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Although I've not blogged about it for a while Product Management is one of my passions.
Think of the development team as the beating heart of the work effort. Someone has to keep the blood flowing, someone has to keep the arteries clear and make sure the right requests for work can channelled to the development team.
This is a role. Someone needs to do this. Someone needs to understand customers and be in a position to prioritise. And someone needs to be able to have ongoing conversations with customers, developers and everyone else.
This is not a document, attempts to do this with a document makes things worse. Documents don't have conversations. Documents are static.
One of the reason why Silicon Valley companies are so successful is that they understand this. In Silicon Valley there is a well developed role called the Product Manager. This is the person who looks at the customers, understands their problems and needs, looks at the market and a whole bunch of other stuff, and this person decides what is needed for a successful software product.
I point to Silicon Valley because certainly in Europe, and I suspect in much of the rest of the USA, this role isn't so widely recognised.
This role doesn't exist in corporate IT. Here the Product Manager's cousin the Business Analyst fills a similar role but in a very different way. However, there is change afoot here, stay with me.
Here in the UK I find I have to explain this role to clients again and again. They make four common mistakes:
- They assume the development team just know what is needed. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. They may get luck once but can you rely on luck the second time? Third time?
- They assume that the Project Manager knows. Again this is wrong, Project Manager training is about delivering a defined project to a date within constraints. It is not about understanding customers. (True there is overlap but Project Managers training is different.)
- Experience IT Managers see the need and appoint a Business Analysts. This is the right thing to do when you are a corporate IT department, or if you are writing bespoke software for one customer but, if you are trying to create a product to sell to many customers it is the wrong choice.
- Managers assume it is obvious, or that they, the "managers" know. If they are Product Managers or have been Product Manager they might be right. Even if they do know what the customers want someone has to explain it to developers and be on hand to answer their questions. Senior Managers just don't have the time.
As I said, over in the corporate IT world this role doesn't exist because customers are captive. One of the key aspects of the Product Manager role is understanding what customers (who have a choice) will pay for. In the corporate IT world this doesn't exist: you get what you are given. So the BA role is similar but different. (There are other difference but they are for another day.)
(Interestingly several of the Product Managers quotes in the BBC report state they have Business Analysis backgrounds.)
The thing is: Business Analysts need to become more like Product Managers because more and more corporate IT departments are creating systems for external customers who do have a choice.
For example, 15 years ago just about all the IT created by travel companies was for their own use. Today travel companies have customer facing IT systems which can both win and loose the company sales. Online offerings are part of the buying experience, part of the customer experience and a potential product differentiator.
Even though the Product Manager role is not as well understood as it should be it is becoming more important. For those who get it Product Management is a potential differentiator.


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It's still really not at all clear to me what their "format" is or how it's in any way unique. Even in their call to attack Ellen, they acknowledged that she may not have "known" that she was copying them but that she needed to be "educated."
I understand the idea that you can have a trademark on certain elements of a show, so while anyone can do a "talent show," having the judges turn their chairs when they like you or stand up and hit a gong if they don't might be elements that can be trademarked. But showing kids something and asking them questions? That is so obvious that Art Linkletter was doing it on the radio in 1945.
Well, no, four of those that signed the letter (Bennet, Portman, Rubio and Wyden) had voted yes for fast track. Their leader, Menendez, didn't even vote on the deal at all! They signed away their integrity with a blank check and they're not getting it back now.
The rest were opposed to the deal from the beginning, so attacking it now isn't about principles, it's just about reminding their base how they voted.
Yeah, I get the feeling Pregerson has the same views about "Super Lawyers" and advertising. Pregerson seemed to be openly mocking Voelker and that got Tallman laughing along. @1:30:48
It's worth watching just to hear judge Pregerson's slow, rambling diversions about the birthplace of Alexander Hamilton and the origin of the phrase "not to put too fine a point on it," among others.
How is using Facebook to communicate any different than using a cell phone (also forbidden). If the story was about prisoners getting solitary for using a cell, I don't think there'd be any outrage. OTOH, why don't they just block Facebook?
Waze should add the ability to report livestock on the road, like horses, cows, and pigs.
To be fair to the judge, the Supreme Court's opinion was so twisted that it's clear to everyone that the Court was tailoring it's decision to wipe Aero out. It doesn't really matter what they do, the Supremes will find a new twist. It's not based on logic or the law, they've already decided...
...if you intend to publish a research paper and use federal money (which Facebook did).
"Facebook wasn't doing its research for the purpose of contributing to generalizable knowledge..."
Facebook collaborated with Cornell University and published a journal article published by the National Academy of Sciences.
"Facebook is using federal funds for the research?
I doubt it..."
Their study was published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America," so it's safe to assume that there was some federal money involved.
The ironic thing is that a zine dedicated to Lovecraft condemns a TV show for "plagiarizing" ideas from Ligotti, but they're completely thrilled that Ligotti lifts ideas and themes from Lovecraft.
Think of how much business they lost because they didn't get a positive review. Sure, the negative review may have kept some customers away, but a positive review would have actually brought in additional customers. I don't understand why these missing customers weren't included in the calculation of lost (potential) revenue.
If anyone can claim that a negative review cost them money, then clearly a lack of positive reviews is also costing money.
I can't understand why they decided to skip the warrant. They thought about it and they had the time. It doesn't seem likely that a warrant would be denied. And if a warrant WAS denied, then the same court that denied the warrant would have likely been more inclined to have required one. On the other hand, if they DID get a warrant, much of this delay would have been gone and there would be less risk of the defendant getting off. What's the down side with getting a warrant? Why, when they have an abundance of probable cause, do police still try to skip this step?
I don't actually pay anything to receive mail in my mailbox, and I don't know anyone who has been told that they receive too much mail and they're being cut off or charged extra.
Any time someone declares that "you won't find a bigger defender," you can be sure that they are anything but.
The First Amendment was not created to protect the freedom to say what everyone else already agrees with, it was created to protect the unpopular opinions. In this country, there is no such thing as an "illegal political comment."
You can still use those phones: "
(B) LIMITATION- The termmobile communications device' does not include a phone installed on an aircraft.'." -- Bill Text
"was this the first time this kind of thing has happened in this county?"
"Everything you see on iReport starts with someone in the CNN audience. The stories here are not edited fact-checked or screened before they post."
The NSA has the ability to literally monitor every phone call, email and all internet activity of anyone. Abuses are self-reported.
What are the chances that the NSA is NOT monitoring the heads of the committees that fund them? And what are the chances that a career politician (44 years for Feinstein; 19 for Rogers) never made a single transgressions that they would rather keep private?
It seems like the fundamental dispute is that the spooks seem to think Wyden took an oath of allegiance, whereas Wyden believes that he merely took an oath of secrecy.
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IOM: vitamin D, calcium supplements not needed!
In a report likely to send shock waves through the dietary supplement industry, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released new Dietary Reference Intakes for vitamin D and calcium. The report summary says Americans are getting all the vitamin D and calcium we need, and we do not need more.
The committee emphasizes that, with a few exceptions, all North Americans are receiving enough calcium and vitamin D. Higher levels have not been shown to confer greater benefits, and in fact, they have been linked to other health problems, challenging the concept that "more is better.
In an account of the report in today's New York Times, Gina Kolata writes that the committee was puzzled about how vitamin D became the hot nutrient of the year. Sales rose 82% from 2008 to 2009.
Some of this surely had to do with testing. A method for testing existed, so doctors used it. The test, however, looked at an intermediate in vitamin D synthesis—not at the vitamin itself. And the test did not have a standard until recently.
And groups like the Vitamin D Council promote much higher intakes of vitamin D supplements. According to the Council:
Current research has implicated vitamin D deficiency as a major factor in the pathology of at least 17 varieties of cancer as well as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, birth defects, periodontal disease, and more.
In my San Francisco Chronicle column on this topic a year or so ago, I pointed out that "vitamin" D is not really a vitamin. It is a hormone. This means that vitamin D supplements are a form of hormone replacement therapy—not necessarily a good idea.
Are vitamin D supplements needed? Not if you expose your skin to sunlight for a few minutes a day, even in winter.


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Editor's Note: This story was originally published in the December 2004 issue of Scientific American.
In an episode of the classic 1950s television comedy The Honeymooners, Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden loudly explains to his wife, Alice, "You know that I know how easy you get the virus." Half a century ago even regular folks like the Kramdens had some knowledge of viruses—as microscopic bringers of disease. Yet it is almost certain that they did not know exactly what a virus was. They were, and are, not alone.
For about 100 years, the scientifi c community has repeatedly changed its collective mind over what viruses are. First seen as poisons, then as life-forms, then biological chemicals, viruses today are thought of as being in a gray area between living and nonliving: they cannot replicate on their own but can do so in truly living cells and can also affect the behavior of their hosts profoundly. The categorization of viruses as nonliving during much of the modern era of biological science has had an unintended consequence: it has led most researchers to ignore viruses in the study of evolution. Finally, however, scientists are beginning to appreciate viruses as fundamental players in the history of life.
Coming to Terms
It is easy to see why viruses have been diffi cult to pigeonhole. They seem to vary with each lens applied to examine them. The initial interest in viruses stemmed from their association with diseases—the word "virus" has its roots in the Latin term for "poison." In the late 19th century researchers realized that certain diseases, including rabies and foot-and-mouth, were caused by particles that seemed to behave like bacteria but were much smaller. Because they were clearly biological themselves and could be spread from one victim to another with obvious biological effects, viruses were then thought to be the simplest of all living, gene-bearing life-forms.
Their demotion to inert chemicals came after 1935, when Wendell M. Stanley and his colleagues, at what is now the Rockefeller University in New York City, crystallized a virus— tobacco mosaic virus—for the fi rst time. They saw that it consisted of a package of complex biochemicals. But it lacked essential systems necessary for metabolic functions, the biochemical activity of life. Stanley shared the 1946 Nobel Prize— in chemistry, not in physiology or medicine—for this work.
Further research by Stanley and others established that a virus consists of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) enclosed in a protein coat that may also shelter viral proteins involved in infection. By that description, a virus seems more like a chemistry set than an organism. But when a virus enters a cell (called a host after infection), it is far from inactive. It sheds its coat, bares its genes and induces the cell's own replication machinery to reproduce the intruder's DNA or RNA and manufacture more viral protein based on the instructions in the viral nucleic acid. The newly created viral bits assemble and, voilà, more virus arises, which also may infect other cells.
These behaviors are what led many to think of viruses as existing at the border between chemistry and life. More poetically, virologists Marc H. V. van Regenmortel of the University of Strasbourg in France and Brian W. J. Mahy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently said that with their dependence on host cells, viruses lead "a kind of borrowed life." Interestingly, even though biologists long favored the view that viruses were mere boxes of chemicals, they took advantage of viral activity in host cells to determine how nucleic acids code for proteins: indeed, modern molecular biology rests on a foundation of information gained through viruses.
Molecular biologists went on to crystallize most of the essential components of cells and are today accustomed to thinking about cellular constituents—for example, ribosomes, mitochondria, membranes, DNA and proteins—as either chemical machinery or the stuff that the machinery uses or produces. This exposure to multiple complex chemical structures that carry out the processes of life is probably a reason that most molecular biologists do not spend a lot of time puzzling over whether viruses are alive. For them, that exercise might seem equivalent to pondering whether those individual subcellular constituents are alive on their own. This myopic view allows them to see only how viruses co-opt cells or cause disease. The more sweeping question of viral contributions to the history of life on earth, which I will address shortly, remains for the most part unanswered and even unasked.
To Be or Not to Be
The seemingly simple question of whether or not viruses are alive, which my students often ask, has probably defi ed a simple answer all these years because it raises a fundamental issue: What exactly defi nes "life?" A precise scientifi c defi nition of life is an elusive thing, but most observers would agree that life includes certain qualities in addition to an ability to replicate. For example, a living entity is in a state bounded by birth and death. Living organisms also are thought to require a degree of biochemical autonomy, carrying on the metabolic activities that produce the molecules and energy needed to sustain the organism. This level of autonomy is essential to most definitions.
Viruses, however, parasitize essentially all biomolecular aspects of life. That is, they depend on the host cell for the raw materials and energy necessary for nucleic acid synthesis, protein synthesis, processing and transport, and all other biochemical activities that allow the virus to multiply and spread. One might then conclude that even though these processes come under viral direction, viruses are simply nonliving parasites of living metabolic systems. But a spectrum may exist between what is certainly alive and what is not.
A rock is not alive. A metabolically active sack, devoid of genetic material and the potential for propagation, is also not alive. A bacterium, though, is alive. Although it is a single cell, it can generate energy and the molecules needed to sustain itself, and it can reproduce. But what about a seed? A seed might not be considered alive. Yet it has a potential for life, and it may be destroyed. In this regard, viruses resemble seeds more than they do live cells. They have a certain potential, which can be snuffed out, but they do not attain the more autonomous state of life.
Another way to think about life is as an emergent property of a collection of certain nonliving things. Both life and consciousness are examples of emergent complex systems. They each require a critical level of complexity or interaction to achieve their respective states. A neuron by itself, or even in a network of nerves, is not conscious—whole brain complexity is needed. Yet even an intact human brain can be biologically alive but incapable of consciousness, or "brain-dead." Similarly, neither cellular nor viral individual genes or proteins are by themselves alive. The enucleated cell is akin to the state of being braindead, in that it lacks a full critical complexity. A virus, too, fails to reach a critical complexity. So life itself is an emergent, complex state, but it is made from the same fundamental, physical building blocks that constitute a virus. Approached from this perspective, viruses, though not fully alive, may be thought of as being more than inert matter: they verge on life.
In fact, in October, French researchers announced fi ndings that illustrate afresh just how close some viruses might come. Didier Raoult and his colleagues at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille announced that they had sequenced the genome of the largest known virus, Mimivirus, which was discovered in 1992. The virus, about the same size as a small bacterium, infects amoebae. Sequence analysis of the virus revealed numerous genes previously thought to exist only in cellular organisms. Some of these genes are involved in making the proteins encoded by the viral DNA and may make it easier for Mimivirus to co-opt host cell replication systems. As the research team noted in its report in the journal Science, the enormous complexity of the Mimivirus's genetic complement "challenges the established frontier between viruses and parasitic cellular organisms."
Impact on Evolution
Debates over whether to label viruses as living lead naturally to another question: Is pondering the status of viruses as living or nonliving more than a philosophical exercise, the basis of a lively and heated rhetorical debate but with little real consequence? I think the issue is important, because how scientists regard this question infl uences their thinking about the mechanisms of evolution.
Viruses have their own, ancient evolutionary history, dating to the very origin of cellular life. For example, some viral- repair enzymes—which excise and resynthesize damaged DNA, mend oxygen radical damage, and so on— are unique to certain viruses and have existed almost unchanged probably for billions of years.
Nevertheless, most evolutionary biologists hold that because viruses are not alive, they are unworthy of serious consideration when trying to understand evolution. They also look on viruses as coming from host genes that somehow escaped the host and acquired a protein coat. In this view, viruses are fugitive host genes that have degenerated into parasites. And with viruses thus dismissed from the web of life, important contributions they may have made to the origin of species and the maintenance of life may go unrecognized. (Indeed, only four of the 1,205 pages of the 2002 volume The Encyclopedia of Evolution are devoted to viruses.)
Of course, evolutionary biologists do not deny that viruses have had some role in evolution. But by viewing viruses as inanimate, these investigators place them in the same category of infl uences as, say, climate change. Such external infl uences select among individuals having varied, genetically controlled traits; those individuals most able to survive and thrive when faced with these challenges go on to reproduce most successfully and hence spread their genes to future generations.
But viruses directly exchange genetic information with living organisms—that is, within the web of life itself. A possible surprise to most physicians, and perhaps to most evolutionary biologists as well, is that most known viruses are persistent and innocuous, not pathogenic. They take up residence in cells, where they may remain dormant for long periods or take advantage of the cells' replication apparatus to reproduce at a slow and steady rate. These viruses have developed many clever ways to avoid detection by the host immune system— essentially every step in the immune process can be altered or controlled by various genes found in one virus or another.
Furthermore, a virus genome (the entire complement of DNA or RNA) can permanently colonize its host, adding viral genes to host lineages and ultimately becoming a critical part of the host species' genome. Viruses therefore surely have effects that are faster and more direct than those of external forces that simply select among more slowly generated, internal genetic variations. The huge population of viruses, combined with their rapid rates of replication and mutation, makes them the world's leading source of genetic innovation: they constantly "invent" new genes. And unique genes of viral origin may travel, finding their way into other organisms and contributing to evolutionary change.
Data published by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium indicate that somewhere between 113 and 223 genes present in bacteria and in the human genome are absent in well-studied organisms—such as the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans—that lie in between those two evolutionary extremes. Some researchers thought that these organisms, which arose after bacteria but before vertebrates, simply lost the genes in question at some point in their evolutionary history. Others suggested that these genes had been transferred directly to the human lineage by invading bacteria.
My colleague Victor DeFilippis of the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of the Oregon Health and Science University and I suggested a third alternative: viruses may originate genes, then colonize two different lineages—for example, bacteria and vertebrates. A gene apparently bestowed on humanity by bacteria may have been given to both by a virus.
In fact, along with other researchers, Philip Bell of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and I contend that the cell nucleus itself is of viral origin. The advent of the nucleus— which differentiates eukaryotes (organisms whose cells contain a true nucleus), including humans, from prokaryotes, such as bacteria—cannot be satisfactorily explained solely by the gradual adaptation of prokaryotic cells until they became eukaryotic. Rather the nucleus may have evolved from a persisting large DNA virus that made a permanent home within prokaryotes. Some support for this idea comes from sequence data showing that the gene for a DNA polymerase (a DNAcopying enzyme) in the virus called T4, which infects bacteria, is closely related to other DNA polymerase genes in both eukaryotes and the viruses that infect them. Patrick Forterre of the University of Paris-Sud has also analyzed enzymes responsible for DNA replication and has concluded that the genes for such enzymes in eukaryotes probably have a viral origin.
From single-celled organisms to human populations, viruses affect all life on earth, often determining what will survive. But viruses themselves also evolve. New viruses, such as the AIDS-causing HIV-1, may be the only biological entities that researchers can actually witness come into being, providing a real-time example of evolution in action.
Viruses matter to life. They are the constantly changing boundary between the worlds of biology and biochemistry. As we continue to unravel the genomes of more and more organisms, the contributions from this dynamic and ancient gene pool should become apparent. Nobel laureate Salvador Luria mused about the viral infl uence on evolution in 1959. "May we not feel," he wrote, "that in the virus, in their merging with the cellular genome and reemerging from them, we observe the units and process which, in the course of evolution, have created the successful genetic patterns that underlie all living cells?" Regardless of whether or not we consider viruses to be alive, it is time to acknowledge and study them in their natural context—within the web of life.


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Budget 2013: Common Man's Expectations From FM
BANGALORE: A vast majority of salaried class employees in a host of trade and industry sectors want Finance Minister P Chidambaram to raise the income tax exemption limit to at least Rs three lakh and increase deductions like medical and educational allowances in the Budget, an Assocham survey said.
The survey was conducted in major places like Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Pune, Chandigarh and Dehradun on 'Budget 2013: Common man's expectations from the FM', the industry body said.
Over 89 per cent of respondents said the slab of tax free income has not moved up in line with real inflation. The current basic exemption limit of Rs two lakh should be increased to at least Rs three lakh with the limit for women going up to Rs 3.5 lakh. This will increase the purchasing power of individuals and stimulate demand.
'Pushing the basic exemption limit the tax payers in saving taxes and will also align it with the proposals made by the Parliamentary standing committee on the Direct Taxes Code (DTC)', the survey noted.
With increasing healthcare costs, the existing tax free limit of Rs 15,000 should be increased to Rs 50,000, said 89 per cent of the respondents.
The transportation allowance granted by the employer to his employee for commuting between the place of work and residence is tax-free to the extent of Rs 800 per month. This limit was fixed more than a decade ago, and needs to be revised upwards to at least Rs 3,000 per month, given the rising commuting costs, added the survey.


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You ever smelled a delicious fart. Well here on Moneytalks we attempt to do just that. We have invented a fart freshner and Havoc is on Venice beach paying fools to test it out. On to the munchies, Havoc is in a parking lot looking to pay someone to make a vaggie burger. We pay this one guy to come back to our van and create his very own pussy burger with condiments and all. For the main show we are fishing for titties in our bait and tackle shop. We have customers eating live shrimp, showing titties and putting fish down their pants for money. Kaila enjoys money as well but there is one thing she enjoys a little more. She walks in cute as a button and open as hell. We give her the scoop and she has no problem fucking for cash. She likes Jmac and she likes dick so we have a two for one special. Watch as Kaila gets reeled in and slides up and down our boys rod.


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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Malt Mission 2009 #345
George T. Stagg
2007 edition
Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
72.4% abv
Since being launched in 2002 as a part of Buffalo Trace's "Antique Collection", George T. Stagg has made quite a reputation for itself among boozehounds worldwide. High proof, well-aged, and rare, the stuff cannot be sipped and forgotten; it makes an impression.
Awarded Best American Whiskey in the World at the 2008 World Whisky Awards and a great way to end our "week" of American whiskeys here on the Malt Mission.
Each release is usually around 15 years old and this drop was distilled in 1992. George T. Stagg whiskey is named after the man who was responsible for building the distillery that is known today as Buffalo Trace, a name taken from the tale that the distillery itself sits upon an ancient meandering trail of migrating buffalo.
For all American whiskey had on the mission, click HERE. To see what another whisky nerd I love reading said about it, click HERE.
Tasted with GS. Thanks for the drops, brother. Now go put Aurora to bed.
Rich and nougaty, baklava and Honey Nut Cheerios. Maple, that red chinese dipping sauce, gingerbread, fudge, and sourdough.
Strong, but sippable. Invigorating. Chewy. Buttery, chillied, and miraculously warming. Cucumber skin freshness but weighted with butterscotch and applesauce, boozy boozy applesauce. Water is not absolutely necessary (believe it or not), but WOW does it unleash berries, syrup, and a gorgeous oaky creaminess left only in the best American oak casks.
I wanted more with every sip, and refilled my glass several times. Truly riveting like a well-made action movie seen in the cinema... however you really need to be in the mood for this kind of movie.
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4 comments:
- John said...
Best bourbon ever.
doc, good to see you lining up a few bourbons. keep 'em comin'
- -ellie. said...
Dr. Whisky! So I think I've found something you've yet to comment about. Wathen's! The reviews about it is lacking and I've only recently seen it on the shelves, yet they claim to be an 8th generation of Kentucky Straight Bourbon makers. So should I...will I have to pick up a bottle for us all to muse over?
- Rumela said...
Its name evokes thoughts of Europe, and in a way, it is indirectly named for the Bourbon monarchs of Europe. Most historical sources espouse the theory that the name actually comes from Bourbon County, named in honor of settlers' former Bourbon French rulers. This county was originally located in Virginia, but due to moving of boundary lines on numerous occasions, Bourbon County is currently in Kentucky. thank you for shearing your post.


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PulteGroup Moves HQ to Atlanta, Closer to Asset Treasure Trove
PulteGroup (NYSE:PHM), one of the largest U.S. homebuilders, is moving its headquarters to Atlanta, nearer its money-making markets on the East Coast.
Now based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, the company says it will relocate to the much warmer state of Georgia in 2014, though its local Michigan homebuilding operations will remain intact to continue serving its northernmost customers.
The homebuilder says it's too early to determine how many workers will ultimately be affected, though it plans to employee as many as 350 in the new HQ.
"The company has reached a point where we must pursue a strategy that better fits with the long-term growth trends for our company and industry," PulteGroup CEO Richard Dugas said in a statement. "This relocation will bring us closer to our customers and a larger portion of our investment portfolio."
The company's operations from Northern Virginia down through Florida represented 37% of its home closings in 2012 and 43% of its year-end invested capital. Earlier this year it announced plans to increase investment in the area during 2013 and 2014 to $1.4 billion.
PulteGroup said that it announced the move a year in advance so that it can work more closely with its employees to help "facilitate an easier transition and more seamless relocation."
While it's too early to determine how many employees will ultimately assume positions in Georgia, it promises to offer "a very fair severance package" and related outplacement services to help individuals who don't move south.
Of PulteGroup's 280 employees in Michigan, just the 330 who work at the headquarters will be affected. When all is said and done, it expects to have anywhere from 300 to 350 workers at its corporate offices in Georgia.


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BEEF Magazine Kicks Off Its 50th Year Of PublicationBEEF Magazine Kicks Off Its 50th Year Of Publication
The September 2013 issue is just the kickoff to a full year of special features and coverage.
September 1, 2013
This month marks the start of BEEF magazine's 50th year. It began as a monthly publication for 40,000 Corn Belt farmer-feeders, later extended its reach to commercial cattle feeders in the Southwest, and eventually added the cow-calf sector. Today's BEEF circulation is just short of 100,000 readers spread across the U.S., of which about 85% are involved in cow-calf production.
BEEF is the house that Paul built — Paul Andre, that is, our founding editor. As Senior Editor Burt Rutherford recounts, he built the publication from the foundation up to the shingles. He retired 20 years ago this month, in fact. I've been fortunate since then to have served as the caretaker of the house that Paul built.
The September commemorative issue is a tribute to BEEF magazine and the industry it has served. There are older publications, but none that boast of the vertical nature of our production and management coverage.
On our website, you'll find biographical sketches on the BEEF 50. This is an impressive listing of individuals developed from nominations submitted by readers, and sifted to a final 50 by an independent panel of judges.
The panel consisted of a trio of men with experience in every sector of the business. Our guidance to these judges was to reach a consensus on the folks they considered as having been instrumental in the development, direction and success of this U.S. beef industry in the past 50 years.
As one judge said upon submitting the panel's final selections, "The original list of nominees for the BEEF Top 50 was literally a 'Who's Who' of the U.S. beef industry. Culling that list to 50 recipients was indeed a challenge filled with regret that some excellent leaders and innovators in our industry would not make the final cut.
"However, imagine starting a company with these Top 50 honorees. Failure would certainly not be an option and I'm confident that company would result in positive change for every segment of our industry, with consumers being the ultimate beneficiary."
In our September issue and in the regular blog section on our home page, you'll find special anniversary-themed columns from our regular contributors. In addition, we've packaged the results of our reader survey on technology into bite-sized pieces that provide some interesting perspective from the reader's point of view.
September is just the kickoff to a full year of special features and coverage — not only examining the past, but looking ahead as well. I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed preparing it.
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LEGO isn't ready to give up the massively multiplayer online realm just yet. Not deterred by the failure of LEGO's last entry into the MMO market, LEGO Universe, with developer NetDevil, Norwegian developer Funcom has taken the reigns to create yet another digital LEGO-scape. The difference? This new MMO is based on the popular LEGO Minifigures line (aka CMFs). States the press release:
The massively multiplayer online game that Funcom will develop based on the LEGO® Minifigures franchise will focus on maximum accessibility. Funcom and the LEGO Group will work together to make the game available to consumers in their online channels and will be coordinating activities to provide a broad and enhanced experience for the product line. The game will be a prominent part of the LEGO® Minifigures online experience which already has millions of unique visitors per month.
How does it differentiate itself from LEGO Universe? I have no idea. I never got the sense LEGO Universe and it's collapse left people chilly to the idea of a LEGO MMO. Instead it was more the lack of value and motivation to continue to play, if there was motivation to begin with. Funcom does have one major advantage with their minifig-centric MMO NetDevil never had: direct tie-in product with an established fanbase. People love their minifigs, but the question is, will people love those same minifigs in the virtual realm?
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A "Trader" is a ZuluTrade user, who trades either on a Demo or Real account while ZuluTrade publishes his/her results and statistics publicly through the website. Each trading action performed in the Trader's account is sent to all ZuluTrade Demo and Real accounts in the form of a broadcast signal.
Users, who have chosen to follow the Trader ("Investors"), have the trading action automatically executed in their account, residing in their brokerage firm. Since a simple Trader signal is executed by various different Brokers that have different trading interfaces and configurations, trading problems can occur. A possible instance is an orphan trade. An orphan trade is a trade that although it is closed in the Trader's account, due to a variety of reasons, it may be left open on one or more of the Investors' Real accounts. This incident can lead to different results between the Trader and the Investor- e.g. although the Trader gains, the Investor ends up losing as a result of the trade having closed long after it had been closed in the Trader's account. However, Traders have the ability to both monitor and close their Real Investors' positions that are detected as "orphans".
Investors can fine-tune and override Traders signals by configuring their settings in their ZuluTrade account portfolio, or even manually. For Risk Management purposes, ZuluTrade may restrict Traders for being copied by Investors in case they don't follow the Program's Guidelines.
Everyone can sign up to become a Trader. To register your Trader account, please click here. You can open up to 10 Trader accounts with the same email address. Competition however is fierce. Traders' performance is constantly ranked by ZuluTrade's ZuluRank algorithm and the ZuluTrade community, so that only the best ones appear on the top of our lists.
For the European version of our Traders page, competition is even stronger! As per EU legislation, traders will be displayed and available to Investors residing with EU, provided that:
For our US Traders page only, the Trader account must be compliant with the FIFO and No-Hedging market policy set up by NFA.
If you want to find out more about the way ZuluRank is calculated, please click here!
Traders may select one of the following Trading Platforms to place their trades:
In ZTP, both Live and Demo Traders are equipped with a fully-fledged Trading Station user interface with technical charts and indicators, along with the ability for Traders to create trading robots by running their own ZuluScripts. In more detail, the in-built Trading Station offers technical charts (Candlesticks, OHLC, Lines), a large variety of Indicators (Trend, Oscillators, Volatility, Volumes, Bill Williams, etc), custom lines/text/objects etc, all inside the Trader account, without the need for any external platform. Therefore as the platform is entirely web-based, the Trader account is shielded against connectivity issues and can run EAs uninterruptedly without the need for a VPS. For more details about how to create and run ZuluScripts, please see here.
The ZuluTrading API can also be used with ZTP. ZuluTrade offers its own REST API which enables Traders to submit trading requests straight to their accounts from their own custom program. In other words, instead of logging in to the Trader account to manually open, manage and close trades, Traders can configure their own algorithm to do this for them. Although some basic programming skills are required, a comprehensive step-by-step guide is provided for setting up the ZuluTrading API.
It is possible to link an external live or demo MT4 platform to a Trader account. In this case the Trader account becomes read-only and any trading activity that takes place in the MT4 account is copied over to the ZuluTrade account. The list of brokers compatible with Trader accounts can be found in the Settings tab of the Trader account, or by contacting Support.
ZuluTrade offers Traders trading via MT4 the chance to host their trading strategy for free via ZuluTrade's own VPS service. ZuluTrade supports over 60 Brokers and there is no need to download any platform - the MT4 client of your choice will be pre-installed into your VPS account, and can be accessed via any browser.
The ZuluTrade VPS service is available only for Traders trading via MT4 terminals; there is a limited number of available VPS, so Traders should keep an eye out for the 'Connect to my VPS' button at your Settings tab - it appears only when VPS slots are available.
ZuluTrade VPS is a premium service and as such a fair use policy applies; if it is detected that the VPS service is misused in any way, then usage of the VPS service may be revoked. Typical examples of misuse are:
Please also note that there is a limit of one free ZuluTrade VPS per physical person.
As a Trader trades, their performance and position in the ZuluTrade Traders page will gradually evolve; moving up and down in ranking. All data and information of the Traders are taken into consideration in order to calculate their place in the ranking. Some decisive factors for the ZuluRank are (please note that this list is not exhaustive):
For Our European Performance Page only, the below mentioned factors are also taken into account in order to form the list of the top 2000 Traders:
For our US Traders page only, the Trader account must be compliant with the FIFO and No-Hedging market policy set up by NFA.
The Performance page is updated several times per day, as trades and Traders' statistics develop.
Performance page also contains visual indicators, helping Investors to identify certain Trader attributes. Most common of which are:
In order to appear in the Traders page, a Trader must first close 1 position, while a minimum of 12 weeks of trading activity is required in order to appear on the Traders page for Europe!
Traders' compensation differs according to the Account Type of their Real Investors as well as the Trader's location in order to comply with local regulation.
Traders earn 0.5 pips per standard lot (5$), for each closed trade executed in a Real Investor account under Classic Account Model. The 0.5 pip value depends on the lot size executed in the investor's account, not in the trader's. For example, the trader opens 1 standard lot and the investor receives 1 mini lot according to his/her settings, then the trader will get 0.5$. In case that the investor only opens a micro lot, then the trader will get 0.05$. Pip cost varies according to the currency pair traded.
Traders get compensated on a monthly basis according to the profits they generate on their Real Investors under Profit Sharing Account Model.
Every time you generate a profitable monthly PnL to a Profit-Sharing Investor, you will be credited a 20% Performance Fee. This Fee will only apply for the amount above High Water Mark ("HWM"). HWM is the maximum profit made by the Trader and it is calculated on the 1st calendar day of each month since the Investor added the Trader to his portfolio.
For each profitable monthly PnL, the Trader will be compensated based on a 50% Payment-Reserve model. More specifically:
Each Trader holds one Reserve Bucket for all his Profit Sharing Investors. The Reserve amount is updated on the 1st calendar day of each month based on the profits/losses generated on the Real Investor accounts from the Trader during the previous month.
Investor's Monthly Performance Fee (20% of the Profit above High Water Mark) is split, as follows:
In case of underperforming, the Reserve amount will be deducted by 20% of the generated losses.
In case of a Recovering Losses Period, the Performance Fee will not apply, yet the Trader's reserve will be increased by 20% of the generated Profit.
For example:
In June, a Trader makes a profit of $1000 - This will be the HWM. The Investor will be charged 25% (20% for the trader, 5% for ZuluTrade) out of the accumulated profit ($1000): $1000 x 25% = $250
Based on the Payment-Reserve Scheme, the 20% for the Trader breaks as follows:
In July, the Trader has a negative month (-$100) – HWM remains $1000.
In August, the Trader makes a profit of $500 – New HWM $1400
Traders will receive a $21 monthly commission for each U.S. Investor copying their strategies.
The monthly amount will be calculated on a pro-rata mode based on the Investor's Subscription date, which is the date that the Investor added the Trader to his/her portfolio.
More specifically:
Investor A purchases a monthly recurring subscription to the Trader on September 1.
For September, the Trader will receive the full commission amount of $21.
Investor B purchases a monthly recurring subscription to the same Trader on September 15. In this case, the Trader will be compensated in proportion to the Investor's subscription date, thus, he/she will receive $10,50.
ZuluTrade compensates US Traders by a variable monthly Subscription Fee. Monthly compensations for Traders can vary depending on the date they were added in the Investors accounts.
The monthly Subscription Fee has been fixed to $21 per Investor.
Example 1:
Investor adds the Trader on September 1.
For this month, the Trader will be credited the full amount of the Subscription Fee, which by default is $21.
Example 2:
Investor adds the Trader on September 15.
For this month, the Trader will receive the Subscription Fee in proportion to the Investor's registration date, which in this case is $10.5.
Please note that ZuluTrade has established a monitoring mechanism in order to detect violations. We regret to inform you that any compensation deriving from US Investors will be rejected if your strategy is not compliant with the aforementioned rules.
Compensation for Real Investor accounts of Japan based Brokers is 0.3 pips per lot executed, due to different trading conditions.
Due to local restrictions, Japanese residents are eligible to register for a Trader account in ZuluTrade, however, no revenues will be generated for their trading activity.
Real Traders may select to receive their total outstanding commissions automatically in their Real Broker account at the 1st business day of each month.
To be eligible for the AutoPay Service, Traders must:
Traders may enable the AutoPay service on the Revenue page of their account. On the 1st business day of each calendar month, they will be receiving automatically the accrued commissions of the previous month directly in their trading account. There are no minimum amount requirements nor fees apply if AutoPay is enabled.
Also please take the following under consideration:
When trading from a Demo account, please make sure your trading strategy complies with the following restrictions:
Please note that none of the above restrictions apply to Traders operating on a Real Account.
In addition to the above rules for Traders operating on MT4 terminals and outside of the ZuluTrade web interface, compliance with the following rules is also expected:
ZuluTrade values the safety of its Investors' capital as an utmost priority. Consequently, Traders who apply abusive trading behavior, introducing high risks to their Investors, will be examined carefully and if deemed malicious, they will be refused compensation and may be banned from future use of ZuluTrade's services Likewise any attempt to take advantage of their status, extort or even break the communication channel with the community or the company will be deemed as malicious.
In order to avoid extremes, Traders are required to comply with a minimum set of guidelines that aim to reduce risks, such as:
Note that the above thresholds in pips are indicative for basic FX pairs. Please assume equivalent amounts for exotic pairs including XAU, XAG or CFDs.
No trading should be performed outside of ZuluTrade's Market Hours. Market Opens Sunday 22:00 UTC and closes Friday 22:00 UTC. When Eastern time is in daylight saving, market opens Sunday 21:00 UTC and closes Friday 21:00 UTC.
For CFD trading hours, click here.
Oil and Natural Gas have a monthly expiration (please see the table below). Open positions will be closed at bid/offer at 22:00 GMT* (21:45 on Fridays). The only consequence of this is that clients will realize any floating P/L at the time the position is closed. There are no rollovers for any oil contracts offered. Also all pending stop and limit orders that are associated with the expiring contract will be cancelled.
Treasury products have a quarterly expiration (please see the table below). Clients that hold an open position on the Expiration Date will be closed at our bid/offer at 21:00 GMT for BUND, the only consequence of this is the client will realize any floating P/L at the time it is closed. There are no rollovers for all Treasury contracts offered.
Copper is the only metal that expires once every other month.
Suspension of a Trader's account may occur in two ways: temporarily as a warning, or permanently, leading to prohibition from using the service. Liability for any consequences from a Trader account getting suspended burdens the account holder.
Traders linked with MT4 terminals that violate the Compliance Policy Rules, will be automatically disconnected from their MT4 accounts.
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Notice to Readers: Thimerosal in Vaccines: A Joint Statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Public Health Service
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Modernization Act of 1997 called for FDA to review and assess the risk of all mercury-containing food and drugs. In line with this review, U.S. vaccine manufacturers responded to a December 1998 and April 1999 FDA request to provide more detailed information about the thimerosal content of their preparations that include this compound as a preservative. Thimerosal has been used as an additive to biologics and vaccines since the 1930s because it is very effective in killing bacteria used in several vaccines and in preventing bacterial contamination, particularly in opened multidose containers. Some but not all of the vaccines recommended routinely for children in the United States contain thimerosal.
There is a significant safety margin incorporated into all the acceptable mercury exposure limits. Furthermore, there are no data or evidence of any harm caused by the level of exposure that some children may have encountered in following the existing immunization schedule. Infants and children who have received thimerosal-containing vaccines do not need to be tested for mercury exposure.
The recognition that some children could be exposed to a cumulative level of mercury over the first 6 months of life that exceeds one of the federal guidelines on methyl mercury now requires a weighing of two different types of risks when vaccinating infants. On the one hand, there is the known serious risk of diseases and deaths caused by failure to immunize our infants against vaccine-preventable infectious diseases; on the other, there is the unknown and probably much smaller risk, if any, of neurodevelopmental effects posed by exposure to thimerosal. The large risks of not vaccinating children far outweigh the unknown and probably much smaller risk, if any, of cumulative exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines over the first 6 months of life.
Nevertheless, because any potential risk is of concern, the Public Health Service (PHS), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and vaccine manufacturers agree that thimerosal-containing vaccines should be removed as soon as possible. Similar conclusions were reached this year in a meeting attended by European regulatory agencies, European vaccine manufacturers, and FDA, which examined the use of thimerosal-containing vaccines produced or sold in European countries.
PHS and AAP are working collaboratively to assure that the replacement of thimerosal-containing vaccines takes place as expeditiously as possible while at the same time ensuring that our high vaccination coverage levels and their associated low disease levels throughout our entire childhood population are maintained.
The key actions being taken are
PHS and AAP continue to recommend that all children should be immunized against the diseases indicated in the recommended immunization schedule. Given that the risks of not vaccinating children far outweigh the unknown and much smaller risk, if any, of exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines over the first 6 months of life, clinicians and parents are encouraged to immunize all infants even if the choice of individual vaccine products is limited for any reason.
While there is a margin of safety with existing vaccines containing thimerosal, there are steps that can be taken to increase that margin even further. Clinicians and parents can take advantage of the flexibility within the existing schedule for infants born to hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-negative women to postpone the first dose of hepatitis B vaccine from birth until 2 to 6 months of age when the infant is considerably larger. Preterm infants born to HBsAg-negative mothers should similarly receive hepatitis B vaccine, but ideally not until they reach term gestational age and a weight of at least 5.5 lbs (2.5 kg). Because of the substantial risk of disease, there is no change in the recommendations for infants of HBsAg-positive mothers or of mothers whose status is not known. Also, in populations where HBsAg screening of pregnant women is not routinely performed, vaccination of all infants at birth should be maintained, as is currently recommended. In addition to the key actions mentioned above, the PHS Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases will be reviewing these issues and may make additional statements.
Reported by: Public Health Service, US Dept of Health and Human Services. American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
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Everyone's favorite Hip-Hop heroine Jean Grae is gearing up for the next phase of her career. Although her partnership with Talib Kweli's Blacksmith Records was dissolved due to the label's shutdown, the witty MC isn't allowing herself to rest on her laurels. Grae has announced the creation of a new multimedia company, Kids Are Gonna Die (KAGD), and a partnership with the existing W.A.R. Media (Pharoahe Monch's label) to release a slew of projects in the coming year.
Grae, along with W.A.R. Media CEO Guy Routte, are the heads of the KAGD merger that will usher in the impending release of her sixth and seventh albums, Gotham Down and Cake Or Death, respectively. KAGD will serve as a hub for her various creative ventures, such as an upcoming sitcom written and directed by the rapper. If you follow Jean Grae on Twitter, you know she has a natural knack for the comically absurd.
The partnership got off to a brisk start with the release of the "Kill Screen" track and the chilling accompanying video earlier this year. After turning heads with the experimental video project, Grae will launch herself into the role of show producer with a bi-weekly sitcom, "Life With Jeannie," featuring her as the main star. A capable vocalist, Grae is also set to release a holiday-themed comedy EP titled Ho X 3 on Christmas Day.
2013 promises to deliver more of Grae's expected fare with the Gotham Down project dropping next month with Cake Or Death following in the second quarter of the year.
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Published October 03, 2019
NEW YORK — Small business owners who need mentoring or advice, whether it's about day-to-day aspects of running a business, long-term strategies or unique situations, have many options. A look at five of them:
_ Chambers of commerce and industry and professional associations. One of the advantages of belonging to a group of owners in your area, industry or field is having an instant community of people who understand your company's mission and issues.
_ Networking groups. These groups of owners often have monthly or even more frequent gatherings. Many owners use them to build friendships and find mentors who can give them general business advice.
_ SCORE. The organization that gives free advice to small businesses offers mentoring to owners of all types of companies. Owners can meet in person with SCORE counselors in their area or communicate online or speak by phone to counselors in other parts of the country. You can learn more and find a counselor at www.score.org .
_ SBDCs. Small Business Development Centers are located across the country, many at colleges and universities, and offer free advice and instruction to small business owners. You can find an SBDC at the website for the Small Business Administration, www.sba.gov .
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Kotti is a high-level, Pythonic web application framework based on Pyramid and SQLAlchemy. It includes an extensible Content Management System called the Kotti CMS.
If you are a user of a Kotti system, and either found this page through browsing or searching, or were referred here, you will likely want to go directly to the Kotti User Manual.
The documentation below is for developers of Kotti or applications built on top of it.
First Steps¶
Get an overview of what you can do with Kotti, how to install it and how to create your first Kotti project / add on.
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Teachers confront half-empty classrooms as virus surges
(AP) - Teachers around the U.S. are confronting classrooms where as many as half of students are absent because they have been exposed to COVID-19 or their families kept them at home out of concern about the surging coronavirus.
The widespread absences have only added to the difficulty of keeping students on track in yet another pandemic-disrupted school year. In the nation's largest district, attendance has been so low that New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday reversed an earlier pledge to keep children in schools and said he would consider allowing a return to some form of virtual instruction.
"This is really taking a toll on the learning. If you have three kids in your class one day and you're supposed to have 12, you have to reteach everything two weeks later when those kids come back," said Tabatha Rosproy, a teacher in Olathe, Kansas, and the 2020 national Teacher of the Year.
Some of the country's biggest school systems report absentee rates around 20% or slightly more, with some individual schools seeing far higher percentages of missing students.
The schools in Clark County, Nevada, which includes Las Vegas, typically have 90% attendance, but that figure has dropped to 83%. In Seattle, attendance has averaged 81 percent since the return from winter break. Los Angeles public schools marked about 30% of the district's 600,000-plus students absent on Tuesday, the first day back after the break.
In New York, about 76% of the city's roughly 1 million public school students were in class Wednesday, with some schools reporting well over half of their students out.
Adnan Bhuiyan, 17, has at times been one of seven or eight students in classes that normally have 30 at the Bronx Latin School. He spent much of the first week back from break in free periods, wondering why he was there.
Students given take-home COVID-19 tests have been taking them and testing positive at school, he said, and many are nervous about being exposed.
"Part of me was like, why are we sitting here doing nothing the whole day. Why can't we just stay home" and learn remotely, he said. "The other part of me knows that the mayor wants to keep the school open for certain reasons, and I can understand that. But the more and more we went through it, I just kept thinking at this point it's a waste of time for everyone because we're not learning anything."
As the highly contagious omicron variant causes teacher shortages, some schools have shifted temporarily to remote learning. Out of the roughly 100,000 public schools in the U.S., nearly 4,200 were closed to in-person learning by midweek, according to the data-tracking site Burbio.
President Joe Biden has stressed the importance of keeping schools open for in-person learning. The White House on Wednesday announced a monthly supply of 5 million rapid tests and 5 million lab-based PCR tests that schools can use for test-to-stay programs intended to lessen disruptions.
The absences leave teachers wrestling with whether to forge ahead with lessons and how to help students left behind.
Daniel Santos, a history teacher, said about half his students were absent when classes resumed after the winter break. Lately, about a third have been missing from his classes at Houston's Navarro Middle School, where over 90% of students are Hispanic. Mindful of required standardized tests coming up in the spring, he has been creating video lessons for the missing students to review at home.
"It's like an avalanche. It just doesn't stop. Some students return. Then a new set of students are absent," he said.
The districtwide attendance rate in Houston has been around 90% this week.
Alejandro Diasgranados, a second-grade teacher in Washington, D.C., said his class has gone from perfect attendance most days to half empty some days since winter break. The absences add to pressure to help students who already were behind because of the pandemic, he said.
The challenge then falls to teachers "to almost individually prescribe each student with an academic learning plan," he said.
The student absences have been cited by some teachers unions in pleas for more flexibility to switch to remote learning when conditions merit.
Kathryn Medendorp, an elementary school teacher at Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, said the social and emotional benefits of staying in school offset some of the academic difficulties caused by missing students and staff. But she favors a clear metric that would signal a return to remote lessons.
Her school in the mask-optional district was missing 21 third-grade students on a single day this week, the equivalent of a class, she said. At the same time, only one student was absent from her own second-grade classroom.
A closing metric "at least would help me feel better about having some sort of handle on this situation," said Medendorp, who is secretary for the Northside American Federation of Teachers. "Our numbers already have shown some classes are sitting great, it's not a problem. Other classes, it's spreading like wildfire so it is a problem there, and we have to stop that spread."
Thompson reported from Buffalo, New York. Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kansas, and Michael Melia in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report.
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In what many considered to be an upset win, Japan's capital won the winning bid for the 2020 Olympics early Sunday. Tokyo won the bid after a final round of voting by International Olympic Committee (IOC) members in Buenos Aires, beating Istanbul by 60-36 votes.
It was a surprise, as not many expected the city to win. However, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to show the world "a safe and secure Olympics games" during a personal presentation to the committee, promising a major cleanup of any radiation leakages from the Fukushima nuclear plants.
In a post-announcement press conference, Abe said, "Sport has the power to unite people. We experienced that after the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, when athletes came to our country and helped us. Japan needs the power of sport; we need hopes and dreams."
The upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia, followed by the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, and then the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A prominent South Carolina lawyer has been charged with stealing insurance settlements meant for the sons of his late housekeeper that a lawsuit said total more than $4 million, state police said Thursday.
Alex Murdaugh was arrested at a drug rehab facility in Orlando, Florida, where his attorneys said he has spent the past six weeks since claiming he was shot in the head on the side of a lonely road near his home, authorities said.
The arrest is the latest development in six state police investigations into Murdaugh, including the deaths of his wife and son, millions of dollars missing from the huge law firm founded a century ago by his great-grandfather and trying to arrange his own death so his surviving son could collect on a $10 million life insurance policy.
Thursday's arrest on two felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses involves Murdaugh's housekeeper for decades, Gloria Satterfield, the State Law Enforcement Division said in a statement.
Murdaugh told Satterfield's sons at her February 2018 funeral that he would get insurance settlements for her death and take care of them, according to a lawsuit filed by the sons. Murdaugh managed to secure more than $4 million from his insurers, but he only told the sons about a $500,000 settlement and then never sent them a dime, the lawsuit said.
Murdaugh took the settlement money by creating a fraudulent bank account with a name similar to a legal consulting firm that handles settlements, the lawsuit said.
Satterfield's family called it a bittersweet day in a statement released by their attorneys.
"Avarice and betrayal of trust are at the heart of this matter," lawyers Eric Bland and Ronald Richter said in their statement.
The Murdaugh family told the sons their mother tripped over the family dog and died weeks later from her lingering injuries. The death was never reported to the Hampton County coroner, who asked state police to investigate why she was not called to review what she would consider an accidental death.
The sons also took Murdaugh's advice to hire attorney Cory Fleming to be executor of their mother's estate without telling them Fleming was a longtime friend, old college roommate and godfather to at least one of Murdaugh's sons.
The law licenses of both Fleming and Murdaugh have been suspended as the investigations continue.
Murdaugh is being held at the Orange County jail in Florida to await extradition, investigators said. His lawyers promised at a bond hearing on different charges last month that Murdaugh would return to South Carolina without a fight if charged with additional crimes.
Murdaugh's lawyers said in a statement that he "intends to fully cooperate with this investigation, as he has with the investigation into the murder of his wife and son. He deeply regrets that his actions have distracted from the efforts to solve their murders."
The deaths of Murdaugh's son and wife at their Colleton County home in June remain unsolved. Murdaugh said he found Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and their son Paul, 22, shot to death after he returned home from visiting his father in the hospital, according to authorities.
In September, Murdaugh was charged with insurance fraud and other counts after reporting that his head was grazed by a bullet when someone attempted to shoot him.
Curtis "Eddie" Smith is charged with firing at Murdaugh. He told The Associated Press last month that Murdaugh asked for his help on Sept. 4 but didn't tell him he wanted Smith to shoot him until he was on the side of the road.
Smith said the gun went off as he tried to prevent Murdaugh from shooting himself. He bristled at suggestions from Murdaugh's lawyers that he was a drug dealer, saying he was good friends with Murdaugh after the attorney helped him in a worker's compensation case.
"With a friend like that, who needs enemies?" Smith told an AP reporter as he limped around his property.
Smith said last month that he wasn't sure if the bullet hit Murdaugh or not, saying he grabbed the gun, immediately drove away and ditched the weapon.
In an interview with The Today Show aired Thursday, Smith said he was 1,000% certain Murdaugh was not shot.
"There was no blood on me; there was no blood on him," Smith said.
Murdaugh's lawyers have said they saw medical records showing Murdaugh was covered in blood when taken by helicopter to a hospital but have not shown them to the public.
The Thursday arrest is just another step in the long process for justice in all of the investigations, State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel said in a statement.
"As I have said previously, we are committed to following the facts wherever they may lead us and we will not stop until justice is served," Keel said.
Follow Jeffrey Collins on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JSCollinsAP.


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Shemya Snapshots
This gallery contains snapshots of Shemya Island, Alaska. I worked here 6 weeks on and 6 weeks off from December 2004 to May 2007. Shemya is a small two mile by four mile island located at the end of the Aleutian chain in Alaska. It is about 1500 air miles from Anchorage and is closer to Russia (about 200 miles) and Japan (about 1200 miles).Read More


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Tiki 4.x
Tiki 4.2 was released on March 5th, 2010; Tiki 4.1 on December 15th, 2009 and Tiki 4.0 on November 15th, 2009. Previously to the first release, it was used on various *.tiki.org sites to shake out the bugs in a process called "eating our own DogFood".
1.1. Important upgrade notes
These are notable changes affecting upgraders.
1.1.1. Admin menu module removed
The admin_menu module was removed and should simply disappear from installations using it. Please use the application menu and Admin Home instead.
1.1.2. Broken image links - .htaccess file needs update
Update can cause image links to break due to .htaccess file is out of date and SefURL not enabled
Solution: delete existing .htaccess and rename _htaccess to .htaccess
This possibly needs doing on all upgraded servers
1.1.3. Categories
Category permissions are changed in Tiki 4. See below (Permissions cleanup) for more information.
126.96.36.199. Category permissions
You might have to manually update the categories where tiki_p_view_categorized and tiki_p_edit_categorized were used, in order to comply with the current category permissions system.
A script attempts to update the information. But because of the more advanced nature of the new system, it's not possible for the script to guess the intention of the Tiki site manager.
- You should review global permissions at tiki-objectpermissions.php
- And you should review object permissions at tiki-list_object_permissions.php
You most probably want to give the tiki_p_modify_object_categories permission. (in Tiki section)
22.214.171.124. Object categories
If you have objects which have individual permissions, users will not longer be able to edit the categories. You most probably want to give the tiki_p_modify_object_categories permission. (in Tiki section)
1.1.4. User Page prefix
The default prefix for userpages has been changed from UserPageXYZ to User:XYZ as this is what is used for Wikipedia, and the old method made sense when WikiWords were the default (which is no longer the case). Of course this is configurable, and site admins can still use any prefix, including the old one.
Release Notes (from tw.o)
From http://tikiwiki.org/ReleaseNotes40
1.2. List of major enhancements, listed alphabetically.
1.2.1. Admin user privileges
The special user "admin" has been taken away all hardcoded privileges. His/her privileges are only checked via the group Admins that must have through the perm tiki_p_admin. That is the default behavior on new tiki installations, and the Upgrade process will update your tiki accordingly in new releases after tiki 4.0 (seems to be missing on some upgrades to 4.0).
1.2.2. Category Transitions
Category transitions is the successor to the Galaxia Workflow engine, and it will permit to eventually make workflows of anything that can be categorized. They are currently working with wiki pages and tracker items.
More information here
1.2.3. Daily Reports
Daily Reports informs you about changes on sites you are watching with one single email for the time interval chosen by the user. It is, thus, a summarised kind of the normal notifications and replaces them.
If User Watches and Daily Reports are enabled, each user can decide to enable reports, or to further use normal notifications. To use reports, go to My Watches in your Tiki Menu and adjust your preferences.
For more information, see Daily Reports
1.2.4. Edit interface revamped
The edit interface for wiki pages and blogs have been re-structured to use tabs, and the underlying code has been refactored. The changes include:
The same page can be shown through the wiki wysiwyg interface:
And if you click back on the simple wiki interface button, content will be converted into wiki syntax.
220.127.116.11. New helper boxes
The wiki edit help and many plugins are shown nowadays inside new type of help boxes which are movable through the screen and resizable in real time.
The numbered areas in the side image indicate:
18.104.22.168. Table editor
The non-wysiwyg editor includes a visual assistant to create new tables and edit existing tables.
18.104.22.168. New Wiki link assistant
The wiki link assistant now includes an autocomplete feature in realtime showing all wiki pages from that tiki site containing the text typed in the link field.
220.127.116.11. Text areas are resizable
Text areas in wiki pages and many other places are resizable:
1.2.5. Forums
By default forums hide the forum post style options when there are less than 10 messages, to reduce clutter.
The threshold number of messages can be defined in the forum settings.
1.2.6. GroupMail
Groupmail massive improvements, including IMAP support.
1.2.7. i18n: Collaborative Multilingual Terminology
Related to the internationalization (i18n) features in Tiki, various improvements have been made to use Tiki for Collaborative Multilingual Terminology.
1.2.8. jQuery & jQuery Plugins
jQuery is now always on by default, the integrated JavaScript framework.
New JQuery Plugins have been integrated in some features of Tiki:
- treeTable: for management of Category permissions, so far. See an example below at the section "Permissions: Admin interface enhanced"
- ColorBox has replaced Shadowbox for license compatibility and enhanced features.
Other jQuery goodies:
- listfilter (text input field to filter long lists using jQuery) implemented as a new Smarty function (used with the treeTable integration).
- Remarks boxes can now be closed to save some space on small-resolution screens, e.g. netbooks (close with fade out effect).
1.2.9. Kaltura integration (Collaborative video editing)
Collaborative video editing, through a Contibution Wizard to upload media(audio,video,image) under a user, several editors to create/edit/remix user uploaded media, a gallery list of all the media, remix videos of a user, a Wikiplugin to include a Kaltura video on a wiki page. and the chance to view and edit an information about a user's Kaltura entry. More information
1.2.10. LDAP authentication improvements
"Rework of LDAP Authentication. Dropped PEAR::Auth_LDAP to get more information from the directory. Added support for user information and LDAP group replication. Added support for ssl (ldaps), tls and redundant LDAP server configuration."
LDAP Authentication
1.2.11. Lost-edit protection improved
If the session expires while a wiki page is being edited, the post is saved in a cache in order to retain the page after login (will not work with 'password due' or 'confirm email' if occurs at the login); could be generalized to other features.
1.2.12. Machine Translation
Machine translation (powered by Google Translate) can be enabled by going to Admin Home->i18n and checking the Machine Translation (by Google Translate) feature. This feature enables users who can't read the language of the page to read it in the language of their choice (translated by Google, so the quality is not as good as that of a human translator, but is improving). The choice of languages is limited to those supported by Google and those available on the site. If a translation by human translator already exists in the desired language, the human-translated page will be shown rather than the machine translation. This requires some multilingual features, so the best is to apply the Multilingual_Wiki profile first.
1.2.13. MediaWiki to Tiki convertors
A new feature to import content from Mediawiki installations has been developed. See gsoc2009Rodrigo for more details.
1.2.14. Memcached
New in the performance admin panel.
What is Memcached?: Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
1.2.15. Metatags
Updates to allow the wikipage description to be used as the metatag description so that a unique description can be applied per wiki page instead of the universal text that can be set in the metatag admin screen. The universal text is however the default if an individual page description is not set. If this new metatag option is set, the Description field in the page edit screen is now shown with a modified label to remind you its used for the metatag - even if the Description option is not set in the Wiki admin screen. The Description option still has to be set in Wiki admin however for the description text to be displayed at the top of the saved wiki page.
1.2.16. Minify javascript
1.2.17. Miscellaneous
- Module cache for anonymous
1.2.18. Multi-domain support
- Several external URLs can point to the same Tiki instance, and visitors will be redirected to the appropriate workspace.
1.2.19. Newsletters with wysiwyg
The Newsletters feature allows using WYSIWYG to write messages. Moreover, attachments can be included in messages as well as a different reply to email address.
1.2.20. Organic Groups
Please see Organic Groups
1.2.21. Permissions: Admin interface enhanced
There is a new interface for managing permissions from categories and also from any object.
This new interface includes several features:
1.2.22. Permissions: Cleanup
All permissions can be overwritten at a category or object level. The permissions used on categories prior to Tiki 4 were confusing and lacked the ability to be customized that is expected in Tiki. The new layer uses exactly the same permissions on objects, categories and global permissions. See Permission Cleanup for more information.
Remember that the rules to check if a user has the appropriate permission on an object are:
- first check for object perms,
- then check for category perms,
- if none of the above, use the global permission settings.
18.104.22.168. New permissions
Permission name
|Can change the categories on the object
+ many many more! Ex.: you can now put permissions on groups. This permits to restrict who can add to which group, see group list, etc.
1.2.23. Plugins - new ones!
18.104.22.168. PluginCalendar
It includes a calendar within a wiki page. More information: PluginCalendar
184.108.40.206. PluginFancytable (Enhanced!)
Table can be sorted and pre-sorted, cells can span multiple columns and rows, syntax simplified so that | can be used to separate cells (instead of ~|~). More information: PluginFancytable
18.104.22.168. PluginGroupMail
It includes a helper for group mail cases. More information: PluginGroupMail
22.214.171.124. PluginGroupMailCore
Displays GroupMail functions on a wiki page. Usually set up using a plugin alias created by the GroupMail profile. More information: PluginGroupMail
22.214.171.124. PluginImg (Enhanced!)
It displays images, and nowadays, it includes many of the options from other former plugins (img, image, thumb, ...). More information: PluginImg
220.127.116.11. PluginInvite
It allows inviting new people to join a group through sending an email to them. More information: PluginInvite
18.104.22.168. PluginListProgress
It indicates the internationalization progress of the page list. More information: PluginListProgress
220.127.116.11. PluginMCalendar
It converts dates from Gregorian to Mayan Calendars: Tzolkin, Haab, Long Count. More information PluginMCalendar
188.8.131.52. PluginMemberList
It lists the members of selected groups and allows to add or remove members if permissions are granted.
18.104.22.168. PluginPagelist
It lists pages part of a named list. More information: PluginPagelist
184.108.40.206. PluginR
It parses R syntax and shows the output either from the code introduced between the plugin tags. Data to analyze can be passed as tracker item attachment id. Due to its license, it is available in the Mods repository. More information: PluginR
126.96.36.199. Plugin Screencast
It displays a screencast uploaded on the page. More information: PluginScreencast
220.127.116.11. Plugin Tabs
Provides tabs built using the smarty tabset block. More information: PluginTabs
1.2.24. Profiles - new ones!
18.104.22.168. Expenses Report
Expenses_Report, which makes use of the Time sheet profile
184.108.40.206. Time Sheet
1.2.25. SMTP: Use external server
Experimental -> works only for notification
Prior to 3.0, Tiki uses the SMTP of the server to send email, which is fine for the vast majority of cases. Starting with version 4.0, it's possible to configure an external SMTP server.
1.2.26. Table columns: sortable rows
PluginFancyTable has been improved and it allows the columns to be sorted.
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1.2.27. Themes, CSS, and Look and Feel
220.127.116.11. New Look and Feel Admin options
188.8.131.52.1. Custom head content
The Look and Feel admin page now has a textarea (text input box) for adding code to the html head section, such as ))JavaScript(( and CSS specific for the site
126.96.36.199.2. Custom center column heading
Another textarea has been added to the admin page for custom content at the top of the center column, such as a banner ad, module, or dynamic content tag.
18.104.22.168. More logic in importing CSS
The layout.css file, imported by theme stylesheets since Tiki 3, has been split into two files with the second file, design.css, containing color and spacing defaults that aren't layout-related but still generally convenient to import rather than specifying in the theme. Core themes import both files.
18.104.22.168. Themes
Some brand new themes available in Tiki4, plus many of the new ones in Tiki3 are included in Tiki4.
(carousel here : )
1.2.28. Toolbars Admin
Toolbars (formerly known as "quicktags") can be configured in a very flexible way. You can select the section where you want a new button in its toolbar, or globally. You can optionally check the comments checkbox, you want to edit and drag the icons from the left hand box to the toolbars on the right, ...
1.2.29. Use structures as menus
Structures and menu code change
1.2.30. Wiki page Comments
If the Comment feature for Wiki pages is allowed then a new option for 4.1 is to allow Comments to be allowed/disallowed on a per page basis. This is useful so that Comments can be allowed on some pages but not on others. The admin options let you set this feature on or off (default off) and if set on you can then set the default for all pages to either allow or disallow.
1.2.31. Workspaces
Various Tiki features (groups, permissions, categories, etc.) are being massively improved to enable Workspaces for such applications in education, workplace environments, and projects with multiple teams. Initially the feature will be labeled "experimental" as it is still in development. Some functionality will be in Tiki 4 and other in 5. Please see Workspaces RoadMap. This is a massive enhancement which will lead to the ability to address, for example, these 10 uses cases for workspaces.
This is a different and much more integrated code base than the previous external Mod AulaWiki feature (which had evolved for some years).
Pages linking to Tiki4[+]
Features removed
Some feature are deprecated, unmaintained or superceded. They are thus removed from the main code base.
- Newsreader web forums are now much more common than NNTP forums
- Mootools replaced by jQuery
- Game superceded by PluginFlash
- Drawing superceded by PluginAnnotation
- Charts (never worked, unmaintained)
- Backup users should use PhpMyAdmin or TRIM
- Magic replaced by Dynamic Preferences
- Galaxia Workflow (replaced by Category Transitions)
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