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The economic downturn has made them rare in these parts, but make no mistake: The turkeys are back.
With a surplus of nearly $3.5 billion, lawmakers are ready to dole out pet projects for the first time in quite some time. (The Senate budget is still socking away $2.9 billion in reserves, the House budget is putting away $2.6 billion).
"It's good to have a little money again," said Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater. "This is like the old days with the amendments."
Latvala sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, which on Wednesday included a bundle of "amendments", aka "member projects", aka "turkeys", in its $74.3 billion proposed budget.
So there's money stuffed in there for an odd assortment of things, like a Fort Walton Beach ballet school and what not.
Here's a rundown of what made it in the proposed budget, which still must be negotiated with the House for approval, and, if that gets passed, must get by Gov. Rick Scott's veto pen.
Sen. Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, who chairs the Senate's education appropriations committee, proposed these amendments, which were adopted:
$500,000 - National Center for Sports Safety Training
$400,000 - Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at the University of Central Florida
$500,000 - Center for Ethics and Professionalism at the University of Central Florida
$250,000 - Center for Leadership at Florida International University
$936,661 - Lake County Technical Center for Advanced Manufacturing education programs
$1,500,000 - Hernando County School District for targeted career/technical education
$300,000 - Gulf Coast State College Stem Center
$5,000,000 - Palm Beach State College, West Campus
$3,000,000 - Seminole State College, student center
$3,000,000 - Daytona State College, student services, classroom, offices
$2,000,000 - College of Central Florida, Levy Center
$1,000,000 - University of South Florida St. Petersburg
$50,000 - Cuban American Pro Bono project
$200,000 - New World School of Arts (Miami)
$200,000 - Northwest Florida Ballet (Fort Walton Beach)
Sen. Denise Grimsley, R-Sebring, who chairs the Senate's health care committee, proposed these amendments, which were adopted:
$210,000 - La Liga - League Against Cancer
$265,000 - Little Havana Activity Center, local services Rep. Dorothy Hukill, R-Port Orange, proposed this amendment, which was adopted.
$510,000 - New Children's Medical Services facility in Ocala
Sen. Rob Bradley, R-Orange Park, who chairs the Senate's criminal and civil justice appropriations committee, proposed the following, which were adopted:
$300,000 - Clay Behavioral Health Center, Community Crisis Prevention Team
$381,250 - New PACE Center for Girls in Miami-Dade
$1,000,000 - Historic county courthouse restoration
Sen. Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, who chairs the Senate's transportation appropriations committee, proposed these amendments, which were adopted.
$100,000 - New compost machine for Dade Correctional Institute
$500,000 - Frank Lloyd Wright Tourism and Education Center at Florida Southern College, Lakeland
$400,000 - Tampa Bay Innovation Center for St. Petersburg Technology Incubator
$250,000 - Orange County Library Research and Development
Gardiner and Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto, R-Ft. Myers, proposed this amendment, which was adopted: $100,000 - Miami Science Museum cultural grant
Benacquisto, who is vice chair of appropriations, also proposed this amendment, which was adopted:
$500,000 - Broward County Sheriff's Office for child protective investigation
$500,000 - Opportunity, Inc. Okaloosa Walton Homeless Continuum of Care
Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, who chairs the Senate's government operations appropriations committee, proposed these amendment, which were adopted:
$250,000 - Tampa Westshore Waterways Improvement project
$129,000 - Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Building
$75,000 -- Steinhatchee River improvement project
Even Democrats got in the act. Sure some amendments were shot down, but others got adopted. Here they are.
Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, proposed this amendment, which was adopted:
$1,000,000 - Employment and Internships Program in the Agency for Persons with Disabilities
Sen. Gwen Margolis, D-Coconut Grove, proposed these amendments, which were adopted:
$771,671 - Mt. Sinai Memory Disorder Clinic in Miami-Dade
$100,000 - Mt. Sinai Brain Bank in Miami Beach
Sen. Bill Montford, D-Apalachicola, proposed this amendment, which was adopted:
$100,000 - Gadsden County Sheriff's Community and Recreation Center.
Meanwhile, the House didn't approve any amendments. Rep. Ronald Renuart, R-Ponte Vedra Beach, proposed a few amendments of note.
$1,000,000 - St. Johns Sheriff's Office Detoxification program
$500,000 -St. Augustine documentary film. But he withdrew the amendments. They were already included in the Senate budget.


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It is some sort of unwritten rule of nature that it will snow by Halloween at Drowsy Water Ranch. We've already enjoyed two storms of six to eight inches and it's barely even November. All I have to say about this transition from fall to the fluffy white stuff is this:
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A dark, gangly figure emerged from the Boston and Providence Railroad depot in Park Square on Sept. 15, 1848. Except for his unusually lofty, angular frame, Abraham Lincoln would have attracted little notice as he walked the byways of Boston. The obscure 39-year-old freshman congressman was on his first visit to the city and his first venture into presidential politics. Lincoln's long gait carried him to lodgings at the elegant Tremont House at the corner of Tremont and Beacon, just steps from the bones of Hancock, Revere, and the other patriots in the adjacent Granary Burying Ground.
The Abraham Lincoln who visited Massachusetts in 1848 was not yet leading man material. But on a 13-day trip in which he spoke before audiences in Boston and eight nearby towns, Lincoln got his first glimpse at the intensity of antislavery sentiment in Massachusetts and emerged with a deeper sense that political action on slavery was necessary.
The Lincoln who has entered historical legend—and who is now the subject of a major new Hollywood movie—is the autodidact born in the Kentucky log cabin, molded in the Indiana and Illinois plains by the great American tradition of self-reliance, and sent to Washington from a state still not far from the frontier. But Boston played an important role in developing his views on the defining moral issue of the century—and of his presidency.
As archives and newspapers of the time reveal, abolitionist Boston—both during his 1848 visit and his White House years—helped prod a once cautious, pragmatic politician to follow his conscience and push for the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment.
Ironically, Lincoln's mission in Boston on that 1848 visit was to stump for one of America's largest slaveholders. With just weeks to go before the presidential election, Whig Party leaders dispatched Lincoln to Massachusetts to bolster support for their nominee, Zachary Taylor, the 63-year-old general and veteran of the Mexican-American War, who owned more than 100 slaves on his Mississippi plantation.
Although Lincoln opposed the war and saw slavery as an evil institution, he had been among the first congressmen to jump on the Taylor bandwagon for a purely political reason: He thought the slave-owning war hero could win. In the antislavery cauldron of Boston, however, frustration at Taylor's nomination had bubbled to the surface. The staunch Whig stronghold had begun to crack, with supporters defecting to the upstart Free Soil Party and its nominee, former president Martin Van Buren. Lincoln's task was to help blunt the third party's momentum.
As Lincoln canvassed the Bay State, he played the familiar role of campaign surrogate as attack dog. Before audiences in Boston, Worcester, New Bedford, Lowell, Dedham, Taunton, Chelsea, Cambridge, and Dorchester, he blasted Van Buren as the "artful dodger" of Kinderhook for shifting parties and flip-flopping. Newspapers of the time reported his warning that a vote for Van Buren was a vote for the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, who supported popular sovereignty and the possible extension of slavery.
In general, Lincoln's first foray into the spotlight of a presidential campaign won positive reviews. His stump speech, which generally lasted more than an hour, drew plaudits in the region's newspapers, but his unusual appearance and unique speaking style tended to draw almost equal commentary. "Mr. Lincoln has a very tall and thin figure, with an intellectual face, showing a searching mind, and a cool judgment," the Boston Daily Advertiser reported. Audiences accustomed to the grandiose oratory of Daniel Webster or Edward Everett were taken by Lincoln's folksier demeanor as he shed his coat, rolled up his shirtsleeves, and loosened his necktie like a prairie lawyer prosecuting his case.
Lincoln's final night in Boston would have a lasting effect on the Illinois congressman. Rain had forced a giant open-air Whig rally in Court Square to be moved inside to the Tremont Temple church, a former theater that had once been managed by famed tragedian Junius Brutus Booth, father of John Wilkes Booth. Former governor William H. Seward of New York was the headline speaker; it was there that Lincoln first met his future rival for the 1860 Republican nomination and the man who would ultimately join his wartime Cabinet as Secretary of State.
That night, Lincoln delivered his standard stump speech against Van Buren. The Boston Courier later called it "a most forcible and convincing speech, which drew down thunders of applause." But Seward's speech was bolder. Unlike other speakers that evening, who shied away from the topic, Seward focused his remarks almost entirely on slavery, and predicted that the slaves would be freed during his lifetime.
Their efforts were not in vain: Taylor carried Massachusetts and 14 of the other 29 states on his way to the presidency. With the exception of Worcester, the Whig candidate won every town in which Lincoln spoke. In fact, though, Lincoln's own role in electing Taylor was likely minimal. By the end of his campaign swing, Boston dailies were still misspelling his name as "Abram Lincoln." The influence of Boston on Lincoln, meanwhile, would endure over days and years to come.
Seward's antislavery speech at Tremont Temple moved Lincoln profoundly. Shortly after the rally, he told the former New York governor, "I have been thinking about what you said in your speech. I reckon you are right. We have got to deal with this slavery question, and got to give more attention to it hereafter than we have been doing." Even though the two men did not meet again for a dozen years, Lincoln in 1860 still vividly recalled their meeting in Boston: "Twelve years ago you told me that this cause would be successful, and ever since I have believed that it would be."
'I have been thinking about what you said in your speech. I reckon you are right. We have got to deal with this slavery question, and got to give more attention to it hereafter than we have been doing.'
Perhaps spurred by Seward's sentiments, Lincoln returned to Congress and immediately drafted a proposal for the gradual emancipation of slaves in the District of Columbia; on the proslavery side, the proposal also included compensation for slave owners and the arrest of all fugitive slaves in the capital. This compromise measure was ultimately scuttled by zealous lawmakers on both sides of the slavery issue, and caused Boston abolitionist Wendell Phillips, frustrated at Lincoln's tentative approach on such a clear moral issue, to call him "that slave hound from Illinois."
But Lincoln's conversion to the cause was still unfolding. Over the next decade, his own furor for the antislavery cause deepened to match the passion he had encountered in Massachusetts and ultimately forged his political destiny. The state's antislavery Whigs and those Free Soilers whom Lincoln railed against in 1848 helped launch the Republican Party, which nominated the former Illinois congressman as its standard-bearer in 1860 on a platform advocating against slavery's spread. In the general election, Lincoln carried Massachusetts easily.
Once Lincoln was in the White House, Boston's support for—and influence on—the new president continued. Radical Boston abolitionists such as Phillips, Julia Ward Howe, and William Lloyd Garrison kept the pressure on Lincoln to follow his ideals, and when war broke out, Bostonians enthusiastically answered his call for volunteers. Four days after the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, crowds lined the city streets to cheer the parading Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment as it left to protect the nation's capital. Attacked by Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore, four of the unit's soldiers became the first to spill blood for the Union cause. When other state units failed to arrive in Washington, Lincoln complained to the Massachusetts militiamen, "You are the only Northern realities."
Once those Bay State soldiers and the rest of the Union Army turned the tide of the Civil War, Lincoln finally issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and in a nod to the moral leadership of Massachusetts abolitionists, he symbolically gave the pen used to sign the document to longtime Boston antislavery crusader George Livermore. That gift symbolized just how much the politician who came to Boston in 1848 seeking votes for a slaveholder had evolved.
Today, tucked in a corner of Park Square near the spot where Lincoln first set foot in the city, stands an enduring monument to the Great Emancipator. At its base is an inscription to Lincoln's final legacy to Massachusetts and beyond: "A race set free and the country at peace—Lincoln rests from his labors."Christopher Klein is the author of the forthcoming biography "Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan." E-mail him at email@example.com.


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The familiar Paul Walden greeting, "Good morning," is emblazoned in the minds of those who knew the late Hood River legislator, and now the phrase is permanently commemorated on a flagpole at his final home, Providence Brookside Manor.
Walden, who died March 28 at the age of 85, was well known for greeting friends with, "Good Morning," morning, afternoon or evening.
"And to me, it was usually, 'stay calm'," said his son, Greg Walden, during Saturday's dedication ceremony attended by about 100 people at Brookside.
The flagpole on the south end of the grounds bears a plaque reading: "Good Morning. Our Flagpole and all it Represents/Dedicated to the Life of Paul Walden/A Committed Public Servant and Great Friend."
Greg Walden, the Second District U.S. Representative, recently gave his father a flag that had flown over the U.S. Capitol, and Walden elder had decided Brookside needed a flagpole to fly the banner. He helped start a fundraising campaign along with other residents.
Paul Walden was described as a standard of friendship and humor in his two years at Brookside, as well as throughout his career in the state Legislature in the 1970s, and 47 years as radio broadcaster in Hood River and The Dalles.
"Paul was a man of all seasons who could adjust to any circumstance," said Walden's friend, Bob Neiman, during the short ceremony.
Neiman said Walden and other friends had breakfast every day together at Brookside. They traded "puns, jokes and even insults," Neiman said.
"He'd look us over and say, 'Is everybody up?' Well, we were all up in different stages. But Paul, we're all up in your honor and we salute you."
Rachel Shields of Hood River said Paul "never refused a phone call, even when he was on the (Legislative) floor. He was always interested in child care legislation."
Greg Walden said that his father, as the only boy growing up with six sisters, "felt picked on but he always had a way of getting even."
One night, his youngest sister kicked him under the large oak dinner table, and, in retrailation he kicked her back.
"His dad asked, 'Who kicked me?' and his sister said, 'I thought I had kicked Paul.'
"Dad never said a word. He knew when to keep quiet," Greg Walden said.
Brookside administrator Mary De La Rue welcomed the public to the event, and Providence Chaplain Gary Young led the group in prayer.
The Boy Scouts of Troop 378 raised the flag followed by the assemblage singing "America" — all four verses.
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LaChaston Smith scored his third touchdown with 19 seconds left to lift South Iredell to a 30-27 victory over Carrboro on Saturday night in the Class 2AA North Carolina High School Athletic Association championship game.
Smith, the game's MVP, finished with 152 yards rushing for South Iredell (14-2), which won its first-ever state championship in football.
Quarterback Alex McVeigh rushed for 101 yards and two touchdowns for Carrboro (15-1), and his 12-yard scoring run with 2:37 left put Carrboro up 27-23.
Quarterback Davin King and Smith led South Iredell downfield, moving 62 yards in eight plays. King found Scott Miller for a 19-yard gain to the Carrboro 1, and three plays later, Smith scored the game-winner.
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Where do you start looking for an island of pattern in the ocean of operational data? What sort of team works best to discover patterns of customer behaviour? Once found, how should this behaviour be mined? At our roundtable held in Singapore in late January this year, IT leaders pondered these questions, among others.
Methods of starting a big customer profitability project Lim Khee Ming: [One goal of business intelligence is to know] the segmentation of our customer and merchant sectors, profitability, pricing, promotions of opportunity and how to promote the usage of NETS. There is also the utilisation of assets.
Say I deploy a NETS terminal that costs us x dollars. How much am I getting from that terminal?
There is the segmentation of customers and pricing, which is quite basic for business. There has been a recent emphasis on more promotion: How do we promote the use of the payment instrument? We need to analyse how to pry open certain segments of the market that are just beginning to use electronic payment means like cash cards or NETS.
So in recent months we came up with a new loyalty scheme, the NETS Rewards Scheme. This is a registered group, so we can track their spending habits. It allows us to get in touch and analyse patterns. We can have e-mail promotions, for example, whereas the cash card user is anonymous and they don't register with us, so we can only do mass marketing.
[As for the problem of insufficient transaction data], I think it's quite a normal problem to have data gaps; as new business strategies are founded, an organisation will need information not captured in the operational database. We've been filling the gap through various means, including manual. [To discover consumption patterns that we would not think of looking for] we use a lot of research organisations-market research, consumer research groups. We also do focus groups, market studies and so on.
First - forge the customer profitability team
Michael Rieder: Our challenge is more to figure out how can we optimise the [financial services] offers that we have every day. This is looking at individuals rather than just people as members of a huge group.
Our question was, how do you ask a question about something you don't know? One way to do that is to be really, really creative. Sometimes, a crazy question can help you figure out whether you have the material to support it.
And then work with a research organisation as well, just to figure out whether somebody else has had similar experiences and how the same solution could be applied.
You need to find the right mindset for the organisation. In OCBC we have departments, obviously marketing is one, to do exactly that, to be really at the edge of where we need to push the organisation and the relationships with our customers to the next level. At the end of the day, customer profitability comes through better relationships, not just making a quick buck. It's not the first sale that matters; it's the second, the third and the fourth, the sustainability of things, which will drive our profitability.
[To create a customer profitability team] I think you'll find that increasingly other dimensions of the business [will be leading], particularly risk management banking. They'll find themselves in the same boat. They're looking for exactly the same information, but they want to do something different with it.
After that the two parties compare notes and only then can you really go out to the customer. So while [marketing] traditionally has been very strong in [such teams], you see that there's a spillover effect, partially driven by external influence like the Basel Accord [on regulatory compliance] but also internally, where you realise, you can do this, maybe now I can start thinking about the way I'm doing business in slightly different ways.
You have to then join forces. At that point, you will find that some of the skills wanted in the business are very scarce. You need people like statisticians, business analysts, sometimes simply visionaries. People willing to think outside the box. People who are willing to challenge the status quo; they will drive you to the next level.
They are usually supported by a reasonable number of people who are very good at number crunching. It gets a bit more challenging if you want to go more into qualitative data analysis or, as you were mentioning, knowledge management. Because a lot of knowledge in financial services is still on paper. How do you mine paper?
As you see the capabilities emerging you get more people joining the boat, and then off you go. But you need to have somebody with a real business drive. I'm in the technology group, we can have a vision, but that vision is meaningless if you don't find a partner in the business who is hearing it with you.
[For IT's role in customer profitability teams] It's really a totally different ballgame if you can call it partnership, because it has to be a win-win situation, not just for the organisation with our external customers, but also internally. You need to make sure that at both ends of the spectrum inside the organisation you have the right skills.
You can't just have the programmers and the high-end analysts; there needs to be a good mix. IT also needs to have their analysts, people who are business trained, which is a change in the way we have to recruit people. If you want to make business intelligence really, really effective, you have to look at your skill base through the entire data supply chain.
And don't be too subtle-always have some degree of overlap. In some cases even take somebody from the leading edge, put them right back into the data supply side of the chain, not just near where you're using the data. We must constantly challenge the status quo to get us to the next level.
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Suganthi Shivkumar: We are constantly running projects where customer profitability is at the heart of everyone, including the CEO. There are several ways that companies that we have engaged with want to do it.
They may want to focus on the high net worth customers and run special campaigns or projects or retention programs for these guys, because if you lose them you lose big bucks. We did a lot of campaign management, marketing consulting and so on, to focus on these high-end customers.
But as to exactly how these programs resulted in tangible benefits to the organisation-it's something that can fizzle out unless it's properly tracked and monitored. So we often enable the tracking of the effectiveness of these campaigns. That's one very important area when we do our projects.
You run a lot of these campaigns, but how do we really know what was effective? You can get a feeling that this one gave me two, that one gave me three, but you really need to get at hard figures, how much you spent on the campaign, how much the campaign actually returned, how many mandated, everything.
At the end of the day it's all translated into knowledge. It actually tells you whether this campaign was focused on the right group or if maybe you should have targeted a different customer segment. We get a lot of insights into our customers by doing this sort of thing.
While we like to engage the entire organisation and have a very collaborative effort, these are people who jump on the wagon, saying I want this, I want that... it's lovely because there's a lot of excitement and energy in the organisation, but we realise that when we try to satisfy everybody at the same time the project could get very diluted, and it becomes just a reporting thing rather than really giving you the true analytic step you need. Focusing on everything is awful.
[In winning management sponsorship], when it comes to other things like customer profitability, customer retention and so forth, they are good buzzwords and executive sponsorship is more forthcoming in these areas. So for those quick wins and to establish your credibility in the organisation, I think it's important that you choose the right project that strikes a chord, like the topics you all discuss each day.
Using external parties Damien Wong: You can't expect consultants to be experts in your particular organisation, but you can expect some of the expertise that they have accumulated elsewhere, and maybe draw parallels to your organisation that you can benefit from.
I guess that's why organisations like mine also exist-we've got multiple research organisations, we're not the smartest people on earth, but we talk to a lot of customers who have similar problems. Maybe, by chance, they've adopted similar approaches that worked or took a similar approach and left a disaster, and you want to avoid those as well.
So I think one of the things that we can benefit from is the knowledge of organisations that do have access to other organisations, what their experiences are and knowing what they've done.
Making innovation a way of life
John Heng: At 3M, we have a culture of innovation. A lot of the staff spend 15 per cent of their time doing things outside their main area; this is where creativity comes in. Of course you will make mistakes, but there is no black mark, because hopefully if everybody thinks like that, we are able to get one or two good ideas for commercialisation, and that's a success.
With BI we're simply trying to translate rich data stores into information, and this information is knowledge that people at different levels of the organisation can use when they've got to make a decision.
But the executives won't be able to understand BI, and they can't be bothered to understand the data warehouse or online application processing. For management or senior management, it can be hard to see the tools until you show them how to drive the car. If not, they can't see it, because their focus is on the business.
So we've got to have a way to show them how to drive the car to get from here to here, rather than walk. You can start to help them think about how to have a process, supported by these tools. Eventually, the BI comes in.
And, very importantly, you must start small. Obviously you've got to start small because it's a learning process...you can learn from the mistakes, you can advance and improve.
Even though in 3M we have had BI for the last three years, we are still learning. On the other hand, from the knowledge we've accumulated, we are able to deploy BI with greater breadth and depth within the organisation. With the experience, we can spread the tools and make the organisation more effective, information is more agile, and there are no more silos. Everything is under this umbrella of BI.
The hurdle of turning unfamiliar data into familiar data Teo Chin Seng: There are two forms of intelligence, one from the structured world and the other, from the unstructured. The unstructured world includes things like spreadsheets [on private hard drives] and intelligence reporting. But BI is a very, very structured reporting tool. It doesn't handle unstructured information.
We need these two dimensions, structured and unstructured, to come together in order to give us a good perspective of the data field that we are playing in. Under the structured field in our organisation, we find one thing that is very true: It's not so much the tools that are important, it's actually the familiarity of the information produced by the structured environment.
We are very good in BI, we are thinking of familiar data, but we are very weak at putting the unstructured into the structured world. Even the marketing campaign we have, the salespeople in the field talking to customers, the feedback. These are D: drive secret files that many our employees have, e-mail. How do we harvest the richness of that information to make it fit a structured world?
[Internal customers asking for unfamiliar data] happens in planning but that doesn't happen in the mainstream of the business. So in our case, we practice the reality of data, and it is that the truth of data cascading is the final dimension of data gets presented.
This is very important because this dimension of data tells me how healthy the information and the business are. What are the various aspects of the business that we are running that are profitable and not profitable? Are we going to have a weak quarter or a strong quarter?
So isn't this BI? Yes, but it is not typical BI. It's not about "maybe" or "to be" or assumptions about the future. In the second part, where it is unstructured, this is where our IP [intellectual property] is, our intelligence, about how to design a vehicle of the future, for example. This is our struggle. And how we are able to do it is to follow the same rule, how we draw to the surface the familiar behaviour of the organisation, in this case, how to use unstructured data.
We are working on one thing that is very rich to us, which is e-mail. E-mail has a lot of intelligence coming out of the organisation, for example problems with a product. So we are working to link that information into structured information.
Does the vendor matter? Wong: The key thing I hear is, it's not just about tools, [you're buying an] IP platform. I think that mentality is when you're buying a tool, but what you really need is a hole in the wall, not a new drill. So at the end of the day it's all about the application of the tool in the right context and for the right purposes, which are important.
There are differences between vendors, but primarily they are all drills, whether power drills or handheld. Primarily it's how we use it. I see people use Excel spreadsheets extremely effectively, to turn up valuable information from raw data. And I've also seen people who have bought multimillion-dollar applications, which become white elephants.
We need to keep in mind that BI is more than just an IT platform. It's about being able to apply paradigms and tools towards an end, and once you're at that end, that's where the human aspects of intelligence come into play. There is no point having reports, no point having trends which say Thursday afternoons are when most customers come in to deposit $50 bills or what that means for the business. Does it impact customer profitability? The human aspects of applying this intelligence are important.
Rieder: You should be actually asking actionable questions and not just piling report on report. From an IT point of view, once the organisation wakes up to BI, you have all these questions falling in and everybody thinks he or she has a great business case. I'm not going to question whether they do or whether they don't, but we need to find a way to prioritise.
The first way to split the pile into more and less effective questions is just to ask: "What are you going to do with the data, what action are you going to take if I give you that data?" If they look at you with a blank face, it's a good indicator it's a meaningless question. But those can who come back and say: "If I had this I could do that," I'm more than happy to pool in whatever kind of resources they require, because these people transform the organisation.
Making it personal
Christopher Ong: What BI needs is some sort of personalisation, where you can slice or dice the information, and actually make it something to help users in completing their goal, whatever direction they're looking into.
That's my buy-in factor. So in a sense I'm not looking for total solutions, because there are combinations of products and tools I can use. From an IT standpoint, this is our value. To do the integration, so that in the end-user's point of view there's only one system.
This roundtable was kindly sponsored by Hyperion.
Delegates at the BI roundtable: Lim Khee Ming, Chief Technology Officer, Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS) Pte Ltd., an electronic payment services provider Christopher Ong, Senior Manager, Management Information Systems, DBS Asset Management Ltd.
Michael Rieder, Vice President, Technology Solutions, Control and Risk, OCBC Bank
Teo Chin Seng, CIO, Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd., an engineering firm providing defence and electronics services
John Heng, CIO, 3M Singapore, a diversified technology firm
Damien Wong, Vice President & General Manager, META Group Singapore, a research firm
Suganthi Shivkumar, Director, Asean, Hyperion, a business performance management solutions provider


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Dot dot dot (October 2006) is a zine produced by honours students in the in the Painting Workshop, ANU School of Art, Canberra, Australia. Consisting purely of drawings photocopied in both colour and black and white, the artists saved their text for the cover, which was set in metal type and printed using letterpress in the Book Studio, Printmedia & Drawing Workshop.
The zine artists were: Tim Price, Erik Krebs-Schade, Tiffany Cole, Kalina Pilat, and Della Jackson. The project was co-ordinated by Raquel Ormella of the Painting Workshop with printing help from Caren Florance of the Book Studio.
The zine was produced in an edition of about 270, and was launched at the 2006 Newcastle Zine and Independent Press Fair.
External Links
- Book Studio Blog, Printmedia & Drawing Workshop, ANU School of Art, Canberra, Australia - featuring images of the authors and the production process.


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Welcome to the Chicago Openmoko page!
This group is for anyone in Chicago and surrounding areas. Hopefully we'll be able to organize an event for when a few of us get the Neo1973s.
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It has been suggested in discussions, both here and elsewhere, that there are "atheist fanatics" and that they are "just the same" as religious fanatics. Personally, I find this assertion ludicrous and loathsome. To me, it is simply a new formulation of the "fundamentalist atheist" canard--it is just a way of trying to get vocal atheists to shut up by bringing social pressure to bear. It is just another way of calling us "intolerant" for daring to think they are wrong. I think this is the first step to forcing us all to either embrace religious belief again or go back in the closet and pretend to embrace religious belief.
So the question for discussion is whether atheistic fanaticism really exists and, if it does, whether or not it is comparable to religious fanaticism.
As I think I have made clear, I do not think that atheistic fanaticism really exists. I think it is just a label put on those atheists who dare to state that they are right and the religious are wrong as a matter of fact. The religious can say this without a label being attached to them; we cannot.
I think it is also clear that even the most extreme atheists do not even remotely come close to the fanaticism of the religious.
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To further expand a bit, I'd like to go back to the previous example of the Soviet Communist example of atheist killing and toturing Christians (and Jews during pogroms) in the early days of the USSR.
First, I'll specify a bit how I'll use the word. I find food, wine, car, etc., "fanatic" is a bit of an overapplication of the term. I find the word enthusiast to be more applicable and descriptive when used in a positive sense. So in context of the discussion and the following, I'll work under the presumption that it refers to negative fanaticism, and fanaticism to be the irrational acts/behavior of a fanatic. Essentially, illogical behavior.
Secondly, I'll have to say I don't find an immediate issue with atheists being fanatics. They won't be religious fanatics, but they can easily be fanatics for other causes. Seeing as people occationally get killed over weak performance in sport events, humans seem to have the ability to be fanatical about pretty much anything.
My third point will revolve around the USSR. Your interjection that (applied) Communism shares many values with religion (i.e. personality cult based, thought control, world conquest, indoctrination of children, subjugation of women, and importantly: justifying killing of non-believers) is certainly valid, but it's moving the goal post a bit too far in my opinion. Communism doesn't have an expressed wish of atheism. However, it does logically follow from its philosophy as religion will hold non-state power over people, which there is an expressed regulation of.
Fourth, Lenin was certainly militantly anti religious. Though Stalin might just be concidered someone with enormous psychological issues willing to kill anyone without cause, Lenin was a slightly more docile figure by comparison. That the killing of a large number of Christians, even by using Christian symbolism in the act, occured, caused by his commands, is therefore evidence that they were killed primarily because they were religious, and caused by atheist fanatical hate.
Therefore, as communists were both atheist and fanatical, as well as killing probably hundreds of thousands because they refused to renounce religion, I would conclude with atheists not only having the capability of being fanatical, but already having killed in the name of atheism.
I appreciate the analysis, but I think the people slaughtered under Stalin were slaughtered to get rid of the "useless eaters", and any excuse was a good one for such a regime. It was more political than religious, imho.
I think there are two forces of thought at play here. 1> Not to be referred to as "fanatics" is to comfortably and smugly know that science and logic are on our side. And, when the religious try to brand us, as to identify and marginalize us, we can smile, shake our heads and be quiet. 2> But if we embrace the term "fanatics", and in doing so, 'fess up to who we are, we make it clear that humbly living in a world, dominated by the insane, makes US even MORE insane. When the rapture doesn't come, and lions don't lie down with lambs, the religious fanatics will lose what is left of their beliefs and do what all prisoners do when security breaks down, they riot and kill. They will have not themselves in whom to believe. There is nothing more scary than a Southern Baptist who finds out that he is wrong.
We know!! They don't. We'll survive!! They won't.
If Atheist fanaticism does not exist, then we need to make it so.
Yes-you're post brought a thought to my mind-last time I checked, there were no "Atheist Missionaires", nor has an Atheist knocked on my door, or gotten on my TV telling me there would be a hurricane if I didn't become an Atheist....I don't think Atheists are very "fanatical", by those standards:)
I think atheist fanatics ... if they are exist, Then perhaps fanaticism is a part of their nature! just like racism..
or perhaps some of them grew up in a society that a dopts fascist ideas. or racist society.
If they are exist, then this is sad indeed.
Anyway atheists are not the same for sure.
Lots of things are theoretically possible, but I don't see any evidence to support the hypothesis that "there are fanatics on both sides". In fact, what I see is a disturbing lack of engagement on the part of atheists. The theists are actively trying to "take over" in many places, including the U.S., and impose theocracy. Most atheists act like they just don't really care much about that. In Europe, they are sometimes affirmatively aiding those who want to take over because they can't deal with conflict. If there are atheist fanatics, I don't see much evidence of them.
I think what is usually meant by such comments is that people like Dawkins and Hitchens should stop speaking the truth.


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In respect to Lexis/Westlaw, we hope that no one breaks any preexisting contracts they have. As independent contractors, our associates will be responsible for the means and methods they choose to utilize in completing projects.
First of all, we are a startup and make no claims to the pretensions of the traditional law industry. For this reason, we will advertise here, there and everywhere.
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'The Amazing Spider-Man'Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma StoneDirected by: Marc WebbRated: PG-13My spidey sense tells me that this is going to be one of the biggest movies of the summer because it's that good — on every level. For anyone asking why this Marvel Comic hero needed a reboot after the highly successful trilogy starring Toby Maguire, this new feature will quell any discussion despite some of the liberties taken with the character's mythology.
Young Peter Parker's parents still die and he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle (played by Sally Field and Martin Sheen), but the spider bite that gives him his powers is no longer radioactive. Instead it's a genetically mutated spider busily spinning a wicked web in the OsCorp lab where Dr. Curt Cooper (Rhys Ifans), a former associate of Peter's dad, is fiddling around with regenerative cross mutations of animal and human DNA.
The reintroduction of Peter becoming Spider-Man requires a lot of expository scenes front loaded into the action as he hones his new athletic skills and hyper-senses caused by the bite. The story must also cover the burgeoning love story between shy Peter and sassy classmate, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). The accidental killing of Peter's uncle in a robbery attempt that is sort of Peter's fault is the impetus for him to come up with a mask and costume to disguise himself as he searches for the killer, something that captures the attention of the police chief (Denis Leary), also Gwen's dad.
But the real action kicks in around the halfway mark when Dr. Cooper's experiments turn him into a giant green lizard that menaces the city, threatening to unleash a bio-weapon that will infect the population with the same scaly fate — a plot point not as evolved as the creature Dr. Cooper becomes.
Refined special effects breathe new life into this story. Also there is real chemistry with real-life couple Garfield and Stone. While perhaps a tad too old to play high school sweethearts, they both imbue their characters with the necessary innocence and uncertainty that is age appropriate. Garfield especially offers a more nuanced interpretation of the orphaned teen with a lot of angst — both human and superhuman.
Directed by Marc Webb, the visuals are exhilarating as Spider-Man scales dizzying heights scraping the sides of the city's tallest buildings — a perfect environment to take the 3D effects for a spin. The Howard Shore score adds a nice, soaring touch that complements the aerial ballet. No doubt this "Spiderman" will soon be returning with a sequel.
'Savages'Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, Selma Hayek, John TravoltaDirected by: Oliver StoneRated: R
This is more akin to Oliver Stone's hyper-violent "Natural Born Killers" than the proselytizing he engaged in with "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps." It's hard to pigeonhole Stone, who has made movies about everything from past presidents to spree killers. But a movie about Mexican drug cartels seems perfect for his talents, and he unleashes the violence and mayhem in this feature based on Don Winslow's New York Times bestseller.
In idyllic Laguna Beach, Chon (Taylor Kitsch) and Ben (Aaron Johnson) share a hugely successful pot enterprise and a girlfriend, "O" for Ophelia (Blake Lively), who also narrates the story. The sunkissed ménage a trois live the good life in an expensive beach pad with Ben, a soft-spoken botanist, growing a world-renown product, and Chon, an ex-SEAL who toured Afghanistan, keeping the business end functioning.
When a Baja cartel led by Elena (Selma Hayek) wants to partner up, the independent producers naively turn down the offer. That mistake leads to O's kidnapping at the hands of Elena's stateside enforcer Lado (Benecio Del Toro with an amazing mullet). Playing both sides against the middle is an opportunistic DEA agent (John Travolta), who switches allegiances as often as it takes to save his own skin. Meanwhile, Ben and Chon are forced to adapt to the cartel methods they disdain to get back their girl.
Stone pumps up the action with crazy camera work using a wide range of mediums and techniques including black and white, oversaturation, digital, handheld shots — a vertiginous mix that feels suited for the story. Stone typically overplays his hand, and here he does so with ultra violent scenes of torture and some epic shootouts that are over the top. It's fierce and vicious and feels ripped from the headlines of Mexico's newspapers.
The trilogy of underperforming young stars is no match for the veterans who dive into their roles with brio. Del Toro is a menacing thug who seems to relish his work, whether that is whipping a man to death or raping girls. Travolta is a wily buffoon who appears blessed with the ability to think on his feet. Of the three, though, the best is Hayek as the wicked female cartel leader who seems as hard as a Lee press-on nail but reveals a softer side.
Her feminine wiles serve her in business, but she also offers good advice when she purrs in her husky voice to her captor, "There is something wrong with your love story, baby."
Gratuitous violence aside, this is a better product than Stone has produced in some time. The story moves quickly and Hayek makes a super "Savage."
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Topic: the first time I met Jeremy Bolloch
i remeber the first time I met Jeremy Bolloch I was ten. back in 1995, when my dad's friend who used to put on sci-fi conventions had Jeremy come over at comix connection in mechanicsburg pennsylvania. I got to hang out with him all day and went out to dinner with him. He signed a Boba Fett helmet,the first issue of the dark horse series comic book boba fett, a star wars card with the picture of him at sarlacc's pit,and an 8x10. Needless to say since then I have been a bonafide Boba Freek,
I was lucky enough to meet him a couple years later and he rememberd me.
I hope someday I can meet him again.


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The Springfield School Board is considering starting school one hour later, one day per week, next year to allow for additional teacher collaboration.
The Springfield School Board is considering a proposal to start school one hour later, one day per week, next year to allow for additional teacher collaboration and professional development.
Meanwhile, Springfield School Superintendent Bob Hill said at Monday's board meeting that he received death threats from gun-rights advocates for his initial refusal to pull a controversial workbook that mischaracterized the Second Amendment.
Hill told board members Monday the recommendation to change the school calendar comes from negotiations last summer with the teachers' union, district administration and Sangamon County Regional Office of Education.
Those negotiations also resulted in the board voting to eliminate a collaboration period at the high schools to maintain a seven-period school day.
Hill said the district can push back the start time one hour — likely on Wednesday — through a process under the Illinois School Code that allows districts to bank time.
The district could bank 15 minutes per day on the other four days of the week to free up an additional hour for teachers to collaborate in the morning, he said.
Not having enough time to collaborate, especially at the elementary level, was a concern raised by the union, Hill said.
In addition, the shakeup to the 2014-15-school calendar, if approved, would increase the number of attendance days from 171 to 175, reduce the number of teacher institute days, as well as cut the number of parent-teacher conferences from two to one.
"This is not an uncommon practice across the country," Hill said about pushing start times an hour each day.
However, the change doesn't come without hurdles, Hill acknowledged.
He said the district would have to expand SCOPE, a before- and- after- school program for children of parents who work, to make the transition easier. The bus schedule would also have to be altered to accommodate the later start, he added.
District officials and board members will meet with parents moving forward to address any concerns, he said.
"This is a significant change for us to ask the stakeholders in this community to participate in," Hill said.
Although no votes were cast Monday, several board members indicated they support the change.
Adam Lopez said he sees it as a good idea, but expressed concerns about students getting dropped off too early.
Hill told Lopez principals are aware of the potential problem and are coming up with a plan, adding that no students would be locked out of buildings for showing up early.
Mike Zimmers said a lack of collaboration time at the elementary schools has been an issue for years.
"To me as a whole, this is a win-win," Zimmers said.
Second Amendment
Before discussing the change to the calendar, Hill addressed a controversy that surfaced last month about a workbook used at Grant Middle School, 1800 W. Monroe St., discussing the Second Amendment.
Gun-rights supporters claim students at Grant are being taught that the Second Amendment permits only strictly regulated, registered gun ownership.
Hill defended his refusal to pull the workbook Monday, saying board policy is not to intervene in teacher-generated content unless it editorializes. Hill also said he believed the issue centered on a teacher's academic freedom.
However, since the controversy, Hill noted staff at Grant met and decided to keep the workbook but to edit and change the section in question. Hill called the decision appropriate.
One person spoke out against the district Monday. Leland Rhodes said children at Grant were being fed lies, and the district should do a better job of reviewing teacher-generated material.
"As I see it, the Bill of Rights has been violated, the kids have been violated, and having to address this, I have been violated," Rhodes said before slamming his fist on the podium and walking away.
Summer school fees
In other news, the board approved raising the fees to attend summer school in District 186 by 25 percent.
Officials noted in the resolution that rising costs associated with operation of the summer school program have not kept pace with the expense.
The district collected $35,758 in 2013 in tuition fees, compared to the $79,135 it cost to run the program, resulting in an operating loss of $43,377.
It will now cost people who live within the district $125 instead of $100. Out-of-district students will pay $250 instead of $200. The cost of lunch will not change.
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Captain_Jack wrote:bigstrads wrote:Captain_Jack wrote:bada wrote:Captain_Jack wrote:Woohoo! I got unbanned from the 49ers.com message board! I did have to erase my Captain_Jack account over there, but he still lives on on this board!
Nice! What did you do to get banned in the first place?
I was being a smart ass. The first time I got banned was because everyone kept making the same threads over and over and over again ("Alex Smith Sucks" which was always followed by "Alex Smith Hasn't Had A Chance" followed by "Fire Nolan" and followed by "Nolan is the greatest!"...you get the picture). Anyway I got tired of it so whenever someone posted a new thread I posted this picture or something similar
Or if I didn't feel like getting a picture I wrote "Matteo es dios" or "Manny Lawson es un ninja"...or something equally ridiculous.
Then I got reinstated and got banned the second time for going in the Dallas Maverick's thread with this other Warriors fan and posting the top 20 reasons why the Mavs suck.
So pretty much I was annoying, but I still maintain those people deserved it for making those stupid threads. And the Mavs do suck!
Jesus................that is pathetic!!!..............what tight ass bastards.
Man, maybe I should join that board.............see how long it takes them to takle exception to my posts.
You'd be gone in 5 minutes.
But you do have to remember that the shear volume on that board is HUGE compared to here. So the number of times I posted that picture or something similar was probably in the hundreds....it was pretty irritating.
Probably as irritating as the hundreds of threads you HAD to post it in huh?


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2012 Tour Stop #20 - The Sam's Club National BBQ Tour ChampionshipOctober 13, 2012
Bentonville, Arkansas
Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Championship
You always expect bigger and better things at a second year contest, and boy, did they deliver at the Sam's Club® National Championship! More teams, more contests and more importantly, more money to award!
The Sam's Club® National BBQ Tour Championship was held in Bentonville, Arkansas at the Sam's Club® Headquarters. Christine and I did a retail stop at the local Sam's Club® before loading to the event site where we had lots of people stop by for samples. We encouraged everyone to stop by on Saturday for more samples from many of the Sam's Club® partners.
Friday afternoon was reserved for Sam's Club® employees, and try as it could, the rain couldn't spoil the day as we had loads of employees come out under umbrellas and ponchos to sample our products. That's dedication!
The VIP party was held Friday night and served to celebrate the teams, judges, sponsors and organizers that came together to help make the event such a success. Country music star Hope Wilson even sang after the buffet dinner!
Saturday gave Mother Nature a chance to flex her muscles with strong gusts of wind throughout the day. The teams without trailers had to put up a good fight and I heard of one or two turn-in boxes that got blown around pretty good.
Because bad weather was on the radar heading towards Bentonville, the organizers made the decision to move the awards ceremony inside to the Sam's Club® auditorium which proved to be a great venue complete with state of the art audio and video.
Since the finals use Master Judges only, you'd expect either very harsh standards and low scores or, as the scores reflected, that only the best teams won their way to Bentonville. All of the scores were at the upper end of the spectrum including two perfect scores and one perfect-perfect!
Truebud BBQ scored a perfect 180 in Chicken, Grills Gone Wild, Iowa nailed a perfect score in Ribs but came up a spot behind Big T'z Q Cru who scored a perfect-perfect showing that Brisket is not their only strong suit. Sizzlin' Bones BBQ won Pork with a 179.4286 and There's No Place Like Smoke scored a 179.4286 to win the Brisket.
With four of the top five teams hailing from Iowa and the lowest score being a 697, I don't think there is any argument concerning powerhouse BBQ areas… Big T'z Q Cru placed 5th, Iowa's Smokey D's BBQ, who won Grand Champion at their local and regional contest placed 4th overall. QUAU had only one top ten call but was consistent enough to place 3rd overall. With two calls including that 180, Grills Gone Wild Iowa took home the Reserve Grand honors along with a nice $25,000 check and the last call of the day - with a 6th, 17th, 7th and 2nd place call and total score of 704.5716 - went to Lucky's Q along with the title Sam's Club® National Champion and a fat $50,000 check!
This series is only going to get bigger and better. Keep a look out to get your part of the action next year!


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It's all about the wiggle
Jigging continues to gain popularity with fishermen that target bottom fish like fluke and tautog as well as striped bass and tuna that might be anywhere in the water column. I attended the Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association (RISAA) monthly seminar last week where Ron Poirier of Ronz Lures talked about vertical jigging for striped bass and tuna.
Ron said, "Vertical jigging allows you to locate the fish with electronics and then send down a jig with pinpoint accuracy for quick hookups." Poirier said. "With Ronz Lures, it's always about the wiggle." Ronz soft plastic baits are connected to a wedge-like head that allows the head to walk from side to side so the attached tail is always wiggling too. The wiggle elicits a strike from the game fish. A tip from Ron on how to know you are hooked up when the bait is falling… "Drop the bait and if it stops falling or goes faster, you may have a bite."
Ronz Lures use Owner and Gamakatsu hoops. Their hydro jig heads are made of pure tin, which make them durable and non-toxic. Soft plastic tails are fish oil-infused. Find Ronz Lures online at www.ronzmfg.com.
Jigging for tautog
Bottom jigging for fish such as fluke and tautog is more popular than ever before too. With the tautog season upon us, you might want to give jigging for them a try. Jigs come in many weights from 1/4 once to 10 ounces. Using light tackle to jig for tautog creates a whole new type of tautog fishing. It makes catching even small tautog a lot of fun. To take a look at tautog jigs, visit www.htlureco.com.
More tautog fishing tips
Cinderblock as anchor
After losing two anchors that were caught in structure, I have started to use a cinderblock when anchoring over severe structure to tautog fish. Often you want to be on top or on the edge of structure so the more precise you are with boat placement, the better the fishing. Because the cinderblock can be dropped anywhere, even on top of rocks, it allows you to be targeted with your boat placement. If you lose a cinderblock, who cares… they cost $1.29 at Home Depot. Use a chain on the block to avoid line chaffing.
How to get the chum down to where you want it?
Fill a brown paper lunch bag with your chum (grass shrimp, crab legs, pieces of clam, crushed crab, etc.) and a 3- to 4-inch rock. Tie a line to the bag and lower it to where you want the chum; let it sit on the bottom for a couple of minutes and then yank the line. The bag breaks and releases the chum exactly where you want it to go. The technique was shared by a RISAA member a few years ago.
Fish lodged in structure.
Here is a tip from George Poveromo's "Rock'em Sock'em" article that appeared in a back issue of Saltwater magazine. When a fish is hooked and it has muscled its way back to structure, apply pressure forcing a respectable amount of bend in the rod. If the fish is not moving, hold the rod vertically to the water, tighten the line and pull or pluck the fishing line like a banjo string. The sharp vibrations emitted work their way back down to the fish through the line and irritate it. The fish, in a state of confusion, may back out of the hole to free itself from the irritation. Once you sense this has happened, start reeling in the fish. If this does not work, try letting the line go limp for a minute or two. With no pressure on the fish, it may dislodge itself. The rig often frees itself, the fish may get unhooked, or you may still catch the fish.
Bay scallop season opens Nov. 3
The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced that the bay scallop harvest season will open at sunrise Saturday, Nov. 3 and continues until Saturday, Dec. 31 at sunset. Rhode Island residents can take up to one bushel of scallops per day without a license, and commercial license holders can take up to three bushels per day per boat from state waters. Non-license holders cannot offer scallops for sale. Harvesters are reminded that possession of seed scallops is prohibited. Legal scallops possess a defined, raised, annual growth ring. To protect scallops and bottom habitats from dredge damage, scallops can be harvested by dip-net only from a boat from Nov. 3 through Nov. 30. Dredging will be allowed after Nov. 30 to access remaining adult scallops residing in deeper waters. Visit www.dem.ri.gov for additional information.
U.S. Coast Guard boating safety class at Wood Boat & Motor
The U.S. Coast Guard will hold a safe boating class on Oct. 27, Nov. 3, 10 and 17 from 1 to 4 p.m. The cost will be $50, which includes all the materials. Participants will get both State and Coast Guard certified. Class size is limited to 30. Sign up today by calling Debbie Wood, Wood Boat & Motor, Inc., 3630 West Shore Road, Warwick, at 739-4040.
Where's the bite
Freshwater fishing is expected to improve as DEM stocks select area ponds and rivers with trout for the fall season. Visit www.dem.ri.gov for details.
Striped bass fishing is picking up along southern coastal beaches and in the Bay. Mary Dangelo of Maridee Bait and Canvass, Narragansett, said, "Quite a few customers are catching striped bass in front of the Coast Guard House in Narragansett. I weighed a 24-pound fish Saturday." John Wunner of John's Bait & Tackle, North Kingstown, said, "A customer caught two keepers in East Greenwich Cove last week using surface plugs." Angler Chris Jalbert fished Block Island last week during the evening. He reports on the RISAA blog, "Wind picked up at dark and made for bad drift until the tide turned. First bass was about 30 pounds and I thought it would be a great night… (but after that)… all the stripers were small by Block standards, many were 28 to 32 inches."
Green bonito and false albacore fishing continue to be excellent along the R.I. southern coastline. Mary Dangelo of Maridee Bait & Canvas said, "The albies are all along the beaches but they are pretty elusive, not many shore anglers are catching them."
Tautog. Patti Ferrara of Ray's Bait & Tackle, Warwick, said, "Customers are catching tautog at Ohio Ledge and around Prudence Island." John Wunner of John's Bait & Tackle said, "Customers are catching tautog at about a 10 to 1 ratio. One of my customers, a young man, caught a 4-pound, 2-once and a 5-pound, 5-once tautog when fishing with his dad." Angler Tom Peters of Warwick and his brother Allan limited out on keeper tautog at General Rock, North Kingstown this weekend.
Captain Dave Monti has been fishing and shell fishing on Narragansett Bay for over 40 years. He holds a captain's master license, a charter fishing license and is a member of the Rhode Island Marine Fisheries Council. Your fishing photos in JPEG form, stories, comments and questions are welcome… there's more than one way to catch a fish. Visit Captain Dave's No Fluke website at www.noflukefishing.com, his blog at www.noflukefishing.blogspot.com or email him at email@example.com.


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Not to be outdone by the more than 500 marathon and half marathon participants in Hood River last Sunday, another group of athletes was testing a different kind of endurance extreme: The triathlon extreme.
While runners from 41 states and five countries made their way from The Dalles to Hood River, participants in the first-ever GorgeMan Half-Ironman Triathlon were testing the highways and waterways of the Gorge.
And, despite a few goosebumps from the icy Columbia River, the locals who participated came away feeling on top of the world.
"I really enjoyed the course, and would definitely do it again," said Bill Mellow of Hood River, who was the lone finisher in the 60-and-older division.
"The water was a bit choppy and it was pretty cold, which surprised some people. But I didn't mind it because I'm always in the water," he said.
Mellow, 61, who is a member of the Mid Columbia Masters Swim Team, finished the GorgeMan in a time of 6 hours, 35 minutes, 5 seconds — enough to place him ahead of people half his age in the overall standings.
The best local men's finish was turned in by Jay Clark of White Salmon, who completed the course (1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike, 13.1 mile run) in 5:03:15.
Leading the way for the local women was Jennifer Donnelly, who completed the course in 6:10:49. (Official results are available at www.gorgeman.com; hometowns are not listed).
Most of the event participants from Hood River chose to participate in a slightly less-extreme Super Sprint Triathlon, which took competitors on a half-mile swim, a 15-mile bike ride, and a six-mile run.
Sharing much of the terrain of the Half-Ironman course, the abbreviated Super-Sprint race offered competitors a nice early season alternative to the longer distance.
But that isn't to say that the Super Sprint course was a walk in the park, either.
"I'm glad there was a shorter alternative because the sprint course put me to the test," said Hood River Police Chief Tony Dirks, who finished second in the 35-39 year-old men's division with a time of 2:30:52. "And it sure felt good to finish," he said.
Christopher Korwin of Hood River was the only Super Sprint racer to surpass Dirks, winning the 35-39 division in 2:30:52.
Tim Rayle of Hood River placed second in the 40-44 year-old division with a time of 2:16:22, while David Barringer placed fourth in that division at 2:27:53.
Topping the list of local women finishers was Jennifer Wardell at 2:17:23, Katja Asaro at 2:24:03, Kathleen Korwin at 2:36:33, Jody Barringer at 2:55:02, and Denise Doney of Mosier at 2:48:53.
The GorgeMan and Super Sprint drew approximately 100 participants, and race organizers, X-Dog Events, are already discussing plans for 2004.
One reason the turnout was relatively small was that a larger triathlon at Blue Lake was happening the same day.
All in all, GorgeFest — the festival that encompassed the GorgeMan, Super Sprint and Gorge Marathon — drew 1,000 spectators to the Marina on Sunday, and netted an estimated $600,000 to $1 million for the local economy. GorgeFest 2004 will be nine days and will feature nine events.
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Wild ageratum and more
Eupatorium coelestinum) is blooming at the edge of some shrubbery where Dennis hasn't mowed closely this year. It pops up every year somewhere around the yard, always in a spot out of the lawn mower's reach. The butterflies like it.
This clump of ageratum is particularly lush. Some of the shoots must be three feet tall. I think it has enjoyed the rainy summer.
Ageratum blooms along the road ditches this time of year, too. It's a sure sign that fall is at hand. It's a member of the aster family, and like many of its relatives, it's a late bloomers.
More backyard nature
While I was working in the shed late this evening, a baby frog hopped in. I thought it was a cricket at first. It was tiny but its hops carried it high into the air -- sproing, sproing! I wanted to put it outside, but it was fast and I couldn't catch it. Finally, I herded it out with the broom.
Just minutes later, a young toad came in. He was craftier than the little frog. He hopped behind some boards where he was perfectly safe from capture. He's still in the shed. I'm going to look for him tomorrow morning.
It was dark outside. I don't know if the little frog and toad were attracted by the lights or by the bugs that had come to the lights.
I finally decided to quit and go to the house. I turned out the lights and started to close the door. Across the driveway, I heard a large animal blow air in a startled whoosh and run away. I couldn't see it, but I know it was a deer that had come to eat fallen apples.
Now the coyotes are howling, and it sounds like they are across the road in the cornfield -- not really very far from my open window. I've heard them close to the house like this several times lately. I suppose the rainy summer has provided plenty of food for them, too.
Their yips and chortles make me feel a little uneasy. I'm glad the cats are inside.


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I'm happy to pass along word that the date is set and venue reserved for the 16th New England Code Camp, a free, full day of knowledge sharing and networking, driven by developer community volunteers.
New England Code Camp 16
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
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Never been to a Code Camp? To get an idea of what to expect, take a look at the schedule for Code Camp 15, held earlier this year.
Registration and the Calls for Speakers and Sponsors will be coming later, but in the meantime, mark your calendar and get ready to join hundreds of your fellow developers for this great community event!


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GPPAC consists of hundreds of civil society organisations from around the world and what unites them all is a dedication to conflict prevention and peacebuilding. Beyond that, GPPAC's network members have many different approaches and priorities. The network's work must be guided by a strategic plan providing a framework under which all GPPAC activities fit, but which leaves enough room for members' own perspectives and choices. To ensure this, GPPAC embarked on a strategic planning process for the 2016-2020 period that was as inclusive and participatory as possible, inviting all members to give their input individually through surveys and collectively as regional networks. In the strategic plan 2016-2020, GPPAC adopted a framework with three core strategies.
Under the Enabling Collaboration strategy, GPPAC seeks to improve collaboration within its own network; between civil society actors beyond the network; between civil society, (inter)governmental and non-state actors; and between (inter)governmental actors.
Under the Improving Practice strategy, GPPAC seek to improve both its own methods and those of others working in this field through knowledge exchange and action learning. GPPAC will also hold (inter)governmental actors to account on the implementation of policy promises they have made, and provide them with expert civil society advice on how they might do so. Good policies on conflict prevention are a prerequisite for good practices.
Under the Influencing Policy strategy, GPPAC seeks improvement in three areas:
- Norms and frameworks, such as the Responsibility to Protect norm, the Sustainable Development Goals, the UNSCR1325 framework on women, peace and security, and the UN Human Security Framework.
- Institutional engagement for conflict prevention, including space for civil society to engage with (inter)governmental actors
- Operationalisation of conflict prevention and compliance, such as regional early warning and early response mechanisms and mediation, or national compliance with resolution UNSCR1325 through national action plans on women, peace and security.
To learn more about the activities, projects, and thematics GPPAC is working on, you can explore the Working Themes and Projects sections of the website.


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Up until lately, I've considered myself an intellectual match for my four-year old, except maybe when I'm especially tired, and he hits me with the hard questions, like "What are people made of?" "Are jellyfish really fish?" and "Where are my shoes?"
But when he recently asked me "do wolves eat people?" I was torn between not wanting to foster in him a lifelong fear of wolves, wanting to be truthful and informative, and realizing I didn't actually know the answer. So I went with, "well, they wouldn't normally, so you don't have to worry, but if you were right in front of them all covered with butter like a waffle, they might be tempted to take a bite." Clever, right? Divert potential fear of wolves and distract with delicious breakfast foods. "Oh," he said, "but once they took a bite they wouldn't want to eat me anymore, because I'm made of meat [see previous discussion regarding what people are made of], and they like waffles?"
Knowing this piece of misinformation would most likely be proudly repeated to his pre-school teacher unless immediately corrected, I backpedaled to a less satisfying answer about how I'm not actually sure, and we would "look it up when we get home." "So you don't know?" "Well no, sweetie, I'm not sure. "Oh," said he. "Mommy, you shouldn't guess. I'm trying to learn here."
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Globe photos of the week, March 15, 2013
Globe photos of the week, March 15, 2013
Marco Boffi took a photo of his friend Kellie Meyer with a snowman in Titus Sparrow Park in the South End.
Moving trucks and construction equipment prepared to remove damaged homes as the ocean pounded the coastline on Plum Island on March 9.
Stephen and Sharon Bresnahan held each other as their fallen Plum Island home, ravaged by the storm, was torn down.
Homeowners embraced on their back porch on Plum Island.
A student at the Maurice J. Tobin School sat on the bus in front of school waiting to go home on March 8, a day that brought heavy snow to the city and led to some questioning why school was held.
A problem with the T had commuters jammed up under bus shelters waiting for transport by bus on Massachusetts Avenue during Friday's snowstorm.
There was some spring feeling in the air with most of the snow gone and the sun feeling warmer on March 13. Crocuses were in bloom in the front of a Beacon Street home on Beacon Hill.
At Cold Spring Park in Newton, people enjoyed the unseasonably warm weather. Emily Anthony took her lunch break on a lawn chair with a book.
This spin class was one of many intense bike-focused classes offered at Recycle Studio on Newbury Street in Boston.
Volunteers at City on a Hill charter school posted lottery results after a drawing.
Fourth-grader Sophia Thomas and her class at St. Mary of the Assumption Elementary School prayed for the election of the pope during noontime Mass at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Brookline.
Celtics forwards Kevin Garnett, left, and Paul Pierce watched the time on the Jumbotron as both were able to get some rest due to a blowout win over the Toronto Raptors at the TD Garden.
Mansfield players celebrated their 55-50 win as a disappointed Tyler Nelson (11) of Central Catholic walked the court after the D1 MIAA boys basketball state semi finals at TD Garden. Mansfield advanced to the state championships.
Bishop Connolly's Thomas Keyes (2) let out a celebratory howl as he embraced head coach Matt Coute following their win over Lynnfield in the D4 MIAA boys basketball state semi finals at TD Garden.5.1.1181243596.
Central Catholic High players celebrated their narrow victory over Braintree High during the MIAA Division 1 State Semi-Final at TD Garden on March 11.
Celtics forward Paul Pierce acknowledged the crowd's cheers as he became the 20th all-time scorer in the NBA during a game against the Toronto Raptors at the TD Garden.


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What is your thinking on this? Possibly dropping the temp will suck o2 in?
yeah, oxidation reactions are going to occur very very slowly when everything is cold so even if o2 is introduced it's not going to be noticeable very quickly at all.
I prefer to rack to keg, top off with CO2, then crash and charge at same time.
Paul, are you experiencing some off flavors in your beers?
have you ever noticed whether or not cold crashing in the fermentor oxidizes your beer?


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This category is for box art (cover art)
- The Grand Theft Auto 1 cover art features a Zartex, a police car from the Driver Parallel Lines game.
- GTA III was the first game to introduce the 'box style artwork'.
- GTA Vice city, GTA Vice city stories and GTA V are the only games to feature a boat on the cover artwork.
- The Ballad of Gay Tony (Not the multi-pack version) Is the only HD Universe game not to feature the box style art work. Instead, it is used on the Multi Box Pack version.
- All games exepct GTA 1 , GTA 2 , The Ballad of Gay Tony (regular edition) and The Lost and Damned(regular edition) all feature a Helicopter in the upper left hand corner of the box art.
- GTA 1s DVD Cover is actually a real image of New York in the 1970s to 1980s, it has been enhanced a bit to make it look less realistic.
- All GTA Games (except GTA 1 and GTA 2 and GTA III) Have featured the Number or numerals to be different font to the 'Grand Theft Auto' Text, GTA III had the 'III' as the same as the 'GTA' Text.
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AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan's ambassador to Libya who was abducted last month at gunpoint in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, returned home on Tuesday after being freed by his captors.
Ambassador Fawaz al-Etan was welcomed at Amman's military airport by jubilant family members who hugged and kissed him and top Jordanian officials, including Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh who hours earlier announced the diplomat's release.
Al-Etan waved to reporters as he stepped out of the plane at the Marka military airfield east of Amman.
He said he was in good health, ready and eager to return to his post in Libya, and that his captors had treated him well. He gave no further details about his ordeal and captivity.
Al-Etan was taken by gunmen from his vehicle in central Tripoli near the Jordanian Embassy on April 15. Assailants opened fire on his car, wounded his driver and then forced him out at gunpoint.
It was one the latest high-profile abduction in the North African nation still plagued by lawlessness, more than two years since the country's 8-month civil war ended with Moammar Gadhafi's killing in October 2011.
A week after the ambassador's abduction, Jordan released a Libyan detainee, Mohammed al-Darsi, who was arrested and convicted in 2007 of trying to carry out a suicide bombing at Amman's Queen Alia International Airport.
Jordanian officials at the time would not say whether the Libyan detainee's release was connected to al-Etan's abduction. But Libyan media reported at the time that Jordan had agreed to set free a convicted militant in exchange for the ambassador.
According to a Libyan official, al-Darsi arrived in Tripoli on Monday on a special plane from Amman.
The same Jordanian aircraft took the ambassador home on Tuesday, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to media.
The kidnappings in Libya reflect the weakness of the country's politicians and officials in the face of powerful militias that have become both the enforcers of the law and the fuel of lawlessness after successive governments following Gadhafi's ouster came to depend on them to restore order in the absence of a strong police force or military.
Both diplomats and journalists have been among those targeted in the kidnappings. In January, gunmen briefly held six Egyptian diplomats and embassy employees following the arrest of a Libyan militia leader in Egypt. The diplomats were released only after Egypt freed the detained militia commander.
Most of the abductions, however, have targeted Libyan officials, including senior members of the government, and their families.
Associated Press writer Esam Mohamed in Tripoli, Libya, contributed to this report.


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