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* Firms to merge North American flour milling operations
* Deal expected to close later this year
* Milling operations had total sales last year of $4.3 bln
* ConAgra, Cargill each to have 44 pct stake, CHS 12 pct
* Deal encompasses 44 flour mills, 3 bakery mix facilities
By Carey Gillam
March 5 (Reuters) - Giant U.S. food and grain-handling companies ConAgra Foods Inc, Cargill and CHS Inc plan to combine their North American flour milling businesses into a new venture that would control more than a third of U.S. capacity, dwarfing all competitors in size and market reach.
Dubbed Ardent Mills, the operation would encompass 44 flour mills with locations from California to Massachusetts as well as bakery mix and specialty bakery facilities, with footholds in Canada and Puerto Rico.
News of the plan caught many in the industry by surprise, although officials said they have been in discussions about a combination for well over a year, and prompted instant speculation that U.S. officials might push back due to antitrust concerns.
The venture would control roughly 34 percent of the U.S. market in terms of milling capacity, with total daily wheat and durum flour capacity for the combined company around 576,100 hundredweight (cwt).
Ardent marries ConAgra Mills with Horizon Milling, the joint venture that Cargill and CHS formed in 2002. Horizon is considered the No. 1 U.S. miller in terms of milling capacity which is 290,500 cwt per day. ConAgra is third now, behind No. 2 ADM Milling, with 255,100 cwt per day. Horizon brings 21 U.S. and Canadian flour mills to the deal, and ConAgra adds 23 U.S. flour mills.
If antitrust concerns do develop, the government could require some sort of asset divestitures. But Cargill Corporate Vice President Scott Portnoy said in an interview that the "complete asset footprint" of combined operations was a key reason for the deal. He said Ardent did not want to close or sell off any of the mills, even as some market watchers raised questions about anti-trust issues.
"It is our anticipation that all the mills... are necessary in order to provide the kinds of options that our customers expect both in terms of specialized types of wheat and specialty types of flour solutions as well as actually just efficient supply chain access," said Portnoy, adding the partners were not going to speculate on the government's response.
"We're going to work closely with the government if they have questions. But we really believe in the merits of this transaction," Portnoy said. "We are going to work very hard to get this transaction done."
ConAgra and Horizon's milling operations last year did roughly $4.3 billion in combined sales, and officials see additional growth opportunities, potentially acquiring more assets, said Portnoy.
Analysts noted the efficiencies created would make the partnership far more competitive globally.
"Any kind of consolidation in agribusiness which increases efficiency in terms of the competitiveness that this new entity will offer on the global market, is always welcome," said Rich Feltes, vice president for research at R.J. O'Brien. "This is good for U.S. agricultural competitiveness in the global flour market."
But some farmer groups expressed concerns that more consolidation in the market could ultimately spell lower wheat prices as fewer competitors bid for supply.
The milling company partners said their broader base would help them better manage sometimes volatile swings in wheat prices. But they said that farmers will benefit through enhanced opportunities to connect the wheat they grow to the consumer marketplace.
CHS, the nation's largest producer-owned cooperative, will be a key supplier to Ardent, said Mark Palmquist, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Ag Business, CHS.
The combined operations will improve research and development for more nutritious and tasty products, as innovation becomes more critical for consumer food products, company officials said. Details about how research and development work will be combined are yet to be worked out.
Omaha, Nebraska-based ConAgra and Minneapolis-based Cargill, will each have a 44 percent stake in the joint venture. CHS, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, will control the remaining 12 percent. All three companies will have representatives on the Ardent board. The partners hope to launch the new company later this year.
Horizon Milling President Dan Dye will become chief executive officer of the new company, and Bill Stoufer, current president of ConAgra Mills, will become Ardent Mills' chief operating officer and chief integration officer. The headquarters will be determined later, the companies said.
Each partner will contribute their respective milling operations to Ardent Mills on a cash-free, debt-free basis in exchange for the agreed ownership interests.
Sales for ConAgra Mills, currently part of ConAgra Foods' commercial foods segment, were roughly $1.8 billion for the fiscal year that ended May 27, 2012. Sales for Horizon Milling were about $2.5 billion in its fiscal year that ended May 31, 2012.
Ardent Mills will be self-financed through cash flow from operations and its own bank debt and credit facility, the companies said. Cash distributions from Ardent Mills will be delivered to the partners at closing, with initial estimates of the total proceeds to be distributed ranging from $800 million to $1 billion, they said.


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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work. . . Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property."
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Analyzing your local problem will give you a better understanding of the factors that contribute to it. Once you have analyzed your local problem and established a baseline for measuring effectiveness, you can consider possible responses to the problem.
The following responses will provide a foundation for addressing your particular burglary problem. These strategies are drawn from research studies and police practice and are generally based on opportunity blocking. It is critical that you tailor responses to local circumstances and that you can justify each response based upon reliable analysis. Several of these strategies may apply to your local problem; and in fact, an effective remedial strategy will likely involve the implementation of several different responses.
Because law enforcement alone is seldom effective in reducing or solving the problem, do not limit yourself to considering only what police can do; rather, carefully consider whether others in your community share responsibility for the problem and whether they can help respond to it. In some cases, responsibilities may need to be shifted toward those who have the capacity to implement more effective responses. (For more detailed information on shifting and sharing responsibility, see Response Guide No. 3, Shifting and Sharing Responsibility for Public Safety Problems). Building partnerships and working towards a collective response with the various stakeholders is essential to success. This is particularly true in regard to construction site burglaries, because so many of the factors that contribute to the problem are related to building practices.
See Problem-Solving Tools Guide No. 5 on Partnering With Businesses to Address Public Safety Problems.
There is little research evaluating responses to the problem of construction site burglaries. Therefore, the responses discussed below emphasize appropriate and practical opportunity blocking. Blocking criminal opportunities often has a greater direct effect on offenders than do other crime prevention strategies.[26]
Police should establish cooperative working relationships with builders. In turn, builders should share information about burglary problems and patterns, local building practices, and loss prevention efforts. Builders should be encouraged to provide police with after-hour contact numbers, documentation of stolen appliances, and tool serial numbers.
If it can be established that certain houses are at a high risk for victimization, response measures can be concentrated at those locations. For example, the Port St. Lucie (Florida) Police Department determined that houses in the final stages of construction were at a higher risk of burglary and used this information to target police attention.[27]
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The microchip tags used by Celebrity Houses were supplied by tool maker Bosch, whose Safe and Sound tool tracking system is an alternative to the common practice of engraving or marking (O'Malley, 2005).
Some companies have found that hotlines are a cost effective way to control theft.[36] In Northern California, a hotline system that rewards individuals up to $1,000 is funded through membership dues, association contributions, and a grant. In 2003, the system paid out $8,000 in rewards and recovered over $2 million in stolen property.[37]
A survey conducted of ten large U.S. retail companies, which represented almost 50 percent of U.S. stores, found that a hotline with some sort of rewards (for example, cash) was effective in convincing employees to report theft. The survey indicated that successful programs create a supportive environment in which reporting mechanisms and participation incentives are sufficient to encourage employees to report theft or other inappropriate behavior by their coworkers (Scicchitano, Johns, and Blackwood, 2004). See Scicchitano, Johns, and Blackwood (2004) for a summary of the use of toll-free hotlines for reporting dishonesty, techniques for encouraging the use of the hotlines, and recommendations for companies that want to implement hotlines.
The Casey city council in Victoria, Australia initiated a policy that mandated street lighting for construction areas. Prior to the initiative, street lighting was activated when the first occupants moved in, which meant that there was no street lighting during construction in unoccupied areas. The new policy authorized the activation of street lights at the time of the release of each subdivision.[39]
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See Response Guide No. 4 on Video Surveillance of Public Places.
See Problem-Specific Guide No. 5 on False Burglar Alarms.
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According to Shakespeare's Hamlet, ''There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.'' Being a respected author in a position to influence what people think is a huge privilege, but in the general scale of human affairs does one person's opinion count for more than others'? There is always another view that may be equally valid.
I have long admired Hilary Mantel's work, but what was she thinking as she delivered her lecture, entitled "Royal Bodies", at the British Museum? Her subject, as befits Mantel's oeuvre, was the power of the monarchy, from the Tudor period to the present day, with a parade of queens and princesses lined up for assessment on the age-old basis of looks and fertility. All well and good, one would think, until she launched, with surprising vigour, into the defenceless Duchess of Cambridge.
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Hers is a superior view, reflected in her question, ''Is monarchy a suitable institution for a grown-up nation?'' She says she does not know, but the very wording of the question implies that it isn't, and that all the thousands (myself included) who thronged to celebrate the royal wedding and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee are in some way immature.
As for poor Kate, whom tradition denies a voice to respond to criticism, is she really ''a shop window mannequin, with no personality of her own''? This is a young woman who went to excellent schools, secured a place at Scotland's oldest university and graduated with a master's degree in the History of Art. Why, therefore, does Mantel ask, ''What does Kate read? It's a question.'' This is a young woman who, far from having no character or personality, has chosen to take an extraordinary route in life and is making a success of it. If that isn't empowering, what is?
Mantel is correct in assessing the traditional role of a royal wife. Yes, it is to breed heirs, as history shows most graphically. But there is also a ceremonial role, and a charitable one. Queens, princesses and royal duchesses who have shown the gentler face of monarchy have always been popular. Their roles were decorous, symbolic and dynastic, and it is true that not much has changed.
But there is one huge difference between Kate Middleton and the royal brides of past centuries: her marriage was not arranged without her having any say in it. She chose to marry into the institution of monarchy, knowing – how could she not have done, with the example of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, before her? – that she would be expected to play an archaic and often challenging role. That she is doing it to perfection is a tribute to her intelligence and strength of character.
To state that she was ''designed by a committee and built by craftsmen, with a perfect plastic smile and the spindles of her limbs hand-turned and gloss-varnished'' seems particularly unkind. What shines forth from Kate's smile is sincerity and pleasure. She is clearly doing what she wanted to do all along, and enjoys doing. The word ''radiant'' may be hackneyed in royal reportage, but it certainly applies in Kate's case.
Accusing her of having ''no personality of her own'' is unfair, given the constraints imposed on her. And surely no one ''selected [her] for her role of princess because she was irreproachable''. That may have been an issue in Diana's day, but it certainly isn't now. Kate met Prince William at university. They were together for eight years before they married, during which time they spent some time apart and lived together.
It is highly unlikely, in the wake of what happened to Diana, that attempts were made to influence William in his choice of bride. This was clearly a marriage of personal choice – a marriage made for love, plainly evident in the interaction and body language of the couple.
No one could realistically suggest, either, that Kate is ''without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character''. She is a human being like the rest of us, with the usual human frailties. Her character shines forth in her determination not to let those frailties interfere with the role she has taken on. For that, she deserves our respect.
Whether Hilary Mantel likes it or not, both women and men, especially those in the public eye, are defined by what they wear, and they always have been. She cites the examples of the extravagantly dressed Marie Antoinette and Diana, whom others have described as a clothes horse. But royal clothing has always involved far more than looking stunning.
Throughout history, conspicuous display has been the outward manifestation of wealth and power; it was a political tool. In the Tudor period, magnificence was expected of monarchs and those closely related to them. Dress defined rank and was governed by laws restricting the wearing of certain fabrics to royalty and the upper ranks of the aristocracy, reflecting strict demarcations in society itself. In the 18th century, under the ancien regime in France, Marie Antoinette was still expected to dress sumptuously.
Later, since the advent of domesticity in the Victorian monarchy and the modernisation of the royal family since the 1950s, royal clothing has been used to promote the manufacturing and fashion industries. Both Diana and Kate have been flag-bearers for British fashion, immeasurably boosting its profile throughout the world. And Kate, wearing elegant frocks that sell out overnight, has worked wonders for high street fashion too, endorsing the favourite brands of thousands of young women who cannot afford designer clothes.
Young women identify with her. I write as the mother of another Kate of similar age. Their aspirations and pleasures – university, a career, the right man, clothes, holidays, socialising, family – are plainly the same as Kate Middleton's. There is nothing wrong with being ''a nicely brought up young lady, with 'please' and 'thank you' in her vocabulary'', as Mantel says, and there are many of them, unsung heroines in a world in which traditional values are under siege.
But Kate knows more about courtesy than that. In dressing as ''a shop-window mannequin'' – although some would put it more generously – she is not only fuelling demand for her outfits as objects of desire, she is also showing respect for her hosts, the people she meets, her own position as wife to the heir to the throne, and the monarchy itself.
She may be ''as painfully thin as anyone could wish'', but am I being old-fashioned in thinking that this is no one's business but her own? Were she to emerge from her pregnancy some pounds the heavier and with a fuller figure, the fashionistas would swoop to kill.
Like Marie Antoinette, criticised for dressing simply like a shepherdess, Kate can't win. It's bad enough being lambasted for what you wear, but Mantel's criticism of Kate Middleton goes beyond that: it is symptomatic of the regrettable current trend for saying what you think regardless of whom you hurt or offend. And I imagine that the Duchess is hurt by what Mantel has written, which is why I have felt moved to write this article.
It is true, as Mantel says, that ''cheerful curiosity can easily become cruelty''. So can very public comments about a young woman who has done nothing to deserve them.


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>I just purchased a Widex Senso hearing aid for my mom - total cost to >me was $1229.85 Canadian dollars. This included audiogram, ear >impression, 8 batteries, and dispensing fee. It works wonderfully. I am happy for you. >I suspect that the audiologists in the USA are naturally protecting >their turf with the no price discusion rule. It appears that US >customers are paying a much higher dispensing fee. There may be market forces operating in the US that do not operate under the socialism of Canada. Our mailboxes don't blow up, we already fought off the desire to split into two nations, and some parts of our country are actually warm all the time. So What? That doesn't make us better than you, just different. Neither does your socialist medical system make you better than us. For each Senso sold at cost, 5000 Canadians come into the US for their medical care. All things may not be exactly what they appear to be. Michael


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Australia's plain-packaging tobacco law has earned the federal government a nomination in a prestigious international design award.
London's Design Museum announced its contenders for the annual Designs of the Year on Monday, pitting the bland olive cigarette packets from Down Under against contemporary and costly creations from around the globe.
In the graphics category, Australian cigarette packaging commissioned by the Department for Health and Ageing is lauded for its "anti-design".
"Based on consumer studies, the anti-design features a hard-hitting anti-smoking image, with plain text and unappealing colours," reads a blurb on the museum's website about the ciggie packs.
Nominees were chosen by a "distinguished" panel across the areas of architecture, digital, fashion, furniture, graphics, product and transport.
The Australian-made London Games cauldron featured in the product category.
Designed by Heatherwick Studio, the 16-tonne cauldron wowed a global audience as it unfurled like a flower at the Olympic opening ceremony in July last year.
Constructing the cauldron, comprising 204 individual copper petals, was an "extremely complex" task, according to Constantino Manias from the South Australian manufacturer, FCT Flames.
Other nominations include the Windows Phone 8, western Europe's new tallest building The Shard, and a Louis Vuitton collection.
The museum aims to showcase the nominations during an exhibition which opens in March.
Winners from each category, along with an overall winner, will be announced in April.


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The Queen's Guard has treated onlookers to a rendition of the "Game of Thrones" theme song outside of the Buckingham Palace. Travelers gather from throughout world to see the changing of the guards every morning. No doubt "Game of Thrones" fanatics were doubly pleased.
This isn't the first time the Queen has shown her fandom. Last month, the reigning queen of the House of Windsor visited the show's set and saw the Iron Throne, which is the center of the mythical Westeros, with the show's creators, David Benioff and Dan Weiss. For the Brits' sake, we hope the Queen isn't getting her reigning tips from the Lannisters.
The catchy theme song has been subjected to several remakes, including this jazzy lick from the Swamp Donkeys.
Funny man Wil Wheaton did his own rendition of the entire opening scene with a genius hybrid of the HBO series and the "Brady Bunch".
DJ-turned-actor Kristian Nairn will likely showcase his own version of the theme song during his new tour, "Rave of Thrones." Best known for his role as "Hodor," a man of very few words, Nairin will start a six-show DJ tour in Australia at the end of August. The set will showcase "the deepest house from all seven kingdoms," according to a release. With a "Game of Thrones" mandatory dress code, Australia might be briefly plagued with countless Khaleesis, Tyrions, Snows and maybe a White Walker or two.
"Game of Thrones" has had tremendous success, confirmed when it was announced the most popular HBO series of all time, beating out "The Sopranos" for that title. The show earned 19 noms for the upcoming Emmy Awards, including best drama series.
After an explosive season four finale — Tyrion finally obtained revenge on his father, Arya is off on her own and Jon Snow betrayed the wildlings for good — fans await a lively fifth season, which will premiere in spring 2015.


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Three Digital Transformation Truths and One Great Myth
By Charles Araujo
It's conference season and, as you might expect, Jason and I have been on the road covering a bunch of them. It's always great to see what the disruptive players in the market are doing - and this year did not disappoint. But there is one thing that repeatedly happens that just gets under my skin: transformation-washing.
As Jason explained in a Forbes article over a year ago, 'washing' is when a vendor (or pundit) applies a buzzword loosely in an overt attempt to attach themselves to its buzz. And transformation-washing is rampant.
At virtually every event vendors bombarded the attendees with all the reasons that this tool or that solution was the driving force behind digital transformation. Unquestionably, many of these tools are innovative and represent genuine breakthroughs. But no tool, in and of itself, can lay claim to being digital transformation-in-a-bottle.
Ironically, we can trace the roots of this particular cancer to another buzzword-gone-wild: cloud. When cloud first hit the scene, it was a case study on this phenomenon. Every article I read - and indeed every pronouncement from the cloud vendors - talked about cloud as if it was synonymous with digital transformation.
Just move to the cloud, and you have transformed. Easy peasy.
My frustration wasn't in that I disagreed with the transformative potential of the cloud. I have long understood its transformative power. But having spent years helping large enterprise organizations execute transformational initiatives, I knew all too well that no real transformation was ever that one-dimensional.
There are plenty of organizations who have moved to the cloud and have been shockingly effective at transforming absolutely nothing.
Cloud is and always has been a mere tool. A tool that could be a powerful enabler of digital transformation, to be sure, but a tool nonetheless. And the passing of time has not changed this one bit.
The Damaging Effects of Transformation-Washing
None of this, however, has stopped vendors and pundits from gushing on and on about the transformative power of cloud - and now a whole host of technologies that have followed and evolved from that simple starting point.
This isn't, however, just a rant. The consequences are real, and the effects are damaging.
I recently participated in a Facebook Group discussion in which the gathered group of IT professionals were taking turns bashing digital transformation as nothing but vendors' blunt-force marketing weapon against enterprise customers.
I understood their frustration - and share it - but the grave risk is that they are now dismissing the very significant, true nature of digital transformation. And, in so doing, risk leaving their organizations unable to adapt to what is coming.
To avoid that fate, you must understand the three digital transformation truths and beware its one great myth.
The Three Digital Transformation Truths
Let's get this out of the way: digital transformation is a buzzword and, yes, technology vendors have rampantly abused it in pursuit of marketing advantage. I'm not sure if it has delivered their hoped-for marketing results, but the one effect we can be sure of is that they have successfully obscured its meaning.
Real digital transformation - the kind that Intellyx has always talked about - is not about some incremental shift in technology use. It's about a much more fundamental shift in organizational and societal structures. To understand its true nature, therefore, you must understand the three digital transformation truths.
Truth #1: It's a Power Shift
Beginning with the first dot-com era at the turn of the millennium, consumer technology companies burst onto the scene offering an entirely new breed of technology-powered customer experiences. We commonly refer to this as the consumerization of IT.
What most people more commonly miss, however, is that the evolution of easy-to-use consumer-based technologies, combined with their new-found ubiquity began a subtle, but rapid shift of power away from organizations to their customers.
As information became freely and instantly available, organizations lost control of the narrative. They could no longer dictate the terms of the engagement. It is this shift in power that precipitated what we now call the digital disruption of industries as technology upstarts stole long-safe customers by enabling this shift in control.
Truth #2: Transformation Begets New Business and Operating Models
Digital transformation is, essentially, the response to this digital disruption whether it be proactively (in the form of digital upstarts) or reactively (on the part of legacy organizations).
But simply introducing a new technology is not digital transformation. If you look at the organizations disrupting industries, you will find that the underlying technology itself is not necessarily that revolutionary. What is always revolutionary, however, is their business model.
The second digital transformation truth is that true digital transformation always begets new business and operating models. Always.
The shift in power away from organizations and to their customers means that every organization must reorient its business and operating models to respond to this new world order. A digital 'transformation' that is not driven by this transformation of business and operating models is just window dressing.
Truth #3: Transformation Drives Organizational Change
The shift in power to the customer - what we call the primacy of the customer - and the establishment of new business and operating models then leads inexorably to the final truth: digital transformation must drive organizational change.
The natural outcome - the only outcome - of this power-shift and creation of new operating models is a fundamental transformation of the organization itself. It will take many forms, but organizations will transform themselves along organizational, structural and cultural dimensions in order to achieve customer-centricity and to enact their new business models.
At a minimum, this will lead to the breaking down of organizational silos, the pushing of decision making deeper into the organization, the adoption of self-organization principles and the flattening of hierarchies.
But regardless of form, organizations must execute this type of fundamental transformation to stay relevant.
This digital transformation tsunami will spare no industry and no organization - no matter how large or established. Only those organizations who acknowledge and respect the shift in power and then relentlessly reorganize and restructure themselves around serving their customers will survive.
The Great Digital Transformation Myth
As you absorb these truths, however, you must guard against the one great digital transformation myth. Ironically, it has to do with the transformative power of modern technology.
The myth - the refrain I most often hear from heels-dug-in IT professionals - is that this is nothing new. They smugly claim that IT professionals have been applying technology to solve business problems and, as a result, transforming the business, from the very beginning. To their ears, all this digital transformation talk is just marketing hype to describe business-as-usual.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
For most of our history, we applied technology to automate existing business processes. Some refinement and even re-engineering occurred as a result, but we were applying technology to what already existed.
Today's emerging technologies are astoundingly different. They are overturning long-held architectural models and embedding technology deep into the fabric of the organization, leaving paradigm shifts in their wake. It is, in fact, the emergence of these new technologies that are enabling the new customer-centric business models that are at the heart of digital transformation.
The Intellyx Take
There may be only one thing worse than buying into all the hype surrounding digital transformation: ignoring it.
The true essence of digital transformation is unsettling. Scary even. It represents an upturning of what governs most of our day-to-day existence. And because we're making this future up as we go, no one can say with any credibility that they know how this will all turn out.
But simply dismissing all of it as mere hype and carrying on as if nothing is changing is pure folly. You must accept that digital transformation, in all of its hype-laden glory, is real and will impact you, your organization, your children and everyone and everything you know. And it will happen sooner than you think.
Copyright © Intellyx LLC. Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, none of the organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. Image credit: pittaya.
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The platform combines the strengths of Singtel's extensive, intelligent network capabilities with Microsoft's cloud expertise to create a unique solution that sets new standards for IoT applications," said Mr Diomedes Kastanis, Head of IoT at Singtel. "Our solution provides speed, transparency and flexibility, paving the way for a more pervasive use of IoT to accelerate enterprises' digitalisation efforts. AI-powered intelligent connectivity over Microsoft Azure will be the fastest connected path for IoT innovators to scale globally, and the smartest path to cross-device synergy in an instrumented, connected world.
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this seemed very strange, do you know what he was reffering to or is this just false?!
// zoomkat 10-22-11 serial servo test// type servo position 0 to 180 in serial monitor// or for writeMicroseconds, use a value like 1500// for IDE 0022 and later// Powering a servo from the arduino usually *DOES NOT WORK*.String readString;#include <Servo.h> Servo myservo; // create servo object to control a servo void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); myservo.writeMicroseconds(1500); //set initial servo position if desired myservo.attach(7); //the pin for the servo control Serial.println("servo-test-22-dual-input"); // so I can keep track of what is loaded}void loop() { while (Serial.available()) { char c = Serial.read(); //gets one byte from serial buffer readString += c; //makes the string readString delay(2); //slow looping to allow buffer to fill with next character } if (readString.length() >0) { Serial.println(readString); //so you can see the captured string int n = readString.toInt(); //convert readString into a number // auto select appropriate value, copied from someone elses code. if(n >= 500) { Serial.print("writing Microseconds: "); Serial.println(n); myservo.writeMicroseconds(n); } else { Serial.print("writing Angle: "); Serial.println(n); myservo.write(n); } readString=""; //empty for next input } }
i have spoken to someone on an rc shop techline and he said maybe i was sending a digital signal instead of an analog one. But am i write to think PWM is analog?


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In 2011, F. Anne Stephenson became an associate editor for the Journal of Biological Chemistry after serving as an editorial board member for more than eight years. Stephenson is a molecular neuroscientist at the University College London, where she was appointed a professor in 1995. Her research focuses on fast-acting neurotransmitter receptors and the associated scaffolding and trafficking proteins. Stephenson has served on the British Neuroscience Association Committee and the Neurochemical Group of the Biochemical Society. She is a member of the Medical Research Council's College of Experts and recently completed a four-year term on the Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences Committee of the Wellcome Trust. Stephenson spoke with ASBMB Today about her research interests, her thoughts on the JBC, and her perspective on life. Below are edited excerpts from the interview.
Tell us what your group works on. We're interested in neurotransmission. When people were studying neurotransmitter receptors in the early days, they thought there was just one type of every neurotransmitter receptor. When molecular cloning came about, it became clear that there were families of receptors for each neurotransmitter molecule. We study two different families, NMDA and GABA receptors. Both receptor families are implicated in many neurodegenerative disorders. The aim of my laboratory for a long time was to determine the complexity of these receptors. We developed sequence-specific antibodies to distinguish between these very highly related proteins so that we could study their distribution and functional properties. That's how we started to study the scaffolding proteins, which are cytoplasmic proteins involved in the clustering and targeting of neurotransmitter receptors to the right place of neurons. We discovered [for example] the trafficking kinesin family of scaffolding proteins. TRAK proteins form a link between motor proteins and their cargoes and are involved in the mitochondrial transport in neurons. We're also studying interactions between NMDA receptors and the protein amyloid precursor protein that's implicated in Alzheimer's disease.
What has been your career trajectory? I started out at Cambridge University, where I got a degree in natural sciences, which gives you a very broad scientific education. I went to do either physics or chemistry, but Cambridge was very male-dominated. I remember going to physics classes where I would be the only girl. I lost interest. In the second year, I took up biochemistry and really loved it. The molecular aspects appealed to me, and it seemed to be more relevant because you could see the clinical applications. I still graduated in chemistry, but I did that one year of biochemistry.
After leaving Cambridge, I earned a master's degree in neurochemistry [at the University of London]. I had absolutely no idea that I was going to go into research, but I just loved my laboratory work. I then did a Ph.D. at the University of Bath in the U.K., where I studied the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor at the neuromuscular junction and its role in an autoimmune disease called myasthenia gravis. I next went to the United States [in the early 1980s] to Richard Olsen's lab, which, at the time, was at the University of California, Riverside, but is now at [University of California, Los Angeles]. I wasn't there for very long, but I started to work on GABA receptors. Going to America was a big thing for me in those days. It introduced me to American science.
I went back to the U.K., got a fellowship from the Medical Research Council and joined Professor Eric Barnard. He was then at Imperial College in London. I carried on with GABA receptors. At the time, molecular biology was really starting to have an impact on neuroscience. Eric Barnard led that field in the U.K. I was very fortunate to get another fellowship [in 1983] from the Royal Society, which is analogous to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. They had a scheme to try to hold onto young scientists by giving them quite long fellowships. The first year that the fellowships were announced, Professor Barnard put my name forward, and I was very lucky to get one of those. I held it for eight years. Although I was working under [Barnard's] big umbrella, I still had some independence, because I had my own salary.
I got my position at the School of Pharmacy [at the University of London in 1989] and set up my own lab. My lab still had the very old-fashioned huge teak benches, which I had to scrub down with help from Mike Duggan, my first postdoc! I then got some refurbished space, and I am still in that space now.
What role has the JBC played in your career? I have published a lot of papers in JBC, and it was always my first choice for publishing biochemistry papers. Publishing in JBC helps get your message across to a broad audience. I was so pleased to be invited to be an associate editor. I hold the journal in such high regard. But I did take some persuading. Marty [Fedor, JBC's editor-in-chief] told me: "It's your chance to give something back to the community."
What are your hobbies? I like sports a lot. I like to play tennis. I run and ski. I love hiking in the hills. The best hikes I've done were in Italy and New Zealand.
What is your motto in life? Work hard; play hard. No really, I believe that. As I've gotten older, the playing has gotten a bit more difficult! But for sure, when I was working with Eric Barnard in London, we just had a fantastic time. We were a group of young people who all worked hard and enjoyed science, but we played hard as well. I'm not sure if that happens as much now. When I look at the Ph.D. students now, I don't think there is as much fun around. There's much more pressure.
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One of the most popular iOS games amongst Giz editors is Words With Friends, but Android owners such as myself have been missing out on the Scrabble-like fun. But not for much longer!
AndroidCentral received word from some of its users, who'd been sent an email from the developer saying, "We've since hired a team to develop an Android Version. They're actively at work on it at the moment and are getting close to being done, so not too much longer!"
According to the developer, their "goal is that it will be compatible with the iOS version from day one". Be scared, my Gizmodo friends, be very scared. [AndroidCentral]


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Earl's '56 F-100
Earl Higgins cut his teeth as a youngster hanging around his father's body shop watching the guys sling lead and apply paint, eventually lending a hand around the shop and learning the trade. But life as a bodyman was not to be and Earl ended up running his own heavy equipment company working as a grading contractor on various construction sites around the Southern California basin. This line of work often led him to areas less traveled where the random dilapidated car sat, having been neglected for years.
On one such job site, Earl was tasked to cut a road for the construction crew near an old farm where the elder resident himself was working on clearing an area of his land. Every day to and from work Earl saw the farmer struggling to clear the brush, shrubs, and debris from the property until one day when he decided to step in and offer the man a bit of his assistance. If he still needed to clear the land when they were finished with the job site, Earl offered, he'd bring his tractor 'round and help the man out.
Making good on his word, a few days later the road was cut and he trekked back down to the farmer's house where that afternoon while clearing the land, Earl spotted an old truck out behind the barn. Upon closer inspection it turned out to be rather rough and looked like it'd been sitting for many years, but there was no mistaking the classic bulbous fenders, cab, and hood and that floating grille. The truck was a '56 Ford F-100 that the farmer had parked on the back forty many years ago when it's Y-block engine most likely took a turn for the worse. Earl offered to buy the old custom cab and the farmer, having just had what would have been week's worth of work done in a matter of minutes by Earl's tractor, happily took him up on his offer.
Once home, Earl began to tear into the F-100 with childish glee, but under all that dirt and debris from the years at the farm, sat the sheetmetal of a well worn pickup. With his background at the body shop coming back to him, Earl knew he had many hours of blocking, hammering, and leading to get the panels all back to a state that he'd be pleased with but first he needed to address the underpinnings, namely the drivetrain, and suspension.
He started with the stock chassis, replete of any sheetmetal components, and began by boxing the rails. A Volare clip was installed up front replacing the original straight-axle, parallel leaf springs, and drum brakes with independent suspension sprung on coil springs and disc brakes. A '77 Lincoln Versailles rearend was installed out back on parallel leaf springs to handle the horsepower from the 351-inch Ford that Earl had rebuilt with an Americam regrind, a Holley intake, and carb. The block was completely deburred and detailed before he sprayed it in Ford blue and dressed the setup in polished aluminum and chrome. Behind the Ford powerplant sits a similarly detailed C6 transmission. Steering duties come by way of a '76 Chevy van tilt column mated to a power box.
With the mechanical side of things sorted, Earl quickly turned his attention to the aesthetics, working the body and sheetmetal down to bare metal before beginning the arduous task of straightening the well-worn panels. Using his earlier experience at his father's body shop, Earl metal finished the entire truck using lead instead of Bondo before applying primer and sealer and finally, a custom mixed PPG red hue aptly named Higgins Red. Many basecoats and even more coats of clear were sprayed in Earl's Glendora, California garage before the buffer was brought out and the bright red finish polished to a glass-like luster.
Once the paint was cut and buffed, Earl installed the glass and hand-distressed oak bed wood and wired up the original gauge cluster and iPod stereo system before moving on to the interior appointments, one of the only things not done in his garage. The cream leather and wool upholstery was handled by Covina-based trimmer Frankco, who wrapped the bench seat, door panels, headliner, and kick panels. While the stock gas tank was retained behind the seat, Earl had Frankco build a custom leather-wrapped panel to cover it, further finishing off the confines of the classic cockpit.


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Among the key disclosures during the on-going gun control debate is the amazing lack of historical knowledge of the Constitution ("Obama pledges fight for gun laws," Jan. 17). When apparently well-educated political leaders such as Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York argue that constitutional gun rights were to protect hunting and Rep. John Lewis of Georgia states that they were conceived to defend against foreign invasion, it reveals some serious gaps in American education.
Founding fathers as politically diverse as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson stated clearly that armed self-defense under the Second Amendment was to warn corruptible rulers of their limits. Rulers are no less corruptible than any of us ordinary citizens — perhaps more so given their power. Modern tyrants are far more efficient than any in the days of the founding fathers.
When the current administration, for example, carries out its program of religious cleansing of historic Christianity from business, family law, humanitarian and medical services, it only serves to heighten suspicions that other motives may well lie behind calls for yet more gun controls. Rulers still need reminders that their power is not absolute.
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The skin is a very remarkable organ in the human body. Although it often goes unnoticed, it performs a variety of jobs. It is the vital protective wrapping for all of the body's structures. As it covers bones, muscles, blood vessels and internal organs it helps maintain body temperature and hydration. Through the sweat mechanism, it also plays a role in the maintenance of the salt balance in the body. Pigment production helps defend the body from harmful sunburn.
The intact skin barrier prevents infection by bacteria, parasites, fungi, and other invaders. The sensitive nerve endings on the skin give essential signals to the brain about the environment such as temperature, humidity, and texture. Proper care of the skin is essential to the health and comfort of all of us, but because immature skin is thin and vulnerable, infants and babies need it the most.
Newborn Infants
Very young infants have very delicate skin. Preemies have paper-thin skin that breaks down from the slightest friction. Full-term newborns have skin that is less than 1/3rd the thickness of that of an adult. This means that it is more prone to sunburn, irritation in the diaper area and other rashes. There are different skin types which are determined by the types of skin that the parents have. Babies with darker hair and complexions are less delicate than blond or red-haired infants.
Sun Protection
All newborns must be kept in the shade on sunny days, this means long sleeves, covered legs, and feet or a good umbrella. Sunscreens are not effective on such thin skin.
In the newborn period, there are often marks on the skin. If these birthmarks appear blue or red they are caused by clusters of blood vessels in the skin. The most common red ones are on the eyelids and nose and lips and the back of the head. These are called flame nevi. They are usually gone by the first birthday. The ones identified as "strawberry hemangiomas" can often be prevented from growing thicker and larger by massaging the mark several times a day. If they are very large or if they cover the eyes they need medical attention. Laser treatment is often therapeutic. Brown or tan marks are caused by pigments in the skin. These do not always appear at birth, but once they appear they are usually permanent. Light ones never need to be removed. Very dark tones that are also large must be monitored as the baby grows. Some of them will have to be removed in adolescence.
Newborn skin problems
The most common skin problems in newborns are diaper rashes, baby acne, and cradle cap.
Diaper rash
Newborns have frequent and loose bowel movements that can easily irritate their skin. Soiled diapers should be changed as soon as they are detected. (Urine alone is rarely irritating because of the new gel technology in disposable diapers.) If a baby soils his diaper during sleep or is inadvertently left in a soiled diaper too long, the skin can become red. This contact rash can be both prevented and treated by using a barrier to keep the skin from being further irritated while it is healing. After a bowel movement, the skin should always be cleaned by either a little water or lotion on a tissue or baby wipes. Very sensitive skin can be irritated by the chemicals in the wipes or even the chemicals in the diaper. When this happens, changing brands often helps.
In baby boys, a cornstarch based powder applied to the area before closing the diaper works very well. In girl babies, using powder is not a good idea. The powder gets inside the genital area and can cause a problem. A cream is needed. Most barrier creams have either a white zinc oxide base or a clear petroleum jelly base. All of these provide protection but some seem to work better than others. Do not use Desitin in girl babies because there is powder mixed into the cream. If the treatment is not effective and the diaper rash develops pimples or dots or if the skin breaks down, a doctor should be consulted. Sometimes a medicated cream is needed.
Baby acne
Baby acne appears on the baby's face at around one month of age. It is not really acne but it looks like it. This pimply red rash usually goes away on it's own over time. The use of an antifungal cream such as Spectazole will sometimes be needed in very severe cases to get rid of the yeast (not the one that causes thrush) that causes this common problem.
Cradle cap is the accumulation of a greasy scaly substance on the scalp and forehead. The old fashioned method of applying oil or Vaseline to the scales and scrubbing it off an hour later with a washcloth and baby shampoo works well. A comb can be used to scrape the oiled scales off gently. If the problem is persistent, dandruff shampoos can be used. The scales are sometimes invaded by the same yeast as the baby acne and using anti-fungal shampoo can help. Occasionally, the application of 1% hydrocortisone cream is needed.
The question of how often to bathe a newborn and what to use for soap often comes up. It is generally felt that too much bathing can dry the skin and cause cracking and peeling. Most of the time, 2–3 baths a week are enough for a newborn. The soap used should be fatty, like unscented Dove. The "baby bath" liquids are not really good for the skin. After bathing and wrapping and patting (not rubbing) the skin with a towel, a lotion could be applied while the skin is still a little damp. This traps the water back into the outer layers of the skin. Sensitive skin needs unscented and uncolored lotion. One of the best moisturizers for very dry skin is Vanicream applied after the bath. Applying oil all over the skin is not a good idea since many babies break out from the occlusion of the pores.
Avoiding overdressing
It is very important that infants should be dressed or undressed appropriately for the weather. Overheating and overwrapping can really be harmful to the baby. Always dress the baby in about the same level of warmth that you need yourself. If your little baby is sweating you have probably overdressed him.
Older Babies
After the first 3 months of life the baby's skin is less delicate but there are certain problems that become more evident. The most common ones are eczema and chronic diaper rashes.
Eczema is an itchy rash that appears as patches of reddened skin which is dry and breaks down. The cause is not always known, but 70% of the time it is an allergy to a particular food in the child's diet. The most common foods that can cause eczema are cow's milk, egg whites, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, and fish. Infant formulas are based on either milk or soy. Breast milk sometimes exposes babies to all of the foods in the mother's diet. Changing the type of formula, or altering the diet of the baby or the breastfeeding mother to remove all or some of the foods often clears up eczema. Once a problem food is identified it should be stopped for about 6 months and then tried again. Most food allergies disappear by that time.
There are differing opinions as to how to treat eczema. The "dry" method advises little or no contact with water and the application of Cetaphil lotion to clean the skin. The "wet" method is to use water to soften the skin and then to apply moisturizer. One of the most effective "wet" methods of treating dry skin with eczema is to give daily 20 minute baths followed by the application of Vanicream while the skin is still damp. Any area that is particularly red or itchy is rubbed with 1% hydrocortisone ointment 2–3 times a day until it improves. If eczema starts to weep and crust, an antibiotic ointment may be needed. Eczema that is more severe needs to be treated by a physician.
Chronic diaper rashes
Most diaper rashes are caused by contact sensitivities. Those that do not clear up with barrier creams and powders are invaded by the yeast called Monilia. Yeasts love to grow in moist skin so the most vulnerable areas are the diaper area and the places where skin folds on the skin, such as the chubby creases in the groin and under the chin. Monilial rashes usually have solid red areas with satellite dots in the periphery. Powder helps to keep these creases dry, but often a medicated cream is needed. Clotrimazole is very effective in most cases.
If the baby's stools are very loose and the diaper area is red, sometimes a probiotic, such as Culturelle, ½ capsule once a day or Florastor one packet 2x a day, will improve the stools and help to clear up the rash.
Any rash that does not improve with these basic measures should be checked by a physician.
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Southern California Cricket Association Supports ACF
ACF Media Release
The American Cricket Federation (ACF) announced today that it had received a letter of support from Los Angeles based Southern California Cricket Association (SCCA).
Founded in 1935, SCCA is the biggest cricket league on USA's west coast, comprising 48 teams playing in five divisions. SCCA teams are spread over a wide geographic area stretching from Santa Barbara in the north to San Diego in the south, and from Long Beach on the west to San Bernardino on the east.
According to the ACF press release, SCCA has offered to "work with [ACF] to build an organization that is accountable to the sport's many stakeholders and is capable of growing the sport by attracting players, clubs, leagues, fans and investors."
With the latest expression of support, the number of hardball leagues that have expressed support of ACF has now reached twelve. ACF noted that the supporting hard-ball leagues account for over 380 teams or clubs. More leagues and organizations were expected to send their expressions of support in the coming days, according to the press release.
In August, ACF announced that it had received letters of support from Eastern American Cricket Association, Cricket League of New Jersey, Washington Metropolitan Cricket Board, Commonwealth Cricket League of New York, Florida Cricket Conference, Michigan Cricket Association, Minnesota Cricket Association, Midwest Cricket Conference, American Cricket Conference, NorthWest Cricket League and Southern Connecticut Cricket Association.
ACF has welcomed the support of all organizations involved in promoting cricket, including soft ball cricket leagues and non-league organizations involved in promoting cricket. According to ACF, three such organizations – NJ Softball Cricket League, CC Morris Cricket Library and Philadelphia International Cricket Festival, have already expressed support of ACF.
ACF is presenting its first national T20 tournament over the Columbus Day weekend in LA. The tournament is being hosted by SCCA and among the participating teams are those that have already expressed support of ACF's mission. ACF noted in its press release that a draft strategic plan outlining specific activities to be undertaken in the near-term is also under deliberation.