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The World Bank is updating its approach to public sector management. The aim is better World Bank support for governments seeking to improve public sector results: results needed for citizens' today through improved health, education, agriculture and transport services; and the less obvious but equally critical results such as fiscal stability which maximize the prospects that those results will still be delivered tomorrow.
Most can agree that how the public sector is managed matters. It seems clear that public services will be higher quality, or at least less expensive, if senior staff are recruited on merit, if political interference is constrained in day to day operations, and if the budget agreed by the legislature is published and then followed in practice. But the specifics of successful reform are more elusive:
• Mexico is one of the few countries on track to meet the health Millennium Development Goals – but it has massive disparities in health outcomes across population groups. What are the best management arrangements for Mexico's rapidly expanding public health care system?
• In the vast public bureaucracy of India, how can the government ensure that its many diverse state level computer applications can "talk" to each other?
• Following the late 1990s fiscal meltdown, officials in the Russian Ministry of Finance decided to manage public finance flows centrally. Were they right to then try to impose tighter central controls over individual transactions, or was this a step too far in this large and diverse country?
• In post-conflict Sierra Leone, with limited government focus and attention, what was the priority for rebuilding the public administration – central finance functions or local service delivery? Should one be tried without the other?
• How can the new civil service law in Tajikistan, with its requirements for competitive selection of candidates and new systems for job classification and performance appraisal, be given "life" so that it does not remain a paper exercise?
• Is it possible that Tunisia had good public sector management but poor governance? Is there a difference between the vehicle of the public bureaucracy, and where it is being driven?
If the general principles are clear, why is it so difficult to agree on what should be done in a particular case?
Beyond making superficial changes in the formal rules of the game, effective public management change requires that many thousands of public agents alter their behavior, much of which is hidden from view. Well-intended reforms may only be partially introduced. There are political risks. Politicians often need to balance service delivery to citizens with the pressures to serve powerful vested interests – public sector unions or influential elites who are part of a delicate political equilibrium. In some situations, reforms may be undertaken for reform's sake in a hunt for credit for being seen to reform. And lurking in the background, there are challenges in technical design. Much uncertainty remains about what works and why in public sector management reform in different contexts, and while practitioners have developed a strong body of tacit or "craft" knowledge, explicit codified evidence about what works in public sector management remains in short supply.
The Bank is a significant player in the field. Since 1995, the World Bank has approved over 1,500 lending projects with significant public sector components. Last year, it committed nearly $3.6 billion for lending for public sector management reforms in low and middle income countries. Getting the approach right means that we can do more with these resources in helping governments improve their public sector management.
The draft World Bank Approach to Public Sector Management 2011-2020 is proposing some practical ways forward. Are these over-ambitious or too cautious? Are they unduly inward-looking or hubristic in their view on the degree to which the Bank can influence global trends?
The draft Approach sees the Bank as a thought leader in improving public sector management. It asserts that the Bank can help move past hand-wringing about the difficulty of these issues, towards a clearer assessment of when the risks of failure are outweighed by the potential returns from success. It proposes that we strengthen the Bank's own capability to diagnose functional problems and binding constraints, with a "good fit" rather than "best practice" approach.
The draft Approach sees the Bank as a major development actor, and argues that it can use its large and influential portfolio to obtain greater impact. It proposes using flexible approaches (including a proposed new Bank "Program for Results" lending instrument) that adjust to the nature of public sector management reform trajectories which are often incremental and require room for experimentation and constant adaptation.
The draft Approach also sees the Bank as a knowledge-generator. It proposes a significant scaling up in learning about what drives results in public sector reform, improving the evidence-base for understanding what works, when and why, in public sector reform. Similar to the catalytic role the Bank played for growth research in the 1990s, the Bank needs to create a "sputnik moment" for filling this knowledge gap. It proposes improved country-level tracking of institutional reform impact, learning more from Bank projects through treating them as natural experiments, and a multi agency research agenda that inform practical support strategies for future public sector reforms.
Finally, the draft Approach sees the Bank as a disciplinary integrator. It notes that many specialists and advisors work on public sector management, even when this is not in their job titles. The Bank can mobilize collaboration between these different sector specialists (education, transport, public administration etc.).
Early consultations suggest where opinions diverge:
• Defining what the Bank does vs. focusing on how it does it. There are those who consider that the Bank should distinguish more clearly between areas where the knowledge base is more secure and the track record more robust (assisting in revenue administration reforms, designing Financial Management Information Systems, etc.), and those areas where success rates are much more mixed (civil service reforms). Others consider that the Bank will always respond to requests as best as it can and so should not rule anything out however daunting.
• Narrow focus vs. broad leadership. There are those who argue that the Bank should focus on the quality of its own projects and research work. Others argue that the Bank has a strong global leadership role; it should consciously set an example of good support to governments and take an active lead in a new international research agenda.
Where do you come out, and why?
How does the PSM strategy address political economy concerns?
Achieving World Bank New PSM Vision Ambition
A Respectable Start
The emphasis on a diagnostic
More data please!
Promoting Good Governance Worldwide
Impact of Political Economy
Incentives to performance
What do other large organizations do?
re: What do other large organizations do?
politics and public sector reform
Interesting Approach
Re: Interesting Approach
Achieving World Bank New PSM Vision Ambition 2
Realism in political economy expectations
Very positive shift - but pay reform and location of staff?
Concrete steps and systematic learning
Politicians - must be there when it counts
Public sector management: Le roi est mort ! Vive le roi ?
Re: Public sector management: Le roi est mort ! Vive le roi ?
PSM Approach Paper
Best practices, typologies, and diagnostics: how to go about PSM
The Bank's Emerging Approach to Public Sector Governance
'Results' only tell us part of the story
Problem defintion, solutions and metrics
Comments on comments... and laying down the gauntlet
Re: Comments on comments... and laying down the gauntlet
As someone working on PFM
Focusing on the subnational level
The report introduces some welcome emphasis on pragmatism and expectation management in PSM interventions. These comments, for the most part, relate to implementing the overall approach rather than the report per se.
Dealing with Political Risk
The report rightly emphasizes the high level of risk in PSM interventions and encourages a stronger risk assessment (a diagnostic tool is mentioned). I haven't seen the diagnostic tool, but my suspicion would be that the most common factor underpinning a high-risk scenario for PSM interventions would be political indifference, gaming, and/or opposition. This raises the delicate issue of how to assess and manage the politics; i.e., when and how to say no, or at least how to downscale the intervention to fit the inherent risk in the political environment. A full assessment could be informed by a diagnostic, but would also need to include an appropriate forum for a frank discussion concerning the political risk. How this would work in practice needs some thought as it obviously touches on sensitive, even diplomatic issues.
A related dimension of this issue is the need for continual, not just ex-ante, risk assessment. Development interventions, once underway, create considerable institutional momentum to make it to the finish line (usually 2-5 years away). High risk may continue to be acknowledged, but there rarely seems to be any clear understanding of what to do when the risk turns out to be real and results are not forthcoming. More adaptive, risk-responsive designs should be considered (this reinforces the "agility in delivery" theme in the paper).
Terminating Dysfunctional Reforms
The Bank's role as thought leader/knowledge generator could be particularly useful in identifying reforms that rarely if ever work and lobbying for their discontinuation. The impact on PSM results would presumably be beneficial if funding was directed away from these structural, money-wasting losers.
One egregious example (which you know very well) would be conventional functional reviews. It is not just that these expensive development interventions do not fully realize their goals, they rarely achieve any at all. The primary reason seems to be disconnect between the marketing of the reform (streamlining, modernization, savings) and the political implications of the recommendations (which finally dawn on the politicians when the recommendations come forward well into the project). A vigilant risk assessment would require that the incredibly rare winning conditions for functional reviews (e.g., Canada 1994) are in place before proceeding.
I suspect that comprehensive public administration reform programs might also fall into the structural loser category, but that's another discussion.
Rethinking Best Practices
The report points out that developed countries, especially middle income, are looking to import/adapt developed-country best practices. It also comments on the perception that the Bank is always invested in best practices, and acknowledges the shortcomings of such an approach. A nuance here is the way in which a best practice approach distorts the conception of the reform process; i.e., developing country x proceeds, linearly, towards a best practice benchmark that theoretically exists in developed country y.
Part of the problem is that (outside of OECD perhaps), the professional development community has only anecdotal knowledge of how these so-called best practices actually work in developed countries. If I think of Canada, for instance, the quality of our PSM systems does not just sit at a "best practice" level. Over time, they may improve, deteriorate, become outmoded, and then be adapted and re-energized. The necessary political attention required for a reform push will only be available sporadically.
If we accept that these cycles exist, then reform implementation approaches need to move away from the linear, best-practices approach and build in the capacity to identify and mitigate periods of performance decline and political inattention.
From the Bank's perspective, perhaps more effort needs to be placed on understanding the dynamics of PSM systems in developed as well as the range of developing countries.
Projects/Interventions as Research Opportunities
I'm sure this has been considered, but given the fiscal constraints against expanded research, could PSM knowledge be generated by incorporating a modest data collection/analytic component into actual TA projects/interventions/Bank involvements, perhaps in collaboration with other donors? This obviously could not be as rigorous as PEFA, but there may be some critical PSM indicators/analysis that could be collected and aggregated by the Bank.
Centre of Government/Upstream Institutions
The report makes the useful distinction between upstream and downstream institutions and rightfully includes the office at the centre of government along with MoF as the main upstream institutions. I also notice that the gap in policy management skills was identified as the highest-ranked major problem affecting project design/implementation of Bank projects (figure 13).
This report isn't the place for a centre of government discussion, but it might be worth reinforcing a couple of points: the importance of sound policy management practices to realizing policy reliability at the sector level; and, the need to ensure that the government's policy and financial management systems are mutually reinforcing.
Beyond this report, we should be considering how to make some of this "tacit" practitioner knowledge on centre of government/policy management, and its linkages to public financial management, more explicit.
Informally, I've had a couple of exchanges with the PEFA Secretariat about the need for a modest companion to PEFA that covers off the policy side (this was also a topic of the fireplace conversation I moderated on www.pfmboard.com ). In some recent work on an Eastern European country, , a PEFA assessment would have missed the way in which the government decision-making system consistently subverts the fiscal framework (e.g., passing slews of laws without a proper fiscal assessment; walking unvetted items into Cabinet; using emergency ordinances; etc.). The PEFA Secretariat are interested in this issue and agreed that this is a gap that needed to be addressedIn any event, this is one area that could be made a little less tacit. This would also help address the skills gap identified in figure 13.
Diagnostics, Change, and Results
E koreaki te blog aei n te
Re: E koreaki te blog aei n te
Good Direction
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Accepting Risk – on many fronts
Terrific: is it going to be a breakthrough?
The proposed new Approach has several really useful qualities, among which I would count:
•The frank admission that although moving from 'best practice' to 'best fit' has been on the Bank's intellectual agenda since 2000, operationalising it remains extremely hard.
•A clear recognition that the obstacles include both correctable problems on the Bank side (lack of continuity in country dialogue; the Bank's structural divisions; inflexibility of previously available lending instruments, etc.) and understandable incentives on the client side (the legitimacy and prestige factors in institutional mimicry; tokenistic compliance with best-practice objectives to keep aid flowing, etc.).
•Proposals for addressing the Bank-side obstacles within a flat-funding context which look appropriate and practical – to the extent an outsider can judge.
•A good outline of how, in the context of more continuous, joined-up and flexible working at country and regional levels, the Bank's public sector management diagnostic and design work might become at least as sophisticated as the emerging approaches to topics such as growth or industrial policy.
All this is terrifically important and promising. Does it add up to a breakthrough? I would be more confident that it does if two challenges could be addressed (and I don't see why they couldn't be).
First, communication of the new thinking, and appreciation of its implications, is hindered in a couple of important places by an old language redolent of 'best practice' conventions. This concerns a) risk, and b) indicators.
Although the text recognises in various places that uncertainty implies opportunities as well as risks, the headline messages are all about doing a better job of managing risks. Why not be more up-beat, saying more about not missing opportunities? The language of 'well-accepted theories of change' is used once (para. 107). Why not make fuller use of that language?
Relatedly, the passages on indicators still seem too little informed by Matt Andrews' warnings against 'indicators without theory'. Surely we all now agree that what should be tracked are indicators derived from appropriate theories of change; that is, theories that capture well the tacit knowledge of country contexts that Bank staff often possess. The point is made (para. 101) that the needed indicators are not necessarily quantitative, but that is secondary to whether they are informed by a sound, 'best fit' theory.
Second, the question why explicit knowledge about what works in public sector reform remains 'surprisingly limited' is more of a mystery than it needs to be. The principal problem is surely that what works in PSR cannot be divorced from the broader question of 'what works in development', and the answers to that question are largely about country politics. That means they lie somewhat outside the comfort zones of operational Bank staff. But the Approach is already pushing out the frontiers in this respect (in para. 34 and Figure 4 for example), so why not take a couple of further steps?
Stuti Khemani has already pointed out that according to North, Wallis and Weingast, ruling elites within Limited Access Orders (LAOs) respond to incentives that make them unlikely to be (genuine, not tokenistic) champions of reforms the Bank might want to support. This is a challenge that the Approach needs to pick up somehow, because otherwise it will remain the proverbial elephant in the room, effectively preventing the desired shift from tacit to explicit knowledge.
The good news is that research into the politics of what works in development is generating more fine-grained propositions than are to be found in North et al. Rather than treating LAOs as a group, Africa Power and Politics research is looking for salient differences among states of a broadly neopatrimonial type within low-income Africa. The variable of how the ruling elite manages (or not) the utilisation of major economic rents has proven significant to comparative experience in Africa, as well as previously in SE Asia. This suggests that while North et al. may not be wrong at the rather stratospheric level of generality at which their comparisons are conducted, there are some slightly less dismal stories to be told at the level of particular sub-sets of LAOs – as well as within particular countries.
Here then is a topic, and a body of ongoing research, to which Bank thinking could be turning to flesh out the Approach. A broader alliance with what is going on in policy-oriented politics research would put the pursuit of more explicit knowledge about public sector reform on firmer foundations. That would make the Approach as a whole more compelling.


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Author Notes: Violet, white, and pale green spring onions are so picturesque that I want them to last forever. Pulled from the ground when they're as thin as scallions, they are tender and strong tasting, growing sweeter as the bulbs swell to plumpness. These onions are inevitably my first pickle project of the spring, stocking the pantry for another year. Sweet and sour with the combination of sugar and vinegar, the batches are varied by the addition of herbs and spices. Here I used lovage from my garden along with peppercorns and allspice berries, but tarragon is lovely, and so are cloves. The young onions can be tough so I simmer them a little in the pickling liquid. Packed in jars and stored in the refrigerator, they cure in a couple of weeks and last for months, that is, unless they're gobbled up. I slice them to add to simple potato salad or cucumbers (cooked or raw), or serve them with grilled cheese sandwiches or burgers. The leftover pickling liquid becomes the base for salad dressing.
—Karen, Prospect the Pantry
Food52 Review: Prospect the Pantry's pickled spring onions are very easy to make, I love recipes that take little effort and produce fantastic results. The brining liquid is wonderful, the whole peppercorns and allspice add just the right amount of spice and go perfectly with the tender spring onions. Everything is very well balanced and I am sure that when the onions have finished curing in 2 weeks it will yeild delicious pickled onions (I made this yesterday and it cured in the refrigerator overnight, I tasted one this morning and although I have two weeks to go, the onion was delicious). I did not have lovage so I used celery leaves instead. I plan on using this brine for other summer vegetables. It is outstanding. —sdebrango
Makes: 1 pint
bunches thin violet spring onions
cup white vinegar
cup water
cup sugar
teaspoons salt
pieces peppercorns
pieces allspice berries
sprig lovage, torn into small pieces
- Trim enough onions to fit comfortably into a pint jar with a tight fitting lid. Remove the roots, and cut them into 4-inch lengths. Make sure the jar is very clean.
- Bring the vinegar, water, sugar, salt, peppercorns and allspice berries to a boil and add the trimmed onions. Cook over medium-high heat for about 2 minutes, until the onions are slightly tender but still firm. (Use a turkey baster to pierce them to test their firmness.)
- Turn off the heat, remove the onions and pack them into the jar. Add the herbs as you pack the onions.
- Pour the hot pickling liquid over the onions to cover and set the jar aside to cool.
- Seal the jar and place it in the refrigerator to let the onions cure for two weeks before serving.
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Spring Alliums
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CATIA Experience brings together the Shape, Functional, Engineering and Architectural characteristics of a product definition to enable all participants to integrate the digital product experience.
CATIA Product Experience provides multiple elements to help people collaborate at the level of the product experience – where people sit together and review the overall project. Ease of use, simple dashboards, powerful analysis, search etc etc deliver the right information so managers and non specialists can find and interact with the product information they require.
CATIA Knowledge Advisor
Enables design engineers to embed knowledge within the design and leverage it to reduce errors and automate design for maximum productivity
In today's competitive market, efficient decision making and accurate designs are the crucial elements of success. Because competition drives innovation, the product needs to generate the highest quality in the shortest amount of time.
CATIA Knowledge Advisor allows designers and design engineers to capture their know-how and re-use it as best practices. Users can embed knowledge into their design through formulas, rules, reactions and checks. By accelerating the exploration of design alternatives concerning rules, users can make better decisions and reach optimal, error-free designs quickly.
- Accelerate exploration of design alternatives to speed up design process and allocate more time for innovation
- Capture engineering knowledge of best practices
- Increase quality of designs by embedding corporate standards in design rules
- Capture and reuse the most important asset - intellectual capital
Captures and highlights engineering knowledgeVia creation of rules, reactions, checks and formulas. This knowledge is directly embedded in the design through specifications. This allows users to take parameters into account earlier in the design process, automate repetitive, or time-consuming design tasks, and solve complex equations. Early attention to specification details improves design quality and reduces cost by eliminating unnecessary redesign cycles
Easy definition and understanding of know-howThe management of captured knowledge is facilitated through the ability to edit and maintain templates in the same easy and intuitive, interactive way used to modify any CATIA part design. This requires no programming skill and allows templates to be easily adapted to the changing requirements of the organization, accommodating improved methodologies or changed legislative or customer requirements
Supports of advanced relational designThis allows the use of knowledge relations based on the publication of parts' parameters. It permits users to parameterize a wide set of components, such as an assembly, and to ensure the relations between parameters when a component is modified or replaced. For instance, at the conceptual stage of the design an expert can define the global product architecture, based on formulas, rules...and parameters. The publication of these parameter allows different users to enrich this product structure in a consistent way by plugging in their contributions (parts, sub-assembly...). It's also an efficient and quick way to test different product configurations.
Leverages knowledge capital to automate design tasksIt reduces the time-to-design, for increased productivity. Capture and set parameters for design tasks, once and for all, according to engineering rules and reuse them on request, or automatically, while saving precious designer time and avoiding errors: CATIA Knowledge Advisor makes it easy to create designs that can react to context evolution. For example, if a designer inserts, or replaces, a component, it can be triggered to automatically compute the new global mass and geometry positioning.
Leverages know-how to guide and assist usersProvides users with skilled advice during design conception. For instance, when a check is not validated, a warning window pops up and displays a customized message describing required corrective actions. This allows the user to easily analyze the failures and perform the recommended corrective actions.
Shares and ensures compliance with design rules and constraintsOnce knowledge is embedded, a designer can store the design, reuse it and share it with other authorized users. This is facilitated through the designer's ability to add comments and URL links for knowledge objects to help explain the intent of the design. Making previously implicit practices explicit and leveraging them through knowledge design products is an efficient way to transform specific know how into corporate knowledge and disseminate it. Thus, by including the best practices of his company while working on a design and explaining the what, why and how, a designer, or a design engineer, is able to expand the corporation's knowledge capital, while ensuring the consistency of design. For extensive capability description, please consult the specification sheets for CATIA Knowledge Expert, the dedicated product for global design validation and quality. CATIA Knowledge Advisor, used with CATIA Product Knowledge Template, also offers a complete solution for deploying intelligent components.


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When you ponder a trade proposal suggested by a fan on Twitter or HF Boards long enough you reach the inescapable conclusion that its author has only recently mastered tying their shoes. The proposed swaps tend to be incredibly lop-sided and often complicated deals, offering a collection of underwhelming players in the belief that quantity trumps quality.
The author obviously has at least a rudimentary understanding of the game. How can they so horribly misjudge the value of players? Surprisingly, the answer is more nuanced than: they are all suggested by Darryl Sutter. These proposals are the result of the endowment effect.
The Science Behind HFBoards Trade Proposals: Why We Overvalue What We Own.
The Endowment Effect describes the tendency to overvalue what we own. Once we gain ownership of an object-real or imagined- we place a higher subjective value on it. Ownership has very real impact on the decisions we make with respect to buying or selling an item. A study performed at Duke University illustrates just how powerful the endowment effect can be.
Duke University awards basketball tickets via a complex system. Students camp out for days and are forced to periodically "check in" in order to ensure the place in the line. For big games those waiting in line are not actually awarded a ticket, they only receive a chance to win one in a lottery.
Professor Ariely and Professor Ziv Carmon looked at the crowd and wondered, "would those students who had won tickets- who had ownership of tickets- value those tickets more than the students who had not won them?" Their prediction, based on the work of Jack, Knetsch, Dick Thaler, and Daniel Kahneman, was that "when we own something- whether it's a car or a violin, a cat or a basketball ticket- we begin to value it more than other people do." How were they to test their hypothesis? They became scalpers.
Armed with a list of winners and losers of the lottery Ariely and Cameron placed a few phone calls. They called a student who had failed to get a ticket and asked him how much he was willing to pay to buy one. He was willing to pay $175 for a ticket. They told him they would get back to him should they find someone willing to sell their ticket at that price.
Then they called someone who had won a ticket in the lottery and asked how much they would sell it for. At first he refused to entertain the notion of selling. After some prodding he settled on a final price of $2,400. They made a few hundred more calls and tallied up the numbers. Those who did not own a ticket were willing to pony up an average of $170. Those who did own one demanded an average of $2,400. Their most interesting finding was that "not a single person was will to sell a ticket at a price that someone else was willing to pay".
Ownership of the tickets created to distinct groups of fans. All of the students had wanted the tickets bad enough to camp out for days. Yet after the lottery tickets owners placed a much higher value on their tickets than non-owners. Such is the power of the endowment effect.
This is why people propose such ridiculous trades. They place a higher value on the players they "own". They think about all their highlight-reel goals and hits, their potential, and the emotional impact of losing them. So they demand what an objective, rational observer would deem to be disproportionate compensation. The influence of the endowment effect is not limited to fans. Owners and general managers are victims as well.
The endowment effect might explain why some GMs overpay to acquire a player, either via trade or free agency. We do not have to physically possess something to feel ownership of it. Once we imagine ourselves owning the endowment effect influences our decisions. Imagine a GM believes that he needs a certain player. He has scouted him for years and believes he will be a difference maker.
This player has suddenly become available.
The GM begins to imagine what his team will look like with this player on it. He will help lead the team to the playoffs and maybe even the Cup. He could be the proverbial final piece of the puzzle. The GM begins to feel as though the player is already a part of the team. When the asking price is driven up by another offer the GM has no choice but to match. He already has ownership of the player. He would rather overpay than "lose" the player. Analysts and observers will rationalize this as "the cost of doing business" but it is an established concept that can cost a team valuable players as well as cap-dollars.
Brian Burke has gone from victim to beneficiary of the endowment effect. Some of his early trades and free agent signings were deemed acceptable overpayments because "he got the guy he wanted". Burke's imagined ownership of "his players" forced him to overpay rather than risk not signing them. His more recent moves have taken advantage of it. Sutter so valued getting rid of alleged malcontent Phaneuf he was willing to include Aulie in the deal.
Poile began imagining how he could spend the money freed up by the departure of Lombardi he justified losing Franson as "the cost of doing business". In addition to acquiring valuable players, Burke has also resisted overpaying players he wanted. Upshall, Leino, and Richards were all players he had targeted. Setting a pre-established price and delegating to his front office staff helped him avoid overpaying them. Hopefully he continues to use the endowment effect to his advantage.
How can we combat the endowment effect? Try to evaluate players as objectively as possible. Be cognizant of the influence ownership can play in assigning value to an item. As for GMs they should try to surround themselves with as many capable assistants as possible. Not every executive will have the same sense of ownership in a player. Setting established limits for players will prevent GMs from overpaying for a player in response to another offer. If you are aware of it the endowment effect can be used to your advantage.


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Devil is in the detail
A new ABC drama explores the deadly asbestos scandal.
THE asbestos dust is knee-high in here; piles of the stuff collect like snowdrifts in every corner of the room. It clogs the air and coats your clothes. There are hefty hessian sacks of asbestos, and sheets of asbestos cladding that lean against the walls, looking to modern eyes like nothing so much as blank tombstones awaiting the names of the dead.
I am on the creepily realistic set of Devil's Dust, the ABC's new two-part drama about the James Hardie asbestos tragedy. The ''asbestos'' is, of course, fake: it's actually a fine, clumping dust called Hydrocol 105, an inert substance that, while eerily resembling the real thing, has none of asbestos' terrible, life-terminating side effects, including cancer, tumours and suffocating lung disease. What is real, however, is the story behind this scene, a tale of bravery and corporate chicanery, which, in the words of director Jessica Hobbs, was ''begging to be told''.
Based on the book Killer Company by ABC journalist Matt Peacock, Devil's Dust is the story of how James Hardie, once one of Australia's most successful and respected companies, was called to account for making and selling asbestos, a product it knew to be lethal. ''It's breathtaking how long the whole thing took to be sorted out,'' Hobbs says. ''And how Hardie continued to produce asbestos even as the death toll rose.''
The drama covers 30 years, beginning in the early 1970s, and features three key players, one of whom is Matt Peacock (played by Ewen Leslie), the journalist who did more than any other to bring the scandal to light. There is also Bernie Banton (The Slap's Anthony Hayes), who, with his silvery hair and ever-present oxygen tank, became the major public face of the very long fight for compensation. The third character is a fictional one, Adam Bourke (Don Hany), who as Hardie's in-house PR man must eventually confront the reality that his employer is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.
For Hobbs, whose previous credits include Love My Way, Answered by Fire and The Slap, Devil's Dust came with some particular challenges.
''We had a huge obligation to be responsible,'' she says. ''You suddenly had to be a scientist, to make sure we understood the medical side; a corporate lawyer, to get our heads around all the corporate manoeuvring that went on; and also a bit of an investigative journalist, cross-checking the facts to make sure that all the stories were corroborated.''
But there was also a dramatic prerogative. ''People have lots of facts about the asbestos story,'' Hobbs says. ''So what we wanted to do was give people the personal, emotional experience of what it was like to be part of that journey.''
With its almost-too-convenient David and Goliath narrative, the series could easily have become a sermon about corporate greed. However, Hobbs and the cast have largely avoided this, imbuing even the most unsympathetic characters with a degree of humanity.
''We spoke to people within Hardie who told us about what [chief executive Peter Macdonald] was like,'' Hobbs says. ''From our research, he was almost an incurable optimist: when the Jackson inquiry [into the funding of future asbestos-related compensation claims] came around, people within Hardie could see it was the beginning of the end, but Macdonald thought it was fine. He saw it as an opportunity to clear their name.''
To capture Macdonald, actor Greg Stone watched interviews with him, including an uncut Q&A conducted with Peacock in the early 2000s. Anthony Hayes did likewise in portraying Bernie Banton.
''Bernie had a distinctive voice, high register and nasally, and when I did it for the first time without the make-up I felt like an idiot,'' Hayes says. ''I also had to learn the different ways he moved - the mannerisms, the posture, the rounded shoulders, the way he used his fists when he spoke.''
Hayes also talked to the widows of seven men who had died of asbestos-related diseases.
''The women explained how capable these guys had been, how physically fit they were, how they worked with their hands and were real men's men. And then to have had that taken away from them, and the humiliation that came with that - not being able to walk to the shop, or walk down the stairs - was horrific.''
Like Hobbs, Hayes was wary of lionising Banton, whom he describes as a ''bit of a rascal. Not to dampen his legacy, but Bernie Banton wasn't just a martyr to the cause. He knew what he was doing, he was politically savvy and a great spokesman. He knew that wearing that oxygen mask, though necessary, really helped his side of the argument. And he had a bit of an ego. He started a bit reluctantly but then after a little while he was revelling in the power.''
Indeed, Hayes spoke to lots of people who were associated with asbestos diseases and ''weren't particularly fond of Bernie'', he says. ''There was jealousy there because Bernie got a bigger payout, for one thing.''
About the only person Hayes didn't talk to was Banton's widow. ''I felt I needed at least a little bit of freedom to interpret it!'
At a recent screening in Sydney, Banton's son, Dean, came along.
''I was pretty nervous about how he would take it,'' Hayes says. ''But afterwards Dean stayed sitting in the theatre for about half an hour, crying. He later said that we'd nailed it, which for an actor is probably the best compliment you could hope for.''
Devil's Dust airs on Sunday and Monday night on ABC1.


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Android Rules the Smartphone World
Nov 2, 2012 2:56 PM PT
Android dominates the worldwide smartphone market, running on 75 percent of all smartphones shipped throughout the globe in the third quarter, IDC reported.
Samsung continued to hold sway over the Android market, but its market share slipped because of competition from a multitude of smaller vendors.
Apple's iOS came in a poor second, shipping on 26.9 million smartphones in Q3 2012. That gave iOS a 14.9 percent market share for the quarter.
Google's Runaway Mobile OS
Total Android smartphone shipments grew 91.5 percent in the past year, IDC reported. That's nearly twice the overall market growth rate of 46.4 percent.
In all, 136 million of the 181.1 million smartphones shipped worldwide in Q3 2012 ran Android.
More Android smartphones were shipped in Q3 2012 than the total number of smartphones shipped in all of 2007, the year Android was first offered.
"The reasons Android's so strong are obvious -- it has tons of vendors ranging from the really huge to the really tiny, there is no licensing fee, so vendors can put as much or as little money as they want into development, and you have models ranging from entry-level to the high end where you pay US$600 to $700," Ramon Llamas, research manager at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times.
"More phones are coming out on Android than any other OS, especially in the lower cost segments," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research, told the E-Commerce Times.
For example, Chinese vendor ZTE, which, along with compatriot Huawei was declared a possible national security risk in the United States, has become one of the top five smartphone vendors globally, primarily because of a surge in sales of lower-cost devices in emerging markets, IDC said.
No Strategy Change
The advent of Windows Phone 8 will see "a few more smartphone vendors taking Windows Phone 8 more seriously" but is not likely to lead them to change their strategy going forward, at least for now, IDC's Llamas suggested.
"The Android system will continue to grow because it's the closest thing we have to an effective open source platform," McGregor continued. "Android is being used in many other applications just to leverage the mobile ecosystem."
Samsung's Still the Android 800-Pound Gorilla
Samsung continued to lead the worldwide smartphone market, with more than 31 percent of worldwide market share, according to another IDC report. This is the first time a single company has held that much of the market in a single quarter since Q4 2009, IDC said.
The Korean company's shipments were more than twice that of archrival Apple's for Q3 2012.
Samsung's growth was fueled mainly by its broad, deep and refreshed Android portfolio, beginning with its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone and continuing through multiple mid-range and mass-market models.
The Galaxy S III has sold 30 million units, Samsung claims.
Meanwhile, another report, this one by Comscore, shows Samsung increasing its penetration in the U.S. market slightly between July and September, from 25.6 percent to 26 percent. LG came in second with 17.7 percent and Apple third with 17.5 percent, although Apple chalked up a 2.1 percent growth in market share during that period.
Is iOS Hurting?
Smartphones running iOS increased their market share by only one percent year over year, although shipments went up 57 percent year over year.
Reconciling that with the consumer frenzy surrounding Apple's iPhone launches is difficult, but the overall smartphone market has grown.
Further, statistics for market share and shipments "measure volume, not revenue or profit, and Apple constrains the supply of iPhones so they ... can keep prices up," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times.
The shipment figures "represent what's sold to stores, not to consumers, so a lot of Android phones may go unsold or be sold at steep discounts to get rid of excess inventory," Enderle continued.


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Gay Travelers who are researching a travel destination and want to hear about the destination from other gay travelers.
The Gay community are typically high income professionals working in creative industries like advertising and media so are attracted to good design and style.
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Unmatched in their softness and consistency, Schmincke soft pastels were created using the finest artist's pigments and a minimum of binders. Pastel softness permits beautiful dense application, and high pigment concentration results in intense colors.
Color Swatches created using heavy to light application and were applied on 100 lb (163 gsm) drawing paper material.
carbazole dioxazine
Dioxazine Violet is transparent and has very high tinting strength. It is a staining pigment, very dark valued when it is used at full strength. Concentrated, it paints out nearly black, but it mixes with Titanium White to form bright, opaque tints of purple. PV23 produces slightly redder shades than PV37. Because the hue can vary with the conditions of preparation and grinding, it may be offered in red shade, blue shade, and so forth.
Dioxazine Violet has good lightfastness. There may be some concern about it fading or shifting in color in tints and washes. Some artists have reported that PV37, a molecular variant, is more lightfast than PV23.
Two molecular variants of Dioxazine Violet, PV23 and PV37, are available. They have similar properties, but mix slightly differently.
Dioxazine Purple, Chromothal Violet, Mauve, Carbazole Violet.
iron oxides
FeO or Fe2O3
Mars Black is an opaque black with a strong and cool masstone, a slightly warm tint, and a warm brown undertone. It is not as black as Ivory Black, but it dries more quickly and has three times the tinting strength. Mars Black is normally the only black available in acrylic form and that is safe to over paint. It can be used in all media without reservation and is widely used as an alternative to Lamp Black and Ivory Black.
Mars Black is very lightfast with excellent permanence.
Mars Black has no significant hazards and is the only major black pigment considered non-toxic.
The word Mars refers to the Roman god of iron and war. Mars Black was developed in the early 20th century from inorganic, synthetic iron oxide.
Black Iron Oxide, Iron Black, Magnetic Oxide, Mapico Black, Mineral Black. Sometimes labeled as Vine Black.
alpha copper phthalocyanine
Phthalo Blue PB15:1 is a structural variant of Phthalo Blue PB15 that produces more reddish tones.
Phthalo Blues are completely lightfast and stable and are permanent for all paint uses. They are currently used in inks, coatings, and many plastics due to their stability and are considered a standard pigment in printing ink and the packaging industry.
Phthalo Blues have no significant hazards, although those made before 1982 contained some PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls).
Developed by chemists using the trade name Monastral Blue, the organic blue dyestuff now known as Phthalo Blue was presented as a pigment in November 1935 in London. Its discovery was accidental. The dark color was observed in a kettle where a dye was being made from a British dyestuff plant. The demand for such a pigment came from commercial printers who wanted a cyan to replace Prussian Blue.
Phthalo Blue Red Shade, Winsor Blue Red Shade
titanium dioxide
Titanium White is the most brilliant of the white pigments. It is considered an all purpose oil color useful in all techniques and the best all around white. Its masstone is neither warm nor cool, placing it somewhere between Lead White and Zinc White. It is less prone to cracking and yellowing than Lead White, but it still yellows easily. Titanium White dries slowly in oil form, more slowly than Lead White but more quickly than Zinc White. It is opaque in oil and acrylic forms and semi-opaque in watercolor form. This pigment has good chemical stability, and its tinting strength is superior to both Lead White and Zinc White.
Titanium White has excellent permanence and lightfastness.
Titanium dioxide is highly stable and is regarded as completely non-toxic. Animal studies give no indiciation that it is absorbed biologically, even after long periods of exposure. The primary safety concern is with inhalation of fine pigment dust particles. Titanium White, if inhaled in large amounts over the course of several years, may cause a benign pneumoconiosis that is visible on x-rays. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) considers fine titanium dioxide particles, if inhaled, to be a human carcinogen. The primary concern for artists is to avoid exposure to fine particulate dust from raw pigments.
Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, however mineral deposits that are economical to mine are less common. Titanium dioxide was first discovered in 1821, although it could not be mass produced until 1919. Widespread use of the pigment began in the 1940s. Since that time, it has become the most commonly used white pigment. The name comes from the Latin word Titan, the name for the elder brother of Kronos and ancestor of the Titans, and from the Greek word tito, meaning day or sun.
complex silicate of sodium and aluminum with sulfur
Na8-10Al6Si6O24S2-4 or Na6-8Al6Si6O24S2-4
Ultramarine is the standard warm blue, a brilliant blue pigment that has the most purple and least green in its undertone. It has a moderate to high tinting strength and a beautiful transparency. Synthetic Ultramarine is not as vivid a blue as natural Ultramarine. Ultramarine dries slowly in oil and tends to produce clean, though granular, washes in watercolor. French Ultramarine mixes well with Alizarin colors in oil and watercolor form to create a range of purples and violets. It can dull when mixed with white in acrylic form, but mixes well with other colors. The shade varies based on manufacturer. Considered a great color for glazes, it is not suitable for frescoing.
Ultramarine has excellent permanence, although synthetic Ultramarine is not as permanent as natural Ultramarine. It may discolor if exposed to acid because of its sulfuric content.
Ultramarine has no significant hazards.
The name for this pigment comes from the Middle Latin ultra, meaning beyond, and mare, meaning sea, because it was imported from Asia to Europe by sea. It is a prominent component of lapis lazuli and was used on Asian temples starting in the 6th century. It was one of the most expensive pigments in 16th century Europe, worth twice its weight in gold, and so was used sparingly and when commissions were larger. Ultramarine is currently imitated by a process invented in France in 1826 by Jean Baptiste Guimet, making blue affordable to artists and extending the range of colors on their palettes.
Artificial Ultramarine, French Blue, French Ultramarine, Gmelin's Blue, Guimet's Blue, Permanent Blue, Royal Blue, Synthetic Ultramarine. New Blue describes particular shades of Ultramarine. Armenian Blue and Lazuline Blue are names for genuine Lapiz Ultramarine. Sky Blue is a pale tone of Ultramarine.
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Natalie Bovis-Nelsen from The Liquid Muse has a series of webcasts from this year's Tales of the Cocktail. In installment 3, she attends the blogger party and invites each blogger to introduce himself or herself to the camera. I'm in there, too.
I have lots more to say, but since I had to dive back into the freelance life today, I haven't had a chance to write much. More soon, I hope.
Also, I plan to announce soon what I hope will be fun new feature of this blog, so stay tuned. Next up, though, will be tonight's Mixology Monday post, as if I haven't blogged enough in the past week. (ETA: I just noticed Paul's announcement of the extension. Whoo hoo!)


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Otherwise known as friendly bacteria, these well-meaning microbes are working hard to keep your GI tract in healthy balance. When there are enough of them, they make it an inhospitable environment for harmful bacteria, yeasts and parasites. When antibiotics wipe them out along with the bad bacteria imbalances can occur.
Probiotics appear to help enhance the immune system and offer protection from bacteria and viruses that cause GI illnesses, such as travelers diarrhea and rotavirus. Studies suggest that supplementing the diet with probiotics can help reduce the risk of developing a cold and shorten its duration. Other conditions that may benefit from probiotics include eczema, yeast infections, irritable bowel syndrome, lactose intolerance and urinary tract infections. Probiotics may also help reduce the risk of developing asthma and certain allergies.
Lactobacillus acidophilus is the most commonly used probiotic. Additional beneficial varieties include other members of the Lactobacillus species including L. reuteri, L. casei, and L. rhamnosus. Most yogurts contain L. acidophilus, but may also contain other strains.
Bifidobacteria appear to be especially important in children and infants as they are the most abundant group of bacteria in breast-fed babies. They may contribute to the protective health benefits breastfeeding provides against GI illnesses. Common strains found in supplements include B. bifidum, B. lactis, and B. longum. B. infantis has been studied in adults and may help ease the symptoms of IBS.
Saccharomyces bouldarii (Florastor) is not bacteria, but a probiotic yeast. It is used to help prevent infectious diarrhea as well as diarrhea associated with antibiotic use. It is commonly used to help prevent the recurrence of C. difficile which is a very common hospital infection which usually occurs after antibiotic use.
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The most common food source of probiotics includes yogurt, kefir, miso, and tempeh. Many special probiotic drinks are now widely available and very popular. Look for the term live active cultures when buying yogurt or probiotic drinks. Some of these drinks may also include the number of live cells per serving.
Supplements may be required for therapeutic doses or if someone cannot tolerate food sources of probiotics. Always choose a high quality supplement to ensure live active cultures. During antibiotic therapy take probiotics as many hours as possible in between doses of antibiotic and continue the probiotics for a few weeks after antibiotic therapy is complete.
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The Obama campaign has responded to the defeat of its man in the first debate by accusing Romney of lying his way to victory. It thus becomes incumbent on Team Obama to make this assertion stick in a forum where the other side gets to participate.
This task falls to Joe Biden in tomorrow's vice presidential debate. His mission is not generally to reassure Americans that the country is in good hands, as George H.W. Bush and Dick Cheney were called on to do after Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush slipped up in their first debate. For the Republicans did not try to explain away these debate defeats by calling their opponent a liar. But Team Obama opted to raise the stakes by making such a claim. So Biden's mission is to prove that Romney wasn't being honest and that his numbers don't add up.
Ryan, therefore, should expect an all out assault by Biden. Word is that Biden has been sequestered for the better part of a week preparing to launch that assault.
In many ways, Ryan is just the guy you'd want on the stage to counter it. After all, he's the ultimate numbers guy. But Ryan can't rely on his general fund of knowledge, ample though it is, and he must guard against over-confidence. Ryan should be prepared to defend with specificity everything Romney said during the debate and to rebut claims that Romney's debate positions are inconsistent with his past pronouncments.
It's a big task — there's a lot of territory to cover here. But if Ryan succeeds, then Team Obama's "Romney won by lying" narrative will be shot down and Romney's decisive debate victory will continue to resonate.
Ryan shouldn't just play defense, of course. The Obama administration's record offers him a target rich environment; it's imperative that Ryan exploit it, as Romney did.
In doing so, Ryan will force Biden to play some defense. I don't doubt that Talkin' Joe has been primed to attack hard, and I think we should assume that he's capable for doing so. In fact, he is probably better suited for this role than Obama. But can Biden defend the Obama adminstration's record without tying himself in knots and commiting at least one serious gaffe?
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party has launched an internal inquiry into allegations made by The New York Times that the family of Premier Wen Jiabao accumulated at least $2.7 billion in "hidden riches", the South China Morning Post said on Monday.
Wen himself asked for the inquiry in a letter to the Politburo Standing Committee - the party's top decision-making body of which he is also a member - in an apparent move to clear his name, the Hong Kong daily said, citing unnamed sources.
Lawyers for the Wen family have rejected The New York Times' October 26 report, which says corporate and regulatory records show Wen's mother, siblings and children amassed most of their wealth since Wen became Vice Premier in 1998.
"The Standing Committee had agreed to his (Wen's) request," the South China Morning Post said, quoting the sources.
It cited some analysts as saying that Wen's request for a probe showed the premier was keen to use it as a chance to push forward a long-stalled "sunshine law", which would require a public declaration of family assets by senior leaders.
However, Professor He Weifang, a law expert at Peking University, told the Post that he doubted the party's senior leadership would go that far.
"Even if Wen wants to disclose his assets, I don't think other senior leaders, who may also have 'hidden wealth' of their own, will allow him to go ahead, considering the explosive social repercussions," He said.
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Paul Davis offices donate $9,000 to Michigan Association of Independent Agents (MAIA)
November 29, 2011 // Franchising.com // Harrison Twp., MI - Paul Davis Restoration offices of Michigan have committed to a 2012 Diamond Level Partnership for the Michigan Association of Independent Agents (MAIA). The locally owned restoration franchise group has pledged $9,000 to the MAIA for the second year in a row. The Paul Davis offices have also sponsored a variety of MAIA activities for the past several years.
According to Paul Maysura, marketing representative for the Paul Davis office in Macomb and St. Clair counties, funds will go towards a variety of activities for the professional insurance association including training events, continuing education courses, the Young Agents Council (YAC) Conference, and various other professional development activities. Matt Vondrasek, general manager of the Paul Davis office in Flint and Saginaw, MI, and Terri Bettinger, marketing representative at the Paul Davis office in Lansing, MI are the primary coordinators of the partnership.
Paul Davis is a leading provider of fire damage and water damage clean up and restoration services for residential and commercial properties.
The Michigan Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) is the largest Association in Michigan for the Independent Insurance Agent, representing independent agencies and industry employees. The MAIA Partners program is designed for companies that seek high-profile visibility among Michigan independent agents and an opportunity to demonstrate their long-term support of members of the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents on an ongoing basis.
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Hello! I'm the Editor of 'Fabrications - Quilting for You' magazine. We have six issues per year and the magazine is for everyone who loves patchwork, quilting, embroidery, textile arts, fabric and gadget news, new fabric ideas and inspiration, visiting shows and exhibitions, finding out what's on and where near and far, and who enjoys hearing about or contributing to quilting good causes.
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HORSHAM, PA — Another diet company is moving into the health club industry. While LA Weight Loss began opening clubs a few years ago, NutriSystem is now entering the market with its purchase of Slim and Tone, a franchise of 126 express fitness centers. NutriSystem provides weight management and fitness products and services.
"We just completed a six-month marketing test with Slim and Tone that indicated that the Slim and Tone network has the potential to grow rapidly and serve as an effective distribution channel for the NutriSystem Nourish weight loss program. We like the Slim and Tone business because it has similar financial characteristics to ours, including high growth, profitability and little need for capital expenditures," said NutriSystem CEO Michael Hagan.
Betsy Ludlow, founder and president of Slim and Tone, will remain with NutriSystem as the president of the Slim and Tone division.
"Both companies serve the same consumers, weight-conscious women, and both emphasize value, convenience and success to the consumer," said Ludlow. "With all of the fad diet and fitness programs out there, it is refreshing to find a partner who is also dedicated to overall health and wellness."
America's Weight Loss Efforts in 2004
49% of American adults tried to lose at least 5 pounds
65% of health club members tried to lose weight
19% of nonclub members were "very" or "extremely" successful in reaching their weight-loss goals
25% of health club members were "very" or "extremely" successful in reaching their weight-loss goals
30% of health club members that visited their club 100 or more times a year (a frequent user) were "very" or "extremely" successful in reaching their weight-loss goals
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A Lancaster County company has joined the ranks of businesses challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's contraception requirement.
The requirement, which started phasing in Aug. 1, does not apply to religious employers – those that have the inculcation of religious values as their purpose, primarily employ those who share their religious tenets, primarily serve those who share their religious tenets and are nonprofits under Internal Revenue Code section 6033(a)(1) and section 6033(a)(3)(A)(i) or (iii).
Conestoga Wood Specialties, based in East Earl, doesn't fit that description and will be required to provide insurance coverage for what its attorneys, Harrisburg-based Independence Law Center, term "abortion-inducing drugs" when its new health plan starts Jan. 1.
Conestoga has filed a civil suit challenging the mandate based on the First and Fifth Amendments and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
"Being told that we must provide a health plan that includes a provision that violates the Christian beliefs of our family and the Christian values that our company was founded on is deeply troubling," said Conestoga president and CEO Anthony Hahn in an online statement. "Forcing Americans to surrender long-standing, deeply-held principles in order to own and run a business is not merely troubling but unnecessary and unconstitutional."
Similar lawsuits have been filed by Hobby Lobby, Tyndale House Publishers and Liberty University.
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Guide to Geologic Hazards in Alaska
- Thawing permafrost
- Thawing of any soil, subsoil, or other surficial deposit, or even bedrock, occurring in the arctic, subarctic, and alpine regions at variable depth beneath the Earth's surface in which a temperature below freezing has existed continuously for a long time (from two years to tens of thousands of years) [Permafrost]. This definition is based exclusively on temperature, and disregards the texture, degree of compaction, water content, and lithologic character of the material. The thickness of permafrost ranges from over 1000 m in the north to 30 cm in the south; it underlies about one fifth of the world's land area. Syn: pergelisol, perennially frozen ground. (Neuendorf, K.K.E. and others, 2005)
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From Red Hat, SuSE, and the other major off-the-shelf distributions to "pocket distros" such as ZipSlack, the roster of Linux distros is long. Out of all of these, which is best for you? "There are different ways of deciding," advised Heather Stern of Starshine.org.
During Linux Bootcamp at the recent PC Expo show, Stern listed the following as "off-the-shelf/general purpose distros": Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Slackware, and Debian.
"You'll need a commercial off-the-shelf distro if the implementation you're planning is purely commercial," said Stern, in a follow-up interview with LinuxPlanet later.
In deciding among commercial distributions, it's important to look at support being offered by the vendors you work with, Stern observed. Right now, for example, some ISVs and hardware vendors are only supporting Red Hat and/or SuSE.
Slackware and Debian, on the other hand, are more along the lines of "progammers'" or "build-your-own" distributions. So, too, are emerging distributions such as Gentoo, Knoppix, and Morphix, a distro Stern described as "modular Knoppix."
Generally speaking, "build-your-own" distributions are well geared to creating special purpose applications. However, users need to weigh their companies' needs for customization versus expenditure of IT time and energy, she said.
It doesn't hurt to know the ins-and-outs of programming environments such as Perl or Python, as well as non-RPM software packaging methods such as tarballs.
Gentoo, the "new kid on the block," provides "fine-tuned granularity," Stern contended. "Debian, though, can be less tricky," she conceded.
Stern cited a number of distros already in the works for special purposes. Some Debian developers, for example, are building a medical distro called Debian-Med (www.debian.org/devel/debian-med ).
Gentoo developers have created a LAN-based gaming demo that uses NVidia cards, according to Stern.
Meanwhile, Linux in Schools (www.k12linux.org) is working on a distro for grade K-12 classrooms. The implementation is highly centralized, she added. Linux Terminal software is used on classroom workstations.
Other projects are creating "pocket distros" that run on a floppy, standard-sized CD, or miniature CD, for instance. "You can carry them with you," Stern said. Examples include ZipSlack; DamnSmallLinux (DSL); Smoothwall; LNX-BBC; Tom's RtBt; Trinux; and Gibraltar.
Also available to users are all-in-one software solutions, along with hardware appliances dedicated to specific functions.
Software solutions range from Web servers such as Apache and thttpd to software for mail (sendmail, postfix, qmail); DNS (BIND, djbdns, MaraDNS, pdnsd); and ISP connectivity (wvdial, xisp).
Appliances include pre-loaded rackmount servers; mail appliances; file sharing servers; programming repositories; and database servers.
"The appliances tend to be expensive, however," Stern acknowledged. "Many of them have FreeBSD (Unix) under the hood, and that's fine, too.
Stern also gave some tips on how to ease customization. "Customize something normal. Then burn it," she recommended. "Check Freshmeat." Freshmeat (www.freshmeat.org ) contains links to pre-built software programs, documentation, patches and desktop themes.
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Again, functionality varies according to specific Linux distro. Due to its modularity, Debian can be made to operate on even a 500 MB hard drive. "But you'd never be able to get Mandrake to run on a 486," Stern maintained.


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New ways to find the Android apps you like!
As the Android market now has well over 70,000 apps, finding the apps you want can be hard. Sometimes you know exactly what you want, and then searching is a great way to get your app. But often, you don't know the exact name of an app you might like, and then it's more useful to browse around and see what other people like. The Google Android market doesn't allow easy discovery of interesting new apps, because the all-time ranking of apps rarely changes the apps that are on top. The AppBrain hot apps list is a big step in the right direction, but we think browsing for apps could be even better.
Today we're happy to launch a major upgrade to the AppBrain website, http://www.appbrain.com/. In addition to a cleaner user interface, it features much better ways in which you can browse for Android apps. By using anonymous aggregated user statistics, we are able to provide a number of interesting new ways to browse for apps.
For instance, you can now look for apps from the tools category that are popular among the youngest users of AppBrain, and find a Drivers Ed app. Or find out that there's three Hello Kitty themes in the top 10 popular themes among women.
We also made it much easier to find apps that are interesting to people from a specific country. I was happy to now easily find the "Albert Heijn" application from the list of apps most used in the Netherlands, where I'm from. The 15 countries we currently provide most-used lists for are the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Australia, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Hong Kong, Brazil, France, Canada, Spain, and Portugal. Other countries unfortunately don't have enough users on AppBrain to provide a ranking, but we will add more countries as soon as more people join!
In addition to the new lists, we also enhanced the ways you can filter the selection of apps down to what you want. For instance, the hot apps are now viewable by category, by clicking them on the left side of the screen. In addition to filtering by category, you can also add a filter to only get free, paid, new, updated, or price-reduced apps.
We hope you like the new look of the site and the new ways to browse the Android market!
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