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© Oct 2008 Volume 6 Issue 2, ICICKM 2007, Editor: Rembrandt Klopper, pp1 - 116
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Organizations today should actively incorporate knowledge strategy (KS) into their Business Strategy (BS) as knowledge has been recognized as a strategic element in the performance of the organization. Hence, the current research hypothesis that the alignment between BS and KS has a positive effect on the organizational performance. In an attempt to explore the alignment between KS and BS, an operational model is proposed based on the prior studies in the strategic alignment. BS types were viewed in terms of Miles and Snow's (1978) typology of Defenders, Analyzers and Prospectors. Two KS strategies include: Aggressive Knowledge Strategy (AKS) and Conservative Knowledge Strategy (CKS) were selected to examine the KM strategic alignment with business strategies. This model was empirically validated through a survey of 106 banks selected from the six Gulf countries (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, and Oman). With respect to the perspective of alignment, the moderation approach was chosen. The overall finding of the research demonstrated that there is a strong association between KS and BS and that the alignment between KS and BS clearly influenced the organizational performance.
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Life Expectancy at Birth
The Life Expectancy at Birth infographic by designer Marcelo Duhalde from Muscat, Oman is a fantastic data visualization of the current life expectancies by country if you were born 2013.
Average number of years to be lived by a group of people born last year (2013) if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. The entry includes total population of both male and female components.
From a design perspective, this infographic tells one story really well. The infographic focuses on communicating one set of data effectively (lifespan) without complicating the design with additional extraneous information. The overall design is very attractive, and grabs the audience's attention with a big, central visual element. The curving bars are unusual, but have the benefit of condensing the early years so they take less space in the overall design.
At the macro level, it's obvious there is a big difference between the various countries and continents. The readers are drawn in to compare the details of the different countries they are familiar with. Usually starting with where you live, and then looking to see which countries fare better or worse than your location. Of course the data represents a massive generalization of millions of people, but does tell a great story at that higher level.
The design looks like it's perfectly sized to be printed as a poster, but I couldn't find any mention of one. The sources could definitely be more specific than just listing the top level sites that data was gathered from, and the URL to the infographic landing page on Visualizing.org should have been included in the footer information.
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Online Symposium: Zittrain's The Future of the Internet–And How To Stop It
It's an honor to introduce Jonathan Zittrain and the participants in our online symposium on The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It. From tomorrow through Wednesday, we will be discussing Zittrain's important book, which warns of a shift in the Internet's trajectory from a wide-open Web of creative anarchy to a series of closed platforms that will curtail innovation. As Zittrain predicted, "tethered appliances" dominate our information ecosystem today. We increasingly trade generative technologies like PCs that permit experimentation for sterile, reliable appliances like mobile phones, video game consoles, and book readers that limit or forbid tinkering. Zittrain attributes this phenomenon to the unfortunate, yet now predictable, pathologies that generativity enables. Although generative technologies facilitate innovation, they permit the spread of spam, viruses, malware, and the like.
According to Zittrain, the Internet is at a crucial inflection point. Rather than sustaining the wide-open Web of creativity and disruption, the Internet may in time become a series of controlled networks that limit innovation and enable inappropriate governmental and corporate surveillance. Zittrain offers various strategies to forestall such scenarios, including tools to empower users to solve problems that drive users to sterile appliances and networks. Zittrain argues that our information ecology functions best with generative technology at its core.
The Future of the Internet raises a host of fascinating and timely questions. Is the future of the Internet indeed bleak? As this month's cover story for Wired asks: is Zittrain's dark future only likely in the "commercial content side" of the digital economy? Might a healthy balance of generative technologies and tethered appliances emerge, or is the move to appliancized networks a grab for control that will be difficult to shake? Will non-generative technologies impact our democratic commitments and cultural values? Should we remain committed to protecting generativity? Are there alternative strategies for preserving innovation besides the ones that Zittrain offers?
To consider these and other issues, we have invited an all-star cast of thinkers:
My co-bloggers will join this conversation as well. In a post in April 2009, co-blogger Deven Desai started our conversation about The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It. Since that time, the wild-fire adoption of tethered appliances, iPod applications, iTunes, and the like have shown just how prophetic and important Zittrain's book is. We are excited for the discussion to begin.


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I remember when I spoke with Lynd Ward's two daughters that both Nanda and Robin told me that they constantly asked their father what his wordless books meant and Lynd always replied with the same answer: "It means exactly what you think it means." And that is really the attraction of these books -- we bring so much of our own personal experiences to reading pictures because the language of pictures has, what I like to call, a "private declension" that only each of us can understand -- a secret smirk or a haunting remembrance from our private association to an image.
--David A. BeronäThe release of The Library of America's gorgeous two-volume collection of Lynd Ward's wordless novels has led to some fascinating and thoughtful reviews. I just noticed that Scott Esposito did a quick roundup, and so I thought I'd add to what he'd collected, since I find Ward's work endlessly fascinating.
William T. Vollmann, Bookforum:
What makes a Ward picture Wardian is its intuitive, partially spontaneous quality, which shines through increasingly if you scan the six novels in chronological order. At the beginning they look very much like the woodcuts they are, with all of that medium's chiseled constraint. In time, they come to resemble lithographs. The lines grow more fluid, the shapes more volumetric.
John Lingan, The Quarterly Conversation:
One reason why Ward's novels are so uniquely powerful and engrossing is that their plots and messages are in perfect alignment with the obvious "battle of wills" that it took to make them. Particularly from Wild Pilgrimage, his third novel, onward, you can nearly see the artist's triceps tensing to carve the stunning cross-hatch patterns that grant his wordless panels such physical and emotional depth. You can perceive the immense, sustained concentration that it took to imagine entire narratives and a motionless means of animating them, as well as the sweat-inducing balance of physical pressure and painterly delicateness necessary to displace little spools of wood shavings in search of a precise facial expression or shoulder slump.
Steven Heller, The New York Times:
I was a young art director for the Op-Ed page of this newspaper when I first read "Gods' Man" and "Wild Pilgrimage." In addition to commissioning illustrations, I sometimes used existing artwork by the likes of Francisco de Goya, Thomas Nast, George Grosz and other strong black-and-white conceptualists. Ward joined their ranks. Every image he made had its own integrity. On at least three occasions I took an engraving from the books and paired it with an Op-Ed article — a perfect marriage of text and image. But this was heresy. Ward's images were designed to be seen in their original contexts, not forced to illuminate arguments that Ward never heard. For the experience of seeing all his wordless books as they were meant to be read, the Library of America set is essential.
Glen Weldon, NPR:
Ward's metaphors are simple, even stark, and he eagerly and unself-consciously commits to them; his most striking images possess an expansive — and occasionally swoony — operatic vigor. Which is why these novels attain the primal, Manichaean impact they do. Collectively, they exist on the line separating the dramatic from the melodramatic, sentiment from sentimentality.
In his introduction to the books, Art Spiegelman comments on the difficulty of interpreting Ward's "silent" novels. "Rarely was silent film—a direct catalyst for the wordless block—ever as resolutely mute as the woodcut novel; intertitles and musical accompaniment helped transmit its meanings," he writes. But Ward also had a genius for carving human movement, and watching his characters walk through their story lines is a particular joy of his novels. In "Prelude to a Million Years," an artist wanders through the city before his studio burns down (with him inside); in "Wild Pilgrimage," a worker lives a dream sequence in a series of red-and-white prints.
Sarah Boxer, Slate:
Ward's simultaneous love of books and distrust of language is, I think, what makes him historically important. He's the crucial missing link between the graphic novelists of today, Spiegelman included, and the narrative artists of the past, going back to Frans Masereel, Albrecht Dürer, and the muralists who painted Bible stories on church walls in case people couldn't read.There's also a long and fascinating piece on Ward in the latest issue of Harper's, but the online version is currently ensconced behind the paywall, available only to subscribers.


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Wall-E, the Cake Wreck(er)
I often give the cakey wreckitude a rest on Sundays, but then I thought, hey, instead of skipping a day's post, why not feature amazing NON-Wrecks instead? After all, it's nice to be reminded that cake decorating is not merely an outlet for the illiterate, color-blind, and taste-challenged: there are some real masters of the art out there. I can't promise I'll do this every week, so just think of this as the occasional chocolate chip in the chocolate "muffin" (ie bald cupcake) that is Wrecks.
Ok, enough intro. Without further ado, I give you the amazing Wall-E:
Yes, he's cake. And he's life-sized. How sweet is that?
Check out the B&L logo and uber realistic "rust" on the fire extinguisher. Now this is how you use an airbush, guys.
These are my personal photos - hence the watermarks. They were taken at this year's national ICES convention in Orlando, Florida, and I'd love your help in identifying the bakers responsible.
UPDATE: Ah, my readers come through for me again! It appears that Wall-E is the work of brothers Edward and Antoni Frys of European Cake Gallery, ironically located in Texas. They don't have Wall-E posted there due to copyright muckety-muck, but my hubby John spoke with them on the phone and confirmed he is indeed their creation. Thanks to all of you who helped me track them down!


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DARK SKIES: A family is being chased out of its home, or being locked in its home, by some kind of nasty, mystical force. Or something along those lines. It's scary. No review available.
SNITCH: The Rock tries to save his son from 10 years in prison by rounding up some drug dealers. No review available.
AMOUR: The Palme d'Or winner from Cannes 2012 is a masterpiece from Michael Haneke ("Cache," "The White Ribbon") about the closing days of a great romance. The French legends Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva co-star as a couple who have lived in love together for decades, but now, in their 80s, their time together begins to end. Such a story is not melodrama. Nor is it tragedy. It is just about the way things are. A profound and uplifting masterpiece. HHHH
Beautiful Creatures: Though not specifically conceived to fill the void left by the $2 billion "Twilight" franchise, comparisons are inevitable, as we're again presented with a story about a smart, serious, semi-loner high school student who falls for a mysterious newcomer with supernatural powers. It would all be pretty tedious, goth-youth nonsense if not for the considerable delights provided by a mostly veteran supporting cast of Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Viola Davis and Emmy Rossum, who are all having great fun. If only that approach extended to the two young leads, who behave like typically sullen teenagers. Rating: HH½ — Richard Roeper
Django Unchained: Quentin Tarantino is back in this story of slavery, bounty hunting and love in the Civil War era. Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio star. No review.
ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH: Animated kids fare about heroes from an alien planet. No review available.
A Good Day to Die Hard: The latest installment of the action franchise plays as if we're watching Bruce Willis in a Bruce Willis movie in which Bruce Willis can survive anything while taking out the villains, video-game style. A quarter-century after the first "Die Hard," the venerable John McClane has been stripped of any real traces of an actual three-dimensional character. H½ — Richard Roeper
Hansel and Gretel: WITCH HUNTERS: Jeremy Renner as Hansel in the slightly altered story of Hansel and Gretel. No review.
Hyde Park on Hudson: Bill Murray plays Franklin Roosevelt as a sometimes lonely and sad man whose vacation getaway is his mother's family mansion, Springwood, near Hyde Park in upstate New York. Here in June 1939, he receives guests whose visit could change the course of world history: England's King George V (Samuel West) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman). Witnessing from backstage is his sixth cousin, Daisy (Laura Linney), with whom FDR has a sweet and secret affair. Murray finds the exact tone, gentle and confiding, for this view of Roosevelt. HHH½
IDENTITY THIEF: The pairing of Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy in a road trip comedy seems inspired. They're two unique comedic talents who always put an interesting spin on a line or a double take, whether starring in sitcoms or effortlessly swiping scenes in big-screen fare. Unfortunately, "Identity Thief" is a depressingly predictable road-trip buddy comedy that's far more interested in car chases, lame shootouts, physical shtick and cheap schmaltz than creating anything original. HH — Richard Roeper
The Impossible: The tsunami that devastated the Pacific Basin in the winter of 2004 remains one of the worst natural disasters in history. We were in Europe when it struck, and we sat mesmerized, watching the news on TV — again and again, that towering wall of water looming from the sea, tossing trucks, buses and its helpless victims aside. Surely this was a blow from hell. In this terrifying triumph of special effects, Juan Antonio Bayona's film becomes a powerful story of a family's cohesive strength. With Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland. One of the best films of 2012. HHHH
Life of Pi: A miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery. Inspired by a worldwide best-seller that seemed unfilmable, it is a triumph over its difficulties. It is also a moving spiritual achievement, a movie whose title could have been shortened to "Life." The story involves the 227 days that its teenage hero (Suraj Sharma) spends drifting across the Pacific in the same lifeboat as a Bengal tiger. The movie quietly combines various religious traditions to enfold its story in the wonder of life. How remarkable that these two mammals, and the fish beneath them and birds above them, are all here. One of the year's best. HHHH
Lincoln: Steven Spielberg's new film focuses on only a few months of Lincoln's life, including the passage of the 13th Amendment ending slavery, the surrender of the Confederacy and his assassination. Rarely has a film attended more carefully to the details of politics. Daniel Day-Lewis creates a Lincoln who is calmly self-confident, patient and willing to play politics in a realistic way. Not about an icon of history, but about a president who was scorned by some of his opponents as a hayseed from the backwoods. He understood them better than they did him. Sure to win many Academy Award nominations. HHHH
Mama: To the credit of director Andy Muschietti, his co-writing team and a first-rate cast, "Mama" succeeds in scaring the wits out of us and leaving some lingering, deeply creepy images, despite indulging in many horror-film cliches. Movies like "Mama" are thrill rides. We go to be scared and then laugh, scared and then laugh, scared and then shocked. And of course, there's almost always a little plot left over for a sequel. It's a ride horror fans would take again. HHH — Richard Roeper
Safe Haven: Directed by the versatile Lasse Hallstrom and starring the attractive duo of Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough, "Safe Haven" is yet another entry in the Nicholas Sparks book-to-movie factory that has given us "The Notebook," "Message in a Bottle," "Dear John," etc. For 90 percent of the journey, it's a solid movie for those in the mood for some good old-fashioned, great-looking-couple-gets-caught-in-the-rain romance. Then something happens at the very end that'll make you question the film's sanity. H½ — Richard Roeper
Side Effects: Rooney Mara stars as an edgy young woman named Emily whose husband (Channing Tatum) has been released after four years in prison for insider trading. Things don't go smoothly for Emily, and she's referred to a psychiatrist (Jude Law), who prescribes a new drug named Ablixa. The drug causes some alarming behavior as director Steven Soderbergh draws us into a vortex of whispers that something haunted and possessed is going on. HHH½
Silver Linings Playbook: Pat (Bradley Cooper) is confident and upbeat for a man just released from a mental hospital and under a restraining order from his wife. He's determined to surprise everyone by moving ever onward and upward. What stage of bipolar disorder would you guess he's in? His parents (Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver) are well-meaning but dubious. A prickly neighborhood widow (Jennifer Lawrence) wants to sleep with him and is offended that he's interested only because she's in touch with his ex-wife. This all somehow comes down to intersecting bets about a football game and a ballroom dance contest. Written and directed by David O. Russell. HHH½
Warm Bodies: Here's a bloody, fresh twist on the most popular horror genre of this century, with none-too-subtle echoes of a certain star-crossed romance that harkens back to a certain Bard who placed a certain young Romeo under a certain balcony. A well-paced, nicely directed, post-apocalyptic love story, it has a terrific sense of humor and the, um, guts to be unabashedly romantic and unapologetically optimistic. A lot of zombie movies have heart, but usually the heart ends up on someone's plate. Cheers to "Warm Bodies" for taking us in a different direction for a change. HHH½ — Richard Roeper
Zero Dark Thirty: Two hours of watching a loner female CIA strategist who knows she is right — and the payoff that she is. Jessica Chastain stars as Maya, who was right all along, providing the film with a timely heroine. Lots of murky action in the big capture and death, but lacking the split-second timing and relentless action of director Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker." These characters are less compelling, and the outcome less meaningful. HHH


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Ramadan is quickly coming to a close and it is time to start thinking about Eid. We are busy looking at recipes and deciding what we want to cook. For Muslims, this is like a Christian's Christmas dinner, it really is a special meal. So we want to serve a wonderful meal that comes from around the world.
We know this Tandoori Chicken Recipe will be part of the meal. I found this great recipe on Allrecipes.
We also want to do a good Biryani. I found this recipe Mughlai Vegetable Biryani Recipe on Veggie Belly and it looks so good,
then because I love Morocco so much I had to find a recipe from there as well. I found Lamb Tajine with Peas and Potatoes over at one of my favorite blogs MarocMama.
in addition to these I will be making a nice salad and for dessert we will pick up fresh strawberries and do a chocolate fondue with them, along with some cookies that I will get from my local bakery.
What will you be serving for Eid at your house? That is if you celebrate Eid.
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By Rusty Miller | Associated Press
COLUMBUS -- For a change, Michigan State and Ohio State aren't playing for a trophy.
After contesting Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles in two of their last three meetings, there'll be no hardware up for grabs when the fourth-ranked Spartans square off with the No. 18 Buckeyes on Sunday.
That does not mean there is nothing on the line.
"It's like there's always a trophy on the line every time you play one of the top-tier teams in this conference," Ohio State guard Lenzelle Smith Jr. said. "It's clutch time now. It's gut-check (time) now. Now, toward the end of the season, the good teams step up and make big plays and win games. That's what this game is going to be about."
Coach Tom Izzo's team (22-5, 11-3) needs a victory to remain within reach of No. 1-ranked Big Ten leader Indiana (24-3, 12-2).
The Buckeyes (19-7, 9-5) are trying to maintain their two-game grip on fifth place and cement a first-round bye in the Big Ten tournament. They can also stretch coach Thad Matta's string of 20-win seasons to a perfect 13 for 13.
A loss for either creates headaches down the road.
No matter what happens, there's mutual respect. The two programs have fought on equal terms for almost a decade.
"Coming in here nine years ago, Michigan State is a program I looked at and said, 'Jeez, how do they do it?'" Matta said. "I have the utmost respect for what they had done. The biggest tell-all is just standing the test of time in college basketball. It's a lot easier said than done."
Championships have shadowed the series in recent years.
With Matta at the helm, the Buckeyes have won at least a share of the Big Ten regular-season title five of the last seven years. They've also played in the conference tournament championship game the last four seasons. Twice they've made it to the Final Four.
Michigan State, of course, has been a steady national contender throughout Izzo's 18 seasons shepherding the program made famous by Earvin "Magic" Johnson and curmudgeonly coach Jud Heathcliffe.
Izzo and the Spartans captured an NCAA title in 2000, and have also won seven Big Ten regular-season and three conference tournament titles while making 15 straight NCAA Tournament appearances. They've been to six Final Fours.
The Spartans won at home on Jan. 19, 59-56, when Keith Appling hit two free throws with 7.9 seconds left and the Buckeyes mishandled a chance to tie.
"They're a better team I think, in some ways, and they're a different team in other ways," Izzo said, comparing the Buckeyes then and now. "They've still got one of the best defensive guards in the country (Aaron Craft) and they still have (Deshaun) Thomas, who is capable of getting 30 any night you play him."
The Spartans are coming off a 72-68 home loss to Indiana on Sunday which left them in chase mode heading into the stretch run. After coming to Columbus, they take a week off before closing out the season at Michigan followed by home games with Wisconsin and Northwestern.
Matta's team has had a succession of highs and lows. Thomas leads the Big Ten in scoring at 20 points a game, but the Buckeyes have been erratic at times.
They were humiliated 71-49 loss at Wisconsin on Sunday, but rebounded to pound Minnesota 71-45 on Wednesday night.
A year ago, the Buckeyes closed the regular season at Breslin Center, with William Buford flipping in a high-arching jumper with a second left for a 72-70 win that gave them a share of the Big Ten title with the Spartans and Michigan.
A week later, the teams met again in the Big Ten tournament finale and the Spartans played one of their finest games of the year in beating Ohio State 68-64 behind Brandon Wood's season-high 21 points.
It seems every meeting comes down to a wild finish.
"Fortunately, both of us over the last eight years have been right there," Matta said. "What they have built there, just in terms of the environment that they have, I think we're definitely closing in on that."
The rivalry has blossomed because of the two coaches.
Izzo, who has taken 13 of his last 16 MSU teams to the NCAA tournament, is 434-174 (.714) overall and 207-93 (.690) in Big Ten play. He's 21-11 against Ohio State, but was 12-3 against the Buckeyes before Matta came into the league.
Matta has a career record of 342-103 (.769) overall, 240-72 (.769) at Ohio State and 107-45 (.704) in Big Ten games. He is just 8-9 against Izzo and the Spartans, however.
Both sides know what to expect.
"It should be a very scrappy game," Appling said. "Those guys are going to come out playing hard and we're going to try to match their intensity. Hopefully we'll come out with a win."


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Tall Bloom (2017)
Acrylic painting by Amanda Dagg
$320 Sold
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 16 x 40 x 1.5 in / 16 x 40 in (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Flowers and plants
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Lizard Skins DSP dual colour bar tape is the latest incarnation of one of my all-time favourite bar coverings perfectly suited to most drop-bar applications from Audax and road racing right through to 'cross and rough stuff. Low density rubberised construction Insulates against road shock without spoiling a bike's clean lines or leaving the cockpit feeling remote. However, while the dimpled surface isn't overly prone to ingrained dirt, the non-slip coating requires careful cleaning so cushioned glossy types or dark colours remain the better option for 'crossers, winter hacks and others in hard service.
Despite being 2.5mm thick, the complete set weighs a mere 55g (including plugs) and there's sufficient for dressing the widest of flared drops with graceful, flowing overlap. This has the added bonus of allowing double-ups at key contact points ( tops and lower drop in particular). Remove any existing tape and backing before giving the bars a once-over with a rag dipped in solvent. The instructions recommend starting at the bottom, leaving ten millimetres stray to hold the plugs in position and wrap in the time-honoured pattern, applying 'Light pressure' to prevent premature fatigue. In practice this is fairly intuitive and while tenacious, the backing was tolerant of repeated unravelling/refitting at key points. Once satisfied with the effect, capture the tops with good quality electrical tape for perfect alignment before applying the coordinated finishing strips.
Purchase comfort and control is vastly superior to traditional wraps whether in gloved or bare hands, inspiring confidence when charging full-pelt into wet greasy descents. Shock absorbency is equally impressive, relieving stress in my hands and shoulders without leaving the bars feeling remote when negotiating poorly surfaced roads for several hours. Our sample's two-tone red/white livery coordinated beautifully with the Univega and seems very durable. However, the DSP is higher maintenance than common or garden cork wrap. Inevitably, it will become grubby and when it does, spray liberally with a mild citrus bike-wash and massage gently with an old, clean towel. Don't be tempted by the warm soapy water and brush routine though- this might restore the sparkle but the non-slip properties will vanish pretty much immediately.
Unique bar tape giving superior comfort and control over traditional types not the cheapest though & be careful how you clean it
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Lizard Skins DSP Dual Colour Bar tape
Size tested: Red
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Lizard Skins DuraSoft Polymer (DSP) Bar Tape is a worldwide patented product that is already taking the road racing market by storm.
"With its light weight, and vibration damping construction DuraSoft Polymer bar tape combines performance with all day comfort. Its wide range of contempory colours means you'll be able to get the perfect colour combination for your bike".
No contention here.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Sophisticated polymer construction incorporating a non-slip coating 55g including plugs.
55g set.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
This has to be the most luxurious wrap I've come accross. The rubberised texture can take a little getting used to but numbs road/trail buzz while offering unparalelled grip come rain or shine in gloved or bare hands. However £28 isn't small change so I'd be inclined to save it for the best bike.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
There's ample coverage for the widest of drops,shock absorbtion and purchase are second to none and it's very tolerant of repeated un/wrapping.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Expensive and requires specialist care come wash-day.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes- for higher end/high mileage road and audax bikes
About the tester
Age: 37 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)


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Lindsay Lohan One of My Movers Is Selling Me Out
One of the movers who helped pack up Lindsay Lohan's mountain of crap in her Venice home is now trying to sell photos of the actress' personal belongings ... TMZ has learned.
According to sources, the mover in question took photographs of Lindsay's stuff while he was piling it into storage -- and is now trying to sell the pics ... as well as information about the storage facility Lindsay is using ... and even where she eventually plans to move.
Sources tell TMZ, Lindsay's camp is aware of the situation and is currently working to find out who's behind the leak attempt.
Lindsay's people are especially freaked because the actress has made it a priority to keep a low profile the last few weeks -- following a trespasser scare on her Venice property New Year's Day.
We're told Lindsay is also afraid people might try to track down her belongings in storage and try to steal things. So far, we're told police have not been involved.
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Coupe de France Wrap: PSG bow out, Monaco through
Paris Saint-Germain were eliminated from the Coupe de France by Montpellier, while Radamel Falcao's injury marred Monaco's progression.
Laurent Blanc's side had opened their Ligue 1 camapign with a frustrating draw away to the same opponents, but saw any hopes of a quadruple of titles go out the window courtesy of a 2-1 home defeat.
They dominated the early proceedings, as Lucas Digne had a goal disallowed for offside, while Blaise Matuidi also spurned a golden opportunity.
Montpellier took the lead completely against the run of play, as a goalkeeping blunder from Nicolas Douchez saw Daniel Congre head into an open net in the 20th minute.
Digne squared for an Edinson Cavani equaliser 10 minutes later, but the match was decided by Victor Montano's bullet header from a corner in the 69th minute.
Monaco's 3-0 win at Monts d'Or Azergues was soured by a knee injury suffered by star striker Falcao.
Falcao was forced off on a stretcher and while the severity of his injury is unknown, it took the gloss off the win.
The Colombian forward opened the scoring in the 29th minute before Emmanuel Riviere added a second-half double for Claudio Ranieri's side.
Fifth-tier Fa Ile Rousse Monticello produced a shock, edging out top-flight Bordeaux 4-3 in a penalty shootout.
No goals were scored in normal time or extra time, forcing penalties, and Ludovic Sane missed the crucial spot-kick for Bordeaux, who sit ninth in Ligue 1.
Moulins, who play in the fourth tier, also produced a memorable win, coming from behind to beat Ligue 1 Toulouse 2-1.
Eden Ben Basat gave Toulouse the lead in the 31st minute, but a second-half double from Sebastien Da Silva gave the hosts victory.
Lyon avoided a shock of their own against Yzeure of the fourth division, as they won 3-1 on the road.
Lamine M'Baye put Yzeure in the lead with 15 minutes left, but Jimmy Briand, Yoann Gourcuff and Steed Malbranque netted in response for the victors.


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A National lottery fund has given North East Hastings residents the chance to improve their community
Hastings campus in line for a second student newsroom
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The University of Brighton's Priory Square building could get a new student newsroom to cope with the rising number of journalism students.
Hastings students penalized by Southern Rail
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No Unizone discount for Hastings students causes them to loose thousands
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A quintet of baby sting rays are settling in to their new home at the Blue Reef Aquarium.
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Metallic Lurex Knitting Yarn
Lurex is the registered brand name for a type of yarn with a metallic appearance. Metallic Lurex knitting yarn is made from synthetic film, onto which a metallic aluminium, silver, or gold layer has been vaporized. Lurex is a great way to add the perfect amount of shimmer to your yarn.[slideshow_deploy id='2699']
While lurex knitting yarn is extremely, extremely fine (think embroidery floss), it may be combined with other, thicker yarns to add the perfect amount of shimmer or glitter to your work. You can do this at home on your own, by purchasing the lurex separately and carrying it with your yarn while you knit, or you may purchase cones of yarn that already have lurex incorporated into them, so there's less work for you!
Lurex will show best in your work if you're making nice, loose stitches, or especially if you are incorporating it into a lace project that uses a lot of openwork. The more chances the yarn has to catch the light, the more you'll see the lurex's wonderful shimmer!
If you prefer to work with the lurex by itself, you may order lurex from us in a multitude of shades, and in two different spool sizes. To order, visit our Online Shop, and let us know the shade color you would like in the comment box at checkout.
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Spurs-Thunder playoff history
Yes, this will be the first time the Spurs and the Thunder face off in a playoff series, but that doesn't mean the franchises haven't met before in such a setting.
Three times while the Thunder resided in Seattle and were called the SuperSonics, the Spurs played and eliminated the franchise, winning 11 of 16 games. The last loss in 2005 wound up being the Sonics' final playoff game in Seattle. Three years later, they were moved to Oklahoma City.
Express-News staff writer Douglas Pils breaks down those three meetings, and digs up some San Antonio newspaper reports from each game.
( Trivia time: Who's the only player still with the Thunder who faced the Spurs in the 2005 playoffs?)
1982 Western semifinals
GAME 1: Spurs 95, @Sonics 93
Star: George Gervin had 31 points, including the game-winner with five seconds left, and Mike Mitchell had 30 for the Spurs.
Report: "A crowd of 14,457 fans saw Seattle lose the opening game of a playoff series for the first time in the team's history."
Mike Bruton, S.A. Express
GAME 2: @Sonics 114, Spurs 99
Star: Gus Williams scored 34 for the Sonics.
Report: "Employing their Southwestern Bell defense — Reach Out and Touch Someone — the Seattle SuperSonics were able to tie their best-of-7 Western Conference semifinal series."
Kevin O'Keefe, S.A. Express
GAME 3: @Spurs 99,
Sonics 97
Star: Gervin had 36 for the Spurs, 16 in the third quarter as Spurs overcame a 17-point halftime deficit.
Report: "How do you compare Rembrandt masterpieces, Olivier performances, Bruce Springsteen concerts? Maybe you don't. Maybe they're like the artistry of George Gervin. Maybe you just stand back and enjoy, appreciate the genius of it all."
Lyle Spencer, S.A. Light
GAME 4: @Spurs 115, Sonics 113
Star: Mike Bratz had 17 points, 10 assists and four steals for the Spurs.
Report: "Together, (Dave) Corzine, Bratz and (Gene) Banks totaled 47 points, 18 rebounds, 15 assists, six steals and a blocked shot."
Ray Evans, S.A. Light
GAME 5: Spurs 109, @Sonics 103
Star: Williams had 36 for the Sonics, but the Spurs got 26 from Gervin and 24 from Mitchell.
Report: "The Ghost of Playoff Past was exorcized Wednesday night in the Kingdome when the San Antonio Spurs captured their first Western Conference semifinals series."
Kevin O'Keefe
2002 Western first round
GAME 1: @Spurs 110, Sonics 89
Star: Fresh from winning his first MVP, Tim Duncan had a triple-double with 21 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds. Rookie Tony Parker had 21 points.
Report: "Spurs coach Gregg Popovich turned to his bench late in the third quarter of Saturday's playoff opener against Seattle and signaled for Terry Porter to replace Tony Parker. Porter stood up. Parker swished a 3-pointer. Porter sat down."
Johnny Ludden, Express-News
GAME 2: Sonics 98, @Spurs 90
Star: Point guard Gary Payton had 21 points and 11 assists for the Sonics
Report: "Seattle won this game ... where the big men live, with 19 offensive rebounds. So (Malik) Rose, subbing for (injured David) Robinson, gets both his minutes and the blame. Known for his offensive rebounds, Rose ended with zero."
Buck Harvey, Express-News
GAME 3: Spurs 102, @Sonics 75
Star: Duncan had 27 points, 13 rebounds, five assists and five blocks. Parker added 23 points.
Report: "Isn't that the dream? Parker and Duncan? Together for a dozen years or more, a new version of Stockton and Malone?"
Buck Harvey
GAME 4: @Sonics 91, Spurs 79
Star: Payton turned a triple double — 28 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists.
Report: "With Duncan in the U.S. Virgin Islands following the death of his father, the Sonics took advantage of his absence. ... The team had never played without both Duncan and Robinson since Duncan entered the league."
Johnny Ludden
GAME 5: @Spurs 101, Sonics 78
Star: Duncan scored 23 upon his return, while Malik Rose had 18 points and 13 rebounds.
Report: "The game, (Duncan) said, was his 'sanctuary. Out there you get away from everything else.' It helps when Vin Baker is in the sanctuary, too. Duncan could get away from him especially. Next week, with Shaq, won't be as peaceful."
Buck Harvey
2005 Western semifinals
GAME 1: @Spurs 103, Sonics 81
Star: Parker had 29 points for the Spurs.
Report: "The Sonics ... had made quick work of the Sacramento Kings in the first round, dismissing them in five games. Any momentum they gained in that series was gone three minutes into the game."
Johnny Ludden
GAME 2: @Spurs 108, Sonics 91
Star: Manu Ginobili scored 28 off the bench.
Report: "(Gregg) Popovich singled out (Brent) Barry's defensive work on Seattle's Ray Allen. In Barry's entire NBA career, the moments when his defensive excellence were mentioned by a coach have been rare."
GAME 3: @Sonics 92, Spurs 91
Star: Ray Allen scores 20 and adds seven assists and seven rebounds.
Report: "The Spurs, however, were more frustrated by their free-throw shooting: They missed 15 of their 34 foul shots, including half of their 16 attempts in the final quarter."
Johnny Ludden
GAME 4: @Sonics 101, Spurs 89
Star: Allen pours in 32, and Luke Ridnour had 20.
Report: Ridnour had done little in the first three games of the series. ... But Ridnour's perfect third period on Sunday (7 of 7) turned the game on its ear. He totaled 15 points in 12 minutes."
Mike Monroe
GAME 5: @Spurs 103, Sonics 90
Star: Ginobili starts and has 39 points, including 15 of 17 from the free-throw line, and six assists.
Report: "Ginobili was this good: He made Nazr Mohammed a scorer (19 points)."
Buck Harvey
GAME 6: Spurs 98, @Sonics 96
Star: Duncan, who turned an ankle and made just 6 of 21 shots, had 26 points and hit game-winner with half a second left on a pass from Ginobili.
Report: "When it mattered most, Ginobili lowered his head and drove one more time. Duncan watched and waited. Standing right where the Spurs needed him."
Johnny Ludden
( Trivia answer: Then-rookie Nick Collison averaged 8.8 points and 4.5 rebounds coming off the bench against the Spurs in 2005.)


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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Weeks after Mother Nature damaged a stretch of State Road A1A in Fort Lauderdale beach, concerned residents are demanding a long-term solution to erosion.
At a community meeting to discuss the destruction Monday night, county and state officials said it will be at least 18 months until a permanent solution can be implemented.
"Nothing can be done in a hurry, but 18 months seems like a long time," said one resident.
"Kinda slow," said resident Tim Thompson. "They could speed it up if they wanted to."
The problem began when Sandy churned off shore in late October and sent powerful waves mainland. Water crashed into four blocks, taking sand, sidewalks and the street in a 24-hundred square foot stretch.
While the community couldn't stop the storm, people told Local 10's Ross Palombo they are determined to protect the beach.
"You can be guaranteed we will have a solution," one man said.
Residents fear delaying a plan to stop the erosion will permanently shorten the beach even more, which could present serious consequences.
"It's going to to effect tourism... real estate values," a resident said.
Officials said the most immediate fix is a plan to force metal pilings seven feet off shore to stem the tide of serious ground loss. The temporary fix should be in place by March, but if Commissioner Chip Lamarca from District 4 has his way, it could be even sooner.
"Try to see if we can contract the timetable and make that shorter," Lamarca said at the meeting.
To join the discussion on how A1A should be restored, visit www.restorea1a.com.
Earlier Monday, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration announced a new study predicts that much of South Florida could be underwater by the year 2100.
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The beach is the place to be! The sun, sand and cool, clear waters of the Gulf of Mexico make beach home rentals a popular choice for Clearwater vacationers. Directly on the beach, condo dwellers watch spectacular sunsets from the comfort of their terraces. Dockside townhomes combine proximity to the beach with the convenience of boat launching from your own "back yard." And every home rental allows budget-conscious families the ability to ease vacation costs with meals prepared in their own well-furnished kitchen.
Clearwater Beach is an ideal family vacation destination, a barrier island with the Gulf of Mexico on the west and the Intracoastal Waterway on the east. Like to just kick back, relax and absorb seaside serenity? The white sandy beaches of Clearwater gladly accommodate! High-energy visitors can race about on jet skis, try sail boarding or parasailing. Anglers take to the Gulf for exceptional sport fishing. Nightly "Sunsets at Pier 60" mix a festival atmosphere of music and magic to celebrate the end of another great day at the beach.
Sidewalk cafes and restaurants literally line the beach area with plenty of casual sun and souvenir shops. Families can take in a round of miniature golf or board the popular Pirates Ransom for a cruise filled with music, beverages and dolphin spotting. The Clearwater Marine Aquarium is another interesting attraction that offers an up-close look at otters, sea turtles, stingrays and lively dolphins. The convenient Jolley Trolley whisks you all along Clearwater Beach, Sand Key and Downtown Clearwater for a mere $1.00 fare. You'll enjoy absolutely fresh fish at Frenchy's Restaurant, where the signature Grouper Sandwich is a melt-in-your-mouth favorite. Frenchy's largest restaurant is Rockaway Grill on the beach, where tropical music and "Floribbean" fare make a memorable night.
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The Argument for Local Food
The Argument for Local Food
At an unimposing diner in Vermont, a revolution is taking place.Stop in at the Farmers Diner in Barre, Vermont, and you have landed in the middle of a revolution, although you might not see it at first glance. It's about what you'd expect in a town known for quarrying granite and carving tombstones and where Main Street consists of a courthouse, movie theater, hardware store, florist, bank, and diner. Twelve green vinyl stools line the white linoleum countertop in this 60-seat eatery. On the back counter, a 1960s glass pastry case displays fresh-baked pies and muffins. A stainless steel milk dispenser hums as its contents cool, and old-fashioned blenders stand ready to make milk shakes. A pass-thru window to the kitchen frames the cooks as they flip omelettes and pancakes and push burnt bits of hash-browns and bacon towards the grill's gutter. Not too different from the original diner that opened in this long and narrow building 70 years ago.
The place has its early morning regulars-a retired farmer, a couple of state highway maintenance workers, electricians, plumbers, and other assorted craftsmen-who on this gray winter morning are already cradling their bulky white coffee mugs by 7 a.m. Booths are illuminated by 1930's style pendent lights.
A dozen conversations rumble, including one between me and the diner's owner and manager, Tod Murphy. Coffee cups clink against their saucers. An occasional ring signals that dishes are up. The waitresses' sneakers squeak on the wood floors. "My son says his dad smells like French fries," says Murphy.
Linger a bit longer, though, and you find that this isn't any ordinary diner. The milk in the blenders and dispenser is certified organic, which means the cows it came from weren't given shots of antibiotics, and weren't given feed grown with chemical fertilizers and pesticides. It's also from a local dairy, which means it didn't arrive in a tank truck from a place most of the folks in Barre have never seen.
The eggs in the omelettes are local too. The berries and flour in the muffins and pies are from local berry patches and wheat fields. The diner cuts all its own French fries and grinds all its own hamburger meat-the beef too coming from local farms. In fact, while most of the food that Americans eat travels at least 1,500 miles from farm to plate, most of the food served in this place was grown within 50 miles, and Murphy's goal is 100 percent. It's February now and there's still snow on the parking lot. But even in the dead of New England's winter, the menu continues to serve a range of local produce, from grain for the bread and pasta to beans, meat, carrots, potatoes, onions, applesauce, cider, and beer.
I notice that the menu covers feature pictures of the farmers who supply the food. (Who would have thought that the food you eat in a restaurant could come from individual people?) The plastic place-mat reads like a Who's Who of radical thought on the state of the modern food system, which is decidedly not about individually responsible people. I chuckle at the quote from Columbia University nutritionist and suburban homesteader Joan Gussow: "I prefer butter to margarine because I trust cows more than chemists." There is Wendell Berry's famous declaration that "eating is an agricultural act." And there's a quote from Murphy himself: "Think Locally, Act Neighborly." He tells me he won't hold it against anyone for acting or thinking globally, but it seems too complex to him. "Acting neighborly is something we know," he says.
The diner is thriving. Meghan, a waitress, tells me, "We open at 5:30 every morning and close at 9 every night. Lunch is always busy. Weekends are always busy. And as the seasons change, things just get busier every day." The owners have plans to open four more locations, riding a wave of interest among local farmers, chefs, environmentalists, and concerned eaters who would like to see more locally grown food on grocery store shelves, restaurant menus, and kitchen tables.
But all of this interest doesn't mean the work is easy. "I'm slaying dragons every day," says Murphy, referring to the obstacles he faces in running a restaurant built on local food, from onerous food safety regulations designed for industrial-scale ventures to short-sighted farm policies that have reduced Vermont's crop diversity, to the crushing weight of global food brands on struggling local businesses.
As I listen to Murphy describe his vision-what he calls a "wild experiment"-I can't help but think that the feudal analogy fits. He really is talking about revolution. He's talking about a shift in power as potentially profound as the eighteenth-century dismantling of aristocracies throughout Europe. In a modern food landscape where the Krafts, Monsantos, and ADMs play the role of the Tudors, Tzars, and Louis XIVs, Murphy's life work is fighting for food democracy.
At first blush, "food democracy" may seem a little grandiose-a strange combination of words. But if you doubt the existence of power relations in the realm of food, consider a point made by Frances and Anna Lappé in their book Hope's Edge. The typical supermarket contains no fewer than 30,000 items. About half of those items are produced by 10 multinational food and beverage companies. And roughly 140 people-117 men and 21 women-form the boards of directors of those 10 companies. In other words, although the plethora of products you see at a typical supermarket gives the appearance of abundant choice, much of the variety is more a matter of packaging and branding than of true agricultural variety, and rather than coming to us from thousands of different farmers producing different local varieties, has been globally standardized and selected for maximum profit by just a few powerful executives.
From this imperialistic food landscape, we are beginning to see declarations of independence. Some of them may seem merely quixotic, like the case of Jose Bove, the French shepherd who drove his tractor smack into a McDonald's to protest the homogenization of global cuisine. In Oaxaca, Mexico, a group of citizens motivated by the same concerns succeeded in keeping a new McDonalds from being built in their historic city center. In Canada, a continent-wide protest against Monsanto took root when the giant agricultural chemical and seed company filed a slapp suit against a farmer named Percy Schmeiser after finding some of its patented seed on his land. (The Federal Court of Canada in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan didn't find that Schmeiser had planted it-the seed had evidently blown onto Schmeiser's land from adjoining farms using Monsanto seed-but ruled in favor of Monsanto anyway.) And in Europe, even larger numbers of people-enough to move governments-have been resisting the importation of such genetically engineered products from the United States.
In one way or another, these are all acts in defense of local food supplies and culinary traditions. Nor are all these acts just protests. The Slow Food movement, which is growing explosively and now has 75,000 members in 80 nations, is the largest organized movement against culinary imperialism, but draws its energy not so much from what it is against as what it is for-a preservation of the social value of good food in connecting people with each other, their communities, and their land. The Slow Food movement summarizes its vision in the phrase "the right to taste." Service at the Farmers Diner may not be slow, but the Farmers Diner shares the Slow Food movement's interest in not having what you eat be dictated by fast-food or mass-food marketing executives.
"My allegiance is to this place," Murphy declares, "and I won't let Vermont land and farmers and food history go undefended." And Vermont is not the only place where interest in the defense of local food is rising fast.
For many of those who are declaring food independence, there is a sense of growing urgency-"slow food" notwithstanding. Food travels farther and is controlled by a smaller number of global entities than ever before. Advances in technology that allow longer storage and more distant (and less costly) shipping have encouraged the food system to sprawl. Cheap gasoline and transportation subsidies have facilitated the expansion. The value of international food trade has tripled since 1960; the volume has quadrupled. In the United States, the average food item travels between 2,500 and 4,000 kilometers, about 25 percent farther than in 1980. In the United Kingdom, food travels 50 percent farther than two decades ago.
"In the present food marketplace, there are great inequalities with respect to voting power and, more fundamentally, with respect to control," says sociologist JoAnn Jaffe of the University of Regina in Canada. "This loss of control has progressed steadily over the last few decades as people have become increasingly removed from their food sources by both distance and processing." And it is this issue of control, perhaps more than any other, that is driving the nascent global movement in local food.
In Vancouver, food activist Herb Barbolet points out that the issue of local control is not just a vague provincial resistance to a globalizing industry. Founder and director of the nonprofit FarmFolk/CityFolk (FF/CF), Barbolet rattles off a list of concrete benefits:
"Less fossil fuel use and road congestion from moving food around." (Surveys show that a basic meal made from imported ingredients can easily account for four times the energy and four times the greenhouse gas emissions of an equivalent meal made with ingredients from local sources.)
"Preservation of local farmland and local farmers." (Farmers that have a local market are less likely to go extinct.)
"Superior flavor." (Double-blind studies show that people consistently choose farmers' market produce over stale, long-distance fare-one of the reasons this movement has attracted the attention of chefs, food critics, and discriminating eaters around the globe.)
Barbolet's group has worked toward these ends by promoting food delivery schemes and farmers' markets, helping to start a rooftop gardens project, opening healthy cafés in inner-city areas of Vancouver where good food options are limited, and reintroducing farming to a large regional park.
Barbolet pauses in his listing of the benefits of local food, then adds one more:
"Reduced food safety risks."
This last advantage may not be immediately apparent. But food that travels thousands of miles and changes hands multiple times encounters many opportunities for contamination. For example, there was the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak in the United Kingdom, which brought sales of British meat to an abrupt halt and devastated rural communities. It spread considerably farther and faster than an earlier outbreak in 1967, largely because animals today are shipped from all over the nation to central slaughterhouses. In 1967 most slaughtering and consumption took place locally. Investigation also showed that the infectious animal feed for the recent outbreak came all the way from China. Foot-and-mouth is not a disease that harms humans, but long-distance hauling of food means that any infectious agent (E. coli, Listeria, anthrax) can be quickly spread over a large area and expose a large number of people.
Recent terrorist incidents have raised fears, especially in the United States, about how vulnerable a highly centralized and long-distance food system could be to tampering and disruption. (One estimate suggests that most major cities in the eastern United States have less than two days' supply of food on hand and are thus vulnerable to sudden transportation restrictions.) Beyond the vulnerability issue, there is a certain peace of mind that comes from knowing where your food comes from-a peace that may be unique to local cuisine. For instance, a bottle of Tropicana brand apple juice says it "contains concentrate from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Argentina, Chile, Turkey, Brazil, China, and the United States"-a list of countries with a wide range of pesticide standards. Good luck knowing what you're eating.
In turn, when people have some say over local food production, they also have say over how the landscape is used, what pollutants may end up in their water, and how secure are the livelihoods of their neighbors. "It's much easier for our customers to make the choice for antibiotic free meat or organic milk or non-genetically engineered crops when we know all the growers," says the diner's Murphy.
"This is about homeland security, in a way," says Nina Thompson, director of the Vermont Fresh Network, an organization that helps link Vermont farmers and Vermont chefs. "What if the infrastructure of trucking were hit by terrorists? Here, we'd be set."
At the Farmers Dinner, Murphy sketches out his master plan. His words come at the steady pace of a thoughtful businessman, not a fanatic. Murphy is a slender, attractive man in his thirties-people told me to look for "the guy with the pony tail" of long straight blond-brown hair. A standard diner, Murphy explains, has at most five suppliers, and often fewer. The suppliers are the long arms of the global agribusiness industry-behemoths like Sysco Corporation, which is the largest food distributor in North America, and is ranked by Forbes as the second-largest food processor as well. Most diners and restaurants just call up Sysco, place their order, and an 18-wheeler drops it off, Murphy says. In contrast, the Farmers Diner has roughly 35 suppliers and plans to add 20 more next year (see map). In its first six months of operation, the Diner spent 70 percent of its food budget on food grown within a 50-mile radius.
Murphy plans to boost that share, using a model he calls the "pod." Attached to one side of the diner will be a government certified meat processor. Attached to the other side will be a certified food processing facility, equipped for canning, drying, and baking. "Most diners use pre-sliced, frozen carrots," says Murphy, "but our goal is to have a place for processing local carrots in season and also freezing or pickling or canning them for the off-season."
Murphy's pod idea addresses one of the biggest barriers to greater reliance on local food-the difficulty of building back the local crop diversity and food processing capacity that has been eroded by successive waves of consolidation. "In most communities, the dairy is gone, the cheesemaker is gone, the cannery is gone, even the bakery is gone," says Andy Fischer, director of the U.S.-based Community Food Security Coalition. In this respect, Vermont already has some big advantages over most communities in the United States and the world. It has one of the most diverse farm landscapes in the nation, and more certified organic land as a share of total area than any other state in the union. And it has more local cheese diversity than the next five states combined, with more than 50 farmstead varieties.
"We want the diner to be the catalyst, so farmers and food businesses can take chances with new products and new crops," says Murphy. The food processing shop attached to the diner can use the "seconds" and blemished fruit and veggies that farmers would normally throw out to make soups, jams, and chutneys. As Murphy develops relationships with local growers, the costs of doing business can actually go down. "If we know how many potatoes and onions and tomatoes we will need on a monthly basis, the grower knows exactly how much he can sell us," he says. The farmer benefits in terms of cash flow and security, and can charge Murphy less as a result.
Of course, as Murphy's corner of Vermont becomes more self-sufficient with respect to food, it will also tend to hold on to more of the money local people spend on food; less money is siphoned off to pay shipping and storage and brokering fees. The diner now buys $15,000 of produce from local farmers per month, a number Murphy says will increase as the diner expands. "My favorite job is writing checks to farmers," he says with a smile. He has recently been speaking with the son of a farmer who is trying to figure out if he can keep the family farm afloat by raising pigs for the diner.
The argument for greater self-sufficiency has been substantiated by a recent study from the New Economics Foundation in London, which found that every £10 spent at a local food business is worth £25 to the local area, compared with just £14 when the same amount is spent in a supermarket. Whether it's in pounds, pesos, or rupees, money spent locally generates nearly twice as much income for the local economy.
Compare this multiplier with the more colonial relationship prevailing in most rural economies. Ken Meter and Jon Rosales, economists at the Crossroads Resource Center in Minneapolis, recently found that while farmers in southeastern Minnesota had sales of $866 million in farm products in 1997, they spent $947 raising this food, primarily as payments for fertilizer, pesticide, and land made to distant suppliers, creditors, or absentee landowners. (If not for federal subsidies, many of these farmers would not be in business.) Meanwhile, residents of the region spent over $500 million buying food that year, almost exclusively from producers and companies based outside of the region. Doug O'Brien, director of the nation's largest hunger relief organization, noted the irony of Midwestern Americans "going to a food bank for a box of cornflakes to feed their children in a community where thousands of acres are devoted to growing the corn for the cornflakes." In toto, Meter and Rosales concluded, the current agricultural relationships extract about $800 million from the region's economy each year.
The last few times I've spoken to Murphy, he can barely catch his breath. He's been busy, not only running a diner, but also fielding publicity calls. Gourmet has already done the diner story; the New York Times "Dining" section and Vermont Life have stories in the pipeline. He asks me if I've seen the recent quote from him-"It's a freakin' diner!"-and then promptly denies that he ever said it.
With all this attention from the culinary elite, it might be easy to dismiss the interest in local food as a fad. But look at an inner city area where there is no greengrocer, though it may have quite an adequate supply of liquor stores and fast food joints, and where a farmers market may be the only source of fresh fruits and vegetables, or look at the poor nation that cannot afford to import food but could grow more of its own food with the proper government supports, and it becomes clear that the benefits of local food production are not just for people who have money.
I recently had a chance to discuss this point with Anuradha Mittal, who directs the Institute for Food and Development Policy, a California-based economics think tank better known as FoodFirst. Her group is well known for its critique of the Green Revolution, the World Trade Organization, genetically engineered seeds, and patents on life, but Mittal harbors a particular interest in local food, which she sees as a major antidote for all of these other evils.
"Local food production is about exerting independence from the whims of international markets and the dictates of international trade agreements," Mittal told me. "The minute you start eroding food self-sufficiency, it's a recipe for famine." And poor nations that find themselves without food reserves will learn that beggars can't be choosers. Mittal points to the recent diplomatic nightmare that occurred when the government of Zambia, confronting a famine, refused American food aid which contained genetically engineered crops. After criticizing the African leaders for jeopardizing their citizens' lives, American negotiators ultimately agreed to find non-genetically engineered grain to donate, then mill it to ensure that Zambian farmers wouldn't plant the engineered grain. But the incident raised questions about food sovereignty.
Mittal also argues that the guiding principles of global agriculture are far from democratic. The 1999 WTO negotiations in Seattle collapsed, she says, because the trade ministers from the Third World walked out to protest the fact that most of the "negotiating" was going on in backroom deals that excluded most nations. Mittal goes on to note that the guiding language of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture was drafted by a vice president of Cargill, the multinational food processor and trader.
"This is not food democracy, but food hypocrisy," Mittal says, explaining that in recent rounds of trade negotiations the United States and Europe have successfully encouraged poorer nations to reduce tariffs, while keeping their own tariffs and subsidies to domestic farmers high.
Mittal is a native of India, and I asked her about the Navdanya ("Nine Seeds") movement to help preserve India's crop diversity and promote food self-sufficiency. Founded in 1991, Navdanya protects local varieties of wheat, rice, and other crops from patents by cataloguing them and declaring them common property. It sets up locally-owned seed banks, farm supply stores, and storage facilities, and helps to establish "Zones for Freedom," villages that pledge to reject chemical fertilizers and pesticides, genetically engineered seeds, and patents on life.
"Freedom" in this context has both an economic and an ecological meaning. Local crop diversity helps to reduce dependence on expensive agrochemicals and other inputs, and provides resilience against major pest outbreaks or climatic shifts. And when farmers produce for local (as opposed to export) markets, their customer base diversifies considerably, encouraging them to plant a wider range of crops. In this way, crop diversity reinforces self-sufficiency.
"Navdanya is one of many, many movements at the local level," Mittal says, " where people have realized how dire the situation has gotten, and are responding to the loss of biodiversity, the erosion of their environment, the destruction of their livelihoods." In India alone, she says, there are hundreds. But she also points to the Long March Against GMOs in Thailand (working for local control over biodiversity and greater respect for local crop varieties) or the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil (working to rectify the glaring land distribution in Brazil by settling landless workers and farmers on the land of large landholders).
Of course, as Mittal would agree, a certain amount of food trade is natural and beneficial. But greater self-sufficiency can help buffer nations against fickle international markets, generate wealth and jobs at home, and avoid dependence on distant countries and companies that may not always be reliable.
The Farmers Diner isn't rebuilding Vermont agriculture single-handedly. Instead, this knight's tale depends on an array of supporting characters. The Vermont Land Trust runs one of the few successful programs in the United States to give a head start to beginning farmers by providing low-interest loans, mentoring, and tax relief. Vermonters now use at least three forms of local currency-Burlington Bread, Green Mountain Dollars, and Buffalo Co-op Bucks-that can only be used to buy Vermont-grown food. And the Intervale Foundation in Burlington has helped to establish a community farm that provides food to over 350 families. It has also developed a network of farms that supply the local hospital with most of its vegetables, fruit, and herbs, and has plans for a community incubator kitchen where farmers and food entrepreneurs can try their hand at food processing and catering businesses.
Hundreds of Vermont restaurants already "source" much of their food from nearby farmers and food businesses, largely as a result of the efforts of the Vermont Fresh Network (VFN), the six-year-old nonprofit devoted to strengthening Vermont agriculture. All of these agreements are based on handshakes, the group's Nina Thompson explains. A restaurant has to have at least three different handshake agreements to maintain membership in our network. Every farmer has to have at least one agreement. VFN produces a monthly "Fresh Sheet" listing all the produce available from local farmers and providing both one-stop shopping for chefs and one-stop marketing for farmers. But it has also discovered that many farmers and restaurateurs are duplicating each others' efforts. "In one case, three nearby farmers were doing three separate deliveries of different products to the same town, all selling to different buyers," Thompson explains. "Now they share a vehicle, do just one trip between them, and get wider distribution by piggybacking on each other's customers."
The need for this sort of assistance appears to be widespread, since similar efforts are unfolding in southwestern England, where Devon County Foodlinks has been working since 1998 to connect local growers and local food outlets. On an annual budget of less than £500,000, this government-funded effort has created an estimated 150 new jobs, 15 farmers' markets, and 18 "box schemes" (food delivery subscriptions known as CSAs in the United States). It has also spawned many successful food businesses and helped to retain an estimated £9 million in the local economy. In Devon, as in Vermont, the need for action by government or local groups is clear. "We are making 'interventions' to address local market failures," says Foodlinks founder Ian Hutchcroft, "because the private sector is not investing in local food businesses in a major way, and, in many ways, the cards are stacked against them."
Thompson shares this sentiment: "Lobbyists are working for everything else. There is no special interest group." But while the advocates of local food production aren't a major lobby group, they are gaining support from a growing segment of the population, a segment that potentially includes every person who plants a home garden, every farmer who wants to sell food to his neighbors, every parent who cares about the food served in school cafeterias, and every family that takes the time to eat home-cooked food together-all people performing small but powerful acts of rebellion against food that is increasingly transformed, sterilized, and removed from its source.
That segment also includes the 50 or so people crammed into the Farmers Diner on this winter day, not to mention the founder of the diner himself. Murphy was born on a dairy farm in Connecticut, but laments the fact that his family sold off the last of the animals well before he had a chance to try his own hand at farming. "I've spent the last 33 years trying to get back to farming, " he says. He has started a 100-sheep dairy with his wife, and hopes that one day his cheese and lamb will be on the diner's menu.
Brian Halweil is a Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute.


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AB-Solute Sexiness!
Every now and then I start thinking maybe I should diet. This is because, according to every piece of media everywhere, I am not a man until I have abs. And while I've never seen my abs, I assume they're around here somewhere - possibly hiding under 37 years of extra cheese.
Luckily, I work at Cake Wrecks and so have a handy guide as to what my abs will look like during the dieting process.
First, after losing my initial cheese-ton of weight, I'll probably just have a lot of extra loose skin:
My sexiness will have begun.
Then, after hundreds and hundreds of hours in the gym, I will develop the coveted "3 pack:"
"Look into my pectoral eyes, and weep at my chiseled beauty. WEEP, I SAY."
Which will soon begin to divide...
...and look mildly shocked at being discovered.
Later, after countless thousands more hours in the gym and a steady diet of kale and corn husks, my abs will really start to spread out:
Like Twinkies under a blanket.
Mmmm Twinkies...
And finally, after years of neverending, staggering misery, I will be able to bask in the glory of my oh-so-sexy new abs:
Like Brad Pitt, only better.
And a little more lopsided.
[head tilt]
You know, on second thought, I think my abs are happy where they are.
Right, guys?
Now, who wants Twinkies?
Thanks to Ashlee, Brandi H., Solveig, Anony M., Stephanie S., & Stephanie A. for presenting their bodies of evidence... and for sharing the snack cakes. [hint hint]


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In my last article, I mentioned a method to associate work items and change sets. So, now is time to show it to you.
I tried many approaches to do it on server side and only got one way to make it work. But there is a catch, I'll first show the method then I explain the catch.
/** * Method that associate an work item with a change set * * @param workItem Work item that will be associated * @param changeSet The change set to associate the work item with * @param stream The stream that within the association will occur * @throws TeamRepositoryException */ private void associateWorkItem(IWorkItem workItem, IChangeSetHandle changeSet, IWorkspaceHandle stream) throws TeamRepositoryException { // Repository Item Service IRepositoryItemService itemService = (IRepositoryItemService) getService(IRepositoryItemService.class); // Fetch fresh states of work item and change set IWorkItem wi = (IWorkItem) itemService.fetchItem(workItem, IRepositoryItemService.COMPLETE); IChangeSet cs = (IChangeSet) itemService.fetchItem(changeSet, IRepositoryItemService.COMPLETE); // Link Service (an association is basically a link between the objects) ILinkServiceLibrary linkLibrary = (ILinkServiceLibrary) getService(ILinkService.class).getServiceLibrary(ILinkServiceLibrary.class); // Target = Work Item and Source = Change set IItemReference target = IReferenceFactory.INSTANCE.createReferenceToItem(wi); IReference source = IReferenceFactory.INSTANCE.createReferenceToItem(cs); // Create and save the link ILink link = ILinkFactory.INSTANCE.createLink(ILinkConstants.CHANGESET_WORKITEM_LINKTYPE_ID, source, target); linkLibrary.saveLink(link); }
As I said, it's pretty straight forward. An association is nothing more than a link between the work item and the change set. So all you have to do is to create this link.
But what is the catch? Well, for reasons unknown to me, Jazz Team has restricted the creation of these type of link to the component that has the id "com.ibm.team.filesystem.workitems"
So you have to override the method getComponentId() to match the allowed component id, as showed bellow:
@Override public String getComponentId() { return "com.ibm.team.filesystem.workitems"; }
That is it, pretty simple, but with a workaround that might be a deal breaker for some.


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Mr. Maric has created the highly visual trick you can perform for all generations in multiple ways easily.
That's SAKE-MARIC TOKKURI.
Mr. Maric teaches you a comical transposition and a table penetration in the instruction sheet, and you can watch the video to get other performance ideas.
Also you can perform the body penetration and the Do as I Do effect as well.
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