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Stephen Fry put it best ...
On one episode of QI, he noted the irony in Bazalgettes ancestor devising a perfect system for extracting shit from the population, whilst his progeny is doing his best to pump it back into our houses.
The man who brought Big Brother to the UK this week painted a nightmare vision of the future where people trade their personal information for the chance to watch TV programmes. Peter Bazalgette, former chief creative officer of Endemol turned digital media investor, said old advertising models could not much longer support TV …
The TV show that I would hand over personal data to view hasn't been made yet. However if the base viewer is one that would watch programs such as Big Brother(*) then I can see how this may take off. On the downside, who the hell would want to build a profile of such a viewer.
(*) I can say with hand on heart and all other vital organs that I have not yet seen BB nor any other reality program so I admit to going on hearsay about these shows.
Scott Adams covered this the best - those people are the ones that advertisers would pay the most money for! Lets see - gullible <check>, don't care about privacy <check>, willing to part with almost anything for just a bit of tat <check>... Spammers are happy to get 1 in 10000 (or some such small number) and are willing to pay for lists to get that type of return. Can you imagine how much they would be willing to pay for the list of people who would be willing to give up their personal details just to watch Big Brother?
So if we want to watch a documentary about government corruption, the government can then use our tax payers money, to pay the TV company for our private data, so they can then find out (and draw up punishment lists) of all of us who have learned about the government corruption, and so they can know who of us are likely to stand up and oppose even more corrupt government moves.
Wonderful. This is one more step towards governments automating infamous political enemies lists, where they use the state as a means to "screw" political enemies, i.e. people who know too much about what the government are really doing wrong and so are at risk of standing up to and opposing the government.
I wish Orwell's work wasn't so good at predicting the future. :(
So you (mis)quote Stephen Fry and the time machine scenario, both posted in previous comments.
At least you could get your quotes right, rather than mangling them. Here's a helpful hint:
Peter Bazalgette is the descendent of Joseph Bazalgette (Joseph's great-great-grandson)
Joseph Bazalgette is Peter Bazalgette's ancestor (Peter's great-great-grandfather).
I actually think it's about time they let the BBC officially run adverts (at least between programs) so I don't have to subsidise that sh!te. As opposed to the unofficial adverts that run for their own programming, plus all the fake news of new products/toys by the likes of Apple.
I pay for Sky (the cheapest package they do) so that I actually have something that I like to watch, without it being 5 years old on Channel 4/5/E/More/*...
Being forced to pay £145.50 per year for a grand total of: "Have I got news for you", "New Tricks", "Dr Who" and maybe one other (typically short lived) series is nothing like good value.
I don't watch the BBC News as it is just jingoistic retarded crap with press releases (aka: Free Advertising For Friends of the Beeb/Producers), and where a news event did not happen unless there's a video of it.
Lucky there are lots of video cameras in Japan or most Brits who rely of the BBC would never have heard about the Quake and Tsunami.
Peter Bazalgette?
This is the arse who thought Phorm was a good idea?
I'll pay to watch programmes I want to see, I'll put up with ads to watch programmes I want to see, but I will not, under any circumstances, be "phormed" to watch something.
If there is anything I want to watch that is only distributed under Bazalgette's model I'll just get it from BitTorrent and feel completely and morally justified in doing so.
Grenade. Chew on this, Bazalgette!
You say: "I'll pay to watch programmes I want to see, I'll put up with ads to watch programmes I want to see..."
Then you say:
"If there is anything I want to watch that is only distributed under Bazalgette's model I'll just get it from BitTorrent and feel completely and morally justified in doing so."
Why so? The first quote implies you'd not resort to piracy if you can pay or suffer ads to watch something - which is the provider's chosen means of remuneration. But if their choice of how they get paid for their output is one that disagrees with you (and I assure you I'm with you on that part), you'd happily poggle it with nary a qualm?
Why not just steal (and please let's not argue the semantics of this one, you know what I mean) the pay-TV as well? Morally, what's the difference? Please, I'd welcome the insight.
"users should have an absolute right to reclaim their data from anyone they have handed it over to"...
Indeed, if there's one thing we've learned, it's how easy it is to remove digital data from marketing databases. Those 'click to unsubscribe' things really do work, and it's easy to stop people tracking what you're doing on the web. Trivial, in fact.
What worries me is that someone might listen to this person. I suspect they will.
I suspect a few years ago if you'd have asked the El Reg readership if they'd believe that a successful TV programme could be based on just watching the daily routine of social misfits put in a house together, the answer would have been a resounding "no"...
Nah. Sixty channels of rubbish prove what I've maintained for thirty years - there's enough talent in this country to support four, maybe five channels.
Obviously the channel execs think that *someone* is watching the crap, the repeats, the wall to wall chat shows and 'advertainment' and shopping channels - but I'm not sure I'd want to see in their houses.
Of course, when they cut my head off it will say 'BBC' down my neck.
Yes, it will unsubscribe you from their database...
...but at the same time, it informs them that your email address is active, and more unscrupulous companies will sell your email address onto others to bombard you with spam.
One of the benefits of email providers that allow you email aliases - use aliases to deal with companies, then set your spam filters to splat any email sent to that alias from everyone apart from the company you originally signed up to.
TV advertisers seem to like shooting themselves in the foot. The practice of raising the output volume during ad breaks means that now the TV is muted at each ad break or paused and ffw'd through - either way their "messages" are lost due to this unnecessary and intrusive fiddling.
Advertisers (like lawyers) are a pox on modern humanity. Liars and hypocrites all.
Grenade - the message that needs to be delivered to all the ad agencies
"... a game show that allows competitors to show the body parts they're most unhappy with and compete for reconstructive surgery, either privately or on the NHS."
It's been done. How could you have missed Bridalplasty, a show so god-awful no sane person could have invented it? See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/show/bridalplasty
... never heard of him before and I don't care about his ancestry. I do care about what he's suggesting and about whether anyone thinks it's a good idea.
It doesn't sound plausible unless programmes are provided only through the internet or through internet-enabled televisions. So that's a route they'd have to force us down.
But what the fuck : if the price of admission is to give anyone information on myself (and I thought having to give name & address in order to by a television was bad enough), I'll find something more productive to do with my time.
Discover the ultimate digital interface storage device. Its called a book and is gesture controlled. Use finger to change page.
In the antipodes the TV is also bad. I believe Kiwi land is worse. But then, on the web sites like Fiends reunited, Facerook and such tat popular, does crap TV have a different audience ? I have retreated to more ancient entertainments. Nothing like reading about something that the chronologically challenged believe is modern in a 1600 year old book. I also wonder if the over 25 net user only has a few preferred sites and ignore anything else until a trusted source has a link to follow ? Just like TV watchers with a few favourite programs and not much else.


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OTTAWA, April 17, 2012 — One out of every two women of reproductive age is overweight or obese. Researchers from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, from the University of Ottawa (faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences) and from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute set out to discover if overweight or obese women are in fact more likely to give birth to above average weight babies, as reported in the Journal of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine.
"Obesity can become part of an intergenerational cycle," said Dr. Kristi Adamo, co‐author of this report and co‐founder of the Healthy Active Living and Obesity (HALO) Research Group at the CHEO Research Institute. "Birth weight averages can be an indicator of the weight a child will carry through preschool and even into adulthood. It's critical for a mother to understand that her healthy eating and lifestyle decisions during pregnancy will impact much more than a nine‐month gestation period."
To investigate this issue in more detail, Dr. Adamo and her colleagues examined data from more than 4,000 mother and baby pairs cared for at The Ottawa Hospital and the Kingston General Hospital between 2002 and 2009. They found that excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) can be just as problematic as pre‐pregnancy overweight and obesity. In fact, the study indicated that independent of pre‐pregnancy body mass index (BMI), mothers who exceeded GWG recommendations specific to their pre‐pregnancy BMI significantly increased the likelihood that their child would be born larger than average for gestational age (i.e. above the 90th percentile of infant weight for gestational age.)
"It doesn't matter if you're categorized as normal weight, overweight or obese during pre‐ pregnancy — exceeding the 2009 Institute of Medicine GWG targets seems to have a growth promoting effect on the fetus," explained the co‐author Zach Ferraro, a PhD student in Dr. Adamo's lab and in the Human Kinetics doctoral program at the University of Ottawa. He is co‐supervised by Dr. Denis Prud'homme, co‐author of this report and dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences. "Unfortunately, delivering a large baby increases the risk for many delivery‐ related complications in both mom and baby. But the takeaway here is that GWG is a modifiable risk factor that can and must be addressed during prenatal visits for all women."
The data for this study was obtained from the Ottawa and Kingston (OaK) Birth Cohort, developed by Drs. Mark Walker, Shi Wu Wen and Marc Rodger of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the University of Ottawa. The study was funded by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Ontario Women's Health Council, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
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15 Reasons to Fall in Love With Your Grill
The grill can seem like a one-trick pony. Burgers (and the occasional steak) sizzle on the pages of food magazines and at neighborhood cookouts. But what about grilled watermelon? And cabbage? And eggplant? The grill is good for so much more than slabs of beef, and it can be a considerable weapon in the fight to cook good food and keep your kitchen cool all summer long.
And hey, you there — yes, you without a grill! I can see you getting ready to flick right by this post. But many of the recipes here aren't doomed by the absence of a grill. Try a grilled salad, seared on a cast iron pan instead, or cabbage wedges with a spicy dressing. Grill or grill-less, charcoal or gas, meat-eater or vegetarian, here are 15 less-expected foods to grill, each a reason to grab inspiration from cooking with fire.
I'm such a fan of throwing almost any fruit or vegetable on the grill. The best Caesar salad is made with lightly charred romaine lettuce; peaches and nectarines get a shot of smoke and suddenly they taste riper and sweeter.
The grill is also wonderful for bread, like no-knead bread, which bakes right in its pot on the grill and leaves your kitchen cool. And of course pizza — this is a well-known way to get the best pizza you've ever made.
And while this roundup focuses mostly on vegetarian goodness, don't overlook the less common meats and seafood on the grill. Everyone knows about grilled salmon and shrimp, but what about oysters? And why not try a pork tenderloin, instead of burgers?
15 Foods to Grill This Summer
- Cabbage: Grilled Cabbage Wedges with Spicy Lime Dressing
- Cactus: Grilled Cactus and Corn Salad
- Carrots: Grilled Carrots with Lemon and Dill
- Cauliflower: Why You Should Throw On Some Cauliflower
- Cheese: Grilled Halloumi & Quinoa Salad
- Eggplant: Grilled Eggplant Topped with Goat Cheese and Tomato
- Figs: Grilled Figs with Honeyed Mascarpone
- Flatbread: Flatbread Stuffed with Curried Potatoes, Spinach, and Chickpeas
- Kale: Garlicky Grilled Kale Salad with Grilled Bread
- Guacamole & Avocados: Grilled Guacamole
- No-Knead Bread: How To Bake No-Knead Bread On the Grill
- Oysters: How to Grill Oysters at Home
- Pizza: How To Grill Pizza
- Pork: Grilled Pork Loin
- Watermelon: Vegetarian Grilling: Try Watermelon!
Essential Grill Recipe: Grilled Chicken Legs with Dijon & White Wine GlazeHere's a look back at the classic meaty cook-out essentials, too.
The Cook-Out Essentials
- Burgers: How to Grill Really Juicy Burgers
- Veggie Burgers: Green Curry Veggie Burgers with Black Beans & Walnuts
- Chicken Breasts: Blackened Beer-Brined Chicken Breasts
- Chicken Legs: Grilled Chicken Legs with Dijon & White Wine Glaze
- Salmon: How to Grill Salmon on a Cedar Plank
A Few More Grilling Tips
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US 'Intelligence' Boss Reveals 'Redacted' Date In The URL Of The File
from the or-in-the-other-version-of-the-document-you-already-released dept
Oh, and it gets even stupider.
It turns out that this same document was already declassified in an earlier data dump... with totally different redactions. Both files are embedded below.
From that, you can see that the redactions (in both) seem rather arbitrary (especially redacting the dates). In many cases, it's difficult to understand why any of these points were redacted in either document. For example, in the original declassification, the following is redacted, but is available in the new release:
The Court further ordered that it would allow NSA, for a period of 20 days, to continue to share the unminimized results of authorized queries of the PR/TT metadata with NSA analysts other than the limited number of analysts authorized to access such metadata, but that such sharing was not to continue beyond the 20-day period unless the government first satisfied the Court, by written submission, that such sharing is necessary and appropriate on an ongoing basis.Either way, it says quite a lot (none of it good) about our "intelligence" professionals when they offer up a document with a redacted date (makes no sense in the first place), which is easily revealed by the very URL (wtf?) that the intelligence officials chose, and which is further undermined by the fact that the same document had already been declassified with totally different redactions (and which reveals the date). And we're supposed to believe these folks are smart enough to not screw up with all the data they're collecting on everyone?


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Jets got a good man in John Idzik
It took nearly three weeks and what seemed like an endless series of interviews with just about every candidate imaginable. But it looks as if the Jets made the right call with general manager John Idzik.
By the time they finally found their man, eight teams already had filled head-coaching vacancies and five teams had hired GMs. The Jets were the last to make a move. But in arguably their most important football decision since the hiring of Rex Ryan as coach in 2009, the Jets got the GM they needed.
No, he's not a big-name football executive. In fact, he's hardly recognizable; as the Seahawks' No. 2 executive behind GM John Schneider, Idzik was responsible for managing the team's salary cap and also was involved in personnel evaluations and scouting assignments.
So it's a unique resume that lends itself to exactly what the Jets need to replace Mike Tannenbaum. The Jets have plenty of salary-cap issues and need a firm hand in personnel matters that only an experienced and savvy executive can offer.
Looks as if Idzik is the man to tackle both assignments.
The resume is a good one. Idzik was with the Seahawks since 2007; before that, as senior director of football operations, he helped the Cardinals develop into Super Bowl contenders.
He came to the NFL in 1993 with the Buccaneers, spending 11 years in Tampa as a pro personnel assistant and then director of football administration and assistant general manager.
Before that, former Dartmouth wide receiver Idzik was a graduate assistant coach at Duke, concentrating on the offensive line and running backs.
So there's plenty of football experience there.
And there's also this: He's the son of a coach. Idzik's father, John, was an NFL assistant for the Dolphins, Colts, Eagles and Jets. He was the Jets' offensive coordinator from 1977-79 under Walt Michaels.
"John has seen firsthand what's necessary to construct a winning team and has worked with some of the most innovative and successful coaches in the NFL, including Pete Carroll, Tony Dungy, Dennis Green, Jon Gruden and Mike Holmgren," Jets owner Woody Johnson said.
There are plenty of challenges ahead for Idzik, not the least of which is seeing if he can work alongside Rex Ryan, who has been retained by Johnson in what could be an awkward organizational setup.
Idzik clearly is OK with the idea of inheriting Ryan, because it was a stipulation of the job coming into the interview process. But as we've seen in the past, GMs who inherit coaches don't always keep them.
Ted Thompson in Green Bay, Mike Holmgren in Cleveland and Phil Emery in Chicago parted company with their head coaches after one season in their posts as the lead football executive. It remains to be seen whether the Idzik-Ryan relationship will last longer.
Equally pressing are roster issues, including a bloated salary cap. Look for the Jets to shed upward of $30 million in cap space by releasing offensive tackle Jason Smith, linebackers Bart Scott and Calvin Pace, and safety Eric Smith.
Quarterback will be a focus; the Jets must find an alternative to Mark Sanchez, even if he remains because of his guaranteed $8.25-million salary. Running back Shonn Greene, an unrestricted free agent, isn't worthy of a huge contract. There is a need for receiver depth. Tight end Dustin Keller's contract is up. The defense must get younger at linebacker and safety.
The problems are many and the solutions will require a steady hand, especially when it comes to personnel. Idzik must be willing to make the tough decisions, especially on draft day, and especially if Ryan is pushing for players who might not be the correct choices.
Tannenbaum too often let Ryan have his say in the draft, frequently to the detriment of the roster. So Idzik needs to set the parameters early, siding with the personnel people who spend their lives studying college players, not the coaches who look at college players for a few weeks leading up to the draft.
It won't be an easy process, but it looks as if Johnson came away with the right choice.
It had better be. The future of his franchise depends on it.
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Samuel H. Patterson, former director of recruitment and placement at Black & Decker Corp. who also enjoyed farming, died Nov. 7 of congestive heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson.
He was 93 and lived at Oak Crest Village in Parkville.
The son of an educator and a former C&P; Telephone Co. switchboard operator, Samuel Henson Patterson was born on the family farm in Gamber, Carroll County. After the family lost the farm during the Depression, they moved to a home near Clifton Park.
After graduating from Polytechnic Institute in 1937, he worked at the old Glenn Martin Co. plant in Middle River as a riveter, eventually becoming a supervisor.
Drafted into the Navy in 1944, Mr. Patterson was trained to maintain and service aircraft autopilots. At the end of the war, he returned to the Martin Co., where he was a supervisor and employee trainer.
He entered the University of Maryland in 1947, where he studied on the GI Bill.
"While attending college, he supplemented the family's income by selling Electrolux vacuum cleaners door-to-door," said his son, Samuel H. Patterson Jr. of Falmouth, Mass.
After graduating magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in education in 1950 from College Park, he taught wood shop at Richard Montgomery High School from 1950 to 1952.
While working full time as an industrial education instructor, he earned his master's degree in education in 1953 from the University of Maryland.
Mr. Patterson went to work for Black & Decker in 1953 as the company's sales training director, a position he held until being named personnel director.
From 1956 to 1976, he taught a course in industrial management at the Johns Hopkins University's McCoy College.
At the time of his retirement in 1981, Mr. Patterson was recruitment and placement director.
"Sam hired me when I came out of the Army in 1973 and gave me my first personnel job," said Brian L. King, who later became personnel director for the old First National Bank.
"He was a role model for human resource management. He had a very fair and open-minded approach to any employee issue," said Mr. King, who lives in Jarrettsville. "He would basically think through people situations, which tend to be fairly complicated, and try to arrive at a fair outcome."
He said that Mr. Patterson, who remained a lifelong close friend, was "well-respected by both management and employees which ranged from the sales force to plant personnel."
His professional memberships included the Maryland Society of Training Directors.
In 1959, Mr. Patterson purchased a 96-acre farm in Hereford, which included a barn, chicken house, garages, a toolshed and a three-story Victorian house.
"Over the years, the family raised chickens, steers, pigs, horses and two donkeys, not to mention cats and dogs," his son said.
"He was a farmer at heart," his son said. "While not a farmer by profession, he chose to live on or near farms for most of his life. He was an avid gardener, and generously shared the vegetables and fruits that he grew."
Mr. Patterson installed a wood-fired boiler on the farm — which included 60 acres of timberland — during the oil crisis of the early 1970s.
"He cut and split wood to heat the uninsulated 14-room farmhouse, and he continued to do this until he was in his mid-70s," his son said.
Mr. Patterson, whose farm had a long hill that led to a stream that crisscrossed the property, couldn't wait until the first snow so he could go sledding with his children and grandchildren, family members said.
A physically active person throughout his life, Mr. Patterson learned to ski in his 50s and was 80 when he learned to play golf. He also enjoyed boccie, shuffleboard and pinochle.
Mr. Patterson had also been involved in his community and had been president of the PTA at Sparks Elementary and then Hereford High School. He had been committee chairman of Boy Scout Troop 485 and an adult 4-H leader.
Since 1996, Mr. Patterson and his wife of 41 years, the former Dorothy Fox Grabill, had lived at Oak Crest Village, where he had served two nonconsecutive, two-year terms as a member of the Resident Advisory Council.
He was a member for nearly 60 years of Epworth Methodist Church, where he had been a choir member for 59 years and served on the church's board of trustees. He had been chairman of the building committee, worked in the thrift shop and was a member of its Habitat for Humanity committee that restored houses for the needy.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in the chapel at Oak Crest Village, 8800 Walther Blvd.
In addition to his wife and son, Mr. Patterson is survived by two daughters, Susan Erickson of Parkton and Janet Minor of Atlanta; a stepson, Stanley Grabill of Chesapeake, Va.; a stepdaughter, Katherine Hupfeldt of Phoenix, Baltimore County; 10 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. An earlier marriage to the former Katharin Harms ended in divorce.


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NICHOLSON - Wiley Edgar Barrett, Jr., 81, died Thursday, April 18, 2013 at Athens Regional Medical Center.
He was born in Nicholson, the son of the late Wiley Edgar and Nora Estell Alexander Barrett, Sr. He was a member of New Hope Baptist Church and was retired from Seaboard Farms.
Survivors include his wife, Evelyn Genene Wheelis Barrett, Nicholson; son, Tom Barrett, Nicholson; and sister, Jeanette Dailey, Perry.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m., Sunday, April 21, at New Hope Baptist Church with the Rev. Mike Stowers officiating. Interment will follow in Nicholson Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Saturday, April 20, from 5 to 7 p.m.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the New Hope Baptist Church Food Bank.
Little-Ward Funeral Home, Commerce, is in charge of arrangements.
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Barbara Koster, CIO of Prudential Financial, oversees 1,700 IT employees and formulates policies, establishes standards and architectures, and develops guidelines and management practices for the financial services giant. She also manages the company's global networks and data centers and other technology infrastructure.
What is your favorite technology and why?
Koster: I'm in love with my iPad, so I'd have to say mobile. The iPad, and now all the tablets, have revolutionized our ability to blend our work and home balance. That machine comes with me everywhere.
In high school, I was... nerdy and shy. To which everyone would now say: "There's no way you were shy."
What is the most interesting thing people don't know about you?
I was the first woman in New York City to be allowed to be on the intercollegiate bowling congress. I was the only woman with 120 men. The reason they allowed it was because my average was 192. It changed things.
In a market where the amount of talent is diminishing due to a lack of interest in IT careers, Koster and Prudential have embarked on several initiatives to reach out to the military, universities, high schools and youth organizations to help promote IT jobs.
How do you find IT talent in today's market?
The pipeline of talent is actually diminishing from a college entry [applicant] point of view. We have fewer and fewer of our young adults going into technology. So we've spent a lot of time creating a lot of pipelines. For example, we have a program with Columbia University that takes high school graduates from Harlem and Newark -- those who have a good propensity for math -- and put them through a training program to teach them the technologies we at Prudential find we're in need of.
We've also expanded that program to work with military veterans. We're graduating our first class [this summer]. That's a class of 25 veterans who were selected because they either had skills from the military or have a propensity for technology. It's a hybrid program. It's education and internships.
Why are fewer people getting into technology careers?
I think we, as a community, did ourselves a disservice when we allowed everyone to believe that all technology jobs were going offshore. Coding clearly went offshore, but there are at least 100 different types of technology jobs, whether it's business analysis or quality assurance testing. All [of] that has to be done where the work is being done. When you talk to the kids, they tell you the jobs are being offshored. I think it's a re-education process we have to go through about how exciting technology can be.
How do you keep your employees happy? I think it's a function of communication. We spend a lot of time talking with our folks. We have town halls, which can be up to 200 or 300 people attending online and in person. We do small lunch gatherings, where senior executives talk about business strategies, or invite a guest speaker in to discuss a new technology that's arriving and how Prudential might implement it. Then we test it through an employee opinion survey to make sure we're getting to the employees what they want to know and hear about.
Do you also offer IT job cross-training?
Yes. [Employees] all do attend training throughout the year. Some of it is online, so they can do it when it's the best time for them. We have a broad remote-access program. It's hard to teach them new technology if they can't try it out, so we also offer a lot of pilot programs. We also have swap programs where people will change jobs for six months and try each other's jobs out, but they have to be similar.
You've done a number of acquisitions over the past few years. Do you tend to take best-of-breed IT out of those companies, or do you standardize on your own?
Our infrastructure has grown tremendously. The acquisition strategy we have has caused us to grow the infrastructure. We will take best of breed. We find that's the easiest way to integrate and convert. Then, over time, we'll look at what the new technologies are that are evolving that can help us to be more efficient and effective.
What do you consider the greatest challenge in IT today?
It's what we don't know about security. Like all our peers, we participate with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, but there's still so much that happens that we don't know. You just have to look at the current examples of Sony and RSA breaches, and WikiLeaks. Those are things happening every day, and our ability to stay on top of that is very critical.
How have you embraced personal technologies like iPhones and tablets?
We are hoping to have an environment that will allow our employees to choose whatever they'd like to use. Today, we're already allowing iPads, iPhones, Androids, MacBooks; we have an open infrastructure. We have a virtualized environment, so their individual desktop is sitting inside the data center and then there's a portal for access to that [device].
Have you implemented a private, public or hybrid cloud model?
Yes, to all three. Our private cloud is called our utility computing platform, where we share environments for some things. For example, our grid computing is a shared environment, and the businesses buy their services and pay for what they use. We consider that our private cloud. As far as public cloud, we are out there with Salesforce.com. It's a very good service. It started in two of our smaller businesses, and now all of our big businesses are using it as well.
What have you found to be the greatest benefit of using the cloud?
Clearly, price-performance. You can't beat it. You put the volume together and it drives down cost. Also, for Salesforce, it was great to be able to move into a new service that we didn't have to build the infrastructure for. So it was a very quick time to enter.


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|2010-04-15, 04:37
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Most heroic characters for children are voiced by female seiyuu, right? (There are exceptions, but generally speaking, admired characters are young boys...who are almost exclusively voiced by women.) The people who are likely to idolise male seiyuu in BL drama CDs are usually girls at least middle school-aged or older, and furthermore, it's a fantasy that cannot involve them except as a spectator (voyeur, if you wish). Games, on the other hand, are interactive...
And I'm not really sure what to think of that Namikawa Daisuke movie either...
|2010-04-15, 06:25
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Location: Cheesecake wonderland
Namikawa...what the heck? The budget is sorta low, like most Japanese movie to be honest. This movie seems more like 'It's horrible it's bad' then 'It's so bad it's good'.
Chiaking...is win.
Namikawa is okay with radio show, just happened to heard him in Hetalia Raji. I still prefer Masayan...
|2010-04-15, 08:07
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And damn Arc Systems for censoring stuff, haha. ._.;
Yeah, another Cosmic Love would be awesome. How come Yukarin doesn't get a cool PV like this? Or even something like Toyosaki's Aki love your life thing. At least Yukarin seems to be able to sing live. y u do this KR
*stares at Kaida-chin*
|2010-04-17, 08:14
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|2010-04-17, 11:59
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Ahh, the poor staff. And yeah, talking over each other makes it pretty hard. Notice how Ueda Kana rarely speaks out like Kakky. Always does that when there's a lot of people on a show. orz
AND I WANNA KNOW WHAT THEY SAID TOO. Also eyes scar'd Kakky Jin dancing, but the lovely ladies~
Hey 11s, I'm importing some goods! Canadian Customs is raping me, but I'm still being a good fan and buying my Yukarin and Nana stuff! And I'm gunna buy my Nanoha manga when I get Yukarin's concert in June! ;_;
|2010-04-19, 17:21
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I feel Kawasumi Ayako has been consistently good in the various series that I've come across. Seriously, Saber (does not) equal Nodame for example! I presume she's not an idol-type seiyuu thus her visibility is limited.
I like Mizuki Nana more for her singing rather than the acting. Her lives are beyond excellent on a good day, but she does have her off days when the clarity of the lyrics really stuffs up. She fit Fate Testarossa well, Colette (Tales of Symphonia) was ok, but Moka (Rosario-Vampire) was pretty hard on the ears. Her role as Fate seems to be a one-hit wonder, as she hasn't had leading roles in well-acclaimed anime it seems.
Horie Yui has a unique and seriously cute voice. Nonetheless she knows it and obviously capitalises on that factor during live concerts - which I feel for a lady in her 30s is pushing it!
Saitou Chiwa scored a one-hit wonder in Bakemonogatari in my eyes by her excellent performance there. I see her as an average seiyuu (which means very good, but unfortunately most seiyuus are very good!).
In response to the recent long discussions, I'm generally pretty disgusted at die-hard fans which create the idol culture, with its complex and "what on earth" set of generally accepted rules.
|2010-04-20, 05:57
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I'm not sure I'd place the blame for idol culture solely on the fans. After all, someone has to put in the cash in the first place. Also, from the sounds of it, the whole jimusho system seems to have similar roots to the studio system that existed in American during (or was it before?) the so-called Golden Age of film. I'm not too clear on the details of how the studio system was disrupted, but if this idol system in Japan is to change, I'd say that the artists need to step up, and their fans need to start rooting for what's best for their 'idols' rather than what they themselves want... Don't really see either happening anytime soon, but maybe, one day in the future...
|2010-04-21, 10:47
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I'll just say.
- zzz Ayachii's actual voice is boring and plain to me, but her acting is nice.
- Let's not get me started on Nana's average acting when my average is.... rather average. Think above Kotobuki Minako and below people like ChiwaChiwa.
- o hay, Hocchan's budokan live is released next month. Anyone want to watch it and go wut at how robotic she'll probably sound with me? And haha, everyone around me making fun of how it looks like she uses botox.
- ChiwaChiwa is probably mentally ranked around Tamura Yukari for me. And they're both insane! Yay.
norly, Chiwa in Kemeko DX has got to be the biggest lolwtf I have ever seen/heard.
derp, where's that clip of Kana-sama going all "Mai-channnnn, sukiiii" for some punishment game and Nakahara acting all tsun....
Edit for woah, eroge seiyuu costs, wut.
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|2010-07-24, 19:44
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Male- Every boy in Ghost Hunt, espically Naru and John.
Ranmaru- Tokko
Lelouch, Lloyd - Code Geass
Toshiro - Bleach
and few hundred others
Female- Every girl in Ghost Hunt.
Mion and Shion- When They Cry
Not many, I know...I can't think of any right now...
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|2010-07-24, 20:13
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Male: Rolo from Code Geass
Saji Crossroad from Gundam 00
Most of the Code Geass male cast
Ribbons Almark from Gundam 00
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Ceres from Ayashi no Ceres
Emma Sheen from Zeta Gundam
Haru from Reborn
Louise from Gundam 00
|2010-07-25, 08:38
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I have a small question - as a huge fan of Miki Shinichiro, I'm wondering why he hasn't done a single character song lately? Is it just a coincidence that all his recent character image CDs (FMA:B, Hakuouki) have monologues placed against background music instead of songs? Or is there some reason that I'm not aware of? I'm pretty sure I haven't let any new releases slip through... I really want to hear Miki's singing again
On another note, it it seems like you've listed characters' names instead of VAs, Roloko
|2010-07-25, 09:03
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^ A few years ago, apparently, he declared that he wouldn't be singing anymore, which surprises me, considering Weiss and all that. I don't know why though - you might be able to find out more from other fans on LJ...
|2010-07-25, 09:16
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Saji Crossroad: Gabe Khouth (dub) Miyu Irino (seiyuu)
Ribbons Almark: Michael Adamthwaite (dub) Noboru Sogetsu (seiyuu)
Louise Halevy: Kelly Sheridan (dub) Chiwa Saito (seiyuu)
Yuuko: Yumiko Nakajima (Seiyuu)
Emma Sheen: Lisa Christie (dub) Maya Okamoto (Seiyuu)
Ceres: Onalea Gilbertson (dub) Junko Iwao (seiyuu)
Haru Miura: Hitomi Yoshida (Seiyuu)
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|2010-07-30, 19:12
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After watching High School of the Dead, I gained a ton of respect for Marina Inoue when I looked up the cast list later and found she was playing Rei. She sounds so passionate and anguished there, totally different from Kana Minami. And of course she's also a pretty decent singer. Unfortunately seiyuu expert JimOne seems to indicate on her blog that her career is going down the tubes. I'm not completely sure about that, but between those two shows I'd say she's one of the better seiyuus of this era. What do you think?
This reminds me of the debate about what you think makes a better voice actor: versatility and sounding completely different from the previous character you played, or using the same or a similar voice to best advantage?
|2010-07-31, 16:55
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Only major roles this year would be..
Rei Miyamoto from HotD (lead female)
Tsukiumi from Sekirei 2
Narvi Sutoraizu from Break Blade is pretty much a support role.. though that character might take a bigger role in one of the following 6 movies.
So very slow first 9 months of the year for her... would need a big Fall season...
|2010-07-31, 17:10
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Er, have we considered the possibility of Inoue Marina doing voice acting as a side thing now? Seeing as you've looked around jimu's blog, you might remember that this girl actually has brains.
Omigawa Chiaki probably has more different voices than Hanazawa Kana or Noto Mamiko, but oh god, that acting.
Using the same kind of voice, even if the acting is good, just gets..... boring, unless you enjoy the voice itself. And this is why I don't care for Mamio, but Hanazzz needs more Sakura or Mato kind of roles instead of zzz Tenshi or Snake. Also, Kamiyan (ry
|2010-08-01, 09:09
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For whatever reason, I have never been much impressed by Inoue Marina's work. Maybe it's my imperfect Japanese. HoTD doesn't change that, since I just hear surface angstiness and no emotional substance, myself. And until recently, Tsukiumi in Sekirei has just sounded artificial to me. Now I begin to get the humor. And I do enjoy Marina in Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru.
I like her looks and personality. j1m0ne probably knows something I don't (she knows a lot I don't), but Marina seems to me to continue to get plum roles, such as in HotD. She's not headed for huge stardom, however, it appears, just for being a solid pro. And her intelligence and overall ability do make it possible that she will branch out into other areas. According to the lists in Japanese Wikipedia, she is now getting even more game roles (no ero-games, it seems) than anime roles.
As for Omigawa Chiaki, she is one of the few amateurish-sounding seiyuus that really does give me trouble. I have trouble hearing past that flat voice. Although I am coming to enjoy her in Seitokai Yakuindomo now.
To compare her sound with HanaKana or Noto Kawaii.... I haven't listened carefully to a lot of Omigawa-san's work, but I do think that HanaKana and Noto Kawaii can sound unlike their most popular voices (e.g., in Darker than Black 2 and in Mnemosyne, respectively). Whereas I have never heard Omigawa-san sound anything but flat. They definitely have far more professional voices than she does, with more life in them.
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|2010-08-01, 22:17
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Because I don't really know Japanese, the only way to impress me is to have a good vocal range, like Miyukichi and Kugyuu.
I kind of forget about the game side of voice acting. I guess the funny thing is that I like Marina's acting as a guy more than those girls for some reason. Or I'm attached to Erio Mondial too much.
So yes, everyone else actually has professional voices while poor little Omigawa is still trying to work on the one. wwww
|2010-08-06, 18:23
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Just random shit..
Really can't stand Satomi Arai's voice, honestly can't see the appeal for it period
Otoh really, really starting to love Itou Kanae's voice, I do remember looking her up after hearing her Amu in Shugo Chara and thinking she needs way more work... than she got Mihoshi 's role in Sora no Manimani and hasn't looked back. Really appealing voice...
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haha, i cant remember the last time i went to a mall.
the socks are pretty adorable. i'm currently having this problem where i keep starting projects and putting them aside. then starting something else. i have 3 wip's right now which is far more than i've ever had at one time!
- November 4, 2008 at 5:55 AM
- KGLO said...
wow...I think I'm drooling a little. Those are all gorgeous. I've been dying to knit with the Noro sock yarn - what is it like? I mean the colors are amazing, but in the ball it's kind of stiff.
And yesh, I love the mac stores. So helpful. I think I'm giving up PCs forever. Last time, we got into this fantastic conversation with the guy about politics and whatnot. We almost invited him out for a beer, but that seemed creepy...
I'll have to look up Studs Terkel and add his book to my stack.
cheers to you and your christmas knitting!
- November 4, 2008 at 11:07 AM
- shobhana said...
the blue & yellow socks are cool.
- November 7, 2008 at 6:22 AM


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2013-14 Season (Senior): Named to the All-Ivy team … Played No. 1 for the Bulldogs and went 9-7 in the regular season … 2-0 when not at No. 1… 3-4 in Ivy League competition … Defeated Trinity's Miled Zarazua at No. 1 on Jan. 22 … Competed in the CSA Individual Championships.
2012-13 Season (Junior): Received the Steve Gurney Award for great personal growth … Went 11-4 at No. 4 … Notable wins against Cornell, Princeton and Penn … Finished the season ranked No. 26 nationally ... Won at No. 4 against Cornell and Trinity in the first two rounds of the CSA Team Championships … Competed in the Pool Division of the CSA Individual Championships.
2011-12 Season (Sophomore): Achieved a 13-3 record at the No. 5 and No. 6 position… Opened the season with an eight-match winning streak… Helped Yale upset reigning national champion Trinity with a victory at the No. 6 slot… Reached the second round of Division B at the CSA Individual Championships... Achieved a No. 43 national ranking.
2010-11 Season (Freshman): Went 2-3 mostly at the No. 7 position.


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We have written several times about Jennifer Loven, a reporter for the Associated Press who uses her "news" articles as a platform to push her own partisan agenda, as, for example, when she wrote an AP article critiquing President Bush's environmental policies, without mentioning that her husband was an environmental adviser to the John Kerry campaign.
Today, Loven authored an "analysis piece" rather than a "news story," so she could tell us what she really thinks about President Bush. Not that it's easy to tell the difference. Loven's article is titled The Bush Take on U.S. Opinion. It portrays the President as out of touch and living in an "alternative reality:"
Confronted with strong opposition to his Iraq policies, President Bush decides to interpret public opinion his own way. Actually, he says, people agree with him.
Democrats view the November elections that gave them control of Congress as a mandate to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq. They're backed by evidence; election exit poll surveys by The Associated Press and television networks found 55 percent saying the U.S. should withdraw some or all of its troops from Iraq.
So there are two views of American public opinion, and the Democrats' view is right. Loven continues:
Increasingly isolated on a war that is going badly [Ed.: So says General Loven, without support or elaboration], Bush has presented his alternative reality in other ways, too. He expresses understanding for the public's dismay over the unrelenting sectarian violence and American losses that have passed 3,400, but then asserts that the public's solution matches his.
'A lot of Americans want to know, you know, when?' he said at a Rose Garden news conference Thursday. 'When are you going to win?'
Also in that session, Bush said: 'I recognize there are a handful there, or some, who just say, `Get out, you know, it's just not worth it. Let's just leave.' I strongly disagree with that attitude. Most Americans do as well.'
In fact, polls show Americans do not disagree, and that leaving – not winning – is their main goal.
In one released Friday by CBS and the New York Times, 63 percent supported a troop withdrawal timetable of sometime next year. Another earlier this month from USA Today and Gallup found 59 percent backing a withdrawal deadline that the U.S. should stick to no matter what's happening in Iraq.
In fact, Loven is wrong. President Bush was obviously referring to those who want to pull out of Iraq more or less immediately, i.e., "just leave." Polls consistently show that most Americans do not favor what Bush called the "let's just leave" approach. Gallup, to take just one of many examples, recently found just 20% in favor of withdrawing immediately. So Bush was right and Loven wrong; yet on this thin reed, Loven predicated her charge, made under the auspices of the Associated Press, that the President inhabits an "alternative reality."
Loven's smears continue:
Seeking to turn up the heat on this argument, Bush has relied lately on an al-Qaida mantra. Terrorists remain dangerous, and fighting them in Iraq is key to neutralizing the threat, he says. 'It's hard for some Americans to see that, I fully understand it,' Bush said. 'I see it clearly.'
Independent pollster Andrew Kohut said of the White House view: 'I don't see what they're talking about.'
Got it? Al Qaeda is now a "mantra," which is a meaningless sound or phrase that is repeated over and over. And "independent" (i.e., liberal) Andrew Kohut–is he a general too, like Loven, or just a pollster?–can't see what Bush is talking about. The threat posed by Islamic terrorists apparently plays no role in Loven's own alternative reality.
Consistent with her "who cares about reality?" approach, Loven gives the last word to an "expert" on "Presidential rhetoric:"
Wayne Fields, an expert on presidential rhetoric at Washington University in St. Louis, said the president's new language exploits the fact that there is no one alternative strategy for the public to coalesce around, which clearly spells out how to bring troops home. Bush can argue that people agree with him because no one can define the alternative, Fields said.
But, with the president's job approval ratings so low and the public well aware of what it thinks about the war, Bush is taking a big gamble.
'This is a very tricky thing in our politics. We want to think that we want our leaders to stand up to public opinion. But we also like to think of ourselves as being in a democracy where we are listened to,' Fields said. 'He risks either the notion of being thought out of touch … or to be thought simply duplicitous.'
Hey, that's the choice: is the President a liar, or just out of touch? That's the mountain that Democratic Party hatchet-woman Jennifer Loven builds out of the molehill of a single factual disagreement with President Bush, in which the President was right and Loven was wrong.
Actually, in the Rose Garden press conference to which Loven refers, President Bush did an excellent job of articulating the importance of Iraq in the struggle against Islamic terrorism. You can read the whole thing here. There is a great deal there that readers who rely on the Associated Press will never know.
Via Power Line News.
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The New Jersey Supreme Court held yesterday that denial of the legal benefits of marriage to gays and lesbians violates the equal protection guarantee of the New Jersey Constitution. At the same time, the court declined to hold that gays and lesbians have a right to "marry." The court concluded that a right of equal access to the legal benefits of marriage does not necessarily entail a right to characterize the relationship as "marriage." Hmmm.
Among the many intriguing facets of this decision is that the vote was 4-to-3. The three dissenting justices did not argue that gays and lesbians do not have a right to the legal benefits of marriage; rather, they argued that gays and lesbians are also entitled to equal access to the word "marriage." Thus, the court was unanimous in holding that New Jersey could not constitutionally (under the state constitution) deny gays and lesbians the legal benefits of marriage.
We have come a long way. I remember the first time a student at the University of Chicago Law School (where I teach) wrote on a classroom blackboard "Come to the First Meeting of Gay Law Students Association. Wednesday. 4:00. Seminar Room C." This was roughly twenty-five years ago. I was stunned to see such a message. Although I had previously had one or two openly gay students, the idea of a Gay Law Students Association was completely novel to me. One of my faculty colleagues was outraged, comparing it to a Heroin-Users Law Students Association. It was, he said, a criminal conspiracy. Three years later, that professor (knowingly) wrote Supreme Court clerkship recommendation letters on behalf of the student who had written that initial announcement.
Within a decade, the University of Chicago Law School had banned any employer who discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation (including the United States military) from using the Law School's placement facilities (as it had already banned employers who discriminated on the basis of race, religion, and gender) and established the Stonewall Scholarship for students who intended to devote part of their careers to defending the rights of gays and lesbians. By that time -- the late 1980s -- neither of these steps was seen as particularly controversial.
A few years ago I attended a dinner with twenty more-or-less randomly selected students. When I asked how many would vote as legislators to authorize gay and lesbian marriage, 90% said they would. The very idea of gay and lesbian marriage twenty years earlier would have seemed preposterous. Most students would have considered such a suggestion tantamount to proposing today that people should be allowed to marry cats. Most students would have been completely taken aback by such a suggestion, and likely replied, "that's just not 'marriage'."
This is what is meant by "raising one's consciousness." I'm old enough to remember when blacks couldn't drink from the same water fountain as whites and when a woman Supreme Court justice, an African-American secretary of state, an openly gay congressman, and a Hispanic attorney general seemed unthinkable. Today's law students will no doubt regale their children with their memory of a time when, believe it or not, gays and lesbians couldn't marry. Pretty amazing.


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Parents can save calories and cash if they read the labels on the "healthy foods" they are feeding their children.
Parents can save calories and cash if they read the labels on the "healthy foods" they are feeding their children.
Just because it is labeled reduced-fat doesn't mean it is healthy for you.
"Foods need sugar, fat and salt, and if you take away one of those things, you need more of the other two ingredients to taste good. If it has less sugar, then chances are it has added salt and fat," said Paula Schott, a registered dietitian and clinical nutrition manager at Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg.
"Often you pay more for the so-called healthier version, so make sure you get what you pay for by reading the label," she said.
For example, those sugary presweetened cereals — now made with whole grains — lead parents to believe the cereal is a healthy choice, according to Schott.
Any health benefit from the whole grain is outweighed by the large quantities of sugar in the cereal, she said.
Schott isn't saying all cereals are a bad choice, just the presweetened kind.
You have to keep in mind the companies pay marketing experts big bucks to package and market products to make them attractive to parents, according to consumerreports.org.
Feeding your child a banana muffin for breakfast sounds so much healthier than a piece of banana cake, but there is really very little difference.
"The muffin is just a glorified piece of cake," she said.
Proof of the power of marketing: Sweet potato fries have become popular and are widely touted as a healthier alternative to french fries. True, eating sweet potato fries does sound more wholesome than traditional french fries, but they aren't.
Feeding your children sweet potato fries will give them vitamin A and slightly more fiber than white potatoes, but simply swapping french fries for sweet potato fries does not necessarily make a healthier meal — both are deep-fried.
Consumer Reports' test kitchen results showed a 3-ounce serving of a popular brand of sweet potato fries had 7 grams of fat and 6 grams of sugars. The same size serving of french fries had 3 grams of fat and 0 grams of sugars.
One thing parents can do, Schott said, is to keep the refrigerator stocked with fresh fruits and vegetables. Eat them plain, not with a dip or sauce.
"Teach them it is possible to eat fruits and vegetables without first dipping them in something," she said.
Also, if your family only eats white bread, try switching to either a white whole wheat or a smart white bread. The change in taste and texture is not as drastic as replacing your white bread with a whole wheat.
Schott noted that recently the U.S. Department of Agriculture added children's dietary guidelines on choosemyplate.gov. Parents can find nutritional guidance.
"Although it seems like a lot of work, once you get used to reading labels and checking ingredients, you will find it is worthwhile," Schott said.


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This page documents the GSM networking solutions (commonly known as GPRS) using the FreeSmartphone.Org framework (FSO).
There are other ways to enable wireless communications on the smartphone, including Bluetooth and WLAN.
Current state
Since milestone 2 the system dbus has been extended with methods that enables connectivity using GPRS. The functionality is available under
org.freesmartphone.frameworkd at
The implementation should not interfer with other phone functionality, such as placing calls. In other words: you can use GPRS while talking on the phone without hanging up.
Currently, there's no GUI available but it's fairly easy to use the methods available using any dbus tool.
The methods available: [METHOD] org.freesmartphone.GSM.PDP.ActivateContext( s:apn, s:user, s:password ) [METHOD] org.freesmartphone.GSM.PDP.DeactivateContext() [METHOD] org.freesmartphone.GSM.PDP.GetCurrentGprsClass() [METHOD] org.freesmartphone.GSM.PDP.ListAvailableGprsClasses() [METHOD] org.freesmartphone.GSM.PDP.SetCurrentGprsClass( s:class_ ) [SIGNAL] org.freesmartphone.GSM.PDP.ContextStatus( i:index, s:status, a{sv}:properties )
Use mdbus -s -l to monitor the emitted signals. Signals will look like this:
- ActivateContext( s:apn, s:user, s:password )
[SIGNAL] org.freesmartphone.GSM.PDP.ContextStatus from :1.3 /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device (dbus.Int32(1), dbus.String(u'outgoing'), dbus.Dictionary({}, signature=dbus.Signature('sv')))</code>
- Once the connection is established (takes 3-4 seconds for me) a new signal is emited
[SIGNAL] org.freesmartphone.GSM.PDP.ContextStatus from :1.3 /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device (dbus.Int32(1), dbus.String(u'active'), dbus.Dictionary({}, signature=dbus.Signature('sv')))
- DeactivateContext
[SIGNAL] org.freesmartphone.GSM.PDP.ContextStatus from :1.3 /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device (dbus.Int32(1), dbus.String(u'release'), dbus.Dictionary({}, signature=dbus.Signature('sv')))
Using scripts
While we wait for the preferences part of FSO to be completed (and a GUI), we can use two shell scripts. You need to know three things to successfully connect via GPRS (your carrier should provide this information to you):
- the APN to use,
- the username, and
- the password.
If your APN has no username or password, you must still provide a string to satisfy the framework's input requirements. Entering bogus data, such as the "x" above, will suffice.
To connect, put the following in a file and make it executable (
chmod +x gprs-on.sh):
- !/bin/sh
APN="internet.parlino.se" USERNAME="x" PASSWORD="x" BUSNAME="org.freesmartphone.frameworkd" OBJECTPATH="/org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device" METHODNAME="org.freesmartphone.GSM.PDP.ActivateContext" mdbus -s $BUSNAME $OBJECTPATH $METHODNAME $APN "$USERNAME" "$PASSWORD"
To disconnect, use the following method instead (
chmod +x gprs-off.sh):
- !/bin/sh
BUSNAME="org.freesmartphone.frameworkd" OBJECTPATH="/org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device" METHODNAME="org.freesmartphone.GSM.PDP.DeactivateContext" mdbus -s $BUSNAME $OBJECTPATH $METHODNAME
The on script, using the ActivateContext method, will:
- setup a ppp interface (normally ppp0) (and assign IP address)
- setup (replace) the default route
- setup DNS
with settings received from the ISP.
For a list of known APN:s, see the main GPRS page.
Using a GUI


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…. And all through the house. Not a creature was stirring, and that includes the Internet. In Ohio visiting my father for the holidays, and I won't have reliable Internet until I get home Monday. I will try to post something on a daily basis and as often as possible. I did want to explain the lull between threads.
I did hear the Red Sox might not be done with Jason Bay. Playing it close to vest like they did with John Lackey. Maybe they heard the rumblings about the Yankees sniffing around and got antsy. Maybe it was fallout from the Javier Vazquez trade. Whatever, if true, and the Red Sox want him, there's precious little the Mets can do about it.
It is quite possible the delay by the Mets might cost them Bay. But, I wouldn't jump all over them for that. Bay is not worth the five years, whether or not the Red Sox are in it or not.
But, what remains clear is that the Mets remain stagnant, and on the night before Christmas, the Mets aren't doing much stirring.


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CHICAGO – It's time to update a classic board game that many of us played as kids.
Operation: Bulls edition.
Step 1: Draw a stick figure.
Step 2: Mark an "X" on the stick figure's left foot, right foot, right ankle, left knee, right hamstring, right hip, right elbow and stomach.
All set?
You have accounted for each of the Bulls' injuries through three-fifths of the season. A couple of months remain for the Bulls to complete the challenge by adding a left arm and a face (OK, hopefully not a face) to their ever-increasing list of injuries and illnesses.
Yet the Bulls keep winning.
It wasn't the case Monday. The Bulls lost by 14 points to the San Antonio Spurs, who also played shorthanded because of injuries. The loss was disappointing, but hardly a crisis.
Next, the Bulls will carry a 30-21 record to Boston on Wednesday for their final game before the All-Star break. The Bulls trail the Indiana Pacers by one game in the Central Division, and a first-place finish would guarantee a top-three playoff seed.
It's crazy, really, when you think about it.
The Bulls have collected an assortment of table scraps and created a fancy restaurant. Please pass the peanut shells. You don't like to eat the crust? The Bulls will take it.
As Homer Simpson never said, "Mmmm. Crussst."
Minus point guard Derrick Rose, the Bulls signed veteran free agents such as Nate Robinson, Marco Belinelli and Kirk Hinrich to bargain-priced deals to fill the void. There's a reason why players such as Robinson and Belinelli were available. Nobody else wanted them.
As Rose focused on his comeback – he's getting closer – the injury bug snacked on items like Luol Deng's right hamstring, Richard Hamilton's left foot and Joakim Noah's right foot.
Yet, by and large, the Bulls keep winning.
Everyone has been surprised by the Bulls' success without Rose.
Well, almost everyone.
"I'm not surprised a lick," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said before Monday's game.
Really? Not even a miniature stamp lick?
Nope. Nothing surprised him when it came to Tom Thibodeau, a one-time Spurs assistant.
"I think 'blue collar' is the first thing that comes to my mind," Popovich said. "[Thibodeau is] somebody who is tough, demanding, committed. [He] knows exactly what wins, knows what has to be there, and will make sure that he gets that."
If almost any other coach offered such praise, it would be filed in the "nice words" category.
From Popovich, it means something more.
No active coach in any of the four major sports has been in his position as long as Popovich, who is in his 17th season leading the Spurs. Popovich has guided the small-market Spurs to four NBA championships and an 888-411 regular-season record during an era when many of the league's star players have gravitated to bright lights and big cities.
In many ways, the Spurs are the Western Conference version of the Bulls. They play hard and they stay disciplined. They battle through injuries. They have some great players, yes, but they lack the star power of teams such as the Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers.
Given a choice, it's apparent that Thibodeau would prefer to follow the Spurs blueprint rather than the Heat blueprint. He described the Spurs as the "gold standard" and said he hoped that the Bulls were on the same track toward perennial success.
"They have great leadership, they have a system, and they're so consistent," Thibodeau said. "It's amazing when you study them, you see what they do at home, what they do on the road, what they do with guys out. It's a machine. …
"They're a lot more than two players or three players."
So are the Bulls.
But one player – Rose – represents the greatest hope for winning a seventh championship in franchise history. He'll keep working on his recovery, and the Bulls will keep competing with an eye toward the playoffs.
"Hopefully," Thibodeau said, "we're playing our best basketball at the end, and we're as healthy as possible."
Call it a hunch, but I think they'll keep winning.
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Liberty News
Hancock Athletic Center demolished
Crews began demolition of the 25-year-old Hancock Athletic Center today to make way for a new welcome center this fall.
Hancock Athletic Center was completed in early 1986 and has since housed offices for Liberty's athletics department, as well as a training room, weight room and locker rooms. The 21,000-square-foot building was provided and furnished by longtime Liberty supporters Mr. and Mrs. Art Williams in honor of Mrs. Williams' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Hancock.
Athletics staff have been temporarily relocated to Williams Stadium. The Football Operations Center and the new Luurtsema Center at the soccer and track and field complex will accommodate the training needs of athletes, as well as new buildings planned by the tennis courts and intramural fields.
"Our hope was to renovate Hancock but the building was designed for a single purpose," said Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. "The cost to renovate exceeded the cost to demolish and rebuild. I spoke with the original donors last year and they fully supported the decision."
Charles Spence, Liberty's director of planning and new construction, said the site is an ideal place for a new welcome center, a sort of "main hub" for all visitor information.
"We're hoping to make it one of Liberty's finest buildings ever. It will give a very good first impression for all the visitors coming to Liberty," he said.
The new location will place Liberty's guests right across the street from the bookstore and within easy walking distance of the Carter-Glass Mansion and Williams Stadium.
Construction is set to begin March 1 on the new 32,000-square-foot facility, which will house a large meeting room, smaller rooms for meeting with students and parents, a museum and a theater.


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RHINEBECK, N.Y., May 2 (UPI) -- U.S. cartoonist Liza Donnelly's humor is almost an inside joke. You don't have to be a woman to get it, but it helps.
Her single-panel gag cartoons, which appear in The New Yorker magazine and elsewhere, are also more than just humorous. They make a point, often commenting on, if not confronting, women's place in society, usually within an everyday-life context.
One cartoon depicts two young girls playing with dolls on a bedroom floor. One girl says to the other, "I can't decide what I'm going to be when I grow up -- a good girl or a slut."
Another cartoon, done during the 2008 presidential campaign, shows a woman in a hair-salon chair talking to her stylist before a cut. "I want to look like Sarah Palin, but not seem like her," the woman says.
Yet another shows two women in their 30s or 40s walking among modern art in a museum. "Art is like sex: you get it or you don't," one woman says.
"Cartoons can get at issues quickly and succinctly, and they can reach people through the heart as well as the intellect," Donnelly tells United Press International.
They also let Donnelly tackle topical subjects edgewise because readers' guards are down.
In a recent cartoon titled "House Therapy," a distraught male lawmaker lying on a couch tells his therapist: "I don't know who I am anymore, doc. I voted for the Violence Against Women Act this time."
The House renewed the landmark 1994 act in February, with 87 Republicans joining 199 Democrats in supporting reauthorizing the law that assists victims of domestic and sexual violence. The Senate passed the measure two weeks earlier with 78 votes, including those of every woman member, all Democrats and just over half of Republicans.
Another Donnelly cartoon points to a U.S. intercultural awkwardness amid the Western European political debates over Islamic dress, especially public face veils and full-body garments worn by women in some Islamic traditions.
The cartoon, titled "Flatter Diplomacy," shows a blond woman in a pink blouse and blue skirt telling a woman in a black burqa, "Black really brings out your eyes."
Donnelly, who grew up in Washington, D.C., during the civil rights movement, started drawing cartoons when she was around 7, after her mother gave her book of cartoons by James Thurber.
Thurber, whose cartoons were published mainly in The New Yorker, was known for celebrating the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people.
"I just ate it up," Donnelly told the first TED Women conference in Washington in December 2010. "I drew and I drew."
TED conferences focus on "ideas worth spreading." Donnelly often uses her cartoons when she speaks around the world about women's rights and freedom of speech.
Donnelly sold her first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1979, and her work began appearing regularly in the magazine in 1982. She was the youngest, and one of only three women cartoonists, at the magazine at the time.
"I like their warmness," New Yorker Cartoon Editor Robert Mankoff said.
"We live in a culture in which everything can be distant and cold," he said. "I like the fact that there's a genuine feeling that goes through her cartoons. It could have a little bark to it, but it isn't mean."
He mentioned three Donnelly cartoons.
One, appearing after Barack Obama first won the presidency, shows a female psychiatrist talking to a woman on a couch. "So you're a Democrat and you've won. How does that make you feel?" the psychiatrist says.
Another shows a boy and girl playing in a park sandbox. The boy says: "I don't see liking trucks as a boy thing. I see it as a liking-trucks thing."
Another shows a mother about to push a child on a rope swing for the first time. "You can say anything you want, or you can say nothing, but most people say 'Wheeeee!!!'"
"I try to do about six or so cartoons a week," Donnelly tells UPI, adding she typically gets half of them published.
Donnelly has also written or edited 15 books, including "Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons," "Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love ... in 200 Cartoons" and "When Do They Serve the Wine?" a look at generations of women "and how we can communicate and laugh with one another about being women in a man's world," Donnelly said.
An upcoming book, "Women on Men," showing cartoons of women's humor about men, is due out later this year.
TV and film producer Mark Gordon optioned "Wine" for an hourlong TV comedy giving him the exclusive right to purchase the screenplay later.
Gordon is an executive producer of ABC-TV's "Grey's Anatomy" and CBS-TV's "Criminal Minds."
"Cartoon Marriage," a his-and-hers cartoon book Donnelly wrote with her husband, New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin, has been optioned by actress-producer Jennifer Garner for ABC Studios.
Besides The New Yorker, Donnelly's work appears in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Women's eNews and The Huffington Post.