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A portable oscilloscope and keen troubleshooting instincts help solve an EMI problem.
Let's take a look at a conducted Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) problem that was recently identified and resolved at an industrial process control plant. Here, the victim circuit was a signal transported on a coaxial cable. The signal was a low frequency square-wave whose period varied as a function of the sending end transducer's input.
Details of problem
The corrupted signal could be seen on the input to the cable end's receiver plug-in card by using a portable oscilloscope and a 10x voltage probe on Channel-B. Fig. 1 shows the badly corrupted square wave signal, which at the time of measurement was about 1.8V peak-to-peak, with a typical period of about 2ms (500 Hz).
The victim coaxial cable was observed to be 52 ohm, RG-58/U cable approximately 50 ft long. This cable ran from a transducer location outside of a control room to within the control room via an overhead PVC conduit. The transducer end was provided with a 2-wire plus ground, 120VAC branch circuit and a Switch-Mode Power Supply (SMPS) to convert the AC to the required logic level, regulated DC voltages needed to drive the electronics at that end. The control room end of the cable simply went into the back of a proprietary interface card equipped with a BNC coaxial fitting on the back of what appeared to be a PC-style workstation/controller.
Other cables interfaced this workstation/controller to other equipment in the control room. The control room was powered from its own main panel and transformer, (e.g., a solidly grounded separately derived system) which also supplied all the power to the site's other electronics, including the SMPS at the transducer's remote location.
Troubleshooting procedures
An initial measurement was made by removing the coaxial cable from the PC end interface and attaching a BNC style TEE fining in its place. As shown in Fig. 2 (on page 20), this allowed a "tap" to be made across a noninductive, 50 ohm resistor that was previously soldered in place across the signal pin of one port on the TEE to its metal shield/enclosure. As such, the signal could be viewed with some (but not total) assurance.
The next step was to see if any significant common-mode (CM) current, which could be correlated in some way to the corruption on the signal, existed on the victim coaxial cable itself. This was done by connecting a current transformer (CT) to the portable oscilloscope and then clamping it around the victim coaxial cable. Fig. 3 (on page 20) shows the result of this test. The CM current's waveform somehow looked familiar; but what was it?
Finally the answer came: It looked just like the typical signature current for the AC input to an SMPS power supply (or any full-wave rectifier and large filter capacitor connected directly across the AC line). But, the most interesting question was this: Did this CM current have a timing relationship to the EMI on the victim cable's signal?
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To get the answer to the last question, the next step involved the voltage probe and the TEE connection on the portable oscilloscope. This time, however, a two-channel setup was in order so that both signals (CM current and the data signal's voltage) could be viewed simultaneously. This was done and the result is shown in Fig. 4 (on page 20), where a clear relationship between the EMI and the CM current on the victim cable can be seen to exist.
Next, the TEE connection was disconnected from the rear of the PC, but left attached to the B-Channel voltage input on the portable oscilloscope. We could see what the result would be with the CM current's path on the victim coaxial cable's path completely opened at the receive end. The result: A "clean" square-wave signal as shown in Fig. 5 (on page 20). Now, how was the CM current getting onto the victim coaxial cable to begin with?
Another trip out to the transducer end of the victim cable was in order so as to check out the conditions at that end (it now looked as though the origin of the EMI problem might exist there). Upon arriving, we disconnected the SMPS from its branch circuit. Then, with the TEE fitting reconnected to the PC in the control room, another CM current measurement was made on the victim coaxial cable. The result: No appreciable CM current on the cable with the SMPS disconnected.
One more test was made by placing the CT around the AC power supply cord for the SMPS to see if the CM current could be measured there. It was, and from this a tentative conclusion could be drawn: The SMPS was probably the aggressor source of the EMI.
The time had now come to pull the SMPS out and to check it on the bench to see what could be found. The SMPS was powered up on the test bench using a homemade test attachment, as shown in Fig. 6 (on page 22). The shown arrangement allowed the placement of a CT around any one or combination of the three AC line conductors used in the power cord. The first choice: The equipment (safety) grounding conductor. The CT was placed onto the "green wire" and the SMPS was switched on. Except for amplitude, the portable oscilloscope clearly showed a signature current waveform of the same shape and timing as had been observed on the victim coaxial cable. This was clearly not a typical small leakage current as permitted by U.L. under the SMPS's product safety listing. Something was wrong inside the power supply, but what?
A simple continuity tester was used to check from each of the SMPS' line cord pins (unplugged) to the metal frame/enclosure of the SMPS. This showed good continuity for the green wire, an open on the ungrounded side of the line (e.g., the "black wire"), and a short on the grounded side of the line (e.g., the "white wire" or neutral).
Since the input to the SMPS should be virtually symmetrical to "ground" from either line pin, this was definitely not right. A closer look inside of the SMPS revealed a shorted AC line filter capacitor that was connected between "ground" and the neutral pin, as shown in Fig. 7 (on page 26). Thus, some portion of the SMPS' neutral current was dividing between the neutral and equipment grounding paths, which consisted of the green wire and, unfortunately, the grounded copper braid of the victim coaxial cable (frame/enclosure terminated at the PC end in the control room). The control room PC's input power cord then supplied the remaining required connection back into the electrical system's neutral on the transformer.
The SMPS was replaced rather than repaired. When power was reapplied to the equipment, no problems were seen to exist and the system again ran normally. Why the line filter capacitor failed in the SMPS is anyone's guess at this point, since no one at the facility could recall any recent AC system or other ground faults. In addition, no electrical storms had occurred for several months prior to the problem being first observed. Thus, to this date, we are unsure as to what to do to prevent a reoccurrence of the problem, or whether we should be further concerned or unconcerned about it.
The present attitude of the client is that if it fails again, then a more thorough examination will need to be made to uncover the cause and to create a remedy for it.
As a side note, we did note that the entire associated AC system was not equipped at any point with a transient voltage surge suppressor (TVSS). As such, we suggested that adding TVSS protection (e.g., at least at branch circuit level) might be worthwhile at this site, since transient high-voltages can cause dielectric breakdown in the AC line filter capacitors (and other parts) in an electronic system.
Additional questions
Some of you may be wondering how the SMPS' ground-fault current, which was flowing on the coaxial cable's braid, could combine with the desired signal and corrupt it, since this should not normally happen when coaxial cable is used for signal transport. The simple answer is in the opening paragraph of this article: the desired signal is of a low-frequency nature. In fact, it's such a low-frequency signal that it flows on the braid and in the center conductor with very little skin-effect. That's the reason the externally applied EMI CM current (e.g., from the ground fault) could do what it did. Without skin-effect, both the desired and undesired currents were free to flow in the entire available cross-sectional area of the braid, nearly like DC. Thus, the two currents shared the same conductor volume and were algebraically added together to produce a longitudinal (e.g., lengthwise) voltage drop on the cable due to the braid's impedance. This action then produced the combined signal voltage in the differential mode (DM) at the receive end of the cable.
However, it should be noted that if the desired signal had been of a high frequency nature, it would have flowed entirely on the inner surface of the braid, nearest the center conductor; this would have left a negligible amount of shared conductor volume for the two currents to "mix" together.
Next month, we'll discuss relative signal levels and the all important decibel (dB), which is a really useful way to express differences in signal levels for all sorts of reasons in the electrical field. In a future column, we'll discuss how signals are transported and interfered with on coaxial cables in greater detail than above.


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Key Pearls For Prescribing AFOs
You may find that even the best of custom foot orthotics are insufficient to manage a particular patient's problem. Either too much force is applied to the foot or perhaps the foot orthotic cannot provide the necessary support. In some of these cases, one may consider using an ankle foot orthotic (AFO). In a follow-up to last month's cover story, a panel of experts address how and when they employ these devices in treatment. Q: In what type of situation do you consider using an AFO or similar brace? A: Alan Banks, DPM, uses an AFO in various situations, saying the device can be helpful in treating a variety of conditions. Sometimes he uses a prefabricated AFO for patients who have some type of dorsal or anterior nerve injury. Dr. Banks says plantarflexion of the foot during sleep serves as a source of traction to such nerves. He notes that this plantarflexion can aggravate or reduce the rate of healing if there is a nerve injury or neuritis. Since the AFO is typically only used at night, a custom fitted device is not required. "The prefabricated AFOs are economical and effective in this setting," explains Dr. Banks. In some instances, they can also be employed by the patient during the day if necessary. Both Dr. Banks and Doug Richie, Jr., DPM, have found AFOs useful in treating Charcot conditions. Dr. Banks notes that he may use them to treat patients who have an early or mild Charcot deformity once the condition is quiescent. "If the device is rigid, it will alleviate much of the bending stress at the ankle," maintains Dr. Banks. "It is this force which is the most destructive in patients with neuropathy." In Dr. Richie's experience, an AFO can reduce plantar pressures and resist contracture of the heel cord in the Charcot foot. More advanced Charcot conditions are a different story, according to Dr. Banks. When treating these patients, particularly those with transverse plane dominance, Dr. Banks has found the AFO "simply does not provide enough accommodation for the foot deformity." Instead of an AFO, he typically uses a double upright brace in combination with a molded shoe or perhaps a depth oxford with an orthotic or molded plastazote liner. "This generally tends to provide better protection for the foot itself," notes Dr. Banks. How Should You Use AFOs For Dropfoot? Howard Dananberg, DPM, most commonly uses AFOs to treat dropfoot. Dr. Dananberg notes that following conditions like CVA, problem back surgery or spinal injury, the anterior musculature of the patient's lower leg may fail to function normally. When this specifically involves the anterior tibial muscle, the foot does not have effective dorsiflexion capacity. During swing phase, this lack of dorsiflexion causes the toes to touch the floor and patients frequently are subject to tripping, according to Dr. Dananberg. "The most usual patient accommodation for this is a steppage-type gait," says Dr. Dananberg. "In these cases, AFOs can be quite effective." Dr. Richie notes that when you employ the device to treat conditions such as dropfoot and lateral ankle instability, the AFO can control sagittal plane ankle rotation and also resist unwanted subtalar and midtarsal joint inversion instability if the orthotic footplate is properly contoured and balanced. Historically, bracing has been used to treat patients with dropfoot and is still "a reasonable conservative alternative for this condition," according to Dr. Banks. However, Dr. Banks also points out that "the need for bracing of the foot and ankle has, in many circumstances, been obviated with the advancement of surgical techniques that allow patients to undergo repair of their deformities and/or with tendon transfers to provide dorsiflexion." There are also clinical situations in which prescribing an AFO may not be the best course of action. Dr. Banks says a common problem is physicians prescribing an AFO for a patient who has a spastic equinus following a stroke. In this circumstance, the foot is often fixed in equinus and therefore the AFO is "of little benefit, except to possibly counteract some additional degree of contracture." That said, Dr. Banks says using an AFO may be an acceptable means of controlling patients with tibialis posterior tendon dysfunction who are not surgical candidates or are waiting for a more convenient time to undergo surgery. In some instances, patients who have chronic tendonopathy at this level (or involving the Achilles tendon) may benefit from a more sustained form of immobilization which you may achieve with the AFO. Dr. Banks also notes that the AFO may provide some symptomatic relief for patients who have chronic pain secondary to arthritis and typically works better than a functional orthotic alone. Dr. Richie says one of the key benefits of the AFO is it can provide a force system both above and below the axis of rotation of the major joints of the ankle-rearfoot complex. The device also can help control position of the foot during the swing phase of gait. "These are significant advantages over standard custom functional foot orthoses," notes Dr. Richie. "In the adult acquired flatfoot, secondary to posterior tibial tendon insufficiency, you should consider the AFO when standard foot orthoses fail or in any patient who has lost integrity of the spring ligament and deltoid ligament complex." Q: When taking an impression for an AFO, what do you consider most important? A: When taking an impression, Dr. Dananberg says he usually makes sure the foot is positioned at 90 degrees to the lower leg. However, he cautions there are times when this is either not possible or a 90-degree device would not be appropriate due to the height of the heel the patient wears. "Several years ago, I did have a female patient who wanted to wear a high-heeled shoe," recalls Dr. Dananberg. "She was cast in the position (mildly plantarflexed) that her foot would be in the shoe and she was very pleased with the device she received." For Dr. Richie, the most important consideration in casting and prescribing an AFO is performing a stance evaluation of the patient and determining position of the tibia relative to the foot and floor. He emphasizes a careful assessment of ankle range of motion and reducibility of deformity when placing the foot in a corrected, "neutral" position. The cast must accurately capture the corrected foot position, according to Dr. Richie. While Dr. Banks usually refers patients to a prosthetist for molding and fabrication of the device, he will advise the prosthetist as to whether or not he wants a rigid device or one with some degree of flexibility. For the majority of patients, Dr. Banks will recommend a more rigid device in order to "maximize the level of immobilization and protection." Q: Are there any specific problems you see with AFOs that could be considered areas to avoid during the fabrication process? A: Dr. Dananberg says he often finds the foot bed of the device is excessively long and ends in front of rather than behind the metatarsal heads. Although some who fabricate these AFOs may feel the increased length will better maintain the toes' rectus position, Dr. Dananberg believes this increased length blocks metatarsophalangeal joint dorsiflexion and makes walking most difficult. By creating a device that ends behind the metatarsal heads and even incorporating a first ray cutout, you can achieve sufficient control of a dropfoot condition, according to Dr. Dananberg. The difference is patients can step efficiently and far more comfortably, notes Dr. Dananberg. He adds that designing a device this way "can often prevent the arch irritation so common with AFO use." Dr. Richie says you must inform the lab about the specific limitations of the patient in terms of fixed structural deformity as well as muscle weakness or spasticity. "Patients with lateral ankle instability and high tibial varum should have their AFOs modified to fit the varus deformity of the leg. Otherwise, their lateral instability will get worse," he contends. Dr. Richie says you cannot position a patient with dropfoot and severe equinus in a fixed solid AFO set at 90 degrees at the ankle. He also notes that one should not prescribe an articulated, full-motion AFO for a patient with spasticity. In summary, Dr. Richie says it is essential to give the lab as much biomechanical information about your patient as possible. "Certainly, this is much more important than the required information for the fabrication of standard custom foot orthoses," he concludes. Dr. Dananberg (pictured) practices in Bedford, N.H. Dr. Richie is a Director of the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine. Dr. Banks is the Director of Podiatric Medical Education and Residency Training at the Emory-Northlake Regional Medical Center in Tucker, Ga. He is a Fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and is on the faculty of the Podiatry Institute.


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UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The United States is weighing targeted sanctions against South Sudan due to the failure of leaders in the world's youngest nation to take steps to end a crisis that has brought the country to the brink of civil war, sources briefed on U.S. discussions told Reuters.
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Largely Christian South Sudan gained independence from predominantly Muslim Sudan in 2011 after a referendum was held in keeping with a 2005 U.S.-backed peace deal that ended a north-south civil war that left millions dead.
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U.S. President Barack Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice said in the White House statement that the United States was disappointed the detainees have not been freed yet but noted that their continued detention was no excuse to continue fighting.
"The United States reiterates its call upon President Salva Kiir to release the detainees immediately to the custody of (the East African trading bloc) IGAD so that they can participate in the political negotiations," Rice said.
U.S. government officials and senators said on Thursday that hundreds of millions of dollars in support to South Sudan's government could be stopped if the violence continues.
In 2012 the United States joined the other 14 members of the U.N. Security Council in threatening sanctions against Sudan and South Sudan due to a crisis over the disputed oil region Heglig, though council diplomats said Washington was reluctant at the time to back measures that would undermine Kiir's government.
U.S. officials said Washington was satisfied then that the mere threat of U.S. support for sanctions was sufficient. The Heglig crisis was eventually resolved. (Reporting by Louis Charbonneau and Warren Strobel; Editing by James Dalgleish and David Gregorio)


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This evening, I just wanted to make something simple and delicious with green beans and possibly other vegetables. I had a vague memory of an interesting recipe in Isa Moskowitz' book, Vegan with a Vengeance, involving a dressing-like mustard glaze, so I went hunting for the recipe. I'd made it once before while visiting the in-laws, but it didn't quite do it for me- I liked the glaze but it was a little plain for my taste, with too many potatoes and not enough variety in the vegetables. This time I decided to play with the recipe a bit, taking inspiration from Thanksgiving stuffing type side dishes. I cut down on the potatoes, roasted whole garlic cloves, added sweet nanette carrots, and added fresh rosemary from my garden. I also added pecans for the extra protein and flavor. I popped the dish in the oven and when the DH came home from work, the delicious aroma of the maple-mustard sauce had filled the house. "Mmmm, smells like the holidays," he said, sniffing appreciatively.
For dinner that night we started with steamed artichokes. Artichokes are so good with miso mayo, although the DH is a traditionalist and likes them dipped in butter! Then we had a lovely serving of brown rice topped with the maple-mustard glazed veggies. It was simple to make, and so delicious! The DH has suggested I feel free to make it anytime… For him, it hit the perfect note of warm, homey comfort food. I have to agree, it was delicious, and reminded me of other things I used to glaze in mustard, back in my pre-vegetarian days. So lovely to enjoy these flavors, and have it be deliciously, delightfully vegetarian… even vegan, if you use maple syrup for the sweetener. Yum! I had already had a healthy portion of tofu right before the meal, but it would be a great side dish instead of a main if you have a protein dish planned… and is certain to appeal to anyone in your house, even confirmed carnivores. Enjoy!
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2 organic med. red potatoes, sliced into rounds
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Preheat oven to 400 F.Line a large 9*13 pan with aluminum foil and throw your veggies into the pan *through the carrots). Then whisk the tamari, maple syrup, mustard and olive oil together in a small bowl and drizzle on veggies, folding in sauce so veggies are evenly covered. Season with freshly ground black pepper and add your sprigs of rosemary throughout the dish. Cover with aluminum foil and put in oven for 25 minutes. When timer goes off, take dish out of the oven and turn down oven to 350F. Remove the cover, stir the dish so sauce is evenly distributed, turning veggies (especially potatoes) if you like, and put the dish back in the oven uncovered. Set time for another 25 minutes. When timer goes off, take dish out again, stir, and this time add your pecans. Put dish back in the oven for 25 more minutes, and then check potatoes to see if they are cooked through. Once your potatoes are done, plate and serve!
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With the absence of a Fast & Furious franchise entry in the 2014 box office, a lot of buzz is building about the March release of "Need for Speed" that stars Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper and Imogen Poots. The movie is directed by Scott Waugh, who, in 2012, was named a Director to Watch and is already well known for his previous successes "Act of Valor" and the original "Spiderman" movie. It's no secret that Waugh likes to go to great extent to make his movies seem real, and in the case of "Need for Speed," that includes staging some real auto races to capture on film. That's not the only interesting tidbit about "Need for Speed," though. Here are five more fun facts about the movie.
"Need for Speed" is based on the video game franchise of the same name. Electronic Arts released the first version of the popular racing game in 1994. Since then, it has undergone seventeen incarnations, the latest of which, "Need for Speed Rivals," was released in 2013. To date, it's the top selling racing video game franchise worldwide with sales of more than 140 million copies. The film version is not based on any specific version of the video game but rather loosely on the concept of over-the-road car chases in which racers are often pursued by police officers.
The success of Breaking Bad made star Aaron Paul a household name and helped him beat out some hefty competition to play the lead character, Tobey Marshall, a recently released ex-convict set on seeking vengeance for his friend's death. His reckless, all-in Jesse Pinkman persona has helped Paul leap onto the A list in Hollywood and ultimately helped him rise to the top of the short list of actors being considered for "Need for Speed." That short list included such Hollywood heavy hitters as Liam Hemsworth and Taylor Kitscsh.
Since "Need for Speed" Director Scott Waugh is a former stunt man, it's not surprising that he asked star Aaron Paul to train in stunt driving as part of his preparation for the tricky maneuvers he had to do while filming. In fact, Paul got so adept at risky maneuvers that he once stopped only 2 inches short of a camera that was filming a scene. He did so after being challenged by Director Scott Waugh to hit him despite the actor's fear of hitting him. Paul apparently took his training very seriously, too. He recently set a record on the British car themed television series "Top Gear." Paul beat out other celebrities, such as James Blunt and Brian Johnson of AC/DC fame, to earn the top spot in the "Celebrities in Reasonably Priced Cars" challenge.
The film was shot on location in Georgia. Georgia natives, and those familiar with the state, recognize such landmarks as Road Atlanta, a 2.5-acre race course in Braselton, the 13th Street Bridge in Columbus, the Swan Drive-in, which has been continuously operating since 1955 in Blue Ridge, and other locations in Macon. Filming also took place in Detroit, Michigan.
The collection of supercars used in the "Need for Speed" movies are sure to have car enthusiasts salivating. Models include a Lamborghini Sesto Elemento a Mclaren P1, a Spania GTA, and a Koenigsegg Agera R., all of which were produced in extremely limited run and have a collective value that well exceeds 7 million dollars. However, car lovers who are skittish about such rare gems of the automobile industry being sacrificed in the name of Hollywood can relax. Not all of the cars in the "Need for Speed" movie are as they appear, and no cars with such hefty price tags were harmed in the making of "Need for Speed." The priciest and rarest cars are replicas. This is not only because acquiring the genuine articles would require a big chunk of the film's budget but because movies that require a lot of stunt photography, like "Need for Speed," are rarely shot in one take. Replacements had to be on the ready for mishaps and re-shoots, which would not just require a 7 million dollar base price for the real things but 7 million several times over for duplicates. That would have been a particular challenge considering that fewer than 100 of a couple of the supercars used were ever produced.
With so much attention to detail, "Need for Speed" promises not only to be one of the biggest blockbuster of 2014 but a thrill ride that takes moviegoers on a fast-paced, big-screen adventure. The recent disclosure that the film will also be released in 3D paved the way for even larger profits and an even more realistic experience that quite literally drives right off of the screen and into the audience.


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Planet Startup
In 10 nations on four continents, we've uncovered a dozen of the most promising new ventures for determined American entrepreneurs. The requirements: A bit of seed money, a little business savvy, and a great big appetite for adventure.
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- International borders used to be the biggest barrier to entry for Americans interested in starting a business overseas. But today, as more nations ease trade regulations and restrictions on foreign investment, borders are more like invitations.
Take real estate, for instance: According to research firm Jones Lang LaSalle, Americans spent more than $12 billion on foreign commercial real estate ventures last year, almost double the amount they invested in 2004. Meanwhile, American investment in overseas businesses has nearly doubled, too, since 2002.
So we enlisted a team of top reporters to find out what, and where, the most intriguing new business opportunities are today. They returned with a dozen stories that describe lucrative ventures in unlikely places - from starting a coffee business in Rwanda to discovering the next great cabernet in Greece.
They also found opportunities in Brazil (delivering Wi-Fi to coastal resorts), China (remodeling homes), and Russia (creating a social network for millionaires).
Our goal isn't just to show where the latest business trends are converging, but to coax more of you armchair entrepreneurs out of your Aerons. We've supplied the ideas, the rationales, and even some how-to guidelines from local experts. The rest is up to you.
Beaming Broadband to the Beach
The Opportunity: Build cheap Wi-Fi networks for Brazilian resorts.
Investment Level: < $100K
Risk Level: Medium
Barely 14 percent of Brazil's 188 million residents enjoy an Internet connection. But for those who do, the Web is as beloved as Ronaldo and Ronaldinho. For starters, Brazilians are among the most active foreign users of Google's Orkut social network, the photo-sharing service Fotolog, and MSN Messenger. Yet outside major cities like S�o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, most Brazilians are stuck with poky dial-up service or nothing at all. And for major carriers, rolling out fixed broadband to those low-population areas wouldn't drum up enough revenue to justify the costs.
But what if you could set up wireless networks to deliver broadband to narrowly targeted groups of customers - tourists and well-to-do Brazilians at beach resorts, for instance? "You have this tremendous pent-up demand for broadband access," says Charles Brown, president of California-based Wireless Networks, which sets up high-speed Wi-Fi for rural locales and founded a Brazilian company that handles wireless payments for retail merchants. "There just isn't anything there."
That scenario could change quickly - with the right team of telecom-savvy investors. The simplest method to bridge the gap would be to create a point-to-point network that can transmit a signal as far as 25 miles. (Most of Brazil's top beach resorts are within 15 miles of the nearest broadband connection.) For each location, that would require spending less than $10,000 for transmission equipment, applying for a government license to tap into a carrier's data line, and Wi-Fi routers and other gear to start bathing hotels in signal. According to Brown, vacationers would pay $10 a day for basic service. At a 500-guest resort where half pay for Wi-Fi, the service would generate $75,000 in gross sales per month.
Consider Augusto Cardoso, a Brazilian director of product development for Pioneer Electronics already sold on the idea. Cardoso was on vacation recently with his family on the coast near S�o Paulo. "The place was beautiful," Cardoso says. "But I had work to do, and all I could get in this high-end hotel was dial-up. What a pain in the ass." -- M.V.C.
Wireless-broadband hardware sales in Brazil (in millions)
Source: Maravedis
2. Soybeans That Give You Gas
The Opportunity: Become a biodiesel producer in Argentina.
Investment Level: $100K-500K
Risk Level: High
Argentina has three key resources that make a certain niche of investors lunge for their calculators: inexpensive land, cheap labor, and bumper crops of soybeans.
No, we're not talking about ideal conditions for a soy-milk venture. We're thinking bigger: a next-generation biodiesel plant. For starters, the timing is ideal. The $15 billion global biofuel market is expected to triple by 2015, and one of the most promising niches to step into, experts say, will be refining and selling biodiesel fuel for trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles in Argentina. Following Brazil's lead, the nation just passed a law mandating that biofuels account for 5 percent of all fuel sold by 2010.
Biodiesel is a renewable fuel because it's made by refining oil derived from plants like soybeans, palm trees, and rapeseed. Thinner than vegetable oil, biodiesel can power diesel engines without further conversion. That gives it a big advantage over ethanol, which burns in standard gasoline engines only when it's blended with petroleum.
The first significant player in this market just emerged: Imperium Renewables, a Seattle startup, will soon begin building a biodiesel refinery in Argentina that CEO Martin Tobias says will produce 100 million gallons of fuel per year. That, for comparison's sake, is more than the entire U.S. output in 2005. While the VC-backed plant will cost about $50 million to build and takes 50 people to operate, clean-tech experts consider the Argentine biodiesel market wide open to smaller players. In fact, newer off-the-shelf technology that's currently being commercialized will lower plant construction costs to about $3 million, a far more digestible sum for angel investors.
It's possible to go even smaller. Tobias's Argentine refinery - to be situated near a major city, which he declines to name - makes sense because the number of customers within a small radius means minimal shipping costs. But Argentina's farmers account for about 75 percent of the country's diesel consumption; entrepreneurs can apply the same sell-local principle by building micro-refineries in rural areas. Last year Edmundo Defferrari, an industrial engineer, built a prototype of such a plant 145 miles west of Buenos Aires for just $150,000. It already produces 130,000 gallons of biodiesel a year and requires human labor only to load the plant with soybeans and turn it on. Defferrari sells fuel to local farmers for 95 cents a gallon, about two-thirds the cost of regular diesel. It's a virtuous circle: His customers grow the soybean feedstock that he puts into his machinery. -- P.K.
Biodiesel 101 By treating oil from soybeans or other plants with chemicals, you can refine it into a lighter-grade fuel that burns in diesel engines.
1 Heat oil, then add methanol and a catalyst such as lye. 2 Separate out glycerin, methanol, and other by-products. 3 Add water to "wash" the biodiesel. After the biodiesel and water separate, filter out the water. 4 Let the remaining water evaporate.
Source: Imperium Renewable
IDEA NO. 18 Attack local markets that big companies can't reach.
3. A Smart Play for the Small Screen
The Opportunity: Create an ad network for India's mobile content developers.
Investment Level: $100K-500K
Risk Level: Medium
Ashu Mathura's three-person startup in Amsterdam is just a few months old, but it already has some big customers. His business: software that allocates space on cell-phone screens on which companies can advertise. Look up a stock quote on a cell phone in Belgium, for instance, and an ad for Postkrediet, a Dutch financial company, pops up. Postkrediet pays a fee, and Mathura gets a slice. The early returns have been so promising that Mathura wants to roll out the service next in India, where a booming but nascent mobile market lacks the means to monetize content - and has room for dozens of ventures like Mathura's that could operate in different regions.
Mathura launched his company, called Mads, with a little over $100,000. His two developers wrote software that collects ads and serves them on mobile webpages. Mads buys ad space from content publishers - ringtone catalog sites, mobile game companies, other mobile Internet sites - and sells that space to advertisers. The same model, Mathura says, holds even more potential in India, where the number of cellular customers is expected to jump 71 percent this year to 130 million. Hundreds of content creators are popping up, but the market is highly fragmented and separated by regional dialects, making it unattractive to a major digital-media player like Razorfish. "These are mom-and-pop developers creating content for a huge number of local markets," says Taha Rangwala, an analyst with Pyramid Research. These shops don't have the money or time to hawk ad space, Mathura says, and they're eager for the revenue. -- SAHELI S.R. DATTA
Cell-phone and PC usage in India (in millions)
Projected Mobile subscribers PC's in use
Source: Pyramid Research
4. Tapping the New Nouveau Riche
The Opportunity: Launch an exclusive social network for Russian millionaires.
Investment Level: $500K-$1 million
Risk Level: High
Russia's economy may be slowing, but not for its upper class. With oil money having flooded the nation during the 1990s, Moscow now boasts the highest concentration of billionaires of any capital city in the world. The nation's population of millionaires grew 17 percent last year and now tops 103,000, according to a recent study by Merrill Lynch.
These increasingly flush Russians, who enjoy subsidized housing and low taxes, have disposable incomes that dwarf those of Westerners. That's made the nouveau riche a fat target for Web investors - but in an economy rife with corruption, how best to reach them? "We're spending a lot of time trying to figure that out," says Danny Rimer, a venture capitalist at Index Ventures in London and an early investor in Skype and MySQL, among other successes.
With low credit card penetration and an unreliable postal service, Russia isn't friendly to e-commerce. And programmers have already cloned popular Web-based services like Flickr and LinkedIn. Few Web services, however, cater to the Russian elite, which is why several VCs and other tech players in Russia believe the time is right to create a social network through which members could buy and sell everything from Ferraris to art and network with their fellow ultrarich. "Russians are incredibly status-oriented," says Max Skibinsky, a Moscow native and CEO of Hive7, a Web-based startup in Moscow. "A social network would be an easy way to let them show it off."
Finding talent is easy: Good developers in Moscow cost less than $40,000 a year. The key is to hire a handful of wealthy socialites to spread the word. "Russia is ripe," Rimer says. "There's more opportunity here than in most places, but it's like the Wild West. Be ready for that." -- M.V.C.
Russian broadband subscribers (in millions)
Source: Point-Topic
5. East Meets - and Eats - West
The Opportunity: Open an American-style restaurant in one of China's fast-growing cities.
Investment Level: $100K
Risk Level: High
The spaghetti tasted like soggy cardboard. The supposedly fresh bread was rock-hard. And the ice cream: Forget it. Josh Pollock, 31, had experienced so many culinary disappointments in the southwest region of China where he and his wife were living that he decided to do what any aspiring entrepreneur might: open his own restaurant.
To him, the market opportunity was obvious: Not only was the available Western food dreadful, but people were eating it up. "I couldn't believe they would actually pay for this stuff," says Pollock, a native of Connecticut. "I finally thought, 'Huh, I'm sure they wouldn't mind a better-tasting alternative.'" Less than two years later, Salvador's Coffee House is a bustling establishment in Kunming, a city of more than 4 million in the Yunnan province, with plans to expand to other cities around China.
Opening a restaurant anywhere is notoriously difficult, and China is no exception. But Pollock and his partners picked a location that they figured upped the odds - a quickly growing city that has a university population and isn't nearly as built up as Beijing or Shanghai. Pollock also chose to specialize in a menu of hard-to-get offerings: fresh coffee, bagels, and homemade ice cream. Curiously, the bulk of the restaurant's clientele is Chinese. The ingredients come from across the country. The restaurant trains, and even houses, chefs and waitresses from remote villages, offering them English lessons. The only relevant experience Pollock had was that he grew up eating American food. Still, that hasn't prevented him from running a profitable restaurant. He's even begun selling his ice cream to a local five-star hotel.
Getting started in any Chinese city is tricky, so it's important to hire a local person experienced in navigating government agencies. To avoid visa issues, Pollock went through the steps with local government agencies to create what's known as a wholly foreign-owned enterprise. Different investment levels allow different types of businesses. With $13,000, for instance, Pollock says you can register as a consultancy. Restaurants require more because of the number of licenses needed from health and environmental agencies.
Pollock's partners - two American friends and his Japanese wife, Naoko Okano - drummed up $40,000, the minimum amount required for the initial investment, and then found some cheap space ($500 per month after paying $13,000 to take over the lease), which they fixed up by hiring local laborers. "Along the way, you often hear 'Bu ke neng,' which means 'It cannot be done,'" says Pollock, who's now been living in China off and on for eight years. "But with determination and patience, it can." -- P.S.
IDEA NO. 19 Sell services that piggyback on a booming retail trend.
6. This Old House, In Chengdu
The Opportunity: Remodel homes for China's burgeoning middle class.
Investment Level: $100K-500K
Risk Level: High
Ten years ago a young family in Shanghai or Beijing looking to buy a first home did well to land a new two-bedroom condo for about $40,000. Of course, back then, "new" in Shanghai equated to "the projects" in most U.S. cities. To tamp down costs, Chinese builders would slap "For Sale" signs on homes that were little more than concrete boxes with windows. And families happily moved in without changing much at all.
Not anymore. Today cranes fill the skylines of most Chinese cities, where tens of thousands of comparatively chic new homes are going up for an exploding population of middle-class consumers. With more cash in their pockets, these buyers are discovering their inner Martha Stewarts and won't stand for the prison-block interiors that most developers still supply. "People are moving into higher-quality homes, and they want everything inside to reflect that," says Claude Leglise, a venture capitalist with W.I. Harper, a San Francisco-based firm that specializes in Chinese startup investments and recently backed Chinese home improvement website HomeE. "They are decorating and remodeling like crazy."
Problem is, Chinese builders have little expertise with either type of contracting, leaving homeowners to hunt down their own designers, architects, carpenters, and so on. And that, Leglise says, leaves a big hole in the market to be filled by small, regional contracting firms that can deliver it all. In fast-growing cities like Chengdu or Wuhan, "an American builder with a sense of adventure and some business savvy could make a fortune," Leglise says.
Recent market data supports the idea. Annual sales of home improvement products and services in China hit $92 billion in 2004 - nearly double the 2000 figure - and are projected to climb to $122 billion by 2009, according to a study by the Boston Consulting Group. That's opened the door to a flood of home improvement retailers, including Britain-based B&Q, Ikea, and Wal-Mart, which have all set up in the major cities. And Home Depot has reportedly been courting Chinese home improvement chain Orient Home for a joint venture.
Despite the retail stampede, Chinese homeowners don't yet share the same do-it-yourself gene of their American counterparts, making the need for small finishing contractors even more alluring. "Among white-collar workers in China, there isn't the same culture you find in the United States," says Anna Kalifa, head of research in the Beijing office of global real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle. "They don't like to do any manual labor, and they're willing to pay extra for someone to come and do it all for them."
So how does an entrepreneur with construction industry savvy reach all those customers? The easiest way, Leglise says, is to become an approved home designer or contractor for Orient Home or another big-box home improvement chain. At a minimum, you'll need a designer or architect with Western expertise and a Chinese foreman who can source local labor and deal with the bureaucracy of building codes. "It certainly helps if you speak Chinese," Leglise says. "But the great thing about China is, if you are providing people with something they want and can't get anywhere else, they'll do business with you." -- M.V.C.
Home improvement spending in China (in billions) Source: Boston Consulting Group
IDEA NO. 20 Find yet-to-be-exploited niches in the global commodities boom.
7. The Next Gold Rush
The Opportunity: Flip mining claims in Bolivia.
Investment Level: $100K-500K
Risk Level: High
Big mining companies and the banks that finance them have made a fortune from the global commodities boom in recent years. And as prices of gold, nickel, copper, and other metals have soared to record highs, mining properties around the world that were once deemed marginal are swinging back into production.
So is there still a place on the globe where small players can get into this game? John Kelly thinks so, and his money is riding on Bolivia and its untapped mountains of gold. "Bolivia is just starting to take off, and it reminds me of where western Australia was 25 years ago," says Kelly, managing director of Australia-based Republic Gold, which purchased stakes in two small gold mines south of La Paz last year and is currently prospecting for others.
It's no secret, of course: Bolivia holds known gold reserves estimated to be at least 3 million troy ounces, worth roughly $2 billion. But the government has never done a comprehensive geologic survey, and mining engineers have recently estimated that the actual amount could be several multiples higher. More important, the newly elected government of president Evo Morales has promised to modernize the $400 million mining industry and invite in foreign know-how and investment. "The reason we came here," Kelly says, "is because the reward hugely outweighs the risk and dicky politics."
Bolivia could be the find of the decade, not just because of its vast mineral potential but because of its shockingly low barriers to entry. Only 3 percent of Bolivian territory has gold-mining claims, and 85 percent of those are owned by small co-ops of individual miners. The co-ops have more than 60,000 members in all, most of them peasant landowners who literally scratch out a living working their claims with picks and shovels.
According to Kelly, prospectors can pursue two basic strategies. The first is to partner with or hire a local geologist (the going rate is $2,500 to $3,000 a month), use his expertise to find a promising plot of land, and apply for a claim with the Bolivian Ministry of Mines. (Foreigners can now own claims outright.) "If your application is the first one in, it'll be approved," Kelly says. The government charges a nominal application fee and a tax of $1 per hectare if you win the claim. Once you complete a survey - and show proven reserves - you've picked up for nothing a piece of real estate worth millions of dollars to a gold producer.
Plan B: With $300,000 or so in seed funding, you won't be buying gold surveys but rather purchasing existing mining claims directly from the peasants who own them - and then flipping the property later to a mining company. Here's how it might work: The claim holders don't actually own the land, just the mineral rights. Many earn a subsistence living by mining with their own tools. Buying them out requires a local ally (your geologist, most likely) to negotiate terms. "They're open to dealing," Kelly says.
And with a geologist at your side, you have a prime advantage. Most claims lack detailed surveys or core samples, but a geologist will spot telltale signs of rich deposits that a layperson can't, and can compare a property's geographic features with others that have already struck gold. Whether you stake a claim or buy one, the easiest exit strategy is to flip a property to a medium-size mining company - like Kelly's. -- P.K.
La Paz Source: U.S. Geological Survey
8. Shipping Cabernet from Peloponnese
The Opportunity: Export the planet's next great wines - from Greece.
Investment Level: <$100K
Risk Level: Medium
When new wines poured out of Argentina, Australia, Chile, and New Zealand 20 years ago, most weren't fit to strip old paint from your siding. But as winemakers refined their methods, savvy marketers who tasted the improvements quickly signed on to export the brands to global markets - and made a killing. Wines from these four countries now account for nearly a third of the $3.7 billion imported-wine market in the United States.
So where is the new crop of hidden vines that will turn hundreds of prescient exporters into millionaires? The answer whispered these days among sommeliers is Greece. Long dismissed as a producer of turgid retsina table wine, Greece has a new generation of winemakers, with pedigrees from France and Napa Valley, who are turning out award-winning wines from exotic grapes like moschofilero (akin to a pinot grigio) and agiorgitiko (more like a cab). Exports to the United States jumped by almost a third in 2005, and industry pros say they will double again by 2008.
The heart of the market is Peloponnese, the peninsula making up southern Greece. Its 150-plus boutique wineries produce 2 million cases a year, well over the 500,000 cases industry pros say an appellation needs to sustain an export market. They sell everything from table wines that retail for less than $10 to luxury reds that go for upwards of $40. "They have the volume, the variety, and the quality," says Rajat Parr, wine director for celebrity chef Michael Mina's six restaurants. "If someone can market them, it'll be huge." One star winemaker, George Skouras, has a Chicago-based representative but says his peers lack representation. "We want to go beyond the ethnic market and get into mainstream restaurants," he says.
The first step to breaking into the business is obvious: Travel through Peloponnese, tasting wines to find ones likely to earn high scores from wine magazines. Then ask to be a winemaker's exclusive U.S. rep. Set-up costs for exporting one or two labels will run between $25,000 and $100,000. About $10,000 goes toward legal fees to get a U.S. import license. Then, plan on buying a few thousand cases at $5 or so per bottle. Another $6,000 gets them on a containership. American exporters charge a markup of as much as 50 percent to distributors, who can get up to another 50 percent from stores and restaurants. After paying import duties and warehouse rental, you can raise a glass to double-digit profit margins. -- P.K.
9. Bringing Chardonnay to Chennai
The Opportunity: Import fine wines to upscale restaurants - in India.
Investment Level: <$100K
Risk Level: Low
India's rapidly expanding middle class isn't just interested in motor scooters, Levi's, and the coolest new cell phones. They'd also like to see a decent chardonnay on the dinner menu.
With wine consumption in India projected to grow 10-fold over the next decade, the nation has emerged as the world's fastest-growing market. More important, it's become a prime destination to start importing U.S., Australian, and other labels to satisfy Indians' increasingly cosmopolitan tastes. For one thing, the wine boom will largely bypass domestic brands; the country is too hot for serious viticulture. And the Indian government has been slashing duties and excise taxes on imported wine during the past two years. An American importer who gets in early and establishes a foothold will reap the benefits of even lower duties down the road.
Setting up shop requires first owning the distribution rights to the right selection of wines. At the top of that list, experts say, should be fruity whites from California and Australia - -products that did well in the United States when wine took off in the 1980s. You don't need an import license; anyone can bring wine from abroad into a warehouse bonded by the nation's customs office.
Wine consumption in India (in thousands of gallons)
Source: Euromonitor
IDEA NO. 21 Utilize the incentives that reform-minded governments offer to foreign investors.
10. From Crop to Cup
The Opportunity: Export gourmet coffee from Rwanda.
Investment Level: <$100K
Risk Level: High
When Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz wanted to celebrate the success of his company's first offering of Rwandan coffee this spring, he invited a group to Seattle to raise a cup. President Paul Kagame of Rwanda came, as did entrepreneur Arthur Karuletwa. Schultz wanted to learn more about Rwandan coffees, and Karuletwa, a refugee who two and a half years ago ditched his job as a coffee distributor for Procter & Gamble to help his homeland, was now a key link between the Western world and Rwanda's thousands of coffee farmers. "He was very enthusiastic," Karuletwa recalls of Schultz.
It was a proud moment for Rwanda, a nation devastated by the genocide of 800,000 people in 1994. The African country of 8 million is undergoing a dramatic rebirth. Its government has battled corruption and has lured back skilled people. And Rwanda has suddenly become an inviting destination for foreign entrepreneurs, especially those interested in coffee.
Rwanda had long produced commodity-grade beans but never developed a gourmet coffee industry. Its farmers barely made enough to survive. Karuletwa, who had left for the United States in 1995, felt driven to help. He and his wife, Amy, stored their belongings and set off; she, too, was an industry pro who had worked for Starbucks. Karuletwa won the backing of the Rwandan Ministry of Agriculture and began to modernize the market. He set up programs to teach fertilizing methods and created co-ops of farmers. Eventually, he sliced the number of middlemen from four or five to one or two, raising the pay farmers get for a pound of beans from about 60 cents to $1.50.
Today, Rwanda's coffee industry can't keep up with demand - and the doors have swung open to outsiders wanting to set up businesses that will stoke supply. There's a need for exporters, but Karuletwa argues that a far more lucrative strategy involves controlling most of the coffee production chain, from crop to cup. The chain works like this: Farmers pick the cherrylike fruit to get the beans. The beans are brought or sold to washing stations that clean, peel, and bag them. They're then trucked to the government-run coffee board in Kigali, the capital, where they're approved for export - tax-free. In the United States, beans go to a roaster, which processes, packages, and ships the coffee to a retailer.
Smaller players can make money by owning as many parts of that process as they desire. The Rwandan government will even guide aspiring entrepreneurs through the process and help them obtain land. Rwanda wants to triple its number of washing stations to 140 by 2008, and as a result, "you can almost get land for free," Karuletwa says.
Coffee is known as a "relationship business," and whom you partner with both in Rwanda and in America is crucial. You can set up a co-op, paying small farmers to bring you their beans. Shipping a container of coffee, 40,000 pounds' worth, costs $6,000. You then pay a warehouse to store the beans in the States, or you have them sent directly to a roaster. Toss in the design and production of labels, and your total outlay is $4 to $5 for a pound of coffee that will sell on the shelf for $15. Paying back your initial investment should take less than a year. "If you start this fall," Karuletwa says, "you can be processing coffee next year." -- P.S.
11. Doughing the Right Thing
The Opportunity: Become a social entrepreneur in South Africa.
Investment Level: <$100K
Risk Level: High
As a Wall Street investment banker, Alicia Polak was launching multimillion-dollar funds. But she couldn't stop thinking about South Africa, where she'd studied as an MBA student. She was struck by the poor townships around Cape Town, and she saw a huge opportunity to help.
The business she runs now, the Khayelitsha Cookie Co., employs 10 women from the township of the same name. The women bake cookies and brownies and sell them to cafes, hotels, and a domestic airline. Only two years old, the company is on the verge of breaking into the U.S. market.
"You might say, 'They're just cookies,'" says James Thompson, associate director of entrepreneurial programs at the Wharton School, who assists startups in developing regions. "But she's teaching people skills in a very poor area. And there's no reason this brand can't be big in America and Europe."
There's also no reason why more like-minded "social entrepreneurs" coming out of business schools today can't have it both ways: Create social change and a real business at the same time. For one thing, there's no lack of impoverished regions in the world, each with abundant supplies of idle but trainable talent. Figure out a way to put the talent to work on a simple product to sell or export, and you're on the right track. "You don't go in with a liberal, 'I'm going to save the world' attitude," Polak says. "You say, 'I'm going to run a business.'"
In Polak's case, she'd heard that a local food company had set up a nonprofit arm to teach township women how to bake, using donated ovens in a community center. Polak spent about $10,000 of her own money in the first six months. She persuaded an executive at another food company to sell her special chocolate chips, and talked a five-star pastry chef in Cape Town into giving her free recipes. She then crashed hotel events with samples, eventually landing big clients.
"Every entrepreneur writes a business plan and lays everything out on paper," she says. "My advice is, throw all of that out. The opportunities are huge in areas like this, but you need to think on your feet and not be intimidated by your surroundings." -- P.S.
12. Now Open for Business
The Opportunity: Be among the first to invest in the new Libya.
Investment Level: Any
Risk Level: High
Improbable as it may sound, Libya - the North African nation with which the U.S. government restored diplomatic relations only this May - is now welcoming American entrepreneurs with open arms. "Libya is a virgin market," begins a recent State Department report about doing business there. "Opportunities exist in almost every sector."
Libya is rich in oil, and top energy companies are expanding there. But other possibilities are emerging, starting with tourism. The country has dozens of archaeological sites and 1,100 miles of undeveloped beachfront - attractions that will lure visitors and investors alike.
By 2010, Libya expects to have 1 million tourists a year, more than triple the current number. Hotels are expanding in the capital city of Tripoli. Bus services are popping up. Several Italian firms are building resorts, and France's Club Med is reportedly prospecting. "We are essentially a brand-new country," says Naser Edeeb, who runs Safari Tourism Services, a Tripoli-based tour company.
People like Edeeb have become key conduits to outside investors. He launched his business in 1996, taking Europeans to ruins and on trips through the desert. Lately, he says, he's been fielding calls from Americans looking for help with Libya's various regulatory agencies.
Even with a reputable local partner clearing the way, plenty of obstacles loom to trip up Western investors. Banks began installing ATMs only last year. Credit cards are just starting to appear. Strict rules govern advertising. And the country is dry (not arid, but completely booze-free). "Talk about a disadvantage," says Geoff Porter, an analyst with Eurasia Group. -- P.S.
Caution Flags
U.S. State Department tips on entrepreneurship in Libya.
PAYMENT: "While Libyan firms are becoming more reliable, one should not take it as a given that payment will be made."
ETIQUETTE: "Respect for hierarchy is important, as expressed through the use of appropriate titles."
BUREAUCRACY: "Most processes that require official sanction or approval have a lengthy gestation (2-24 months)."
Additional reporting by Saheli S.R. Datta; Emily Huo and Hillary Woolley contributed to this article.To send a letter to the editor about this story, click here.


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Hour-long holiday treat based on book from Creator/Executive Producer Mike Reiss
NBC has greenlit the animated holiday musical special "How Murray Saved Christmas" from four-time Emmy-winning writer and executive producer Mike Reiss ("The Simpsons").
The hour-long program is based on Reiss' best-selling children's book of the same name. The story centers on cranky deli owner Murray Kleiner, who is forced to fill in for Santa one Christmas and does a weirdly wonderful job.
" 'Murray' is the perfect project to get audiences into the holiday spirit, and Mike's impressive comedic background makes him a great choice to put all the pieces together," said NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke.
Walter Murphy, who was recently Oscar-nominated for his work on the feature film "Ted," will compose the music. He has won an Emmy for "Family Guy" and was nominated on three other occasions.
Reiss is a former writer and executive producer on "The Simpsons" and was the creator of "The Critic." Other writing credits include "Not Necessarily the News," "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson," "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and "The Simpsons Movie."
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It's not like shooting guard Tarence Kinsey barged his way into Cavaliers coach Mike Brown's rotation, but he is starting to assert himself.
The 6-foot-6, 189-pounder played in all four games of the West Coast trip and helped the Cavs beat Golden State last Friday with 11 points and three rebounds.
"It feels good to get an opportunity," Kinsey said. "When your name is called, you have to take advantage of the situation."
His 11-point effort, which matched his season high, was needed against the Warriors.
"I feel like I played well," Kinsey said. "Mostly, I was having fun. It was needed at the time. We needed a spark. I was able to provide that."
Kinsey isn't sure what he needs to do to remain in Brown's good graces. He's playing behind Sasha Pavlovic, Wally Szczerbiak and Daniel Gibson.
"It's out of my hands," Kinsey said. "You continue to do the things you were doing and busting your butt in practice. Basically, I want to stay ready."
Unless there is another injury or a change to the rotation, it's going to be difficult for Kinsey to play regular minutes.
"T.K. is a great guy," Brown said. "He works his tail off to stay ready. It was great to see him step out there, get some minutes, be productive and really be a key factor in the outcome of the ball game."
Kinsey scored nine points on 4-for-6 shooting Wednesday in the Cavaliers' 117-110 win over the Kings.
Another SI cover
Cavs forward LeBron James makes his eighth appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week. The number dates to his junior year at Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary High School.
The cover story is entitled, "The Power of LeBron," and deals with how James is "bigger, stronger and smarter than before."
Old friend
Kings interim coach Kenny Natt spent two years on Brown's staff in Cleveland, helping the Cavs advance to the NBA Finals in 2007. There's a chance he could return next year, since the Kings own a team option on a 2009 contract worth a little under $2 million.
A source said the Kings must decide by May 1.
"He came from a good program and learned under one of the best coaches of all-time in (Utah's) Jerry Sloan," Brown said. "He was here for a couple years, but he had an impact here.
"It's good to see him patrolling the sidelines. Hopefully, when the camera shows him tonight, they don't put my name under his picture. It's happened before when he was an assistant here. I don't want a case of mistaken identity with anyone."
Natt, who took over for the fired Reggie Theus on Dec. 15, is 4-17 heading into the Cavs game.
Z's return
Everything is pointing toward Cavs center Zydrunas Ilgauskas returning for Thursday's game against Orlando. He plans on practicing today at Cleveland Clinic Courts and flying with the team to Florida.
Neither Brown nor the team doctors have signed off on Ilgauskas playing on Thursday.
"It's a gut feel," Brown said. "After practice, I'll see what I feel. No one has told me Z has been cleared for Thursday."
Counting Tuesday's game with Sacramento, the Cavs have four games remaining before the cutoff to decide who will coach in the All-Star game.
Brown is vying with Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy for the honor. The Cavs travel to Orlando on Thursday, host the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday and travel to Detroit on Sunday. The team with the best winning percentage after Sunday's games will coach the Eastern Conference team.


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Investigators think the fire was set, but the question remains as to whether it was intentional.
"Open flame ignition from available combustibles" is the formal term from the Office of Fire Investigations. That could mean that someone set the fire. It may also mean that there were squatters inside the building that started the fire to stay warm and it simply got out of control.
Bomb and Arson of the Police Department will continue its investigation, as the historic building comes down.
It is a stubborn fire. Even as the demolition crews work, the flames find life, but not with enough strength to spread again.
Before the demolition began, the Office of Fire Investigations was able to determine through available evidence and witness statements, that the massive fire quite likely was started by human hands.
The Police Departments Arson Bureau will now investigate and in the meantime, the demolition will go on.
The five-story building, which was once home to the Pullman Couch Company had been vacant for years.
It was owned by Chicago developer Calvin Boender, who is currently in prison after being convicted in a bribery scheme that involved West Side Alderman Ike Carrothers. He, too, went to prison.
Three years ago, the city threatened to have the building demolished, but Boender's firm complied with city paperwork and it was allowed to stand until Tuesday night's spectacular fire brought about its end.
The empty warehouse was once part of what was called the Central Manufacturing District, which thrived for decades.
"To see a fire of this magnitude, the aftermath of a fire like this is interesting, but also, to document slowly, but vanishing pieces of the central manufacturing district, this sort of sprawling campus of buildings that this building was once a part of," said architecture expert Lee Bey.
It may take a week bring it all down which does not make poultry vendor Frank Tam across the street very happy.
"The police told me, they said it will probably take a week, or a week and a half, and all that time you'll lose business," Tam said.
The company Boender was associated with has hired the demolition team, so they are paying for the building to be knocked down, not the tax payers.