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"We can't believe he was still available" and other loads of bull you'll hear from the NHL draft
T-minus 12 hours or so before the the first pick of the NHL draft commences. Nobody will be surprised when Steve Stamkos goes to the Lightning, and other teams in the top 5 make their picks.
After that, there will be plenty of "stunned" and "shocked" teams that couldn't believe their good fortune that Player X was still available.
The Avalanche has been right up there with the best over the years in this department. Judging from all the wonderful things they said about their top picks over the years, you'd think some of them are just rounding out their Hall of Fame careers right about now.
Just for giggles and grins, I went back and dug up the stories from draft days past, to see what was actually said about many of the Avs' top picks.
2002, Jonas Johansson, first round, 28th overall
What was said: ""We certainly had him rated pretty high," Avalanche chief scout Jim Hammett said. "We're expecting big things from him. He has very good hockey sense. That's something you can't teach."
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I'm glad to announce that the date is set and venue reserved for our 14th Code Camp, a free, full day of knowledge sharing and networking! (What is a Code Camp?)
New England Code Camp 14
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
201 Jones Road, 6th floor
Waltham, MA
Registration and Calls for Speakers and Sponsors will be coming later, but in the meantime, mark your calendar and get ready to join hundreds of your fellow developers for this great community event!
Organization and Thanks
Special thanks to Patrick Hynds for stepping up to volunteer to help lead the organization of this event! Many of you know Patrick, as he has been a long time supporter of the community (and among many other things, is a Microsoft Regional Director here in the northeast), so it's fantastic to have him involved.
Stay tuned for other details and opportunities for you to participate.


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An estimated 10,000 pounds of marijuana was found hidden behind what appeared to be boxes of Barbie toys piled up in a tractor trailer Thursday evening, according to San Bernardino police.
The packaged weed was seized from a truck depot in San Bernardino around 7 p.m., police said.
The marijuana was packed in unmarked cardboard boxes that were hidden behind decoy boxes that appeared to contain "Barbie Sisters Camper" toys. Police had been working on an investigation that led them to the truck depot, and upon arrival, discovered the suspicious looking truck.
Police suspect that the marijuana was not grown in the United States. Lt. Travis Walker said that the truck was likely dropped to the undisclosed location, and was unaware of whether that was its final destination.
No arrests have been made but police say they have a lead on the suspects.


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Lonely Guy: Nobody Here But Me by Judith Viorst
My mom's making phone calls.
My dad's doing e-mail.
My sister's upstairs with a friend. They're playing great games. But the games are for two, not three.
So, even though there are four other people right here in this house, it's just as if there's nobody here but me.
It's four o'clock in the afternoon, and the kid is at loose ends. His parents are too busy even to multitask with him, and his sister Katie makes it clear there's no room for a little brother at her board game. He's on his own for a little while, and he's definitely NOT where he wants to be--the center of everyone's attention!
He tries coloring pictures solo, and even paints an artistic heart on the wall, announcing the proceedings out loud as he goes, but Mom keeps talking to Grandma. He tries out his scissors on his jeans and his hair and the fringe on the rug, but Dad determinedly keeps at the keyboard. Then he decides to make himself a snack:
I'm making a sandwich. I'm making a fruit drink. I'm making a chocolate dessert. And I'm turning our kitchen into a catastrophe (that's a really big mess!). But is someone, ANYONE, rushing in with the sponges and mops?
Uh uh. It's just as if there's nobody here but me.
The kid tries pestering, a bit of whining, and a run at negotiation.
--"Hey, Mom! Hello! Hell-oh? Can you hear me?"
--"Sorry, but I don't want to hear you right now!"
--"Hey, Dad! Hello! Hell-oh? Can I ask you. . . "
--"Sorry, but I don't want you asking right now!"
--"Hey, Katie! Couldn't you, just this once . . ."
--"I couldn't. Why don't you get a friend to play with?"
Sometimes there's nothing left for a kid to do but find a sulking place. The basement seems promising. There are lots of big, empty boxes to sit in down there, and it's pretty dark, and it's a good place to hide, and . . . . Trouble is, it's also kinda spooky and getting really dark down there, and besides, nobody is even looking for his hiding place.
Maybe what this family needs is some dramatics.
--"Hurry, Katie! There's a giant bird with wide dark wings and it's flapping this wings outside the bedroom window."
--"There isn't."
--"There is. I know there is. There absolutely is."
--Then why don't you climb on its back and fly away?"
Out of ploys to get attention, the boy decides there's only one dramatic gesture left for him: he puts on his p.j.'s and puts himself to bed at 5:00 p.m. Just as he seems to be dozing off, everybody finishes with their afternoon activities and comes looking for him.
--"I'm done with my phone calls. We could bake a dessert for our supper."
--"I'm done with my e-mails. We could ride our bikes before supper."
--"My friend went home. We could work on the jigsaw puzzle till supper."
--"ZZZ ZZZ! I'm in no hurry to open my eyes.
--It serves them right! But I'm glad I'm just making believe!"
But even a determined faux sleeper can't resist a group tickle, especially when the mock snoozer has his chance to be the center of everyone's attention at last!
Judith Viorst, author of such definitive childhood stories as Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, proves that she hasn't lost her chops in nailing the workings of a child's mind in her newest, Nobody Here but Me. Fortunately for our protagonist, Viorst thankfully drops the veil of suspended disbelief upon the mess left behind our kid's lonely hour, leaving us a final page showing a believable family sharing a good giggle together. Illustrator Christine Davenier's art portrays just the right touch of pathos and peskiness in Viorst's character in this delightful new picture book from an old master.
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BALTIMORE – Three pool records fell and 21 different Retriever athletes earned at least one dual meet win as the UMBC swimming and diving teams swept Howard, Saturday afternoon at the UMBC Aquatic Complex.
The UMBC men's team picked up a 110-95 win over the Bison to improve to 4-1 in dual meets this season while the women were victorious, 101-86, to move their record to 3-2.
Senior Mohamed Hussein had another big day, breaking his own pool record in the 200 IM (1:51.07) and aiding the 200 medley (1:32.44) and 200 free (1:23.70) relays to set new marks. Hussein led off for the medley relay, handing it over to sophomore Leo Endres (Bamberg, Germany/Kaiser Heinrich Gymnasium), junior Lauri Kaei (Harjumaa, Estonia/Tallinn Secondary Science), and freshman Gregor Sporlein (Bamberg, Germany/Calvius-Gymnasium). Then, fresh off of his 200 IM record, Hussein swam the anchor leg to cap the record for Sporlein, Kaei, and senior Evan Carey (Ponte Vedra, Fla./Grand Island) in the 200 free race.
Each of the members of 200 free relay also won an individual event with Carey taking the 50 free (21.55), Kaei winning the 200 free (1:42.42), and Sporlein capturing the 100 butterfly (52.09).
Swimming in their final career home dual meet, seniors Reed Neuendorf (Blauvelt, N.Y./Tappan Zee) and Kevin Stang (Allentown, Pa./Parkland) won the 1,000 free (9:51.45) and 500 free (4:52.22) races, respectively.
Senior Johan Rohtla (Tallinn, Estonia/Tallinn Secondary Science) also earned a win in his final meet at UMBC, claiming the top spot in the 200 back with a season-best time of 1:50.40.
On the diving boards, reigning CCSA Diver of the Week junior Ryan Green (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) swept the two competitions, scoring 286.27 in the one-meter event and setting a personal-best of 317.25 on the three-meter board.
For the women, the Retrievers swept the relays with senior Talor Tadena (Orangevale, Calif./Bella Vista) anchoring both victories. Tadena also won the 100 breast (1:06.83) and 200 IM (2:13.20) to move her season total up to nine dual meet wins.
Classmate Patty Hallberg (Severna Park, Md./Broadneck) also claimed a win, touching the wall first in the 200 back with a top season time of 2:11.83.
Swimming for the first time with the Retrievers, sophomore Stephanie Romano (Arlington, Va./Yorktown/Towson) won both distance freestyle events. Romano touched in at 10:33.90 in the 1,000 free and then earned the 500 free title with a time of 5:12.14.
Sophomore diver Corinna Darelius (Rye, N.Y./Rye) placed first in both competitions for the Retrievers. Darelius took the three-meter event for the third time this season with a season-best score of 272.47 after winning the one-meter competition (237.67) earlier.
UMBC now has a week off from competition before finishing its dual meet season with a trip south the take on East Carolina on Jan. 25 in Greenville, N.C.


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Sublime Text 2 Todo Manager
Sourcecode: github.com/tanepiper/sublime-todomanager
Sublime Text 2 forum thread: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4491
Release: 1.1.4
Author: Tane Piper
Is available via the package manager for install.
Commands available through the command palate are:
- Todo: Add/Add at Line/Add at Function
- Todo: List All/Active/Done
- Todo: Open file
- Todo: Purge
All have keybindings for Windows, Mac and Linux (untested).
Adding a todo
Adding a todo is done in one simple way, but provides two convenience functions to speed up input.
The first way is to just add a todo
(Ctrl+Alt+t, Ctrl+Alt+a) - this takes you through the following steps
- Select a piority from A-D, or none
- Enter the task text
- Enter the line number `~' of the todo
- Enter the function name '&' of the todo
- Enter any projects entries
+as space seperated entries
- Enter any contexts entries
@as space seperated entries
The line will then be appended to the bottom of the list. The two additional functions are Add-at-line
(Ctrl+Alt+t,Ctrl+Alt+s) and Add-at-function
(Ctrl+Alt+t,Ctrl+Alt+f) which autofill the lines or function box depending on which is selected. The function name is always the block of code you are in.
Viewing and filtering todos
Viewing todos is done throw the List All
(Ctrl+Alt+t,Ctrl+Alt+j), Active
(Ctrl+Alt+T,Ctrl+Alt+l) and Done
(Ctrl+Alt+t,Ctrl+Alt+k) commands.
When you view a list, you can navigate up and down the items. Pressing enter on any item will present the item
menu, with the following options
- Toggle done status - Change the todo display from active to done, or vice-versa
- Edit - Edit the todo in raw mode, a text box with the full todo item
- Move - Move the item up or down the list, you will be presented with Up or Down options
- Delete - Delete the item from the list, you will be asked to confirm this
To filter items, when you have a list open the command palate allows further keypresses. For example if you have the line:
- (A) Finish off refactoring ~45 +MyProject @refactor @release
If you wanted to find this item by it's line number you would type
~45 and the list will be filtered to display only
this item, or all items with a
~45 next to them.
Purge done items and opening files
Purging done items
(Ctrl+Alt+t,Ctrl+Alt+p) removes all done items from the todo file. You will be asked before you want to do this.
Opening the file
(Ctrl+Alt+t,Ctrl+Alt+o) opens the file as a plain text file to be edited in Sublime Text 2
File location
In the settings file, you can change the
todo_home option, currently set to none. This is the location you
wish to save the files - it might be somewhere like a dropbox folder.
The default folder is
Files are kept in the name format 'todo-.txt' base on the current active file - this means you have a todo per file. If you want the contents of the todo file, it's best to just open it via the command.
Future features
- UI for changing priority
- Search over todo file contents
- List all todo files
- Provide way to mark source with todo information


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Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of
Logan County
Authors to speak Wednesday and Thursday at Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Museum
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[January 12, 2013]
SPRINGFIELD -- Authors Michael
Lind and David Von Drehle will speak and sign copies of their books
next week at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum.
Who: Author Michael Lind, co-founder of New America
What: Lind will discuss his book "Land of Promise: An
Economic History of the United States" and sign copies. "Land of
Promise" examines two competing philosophies through the years: a
small-government approach that defers to the private sector versus
an active government aggressively trying to stimulate the economy.
Where: Union Theater, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum,
212 N. Sixth St., Springfield
When: Wednesday, Jan. 16. Lind will sign books at 6:30 p.m.
and speak at 7. He will also take part in a "Teacher Talks" session
with educators at 5:30 at the presidential library.
David Von Drehle will sign copies of "Rise to Greatness" on
Thursday and discuss the key year of 1862.
Who: Journalist and best-selling author David Von Drehle
What: Drehle will discuss his book "Rise to Greatness:
Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year" and sign copies.
The book explores 1862, when Civil War violence reached new heights,
Lincoln lost a son and searched for a competent general, and
Congress looked to the future by authorizing a transcontinental
railroad and land-grant universities.
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Where: Union Theater, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum,
212 N. Sixth St., Springfield.
When: Thursday, Jan. 17. Von Drehle will sign books at 6:30
p.m. and speak at 7. He will also take part in a "Teacher Talks"
session with educators at 5:30 p.m. at the presidential library.
The author events Thursday and Friday are free but require
reservations, which can be made by calling 217-558-8934. The
museum's store and exhibits will be open during the events.
www.presidentlincoln.org for more information about exhibits,
events and programs at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
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|風花早雪 Kazahana Sōsetsu
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Sōsetsu Kazahana (風花早雪, Kazahana Sōsetsu) was the previous daimyō of the Land of Snow and the father of Koyuki Kazahana.
Sōsetsu used to tell his daughter about the beauty of the spring season, and that she would one day see it, in the Land of Snow, where it was forever winter. To this end, he created a generator to warm the climate and when it is done the Spring will come in the Land of Snow. This generator is considered to be the Kazahana treasure, and is activated by a hexagonal crystal, which is considered the key.
Sōsetsu lived in the beautiful Kazahana Castle until his brother, Dotō Kazahana, burnt it down, which killed everyone inside, and forcefully took control over the Land of Snow and for the treasure (which Dotō had no idea what it was), leaving Koyuki the only survivor and escaping with the hexagonal crystal.
By all indications Sōsetsu was a kind man, a loving father as well as a benevolent ruler, with many of his subjects still loyal to him many years after his death. His goal was to bring spring to his country, even though building the generator needed for this nearly bankrupted the country.
Sōsetsu had long, receding black and large black eyes. He wore a pair of circular-framed glasses and a daimyō uniform.
Sōsetsu's death would scar Koyuki for the next ten years, leading her to become cold and uncaring, putting emotions forward only as an act, as well as referring his dreams about spring to be a lie, all until the generator was activated to create the spring season, much to Koyuki's delight and Dotō's fury (the latter was angry at the treasure being a mere generator). Sōsetsu's death led Sandayū Asama to develop a grudge against Dotō, and tried to get revenge against the latter but unfortunately ultimately failed.
- "Kazahana" means "snowflake" while "Sōsetsu" means "early snow".


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Samsung Mulled Using Google to Attack Apple
Samsung's U.S. mobile executives debated using Google a proxy to attack Apple in a marketing campaign because it felt constrained in going directly after the iPhone maker, a large customer of its components businesses.
Under the subject heading "Use Google to attack Apple?" Samsung executives exchanged emails a week before Apple's introduction of the iPhone 4S in Oct. 2011. Apple introduced the emails as evidence to dispute Samsung's claim that successful marketing and superior hardware helped drive its market share gains. The two companies are squaring off in U.S. district court in San Jose, Calif., in the latest round of their long-running patent feud.
The emails reflect a reality of the global technology landscape where the distinction between ally and enemy can change quickly. Apple is a major customer for Samsung's chip and display businesses, but a bitter rival in smartphones. Google and Apple were once close with Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt sitting on Apple's board. But the two are now battling head to head for smartphone software dominance.
In a sign of their intensifying competition, Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs declared that it needed to wage a "holy war" against Google in a separate email introduced earlier in the trial.
Michael Pennington, the former vice president of sales operations for Samsung's U.S. mobile division, suggested that it should turn to Google in order to attack Apple because it can't go after Apple directly:
As you have shared previously, we are unable to battle them directly in our marketing. If it continues to be Samsung's position to avoid attacking Apple due to their status as a large customer, can we go to Google and ask them to launch a campaign against Apple, based on the many better Android options in the market for Q4.
He added:
Seems Google should be asked to carry their own weight in this battle. However, we could arrange a co-op arrangement for them if they use our device prominently in their marketing campaign. Is Ice Cream Sandwich strong enough to go head to head with iOS 5? I believe this type of campaign is long overdue.
Ice Cream Sandwich is a version of Google's Android operating system. A Google spokesman declined to comment.
Dale Sohn, who headed Samsung's U.S. mobile division until returning to Seoul as an executive advisor for the Korean giant, replied that it needed to "take advantage of this chance."
Pennington replied with more thoughts on the matter.
Looking deeper into iPhone 4S, it is clear Apple is not worried about us as a hardware competitor, which is where are focusing. They are continuing to focus on the USER EXPERIENCE, which ultimately puts Google in the center of the target. I only bring this up because I passionately believe we must do something now, with or invisibly behind Google, to establish our collective advantages in consumers' minds.
Pennington noted that Siri, a voice-based digital assistant, is one of the main features of the iPhone 4S. This poses a threat to Google, he notes, because more iPhone users may turn to Siri for search results versus Google.
"My point is, Google must be as motivated as we should be at this point," he wrote.
A Samsung spokesman said Pennington has left the company recently, but he declined to disclose details on exactly when he left the company or the nature of his departure.
A few months after this email exchange, Samsung launched a successful campaign with the slogan – "The Next Big Thing is Already Here – that lampooned the fanaticism of Apple fans who are unable to see the advantages of Samsung's smartphones. The success of Samsung's campaign prompted Phil Schiller, Apple's head of marketing, to consider firing its long-time advertising agency.
Samsung Executives' Emails About Google
Samsung Executives Lay Out Marketing Plans


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Happy New Year from the Louisiana Environmental Education Commission!
Welcome to our new enewsletter - the attached PDF!
We are dedicated to providing you with the latest environmental education information from across the state of Louisiana and beyond! If you have EE grants or professional development opportunities, new resources, related event information, etc. to distribute, please contact us.
Wishing you the best in 2013!


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Nailing the basics of IT governance has been a key step in the development of every world class IT organisation (ITO), notes a recent Meta Group report. However, the analyst firm points out, for many organisations, governance is a "nebulous" term. "The typical ITO's view of governance is a tactical prioritisation committee incorrectly termed the 'IT steering committee'."
To yield benefits, it adds, "governance" must be concretely turned into "governing" and be a set of pragmatic tools that are part of best management practices. "Those tools exist, and good managers use them, though they often do not call them 'governance' and might not even think of them as tools."
During a recent seminar organised by BMC in Sydney, Meta Group Asia-Pacific managing director Mary Ann Maxwell points out the benefits for organisations that work on getting their IT governance right, and the formidable task of doing so. IT governance, says Maxwell, is an essential business alignment and performance tool. "If it is done well, and done pragmatically, you can actually save time by cutting debates short and save money by integrating your functional silos."
IT governance combines policies like privacy and security, processes including problem management and service level management and people. "I would say, IT governance done right, ensures the right people are in the right place at the right time, doing the right things for a right-enough cost by framing expected behaviour and creating a high productivity work climate."
Focus points
IT governance is closely linked to corporate governance, as IT directors play a huge role in ensuring systems are able to meet compliance requirements that have cropped up following the corporate scandals of the past two years.
This compliance effort is a major challenge for enterprises. As Maxwell points out, "Ensuring consistency with regulatory requirements particularly if you are a global enterprise is often difficult if not impossible and that's because there are so many compliance jurisdictions that may touch upon so many business areas."
While the focus per region differs - in the United States, for instance, it is Sarbanes Oxley; in Europe, Basel II; and in the Asia-Pacific, privacy, critical infrastructure protection and cybercrime, among others - common themes arise.
One of them is security. "If data is not adequately protected, then officers, auditors and managers within the organisation can't reasonably attest to the completeness and accuracy of the information derived from that data."
Risk management is another. There should be an enterprise strategy for risk management, says Maxwell. She points out one IT governance methodology, COBIT, links IT control practices to business process and provides a framework for risk.
Architecture and enterprise portfolio management is a business imperative of current compliance effort, says Maxwell. It will also provide the agility for enterprises to respond to future compliance requirements.
Records management may sound so mundane, says Maxwell, but compliance requires an organisation and its audit firm to capture a wide range and fairly large volume of structured and unstructured records. The latter include electronic communication like email, instant messaging and business processes which are transitory and not necessarily stored in a record management environment. "You really have to have clear, secure timely access to content throughout your organisation while still protecting the integrity of those records."
Asset management, she says, is another theme and refers to a combination of tools, processes and organisation interfaces that financially manage, optimise and dispose of primarily IT assets.
Carrot and stick
For an IT organisation, the "carrot" for compliance includes more effective controls, better governance and more efficient resource utilisation. The stick, on the other hand, is real, says Maxwell. "You can end up with protracted litigation, censure, fines, imprisonment or personal liability for CFOs and CIOs."
But how are these concepts applied in reality? IT executives interviewed by MIS reveal their different approaches to governing IT and working with the rest of the business units.
Steve Johansen, chief information officer, Port of Napier, says the enterprise combines concepts from two frameworks. "I have found that taking concepts from both ITIL and COBIT and using them sensibly, within the context of the organisation, and being able to explain what one is looking for with governance controls and the possible effects on our business if we did not have them, allows our technical people to understand why the control points are necessary. They do not just view them as an unnecessary overhead."
Johansen explains the internal port quality management systems are laid out following the ITIL structure. The IT team develops procedures and standards in conjunction with the user departments. "I play the role of an external auditor as procedures are developed measuring the resulting procedures to the COBIT standard and asking the questions an external auditor would making sure that control points are built into procedures as they are developed." Internal and external auditors examine the IT procedures at least once a year.
Over at Livestock Improvement Corporation, service delivery manager Les Christopher says the enterprise has been actively using the COBIT methodology for internal audits. "This enables us to work effectively with our PWC external auditors." Over the past few years, he says, LIC has invested in a data warehouse extracting and centralising data from its many operational transaction-based information systems. These investments - which include a high-end adaptive business reporting software from Actuate and end-user static reporting tool from Hyperion's Brio - aid in LIC's corporate business reporting requirements.
"When the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements arrive in New Zealand, I'm sure we've chosen the best financial reporting suite to facilitate compliance."
Ed Saul, chief information officer of Tower Group, follows a different model. "We don't use those methodologies," he says. "We are clear on what we need to do, our steering groups have a clear mandate, we meet regularly and they appear to be achieving our objectives very effectively."
Tower has an IT strategy steering group both in New Zealand and Australia, with members coming from business senior management teams and IT. Among the group's task are reviewing the IT strategy to ensure it lines up with the business strategy; and reviewing IT investment decisions and IT performance to gain a better understanding of the drivers and issues. It also has to ensure business priorities are recognised, provide feedback and direction for IT and endorse the IT strategy as well as business cases. "This has only recently been implemented and appears to be working well," he states.
Saul understands why there could be various interpretations of how to go about with IT governance - the concept is underpinned by different methodologies and practices.
"I think some enterprises struggle with the concept and for them it may be 'nebulous', whilst others are clear on the concept of governance but have difficulty implementing it in practice."
The IT manager's toolbox
Forrester says while there are a number of frameworks available that can be useful starting points in developing a governance model, there is no single, complete, off-the-shelf IT governance framework.
Most IT organisations today are "rolling their own" models but borrowing heavily from existing frameworks, says Forrester. Most of the existing frameworks are complementary, with strengths in different areas, and so, enterprises often take a mix-and-match approach.
Three of those frameworks are:
ITIL: The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), initially developed in the UK by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), is gaining popularity in the global IT community. The library currently consists of seven books including service support, service delivery, security management, application management, ICT infrastructure management, the business perspective, and planning to implement service management. ITIL is focused on identifying best practices in regards to managing IT service levels. Forrester says its strengths lie in its process orientation.
COBIT: Developed by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) is strong in controls and metrics. It breaks IT down into a set of 34 processes in four domains: Planning and organisation, acquisition and implementation, delivery and support, and monitoring. Each process has a number of high-level control objectives associated with it. In some respects, says Forrester, COBIT tells you what to do, while ITIL can be thought of as telling you how to do it.
ISO 17799: The International Organisation for Standardisation developed ISO 17799, titled "Information Technology - Code of Practice for Information Security Management." It was first released in December 2000 and is based on the British Standard 7799 finalised in 1999. The standard aims to focus on security and aid an organisation in creating an effective IT security plan. Forrester points out an IT governance model must be driven from the top town - beginning with the board of directors and the executive management team. It must also take an incremental approach. "Any governance is better than no governance, and an incremental approach can be the best way to start. It's not as important where you begin but that you do begin."
Join the CIO New Zealand group on LinkedIn. The group is open to CIOs, IT Directors, COOs, CTOs and senior IT managers.


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When Isilon Systems sold to EMC for $2.25 billion in December 2010, Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel made a pledge to stick around for two years or get the storage company to a $1 billion revenue run rate. Now, with Isilon creeping up on its two-year anniversary of the sale and on the path to hit the revenue milestone, Patel has decided to step aside from the company he co-founded 12 years ago.
What's next for the entrepreneur? Another startup? Angel investing?
Well, first off, he plans to spend a good portion of his time on diaper duty. The 38-year-old father of twin 4-year-old boys has another baby on the way in December, making it a especially good time to step away from the day-to-day grind of running one of Seattle's most successful tech operations.
"I'm going to change diapers. I am going to pursue personal pursuits, spend time with the family," said Patel, who will remain as a consultant to EMC. "I'm going to recoup a little bit, and then we will see what goes on from there."
Asked whether he'd consider doing another startup, the former RealNetworks engineer said "possibly."
"There's a ton of opportunities out there," he said. "I love the region, so I want to do something here that continues to add to the entrepreneurial capability of the region, whether that's a new startup or something else, who knows. We will see."
Patel has already become a more active angel investor, with two deals expected to close in the next month and about a dozen in his portfolio from the past year. He's also a board member at ExtraHop Networks, a Seattle startup backed by Madrona Venture Group, the venture firm that initially seeded Isilon.
Isilon is one of most groundbreaking technology companies to have emerged from Seattle in the past two decades. But the company almost didn't make it after series of missteps following its December 2006 IPO, a period that Patel refers to as a "complete disaster." That led to Patel returning as CEO and completely repositioning the business amid ongoing pressures from Wall Street.
Looking back over the past 12 years, Patel admits that the Isilon journey was a pretty "unbelievable experience."
"We definitely have a lot of intriguing things in our 12-year history that added a lot of intrigue and interest," said Patel. "Every experience that you have not only heartens you, but the whole company. And we had plenty of adversity over 12 years that we had to overcome."
Patel isn't the only Isilon executive to leave EMC. Brett Helsel left earlier this year, re-emerging this week as vice president of engineering operations at Bellevue enterprise software company Apptio.
I got the sneaking suspicion that Patel was leaving EMC after he spoke last week at the University of Washington's computer science and engineering department, eloquently extolling the virtues and rewards of startups. (Previously: Sujal Patel's love letter to startups: 6 reasons why you should make the plunge).
In an interview Tuesday at Isilon's new Pioneer Square headquarters, Patel said the time was right to move on.
"The business is absolutely doing incredibly well, and the business is growing phenomenally," he said. "And we have an organizational strategy and structure in place, so the timing is perfect for me after 12 years to step aside and let the next generation scale this thing from here."
That responsibility falls into the hands of Bill Richter, a six-year veteran of Isilon who had served as CFO prior to the EMC acquisition. Richter said he's excited about the prospects in front of Isilon, especially as trends such as cloud computing and big data continue to take off.
"The market of big data and scale-out is now here. It has come at us for the past couple of years, and now I'd say it is fully here," said Richter, who is assuming the title of president of the Isilon storage division. "We've got a 12-year head start on most of the competition. When you think about it, what Sujal founded back in 2001, was an idea of a storage architecture for big data, ten years before we called it big data. So, we are pretty well positioned in that sense."
Isilon also continues to expand at a rapid pace in the Seattle area. Its new headquarters in Pioneer Square is now spread across three floors, with the company on track to take over another floor later this year.
The Isilon unit employs about 1,200 people, with more than a third of those workers in Seattle.
"We are effectively hiring engineering talent in Seattle as fast as we can," said Richter.
Asked about the biggest challenge facing Isilon as it enters the next phase, Richter noted that the company will have to continue to transform itself inside EMC.
"The world is transforming at a rate that is faster than ever before," said Richter, adding that they are going to have to integrate with EMC technologies in ways that "were unimaginable a couple of years ago."


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Astronomers have found a dwarf planet far beyond the orbit of Pluto and can only guess how it got there.
The diminutive world, provisionally called "2012 VP 113" by the international Minor Planet Center, is estimated to be about 450km in diameter, less than half the size of a neighboring dwarf planet named Sedna discovered a decade ago.
Sedna and VP 113 are the first objects found in a region of the solar system previously believed to be devoid of planetary bodies.
The proverbial no-man's-land extended from the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt, home to the dwarf planet Pluto and more than 1,000 other small icy bodies, to the comet-rich Oort Cloud, which orbits the sun about 10,000 times farther away than Earth.
"When Sedna was discovered 10 years ago it kind of redefined what we thought about the solar system," astronomer Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution of Washington said in an interview.
Nothing in the appearance of the modern-day solar system can account for Sedna and VP 113's existence, say astronomers who published their findings on Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Sedna's 11,400-year orbit takes it only as close as 76 times the distance that Earth orbits the sun. VP 113's closest approach is 80 times as far as Earth's orbit of the sun — roughly twice as far as the Kuiper Belt.
"In the current architecture of the solar system, Sedna and 2012 VP113 should not be there," wrote astronomer Megan Schwamb, of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, in a separate Nature article.
Computer simulations provide a few potential scenarios.
Lead researcher Chad Trujillo favors the idea that a sibling star forming in the same stellar nursery as the sun gravitationally elbowed some Oort Cloud residents inward as it flew by.
Sheppard suggests that another planet at least as massive as Earth got bumped out of the solar system, taking some Kuiper Belt bodies with it along the way.
That renegade planet or planets actually may still be lurking in the farthest reaches of the solar system, too dim and remote to be detected by currently available telescopes and cameras, Sheppard said.
A third option is that the sun has a companion, something five to 10 times the mass of Earth, whose gravity is pinning Sedna, VP 113 and potentially millions of other dwarf-like planets in unusual and distant orbits.
"With our discovery of one more object, we can't rule out one theory or another," Trujillo said.
More residents of the region, now known as the inner Oort Cloud, soon may make their presence known.
Astronomers are working to confirm six other Sedna-like objects found last year.
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Madam Speaker, our government continues to invest in science, technology and research across the board in economic action plan 2012 to create jobs, grow our economy and improve quality of life for all Canadians.
We now have a brain gain in Canada, and our international partners agree. Yesterday, the National Academies released its report to the U.S. Congress, entitled "Research Universities and the Future of America".
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Bolton Wanderers midfielder Stuart Holden says U.S. National Team fans can rest assured that he'll be ready should he get the call-up from Bob Bradley to World Cup training camp in May.
"I'll definitely be 100 percent by then," Holden said in an interview with MLSsoccer.com on Monday. "It's obviously the coach's decision whether to include me or not for the World Cup camp. Hopefully I've done enough to have myself included. I just have got to prove my fitness, and if I do get selected, I'll look forward to representing the U.S. this summer."
Over the last two weeks, Holden says he has stepped up the training to raise his level of fitness and build muscle in his legs as he returns from a right fibula fracture suffered last month.
Holden told MLSsoccer.com that there is even a chance he could be part of Bolton Wanderers' match against Tottenham Hotspur in EPL action this Saturday.
"It's a possibility, but it's not my decision," Holden said by phone from Bolton. "I'm going to see how training goes this week. If all goes well with no setbacks, then I'll be available for the weekend."
The 24-year-old expects to permanently join full training with Bolton this week after working on the side in recent weeks, including some sporadic action with the club's reserve team. What few know is that the fateful tackle in the Americans' friendly match against the Netherlands last month did more damage than just fracture his right fibula.
"It's been a strange injury," he said. "I had a little bit of a sprain in my knee at the same time from the tackle. So I've been rehabbing two injuries, in a sense."
It was a Nigel de Jong tackle in Amsterdam that put Holden out of commission for nearly two months. Holden, who earned his 12th U.S. cap in that match, says he has never heard from de Jong after the incident, but holds no grudges.
Still, the plate and screws in his fibula will serve as a constant reminder of the Manchester City midfielder, who was later chastised for the rough tackle by Dutch national-team coach Bert van Marwijk.
The injury couldn't have occurred at a worse time. Holden was coming off his first and only two appearances for Bolton on Feb. 24 and Feb. 27, and seemed on his way to proving he was worthy of the EPL club picking up the option on his short-term contract in May.
The day after suffering the injury, Bolton manager Owen Coyle called Holden to let him know the club would exercise their option and bring him back for the 2010-2011 EPL season.
With the peace of mind of a contract extension, Holden began the long road back from injury along with fellow U.S. National Team players Charlie Davies and Oguchi Onyewu. The three have supported each other regularly during the course of their recovery.
"I've had constant contact with Charlie and Gooch, and they're almost at the point where they're fully back from their injuries as well," Holden said. "It's obviously been a tough couple of months for everyone, injury-wise. Now that all of us are starting to turn the corner and get back healthy, everyone is really motivated and driven by the thought of playing in the World Cup."
The debate has already begun about whether players with limited playing time at their clubs should be selected to the 30-man World Cup preliminary roster, which U.S. coach Bob Bradley will need to submit to FIFA on May 11.
For his part, Holden has no doubts he can be ready.
"I'd say I'm in the 90s [percent fit]," he said. "Now that my body feels good, I just need to get my sharpness back. And that's going to come with training. We have some high intensity trainings over here. It will be good to get back amongst the guys and really get working on all that little stuff that you can't replicate on the side.
"I'm really confident," Holden added. "I'm always confident in terms of my fitness. I'm a good enough professional that I do the little things I need to off the field, and in terms of taking care of my body and making sure that I'm doing extra running. That's something I've always prided myself on. Fitness has always been one of the stronger parts of my game. I'm just making sure that I keep that up and fitness won't be an issue for me into that selection."


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Few actors have managed their transition from TV to film as poorly as Adam Brody, but it appears the young actor has finally found the perfect director to maximize his talents.
Brody will court Greta Gerwig in "Damsels in Distress," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film will be the first for director Whit Stillman since 1998's "The Last Days of Disco."
"It's a college comedy," Stillman this summer told Variety. "It's about four stylish, perfume-obsessed college girls who revolutionize the social life at their grungy university."
Stillman's brand of witty, fast-paced, over-educated humor should be a perfect fit for Brody, who single-handedly made "The O.C." an acceptable guilty pleasure.
And yet Brody has thus far failed to enjoy any measure of real success on the big screen. He first had very minor parts in both "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and "Thank You for Smoking." Then he finally had a starring role in "In the Land of Women," but it's hard to get any kind of traction out of a part in which you make out with both a cancer-stricken Meg Ryan and her not-yet-famous daughter Kristen Stewart.
Next was another small role in the what-a-mess "Jennifer's Body," the underwhelming ensemble piece "The Romantics" and the unforgivably bad "Cop Out." It's hard to discern any pattern or strategy at work here, other than a dogged insistence on selling himself short.
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Why are there sponsorship targets for guaranteed places in running events, while people who have their own place just have to raise as much as possible?
Barnardo's has to pay for its places in the various races, along with advertising packages to promote the places to the public. For some of the very popular races, this means we have to pay a lot of money.
In order to ensure that we contribute as much of your money as possible to Barnardo's work with children and young people across the UK we, like other charities, have to set a minimum sponsorship target.
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When you apply for one of our guaranteed places, you will be asked to complete an application form. On this form, you sign to say that you understand you will be committing to paying the relevant registration fee, and raising the relevant amount of sponsorship money.
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I found the wikipedia entry on the subject to be largely non-judgemental of it. I've never been much for existential dispair or the like. I actually do think life is intrinsicly meaningless and there are no moral absolutes, but It never bothered me any. Mankinds needs for such things can be supplied by mankindds invention of such things and any challenge that is purely a product of our psychology is something we can probably handle.And as for nihilism good luck on finding any philosophy on the subject that is not usually written by someone opposing it. The only supporting arguments are not actually philosophy per se. But it does survive in literature. In fact it is interesting that americans do not know much about nihilism as your society underwent a nihilist revolution in the early twentieth century. Some of the best nihilist writers are americans, kerouac, steinbeck hemingway to name a few. And a group of those writers were at the core of your social revolution. You have heard of the beatnik generation? Some great writers came from that generation and much of their writing questions what society values. And in many ways support the idea that value has no real meaning.
As to the beat generation, they became materialistic yuppies by and large.
Oh, its pretty weird to me too, I even made a blog post about it... So America Shits the Bed When people in the US tell me they are frightened by a Trump presidencey I remind them it's really the rest of the world that has a lot more to fear, we after all have the worlds largest militiary and a very healthy stockplie of nuclear weapons.I can throw this " your not an american " thing at you. Your not the rest of the world and have no idea just how weird it is to see something that can be so funny as well as being appalling and horrible.
Not sure how many poeple you think should have passports but its arround 35-40%. Americans travel to Canada and Mexico quite often. to go to any other country is really quite expensive and time consuming and a lot of Americans don't get a lot of vacation time. Plus, its a huge country so there are lots of places to go inside the US. That doesn't make us isolationist.That does not quite explain the isolationist tendencies. A lack of passport ownership in america. And america for all its hypocritical talk of peace has been involved in every war around the world since the creation of america. Either by selling arms or armies. So yes, your interests in all those things are very profitable for your country as a whole. No problem selling guns, just don't want to visit the places you sell them to.
And yes, sadly we seem quite happy to sell the world lots of guns. Terrible habbit in my opinion. Then again, the world apparently wants to buy those guns from us, bad habbit there as well.
You are like a broken record, not listening or responding to my statements.No, what i said was a free market laissez-faire economy did lead to a dictatorship. As far a i know no country ever succeeded in creating a communist state.
Apparently, attempts to create communists states have all led to dictatorship just like those trying to make laissez-fair ones. Yet this is a critique of free markets to you but not of communism. you say "well the communists all did it wrong!" But the right can just as easily say no one has done free markets right either. And they do, I have to listen to it all the time. "This isn't capitalism, its crony capitalism, totally different!" etc...
Every ideological axe grinder things no one who fails is a true follower of their ideological agenda, yet those axe grinders just sit on the side lines and imagine their utopian dream. Its easy to say how great it is if you never try to make it, and when you do, the gritty reality sets in and wham, you find yourself in an authoritarian scheme of some kind when the dust settles.
Devolving how exactly? Best I can think of is the civil war, that was pretty devolved but I look at it as purging the government of one of its greatest betraials of the ideals of natural rights. So that's hardly devolving in my book. If you have something specific in mind spit it out. I don't see a devolution of the US government but a long running refinement.I said a capitalist based society which of course was a mercantile economy of england. You can accuse me of not being specific but not of not understanding your history. The base history you are giving me does not change my statement that the government that was created after that revolution lasted not that long before devolving.
You are wrong. It is a better thing than a society whre a child born in a lower class can't become anything but a slave, thats for sure. The fluidity of American social classes was something of the envy of the world for a time. And not everyone who is rich or successful is a despot. What you do with your wealth and power once you achieve it is up to you for the most part.Correct me if i am wrong but are you saying that as long as any poor american man can look his child in the eye and say, " One day you too can be a despot and control the lives of all you see at a whim." That's a good thing, is it ?????
I'm a pretty no harm no foul kind of fellow. If there is no harm in taking a biscuit then there shouldn't be a rule agaisnt taking the biscuit. If the parents didn't say anything about it, well then there isn't even an artificial reason not to take it. I don't follow rules just for the sake of following rules, I do things for the good of myself and others.So again, the morality here is that if the child manages to sneak a biscuit without the parents knowing or even after the parents saying that they should not, no harm, no foul then?
How so?Mostly not corrupt. That's like a little bit pregnant.
Sure. In agregate. Does it mean everyone gets exactly what they want? Hell no but how could you do anything at a national level and achieve 320 million people all having their own indidual say on any given question? It's impossible.It is the system not the mechanics that is questionable. The first question being can a two party system FPP voting system really be said to actually represent nearly 320 million people?
No to the first question (I don't understand your metaphor) and yes to the second qyestion, ask whatever you like. Unlike you, I seem capable of actualy answering questions put to m in a direct manner.Just as a metaphor it doesn't work for you? Can i too ask for more specific information or is it just you who can play the analogy?
It is supposed to come from voluntary agreement.Where do you think mutual cooperation comes from in a libertarian society.
You are very bad at answering questions. Are you allergic to workds such as "yes" and "no"? They are incredibly effective at conveying information. Explainers are all well and good, but they should come with a nod or shake of the head.The discussion really should be around the facts that actually effect those involved. Not imagining some tree hugging communal asking how you might " feel" about it. Nor should some outside force that has no direct concern in the matter be involved unless asked to. In such a situation no direct law could cover the variables involved. In most western societies such things can be handled through courts and such court systems can still exist in even a libertarian socialist society.
I'm going to gaze into my crystal ball.... I'm seeing a fuzzy small fruit, or is that a testicle... hard to say, Ah wait there it is.... I think the answer you are thring to give me is "Yes, I have to ask permission to build my Dam and sell the Power."
OK then. Well if I have to ask permission from people then they are limiting my liberty in some respect.


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The Ice Cream Theory is ice-cream guru Steff Deschenes's charming exploration of the parallels between human personalities and ice-cream flavors, a tongue-in-cheek celebration of the variety inherent in a well-lived life.
The Theory was hatched when Deschenes was trying to make sense of her first heartbreak. In the midst of that grief, she realized that, in the same way humans have ice-cream preferences, humans have people preferences. Like ice cream flavors, social preferences shift based on age, experience, even mood. There are exotic flavors that one craves when feeling daring, comforting flavors to fall back on, flavors long-enjoyed that eventually wear out their welcome, and those unique flavors that require an acquired taste. Like people, no ice cream flavor is perfect every single time . . . and it is in this realization that the crux of Deschenes's theory lies.
Deschenes neatly brings together anecdotes from her own adventures with broader-reaching social commentary to help others recognize the wisdom and joy inherent in a beloved dessert.
With its cheeky self-help slant, The Ice Cream Theory is an endearing and light-hearted addition to any bookshelf. It's a must read for anyone bruised by life's tough lessons and in need of a cheerful pick me up!
Q: Welcome to Beyond the Books, Steff. Can we start out by telling us whether you are published for the first time or are you multi-published?
The Ice Cream Theory is my first published book, but technically I'm multi-published. I was a sports writer for a Maine newspaper for seven years. And although my article byline always read "Staff Writer," I knew it was just a typo for "Steff Writer"! What's one vowel, right?
Q: What was the name of your very first book regardless of whether it was published or not and, if not published, why?
I actually wrote and illustrated a children's book called Sam and Tinky All Year Round when I was in the fifth grade. It was based around my childhood pets – Sam our Siamese cat and Tinkerbell our calico. I got an "A" on it and still have it – actually, I think it's on my book shelf in between Where the While Things Are and A Million Chameleons!
Q: For your first published book, how many rejections did you go through before you either found a mainstream publisher, self-published it, or paid a vanity press to publish it?
Countless. But I had a back-up plan: if after one full year of rejection I hadn't been picked up, I would self-publish. It was as easy and simple as that – this book was going to be published one way or another. But, it was still a long, rough year filled with hundreds of versions of "no," "you're not right for us," or, my personal favorite: getting no response back at all.
Q: How did the rejections make you feel and what did you do to overcome the blows?
It certainly didn't derail me at all. I had wanted to be a writer since I was eight years old. And now that I had a book – a mighty good book if you asked me – I wasn't about to let someone else prevent that dream from coming to fruition.
Q: When your first book was published, who published it and why did you choose them?
I chose a company called BookSurge; they were the baby company of Amazon.com. And Amazon.com is such an online powerhouse that I thought it would be ideal to use a company they had created specifically to help self-published authors like me succeed in a non-traditional way.
Q: How did it make you feel to become published for the first time and how did you celebrate?
It was surreal. I remember getting the proof of my book in the mail and literally just staring at it. Years of hard work, countless hours of writing, and thousands of miles travelled to put it all together were summed up in the pretty little package I held! I drove to my mom's house to show her – she's been the biggest champion of my cause since day one and there was no one else in the entire world I wanted to share such a feat with!
Q: What was the first thing you did as for as promotion when you were published for the first time?
My sister and I went on an "ice cream bender." We took the book and travelled to all ten ice cream parlors in my town to eat ice cream and talk to people about The Ice Cream Theory. You can actually watch the videos online!
Q: If you had to do it over again, would you have chosen another route to be published?
No. Knowing what I know now about the massive shift happening in the publishing industry (more books are now self-published than traditionally published every year), I would have jumped on the self-publishing route a lot faster. There's nothing wrong with being an indie writer!
Q: Have you been published since then and how have you grown as an author?
I haven't been published since then – it took a tremendous amount of effort to self-publish The Ice Cream Theory and, to be honest, I'm still hard at work marketing and promoting it. Which is how I've grown the most as an author. Writing was the easy part; the patience and dedication it took to self-publish along with the thick-skin I've developed from dealing with bad reviews, no-shows at book-signings, and the general negative and exclusive attitude some in the business have towards self-published authors has forced me to grow in leaps and bounds. All of which I'm thankful for!
Q: Looking back since the early days when you were trying to get published, what do you think you could have done differently to speed things up? What kind of mistakes could you have avoided?
I should have used the resources available to me and not held back. I've always done an excellent job at networking, but I was shy about reaching out for help from the talented and generous people around me.
Q: What has been the biggest accomplishment you have achieved since becoming published?
The Ice Cream Theory has won eleven awards. Eleven awards! That's huge! When I won the first one, I remember thinking it must have been a fluke or that the judges were just throwing me a bone. But ten awards later, I know without a doubt that there's something very special about The Ice Cream Theory and its being recognized and appreciated by people from all walks of life.
Q: If you could have chosen another profession, what would that profession be?
I've been an alcohol spokes model for several years now (it's been an incredible part-time job and has proven to be an excellent source for professional networking), and if I could do it forever, I would!
Q: Would you give up being an author for that profession or have you combined the best of both worlds?
To be honest, I'm not quite at that point where I'm making my living from being a writer, but everything I do is to get me there. Even being an alcohol spokes model at this point is. And it's actually what I plan on writing my next book about!
Q: How do you see yourself in ten years?
Writing for living. And going on adventures. And eating! But most importantly, being surrounded by the people I love. Everything else after that is just icing on the cake.
Q: Any final words for writers who dream of being published one day?
Everybody is going to offer their two cents on how to become a published writer. But, in the end, just as it is with living life, you're going to have to pave your own way. You simply gotta believe: believe in yourself, believe in the process, and believe that your book is good enough.


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It was a fairly quiet day at the Chicago Board of Trade as everyone waits to see what the outcome of the transfer of positions and accounts out of MF Global to other firms will be. December corn settled 2 ¼ cents higher closing at $6.55 ¾ while January soybeans were 6 ¼ lower finishing the week at $12.21 and December Chicago Wheat was ¾ higher closing at 6.36 ¾. There isn't much to talk about today in the way of fresh grain news. The outside markets were supported early in the day on the heels of better than expected jobs data. By the end of the grain close the dollar was higher and the Dow Jones was 70 points lower. It appears to us that traders are waiting to see what will happen when all of the MF Global accounts are actually transferred and positions are liquidated by those that are unable to margin their current positions. On top of this situation we have a USDA Supply/Demand and Production report next Wednesday. I have included our Supply and Demand estimates in the chart below. The main demand differences we have from the October report are the ethanol usage as well as the wheat feeding number. We still think the USDA is underestimating the amount of wheat being fed in the US, and we also feel the conversion ratio they are using is too low for ethanol production resulting in an overestimation of corn used. (see chart below)
Until the November 9th Supply and Demand report the market could continue to chop around as it has over the past few weeks. Given the discount world grains have to undercut our prices, as well as the net long positions the spec longs are still holding, we like making sure the downside risk is well covered. We like remaining with the current EHedger recommendations. Have a great weekend!
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