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WHILE international pressure mounts for sanctions against Nigeria's military rulers, the neighbors of Africa's most populous country quietly hope the controversy will wither away.
In a continent marred by civil war and turmoil, many West Africans say the last thing they need is for Nigeria to collapse under threatened freezes on foreign investment, aid, and oil sales.
Western human rights lobbyists and South African President Nelson Mandela can safely call for sanctions because they are so far away, these West Africans say. But for those living in the shadow of a giant, the prospect of refugees and instability spilling over the borders of Nigeria, a country of 100 million people, is frightening.
''Look at the chaos [the civil war in] Liberia caused. It was small and had no international weight,'' says a Western diplomat based in Accra, the capital of Ghana. ''Unrest in Nigeria? It would be unfathomable. The region could not deal with an influx of Nigerians.''
The Organization of African Unity, the largest political grouping of African states, has condemned Nigeria's execution last month of writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other dissidents. The Commonwealth group of former British colonies has suspended Nigeria from membership. On Monday, five of 12 heads of state of the Southern African Development Community decided in Pretoria, South Africa, to refer a decision on tough sanctions to a Commonwealth committee.
But a summit of Francophone countries held earlier this month in Benin, which borders Nigeria, was reluctant to censure Nigerian ruler Gen. Sani Abacha too harshly. Those at the summit most opposed to taking a tougher stance were all countries located close to Nigeria.
The African Development Bank also is beginning to worry about the implications of sanctions on Nigeria, which bankers say owes the bank up to $1 billion. ''There could potentially be a problem with their loan repayments. That would be a cause of concern here,'' says Daniel Duesterberg, a member of the American team at the bank.
In theory, nearby Ghana, like Nigeria an English-speaking country, would stand to gain if foreign investors pulled out of Nigeria. But diplomats note that Ghana's population, and thus its potential market, is small - 15 million people. Businesses probably would withdraw from the region altogether rather than relocate to Accra.
Ghana's government, headed by President Jerry Rawlings, has been notably reluctant to join in the harsh censures of Nigeria, preferring quiet diplomacy instead. A close aide to President Rawlings, Tsatsu Tsikata, says it is important to keep channels of communication with Nigeria open so as not to isolate the country's military rulers further.
Mr. Tsikata, who heads the National Ghana Petroleum Corporation, which cooperates with its Nigerian counterpart, is among the most vocal opponents of sanctions.
''Ghana's relations with Nigeria can be valuable in gaining the confidence of Nigeria so that it doesn't feel so isolated. A lot of effort should be put into finding constructive solutions,'' he told the Monitor.
In Liberia and Sierra Leone, beset by civil wars, Nigeria has sought to boost its international prestige by posting troops to maintain what little peace there is.
In Sierra Leone - singled out by the Commonwealth last month as another notorious abuser of human rights - Nigeria is seen as its savior.
Even opponents of Sierra Leone's military regime don't want to see Nigeria brought down while 2,000 of its well-disciplined troops maintain the only defenses against Revolutionary United Front rebels in Sierra Leone. Without Nigeria's help, the rebels could take airports and block highways, they say.
''We have mixed feelings,'' says Frank Karefa-Smart, a leading diamond exporter and a member of Sierra Leone's opposition National United Peoples' Party. ''The Nigerians are helping us with the war.''
In the Ivory Coast, concern is growing about the implications of a wave of Nigerian refugees. About 400,000 Liberians have fled across the border to the Ivory Coast fleeing their civil war. That process has been fairly smooth because the refugees are largely from the same ethnic group as the Ivorians in the area. This wouldn't be the case with refugees from Nigeria.


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and it crashed my AIM, then i was listening to music for about 10 minutes when my sound mysteriously stopped. i checked and the song was still playing, so i checked a video file and the wouldnt play audio either. i went through the troubleshooter on XP, including all sorts of checks to see whether or not my sound was muted, or if it was turned up high enough, i check that my speakers were plugged in, everything seemed like it should be working. i restarted, still have the problem, then i plugged in my headphones to see if it was a problem with the speakers, i didnt hear anything over the headphones either. i ran ad-aware and that wouldnt let me update the definition files until after i ran it, cleared out some crap frmo there, then ran it again. still no luck with the speakers, i really cant figure this out. maybe its some type of virus? please help, i have a hijackthis log file too in case you want to see that. please help me out here, i cannot live in silence!
update: i found out that if i check the mute all button, then uncheck it, the sound will usually be restored. sometimes i have to do it a few times. i ran the AIMfix program and it didnt find any AIM viruses. i have attached a HijackThis log file for you to review. thank you in advance for any help you can give me.
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Congratulations to "Rumors," a team of eight Powerball-playing machinists at Briggs & Stratton in Poplar Bluff. The group has been recognized as the August Lottery Team of the Month as part of the Missouri Lottery's 2009 Lottery Captains promotion, earning the group a prize package and a feature at Molottery.com.
The "Rumors" team, led by captain Charlotte Storinger of Oxly, has been playing Powerball together for more than a year and also includes: Tim Bishop of Ellsinore; Glenda Emery of Doniphan; Wanda Lowery, Sabrina Monehan and Debbie Phelps, all of Poplar Bluff ; Linda Smith of Willionsville; and Patty Wring of Puxico.
"A couple of them saw me with a ticket and wanted to try it as a group," Storinger said of the team's beginnings. It started with three players and grew, with the group choosing its unique team name because they intend to "spread the word of how we became rich in the Missouri Lottery when we win!"
Every Monday, each player contributes $2 to cover the Powerball drawings held on Wednesday and Saturday nights. Each member has their own set of numbers they use and, according to Storinger, winnings are "reinvested into more Powerball tickets."
Team rules for the group are simple. "You pay, and if you don't pay, we give you a week to catch up," said Storinger.
"But everyone pays," she continued, "so there are no real rules. Just that we're going to have a big party if we win, and we're renting a limo [to claim the big prize]."
Beyond party plans and hopes of a road trip in a limousine, she said, "A lot are going to retire," if the group hits a large jackpot prize.
Do you have a Lottery team? Tell us about your players group by visiting the Lottery Captains Page at Molottery.com. To learn more about Powerball, visit the Lottery's Powerball page.
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I started watching AMC's The Walking Dead because I saw this poster and it cracked me up.
I don't like zombie movies. Shaun of The Dead and 28 Days Later aside, I think most of the genre is a bloody gross-out fest for those who don't enjoy good film.
I had heard this was a good show, but honestly, telling me that a zombie show is good, makes me doubt your ability to judge value.
That said, ahem, this show is great.
Since I'm playing catch-up, watching the DVDs, I have the benefit of hindsight. I tolerated the first episodes' arty factor as them getting their groove on. And the next thing I knew, I was hooked.
I just finished Season Two. I read the reviews first. They were criticized for too much talking, not enough action. Fair enough, but only half the story.
There is a lot of moralizing in this series. Morality, moral imperatives, moral decisions,* civilization, oy, when the characters pause, and the two shot is framed, brace yourself for moralizing that will make you wish for someone to jump in and gnaw their faces off.
But when they stop talking about it and the series shows them behaving within the new morality and you're right with them there, then turns that 180 degrees, they knock it out of the park.
When the little girl walks out of the barn. Holy crap.
Great writing is always instructive.
The Sopranos was a delicious guide on how to make a villain sympathetic. I mean, sometimes, didn't you wish Tony could get a break. Carmella would drive anyone around the bend. But I digress.
The Walking Dead excels. You will invest in these people. You will be surprised.* If you're just there for the bloody gore fest, they have that too.
Which brings up another point. I'd rather be intrigued than grossed out. That's just me.
One episode of The Walking Dead made me gag.
Something IMAGINARY evoked a real physical response.
I want my writing to do that.
Although gagging is not the response I'd prefer.
Although gagging is not the response I'd prefer.
*Ha! Got it right in one.
*Ha! Did it again. The curse is lifted.


text: The United States Patent and Trademark office recently published details regarding a Microsoft patent that relates to a two-sided smart device display system for phones and tablets. The patent involves an integrated second low-power display, possibly E-Ink, on the back side of a smart device or tablet. The secondary screen could allow a vendor to put less commonly used icons off of the main screen to free space or show other information not shown in the main screen. The second display would use a low-powered processor to reduce the load from the main screen, helping with battery life.


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Rating: 3.4/5 (Total votes: 20)
Using Webkey you can control your Android phone from any browser.
· You can click and type on the phone (we inject touch events to the touch device and create a new HID for typing),
· get screenshots (copied from the framebuffer device) in jpeg and png,
· start phone calls (it uses '/bin/system/service' from android)
· open webpages on the phone (it uses intents)
· browse, download from, upload to the SD card (it uses AjaXplorer so you can rename files, listen mp3, etc.)
· get the phone's location (GPS and network, it uses our JAVA code and shows the result on GoogeMaps)
· reading and writing SMS,
· exporting contacts, messages, call list in txt, csv, xls,
· works on wifi, 3g
· DynDNS support (it's a dynamic DNS service, after you register at dyndns.org, your phone will have an address like: myphone.homeip.net, this only works if you can reach your phone using its IP address)
· if your 3g internet provider blocks the incoming connection to your phone, then you cannot connect using its IP address or DynDNS, but you can connect through our server (the phone starts the connection like GoogleTalk does)
· user admin has a random password each time, but you can add new users. The connection is not encrypted, we are planning to use https instead of http
· opensource (it is licensed under General Public License)
· most of the functions uses only C++ part, which has very low memory footprint and almost no CPU use in idle.
What's New in This Release:
· some screenshot/touch fixes
· fix ICS search button
· decreased the uinput's shutdown time
· added game mode
· some java fixes
· supporting more phones in AndroidManifest.xml
What's New in 2.02:
· fixes some FC
What's New in 1.91:
· SSL support for direct connections
· no more user admin
· translations: Espanol (Spanish): Roberto Yoldi, Greek: Ilias Gerasimou, Hungarian: Peter Mora
FreewareAndroid - Free Downloads Android Market Apps, Applications, Games, APK, WiFi, Sync, GPS for Google Android OS


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Welcome to Your Move Estate Agents, Bradford, West Yorkshire
Your Move Roebuck Residential estate agents in Bradford are based on Godwin Street. We provide residential sales and lettings services across the city of Bradford, the suburbs and nearby villages. Alongside the BD1 city centre postcode the residential areas and villages our estate agents in Bradford serve includes Allerton, Heaton, Thornton, Clayton Heights and Queensbury.
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After a well-placed kiss, Jake gets a taste of Vickie—and now he can't get enough. After delivering packages all day, he's more than willing to let her unwrap his package.
"You smell delicious; cinnamon, oranges and vanilla. I want a taste."
He didn't wait for my response; he turned me around and took possession of my mouth. His hands held my head, while he devoured my mouth. His body braced me against the refrigerator. His hand slid under my sweater and cupped my breast. Did he moan or me? I think we both did. His hand was on the move again. I unconsciously sucked in my stomach, his hand was able to easily slide down and inside the front of my jeans. Already wet, he slid his finger up and down my sex, all the while seducing me with his mouth. So close, so close… I shuddered and convulsed around his hand. We broke the kiss and I rested my head on his chest.
How long did that take? Five minutes… I'm so easy. God! What was Jake going to think? He lifted his head, slowly removed his hand from my jeans and sucked on his finger, never taking his eyes off me. I guess he liked it.
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:36 PM
Four years after he became the Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain has returned to the Republican National Convention to enumerate what he says have been the foreign policy shortcomings of the Obama administration.
On his 76th birthday, the Arizona senator focused on a subject that has received limited attention during the convention. He said the GOP's newly anointed nominee, Mitt Romney, knows that success at home depends on leadership in the world.
McCain says in the past four years the United States has drifted away from its tradition of global leadership. He criticizes President Barack Obama for committing to a date for withdrawing from Afghanistan, strained relations with Israel, not doing enough to stop impending cuts in the defense budget and not adequately supporting dissent in Iran and Syria.
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Transparent LCD panels are a tool to make your advertising more dynamic and have endless possibilities as an advertising tool, which can be applied to show windows and used in showcase events. Corporations and schools can also adopt the panel as an interactive communication device, which enables information to be displayed more effectively.
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Transparent LCD panel that can be used to dramatically enhance kiosks, store windows, and billboards with text and images that do fancy tricks like rotate and fade in and out rather than just sit there. Think bus shelters with see-through walls displaying scrolling schedules and clothing shop windows that feature models sashaying down the catwalk.
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With Gamescom just over the horizon, what could we see as the major announcements of the show? Here are three possible ideas.
Eh, I kind of doubt we'll see anything major from Gamescon. European devs go to E3, ya' know. The next big exciting thing is TGS, as we really haven't seen anything next-gen from Japanese developers yet.
I expect a solid showing from Bandai-Namco. They've been teasing a new Ace Combat and Star Ocean, and it's also about time for the Gundam Senki devs to unveil their next game (most likely a Gundam launch title).
I don't understand why people think M$ will announce a $399 sku that ships without the Kinect. We all know people will buy the cheapest modale since most will want the one without the Kinect. Think about it then that give devs a reason not to develop or add features that uses the Kinect, since the thought is there will be a group of people out there without it who will be alienated.
I very highly doubt Microsoft will ship a Lower price sky without kinect because of
A few reasons.
- they are already having to go back and recode the current x1 because of the 180 of drm and online policies
- they are sold on making sure kinect is a selling point of the x1
- they are also having over heating problems with the x1 so I would think a lower price sku just wouldn't fit in their schedule atm.


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The Village Voices of Tamil Nadu
By Shanoor Seervai
A local newspaper project in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu empowers villagers to tell their own stories and report on news that matters to them.
'Gramam Pudiya Udiyam' (Village New Dawn) was inspired by Venus Upadhyaya, a journalist who grew up far away in Jammu and Kashmir. She spoke to The Wall Street Journal's India Real Time about the project and how communities can use media to express themselves.
Edited excerpts:
The Wall Street Journal: Why did you want to become a journalist who works with communities?
Venus Upadhyaya: I come from a small city with few opportunities but lots of questions, particularly on how to use media for community development. I wanted to experience a form of journalism that mobilizes and inspires people to think independently.
In 2006, I quit my job with The New Indian Express, a national English daily, to assess a post-tsunami rehabilitation program in and around Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu. The program worked with 30 scattered villages, and the people needed a way to connect with each other.
I was already interacting with children from the villages and helped them start a monthly newspaper. From then on, the project belonged to the children—they made the decisions. I only encouraged them to express their views and made sure the stories that were important to them were published on the front page. They even chose the name: "Minmini Poochi," which means firefly, a small but powerful source of light.
WSJ: How did the adults respond to a children's newspaper?
Ms. Upadhyaya: In most rural communities, parents don't think that children can be wise, but I saw a group of children who needed a platform to voice their thoughts. When the first edition was circulated, something changed in the way these traditional fisher folk perceived their own children—with pride.
I learned that a community project couldn't be successful if the people don't feel a sense of ownership and involvement. People need to relate to the news they read. I wanted to follow this dream of experimenting with community media and facilitate a project that engaged not only children, but the community as a whole. I sent a copy of Minmini Poochi to the Sri Aurobindo Society Village Action and Movement in Pondicherry, and they asked me to facilitate the creation of a similar newspaper for seven nearby villages.
WSJ: What was different in your approach to this project?
Ms. Upadhyaya: I was only enabling a process of participation in these villages, watching it unfold without imposing my thoughts or ideas. I don't speak the local language, Tamil, but this wasn't a limitation. When I first arrived, I realized that the villages were divided along caste lines. The upper castes and scheduled castes hadn't interacted with each other for centuries. SARVAM's hope was that a community newspaper could dismantle notions of difference and make each caste aware of the problems the others face.
WSJ: How did SARVAM spark interest among people in the idea of a village newspaper?
Ms. Upadhyaya: We met with groups of people from each village and gave them clippings from local papers to demonstrate what mainstream media thinks is newsworthy. We asked them to create their own newspaper, using a simple layout and focusing on what they thought was important for the community. Then we established that a team of 10 coordinators and two photographers would gather news and contributions from each village. Initially, they had to go door-to-door and requested people to submit. Now they receive between 20 and 30 letters a month, and people get angry if their letters aren't published.
WSJ: What are some of the challenges in sustaining 'Gramam Pudiya Udiyam?'
Ms. Upadhyaya: The community coordinators constantly have to prevent interest groups from treating Gramam Pudiya Udiyam as a political mouthpiece. They have tried to address the problem by using neutral words and phrases in editorials, and not publishing news that promotes one vested interest over another.
WSJ: Has the newspaper empowered people in the village who can't read and write?
Ms. Upadhyaya: People can perceive and analyze what is important to them even if they are not literate. The older women in the villages often ask their children or husbands to read to them. For example, take Lakshmi's story: She is a 39-year-old woman who owns two cows and earns a decent income of around 6,000 rupees ($110) a month, but was illiterate. She told me that she felt left out amidst her family and friends when they talked about what they read in Gramam Pudiya Udiyam, but consoled herself by looking at the photos. One afternoon, her daughter, Kalpana, saw Lakshmi gazing at the paper and offered to teach her to read and write. With Kalpana's help, she gradually gained basic literacy, and no longer feels left out.
Shanoor Seervai is a freelance writer based in Bombay.
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Description- In this unit, we constructed 3 simple machines: a pendulum, a pulley, and a lever. For each simple machine, we had to complete a certain challenge. Everyday, we had to record a think and a do. The thinks were meant to tell everyone what we were planning on doing for that day. Our do was telling what we accomplished that day..
1/10/17: Yesterday, we created a basic pendulum from the instructions. It did have some problems though. It was not stable enough, and it was tall enough, which made it weak. I plan to add 2x20 pieces to make it taller and tires on the bottom to stabilize it. Also, it am going to make the piece that holds the tire longer so it can swing back farther.
The outcome was really good. It knocked the cubes down 5/5 times. The tires at the bottom stabilized the pendulum, which made it a lot easier to knock them down. Also, the 2x20 allowed more potential energy to store up, making the pendulum more powerful.
Think: Today, we will be constructing the original design of the pulley system/elevator.
1/11/17 Challenge #2 Pulley: We must create a pulley system/elevator that can lift/ transport 3 blocks 3 inches high.
Criteria: The elevator must lift 3-4 small objects at the same time, the elevator must use a pulley, the elevator must include a platform or container to hold the objects being lifted, and the elevator should include a mechanism to lift and lower the platform manually.
1/12/17 Think: We didn't complete the test, but we did make the changes to the pulley. Today, we plan to make a gear system that will control the pulley.
Do: We added height to the pulley by adding 2x20 to the original design. We also made it wider to hold the tires in the middle. Also, we are adding gears so we can manually operate it.
1/17/17 Think: Today, I have to make a new video. In my first video, we forgot to put a ruler in it. We have to put the video into spark video first, then I can copy it into adobe spark. After I'm finished with that, I will began to build the lever.
Do: After we finished our video and transferred it into spark page, we began to build our lever. We only got to the second step. Tomorrow, we will finish it and begin modifying it.
1/18/17 Think: Today, we are going to finish building the lever. We have already done the first two steps. After we finish that, I have to write the description and criteria of the lever.
Do: We did end up finishing the original design. Also, we got to modify the lever a lot. We stabilized the base with 4 rubber tires. Also, we made the structure wider so the lever can go back farther.
1/19/17 Think: Today, we are going to test our lever. We will make modifications if needed. After we are done with that, we will film it with a ruler next to it. Next, we will finish our packet.


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What do you drink on your nights off? By which I don't mean nights out, but alcohol-free evenings. AFEs are a red-hot topic this year and, actually, they were even before the Government advised us to take at least two a week. For a while now many have been aiming for (and subsequently boasting about) the number of AFEs we manage per week, just as we used to about the number of times we'd been to the gym.
It's become a highly conscious decision, not drinking for 24 hours and, accepted, this is good, healthy stuff. But such acute awareness of a night ahead on the tap water can be dispiriting (in every sense), especially for cooks who want to match dazzling dishes with a decent drink.
So, on an AFE soothe yourself with delicious softies that go well with supper. Apple and pear blends work with pork chops or light chicken dishes. The scent and tang of elderflower and/or lemon is meant for white fish, simple seafood, tomatoes and leafy salads. Chill top-notch orange and orangey citrus blends for quiches, smooth chicken and duck pâtés, salmon and ham.
The richly hued, heart-tastic red juices based on pomegranate and blueberries work with duck, pork sausages and sweetly marinaded steaks (the sweetness in most juices chimes in with savoury dishes with hints of sugar or honey). And lemon-grass and ginger cordial is terrific with mild, coriander-strewn stir-fries. All of which should inspire a night off – boasting optional.
Cawston Press Apple & Ginger Juice (Sainsbury's, £1.99 for 1 litre)
This is 99 per cent apple, but that smidgen of ginger shines through nicely, creating a warm, peppery glow. I like this with sweetish Chinese pork dishes.
Waitrose Love Life Apple, Beetroot, Raspberry & Blackcurrant Juice (£1.59 for 1 litre)
You need to like beetroot here, since it makes up 40 per cent of the blend and is clearly evident. Very purple, very rich, and very good (unless you have white carpets). Sip with duck or steak.
Cherrygood Original Juice (widely available, £1.50 for 1 litre or £1.35 for 3 x 200ml)
I've had a thing about cherry juice since holidaying in western Turkey where it is in all the shops. Cherrygood is an excellent, natural source in this country; try it with simple lamb dishes.
TIPPLE TIP cordial welcome...
'Make your own irresistible citrus cordial with six ripe mandarins and two limes, 300ml water and 100g sugar. Squeeze and strain the fruit juices into a pan with the water, simmer until reduced by a third, then add sugar and stir until dissolved. Leave to cool then dilute to taste'


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Readers of this blog know that the Collaboration and Content Strategies service researches, publishes analysis, and advises clients about communication, collaboration, and content (3C)technologies and the processes around them. Unfortunately, many of the technologies we cover are relegated to the "nice to have" category by some executives, such as collaborative workspaces, social networking, portals, and taxonomy tools. As service director for this group I speak with owners of 3C technologies at a diverse set of organizations through client and sales interactions and one refrain I hear across all these groups is the difficulty of justifying investments in "new fangled" technologies in such difficult economic conditions. News of layoffs is becoming commonplace, bonuses are being cut back, lines of credit are becoming expensive or scarce, and uncertainty is reducing the scope of future purchasing plans. Understandably, many organizations feel compelled to stall improvements to 3C processes that, while perennially inefficient, have worked fine so far. What is the role of new 3C technologies when IT budgets are under unprecedented attack?
In light of this question, I read with interest a study recently published by Diamond Management and Technology Consultants that compared the performance of 400 organizations before, during, and after the previous recession (1998-2004) to see which approaches resulted in the best long-term growth prospects. The study, "Don't Waste a Crisis: Emerge a Winner by Applying Lessons from the Last Recession," categorized firms according to whether their performance improved, decreased, or stayed the same coming out of the last recession.
The study found that:
"Only the top two quartiles (Stalwarts and Opportunists) increased gross margins during the recession year, and by the end of the recession had improved margins by 20%. In other words, they were smart about their cuts and successfully improved the design of their business (i.e., the configuration of people, assets, capital, and information to generate value for customers) to create operating leverage that eluded others. The central lesson of our research is that at the very time when a leader is tempted to shorten his or her time horizon and make simple across-the-board cuts, superior performers dig into the data and act more intelligently than the competition."
So how should investments be allocated during tight times and do new 3C technologies have any place in such an investment portfolio? Standard portfolio management theory, at least as I've always described it, talks about dividing investments into those aimed at running, growing, and transforming the business. A high level rational analysis of this type shows the fallacy of retreating to a 100% allocation of investments into "keeping the lights on" (as "run the business" is commonly referred to). The Diamond analysis looked at investments and, while omitting the "run the business" category (I'm sure it was in there!), adds another category crucial for tight times: "cut costs" (more an initiative than an investment).
I found it encouraging to note that it wasn't just companies facing market competition, such as a consumer products company, that found opportunities to pull ahead during times when others are retrecnhing. Diamond notes that Southern Company, a utility company in Atlanta, invested in automated meter-reading in 2008 which will yield long term efficiency benefits and enable dynamic pricing in the future. Even an insurance company, an industry that is among the hardest hit by the current economic crisis, was able to:
"... identify areas to expand the use of technology to change the nature of relationships with agents and customers. Even in the face of a challenging insurance environment, this innovative insurer is reinventing how agents interact with their customers in a digital world, and investing at a time when its competition is retrenching."
These findings provide some explanatory power to the way I describe the approach smart companies are taking towards 3C technologies that may seem unneeded when budgets are being slashed. While they can be deployed to improve vertical business processes (such as order-to-cash or communicating design specifications updates to partners), they are also used to bolster horizontal business processes. These horizontal business processes are some of the most common and fundamental to businesses, such as collaboration, expertise location, notification, searching, and documentation. These horizontal processes do not have ROI of their own, but rather act as multipliers when they are applied to initiatives to improve specific instances of business processes. I believe that investments in these technologies during tight budget cycles can not only help organizations maintain or improve current rates of efficiency as more output is demanded from each employee, but these investments put the organization in a better position to race ahead of expectations and competition once the recession is over.
The Diamond study confirms this when describing the principles they derived from their research. I believe one in particular supports examination of investment in 3C technologies: "Automate, Automate, Automate":
"Given the continued, rapid decrease in the cost of information technology, it is essential during a recession to search for new places to automate."
In summary, I realize this posting has been a bit longer than an elevator speech you might need when you get only a minute to describe to an executive why that new blog, collaborative workspace, or portal is needed. So here's the short version: Companies that come out of recessions in a stronger position than they went in are those that judiciously invest in technology and related processes that let more work get done with less resources as well as reducing costly delays and red herrings when making decisions. And when the market downturn ends – and it will – opportunistic organizations will be in a better position to succeed than those that had hunkered down during the recession.


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Change of pace, change of scale.
More to come, as they paint so much quicker than their 32mm version.
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For tanks so tiny ... they look good. And as for the base ... kinda reminds me of a piece of Cadbury chocolate.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah, it does a bit. I was a bit stuck as to what colour to do the bases, an I have no experience in basing minis of this scale. I think I'm going to go round the edge with a brass or bronze colour, to pick up the filigree in the edge.Delete
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City officials fight back as belligerent birds chase people at central Florida park
MELBOURNE, Fla. – Officials say some out-of-control birds are chasing people and tying up traffic at a central Florida park.
Ducks, geese, ibis, seagulls and other birds that flock to the 30-acre Wells Park in Melbourne are losing their fear of people. This week, workers installed 'Feeding Wildlife Prohibited' signs.
City Manager Mike McNees told Florida Today (http://on.flatoday.com/1CsPO7a) three white geese when after him as he jogged in the park this week. He says he had a hard time scaring the birds off and fears an older person or a child may not be able to fight back.
Parks manager Steve Graham says people love to feed the ducks, but something has to be done.
Nearby resident Lynda Storer disagrees with the feeding crackdown. She says only the geese are aggressive.
Information from: Florida Today (Melbourne, Fla.), http://www.floridatoday.com


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|13 Jan 2012
You've received a lot of good advice thus far. It might not hurt to do a System File Check. Right-Click on the Command Prompt and run it as Administrator, then type in the following:
sfc /scannow
Note that there is a space after the sfc part. :)
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Tried that, after it completed said no integrity violations found.
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Download Windows_NT6_BSOD_v3.03_jcgriff2_ and it can read the BSOD fails, look up the DLL that cause it to help ID what up with your system that what I do. :)
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Have been trying to read the info however I seem to be a little undereducated in that dept lol. Today the comp has froze like 5 times, and you guys have been great helping me.
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Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit SP1
You dont have any minidump crash\bsod files in the new zip.
So i will reply according the old 4-1-12 minidump,if you already done the next steps then just ignore my reply.
Uninstall Mcafee from your system.
Update software\driver for Ideazon ZBoard/Ideazon Fang MM USB HID.
SteelSeries - Downloads.
Update (or uninstall if you dont use it) the Core Temp - CPU temperature monitor.
Finish and post back.
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Oh dang, I thought I had done that correctly again. Mcafee is gone, core temp has been removed as well. I updated the steelseries drivers last night.
Thanks again for all the help guys, and gals.
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|13 Jan 2012
I'm not a BSOD dump expert, but a few things I always try in cases like this are:
1) Memtest86.com - Memory Diagnostic (Free is fine.) It runs from a bootable disc and will run forever if you let it. Two or three passes without errors is adequate. (With errors means you've found your problem.)
2) Make sure your Power Supply is up to snuff. You might want to post the rest of your system specs, including brand and model number.
3) An overheating CPU or Video card is another likely culprit. Are you monitoring your temps? You might try Core Temp (or something similar) if you are not.
4) Driver issues are always a possible suspect. Troubleshooting them is pretty much a trial-and-error process.
EDIT: Took me a while to put all that together. I see panais has covered a good bit of it. :)
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|13 Jan 2012
Ok ran memtest free version 4 pass no errors, I have been monitoring temps, neither vid card or cpu have ever overheated. I have been running driver genius and fully updated the drivers, dunno how well the program does tho. Any other ideas before I try to rip the psu out, would really rather not do that unless absolutely necessary, but will if I need to.
Thanks guys,
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One of the fun and wonderful thing about computer problems is trying to figure out whether they are hardware or software related. Since it looks like your main hardware (at least that which can easily be tested, and leaving the PSU as an option to consider later) is all right, let's jump back to the software side of things.
Try running msconfig and disable everything on the "Startup" tab. (You might lose some features of some of your hardware, for instance if you have a fancy-pants keyboard with lots of extra buttons those extra buttons may not work.) This will at least eliminate a few of the "always running" side programs which could be causing a problem.
How often are the freezes occurring at this point? Ironically enough, the ones that are few and far between are harder to track down than the constantly annoying ones. With the latter you can at least tell right away if something you've done has helped.
PS: If your wife comes at you with a meat cleaver, a heavy serving tray works well as a shield. (Don't ask me how I know that.)
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Materials Handling , national distributor of an extensive range of materials handling equipment and systems as well as manual handling products, introduces the Infinity range of smoking management receptacles.
These high-capacity receptacles for heavy traffic areas feature an all-metal construction for attractive and efficient smoking litter management and sophisticated styling The unobstructed funnels of the receptacles have been designed to reduce jamming during cigarette disposal.
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Yesterday we journeyed up to Petionville to try to find a pet store we'd heard about. We got a kennel and a teeny collar, along with the smallest rope toy in the store. We are ready.
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This week in teaching news....
On Thursday I only had one student show up for discipleship group. I was so bummed, because I had a big activity planned. Then I just spent the hour talking with her, all about her life. It ended up being really special. Maybe that was exactly how that hour was meant to go.
My sophomore students are really connecting with Elie Wiesel's holocaust memoir Night. Some small victories:
1. A student who failed last semester loved the book so much they wrote the Night paper three days before the due date, and had me help edit drafts. This is a major step!
2. A student told me this was the first book she had ever finished for English class.
(Considering that I've taught this student for two years..... ok, let's focus on the good)
3. About half the class decided to continue reading Wiesel's other books Dawn and Day for outside reading.
4. At least 80% can correctly spell both "Elie Wiesel" and "Auschwitz". I'll consider that a win.
Other stuff I'm reading:
How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend by the Monks of New Skete, which my boss Steve gave me. A monastery in New York supports itself exclusively through dog breeding and training.
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor. I'm trying to expand my repertoire in American literature. This is a book of short stories set in the Deep South in the 50's and 60's. Man, these stories are violent.
The Reason for God by Tim Keller. Recommended by my two friends Caleb and Robbie. Tim Keller pastors a church in New York City, and each Sunday after sermons he holds a Q&A. This book details the seven main objections he frequently hears to belief in Christ, and his response to each. The second half is his seven main evidences for following Jesus.
1776 by David McCullough. I got into McCullough after watching the HBO miniseries John Adams, which was based on his book of the same name. This is a companion book about the Revolutionary War.
We're at t minus 7 days to Jefe arrival....


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Travel along the route of the Conquistadors, visiting Mexico, Cuba, Peru,Brazil and Argentina.
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Transfer to hotel
Half day city tour of Mexico City including the Metropolitan Cathedral and the Museum of Anthropology.
Full day tour visiting the Shrine of Guadalupe and archaeological site of Teotihuacan.
Full day tour to Cuernavaca, the city of Eternal Springs and Taxco, the Silver City.
Transfer to airport, flight to Havana. Transfer to hotel.
City tour of Havana, where culture and tradition is imminent.
Full day tour to Viñales, where Cuba's Tobacco and Coffee plantations are clustered.
Free day to explore the city, enjoy a "mojito", or dance to the salsa.
Transfer to airport, flight to Lima. Transfer to hotel.
Tour of modern and colonial city of Lima. Transfer to airport, flight to Cuzco. Transfer to hotel.
Half day city tour of some of the sites in and around Cuzco including the cathedral, Q'oricancha (the temple of the sun) and the fortress of Sacsahuaman.
Full day tour of the Sacred Valley of the Incas including a stop at the colourful Pisac Market & ruins of Ollantaytambo. Overnight.
Start your 2 day journey to the unforgettable ruins of Machu Picchu, by boarding the vistadome train to Aguas Calientes. Catch a bus to the mountain where you will be guided through this beautiful forgotten citadel, home of an incredibly advanced civilisation.
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Spectacular Andean Explorer train* journey across the Altiplano to Puno on Lake Titicaca shores.
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Tuesday, Jan. 28, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. (free healthy food samples 11:30-noon, talk from noon-2); free
Cedar Valley College, 3030 N. Dallas Ave., Lancaster
Twelve celebrity chefs will contribute to the dinner.
Tuesday, Jan. 28, 7-9 p.m.; $90
Workshop, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; $99
Cedar Valley College, 3030 N. Dallas Ave., Lancaster
Biosecurity, food borne pathogens, energy, integrity, humane husbandry: local food can correct it all. But to really be a credible percentage of the global food system, local food must develop six integrated components: production, processing, marketing, accounting, distribution and patrons. Building a local food system that works requires aromatic and aesthetic production models that reintroduce the butcher, baker and candlestick maker into the community. Economies of scale in collaborative foodshed distribution compete with corporate volume. And patrons must rediscover their kitchens, eating seasonally and relearning domestic culinary arts.
Can we feed Texas and the world with local food? This is hands down the most frequently asked question to Joel or anyone else who promotes local, solar-driven, carbon-fertilized systems. Even most foodies and environmentalists have a deep-seated assumption that were it not for the petroleum-based fertilizer boom – the green revolution – we could not feed ourselves. Those massive Kansas wheat fields and California almond groves, for most people, represent efficiency and abundance. Nothing could be further from the truth. Backyard gardens and multi-speciation are far more productive per acre. Modern scientific aerobic composting was not invented until 1943 – about the same time as chemical fertilizer became widely used. In this workshop, Joel will give you the tools to articulate a credible "feed the world" argument.
Joel Salatin is a masterful speaker whose humor and positive energy guarantee a rewarding course. In this all-day workshop, Joel takes us through his entire family farm operation from the production of pastured poultry (eggs, broilers, turkeys), salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, forage-based rabbits and forestry products through to the relationship marketing approach his family business has developed that has made Polyface Farm the internationally recognized and strictly local farm it is today. The presentation and workshop help the homeowner, food gardener, farmer, rancher, land owner and landscape professional get more value from their practice.
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"Best $2k I Ever Spent!" More Special Moments From The Black Banditz/White Arrows After Party
Great, important parties start normally, but early on something just clicks, and then it's a roller coaster ride of glory and magic until the cops come and shut it all down. But that's okay, because just as a great, important person never quits when the chips are down (you're either in Sheen's Korner or you're with the trolls!), so too does a great party simply find a second life, hopefully at Hemingway's. And so it was for last week's supremely gnarly Black Banditz/White Arrows after party. We've already broken down 15 moments of supreme accomplishment at the party itself, but if you think the fun stopped when Officer Buzzkill showed up, you don't know us.
First, let's take one more look at my absolute favorite thing from the party before the after party:
I think this is what Forrest Gump's mother told him in the original cut of the movie.
And now, a few selected special moments from the after party at Hemingway's:
1. In honor of International Women's Day yesterday, our friend here has a special message for all the ladies out there. He's got that good lovin' and he will freak you nasty. Oh yes, he will.
Note how completely unamused his female companion is. This is because simulating oral sex for photographs is rarely a good decision.
2. This girl is still ironing out the kinks in her "turning invisible" trick. You're going to have to do better than that if you're trying to be a Party Superhero!
3. In the animal kingdom, many predators provide protection and shelter for smaller animals in exchange for cleaning and grooming. Judging by the facial hair happening here, the same does not appear to be true of the party kingdom and we kind of like it that way.
4. The after party almost had to be evacuated due to fears of a Bieber Fever outbreak. Luckily, Patient Zero was relegated to the patio.
5. He's getting high on life! Also drugs. Invisible drugs.
But for clarity's sake:
[Go HERE to see what happened before the after party in 'Top 15 Special Things About The Black Banditz Friends & Family Party With White Arrows'!]
[Go HERE to how the Black Banditz/White Arrows after party took Hemingway's from lounge to club!]


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What motivates people to become interested in another culture?
In this global village we supposedly inhabit, the answer should be easy - something to do with the Internet, international trade, and maybe a bit of world music.
But the world is still a big place. For an instructive reminder, hop on a plane from Chicago to say, Tokyo, and sit with your knees in your nose for 12 long hours and 45 slow minutes.
So it's not a given that we'll all choose to reach beyond our borders to see how others do things. This is often true of Americans - and particularly so, a new study tells us, when it comes to learning about Asia (see story, page 21). Despite its heavyweight status in international trade and modern history (all those wars involving the US, for starters), Americans don't care to know much about it.
Americans don't know much about a lot of countries, so this isn't surprising. But the Asia Society's efforts to improve teaching about Asia - through better training and resources - are needed.
Some students engage with another country through study abroad. Sometimes, less-obvious factors exert a pull: Stories about my grandmother's life in China in the 1920s heavily influenced my choice of an Asian studies major in college. Education writer Marjorie Coeyman tells me that her love of France started with placemats sporting the Eiffel Tower.
But school study of Asia is important, too. It's another chance to open vistas that might actually change a child's life. If nothing else, it could move kids past stereotypes that linger in perceptions of a key area still linked, in many minds, with mystery.
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Ted Cruz and the Hispanic Vote: Harris County edition
Following up from both Kuff (twice) and some natural curiosity over the impact of Ted Cruz (and GOP Hispanic candidates in general) among Hispanic voters, I thought I'd do a little bit of cartographic number-crunching to look at the issue.
I haven't gotten too far out of Harris County in any election analysis yet, so I'm limiting my view close to home with a bit of a presumption that what we see in Harris is probably mirrored in the DFW Metroplex and maybe Bexar County. Whether it mirrors anything in South Texas or rural Hispanic areas is something worth another round of testing. But here's what we see in Harris County for now ...
The first thing that should jump out to anyone asking whether Ted Cruz benefited from crossover Hispanic votes is that there is a net vote dropoff for both Cruz and Paul Sadler compared to their Presidential counterparts. That tracks with a very common down-ballot concern - that your party's vote dropoff may be greater than that of the other party. Pre-2008, the pattern was that GOP voters would dropoff at a greater level than Dem voters once they got down to judicial races. 2008 was a sea change as the operating theory suggests that a large number of new voters came to the polls and, in significantly large numbers, didn't vote downballot. The result was that we saw Dem judicials with about the same dropoff problem as Republican judicials.
A case in point can be seen in 2004 among the judicial vote dropoff:
Total Ballots President Avg Judicial ------------------------------------------------------ 2004 1,088,793 1,067,988 1,006,443 (94.24%) R 584,723 536,241 (91.71%) D 475,865 470,202 (98.81%)
The right-hand column shows the percentage of the Presidential vote that held in the average judicial result. Basically, you have a much more cohesive vote on the Dem side in 2004, while GOP voters were much more likely to drop off. The results weren't meaningful enough to give any Dem judicial a win, but they were enough to give hope that the gap could be narrowed as demographic change might make the county more competitive over time.
Here's what the situation looks like in the Obama years:
Total Ballots President Avg Judicial ------------------------------------------------------ 2008 1,188,731 1,171,472 1,101,014 (94.24%) R 571,883 541,257 (94.64%) D 590,982 559,757 (94.72%) Total Ballots President Avg Judicial ------------------------------------------------------ 2012 1,188,731 1,185,722 1,131,078 (95.39%) R 584,866 563,488 (96.34%) D 585,451 567,590 (96.95%)
There's still a modest advantage for Dems going downballot, but the difference is narrowed greatly. In years where Obama was winning a close race countywide, this was enough to keep the judicials over the top.
That brings us to 2012. And with the US Senate contest, we're dealing with a race higher on the ballot and one that doesn't generally generate as much vote dropoff compared to the judicials. Here's what the pattern of vote dropoff looks like in Harris County for US Senate races in Presidential years:
Total Ballots President US Senate ------------------------------------------------------ 2000 995,631 974,426 941,968 (96.67%) 2008 1,188,731 1,171,472 1,151,174 (98.27%) 2012 1,204,167 1,188,585 1,174,884 (98.85%)
And here's what the party dropoff comparison looks like in 2012:
Total Ballots President US Senate ----------------------------------------------------- 2012 1,204,167 1,188,585 1,174,884 (98.85%) R 584,866 581,197 (99.37%) D 585,451 562,955 (96.16%)
What we don't know from this is how much of the vote that dropped off for Sadler went over to Cruz. I think it's realistic to assume that that's decent chunk of the vote. But we know that it's not 100% of the movement. So here's where we can get into the weeds a little and see where the vote movement happened. To do this, I ran two calculations:
1. The dropoff of vote from Obama to Sadler as a percentage of Obama's vote count in a precinct. (O-Sadler)
2. The dropoff of vote from Romney to Cruz as a percentage of Romney's vote count in a precinct. (R-Cruz)
With that, there are two maps to show the results. For the sake of avoiding the problem of small precincts skewing the results, I limited the precinct selection to those with more than First, the O-Sadler findings ...
And, secondly, the R-Cruz findings ...
The color-coding for both is as follows:
Dark Blue: Senate candidates beat Presidential candidates in raw vote count
Light Blue: Senate candidates underperform Presidentials by 0-2% of the Presidential nominee's total vote count
Purple: Senate candidates underperform Presidentials by 2-4% of the Presidential nominee's total vote count
Red: Senate candidates underperform Presidentials by >4% of the Presidential nominee's total vote count
Or, in short, you can look at the dark blue as areas where the Senate candidates overperformed and the red as areas where they significantly underperformed. Performance being defined here as a function of vote dropoff.
In Sadler's case, the areas where he overperformed were areas where Democratic voters are likelier to be wealthy Anglos and underperformed in heavily Hispanic areas. In Cruz's case, however, his overperformance is not limited to just Hispanic areas. He also overperformed in many heavily African-American parts of the county. Kuff's post has aggregates by House District and you can definitely see the pickup that Cruz gets in districts such as HD131 (Alma Allen), HD139 (Sylvester Turner), HD141 (Senfronia Thompson), and HD142 (Harold Dutton). While there are certainly some Hispanic pockets of votes in those districts - some more significant than others - I think it warrants an explanation that the under-reported aspect of all of this is that Sadler just lagged in many areas due to more structural problems like not having resources to compete statewide in a meaningful way. That Sadler's dropoff problem is as pervasive as it seems doesn't suggest to me that it's an isolated issue, even if the bigger disparity is in Hispanic areas.
In fact, in many of the heaviest African-American precincts, you can see a negative R-Cruz and a positive O-Sad number. That means that Ted Cruz got more votes than Romney at the same time that Sadler was getting fewer than the President in heavily African-American boxes. Whether that's due to Hispanic voters in those areas shifting over to Cruz or some other movement of votes is beyond the reach of data like this.
But I wouldn't carpet-categorize Cruz's showing in Harris County as purely the impact of Hispanic voters crossing over to support him any more than I'd suggest that the wealthy Anglo parts of town suggest a lack of support for Cruz (either due to an unwillingness to support a Hispanic candidate or for any other reason). Likewise, I think that suggesting that Cruz's appeal was more strictly connected to Hispanic voters ignores the impact seen in African-American areas. Is anyone writing columns about Ted Cruz's support among African-American swing voters? Certainly not that I see.
The reality is that you have a combination of effects. And given the fact that Sadler never had a chance to compete given the lack of financial resources, I'd at least begin with the suggestion that you had a broader problem there and that it was augmented by any support among Hispanic voters unrelated to the previous issue. That's obviously very difficult to put into a 600-word column to distill the situation down into a more easily-digested takeaway from the event. But if I'm looking at a situation such as this and seriously wondering how to ensure that it doesn't happen again, I think reality suggests that resources matter. How much do they matter against a high-profile Hispanic Republican running? We obviously don't have a terrific comparison without getting into more apple vs orange issues.
Rewinding to the days when San Antonio Republican Congressman Henry Bonilla used to contemplate a statewide run, I'm not sure that I'd lump Cruz's ascension to the Senate as the creation of an 800-pound political gorilla that Democrats can't beat because he's cutting into the Hispanic vote too much. Cruz ended up with less than a third of a percentage point more than Mitt Romney in Harris County. I'd argue that if Sadler had the resources that even Rick Noriega had in 2008, the results could have been more favorable for Sadler. There still may be a long way to go to turn Texas purple as a whole. But I'm not sure I'd put that much movement in the category of a game-changer for Texas Republicans to stave off demographic inevitability forever.
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Tonight, join Sharpstown's finest - myself and Stace Medellin - as the Meyerland Democrats foist us upon their membership at the club's January meeting. I'll be the one bringing maps and talking about election outcomes in the county and in Meyerland.
Seriously, who can resist that? I'm pretty sure that Fadi's serves alcohol if that helps, though.
2012 Election Mapping: METRO GMP Referendum
Here's the METRO referendum on General Mobility Payments, with light blue indicating that the Yesses were between 50%-75%.
The binary views are availalbe here if desired: full page - Google Earth
On the whole, the referendum passed as follows:
Yes: 78.84%
No: 21.16%
It takes some straining to see, but there does appear to be a faint view of some Anglo Dem angst at Metro inside the loop. It obviously wasn't enough to turn a majority in many precincts as almost all of the pure, "No" boxes were simply due to low numbers in split precincts voting against.
What you'd make of the lack of enthusiasm for the referendum outside of that, I'm interested in hearing any theories.
2012 Election Mapping: Houston Prop B
Late start for mapping today. Here's the Parks proposition for the City of Houston, with light blue indicating that the Yesses were between 50%-75%.
The binary views are availalbe here if desired: full page - Google Earth
On the whole, the proposition passed as follows:
Yes: 68.05%
No: 31.95%
There definitely seems to be a strong base of support in much of the Anglo Dem turf as well as some spots of Anglo GOP turf. It might be interesting to see how this map overlays with some of the key projects planned for the bond funds.
2012 Election Mapping: The Near Misses in Harris County
Looking at the nearest misses among House Districts for Democrats, it's no surprise that HD134 will likely be a hot contest throughout the decade. That's not just due to the district being as near parity as any district in the county as it is that the area serves as home to a number of high-quality potential candidates.
What's been emerging ever since the housing boom of the 2000s is the changing demographics on Houston's far west side. Below the fold is a snapshot of the Sheriff results with the district outlines. If Democrats are going to make any kind of run at growing their ranks in the Lege, these two districts will be the ones that have to flip.
Oddly enough, HD134 has always had the extra challenge of its electoral competitiveness being more intractable than elsewhere. This is due in part to there not being a great deal of new construction driving demographic change. That stands in fairly stark contrast to HD132. Granted, we're likely to see another round of redistricting in the next session, but if these districts were to stand, I wouldn't be surprised to see HD132 flip before HD134.
2012 Election Mapping: US President (in Harris County)
Romney v Obama, the conclusion in Harris County ...
The results in this race were:
Barack Obama (D) - 49.38%
Mitt Romney (R) - 49.33%
2012 Election Mapping: US Senate (in Harris County)
Cruz vs Sadler, in technicolor ...
The results in this race were:
Ted Cruz (R) - 49.58%
Paul Sadler (D) - 48.02%
2012 Election Mapping: Harris County Sheriff
Guthrie vs Garcia, all mapped out ...
The results in this race were:
Adrian Garcia (D) - 52.95%
Louis Guthrie (R) - 45.20%
ADD-ON: For the sake of comparison, here's the 2008 map of Adrian Garcia's showing against incumbent, Tommy Thomas.
2012 Election Mapping: HD137
Unofficial canvass out for the county. Here's HD137 in cartographic form ...
View HD137 - 2012 General Election in a larger map
The info boxes show the Obama-12 and Obama-08 results, as well as relevant performance for Scott Hochberg in 2010. I'm pretty sure Scott had some 2006 showings that were as good or better, for what it's worth.
I don't see any surprises in this map in terms of red vs blue. There were certainly some great showings in the red precincts, where Gene Wu definitely had some evidence of about 5-6 points worth of crossover support. Also worth pointing out some of the crossover support that MJ Khan got in Pct. 430 - home to two mosques and a few apartment complexes relatively well populated by Pakistanis and Muslims who prefer the walking distance to them. I'll take a 43% showing in Briarmeadow to that any day considering that that was better than Adrian Garcia's showing. Bigger news is that Pct. 256 seems to be pulling away from "swing" status.
Election Season Math: In Review
Following from some earlier posts about number-crunching in election season, here's a starter for what I saw as the Early Votes came in ...
At the county level, there were multiple ways of looking at how the Early Vote crowd voted. The two different individualized scores showed the electorate at 45.45% Dem and 54.16% Dem at the pessimistic and optimistic ends of the spectrum. Accounting for the biases seen in the 2008 electorate, these two scores placed the outcome at about 48-49% Dem.
The DPI-by-Precinct scores showed the Obama results clocking in at 49.98% Dem - less than a half point behind the pace from 2008. And since that score is in a multi-candidate field, it would be enough to open up Election Night with a small lead.
The reality was an opening mark of 48.00% (behind Romney) for Obama and a closing mark of 49.38% (ahead of Romney) for Obama.
Below is what the results showed among some of the districts in Harris County with contested district races. Two obvious DPI scores I chose were ones that had an easy correlation to 2012: Barack Obama and Adrian Garcia. I didn't expect either of them to do as well as they did in 2008, so I added CO Bradford's results from his District Attorney race to see how a narrow loss in 2008 might translate. Later in the process, as the results started showing a very 50-50 county, I added two judicials: Ashish Mehendru and Josefina Rendon. Rendon was the narrowest win in 2008 and Mehendru's showing was the low end of the range from that year.
Finally, to compile a somewhat pessimistic average DPI of my own, I folded each of these into an average DPI score. Traditionally, the DPI scores created by others are just that - an average. And on a good day, they'll tell you what they're averaging.
DPI SCORES ----------------------------------------------------- | ACTUAL EV | Avg | Obama Garcia Bradford | Mehendru Rendon --------|-----------|---------|-------------------------|----------------- HD134 | 42.6% | 43.0% | 46.1% 49.8% 39.9% | 39.7% 39.5% HD135 | 37.7% | 39.5% | 39.3% 45.2% 38.3% | 36.6% 38.0% HD137 | 63.6% | 63.2% | 62.9% 67.5% 62.0% | 61.2% 62.6% HD139 | 79.2% | 77.5% | 77.0% 81.0% 76.7% | 75.9% 77.1% HD141 | 89.4% | 86.5% | 86.1% 88.2% 86.4% | 85.6% 86.4% HD143 | 71.0% | 68.5% | 64.4% 74.2% 68.0% | 66.4% 69.7% HD144 | 46.6% | 51.7% | 47.4% 58.6% 51.4% | 48.8% 52.3% HD149 | 58.9% | 55.0% | 54.6% 58.9% 54.1% | 53.1% 54.2% HD150 | 28.6% | 31.7% | 31.2% 37.7% 30.9% | 28.8% 30.1% CD2 | 30.6% | 36.1% | 36.6% 42.5% 34.9% | 33.4% 33.4% CD7 | 34.7% | 38.5% | 40.1% 44.5% 36.6% | 35.7% 35.7% CD18 | 76.5% | 77.6% | 77.3% 81.1% 76.9% | 76.3% 76.3% Const 1 | 59.0% | 61.3% | 61.8% 67.3% 59.4% | 59.1% 59.1% --------|-----------|---------|-------------------------|----------------- COUNTY | 48.0% | 50.3% | 50.0% 55.5% 49.2% | 47.9% 49.2%
I found each of these DPI scores instructive, so I let them stand on their own. For instance, Obama's DPI isn't necessarily instructive for many Hispanic districts - and I think this is visible in HD143. Obama tends to perform at the low end of the spectrum of scores and local Hispanic candidates typically perform better. For a district like that, looking at Adrian Garcia's DPI score is more helpful. And averaging down that peak score is even more helpful.
What surprised me upon seeing the first Early Vote numbers, was how close the numbers were in HD137 and HD147. In the case of 137, there's a small sample size of only 28 precincts. As mentioned before, I ignored the DPI number all through EV and chose to focus on the individual scores, which had our district between 57-59%. Hubert Vo's HD149 is instructive for how crossover votes aren't accounted for in a DPI model like this. That's always going to be an X-factor unless you have a very well-developed ID program with the data fed into the voter database and tracked closely. Most State Rep campaigns won't have the manpower for that, so you're really left to play that by ear in the real world.
All in all, I continue to be surprised by how accurate this approach is. If you take a look at what Robert Miller posted on E-Day, you'll see what has traditionally been offered. This is basically showing the count of "Hard/Soft Dems", "Hard/Soft Republicans" and a big "unknown" category mistakenly identified as "Independent". I've heard those counts offered year in and year out - usually as proof that Dems were going to win big right before they didn't.
I'd suggest to everyone that there is a significantly better way to measure Early Voting without getting that 20-30% unknown factor. This is the second cycle that I've used this approach and it's been fairly good. There's certainly some artistic license that goes with it to determine what kind of DPI measurement is best for a given race. In 2010, we were staring at wildly optimistic DPI's from vendors assuming that 2006 and 2008 were a good basis of comparison. The 2010 results I posted were based on the DPI scores provided by NCEC, which is the standard place a lot of campaigns go for that information. But I'd suggest that if you have a good enough research ability on your team, you can and should know your own turf better than a national political shop.
Anyways, that's what I saw going on during Early Voting. I'd hope that results like this could be posted publicly at some point in the future. But campaigns are fairly selfish entities, so I'm not sure how likely that is.


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The GOOGLE Code University, where anybody can be a student
Living up to its motto of "Do no Evil" , Google certainly is doing a magnificent work in its way of contributing to the society. Their CSR (Company's Social Response) is obviously high and that could probably have been one of the reasons why a lot of people are admiring them and aspiring to work for them. Promoting a noble work is still a good marketing strategy for a company, it promotes good karma.
They are now sharing their knowledge on the current computing technologies and paradigms through their Google Code University. I know that they wanted to reach both developed and developing countries with this project. This is what I like about the Internet, almost all countries are becoming at par in learning.
They also have a Group page which is intended for discussion around Google Code for Educators. You can easily voice out your opinion in here on what information you might want to see and also be able share your challenges as well as an educator.
Video lectures are a big plus and would entice more of the students motivation to learn more and learn deeper.
This website provides tutorials and sample course content so CS students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms. In particular, this content is Creative Commons licensed which makes it easy for CS educators to use in their own classes. The Courses section contains tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas:
- AJAX Programming
- Distributed Systems
- Web Security
- Languages
In the Tools 101 section, you will find a set of introductions to some common tools used in Computer Science such as version control systems and databases. The CS Curriculum Search will help you find teaching materials that have been published to the web by faculty from CS departments around the world. You can refine your search to display just lectures, assignments or reference materials for a set of courses. We'd love to hear your feedback. If you have questions, suggestions, or materials to share, please visit the Google Code for Educators Forum.
Programming Languages
In this section, you will find a set of video-taped lectures from Google Video on various technology areas. These videos are great opportunities for students and faculty to hear directly from some of the current pioneers in high-tech. They can also potentially serve as "guest lectures" for courses in these areas.
Advanced Concepts in C++
Advanced Concepts in Java
Programming in Python
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Vaibhav Pandey / Mar 28 2008 1:31 am
Thanks Yolynne for the linkback. Hope things are going well at your end.
nicely / Mar 31 2008 2:13 pm
yolynne pala… i thought it was "pauline". hehehe!
nways, nice meeting you last saturday. sarap ng dinner no?
nga pala, i added you to my link list. hope it's ok? ciao!


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Just because Apple won't have a booth at CES next week doesn't mean the iPhone and iPad maker won't have a presence. This year CES will be using the company's iBeacon technology for an on-site scavenger hunt to collect digital badges and win prizes.
CES promotes iBeacon technology with scavenger hunt
Show attendees will need to download the CES Mobile app for their iPhone and then roam the vast expo halls to find all of the iBeacon locations. The first few people to collect all of the badges will win prize packages.
The iBeacons at CES are coming from Radius Technology, and CES organizers see the promotion as a great way to show people how the technology can be used for more than just retail promotions.
Apple introduced iBeacon last year and has since started using it in its own retail stores to highlight products. The technology uses short range Bluetooth signals to communicate with nearby devices such as iPhones with the Apple Store app installed.
"This is one of the coolest proximity-aware apps we have worked on," said Radius Networks CEO Marc Wallace. "This is also one of the first, tangible applications that leverages iBeacon technology. And it is a great example of how iBeacon technology is not just about advertising as it is about bringing new and innovative solutions to the marketplace. We are very excited to be a part of it."
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Ill. senator to Quinn: Drop prison closure plan
SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois state Sen. Gary Forby is urging Gov. Pat Quinn to drop his prison-closure plans with inmate numbers at an all-time high.
The Benton Democrat said Quinn should reconsider after The Associated Press reported the prison population hit a record -- 49,154 -- last weekend.
The Corrections Department denied a figure that large even though the analysis was based on the agency's own numbers.
Quinn says a tight budget requires closure of five correctional facilities -- including Tamms in Forby's district. The Democrat pledges it can be done safely.
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Death Cab For Cutie's Codes And Keys Remix EP is out digitally today, and we've already posted six of the EP's seven remixes: Yeasayer, Cut Copy, Ulrich Schnauss, the 2 Bears, Dillon Francis, RAC Maury. Today, we've got the last one: Scottish chip-music producer Unicorn Kid turning "Unobstructed Views" into a joyous cartoon bounce. Stream it below.
Codes And Keys Remix EP is out today digitally on Atlantic.


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2009 Dodge Ram: Two Coolant Temp Gauges?
June 11, 2010
So which coolant temp gauge do you prefer, an analog dial with no numbers or a digital thingamabob with numbers? Seems like the guys at Mom Mopar couldn't decide so they gave the Ram one of each.
Me? I want an analog deal with numbers.
Scott Oldham, Editor in Chief