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By Robert Macfarlane, the author of Mountains of the Mind (Granta), which won the Guardian First Book award in 2003. He is currently writing The Wild Places, a book about wildness and the British Isles (THE GUARDIAN, 22/04/06):
Oil was the substance that defined the century just ended; ice will define the one just begun. Frozen in the ice sheets of the globe's high latitudes and the glaciers of its high altitudes are more than 33m cubic kilometres of fresh water. And as the Earth's atmosphere warms, so the cryosphere – that part of the planet constituted by ice – dwindles. Ice does not go quietly. In 2002, the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica, a plate of floating ice the size of Luxembourg, suddenly shattered into thousands of vast icebergs, which then dispersed into the south Atlantic. In the Andes and the Himalayas, glacial meltwater lakes are filling to their capacity, and then bursting. In Spitzbergen, where David Cameron has this week been seeing first-hand evidence of global warming, the glaciers howl as they calve into the ocean.
Across the world, ice is melting at rates unprecedented within human history; melting brought about chiefly by anthropogenic climate change. If global temperatures continue to rise, and the rates of melting continue to accelerate, three main consequences can be expected. Sea levels will rise, leading to massive human displacement from coastal areas and the drowning of cities, provinces, and countries. The great mountain-born rivers that are fed by glacial meltwater – among them the Ganges and the Brahmaputra – and on which hundreds of millions of people in sub-Himalayan Asia and South America depend for their lives, will diminish. And the planet's thermohaline system – the density-driven ocean currents that convey heat around the globe and so maintain our relative climatic steadiness – will be severely disrupted by the vast influx of cold water.
The ice will determine our climatic future; it also contains the records of our climatic past. For ice is a magnificent archivist of weather. It curates meteorological history with peerless care. Glacial and polar ice is formed chiefly by the falling of snow on snow. The weight of the uppermost snow compresses the layers beneath it, which sinter into ice. In the course of this sintering, the ice traps air within itself, in the form of tiny, sealed bubbles. Each layer of ice thus constitutes a tiny atmospheric museum. Climate scientists have cored down into the ice caps, retrieved samples of ice layers that fell as snow hundreds of thousands of years ago and then released and analysed the air contained within the bubbles.
This ice-core analysis has provided many of the most eloquent and extensive data sets on climate change. It was research from Antarctic ice cores, for instance, published in Nature last year, which proved that concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane were far higher now than at any time in the past 650,000 years.
The ice records also tell us something of what we might expect in the coming century, for the planet has gone through climate fluxes before. Our pollution has already committed us to a certain rise in temperature. What is now at stake in climate change politics is how far beyond that committed rise we go. The consequences of a rise of 3C, described last week by the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, as "likely", would be calamitous: a worldwide drop in cereal crops of between 20m and 400m tonnes, 400 million more people put at risk of hunger, and 3 billion people left at risk of flooding and without access to fresh water supplies.
There can be no doubt about it: climate change is the most serious emergency the human species has faced. And to the current frontline of this emergency has travelled David Cameron. Over the past three days, he has styled himself as Cameron of the Arctic, travelling by dog sled over Norwegian snowfields, slip-sliding down into an ice cave, and gazing mournfully at the vanishing glaciers. His trip has been the most eye-catching example yet of his five-month drive to make environmentalism in general, and climate change in particular, the most charismatic features of his new Conservatism.
What is suspiciously unclear, however, is just how Cameron plans to reconcile the strong government intervention necessary to mitigate climate change with the key Conservative chakras of free enterprise, consumer choice and market liberty.
Cameron turned green faster than the Incredible Hulk. For the first five years of his political adulthood, he barely mentioned the environment. Notoriously, he even voted against Gordon Brown's proposed climate change levy, on the grounds of it being a stealth tax on business. And then, on the November 1 last year, during the final weeks of the Tory leadership election, he suddenly went bright green. In a long article in the Independent, he called for an overhaul of public and private life. "Change our political system and our lifestyles: the effects of climate change are being felt right here, right now", the article was bullishly headed.
Since November, Cameron has tricked himself out all over with sprigs of greenery. He has applied to mount a rooftop wind turbine on his Notting Hill house. He has switched his energy supplier to a renewables-only provider. And he has been photographed as often as possible on his bicycle. While these are precisely the sorts of measures that millions of individuals need to undertake to help mitigate climate change, Cameron has made a public piety out of each of them. These acts have, despite the sheen of austerity and self-denial he and his PR team have sought to lend them, been conspicuous consumptions of an odious sort.
All this self-greening has been presented with the hokey mateyness that has become Dave's trademark. "I have a young family, and we share our time between city and countryside," he confided in his Independent article, "so I'm aware of the pressures on the environment in both." Setting aside the smug ease of that phrase "share our time" and the hollow outreach of the "young family" detail, one might observe that a rooftop turbine (the wattage output of which would be sufficient to power the light bulbs in Cameron's house on a windy day) is tokenistic compared with the carbon debit of keeping two houses in different counties and commuting weekly between them.
The reason that Cameron has moved so quickly to mix green and blue – to turn the Tories turquoise – is, of course, in order to soften his party's image. Environmentalism has been chosen as the emollient cream which, when rubbed into the rough face of post-Thatcherite Conservatism, will render it instantly compassionate.
Awkwardly, however, as Blair has found out, the environment is a "soft" issue that demands hard policy choices. Cameron has so far got round this difficulty by a series of astonishingly shameless elisions and contradictions. "The test of a first-rate intelligence," in F Scott Fitzgerald's famous formulation, "is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function": the test of a compassionate Conservative, too, it seems.
Consider, for instance, Cameron's extraordinary leadership acceptance speech, in which he declared his desires both "to build more roads" and "to reduce carbon emissions" without any apparent sense of incompatibility. Or what of his December declaration that his new Tory party would work for "liberal values, including a commitment to green policies, localism and deregulation"? How easily he slides there from "green policies" to "deregulation" – how irreconcilable the two are in practice. Such claims are as absurd as Blair's repeatedly stated aim to reduce carbon emissions, even as he continues to subsidise aviation fuel, freeze petrol duty and press ahead with airport expansion plans.
Beyond the inconsistencies within Cameron's own position, there is the question of his inconsistency with the Tory party itself. Let us temporarily assume that Cameron's green vision is genuinely meant, and that he wishes to provide the strong leadership – national and global – on climate change that is so urgently needed. How would this be possible if he came to power? For ranged against him would be the party's multimillionaire businessmen funders, who are unlikely to desire further regulation, as well as the yakuzas of the CBI, the House-Builder's Federation, the British Aviation Authority and other vast lobby groups; while flowing turbulently about him will be the psychopathologies of monopoly capitalism at its mightiest.
Ranged against him would also be many of the members of his own party, unless they have undergone some mass silent conversion over the past few months. We must remember that it was the Tory party whose voting record on green issues was judged by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth before the European elections in 2004 to be the worst not only in Britain, but the whole of the European Union.
It was the Tory party that privatised the rail network so disastrously and deregulated the buses, thus wrecking the most sustainable forms of transport. Indeed, while Cameron may wish to style himself a new Tory, who is starting his party again from a notional year zero, his road-building pledge alarmingly recalls Margaret Thatcher's deep love affair with automobile and with asphalt. "Nothing can stop the great car economy," Thatcher declared, as she unrolled what her ministers proudly described as "the biggest road-building programme since the Romans".
Can we really imagine a Conservative party advocating the regulation of the influence of supermarkets, the curtailing of the GM industry and the introduction of rigorous environmental taxing? These are precisely the kind of state interventions that post-Thatcherite Conservatism abhors – and precisely the kind of actions which Cameron will need to pursue to make good on his green promises.
Perhaps Cameron is hoping to recover an admirable nineteenth-century Toryism, the Toryism in part of Cobbett, which celebrated a radical localism and an impulse to preserve. But one suspects not: Cameron, like Blair, has no sense of history (this ahistoricism has, dismayingly, been a source of their respective political strengths). Anyway, this brand of genteel Tory paternalism – even if it were recoverable – is many orders of magnitude from what is now required in terms of action against climate change.
Concluding his November article, Cameron declared that the "politician's responsibility" with regard to climate change is clear: "to show the kind of leadership that this government has talked about, but rarely delivered". He was absolutely right. Blair's much-vaunted commitment to climate change has been hopelessly patchy: the political equivalent of trying to stop a glacier melting by draping handkerchiefs on it here and there.
We are entering an era of single-issue politics of a new kind. Climate change is, or should be, the inescapable context for almost all policy decisions. No serious plan for alleviating global poverty, stabilising international tensions, or providing housing, can now be taken independently of it.
Climate change also demands that we think using with entirely new definitions of cause and effect, of culpability, of equity and of political responsibility. It demands, in fact, nothing less than a total restructuring of the human relationship with nature. In these senses, it represents at once the greatest threat that the modern world has known and the greatest opportunity.
This present period of political history will be scrutinised with an exceptional fierceness by future generations, for decisions taken now will have immense consequences then in terms of lives saved or lives lost. The present dilatoriness, squabbling and appeasement may well come to seem thoughtlessly criminal at best, savagely punitive at worst.
David Cameron has, at least, acknowledged the scale of the problem – and of the possible solution. What he must now do is to make some serious and unretractable statements about how he will "deliver" the leadership that would be required to achieve a 90% cut in carbon emissions from the 1990 baseline by 2030. We do not now have the time left to trust to consumer democracy or to technological fixes brought about by the free market. A strong countervailing governmental force is needed to work against both the business state and individual self-interest, and to move us meaningfully towards contraction and convergence.
If Cameron can truly turn his party deep green – if he can establish and then push through the measures necessary to provide a low-carbon future – then he will have done two extraordinary things. He will have contributed towards the saving of millions of future lives and he will also of necessity have rooted out and destroyed Thatcherite Conservatism in all its pernicious forms. A hero's role awaits Cameron of the Arctic – but at present it seems improbable he will assume it.


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Like Mom, Like Dad
The first is a picture of my mom when she was 16. I remember seeing it for the first time as a teenager and being wowed by how geek-chic my mom looked.
Ze Frank new web project is truly neat: in Like Mom, Like Dad, readers submit photographs of themselves posing like their parents in old photographs.
Previously on Neatorama: Young Me Now Me, also by Ze Frank
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This makes me want to scour my parents photo albums and compare them to shots I have with my daughter.
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Sports offered in the fall include varsity and junior varsity volleyball for girls, varsity and junior varsity flag football for boys, and varsity and junior varsity tennis for girls and boys.
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Each student athlete must submit a completed Athletic Pack before he/she will be allowed to participate in interscholastic competition. The Athletic Pack consists of the following forms: Athletic Release, Student-Athlete Contract, Parental Code of Conduct, Foothill Sports League Code of Ethics, and a Physical Evaluation form. Athletic packs are available for download from our website and for pickup from the LCP office.
Coaches will conduct tryouts in each sport at the beginning of each season. Any student-athletes who tryout and do not make a varsity or junior varsity squad are encouraged to participate in outside sports activities to continue to develop athletic skills.
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Lesotho's Lenten LessonMonday, February 29th, 2016
Dear Friends,
I want to tell you about a small country in southern Africa that you may have never heard of. It's Lesotho (that's pronounced li-SOO-too). Encircled entirely by South Africa, Lesotho was isolated during the decades of apartheid.
Its poverty is extreme. More than 40% of its 2 million people live on less than $1.25 a day. It also has one of the highest rates of HIV in the world at more than 23%. Many of its men left home to work in the mines of South Africa. Gone for months at a time, they often brought the virus back with their paychecks.
And now, on top of these problems, Lesotho faces a devastating drought brought on by El Nino. As CRS Country Representative Rita Billingsley told CBS News a few weeks ago, this is not like the drought in California, where a lack of rainfall might mean you can't wash your car or water your lawn. This drought means you cannot feed your children.
Lesotho is not alone. Countries throughout southern and East Africa are dealing with the effects of this strong El Nino. The rain it brings can be capricious—coming down hard enough to turn the landscape green, but not with enough consistency to grow nutritious crops.
Just to the north of Lesotho, in Zimbabwe, the situation is similar. "I harvested nothing last year," says Fortunate Maangla, a mother of four living in the rural countryside of Zimbabwe. "We'll be dead if somebody doesn't help us."
At this point, even if the rains returned, small farmers like Fortunate have no seeds to plant and no money to buy seeds.
During this Lenten season, the stories of people like Fortunate make me realize the privileges we enjoy. We can choose to sacrifice, to be reminded of the suffering that our Lord endured. So many people in so many places around the world do not have that privilege.
We can learn so much from people like these. Despite their hardships, they get up day after day after day, hoping that whatever small meal they can put together will help their families through, and that tomorrow will be better.
This is what Lent reminds us of: that tomorrow will be better. It leads us to the Passion narrative, the darkest moments for our Lord and his followers, ending on the magnificent Easter Sunday when the cry "He is risen!" resounded in Jerusalem. As we know, those words eventually resounded around the entire world, giving us all a message of sacrifice, of redemption and of hope.
Hope is so powerful. In the United States, we can feel it in this season when the earth itself trumpets forth that message, awakening from its winter slumber. It is a triumphant proclamation of hope for the most important, most precious and, indeed, the most miraculous gift from God—the gift of life itself. It is this gift that unites us all, whether we are rich or poor, whether we speak English or Spanish or Urdu, whether our skin is black or white or red or brown or tan or whatever color God makes it. It is the gift that makes us all brethren in the family of God.
So much of what we do during Lent is an affirmation of hope. For all of you who participate in CRS Rice Bowl, every penny put in that bowl, every inexpensive meal you serve, every faith lesson you contemplate, expresses that hope in the redemption Easter will bring.
With your support, we at Catholic Relief Services deliver hope all around the world. Today we are working with the people of Lesotho, Zimbabwe and many other countries affected by El Nino—countries already suffering from climate change—to bring them food, water and better agriculture.
The miracle of redemption happens because we are the hands of the risen Jesus, digging the soil, planting the seeds, giving them water and reaping their bounty. Join with us and harvest the hope of this season.
May blessings overflow,
Dr. Carolyn Y. Woo
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As long as new babes are coming into this world, it'll always be baby shower season. If you're looking for a little something special to go with that diaper cake or baby monitor, you're in the right place. We've compiled our favourite eco-friendly, sustainable, 100% organic bamboo products that you can mix and match for the perfect baby shower gift. Surprise the new mommy-to-be with these gifts that are hypoallergenic, and of course, soft enough to use on a baby's bottom!
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text: Forest certification Page ContentWe promote credible forest certification as a tool to enhance sustainable forest management practices. The two most significant forest certification systems recognised by Stora Enso are run by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) and the Forest Stewardship Council™ (FSC®). The proportion of all forests worldwide certified as being under sustainable management is around 10%. Most of these certified forests are located in North America and Europe. We are actively working with our stakeholders to spread sustainable forest management and enhance certification systems. In 2013 Stora Enso and 25 other leading forest product companies signed up to the Leadership Statement on the Value and Future of Forest Certification created by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Forest Solutions Group. This statement calls for sustainable forest management to be significantly scaled up, and for forest certification schemes to be expanded. For more information see www.wbcsd.org. In 2013 the share of certified wood in our total wood supply was 78% (74%). Stora Enso owns or leases lands with a total area of 1.1 million hectares, and 93% of this total area is certified. In Brazil, Stora Enso's joint venture Veracel and its partner farmers are continuing pioneering the concept of group forest certification. By the end of 2013, FSC® and CERFLOR (PEFC) forest certification had been obtained by 51 farmers for a total area of 27 212 hectares, of which 12 400 hectares are planted with eucalyptus. Veracel's forestry partners enjoy concrete benefits from the forest certification process since it streamlines farm management, enhances working conditions, and facilitates the establishment of conservation areas. In Uruguay, our joint venture MdP successfully expanded the scope of its FSC® FM certification during 2013 to 100% of the tree plantations it owns. Areas leased and managed by MdP are incrementally included under the same certification (SGS-FM/COC -001941) over time.


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Maimi, FL (PRWEB) October 28, 2013
Energy Saving Solutions, a national supplier of energy-efficient LED and induction lighting technology to business and government, announced today that both showroom locations of Mia Cucina, a distributor and retailer of fine Italian home furnishing products, have been completely retrofitted with cost-saving and long-lasting LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting fixtures. Projected cost savings for the firm are $3,517 annually in reduced electricity bills and gross savings of $9,128.60 annually and $121,872.56 in lifetime savings when both maintenance and electricity are factored together.
With two popular showrooms in South Florida, one in Aventura at 20385 Biscayne Boulevard and another at 105/107 Miracle Mile in Coral Gables, the LED bulbs and fixtures from Energy Saving Solutions provides a warm, natural lighting with perfect color balance to best display the high quality kitchen, bath, closet, door and home furnishing products his company imports from leading Italian manufacturers, according to Mark Murphy, owner and president of Mia Cucina.
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I have to share this incident that just happened. I use a Taylor 2006 test kit and have been trying to find someone local to purchase reagents from. I can't believe it, but nobody sells them anywhere around here. I was actually even told that "We don't carry those kits because they are not accurate." Of course everyone has the strip test kits.
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Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Cattle Raisers Convention Offers Contests, Education and Scholarships
Fort Worth, Texas – Young cattle raisers can compete in 4 different contests for the chance to win scholarship prizes during the Cattle Raiser Expo at the Cattle Raisers Convention, March 22 -24 in Fort Worth.
Young cattle raisers can show off their creative talents by entering either the TSCRA Youth Art, Essay or Photography contests. Each contest has categories for kids ages 5 to 17. Scholarships will be awarded to top winners in each category of each contest. TSCRA will also host a range & pasture plant identification contest for contestants ages 12 to 17.
Additionally, the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Foundation will host Cow Camp, a full day of fun and education for young cattle raisers during the convention. Cow Camp is Saturday, March 23, at the Cattle Raisers Museum.
All contestants should pre-register for contests and Cow Camp by March 11. Registration forms and guidelines can be found on the convention website at www.tscra.org/convention/youth.
The 136th annual Cattle Raisers Convention is March 22 – 24 at the Fort Worth Convention Center. Highlights of the convention include the popular School for Successful Ranching, the Cattle Raisers Expo, and general sessions and committee breakout session covering a wide range of economic, ranching and wildlife topics.
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A US soldier accused of plotting an attack on a military base after fleeing his post as a Muslim conscientious objector went on trial wearing a surgical mask and manacled to the floor.
Courtroom security agents behind him wore protective goggles, an apparent reaction to an incident in which the soldier, Naser Jason Abdo, who claims to be HIV positive, bit his lip and spat blood at law enforcement officers.
Prosecutors called the first of 43 witnesses to the stand in a bid to show that Abdo, who fled his post in Kentucky, was gathering bomb-making materials and weapons to attack soldiers and their families at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the cite of a deadly shooting rampage in 2009.
One witness said Abdo told him that the assault was intended to show support for Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim psychiatrist accused of gunning down dozens of people in the 2009 shooting.
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The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain. DARPA wants to go there. Scientists want to go there. Entrepreneurs want to go there. And increasingly, it looks like it's possible. You've probably read bits and pieces about brain implants and prosthesis. Let me give you the big picture.
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Verizon and AT&T, the largest wireless carriers in the US, are using "supercookies" to track users, but they could be a boon to advertisers, hackers, says C/Net.
Cookies can be used to remember the information about the user who has visited a website in order to show relevant content in the future. Many websites use cookies for personalization based on users' preferences. They're commonly used on desktop browsers, but mobile phones and tablets generally have not used them.
"You're making it very difficult for people who want privacy to find it on the Internet," Paul Ohm, a senior policy adviser to the Federal Trade Commission and associate professor at the Colorado Law School, told The Washington Post, which reported the tracking programs last week.
Verizon's solution is called the PrecisionID. When consumers visit certain websites or mobile apps, a request is sent through a Verizon network. Precision ID packages the request, as a hashed, aggregated and anonymous unique identifier, then turns it into a lucrative chunk of data for advertisers.
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With stage one and two now complete, and the bulk of the large-scale construction works of Canberra Airport's AirVolution coming to an end, focus moves to the third and final stage of development and the delivery of some exciting benefits to our passengers, these include:
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The Tale of Two Cisco UCS Predictions
May 25th, 2011
If Charles Dickens were to write a book about it, it would begin like this: "It was the best of predictions, it was the worst of predictions, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief from a new comer, it was the epoch of incredulity from an incumbent…"
Of course, I'm referring to the UCS market share predictions from Cisco's CEO, John Chambers compared to the UCS statements made by HP's senior management. Let's summarize each side's statements before we dive into the hard facts.
Prediction #1: John Chambers, Cisco's CEO, on September 14th, 2010 said: (1)
"UCS has already taken the #3 market share spot in US/Canada for x86 blade servers."
"Cisco expects UCS to be 50% the market share of the #2 competitor for the worldwide x86 blade server market within the next 2 quarters."
Prediction #2: Randy Seidl, HP Senior VP, on April 26th, 2010 said: (2)
"A year from now the difference is (Cisco) UCS (Unified Compute System) is dead… "
Extra Credit: Leo Apotheker, HP's CEO, on March 16th, 2011 said: (3)
Gallant: "Speaking of Cisco in the server market, is it a threat or an annoyance to HP?"
Apotheker: "Neither."
Gallant: "Can you expand?"
Apotheker: "We hardly ever see [Cisco UCS]."
Gallant: "They claim that sales are growing pretty rapidly of the UCS system, but you're not seeing them in competitive situations?"
Apotheker: "They must be selling on planet Zircon."
Yesterday, May 24th, 2011, IDC announced the results of the Q1 2011 Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. (4) The results clearly proved the credibility of Mr. Chambers while doing exactly the opposite for HP's Siedl and Apotheker. Here is a graphical breakdown of the results:
The chart above (5) shows x86 Blade Server Market share for both Worldwide and US sales. These results validate both of John Chambers' statement that "Cisco has taken the #3 market share spot in the US/Canada for x86 blade servers" and that "Cisco expects UCS to be 50% the market share of the #2 competitor for the worldwide x86 blade server market".
The most interesting, and relevant, market share numbers for me are the US numbers. Reason being, this is the market that my team works in on a daily basis. You could say that we just received our report card and it's not too shabby… after only two years, my team is responsible for close to $1 out of every $5 worth of x86 blade server factory revenue in the United States. Lastly, we were able to outpace IBM, who has been reporting x86 blade revenue since 2002, and Cisco UCS is now the #2 vendor for x86 blade server factory revenue in the US.
Given the predictions above from John Chambers vs. HP's senior management and the IDC's market share announcements, I have the following comments/questions:
- Our fearless leader, John Chambers, was spot on with his prediction. If he ever predicts the rapture, I'll probably pay attention.
- HP's Siedl said UCS would be dead by April 26th, 2011. Instead, less than one month later, IDC reports that Cisco UCS leapt to either the #2 or #3 position in x86 blade revenue in multiple markets. That's impressive results for a "dead" product.
- HP's Apotheker said "We hardly ever see UCS". How exactly do you NOT see the #2 blade server vendor in the US? Is it a case of head-in-sand syndrome, fingers-in-ears disease, or is he just saying what he wishes was true while clicking his ruby slippers together three times? Who knows…
In summary, I leave you with the chart below (6)… the trending lines for worldwide x86 blade market share. Cisco is clearly gaining at the expense of HP and IBM. The UCS Naysayers' favorite twitter hash tags for the past several months has been #NumbersDontLie, #HardFactsDontLie, and #RealIndustryLeaders. For some reason, they're strangely quiet these days… <tongue in cheek>
M. Sean McGee, UCS Cheer Squad
P.S. As always, these thoughts are solely my own.


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Italo TV group Mediaset has asked an international court to arbitrate in its dispute with rival satcaster Sky Italia over lucrative pay TV rights for soccer World Cup coverage this summer.
The broadcast group, owned by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, claims that its arch rival, controlled by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, purchased the rights in breach of European regulations.
Sky Italia bought pay TV rights to transmit the soccer from South Africa this summer from pubcaster RAI, for e130 million ($173 million). RAI retained rights to air key matches.
"Mediaset has started an action before the Intl. Chamber of Commerce in Paris against the missed sale of rights for the digital terrestrial platform," a Mediaset spokeswoman said Thursday. Sky Italia has declined to comment.
The clash is the latest in a series of battles between warring moguls Berlusconi and Murdoch.
Mediaset VP and Berlusconi scion Pier Silvio recently said in newspaper interview that soccer is one of the key pillars in its efforts to boost pay TV subscribers.
But it is unclear whether the French court can make its decision quickly enough to allow Mediaset to put in an alternative bid for the World Cup rights.
Meanwhile, Sky Italia has asked the European Commission to allow it to bid in Italy's last sale of digital terrestrial TV assets and enter a booming market led by Mediaset. The EU is expected to decide on this by mid-April.


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Hydro power improves village life
"Now all the children in my village can do their homework every evening," says Mulana Farahudin, chairman of the village council in the village Pase Konda in Afghanistan.
The small hydro power station supplies electricity to 300 families since it was built a year ago. The whole village was involved and paid and worked towards its completion.
"We received two million afghani from the development programme National Solidarity Programme for the procurement, but we decided that we wanted an even more powerful generator so we collected more money in the village," Mulana says with pride.
The village eventually managed to raise a third of the total cost of the hydro power station, an astonishing effort for a village in a poor rural area.
When the development programme was started, a development council was founded in the village, just like in almost all the other villages in the country. They quickly agreed that electricity was the most important factor for development in their village. They contacted the provincial office and their proposal was approved.
"Before we built the power station, those who wanted light in the evening had to use an oil lamp and had to buy oil. It was both precarious and expensive," Mulana Farahudin explains.
Many villages in the area have worked hard to get electricity. Now, several villages in this district have small power stations. Every family now pays 35 afghani (approximately SEK 5) a month for the use of electricity. The fees are used for maintenance. There is a strong sense of shared ownership in the village.
"Twice, the powerful river has destroyed the inlet to the channel which leads the water to the turbine, but both times we have repaired it together," Mulana says.
In Pase Konda, the power station only produces electricity in the evening and at night. Daytime, they do not let the water flow through the system as it is muddy and creates more work to keep it clean.
That the village only has access to electricity in the evening and at night is not a problem according to Mulana Farahudin.
"It is mainly in the evening that we need electricity, but if our needs change they can extend the production to daytime as well. Because it is the village council that decides."


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A contribution on the characters defined in the ETSI GSM SMS standard has been submitted to ETSI/SMG4 by Ericsson. The contribution proposes that the character tables are complemented by lists of identifying names and hex codings according to ISO/IEC 10646-1, in the style of the new ISO/IEC 8859.
The contribution was discussed in the ETSI/SMG4 (3GPP TSG-T WG2) meeting in Helsinki 1999-09-07. There was then also the opportunity to present some information on the various coding schemes of JTC 1/SC 2.
Extract from meeting report:
2.1 Doc T2-99678
This document proposes that a table should be added to 03.38 to give a verbal description of each of the characters contained in the 7 bit default alphabet table. The verbal description proposed is based on internationally recognised standard descriptions. The document however did not include a description of the characters from the 7 bit default extension table. The meeting agreed that a CR should be produced by Ericsson for the next TSG-T2 meeting. Mr Novak agreed to do this.
Mr. Larsson who produced T2-99678 also gave a presentation on the need for ETSI to consider aligning its future work on alphabet tables/ character sets for MMS with work being carried out in ISO. This view was well received and SWG3 will take the opportunity to share discussions on any such work with ISO to take advantage of ISOs experience. Mr Larsson will report this favourable response to ISO. It was agreed that Mr.Harris and Mr. Larsson would act as technical co-ordinators as the need arises. Mr.Larsson distributed paper copies of his presentation to SWG3 and agreed to send Mr. Harris an electronic copy for onward distribution.
There was a general feeling that for MMS, it would be better to use alphabet/character coding mechanisms defined by ISO ( e.g. UTF8 – ISO/IEC 10646 ) rather than perpetuate the use of the GSM 7 bit default alphabet. UTF8 appears to also be a better alternative to UCS2 and could therefore provide one coding scheme for MMS.


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|Subway sign on Central Park West
"I love New York. The thing I love about it the most is, even when I'm not in the subway, I feel like I am."
Bill Maher, True Story
|Subway sign on Central Park West
|Statue of Liberty
|Times Square
|Times Square
|Coventry Garden
|Freeman Alley
|Columbia University
|Eldridge St.
|Abingdon Square
|Broome Street
|Columbia College
|The seal of the City of New York
|Central Park bench
|Columbus Circle
|National September 11 Memorial
|Fifth Avenue Clock
|Empire State Building seen from Chelsea
|West 57th Street
|Times Square
|Rivington Street
|Upper West Side
|Midtown Manhattan
|Sign at Grant's Tomb


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text: PUSH! releases a new song strictly for the fans where he reminiscences on his past love, their relationship issues, and the pain he still carries with him on "Memoirs of Kiesha" which is not on his latest project Black Roses. PUSH! sticks to who he is as an artist and best known for by being honest and pouring his real life situations into his music sustaining his place as a relatable music artist.


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Prithee, Did Thou Knowest That Shakespeare Smoked Weed?
My kingdom for some dank-ass ganja.
According to South African research,
The Bard had help of herbal kind, indeed:
For some, his reputation's been besmirched
By news his pipes were full of dank-ass weed.
Using technol'gy of the cutting edge,
They analyzed the ancient residues
In pipes found 'round fair Shakespeare's Avon hedge:
And found with cannabis they were infused.
The Stoner Bard's not news to those who know
His reference to a plant of mighty luck
That spurs "invention" in the mind's tableau.
Who knows which plays he wrote while high as f***?
There's one way teachers can this lesson tell:
Make Crispin's Day take place at Taco Bell!


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Introducing Bidenisms
Collecting the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
Earlier this month, Vice President Joe Biden was explaining the administration's efforts to work with local governments to distribute stimulus money. The law doesn't give the federal government the authority to force cooperation between states and municipalities, he said, but the administration was trying to—well, best to let Biden's statement speak for itself:
"I have not bent the law, but I have let imagination take hold in some places where I think it's consistent with the spirit of the law. … Is that the best way of saying that? Yes, … I should stop."
Thus did the vice president add another entry to the growing collection of Bidenisms. The precise definition of Bidenism, like a Bidenism itself, is murky. Some Bidenisms are the sort of miscellaneous verbal or policy gaffes that are made by every politician. But the best ones—the statements that are uniquely Bidenistic—exemplify the bluster, excess verbosity, and fake charm of dumb-politician stereotypes, yet they come from a seasoned politico who can also be clever and self-effacing. In general, Bidenisms have one or more of the following characteristics:
—They are awkward, inappropriate, or both.
—They either can be interpreted as insulting or are deliberately so.
—They are often followed by a self-deprecating joke, intended to placate anyone offended, which is just as cringe-worthy as the original statement.
—They frequently are self-aware—that is, the vice president knows he is committing a Bidenism as he says it.
Jacob Weisberg, author of the authoritative compilation of Bushisms, notes that George W. Bush's gaffes were often the result of unintentional incompetence, which made them endearing. They could make Bush seem like a lovable dimwit, a kind of presidential version of Archie Bunker or Homer Simpson. Biden's lapses are more akin to those of Michael Scott (who, like Biden, is a native of Scranton, Pa.). A statement becomes Bidenesque when his over-the-top attempts at folksiness fail. Unlike their distant cousins, Bushisms and Palinisms, Bidenisms generally stem more from arrogance or obliviousness than from difficulty with the English language or ignorance.
Today Slate inaugurates a new feature cataloging the vice president's Bidenisms. Whenever he says something that fits the definition—and the definition itself, remember, is subject to refinement—we'll record it here. Send your own nominations (with a link, please) to email@example.com.
In the meantime, here are some of our favorite Bidenisms, in no particular order:
''I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.''—Responding in the New York Times to uproar over his telling a campaign event questioner that he was smarter than said voter (around that time he released a statement admitting much of what he had said about his academic record was not true), Sept. 21, 1987
"Since 1994 with the Gingrich revolution, just take a look at Iraq, Venezuela, Katrina, what's gone down at Virginia Tech, Darfur, Imus. Take a look. This didn't happen accidentally, all these things."—Blaming Republicans for having "wallowed in the politics of polarization," New York, April 19, 2007
"A successful dump!"—Explaining his whereabouts (dropping deadwood at the dump) to the reporters outside his home, Wilmington, Del., Aug. 20, 2008
"Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see you. … Oh, God love you! What am I talking about? I tell you what. You're making everybody else stand up, though, pal. … Stand up for Chuck!"—Telling Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is bound to a wheelchair, to rise at campaign event, Columbia, Mo., Sept. 9, 2008
"Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. … She is qualified to be president of the United States of America, she's easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me."—Nashua, N.H., Sept. 10, 2008
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' "—Revising history slightly in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, Sept. 22, 2008
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."—Discussing Barack Obama during an interview with the New York Observer, Feb. 4, 2007
"Am I doing this again? For the senior staff? My memory is not as good as Chief Justice Roberts'."—Mocking Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' botched effort to swear in Barack Obama as Biden was set to swear in White House senior staff one day after the Inauguration snafu (the president did not look pleased), Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2009
"I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. … When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway."—Dispensing handy tips to protect against the swine flu in an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, April 30, 2009
Click here to see video of Biden's comments. The Bidenism is at 2:36.
"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number? I should have it in front of me and I don't."—Failing to remember name of the Web site Recovery.gov in an interview with CBS's Maggie Rodriguez to promote the Web site Recovery.gov, Feb. 25, 2009
"The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy."—Contradicting own administration's economic message in an interview with ABC's This Week, July 5, 2009
Click here to see video of Biden's comments. The Bidenism is at 6:06.
"Barack Obama ain't taking my shotguns, so don't buy that malarkey. … I've got two, if he tries to fool with my Beretta, he's got a problem."—Issuing a warning at a campaign event, Castlewood, Va., Sept. 20, 2008
"Israel can determine for itself as a sovereign nation what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran or anyone else, whether we agree or not. … If the Netanyahu government decides to take a course of action different than the one being pursued now, that is their sovereign right to do that. That is not our choice."—Appearing to give Israel the green light to bomb Iran in interview with This Week, July 5, 2009
"They have a shrinking population base, they have a withering economy, they have a banking sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years. They're in a situation where the world is changing before them and they're clinging to something in the past that is not sustainable."—Forgetting about the reset button with Russia in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2009
"A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next president of the United States—Barack America!"—Springfield, Ill., Aug. 23, 2008
"You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."—Not joking around in C-SPAN's Road to the White House series, June 17, 2006
"All you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's Restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me, where I spend a lot of time."—Referring to one of his favorite hangouts, along with a restaurant that had been closed for more than a decade, during the 2008 vice presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 2, 2008


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There are some people you meet in this world who immediately make you feel like "everything is going to be alright" and Joan is someone who immediately just makes everything better. It's no surprise to me that she has been instrumental in growing her successful family business to 50+ employees from 10. We immediately bonded when we met probably because we both transitioned into the beauty community from a non-profit background.
Joan sits in the unique position of Chief Operating Officer (a role not often thought of as traditionally "female") and with a complex e-commerce operation like Sleekhair.com– is called upon to put her problem solving, relationship and organizational skills to the test on a daily basis.
Joan will be sharing her insight and tips on working with family and friends at the Long Beach ISSE girl boss panel. Working with friends and family is a pretty common practice for people looking to launch and/or grow their business and comes with its own unique sets of challenges.
Meet Joan:
Joan is the Chief Operating Officer of Sleekhair.com, an online beauty destination of over 30,000 products across hair, skincare and makeup. A passionate humanitarian, Joan spent 10 years in public service in the US and in Latin America before joining her family's business in 2011. She has a track record of working successfully in complex environments and challenging communities. Her specialties are organizational management, cross cultural leadership, intercultural communication, employee engagement and culture building. Joan is deeply dedicated to helping others find meaning and purpose in all they do which in turn motivates employees to boost productivity and the bottom line. Under Joan's direction, Sleekhair has shown significant growth from being a small startup of 10 employees to almost 50 diverse team members working effectively towards a shared vision while wearing countless hats and having fun.
Fun Fact: Sleekhair has a collection of White and Pink Broadway vanities on display at their fun shopping showroom in Orange County, CA. They often travel with them when setting up pop-up experience shopping experiences.
Favorite Sleekhair.com product: Going to their showroom is very dangerous for me because I love to shop. I am still really in love with this Morphe palette and use it daily.
How We Met: Fellow Panelist Manna Kadar invited me and Jennifer Chan to speak on a panel for her USC alumni women's group. Joan was in the audience that night and we immediately bonded over our non-profit backgrounds. TIP: If you find a panelist particularly interesting, make sure to take a minute to meet them afterwards – tell them what resonated with you – and exchange business cards.


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What were the dates and schedule of the original United States Hot Rod Association Monster Truck events that ran in 1988 and 1989.
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Undergraduate Research Opportunities
research at boston college
Undergraduates are encouraged to gain research experience at Boston College.
The first resource for students is their faculty. By talking to other students in your department, as well as to your faculty, you will learn about ongoing research projects and about the current interests of your faculty members. When you find a topic of interest to you, make an appointment with the faculty member to discuss your interest and explore ways that you might get involved.
Undergraduate Research Fellows Program
There may be opportunities to be paid for the research work you do. The Undergraduate Research Fellows Program provides a grant to pay for a student's research assistance for a faculty member's research project. It is considered student employment and the student may work up to 20 hours a week during the academic semester, up to 40 hours a week during semester breaks or the summer, depending on faculty need and student availability.
Other Employment Opportunities
Another way to gain experience doing research is to search the Boston College Human Resources job opportunity page. Search under the Professional and Administrative categories as well as the Office and Clerical categories for full- or part-time opportunities. You may also want to search the Student Employment page for opportunities to work on funded research projects.
Elements – Boston College's Undergraduate Research Journal
The Elements journal was founded in September 2004 by a group of twenty undergraduate students. The journal published its first issue in May of 2005, featuring research articles written by BC undergraduates along with shorter special features. The goal of the publication is to become a forum for the exchange of original ideas within and across disciplines at the university. By fostering intellectual curiosity and discussion, the journal will strengthen and affirm the community of undergraduate students and the greater academic community at Boston College.


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Only Chris Harrison can get away with saying, "Hop into your nut sack" with both a huge smile and twinkle in his eye on national television. With an episode that included that classy line, a drunken pool party and sounds from Ed and Jaclyn in a bunk bed that are typically heard on Animal Planet, I'm uncertain how ABC managed to bypass the "viewer discretion" warning at the beginning of the debauchery. It was awkward, disgusting and conducive to more than one or two eye rolls. Welcome to week three of "Bachelor Pad."
Hot Sludge Fundae
Everyone knows that the easiest way to clarify physical dominance among the group is to make all of our eager contestants wade through a vat of ice cream, slide down a ramp entirely soaked with hot fudge, crab crawl through a cloud of whipped cream and sprinkle nuts on your head before slithering into a sack and hopping to your partner. All in your string bikini of course.
It turned out that Jamie is a severe Fundae competitor and took on each obstacle with ease, giving her partner Ed a huge lead. Unfortunately, Ed's inability to walk a straight line and ringing ears due to his massive hangover prevented him from commanding the evil fudge wall. He was forced to submit to the slippery beast and didn't even finish the race, therefore securing a vote against him and Jamie. The Stag, naturally attacked the course and strived to overcome David, but the Super Fan again pulled a lucky win at the end. It was so close that the tapes had to be reviewed by official "Bachelor Pad" judges in an unmarked van down by the river.
Enchantment Under the Sea Dance
Super Fan Dave was super stoked about his photo finish win. He celebrated by wearing the girly white tank top made infamous by Ryan last season. (J. Crew must be sold out by now.) He chose Blakeley, Jamie and Erica Rose to join him at the prom. There was an actual band, balloons, a vegetable tray and from the dance moves Super Dave busted out, I'm hoping for his sake there was spiked punch ingested before the on-camera interviews.
The girls dressed up in fun outfits: Blakeley showed off her boobs, Erica chose something that resembled the fluffier parts of an ostrich and Jamie cried because she had never been to prom before. Super Dave began to crumble at the tears and offered her the rose to make it all go away. Soon after, Blakeley threatened to remove his favorite appendage if he dare give the rose to Jamie. In the end, he made Jamie his queen and shrugged off the wrath that Blakeley promised to pour on him the next rose ceremony.
Wax On. Wax Off.
Since Rachel was Super Dave's partner, she also got to choose three guys to accompany her on a date to the wax museum. She picked Mute Nick, Single Dad Tony and her crush, Stag.
They wandered from room to room, posing with Beyonce, sitting with Conan and dancing with Justin Timberlake (how cute was Stag in that moment?) They came to an area labeled "The Bachelor Experience" and were surprised to see a wax Harrison standing at a rose ceremony. After a few seconds, we learned wax Harrison is REAL Harrison -- he even looked suave covered in latex spray paint.
The group joined in the fun by waxing up, standing motionless in the room while an actor posing as a photographer tricked innocent strangers into talking smack about them. We learned that everyone loves Stag, Rachel is pretty, Nick is forgettable and one woman wonders if there's a "nicer word for pathetic" to describe Tony. Then they all came alive and the fans had that moment of awkwardness when they realized the feeble, inadequate, meek Tony has been standing there the entire time.
Rachel was quick to give Stag the rose, booting Pathetic Tony and Mute Nick to the limo before finding a nice bench behind the "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" exhibit. They confessed they are both crushing on each other and made out as fake Robert Redford looked on.
Reid vs. Ed
Ed is a drunk who thinks Reid is his buddy. Reid still harbors anger that Ed stole Jillian from him and will lie to everyone in order to vote this guy off the island. Everyone tells Ed the truth and he cries about it ... So do three other girls. The moral of the story is that Ed is immature and Reid seriously needs counseling.
In the end, Reid was voted off for being dishonest to his friends. He claimed it's only a game, but he was bitter that Ed is still there. Super Fan Donna was also voted off -- she's sad that she didn't get to hook up with anyone in the mansion and vowed that the house is going to be sorry that they did't get to see her in her bikini any more.
I'm going to scrub my brain now.