension on the part of the human person that he has a moral duty and is somehow under judgment, that there is a law and so there must also be a law-giver (see The Argument from Conscience). Of course, other supernatural manifestations apart from a revelation would be sufficient to establish God's existence. Once we have a revelation, we are already considerably farther along. But one minor way in which Revelation for Christians serves to confirm a merely natural theology is found in St. Paul's emphasis on one of the points with which I began, namely that we are right to trust the normal human way of appreciating the universe—indeed, that we have no excuse if we fail to perceive God in the things He has made (Rom 1:18-20).
Finally, as Newman pointed out in his landmark work An Essay in Adi of a Grammar of Assent (see The Meaning of Newman's Grammar of Assent), the normal manner in which a human person comes to a careful certitude is not only ordinary but extremely reliable in its method. Certitude comes through a series of converging probabilities, all pointing in the same direction. Thus a man may naturally perceive that there must be a Creator, he may naturally sense that there must be a Judge, he may accept a philosophical argument for a transcendent First Cause, he may be convinced of the veracity of the arguments in favor of Christian revelation, he may have experienced something of God in prayer or perhaps even a miracle, he may notice that the people he most respects and admires speak eloquently of God, and he may be deeply impressed by the holiness of those who devote themselves to His service—those who seem somehow to live a life which is human yet beyond the human mode.
Clearly, neither philosophy nor science can exhaust the possibilities for becoming legitimately convinced of the existence of God. And having said all this, I can also say that Fr. Spitzer agrees.
Yet the quest for a more formal proof is a valid one as well. The genius of New Proofs for the Existence of God, in addition to bringing a number of arguments up to date, is that Fr. Spitzer keeps in mind what it takes to make a "reasonable and responsible" decision to believe something. He specifically alludes to Newman's "staggering probability", and the whole point of his book is to take a number of arguments drawn from both physics and philosophy and show not only how each one suggests the existence of God as the simplest and most believable conclusion, but also how all of them together make a corroborative and therefore extraordinarily strong case.
New Scientific Proofs
But, as I said at the outset, I wish to explore briefly only Fr. Spitzer's scientific material in this essay, since I have not yet completed my study of the philosophical arguments. Let me summarize the science now. An exhaustive presentation of the evidence is not necessary to grasp the main points. Though Fr. Spitzer provides considerable detail, a mere overview of the case is sufficient for us here.
Modern physics, explains Fr. Spitzer, has learned two extremely important things about the universe which revitalize the old cosmological arguments for the existence of God, arguments which some earlier modern scientists and philosophers had thought to discard when the nature of things was not so fully known. For example, it was thought that the universe might have always existed (infinite in prior time) and therefore there would have been plenty of opportunity for random events to coalesce into a situation hospitable to life, and for various life forms to have evolved, all without postulating the existence of a Creator. But based on contemporary science, this is simply not true.
The first reason it is not true is that all modern theories of the universe show that its operations can be traced back to a specific beginning. Everyone is probably familiar with the Big Bang theory (or various modified Big Bang theories). This is the reigning science, well substantiated by both theoretical consistency and repeatable experiments, and it places the age of the universe at slightly over 13.7 billion years. Now of course if the entire universe had a beginning, then there was a "time" when it was not. Manifestly, it would then require a transcendent cause to bring it into existence, to precipitate the Big Bang.
Some scientists have posited alternative theories, of course, presumably motivated by something they have observed in the evidence, or by an attraction to the beautiful mathematics such theories sometimes produce, or by mere whimsy, or surely in some cases simply because they do not like theories which suggest that God really does exist. Thus there have been theories of a bouncing universe, in which there is a Big Bang, and then a Big Collapse, and then a Big Bang, and then a Big Collapse, and then…well, you get the idea. But it turns out that the scientific/mathematical equations necessary to describe such ideas in relationship to existing evidence always prove that the universe cannot have been "bouncing" forever.
No matter what theory is used, including things like String Theory, everybody runs up against the same issue: The universe began at a certain fixed point. It is not chronologically infinite.
There are also some theories that the universe is really a "multiverse", in which innumerable possibilities are played out in a huge number of related "universes". The conceptual difficulties underlying this way of thinking are rather severe, but some version of the idea seems to be attractive to those who wish to find infinite chances for development despite the demonstrated finitude of time. Thus, if someone posits a high order number of universes (in a multiverse), he can argue that every possibility is played out somewhere, and so the universe we ourselves inhabit could have been expected to happen.
The reason such theories (we might more realistically call them fancies) need the multiverse crutch is because modern science grasps with exceeding clarity how astonishing it is that the universe we know and experience is hospitable to life. This is called our "anthropic condition". Modern scientists know that the constants necessary to support life occupy a very limited range of values, values which are such an infinitesimally small sample of all the possible values that it is impossible that they could have happened by chance in the available time. This is the second great scientific contribution to the renewal of the cosmological arguments for God.
These constants include constants of space and of time, energy constants (e.g., gravitational attraction, weak force coupling, and strong force coupling), individuating constants such as the rest mass of a proton and an electron or the unit charge of a proton or an electron, and large-scale and fine-structure constants (relating to such things as the relationship between photons and protons and electromagnetic fields). It is beyond my capacity to explain all these constants, though Fr. Spitzer discusses them in some detail, giving examples of how they work together. But the point is that they can have only a very small range of values if things are to hold together and if life is to exist. Fr. Spitzer enumerates twenty of these constants in the book, all of which, to sustain our anthropic universe, need to be spot-on.
In other words, the odds against our anthropic universe are what we commonly call astronomical, and that is why those who hate so much to resort to the idea of God (which admittedly is outside the scope of science to prove or disprove) sometimes reach out to embrace an infinite number of universes. Perhaps they hope to avoid the God-trap into which they feel they are being drawn by…the inescapable evidence all around them. Unfortunately, multiverse arguments have significant problems of their own, not the least of which is that they violate the standard scientific "canon of parsimony" (Occam's Razor) on a gigantic scale, postulating an infinite number of universes in a vain effort to explain just one. Surely this requires an even greater leap of faith!
In conclusion, we can say based entirely on the accepted science of the twenty-first century that (a) The universe can be traced back to a starting point and so apparently required a transcendent cause to bring it into existence; and (b) Our anthropic universe cannot possibly have developed by chance in the time allotted, and so apparently it required a designer. This evidence is so striking that not only is it reasonable and responsible to believe that God exists, but it is both unreasonable and irresponsible, on scientific grounds, to disbelieve it. And when we consider that the findings of science are just one tool in a veritable arsenal of human modes of perception, the case for God grows stronger still.
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Posted by: dt.dean9713 -
Mar. 06, 2012 4:53 PM ET USA
There is an abundance and varity of life in this world. How could it have possibly gotten here except by divine creation? It is common sense that life would not be here and could not be here, except it being put here by God. It is no doubt likewise true that the universe would not be here as well, if not put here by divine creation. It is as well, that the love of God and God's love, would go to show this all as well. God loves, so there is the uninverse. This is real common sense.
Posted by: John J Plick -
Mar. 04, 2012 1:04 PM ET USA
Unfortunately, the simplest and most effective way "to prove God" is quite repulsive to us...; DIE for Him.... as a "spectacle," before others...
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Mar. 03, 2012 1:10 AM ET USA
Another very good book is Life After Death - The Evidence, by Dinesh D'Souza
Posted by: bkmajer3729 -
Mar. 01, 2012 12:31 AM ET USA
This is a fantastic and incredibly interesting book! Father Spitzer makes his points clear and this is not an "intelligent design" argument. The facts are before us - all we have to do is open our eyes and trust the reality presented to our senses and intellect. Prayer helps too...
Posted by: wolfdavef3415 -
Feb. 29, 2012 9:12 PM ET USA
"...and that is why those who hate so much to resort to the idea of God (which admittedly is outside the scope of science to prove or disprove) sometimes reach out to embrace an infinite number of universes..." Or, in other words, these men discovered that the universe is finite, but still feel that this is not enough explanation, and require something infinite to satisfy their curiosities. Let's sign them up for RCIA. :-) Good summary, Dr. Mirus, I'll have to check out the book.


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5 Nights | BAHAMAS
You will visit the following 3 places:
Nassau - an attractive harbour, a colourful blend of old world and colonial architecture, and a busy port, is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas. The tropical climate and natural beauty of the Bahamas have made the city a popular tourist destination. Nassau is considered a historical stronghold of pirates.
Charleston is a city in the U.S. state of South Carolina and is the second largest city in the state. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline and is located on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, or, as is locally expressed, "where the Cooper and Ashley Rivers come together to form the Atlantic Ocean." Founded in 1670 as Charles Town in honor of King Charles II of England, Charleston adopted its present name in 1783, and is defined by its cobblestone streets, horse-drawn carriages and pastel antebellum houses, particularly in the elegant French Quarter and Battery districts.
Freeport is the main city on the beautiful Grand Bahama, an island in the northwest Bahamas. It's revered for its white-sand beaches, sparkling turquoise waters and abundance of nature activities. Take time to appreciate the island's exceptional natural beauty when exploring the longest underwater cave system in the world, towering indigenous pine trees and outstanding flora and fauna.


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New Digital-Tutors tutorial released: Creating Game Characters with ZBrush and TopoGun
Digital-Tutors released a new highly recommended online training course, Creating Game Characters with ZBrush and TopoGun.
"In this course we're going to use ZBrush and TopoGun to convert a very high resolution female hero character into a lower resolution game-type model. Sculpting applications like ZBrush are great for creating extremely detailed models, complete with surface texture and color. But to be able to rig, animate, or integrate these models into a game engine, we first have to convert the model to a much lower resolution. TopoGun is a great tool for taking our detailed meshes and allowing us to very intuitively redraw this new topology. In addition, it will allow us to project all of the mesh's detail onto maps. In this way we can use a lower resolution version of the model, while it still appears very detailed. We will start by preparing and exporting our dense meshes from ZBrush and then bring those into TopoGun as references. We'll use several tools in TopoGun to literally draw new base geometry right onto the high resolution meshes. We'll look at several of the tools available and how we can manipulate and change topology once it's been created. Once the topology is done, we'll create UVs for the new pieces and then generate maps for the detail and color information. Once we're done you'll have created your own game-type character from a very dense sculpt and you'll have the knowledge you need to repeat the process on your own creations."Tweet


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Ancient Greek Coins of Cilicia
In antiquity, Cilicia (also spelled Kilikia) was a southern coastal region of Anatolia, extending inland north from the Mediterranean coast, east from Pamphylia, to the Amanus Mountains, which separated it from Syria. It existed as a political entity from Hittite times into the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and Byzantine Empire. Cilicia Trachea (rugged Cilicia) is a mountain district formed by the spurs of Taurus, which often terminate in rocky headlands with small sheltered harbors, a feature which, in classical times, made the coast a string of havens for pirates and, in the Middle Ages, outposts for Genoese and Venetian traders. Cilicia Trachea lacked large cities and was covered in ancient times by forests that supplied timber to Phoenicia and Egypt. Cilicia Pedias (flat Cilicia), to the east, included the rugged spurs of Taurus and a large coastal plain, with rich loamy soil, known to the Greeks for its abundance, filled with sesame and millet and olives and pasturage for horses. Many of its high places were fortified. Through the rich plain ran the great highway that linked east and west, on which stood the cities of Tarsos (Tarsus) on the Cydnus (Berdan River), Adana on the Sarus (Seyhan river), and Mopsos (Yakapınar) on the Pyramus (Ceyhan River).


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DESCRIPTION"Log::Log4perl::Layout" is a virtual base class for the two currently implemented layout types
Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayout Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout
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LICENSECopyright 2002-2013 by Mike Schilli <[email protected]> and Kevin Goess <[email protected]>.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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New York Six Consortium
New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium
Established with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium facilitates collaboration among its member institutions in fulfilling their educational missions and serving the public good. Through the sharing of expertise and resources, the Consortium enhances options for students, faculty, and staff, while reducing colleges' individual and collective operating and capital costs. (as listed on www.newyork6.org)
Consortium Members
Colgate University
COVE: Center for Outreach, Volunteerism and Education
Hamilton College
COOP: Community Outreach and Opportunity Project
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
CCESL: Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning
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From the Vineyard Gazette editions of May, 1908:
The lovely weather of the past week has been improved by housekeepers in having carpets beaten and a general war on dirt. Everyone is hustling to get their house in trim for the summer season. There have been many arrivals here during the week past of summer residents who have come to look after their property and have repairs or improvements made. Many residences are being painted and reshingled, modern improvements are being introduced, and while there has been less building going on this past winter, cottages are being made more comfortable to live in cool weather and are being enlarged and improved in a general way either inside or outside. These are signs of interest and faith in the idea of future growth of Oak Bluffs and its prosperity.
The Memorial Day exercises by the pupils of the public schools of Vineyard Haven will be held in Association Hall on Friday afternoon. At the close of the exercises a procession will form, led by the Grand Army, followed by the Relief Corps and teachers and pupils of the public schools, and as many others as may desire, and march to the wharf to cast flowers upon the waters in grateful memory of those who gave their lives as a willing sacrifice to their country's call.
The brig Daisy, Capt. B. D. Cleveland, recently sailed on another cruise to Kergulen Island, 1500 miles east-southeast of the Cape of Good Hope. The vessel sailed before the issuance of a decree by the French affecting that island. Whaling agents and whalemen generally have taken up a discussion of the prohibitive measures affecting the taking of sea elephants at Kergulen island, and the opinion prevails that the French government will not go to the expense of sending a war vessel to the Desolation islands in order to prevent Capt. Cleveland from finishing his voyage. Even if France should see fit to go ahead and take up a vigil of this desolate island, Capt. Cleveland would, upon being warned off, proceed to Hurd's island, 200 miles southeast, and fill his brig, for the sea elephants have not been disturbed there in many years. Hurd's island, however, is a more dangerous whaling ground. It develops that Capt. Cleveland can be reached if desired, for it is stated that he intended touching at the Cape Verde islands on his way out, and a cable to St. Vincent would be delivered to him on his arrival at Cape Verde.
The full bench of the supreme court has dismissed the petition of Henry B. Davis against the inhabitants of the town of Chilmark et al. The petitioner who, with his family resides on the island of No Man's Land, near Martha's Vineyard, asked for a writ of mandamus directing the town authorities of Chilmark to provide sufficient accommodation for his children and ordering the school committee of Chilmark to provide a suitable place for the schooling of his children, together with fuel and such other things as are necessary for their comfort. No Man's Land, which is a part of the town of Chilmark, lies about four miles from Martha's Vineyard, upon which island the main part of the town is situated. The town at present maintains no school on No Man's Land, but upon the main island has a sufficient number of schools, which are properly furnished and conveniently located. The petitioner claimed that a school should be established on No Man's Land, although his children would be the only ones that would attend the school. He is the owner of the greater part of No Man's Land and pays a tax on property valued at about $7,000. He has always resided in Chilmark and since 1904 on No Man's land with his family.
The court holds that upon these facts his contention cannot be sustained. "He has chosen," says the court, "to establish himself and family upon a small island; only two of his children are under 14 years of age, and one has not reached the age at which school attendance is required. He cannot expect the town to furnish and maintain a school for his sole benefit."
Steamer Uncatena, looking as fresh and nice as a new dollar, with a new smoke stack thrown in, came on this route again this week. Schooner Rebecca Bartlett sailed Saturday with a cargo of 325 barrels Mattakeesett herring, salted. Catboat Rita, Capt. M. K. Silva, Antone Prada, mate, claims the largest mackerel brought in this season — weight 5 1/2 pounds. The Rita in two nights' work the latter part of last week caught about 800 mackerel. Fishing schooner Teaser of Gloucester baited here early this week with 30,000 Mattakeesett alewives.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hart left for their home in New Britain after a short visit in Oak Bluffs looking after the work on their cottage. Mr. Hart has purchased the cottage No. 36 Tuckernuck avenue of Mr. Corbin, and after occupying it for several years under lease he knew about what he would like in the way of improvements. The partitions have been removed on the lower floor so that on one side of the center hall will be an airy living room with a fireplace. This will now be a very desirable residence, as Mr. Hart will have all modern conveniences installed.
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Quinoa Pancakes
For the batter
+ 85g white quinoa, uncooked
+ 45g oatmeal
+ 15g baking powder
+ 3 tablespoons maple syrup
+ ½ teaspoon salt
+ 3 eggs
+ 1 tablespoon butter
+ 240ml milk (if the batter is too stiff, add more milk)
+ Rind from one lemon
+ 1 scoop Juice PLUS+ Complete Vanilla
For decoration:
(Depending on how big you make the pancakes, you'll need more or less fruit.)
5 tangerines
5 Strawberries
8 Blueberries
Rinse the quinoa with cold water. Cook the quinoa for 12 minutes.
Mix all ingredients in a blender until it's a very smooth batter.
Grease a small frying pan with little coconut oil and cook each pancake.
Check out the video to see how to decorate.
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Story highlights
Obama departs for Hawaii and a weekend Asian-Pacific economic conference
The remainder of the nine-day trip takes him to Australia and Indonesia
Obama will push a trans-Pacific trade agreement at the summit
President Barack Obama, in Hawaii for a weekend economic conference, said Saturday that leaders of nine nations have agreed on the "broad outlines" of a trans-Pacific free trade agreement.
The administration is taking care to highlight the importance of strong Asia-Pacific relations to the president's efforts to create jobs domestically.
"The U.S. exports to this region are essential to the president's goal of doubling U.S. exports in the next several years," Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, told reporters in a briefing Wednesday. "In fact, nearly all of the efforts that we're going to be making towards that export goal take place in this part of the world."
The 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum account for 55% of the world's gross domestic product, 43% of world trade and 58% of U.S. exports, according to the group.
"So I think when the American people see the president traveling in the Asia-Pacific, they will see him advocating for U.S. jobs and U.S. businesses," Rhodes said. "He will be trying to open new markets, and he will be trying to achieve new export initiatives, and he will be trying to foster a trade agreement through the, for instance, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that takes us beyond the Korea Free Trade Agreement towards a multilateral agreement that, again, has very high standards to ensure that our interests are being protected."
The Obama administration is pushing for the expanded trade agreement to help boost reduce barriers to U.S. exports, boost trade and create jobs.
The United States has been negotiating with Singapore, Chile, New Zealand, Brunei, Australia, Peru and Vietnam develop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk's office says would eventually expand to include most of the APEC's 21 nations.
No final decisions are expected on the agreement this weekend. Rhodes said he expects the leaders to discuss progress negotiated at the ministerial level and begin looking toward the next phase of discussions. But he declined to put a timetable on the negotiations.
During the APEC conference in Honolulu, Obama is also scheduled to have a discussion with business leaders, as well as side meetings with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Russian President Dimitry Medvedev, and Chinese President Hu Jintao.
After a break Monday for a political fundraiser, Obama is scheduled to depart Tuesday for Australia and later Bali, Indonesia, where he will stress the U.S. role in the Asia-Pacific region and seek to reassure U.S. allies of the nation's continued commitment to the region, Rhodes said.
He is scheduled to leave Bali on November 19.


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SUN RA: Nidhamu/Dark Myth Visitation Equation
These two LPs, on one CD, taken with Horizon, complete the Egypt trilogy. Nidhamu was in fact the second release of the series, half recorded at the Balloon Theatre and half at a concert at Hartmut Geerken's house in Heliopolis. It's a remarkable document: austere, and very out there. Electric keyboards and an eerie Discipline No.11 set the scene, and after some solo Moog there's a spooky miniature Discipline No.15 introducing another long Moog and keyboards solo: 35 pretty abstract minutes that just slip by. Dark Myth Visitation Equation follows (it was the first LP release, and has also been known as Sun Ra in Egypt Vol 1 and Nature's God). The first tracks are from a Cairo TV broadcast and the whole collection features the more familiar groove-based pieces characteristic of the period, interspersed with yet more Moog and electric keyboard solos. June Tyson reappears for To Nature's God and the highly eccentric Why go to the Moon? Classic.
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I'm now blogging over at www.bijansabet.com
Please come by and say hello.
I'm now blogging over at www.bijansabet.com
Please come by and say hello.
I met David Karp last year. He was helping out a number of folks create, design and develop their web properties. We started spending more time earlier this year when we made our investment in Next New Networks. David had been helping Fred Seibert for years At that time David also showed me his latest creation - Tumblr. And since then we've gotten to know each other and I started to really love what Tumblr was all about. Tumblr makes blogging super simple. And you can create a tumblelog just by linking & sharing in addition to a "traditional" blog posts like this one. If you have found blogging to exhausting but love the idea then give Tumblr a try. It's a lot of fun. Some great examples of tumblelogs powered by Tumblr include: -Jake Jarvis (jeff javis son and creator of very cool facebookapps)
-Jakob Lodwick (founder of Vimeo)
-Kevin Rose (founder of Digg)
-David Karp (founder of tumblr)
-Fred Wilson (general partner at Union Sq Ventures)
-Marco Arment (software genius behind Tumblr)
By early fall, David decided to create Tumblr Inc and spend his time building out the service. We recently invested in the company along with our friends at Union Square Ventures, John Borthwick, Fred Seibert, Jakob Lodwick and Albert Wenger.
David is gearing up for a new release of Tumblr on November 1st and the new stuff looks fantastic.
And I'm now tumbling as well. So this will most likely be my last post on typepad.
Please check out my new site at www.bijansabet.com from now on. And I hope to see you on Tumblr too.
(note: If you are subscribing to his feed then you don't have to make any changes to your reader. This feed will now grab my new site. Thanks to Brad Feld and David for the tip on how to do this. If you aren't reading this feed than subscribe now :)
It's hard to believe that this was the cover of Business Week in 1996 (full story here)
Everyone at the time was predicting the downfall of Apple Computer.
And today Apple announced yet another amazing quarter. They sold 10M ipods, 2.1M macs and 1.1M iphones this quarter. They generated $3.5B in net income for the year. The company now has over $15B in cash and no debt. And the are telling the street that Q1FY08 is going to be huge.
This company is simply incredible.
Go Apple.
(disclosure: i own apple stock. and i'm not selling anytime soon)
Over the weekend Dave Winer sent me a link to his latest creation. Essentially, it's the entire NYT listed in outline form and by keywords. Dave's post describes his thinking behind this creation.
It's pretty exciting. It certainly a better way to navigate the NYT. So simple. No clutter, no fuss, no seductive editorial titles steering your attention. Just the news. Ready to digest.
I think it could have important implications for news and other content types as well.
And I'd love to see mobile news sites presented this way.
Very cool.
I was going to keep this a secret. One that only Lauren knows.
I confess, I have been watching the Bionic Woman. The plot has been ridiculous and underwhelming. But I'm watching it anyway.
Maybe it's because I'm a fan of Battlestar Gallactica and Katee Sackhoff. I really don't know. I do know that it could be so much better though.
Looks like Marc Andreessen is watching as well ;)
Just a quick post before I goto bed tonight.
Dave Winer just sent an email with his slide show from the web 2.0 summit today. Yours truly is somewhere in the bunch along with some other familiar faces & friends.
I think Steve Ballmer probably had the most memorable line at the event today.
During an animated discussion at the Web 2.0 Summit moderated by organizer John Battelle, Ballmer took a paternal tone, saying Microsoft's own Web search technology needed improvements.
"You're just 3 years old, and we've got you in there playing basketball with a 12-year-old," Ballmer gushed and gesticulated, nearly popping out of his seat. "You're growing up quick and getting better every day, and you've got all the potential in world, and it may take you 'til you're 7, 8, 9 or 10, but you're gonna dunk and you're gonna dunk on the other guy some day, Johnny." [from CNNMoney via GigaOM].
It was actually really funny....delivered only the way Steve can do it.
Oh, and I also have a tree planted for me in Niger. It was the attendee gift from the event. This is so much better than typical conference swag.
I'm at the Web 2.0 summit in SF.
In addition to seeing some old friends, I've met a ton of new companies and new people trying to change the world. I met too many people yesterday with new ideas that my head is spinning. The excitement is infectious.
With all of the entrepreneurs running around, VCs running around, and panel after panel, it's not surprising that many folks are wondering if we are in another bubble and if Crash 2.0 is coming soon. My friend Scott Rafer believes we are months away from the next bust. Josh on the other hand points out why the crash-predictors have been actually been with us for a long time.
During one of the panels I actually sat in on, the founder of Topix had a slide about broadband penetration in the US since 2000. Its hard to remember but when the stock market tanked the last time around, broadband penetration in the US market was just under 10%. In retrospect it's hard to believe that we were able to build so many businesses going after so few users. Yes, I know people will remind me that sites in those days were optimized for dialup but c'mon, we know that was just a bandaid. The user experience for dialup is just lame. (think about mobile internet for a moment).
I can't predict when the next crash will come. As an investor, I wish I could.
But I'm encouraged by some entrepreneurs and VCs trying to learn from the past. And I'm encouraged that there are more of us online & connected than ever.
And besides, bulls are more fun than bears :)
I'm in a rocking mood these days. Especially UK rock and roll. New and old.
Before i left for my west coast trip I loaded up my macbook with The Who, Stones, the Alarm, Hard-Fi, Editors and one of my absolute favorites, The Clash.
So here is Death or Glory from London Calling. Turn up your speakers and enjoy.
So my love affair with Dopplr continues.
I had Dan Gillmor in my office yesterday who is one of the founders of the service and a really cool guy.
He asked me how the service could be improved. I told him three things :
1. Outlook and gcal sync. Obvious.
2. Twitter support. I want to broadcast on twitter from dopplr automatically when i'm traveling on the day of travel.
3. LinkedIn style questions to my network on Dopplr. Imagine sending out a question like "what hotel should I stay at for my upcoming trip to nyc?" or it could be used to answer howard's question about SF. That would be powerful. And would be a big step towards User Reviews 2.0. Content with context.
I hand my data off to web services every day. The ones that give me the best value in return I use most often. Simple. That's why i share my personal data with me.dium, last.fm, google, flickr etc.
The place that I probably give the most data to is actually Typepad. Typepad hosts this blog. All of my posts, comments, trackbacks, links, etc.
I'm in the process of moving this blog to a different service that I'm really excited about. So I need to migrate my data from typepad. I'd like to think that my data on typepad is actually mine but it doesn't feel that way as it's hard to make the move.
Since I started bloging, my url has been sabet.typepad.com. This weekend i bought the domain BijanBlog.com. So now if
you goto www.bijanblog.com it will redirect you to this blog for now.
I need to figure out how to move my feedburner feed or most likely I will have to set up a new one. And I need to figure out what technorati will do with inbound links. I suspect I'll have to keep this typepad blog alive in parallel for months while I make the transition. Sigh.
And what to do about comments? I never liked typepad's commenting system. My friend David Karp from Davidville introduced me to Daniel Ha at Disqus several weeks ago. Now I have Disqus powering my comment system. Not only does Disqus provides a substantially better commenting system than typepad but the commenting data is portable. I will be able to bring the service *and data* with me to my new blog. Daniel is a super cool guy and I want to thank him for all of his help. Daniel uses Tumblr and blogs at obscurelyfamous.com
Please let me know if anyone else has info or tips on typepad migration. I'm all ears.
We made it to Honey Pot Hill and spent the morning apple picking, going on a hayride, eating carmel apples and then hanging around the pumpkin patch.
It was simply gorgeous today.
Kids had a blast. Grown ups too.
You'll have to watch Nite Fite to find out.
Brought to you by the same folks that brought us Internet People.
I love this. Reminds me of high school in too many ways.
I subscribe to Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit blog.
Why? Because I'm anxiously awaiting the upcoming version of MS Office 2008. The current version of Entourage is ridiculous. It's old, crashes and it's the last major app to not run natively on Intel hardware.
The Mac BU has been forever trying to convince the Apple faithful that they care about Mac users. Read their posts. They publicly declare their love for all things Mac. And that is great.
But their blog is pathetic. All of their posts are either self congratulatory or they talk about features that people don't care about. Consistently in the comments for every post, customers (only) want to know if Entourage is going to fully support MS Exchange properly or not.
And with each blog post, the folks at the Mac BU at MSFT refuse to answer the question or even acknowledge the question. Here's a recent example of the continued frustration
They might as well just turn off comments at this point. Blogging is an opportunity for companies to talk directly, openly and honestly with their users (read: good, bad & ugly).
Microsoft's Mac blog is anything but.
Last night Peter, Ken, Jeremy, Brian, Heather and the Bug Labs gang hosted a meetup in Cambridge. I think about 70+ people show up.
I met a number of folks at the event including Erik Schwartz from Foneshow who I met thru this blog. Erik lived in the bay area for a long time and moved back east about the time I did so we had a nice chat about Bug Labs and life on the east coast vs west coast.
I also met Dan Bricklin last night which was pretty cool. For those of you that might not know, Dan is the creator of VisiCalc. And he's an active blogger. Check out Dan's post about the Bug gathering last night and his podcast with Peter.
Wade from Xconomy was there last night as well and has this great post
Thanks to everyone who came. The enthusiasm for Bug has been really special.
Update: This is really funny. Here is Bug Labs Episode B which is a follow up to their first video on the beginnings of Bug Labs.
(disclosure: Bug Labs is a Spark portfolio company)
I'll be chatting it up with friends at Scott Kirsner's Tech Blogs in a few weeks.
Scott's description of the evening :
Tech Blogs: How are Blogs Changing the Way Technology is Covered?
Entrepreneurs, CEOs, VCs, journalists, and PR professionals are increasingly cranking out blogs, podcasts, and video dispatches. How does this change the way the tech sector gets covered? What does it mean for CEOs trying to get their stories out, PR firms trying to get coverage for their clients, VC firms touting their investments, journalists trying to cover important news, and customers tracking the market? (Not to mention the relationships between all of these players.)
We'll bring together representatives from all four camps for a wide-ranging conversation (definitely *not* a panel) about the way blogs are changing the game in the tech world.
General Info: Oct 23rd @ the Cambridge Innovation Center. It's free to attend but seating is limited. RSVP.
I've been
wanting waiting for Rhapsody TV. Feels like forever. I want Rhapsody on my existing cable set top box which in my case is the Comcast HD DVR.
Well today Rhapsody and TiVo agreed to devilver Rhapsody TV on TiVo boxes. Henry Blodget says this one is a loser. I think it's smart and can only hope that this service shows up on the upcoming TiVo service on Comcast.
My friend Nabeel is a big fan of the TiVo HD box with cable card. I've been holding off because it doesn't do VOD.
But Rhapsody TV may just push me over to Nabeel's camp.
I made a mistake on my original post about the upcoming Bug Labs MeetUp in Cambridge. It's taking place Oct 9th (tomorrow!). I had the date wrong before.
Hope to see you there.
The song, So Sad About Us, was written by The Who in 1966 and was covered by The Jam.
Here is Paul Weller from The Jam and Pete singing it together a few years back. Absolutely fantastic.


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29 Jan, 2015, 04:15 ET
CHANDLER, Ariz., Jan. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- (NASDAQ: MCHP) – Microchip Technology Incorporated, a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of 35.7 cents per share. The dividend is payable on March 9, 2015 to stockholders of record on February 23, 2015. Microchip initiated quarterly cash dividend payments in the third quarter of fiscal year 2003 and has increased its dividend 44 times since its inception.
"Microchip once again demonstrated its strong cash generation in the quarter ending December 31 2014, ending the period with $2.23 billion in cash and investments on its balance sheet," said Steve Sanghi, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. "Our Board of Directors is pleased to declare an increase in our quarterly cash dividend to a record 35.7 cents per share, which continues to reflect our ongoing commitment to returning value to stockholders."
Cautionary Statement:
The statement contained in this release relating to our commitment to returning value to our stockholders is a forward-looking statement made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This statement involves risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, but not limited to: actual cash flows generated from and used in the operation of our business; actual or projected levels of capital expenditures; our balance of cash and investments and whether such cash and investments are in the U.S. or foreign accounts; the tax impact of distributing accumulated earnings and profits held by our foreign subsidiaries to the U.S.; changes in the tax rates that our stockholders pay on our dividends; our available borrowings under our credit agreement; the impact of any significant acquisitions we may make; our ability to realize the expected benefits of our acquisitions, changes in demand or market acceptance of our products and the products of our customers; the mix of inventory we hold and our ability to satisfy short- term orders from our inventory; changes in utilization of our manufacturing capacity and our ability to effectively manage our production levels; our ability to control the level of operating expenses relative to our level of revenues; competitive developments including pricing pressures; the level of orders that are received and can be shipped in a quarter; the level of sell-through of our products through distribution; changes or fluctuations in customer order patterns and seasonality; costs and outcome of any current or future tax audit or any litigation involving intellectual property, customers or other issues; disruptions in our business or the businesses of our customers or suppliers due to natural disasters (including any floods in Thailand), terrorist activity, armed conflict, war, worldwide oil prices and supply, ebola or other public health concerns or disruptions in the transportation system; and general economic, industry or political conditions in the United States or internationally.
For a detailed discussion of these and other risk factors, please refer to Microchip's filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q. You can obtain copies of Forms 10-K and 10-Q and other relevant documents for free at Microchip's website (www.microchip.com) or the SEC's website (www.sec.gov) or from commercial document retrieval services.
Stockholders of Microchip are cautioned not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date such statements are made. Microchip does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances or new information after this January 29, 2015 press release, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Microchip Technology Incorporated is a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality. For more information, visit the Microchip website at www.microchip.com.
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