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Chestnut and Pumpkin Bread Rolls 栗子南瓜麵包捲(recipe source: inspired from the cookbook Home Baking with my own twist )
*makes 9 buns using a non-stick square pan 24x24cm
Ingredients250g high protein flour or bread flour
50g mashed pumpkin
1tsp + 1/4tsp instant yeast
1/2tsp salt
50g egg (medium size egg)
50g sugar
60g milk or adjust accordingly
20g unsalted butter, room temperature
120g roast peeled chestnut (store-bought), chopped10g unsalted butter, for brushing
Egg wash
- Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl except milk and unsalted butter.
- Using a stand mixer, slowly pour in milk (don't pour all at one go, adjust accordingly) and knead till smooth. Add in butter, continue to knead till elastic and smooth. Cover with plastic wrap or cloth and set aside to proof until double size (for me this took about 45mins).
- Punch down the dough and set aside for 5mins.
- Using a roll pin, roll dough into 24x24cm, using a silicone brush, brush butter on top of the dough.
- Sprinkle chopped chestnut on top, roll it up like a swiss roll, divide it into 9 pcs.Place them on the prepared baking pan. Set aside to proof until puffy (for me this took about 15mins).
- Apply egg wash on the dough, bake at pre-heated oven at 180C for 20mins or until golden brown. Cool briefly before serve.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Chestnut and Pumpkin Bread Rolls 栗子南瓜麵包捲
30 comments:
- joceline lyn said...
- June 26, 2013 at 10:15 AM
- Phong Hong said...
Sonia, very nice bread rolls. I still have not attempted breads or buns.
- June 26, 2013 at 10:31 AM
- May Law said...
我刚刚冲了一杯Milo, 就看到这美味的面包了, 我就不客气拿一粒当早餐了! 嘻嘻..
- June 26, 2013 at 10:33 AM
- Mich Piece of Cake said...
PUmpkin and chestnuts go well together in these rolls.
- June 26, 2013 at 11:26 AM
- Somewhere in Singapore said...
Come to grab one for my tea break this afternoon...
- June 26, 2013 at 11:58 AM
- Zoe said...
Hi Sonia,
It is chestnut season now in Melbourne but the weather is never as good as yours for bread proving :p
Love the combination of your scrolls. Very nice and healthy :D
- June 26, 2013 at 12:34 PM
- Happy Flour said...
Love your pumpkin bread roll, it would be nice to have it for afternoon tea. :)
- June 26, 2013 at 1:11 PM
- Jozelyn Ng said...
This is so yummy. I also like this brand of chestnut. Last time can get 3 packet for RM10 but right now, it is more expensive.
- June 26, 2013 at 1:24 PM
- Yummy Bakes said...
Very nice pumpkin roll - so beautifully baked. I dont mind this for breakfast.
- June 26, 2013 at 1:55 PM
- Esther Lau said...
I used to buy this brand of chestnut too. I'll never get enough of this yummy stuff. Your bread roll looks beautiful and delicious. Like to try this recipe :)
- June 26, 2013 at 2:52 PM
- 鲸鱼蓝蓝蓝 said...
- June 26, 2013 at 4:11 PM
- Angie Ng said...
- June 26, 2013 at 4:15 PM
- Jeannie Tay said...
That looks so soft and fluffy, I too am lazy to bake bread with starter or sponge dough...now just bake straight dough method and reheat in microwave to make them soft again.
- June 26, 2013 at 5:10 PM
- Queenie said...
amboiiii kakiku, bila nak buka bakery? saya nak jadi tukang uli roti, boleh?
the truth is...kakiku ni kaki makan chestnut! so boleh makan chestnut free hihihi...
- June 26, 2013 at 6:20 PM
- Ice Pandora said...
Mhmmm this looks so delicious
and fluffy! Perfect for breakfast
and lunch c: Xx
- June 26, 2013 at 6:44 PM
- Aunty Young(安迪漾) said...
- June 26, 2013 at 7:16 PM
- Ann Low said...
The bread looks like cinnamon roll and definitely is more healthy using pumpkin. I just learnt how to make straight method dough. Is really easier than the other method.
- June 26, 2013 at 7:33 PM
- Li Shuan said...
This bread is definitely my kind of bread. I like the key ingredients pumpkin and chestnut ..must be delicious ...I want one
- June 26, 2013 at 9:20 PM
- Anne Regalado said...
Sonia , I'm planning to bake some bread since last week but as usual got lazy along the way :P Your bread rolls sure look wonderfully delicious ! Love the chestnuts and pumpkin combo :)
- June 26, 2013 at 10:10 PM
- Little blue said...
I come too late, still have one for me!! Look soft~
- June 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM
- Cheah ~ No-Frills Recipes said...
Lovely golden baked rolls. Yes, this hot weather is great to prove dough. Good combination of pumpkin and chestnut.
- June 26, 2013 at 11:11 PM
- xing hui said...
beautiful and healthy bread. i like to use direct method also, hi.... some more quick.
- June 26, 2013 at 11:49 PM
- zila norazila said...
Relly look sedap..i klu roti mmg x pndai buat..keep for me tau..he heee
- June 27, 2013 at 4:44 AM
- Mel said...
I loves all homemade bread and buns. These rolls looks special with chestnuts fillings in it.
- June 27, 2013 at 5:17 AM
- Gloria Baker said...
These rolls look just beautiful and I love they have chestnuts!!!
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- June 28, 2013 at 2:17 PM
- Puan Ros @ Sinaranmenu.blogspot said...
Pumpkin bread roll..nampak sedap.
- June 29, 2013 at 4:33 PM
- lena said...
yeah, nowadays i also buy that pack of roasted chestnuts for whatever i want to do with them! very convenient!
- June 30, 2013 at 10:44 PM

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New Album Review: How to Destroy Angels, Welcome Oblivion (Null/Sony)
How to Destroy Angels
Welcome Oblivion
Even the Apocalypse has a sell-by date. Even paranoia has to evolve. Realizing that the machine-press pummeling might wear out his audience or himself, or simply wanting something more supple after a few decades of machine-goth nihilism, Nine Inch Nails brainiac Trent Reznor (March of the Pigs, Hurt – brainiac) deftly sidesteps into his own subgenre: ambi-industrial.
He might need a human element for that. He might need a girl. And I suppose if you want an exotic female element, you could marry a woman named Mariqueen Maandig and have her sing. It's all too easy to suggest Maandig's central presence in How To Destroy Angels' first full-length is the defining difference between the previous Reznor incarnation and this. Certainly, the new cinematic soundtracking Reznor indicates he was adamantly moving in a more ambient direction. Still, we're going to go with Maandig.
Otherwise, why do it? Because there is plenty of technomechanized carry-over from NIN, the blip-beeps, skitters and grinds, the loops and chilly cyborg-steps. Bit of an '80s riff thrown into the opening machine lurch of The Wake-Up. Cue the interestingly involuted cybervoicings of And the Sky Began to Scream. Oh, hello robot reaper – are you here to harvest us?
Instead, there is a voice to offset Reznor's. The production inventiveness is still all him and Atticus Ross, every burble and whirr, the end-time oscillations, the way On the Wing's impressively gloomy soundscape surges mesh with the measured goose-step of Too Late, All Gone.
But the aptly named Ice Age is a stroke of brilliance, with Maandig's voice working in a detached, almost blithe way off the string-plucks in place of what would have been Reznor's stricken whisper. And in the midst of everything else, How Long? could almost be blue-eyed soul. Maandig's verse vocals are starkly human against the squiggles, and a massive processed chorus aims straight for the charts. Good. We will remember that during the narcotized ride-out of Hallowed Ground.
Speaking of carry-over, though, of the persistence of theme… there is a problem in working an endless, bottomless seam of angst and despair – a problem beyond actually having to live there. "I can't keep it together" Trent and Mariqueen co-whisper in the slow drone of the same name, and there is something alluring to their nod-off threnody… but how real could it be?
"The more we change / everything stays the same"; "the beginning is the end"; The Loop Closes… yes, they are giving voice to the desperate, but you can't be in an eternal crisis, no matter how well you've expressed it. That's not how crises work, especially not in song. Anyway, I've seen your wife. You're not suicidal. The cumulative effect of Welcome Oblivion brings a welcome wrinkle to Reznor's dystopia, and something like a break from his solipsism.
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On arrival to Havana airport you will be transferred to your centrally located hotel. Please ensure you provide your flight details to your booking agent at least 14 days prior to travel so the transfer can be organised. After collecting your luggage, please continue walking through the 'Main Arrivals Hall' of the airport (Do not exit through the side door). A Peregrine representative holding a sign with your name on it will be waiting to take you to your pre-arranged transfer. If you can't locate the Peregrine representative, please call +53 52506496 (Do not rely on somebody else to call for you as they may be seeking commissions to direct you to another transfer company). In the evening, approximately 7pm, you will meet your local guide and the other members of your group for a pre-tour briefing. Please ask reception to confirm the time and place of your meeting. We'll be collecting your insurance details and next of kin information at this meeting so please ensure you have all these details to provide to your leader. The briefing is generally followed by an optional group dinner. If you can't arrange a flight that will arrive in time, you may wish to arrive a day early so you're able to attend. We'll be happy to book additional accommodation for you (subject to availability).
- Hotel Nacional or similar (1 night)
Optional Activities
- Havana - Buena Vista Social Club - USD30
- Havana - Cigar factory tour - USD12
- Havana - La Cabana Fortress canon blast ceremony - USD10
- Havana - Baseball game (Oct - Apr) - USD3
- Havana - Tourist bus day pass - USD5
- Havana - Ernest Hemingway tour - USD30
Included Activities
- Complimentary Airport Arrival Transfer
- Havana - Walking tour of Old Havana
Meals Included
There are no meals included on this day.
This morning your leader will take you on a walking tour of Old Havana, including the cathedral, Plaza de Armas, San Francisco de Asis, Plaza Vieja and Central Park. Entry fee to the Camara Oscura lookout at Plaza Vieja is included. Drive west to Soroa where you will stop for lunch and tour the impressive orchid garden. Continue on to Vinales where tobacco and sugarcane fields lie side by side and limestone outcrops dot the landscape. The scenery here is some of the most picturesque in Cuba and there are many outdoor, optional activities available to help you enjoy it. Choose from cycling, hiking through tobacco fields, or hiking to mountain caves.
- Guesthouse, Cuba (1 night)
Optional Activities
- Soroa - Hike to waterfall - USD3
- Vinales - Bicycle hire (per hour) - USD2
- Vinales - Beach excursion to Cayo Jutias - USD30
- Vinales - Salsa lesson (per hour) - USD8
- Cueva del Indio cave walk and boat trip - USD5
- Vinales - Palenque Cave - USD1
- Vinales - Live music venues - USD1
- Vinales - Santo Tomas cave visit & return taxi - USD35
Included Activities
- Soroa - Orchid Garden tour
- Vinales - Valley walking tour
- Vinales - Informal Salsa lesson
Meals Included
- Breakfast (2)
- Lunch (1)
- Dinner (1)
Today you will board the bus and drive to Trinidad. UNESCO declared the town and its surrounding hills a World Heritage site in 1988. Established by the Spaniards in 1514 and lined with cobblestone streets and colourful houses, the town of Trinidad is easy to wander around and almost every scene offers superb photographic opportunities – from locals casually smoking their huge cigars on the doorsteps of their homes to old Chevrolets cruising by. It is easy to see why Trinidad is one of the most visited towns in Cuba. Learn about the many religions, such as Santeria which is one of the Afro-Cuban religions (related to Voodoo) that is practised in Cuba.
Explore some great Spanish-style churches as well as the nearby Valle de los Ingenios, where sugar plantations stretch out as far as the eye can see.
For some beach side fun head down to Playa Ancon for some long stretches of white sand but please be careful of the sea urchins!
Explore some great Spanish-style churches as well as the nearby Valle de los Ingenios, where sugar plantations stretch out as far as the eye can see.
For some beach side fun head down to Playa Ancon for some long stretches of white sand but please be careful of the sea urchins!
- Guesthouse, Cuba (1 night)
Optional Activities
- Trinidad - Snorkelling trip - USD15
- Trinidad - Cayo Blanco island catamaran cruise - USD45
- Trinidad - Ancon beach (transport) - USD4
- Trinidad - Trek to waterfall (taxi and entrance fee) - USD27
- Trinidad - Steam train ride - USD10
- Trinidad - Bicycle rental (full day) - USD5
- Trinidad - Live music venues - USD5
- Trinidad - Salsa Dance Lesson - USD5
- Trinidad - Musical instrument lesson (guitar, double bass, tres, percussion - per hour) - USD10
Included Activities
- Trinidad - Afro-Cuban folklore show
Meals Included
- Breakfast (2)
- Lunch (1)
- Dinner (1)
A short drive will take you to Cienfuegos today. While you're here you will visit the Palacio del Valle - Cienfuegos' architectural pride and joy, dripping with ornate carvings in Venetian alabaster.
- Guesthouse (1 night)
Included Activities
- Cienfuegos - Visit to the Palacio del Valle
Meals Included
- Breakfast
You will stop in at Santa Clara to visit the Che Guevara mausoleum and memorial on the way back to Havana.Upon arrival in Havana, you will prepare for a final night celebration of salsa dancing and dinner. Your trip will come to an end after breakfast on Day 8. If you wish to extend your stay in Havana it is possible to book additional accommodation - this should be done at the same time you book your holiday.
- Hotel Nacional or similar (1 night)
Included Activities
- Santa Clara - Visit to Che Guevara Mausoleum and Museum
Meals Included
- Breakfast (2)
- Lunch (1)
Included Activities
Group size
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Productivity Gains Through Culture, Visuality, and Collaboration (Part 1)
Collaboration is in vogue! Companies across multiple industries are implementing a variety of process changes, systems, and tools to improve collaboration among their employees.
While these companies recognize the potential of collaboration, most have captured and quantified benefits only in relatively mundane areas such as reduced travel costs and time-related savings.
Some companies have adopted practices from Six Sigma management and lean manufacturing to complement collaboration tools and provide an additional boost to productivity, especially in knowledge work. Proven "lean" techniques such as 5S ("sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain"), standardized work processes, and a focus on maintaining a flow of work are being applied in industries ranging from financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing to software development.
Visual devices such as physical whiteboards and local electronic displays are also making their way from the plant floor into the office—a trend described as Workplace Visuality (see Visual Workplace, Visual Thinking by Gwendolyn Galsworth, http://visualworkplace.com/about_us/gwendolyn_galsworth). These devices display important information and metrics such as customer goals, product development milestones, project and program status, and issues for escalation. They essentially serve as highly visible business dashboards to help employees quickly understand the state of their company's business, while also aiding alignment on business priorities.
Lean practices, local tools, and manual workarounds are actually enabling collaboration at an individual office and department level. At the same time, however, companies have continued to expand their global footprint, and competitive pressures demand continuous improvement in the pace of doing business (i.e., making effective decisions and solving problems faster; reducing time to market for new products or services).
In addition, the need to collaborate effectively with external partners, suppliers, and customers has become even more urgent. And, knowledge workers are increasingly relying on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets to remain connected with content and colleagues in order to be productive whether working in the office, at home, or while traveling.
Senior management is faced with the question of how to scale local practices, processes, tools, and collaboration capabilities in this new business environment to drive the next wave of employee productivity gains and innovation.
What's the answer? Companies need to adopt an integrated, three-step approach:
- Understand barriers to collaboration that are unique to the company
- Develop solutions to address those barriers
- Integrate collaboration tools and visual devices with the way work is done in organizations
How are you addressing the challenge of scaling collaboration capabilities and other workplace productivity improvement practices in a global environment? Is your company implementing elements of the visual workplace? Let us know what you think.
In Part 2 of this four-part series, I'll discuss why organizational culture and leadership are the most important factors in enabling gains in employee productivity and innovation.
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I think many parents will agree that one of the most challenging things for families with autistic children are outings. Adam's anxiety and repetitive activities increase over his perceived threats and fear of change; he will need to check out the bathroom in every restaurant; know where every door leads. This of course makes outings difficult, and it has a lot to do with impulse. At this point in our lives, Adam has been exceptionally tense – and I want to add that this coincides with his development, awareness and abilities too. This is a really important point to make up front in order not to treat behaviors by redirecting them in meaningless ways (such as touching your nose to replace a hair-raising scream…this will just piss Adam off). One of the dangers with partially-verbal of non-verbal people, as we know, is that when behaviors start, there is a propensity to exclude or treat the autistic person as if they are not aware of what they need, or what they are doing.
This is where adaptive communication has become very helpful for us since November. Adam has been typing for many years, but most ABA schools will not support supported typing – this is so problematic for folks with movement issues which Adam expresses – Tourettes tics, seizure-like episodes (and seizures are much more complex than one initially thinks), and "stuckness" which is catatonia. These are some of the reasons for speech impairments in many folks – similar to aphasia. It's not that they don't think or understand or even "hear"what we say but rather the word-finding and expressive capabilities through speech are not available. However with typing, Adam becomes more fluent in his speech. With support, he becomes, eventually, a more independent typist. In the meantime, he writes, "my body is like an engine that doesn't run continually,"and despite that he can type some things independently he has asked for our support. To not give it to him is seen by many as immoral…something to think about in terms of our own learning in how to support people to communicate in order to hopefully become more fluent and independent. (While I have issues with this latter notion as a neo-liberal concept, I acknowledge we are swimming against a tide here and in order to survive, Adam has to work hard to prove himself…something else to think about in terms of how we treat the disabled).
So, to go out when a person has frequent anxious or bolting episodes (the fight/flight response as we know it), now requires perseverance, patience and planning, and a respect for Adam's ability to participate in his daily planning. It also requires our time in letting him assemble himself if he begins to meltdown. For example, while on our March Break at the beach, Adam needed to go the bathroom. If there is a loud hand-drying in the bathroom, he will become anxious and turn right around. This anxiety lingered after the visit, and he began to flop his body on the beach. I told him to keep walking and tried to distract him, but at this point, it wasn't working. I asked Adam to sit down until he was ready again to walk. As we did, we began to feed the birds. This made Adam happy and then able, after 20 minutes, to walk again.
Similarly, a week before on the same beach boardwalk, something triggered Adam and he wanted to urgently turn around. I could not understand what Adam wanted or needed so I asked him to sit down and type with me. This was difficult and he wanted to get up and bolt. I said he could not get up until we knew what he wanted. As he began to type, he was able to say what he wanted faster -"hot air balloon." At that point, I realized that there was a water tower that looked like a hot-air balloon far down the beach, however, I miscalculated just how far. As we began to walk, it was occurring to me that we wouldn't get there on foot. But Adam was so happy and relieved to be understood, and skipped merrily alongside his grandfather and I. I began to say to Adam that I didn't think we would get there on foot, so at this point I was able to negotiate with him that we would go to dinner first and then drive by the "hot-air balloon." Adam was able to have a nice dinner and also get to see his hot-air balloon on the drive home.
Today, my team are helping Adam on his outings with lots of preparation and photos and are working with me to practice outings with Adam in many places so Adam himself can feel more competent and less anxious. Every day while we were away, I insisted on taking Adam out, with someone with me for safety, because I fear that isolation is deadly. This is where mall therapy begins but also has to end – so often, we only see autistic kids in places where therapists feels safe, and this sadly restricts the lives of many autistic folks. Some parents might be afraid to be stared at in public. This is when it's better to have a card to hand out to people indicating that your child is autistic and you are working on outings. Or, if someone is exceptionally helpful, as I've experienced lately, send a thank you note if you can to support inclusion. While we may begin with mall therapy, we must move on quickly. As I was preparing Adam to see the animals today in the park, he typed, "seeing animals is getting very tiring,"and he asked to walk and take the subway instead. This part of negotiation is also key to success for outings as people like Adam have a hard time advocating for themselves (although they do communicate with their behavior, which is largely viewed as maladaptive, sadly). I also have asked Adam how to support him in moments of need or meltdown where he wrote, "please be calm…" and indicated that these moments are also very embarrassing for him. In addition to a bag of tools he has to help himself and cognitive behavioral therapy (which, by the way, is typically used on people who are verbal and are deemed "high functioning"'… Adam's ability to learn the concepts and techniques quickly rules out theories on HFA and verbal ability and the ruling out of such therapy for non-verbal people…I hope a researcher who presents at IMFAR will pick up on this as most of the people used in research study tend to be from the HFA/verbal group due to cost and time constraints…something to think about in terms of who we service, who we value, and how we treat autistic people).
So the question is whether the mall is used to simply used to truly help autistic people be included in the world, a step towards many outings and environments, or if it excludes people from being in the world. Yes, it's a challenge for folks, and in the end, a person decides for themselves where they want to be. But if Adam doesn't learn now as well as being able to advocate his choices while learning to negotiate with others, our lives will remain behind closed doors. While I know this is hard for Adam, I also know that he doesn't want this.


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Keystone punt: Dems in hot seat
The Obama administration pulled a classic campaign-year move Friday: It punted on the Keystone XL pipeline.
Politically, it seems like a great idea, since kicking Keystone down the road — probably long past November — is better than an outright rejection for vulnerable oil-state Democrats, whose voters love the proposed project. And it keeps environmentalists at bay, boosting hopes that President Barack Obama might still swing their way.
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But the non-decision decision also makes life a little harder for several groups of Democratic senators and Senate candidates fighting for their lives.
Some, like Colorado Sen. Mark Udall, have yet to take a firm stance on the Alberta-to-Texas oil pipeline — and the State Department's announcement Friday that it's extending its review of the project removes the possibility that Obama could resolve the issue one way or another next month.
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Meanwhile, pro-Keystone Democrats like Senate energy Chairwoman Mary Landrieu will face heightened pressure to take actions to match their rhetoric.
Friday's postponement isn't a slam-dunk win for GOP hopes of capturing the upper chamber. The pipeline still doesn't resonate politically with most voters the way Obamacare does. But the Keystone kick left at least three groups scrambling:
The Tweeners
Despite five years of controversy over the pipeline, a few Democrats still have taken no position on Keystone. And the administration's delay sentences them to several more months of awkwardly avoiding the issue.
"I think [the delay] puts so much pressure on people who oppose it or people who want to avoid it," said Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), one of the Senate's most vocal supporters of the project.
( Also on POLITICO: Keystone decision delayed again)
In a perfect world, Obama would make his call — and those Democrats could just move on. Instead, vulnerables like Udall are left hanging.
Udall, facing a stiff challenge from Republican Rep. Cory Gardner in a state where energy issues may be on the ballot in November, has taken some votes on Keystone-related legislation but insists he has no stance on the merits of the project.
"Sen. Udall has not taken a position on the pipeline itself," a spokesman said in an email this week. "He does not believe Congress should be injecting politics into the ongoing technical review process."
At the time, the State Department was expected to finish taking other federal agencies' comments on the pipeline in early May. Now, the department can't say when the process will end.
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Udall has voted against Senate measures to force approval of the project, and he declined to join 11 Senate Democrats who signed a recent letter outlining their support for the pipeline. But he has also said there is a "legitimate argument that it's in the national interest to build the pipeline."
Gardner, meanwhile, has long been on record as a Keystone supporter.
Similarly, Kentucky Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is running to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, has avoided taking a position on the project. In contrast, she has had no trouble distancing herself from other aspects of Obama's energy agenda, for instance by criticizing the EPA's proposed greenhouse gas rules for power plants.
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The McConnell campaign quickly pounced Friday, alleging that Grimes "refuses to tell Kentuckians the truth about where she stands on critical issues like the Keystone XL pipeline out of knowing that her views do not align with the views of the hardworking men and women in the Commonwealth."
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CHICAGO, IL (Jan. 11, 2012) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced Wednesday the signing of Uruguayan striker Federico Puppo. The 25-year-old attacker joins Rafael Robayo as the second South American talent to join the Men in Red as the Fire build its team ahead of the 2012 campaign. Puppo will be added to the club's roster, as an international, upon the receipt of his International Transfer Certificate (ITC) and P1 Visa. Per league and club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"Federico Puppo is a player we've kept an eye for the past few seasons," said Fire head coach Frank Klopas. "He is a smart forward who moves well off the ball and finishes in front of the goal. His addition helps us to strengthen our attacking core. We are excited to get all of these guys into camp and begin putting in the work on the field."
Puppo joins the Fire from Primera División Uruguaya side Danubio F.C., where he appeared in 10 matches, scoring two goals while helping la Franja to a second place finish during the 2011 Apertura campaign.
Prior to his time with Danubio, Puppo played for Montevideo-based Club Atletico River Plate from 2006-11, where he appeared in 57 league matches, scored 17 goals, helping the club to the 2008 Clausura championship. With their 2008 finish, the club qualified for the following year's CONMEBOL Copa Sudamericana where they achieved the best finish in club history, advancing to the semifinals of the tournament. Puppo began his professional career with Montevideo Wanderers, appearing in nine matches from 2004-06.
Named to the Uruguay squad that took part in the 2011 Pan American Games held in Guadalajara, Mexico, Puppo made two appearances, scoring the game-winning goal in a 1-0 opening win over Ecuador on October 21, en route to a third place finish at the tournament.
Name: Carlos Federico Puppo Gross
Position: Forward
Height: 5'8" (1.78m)
Weight: 160 lbs. (73kg)
Date of Birth: December 6, 1986
Place of Birth: Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
Hometown: Montevideo, Uruguay
Citizenship: Uruguay
Last Club: Danubio F.C. (URU)
Acquired: Signed on January 11, 2012


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An important role of the IUCN Congress is to showcase the knowledge and tools we can use to better manage our natural world. As well as being a world leader on species and their conservation needs, IUCN offers the expertise needed to establish and sustainably manage our protected areas—national parks, nature reserves and so on.
Covering a range of subjects from the economic values of protected areas to training for people working in protected areas, the Best Practice Guidelines on Protected Areas are one of IUCN's prime 'knowledge products'. They are produced by members of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) who volunteer their expertise to condense lessons learned using case studies from all over the world.
The Guidelines are indispensable for government agencies, protected area planners and managers. Seventeen guidelines have been produced so far, many of them in several languages. The series gained greater prominence at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) conference in 2010, when IUCN was mandated to advise CBD parties on how best to implement the Programme of Work on Protected Areas.
A closely related publication is Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories, recognized by international bodies such as the United Nations as the global gold standard for defining and monitoring protected areas, creating a common understanding both within and between countries.
The six Categories reflect the range of conservation objectives and governance types, from strict Nature Reserve at one end of the scale, for sites that are so important and vulnerable that no human activity is allowed, to protected areas that align biodiversity conservation and sustainable human use. The Categories represent an international framework for better guiding planning and management and a number of national governments have used them in national legislation to establish protected areas.
Through WCPA experts, IUCN has helped countries with Category assignment, among others in Turkey in 2005, in Lao PDR in 2008, and most recently in the Republic of Korea. The Korea National Park Service, an IUCN member, asked IUCN to help in re-categorizing the country's protected areas. This process showed a shift from a focus on protection of scenic values to an ecosystem protection approach. This included stopping grazing to allow natural rejuvenation in Hallasan National Park on Jeju island, the venue for the 2012 IUCN Congress.
One aspect that the Categories do not address is the effectiveness of management in protected areas, that is, the extent to which they achieve their conservation goals. One of the Best Practice Guidelines provides an evaluation 'toolkit' for assessing whether an area is being effectively managed. Building on the experience gained from such assessments, WCPA members are developing a process for a 'Green List of Well Managed Protected Areas' which will showcase best practice.
Protected area agencies in Colombia and Australia are now testing the Green List process. A number of other countries such as China, Brazil and Germany have also shown interest in using the Green List.
Through developing and continually refining these international standards, IUCN strives to ensure that protected areas around the world effectively conserve the natural values and human benefits that they are meant to secure.


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Study Confirms Provent® Therapy Effectively Treats Sleep Apnea Patients Who Are Non-Compliant with CPAP Therapy
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"CPAP therapy is the standard of care for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, but a large percentage of patients are not able to tolerate it and express dissatisfaction with their treatment options. The data from this study indicate that the Provent Device is a beneficial treatment for approximately forty percent of patients who are unwilling or unable to tolerate CPAP therapy," said James K. Walsh, PhD, Executive Director of the Sleep Medicine and Research Center at St. Luke's Hospital in Missouri.
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Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common type of sleep-disordered breathing. In patients with OSA, the airway collapses during sleep when the muscles that hold the airway open relax. People with this disorder can stop breathing while sleeping---in some cases hundreds of times each night---usually for periods of ten seconds or longer. Although some people with sleep apnea don't know they have the condition, they snore and may wake themselves up as they gasp for air. It is often their sleep partner who is aware of these symptoms and will urge them to go to the doctor.
It is estimated that more than 40 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea. Sleep apnea can cause fatigue, early morning headaches, irritability, lack of concentration, and contributes to depression, learning and memory difficulties, and sexual dysfunction. Importantly, many recent studies have shown that OSA is associated with high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, heart attack, stroke and diabetes.
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Ventus Medical is a privately-held medical device company dedicated to providing non-invasive medical solutions for people with sleep-disordered breathing. Based on its innovative MicroValve technology and patented designs, Ventus Medical has developed a unique line of clinically-proven medical devices to address the continuum of sleep disorders from severe obstructive sleep apnea to snoring. Ventus Medical devices work by creating expiratory positive airway pressure (EPAP). The company markets FDA-cleared, prescription-only Provent Therapy, a discreet, easy-to-use nasal device, for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and is developing an over-the-counter device for snoring.
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The first half of the season can be broken down into two parts – bad and improved.
It all started with a 30-13 loss to Texas State in the season opener, one of the most embarrassing losses in school history. Two days later, UH fired offensive coordinator Mike Nesbitt.
UH followed with losses to Louisiana Tech (56-49) and UCLA (37-6) for the school's first 0-3 start since 2001.
The turnaround came during the open date in the schedule. The Cougars were able to get healthy, most notably running back Charles Sims, and have reeled off three straight wins to reach .500. UH is 2-0 in Conference USA play entering Thursday's game at SMU.
"Transition," particularly on offense, has been a favorite word for first-year coach Tony Levine. After a shaky start, quarterback David Piland is sixth nationally in total offense (369 yards) and has thrown for 1,044 yards with five touchdowns and only one interception during the current winning streak. The Cougars have also dealt with injuries at wide receiver (Isaiah Sweeney and Andrew Rodriguez are currently out and Larry McDuffey and Xavier Maxwell missed games) during the first half. Dropped passes have also been a problem.
In the five games since Travis Bush took over the play-calling duties, the Cougars are averaging 575.6 yards per game.
On defense, the Cougars have shown signs of turning things around. In losses to Texas State, Louisiana Tech and UCLA, the Cougars allowed an average of 41 points, 536.3 yards and forced five turnovers. Those numbers have dropped considerably during the winning streak: 17.3 points, 400 yards and six turnovers. UH had eight sacks and held the Blazers to 35 rushing yards last week. Was that a sign of things to come?
November is shaping up to be an interesting final month for the Cougars, who must travel to East Carolina and Marshall and host Tulsa in what likely will decide the West Division.
Stay tuned.
• Offensive MVP: RB Charles Sims. Sims currently leads Conference USA in rushing with 648 yards and eighth nationally with an average 128.6 yards per game. With six games remaining, the junior is 50 yards shy of his career high 698 yards set last season. Sims has done most of his damage during the Cougars' current three-game winning streak with 158 yards against Rice, 210 against North Texas and 133 against UAB. He's also a threat as a receiver with 24 catches for 204 yards.
• Defensive MVP: LB Phillip Steward. It was a tough call between Steward and fellow linebacker Derrick Mathews. Steward leads the team in tackles (72) tackles for loss (12.5), sacks (6.5) and forced fumbles (three).
• Special teams MVP: Kicker Matt Hogan. Hogan has made 13-of-17 field goals this season, including three from 50 yards or longer. He set a C-USA and school single-game record with six field goals in last week's win over UAB. Punter Richie Leone, who is fourth nationally in punting at 47.2 yards, also received strong consideration.
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Are you a seed-stage startup looking for funding or exposure? Then apply to the Founder Showcase Pitch Competition, where previous presenters have raised over $35 million without ever being required to pay a dime. Any company less than two years old with less than $250,000 USD in funding is eligible, but time is running out.
To apply for your chance to present on-stage, click here. The Application Deadline has been extended until April 2nd, 2012, but the sooner you apply, the longer you have to collect votes.
The Founder Showcase, hosted by TheFunded.com's Adeo Ressi, is Silicon Valley's Leading Seed-Stage Pitch Event. The 10th Founder Showcase is scheduled for Tuesday, April 24th at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, and will be attended by over 500 investors, founders, and press. Guests will be treated to talks from leading startup CEOs and investors (TBA), as well as an entertaining Pitch Competition featuring 8 promising seed-stage companies. Appetizers and drinks will also be served in a networking hall full of other hot startups demoing their wares in the Demo Table Competition. This event will sell out, so purchase your tickets today. Reduced-Price tickets are available until Sunday, April 8th!
Confirmed Judges for the event already include Noah J. Doyle (Managing Director of Javelin Venture Partners), David J. Blumberg (Managing Partner of Blumberg Capital), Rob Coneybeer (Managing Director of Shasta Ventures), and Brian Ascher (Partner at Venrock).
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Mahela faced only 88 of 201 balls while he was at the crease. He was absolutely brilliant in getting off strike through the middle to keep his strike rate over a hundred throughout. If someone else at the other end had done the same, Sri Lanka could have shot past 300.
And he did it all without any risk whatsoever - staying there until the end was crucial for allowing Perera the freedom to hit out at the end - not to mention camly putting away bad balls for four and timed his acceleration brillianty.
Genuinely one of the best ODI innings I've ever seen.
Edit: To go nicely with the best T20 hundred I've ever seen, which he scored at Providence in May.


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The sixth step in getting started with Governance is to govern the lifecycle of your assets.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Once an organization has visibility into existing assets that they want to govern, the organization then should focus on inserting governance into the asset lifecycle process. Figure 6-1 illustrates the asset lifecycle process.
The process starts with the definition of a common capability that is needed by multiple groups across the enterprise. Once the capability is funded, a project is initiated to implement and/or configure the capability. After a capability is developed, it gets promoted from development to pre-production environments, which might include staging and testing. Finally, the capability is promoted to the production environment, where its performance can be monitored and measured, and its behavior can be enforced. This process is facilitated by Oracle Enterprise Repository's automated workflows.
Figure 6-1 Asset Lifecycle Process
This section describes the role of Governance in each of the asset lifecycle phases. This section contains the following topics:
Section 6.2.4, "Consumer Provisioning and Contract Management"
When the organization recognizes that a capability is required, it should be made visible through the Enterprise Repository. These capabilities may come from architects who are working on the target architecture, or from business analysts who identify common requirements for their lines of business. Once in the enterprise repository, they can be evaluated and prioritized according to a common business or ROI model. Once evaluated and prioritized, these capabilities can be categorized into stages, such as proposed (meaning the capability has been identified and vetted), funded (there is an active project in the process of delivering the capability), and complete (the capability has been fully implemented).
There are several ways to make a capability visible through the Enterprise Repository:
Quick Submission
Advanced Submission
There is also information and a workbook available that will help you place a value on your capabilities. This can be used to help you justify and prioritize your asset investments:
Whitepaper: Determining the ROI of SOA through Reuse
Workbook: Determining the ROI of SOA through Reuse
As capabilities are funded, projects are established to implement the capability. SOA Suite developers working in JDeveloper can see and reuse services from the enterprise repository to complete their projects. Service Bus developers working in Eclipse can see and reuse services from the enterprise repository to complete their projects. Developers can also harvest their completed implementations directly to the Enterprise Repository. The Enterprise repository also supports VS .Net development.
For information on reusing assets through JDeveloper, Eclipse, and VS .Net, see "Configuring Your IDE to Support Integration with Oracle Enterprise Repository" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Integration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
For information on harvesting assets from JDeveloper, Eclipse, and VS .Net, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Integration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Once an implementation has been harvested into the enterprise repository, the repository's workflows process the implementation according to the governance rules and practices established by the organization. Oracle Enterprise Repository comes with several pre-configured workflows that can be customized to support the Governance practices of your organization.
For more information about Oracle Enterprise Repository's workflows, as well as the procedures for customizing the workflows, see "Configuring Oracle Enterprise Repository Workflow" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
As the implementation moves throughout the lifecycle, from testing, through staging, and into production, the endpoints for each environment are harvested into Oracle Enterprise Repository. This is accomplished by incorporating the Harvester into the Ant or WLST deployment script. After harvesting, Oracle Enterprise Repository will provide visibility into a service with multiple endpoints, one for each environment.
For information about harvesting endpoints from the runtime environment using deployment scripts, see "Configuring and Using Automated Harvesting in Design-time and Runtime Environments" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Oracle Enterprise Repository promotes the services and harvested endpoints to a Service Registry in each lifecycle environment. Oracle Enterprise Repository uses a tool called the Exchange Utility to perform the promotion. Once services are in the service registry, runtime tooling, such as OSB and SOA Suite, can dynamically discover changes in the runtime environment. OSB subscribes to the Service Registry's publish/subscribe API, such that OSB is automatically notified when a change occurs. Alternately, SOA Suite caches the WSDL and endpoint locations, as well as the UDDI service key, at design-time. If the WSDL or endpoints become invalid at any point in the lifecycle, SOA Suite will use the service key to dynamically discover and update the WSDL location and endpoint information.
For more information about configuring the Exchange Utility to promote assets from Oracle Enterprise Repository to Oracle Service Registry, see "Configuring Oracle Registry Repository Exchange Utility" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
For more information about Oracle Service Bus's dynamic Discovery capabilities, see the "UDDI" section in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
For more information about the dynamic discovery capabilities of Oracle SOA Suite, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle SOA Suite at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15523_01/integration.1111/e10224.pdf.
Some organizations may not want to automatically expose their production service endpoints to all consumers. Consumers may first be required to negotiate a service level agreement with the service provider. Oracle Enterprise Repository can facilitate this negotiation process.
For more information about the contract negotiation process, see http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/tech/soa/uddi/OracleSOAGovBootcampConsumerMgtLab.zip.
It is important to both service providers and service consumers to understand how a service is performing in the runtime environment. In 11g, a summary of runtime service performance metrics can be brought into Oracle Enterprise Repository from Enterprise Manager SOA Management Pack Plus.
For information on configuring interoperability between Oracle Enterprise Repository and Enterprise Manager Management Pack Plus for SOA, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Runtime metrics can also be brought into Oracle Enterprise Repository from Amberpoint, and similar tools, which publish service metrics to Oracle Service Registry. Bidirectional synchronization between Oracle Enterprise Repository and Oracle Service Registry is used to promote the runtime metrics from the registry to the repository.
Note that Oracle's Enterprise Manager Management Pack Plus for SOA provides runtime metrics directly to the Enterprise Repository.
For additional information on promoting metrics from Oracle Service Registry to Oracle Enterprise Repository, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.


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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 1:48 pm
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Been a while, I know.... But still listening and collecting!
Last week I managed to get my hands on the Elegy 3 sampler cd. This of course is the only release of the 'Here Comes The Day' demo.
As far as I know this song together with the tracks from the 'Moon City' ep are the only released tracks of the "Lost" album. I don't know if I'm right, but I remember reading somewhere that this album was recorded in 1998, and was going to be called 'It's A Beautiful World'.
I don't know the reason why this album never saw the light of day.
My question to you lot is:
Are there any more (lost) tracks out there?
Can anyone give some more info on this album?
Would really like to know this, for the 3 released tracks are amongst my favs!
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Wish I could help, but aside from the tracks you mentioned, I don't know of any others. I'd love to hear some new material, even if it's old material.
Now, about that US tour...
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Just keep on wishing... and perhaps one day Dorothy will take you to OZ!!!
Courage mon ami xxx
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 10:48 pm
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As I mentioned in
my earlier topic
, the Til the Stars Shine hints that [Driving] in the Sun is a contemporary of Here Comes the Day and It's a Beautiful World. Today I did some poking around the old news archives and found some more hints:
The cranes songs [on Moon City 7"] were written in 1998 and
are not anything to do with the current 'Future Songs' album
(emphasis added)
, but those of you who have the 'Til The Stars Shine ' lyric book, might notice that the words to 'It's a Beautiful World' are included in it, even though that song has never been released....until now !! 'The Moon City' was written around the same time, but has never been released either !
-Dadaphonic-Cranes Newsletter August 2002
Thank you so much for responding to our September letter about our proposed new releases. Lots of you left messages and we are really happy to let you know that the book of lyrics is going to be available in December ! It contains lyrics to 50 Cranes songs and has some pictures and is hand-made. Really hope you like it ! As for the new CD we are still working on the music but are hoping that it will be ready in the Spring. We are waiting a little while before deciding whether to release the album ourselves or not, but we are thinking that it might be called 'It's a Beautiful World ' and
lyrics to three of the new songs from it are included in the new lyric book
(emphasis added)
. We'll send you some more details about it in the next newsletter so you can see how things are going...
Well, since we last wrote we have just spent some weeks arranging things for the book and working on some music for the LP.
CRANES Newsletter - November 1998
This information confirms that:
1) The Cranes were working on It's a Beautiful World in late '98.
2) Material slated for It's a Beautiful World wasn't carried over into Future Songs.
3) The lyric book contains three songs planned for the album. The title track is the only one indicated on the table of contents. The others are most likely [Driving] In the Sun and Here Comes the Day.
In the Sun
's inclusion in Future Songs contradicts #2, but it's the only other song that hadn't been released at the time of the lyric book (maybe they were planning to put a new version of Perfect World on the album, but I doubt it).
So there we have it. The following tracks make a pretty good playlist/CD-r for the late-Nineties period
1) It's a Beautiful World
2) Here Comes the Day
3) Moon City (demo version)
4) Driving In the Sun (original or Submarine remix)
5) Future Song (demo version)
6) Perfect World
7) The Christmas Angel
On a different topic, I'd be curious to hear what Alison was recording by herself in 1995 along with Perfect World. I'd reckon that the "September Sound" studio credited in
Can't Get Free
was their home multitrack. An acoustic-ish record of Alison Shaw demos would be pretty cool.
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An acoustic-ish record of Alison Shaw demos would be pretty cool.
Now that would be pretty cool! Thanks for putting all of this research together. It's nice to have some sense of clarity about this period of their career.
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vestcoat wrote:
An acoustic-ish record of Alison Shaw demos would be pretty cool.
Now that would be pretty cool!
Now that I think about it, most of her creative output from 1995 probably went into what would become Population 4. She switched to guitar on that album and Tangled Up and Sweet Unknown are both very similar to Perfect World in terms of heartbreak and acoustic guitar. In fact, Sweet Unknown
recorded in '95, although in a different studio. I'd wager that Mark Freegard's keyboard and "production" weren't added until two years later.
Also on the subject of lost albums, there were a number of odd songs from the late Eighties that leave me wondering about possible demos or unreleased studio sessions, namely: Self-non-Self; Nothing in the Middle, Nothing-at the End; Reach; Til Tomorrow; Slow Song.
We know Self-non-self was recorded in '86 and later released as a WoJ bonus track along with the original Fuse, so it's probably a Fuse-sessions outtake.
Nothing in the Middle was released on a comp in '87 and we don't know anything about it. It could be another Fuse outtake or, judging by the vocal delivery, a contemporary of Vegetate. Or it could be from another Fame Evil session entirely.
All we've ever heard of Reach and Slow Song are live versions (Live at the Paradiso and Self-Non-Self contain the same recording of Reach, just different mixes. The label probably owns the original mix, while Cranes own the multitrack). It would be strange if the Cranes never attempted to record these two songs in a studio.
Ditto for Til Tomorrow - all we've heard is the Peel Session.
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September Sound is a recording studio in London. It is known as Eel Pie Studios. The Cocteau Twins called it September Sound, and recorded their later albums there.
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Company url: http://www.pathpointsoftware.com
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At our July Destination z teleconference, I had the opportunity to talk with Bob Buchanan, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at PathPoint Software. Bob is a veteran of the computer software and hardware industry with over thirty years of domestic and international experience.
Marc: Hi Bob, PathPoint recently joined our Destination z community. Can you tell me a little bit about your company and the solutions you provide?
Bob: PathPoint Software is dedicated to supporting the application support needs of mainframe customers worldwide. We offer a dynamic mainframe application discovery tool that provides a breakthrough, execution-based, approach for understanding how mainframe applications "really work". Our produce, PathPoint, traces and captures the sequential application-processing path followed by specified, user entered, business transactions as they execute. Captured information provides unparalleled insight into execution-based application facts.
PathPoint's dynamic approach eliminates the need to analyze static source code and "play computer" as you try to find the right code. No more guess work. PathPoint helps you find the right code.
PathPoint is also included in the IBM Global Services AMS Toolkit.
Marc: What are you finding are the greatest challenges your customers are facing and how does PathPoint Software help them?
Bob: Our customers are often facing a variety of challenges. They need to drive efficiencies into their mainframe application maintenance efforts, including analysis, testing and performance. PathPoint provides a means for customers to reduce analysis time by 50% or more and testing time by 50% or more and identify the cause of application performance problems. Our value proposition revolves around improving personal productivity, which drives down the time and significantly reduces the cost associated with many mainframe application maintenance projects.
PathPoint Software also helps customers struggling to understand how legacy online or batch mainframe applications "really" work – of major importance to customers who are need to make changes to existing applications or to identify the source of application problems. Users of PathPoint simply enter a business transaction of interest, or job a step number, and the product traces and captures the actual application-processing path followed by that executing business transaction – all without any change to source code. Information captured in the actual sequence of execution includes: input screen, programs called, call statements issued, tables/files accessed, how tables/files are accessed (CRUD) and output screen. Optionally, Cobol source code can be parsed during post processing to capture the conditional logic related to executing business transaction.
Marc: PathPoint sounds like it really helps customers quickly identify the "right code" in a mainframe application and relate this code to change requests and other problems. Please tell me a little bit more about PathPoint's role in addressing application-level performance problems.
Bob: PathPoint captures application level performance timings for specified user-entered business transactions – very unique and valuable information. For example, we capture the elapsed time per call statement, the interim time between call statements, and the frequency of call statements. Using this information, customers can quickly identify the cause of bottlenecks in their applications and how to improve application performance.
Marc: What economic benefit would a user of PathPoint derive?
Bob: First of all, the mainframe application budget is a substantial portion of the overall IT budget in today's corporations, as you know. And, application maintenance consumes a large percentage of the application budget itself. We are confident that PathPoint users can reduce their mainframe application maintenance budget by up to 20%. Why? Because PathPoint enables users to reduce analysis time by 50% or more, reduce system and regression testing time by 50% or more, and reduce overall project time.
Marc: How can folks find out first-hand about your product?
Bob: We encourage all mainframe sites to try PathPoint. The product can be installed in as little as 2 hours and does not require any change to source code. Visit our website for more details.
Marc: One last question, why is being part of Destination z a valuable community association for PathPoint?
Bob: PathPoint is delighted to be a part of the Destination z community. As an Advanced IBM Business Partner, a very active participant in the IBM Academic Initiative program, we are eager to engage in discussions with other IBM Business Partners serving the System z community. We feel that the Destination z community enables mainframe customers to understand that innovation continues in the world of mainframe computing – PathPoint is just one example of such innovation.
Marc: Thanks Bob. And I welcome readers to listen to the replay of our July 29th Destination z call featuring PathPoint Software. Visit the Destination z website


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So I'm back from Stitches Midwest. Once again, it was great fun. I feel like they're little five-day internships for me because I learn so much from Andra and the Elkins, directly and indirectly. They're all very shrewd people and I mean that in the best way. I feel like a broken record saying this but this year has held so many surprises for me, and so much unexpected training. I just wanted to have a way to pay my share of the rent but instead I discovered a whole other career possibility and got a crash course from people who are right on top of the industry–ridiculous luck, eh?
But enough about that, you probably want to see my haul, eh? Well, it is small but precious. The first thing that caught my eye was this giant shawl pin hanging on the burlap walls of the Moving Mud booth. It looks like a huge piece of cherry candy!
The artists and owners staff the booth and they (Sarena and Jon or maybe Serena and John) are both lovely, hilarious people and their glass has to be seen in real life to be fully appreciated. They just had a tiny newborn baby, Scout and she was super fun to make faces at and coo over. I ran into Jillian Moreno and she agreed–Jillian by the way is gorgeous!! Perfect skin and blue eyes and her hair is a mass of curls the color of my shawl pin! She wore a rocking black vintage shirt-dress with big yellow roses on it–Girl is straight-up fashion plate.
Some Brooks Farms Primero in a very mermaid-y color, a gift! Thank you, giftee =) There was a mega-soft sample with a halo that looked and felt more like angora but Sherry the dyer confirmed that it was just well-loved Primero. While I was talking to Randall from Brooks Farms he noticed my name and asked if I would be okay with them using it! I said it'd be an honor, their stuff is gorrrrrrrrrrrgeous! We'll see what happens with that.
Speaking of hand-dyed yarn, Gail's yarn did VERY well and I had to reserve this one for myself because it looks exactly like a real rainbow. Oh and it happens to match the other shawl pin I picked up from Moving Mud:
Shelridge Farm was right across the way and after squeezing a few of the super soft woolie skeins I had to buy a few.
Believe it or not, I got tons of crap from my co-workers every time I bought something. I was called a sucker a number of times, which only pissed me off the 18th time I heard it. Whatever, it was a welcome change to be the yarn customer and not the yarn seller. I want to make something vaugely Icelandic with this.
I also got a few things from Habu, a booth filled with modern, Matrix-y sweaters knit in very cool fibers. It got more of what I bought at West, a kid mohair silk thing in greenish pewter and some vegetable dyed cashmere.
Koigu, in a wildly pretty coral pink:
And a demure beige/sage/purple mix that will become gloves for me:
And guess what–I actually knit! This is the first of two Blooms (like this one), about 1/4 done:
The color (Treacle–think Harry Potter would find me fetching in it?) is soooo cool, a reddish brown-black with yellow and blue tweed nubs. I'm really into yellow these days, oddly.
Well, that's everything. It's the final countdown at Webs. Graduate school starts soon and if I stop to think about it I'll definitely start to fret about it. Guess I'll just dive into the fall magazines and start sketching so that when I get my birthday present to myself I will be ready to rip.
P.S. Yeah, I know, I gorged. I feel slightly guilty. I'm having a tag and/or eBay sale soon to make up for it. Speaking of guilt and eBay…I just purchased my shoes for grad school. In an effort to look a little less teenaged I have been slowly inching toward shoes that are more substantial than my favorite Reef flip-flop/Vans slip-on rotation. I refuse to be uncomfortable and I am wildly picky about shoes, but I finally settled on these Frye Campus boots. I have always liked the look, it's been around since the 70s and everyone on Zappos swears that they're sturdy and comfy. I like the heel and the height and I think the robin's egg blue/grey is something that will force me to put together creative outfits. I hope. Fingers crossed!


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While municipalities set their own rates, private utility rates are regulated by the corresponding state utility commission to reflect the full cost of providing water service. Effective economic regulation is critical to the health of NAWC member companies as well as the exemplary service they provide. On behalf of our membership, NAWC works closely with state Public Utility Commissions, NARUC and other national associations to communicate and advance best practices NAWC holds several events every year to bring together NAWC member companies, regulators and other key stake holders to discuss issues facing the industry.The 2012 NAWC Water Policy Forum was held April 22-24, 2012, in Charleston, South Carolina. The purpose of the Forum is to share thoughts, information, and ideas in the form of effective regulatory practices that can be used to build a common understanding of the issues impacting water companies, the customers they serve, and the respective regulatory agencies.
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Janko Roettgers at NewTeeVee, citing a Sandvine broadband report, reports that Netflix customer use more peak streaming trafic than HBO Go, Amazon and Hulu.
Amazon's video service on the other hand, which is widely seen as its biggest competitor, only causes 1.75 percent of peak residential downstream traffic. Other competitors fare even worse in Sandvine's report: The network management company sees Hulu causing 1.38 percent of residential peak downstream traffic, with HBO Go barely registering with 0.52 percent.
I'm wondering what impact a standalone Amazon Prime Video or HBO Go subscription would have on these numbers.


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Tamara Monosoff started her first two businesses when she was just 9 years old. Now the CEO and founder of Mom Invented, Monosoff lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and their 8- and 6-year-old daughters. She took some time recently to share her wisdom with Work It, Mom!
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Lindsay Ferrier of Suburban Turmoil
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Lindsay Ferrier is not afraid to speak her mind. On her acclaimed personal blog, Suburban Turmoil, she's taken on cranky soccer dads to uber-enthusiastic pageant moms alike with dead-on, scathing, superbly written posts. She's generous with her praise as well, founding (along with Kimberly from Petroville) the Perfect Post Awards, a monthly badge of honor for bloggers to give to other bloggers. The mom and stepmom of four lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Jenna McCarthy has been writing for magazines for 17 years, as a freelancer and as a staff member at publications including Seventeen, Mademoiselle, and Shape. "Oh yeah, and I recently made two people, right in my body, practically from scratch," she says. "No wonder I'm exhausted half the time."
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Birds of a different feather
Whether by habit or habitat, it would be difficult find two game birds more diverse than doves and dusky grouse. Different size, different haunts, different flight. Nothing the same.
The divergence continues with the relative hunter success for two species that highlighted the opening of Colorado bird season earlier this week. Bad year for doves, good for grouse.
With the exception of lucky hunters who found a few sweet spots, the dove opener was the biggest bust in a decade — largely because most of the birds already skedaddled south from the cold front that hit the country two weeks earlier.
Even the fall-back areas of southeast Colorado didn't hold birds for long. An e-mail from one forlorn hunter told how he and a buddy bagged a joint 14 little gray birds in two days of hard hunting, not exactly what you plan for a 600-mile round trip.
The pity here is that more people try for doves during that first glorious week of the season than all the other upland birds put together. Colorado doesn't need any more disappointed hunters.
Dusky grouse — formerly called blue grouse by our wildlife patrol — were quite another matter. Prime breeding conditions produced many new coveys; great feed conditions kept them together in the mid-elevation haunts where hunters more easily locate them.
Vic Rompa, president of the Rocky Mountain Point Lab Club (http://rmpointinglab.com) and partner Joe Harrison pronounced it the best opener ever after locating batches of birds in the Kremmling area.
"Two new covey locations in one day is unheard of in my 8 years of blue grouse hunting," Rompa wrote.
While doves are gone for a year, shotgun enthusiasts can expect a couple weeks or more good action for grouse — or at least until a nasty freeze nips the berries and grasshoppers.
There's something magical about a romp through the brisk autumn woods behind a good pointing dog. If you've got some pent-up energy to spend, give mountain grouse a try.


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Man, the Scion FR-S has been getting a ton of love lately as we reflect on the best cars of 2012. And for good reason, too — it's awesome to drive.
Haven't driven one yet? Don't have the means to buy one at the moment? Don't have a cool and understanding friend who's willing to let you slide it into a guardrail? Have no fear, you can make a tiny little FR-S out of paper and then put it on your desk to make all your stupid coworkers jealous.
Scion just launched an iPad-exclusive app with the help of designer Shin Tanaka that lets you create a customized Scion that you can print out and fold into a little 3D model. Click here to get the app.
You can also print out tiny versions of the less-cool Scions, like the iQ and the xB, but why would you want to?
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Hi lovelies! Happy Wednesday! I can't believe it's already April and am so excited about some events happening this month! Another Art Uncorked event, Easter (I'm cooking the whole dinner by myself!) and my Grandma's big birthday surprise, just to name a few! I have a feeling it is going to be a great month and the perfect start to Spring.
But as eager as I am for Spring to arrive, the Bay Area cannot seem to make up its mind in terms of weather. So although I've been ditching my tights on occasion, I'm still favoring warm, hot meals. As I was browsing Pinterest, I knew I found a winning recipe when I found Whole Living's Almond Chicken Soup with Sweet Potatoes. I immediately set off to start making the soup and it wasn't until I started cooking that I realized I didn't have some of the ingredients on hand. However, I wasn't about to let that deter me so I started substituting and combining foods that sounded good that I had on hand. I've found that the more comfortable I become in the kitchen, the less I feel the need to adhere to recipes. It's always a bit of a gamble, but hey, that's what makes cooking (and life!) more fun. And it's even better when it results in a great outcome like this soup did- it was met with rave reviews and comments to please make it again soon!
Thai Sweet Potato Soup
*Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free
- 2 Zucchini
- 4 Carrots
- 1 package butternut squash cubes (about 3/4 cup)
- 2 Small Sweet Potatoes (about 1 cup chopped)
- 1 Russet Potato
- 1/2 Yellow onion (3/4 cup chopped)
- 8-10 oz. cooked chicken breast
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup almond butter
- 4 C. chicken stock
- 2 T. ginger
- 1 clove garlic
- 3 large handfuls baby spinach
- Chop all vegetables into 1-inch cubes, peeling the potatoes before chopping.
- Dice 1/2 yellow onion and mince garlic.
- Combine the chicken broth, onion, garlic, sweet potato and potato in a large pot and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat and add carrots, zucchini and butternut squash and simmer about 15 minutes.
- In a bowl, whisk almond butter and peanut butter together with 1/2 cup of soup broth and add to soup along with the cooked chicken.
- Add 3 cups baby spinach and ginger and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Season with salt and pepper and serve with a lime wedge.
This soup is made with fresh, wholesome ingredients and packed with vegetables. It's so simple and comes together in a flash– I used Trader Joe's frozen chicken breast, thawed it and heated in a separate pan and added it to the soup. However, this recipe can easily be made vegetarian by substituting vegetable stock and leaving out the chicken. It already is full of protein from the nut butter!
-What's your attitude in the kitchen? Do you stick to recipes or play around?
-Tell me (or link!) to one of your favorite recipes that you've created!


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