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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Wal-Mart pulls back from RFID push in its distribution centers
Wal-Mart, under scrutiny for not meeting its goal of installing RFID in 12 of its distribution centers, is now shifting its focus for RFID to the store level, away from its distribution centers.
Two years ago, the world's largest retailer set a goal for 12 of its warehouses to be RFID-enabled by the end of 2006. But it only reached this objective in five of those centers.
Now Walmart is claiming that its focus for RFID isn't at the warehouse level--it's the store level. In a Computerworld article, Simon Langford, head of Walmart's RFID program comments on the retailer's current efforts:"We're focused on the store level," said Langford. "If we focused internally [at the distribution centers], it would provide no value to our suppliers. When we set out on this journey, we really focused on the collaborative benefits; we wanted what was going to drive sales for our suppliers and to get product on the shelf, where it needs to be for our customers to buy."It would be nice if, somewhere in his comments, Langford would admit that RFID has been more costly, less reliable, and more difficult to implement than Wal-mart originally planned. The 600 Wal-Mart suppliers who were forced to adopt RFID technology under the gun of Wal-Mart's mandate, know this all too well.
Langford credited the use of RFID technology with cutting the incidence of out-of-stock products by 30% while improving the efficiency of moving products from backrooms to store shelves by 60%.
"RFID in our stores is going to drive the initial value," he said. "We see distribution centers as coming onstream a bit later."
Wal-Mart's shift in strategy is symptomatic of a larger slow-down in the adoption rate for RFID in supply chain applications, although the technology appears to be gaining ground in selected uses, such as asset management. For more on this subject, see our recent analysis at Computer Economics on the RFID implementation slowdown.by Frank Scavo, 2/27/2007 10:02:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
RFID adoption rates slow
Over at Computer Economics, we've completed our analysis of the current stalling of RFID adoption rates. Thanks to those that answered our call for feedback on this issue. This feedback is consistent with our own survey results.
The good news is that, although RFID implementation is having a slow go in many applications, there are several industries and environments where it is quite successful.
The full analysis is on the Computer Economics website. There is also a free executive summary.by Frank Scavo, 2/24/2007 09:19:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Friday, February 16, 2007
Former i2 CEO learns crime does not pay
Actually, it's worse than that. Former CEO Greg Brady will have to pay $8.3 million in SEC fines to settle charges that from approximately 1998 to 2002 he plotted to overstate i2's revenue by $1 billion. Former CFO William M. Beecher has already agreed to pay more than $2.1 million in a similar settlement. i2 itself paid $10 million in fines back in 2004.
CFO.com has the full story and background on Brady's penalty.
Update, Feb. 18: In the comments, George points out that i2's situation today is entirely different than it was in its dark years early this decade. To be fair, I should point out this recent post where I comment on i2's business today.
i2 innovates with hosted vendor-managed inventory servicesby Frank Scavo, 2/16/2007 01:57:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Saturday, February 03, 2007
Rumor mill: Oracle to acquire SAP
Apparently, the investor community has been abuzz all this week with the idea that Oracle is about to launch a takeover bid for SAP. The gossip even comes with an offer price: 38.5 euros/share ($49.78). The whispers led to some see-sawing of SAP's stock price, though it ended the week lower than it started.
The speculation was fueled by SAP's disappointing financial results earlier this month, though the disappointment was with SAP's failure to meet its own aggressive plans, not with any fall off in its business. SAP's license sales are still growing: last year they rose by 11%.
So, I wouldn't put any credence in the story. Oracle had to fight hard enough to get its PeopleSoft acquisition past the antitrust division of the U.S. Justice department. A bid for SAP would give the combined entity more than 70% of the worldwide enterprise systems market, depending on how you define it. It wouldn't fly in U.S. courts, and it certainly wouldn't be approved in the EU.
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
Lawson and IBM team for ERP sales to mid-market
Lawson and IBM announced an agreement today whereby IBM will co-develop, sell and implement Lawson's products specifically for small and mid-size companies in the banking, insurance, fashion/apparel, and food/beverage sectors. Read Lawson's press release for more details.
This is not the first partnership between the two firms. Lawson already has significant connections to IBM in Lawson's Landmark development platform, which relies heavily on IBM's Websphere. The new arrangement brings IBM's services arm into the mix to promote Lawson in these key industries. If embraced by IBM's sales force, it will greatly increase the number of feet on the street pushing Lawson's products.
What's in it for IBM? Pull-through revenue from hardware, tools, and services.
The market is reacting positively to this announcement, with Lawson's stock price up over 5% today. I would wait a few months, however, to see whether this agreement amounts to anything. IBM has made similar arrangements with other software vendors in the past. For example, I recall a partnership between IBM and J.D. Edwards in the late 1990s, where IBM's resellers were authorized to sell JDE to the mid-market. I may be wrong, but I don't believe the program was terribly successful. In a more recent example, IBM and Intentia (coincidentally, now merged with Lawson) formed a similar arrangement in 2003. The press release is still on Lawson's website. But that relationship didn't seem to kick start Intentia sales.
So, I think the partnership is a good idea, but it will take more than an announcement to make it productive. It will be interesting to follow up in a few months to see what percentage of deals in Lawson's pipeline are connected to IBM's sales efforts.
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(CNN) -- Last week, as part of a new CNN project called Change the List, I asked random people on the Internet to send encouraging messages to six nonvoters in Hawaii, the state with the lowest voter turnout rate in the country. The goal: Convince them to vote, and start a conversation that could help bump Hawaii off the bottom of the national voter turnout list.
Maybe that sounds like a weird concept, but research supports the idea that asking someone to vote -- inviting them into the conversation -- works. Even if those communications are from strangers. And even if they're online.
I was impressed by the the arguments you made in support of voting. Many of you spoke to personal experience -- to the reasons you vote. Others evoked history, bringing up long and bloody struggles for suffrage. Here's a list of the best-of-the-best. And the funniest. Thanks very much to all who participated in this little experiment. I'll report back soon on whether these arguments convinced the nonvoters to change their minds.
1. The "veterans died for this" argument:
#CTL1 People have died to provide me the rights I now enjoy, including the right to vote. I honor their sacrifice by exercising that right.— Greg(@LetsGoHike) October 24, 2012
2. The children!
"As a citizen of the state of Hawaii and the U.S., inform yourself and engage. Not sure if you have children or not - but their future depends on your vote as well!" -- Commenter mdkquito
3. The "honesty is the best policy" argument:
"I don't really believe my vote matters much either, but I vote to honor my friends that risk their lives to guarantee my freedom to do so. Loving them is reason enough to make time to cast my ballot." -- Nan Palmero, Google+
4. The global citizen argument:
"For every person in every country in the world that CAN'T vote, you should not squander the privilege." -- Commenter CandianinLA
5. The "it could be worse" argument:
"I am an immigrant from Africa, this is my second time voting, and I know it matters. That one vote matters." -- Bijoux Kamandua, Facebook
6. The "yep, I do matter" argument:
"The fact that I voted makes this election a more valid and legitimate one than it would be if I had not voted. Regardless of whether my candidate wins or not, the fact that the winner was elected after many millions of people cast their votes means that he has earned the right to govern. That alone makes for a better country. My participation alone does not mean much. My participation with millions of others means a tremendous amount." -- Commenter John Baker
7. The "life and death" argument:
"Vote as if your life depended on it! In some way, some day it will."
8. The argument in support of argument:
"As we say in Hawaii: no vote, no grumble. Your vote is your voice. If you don't speak up, then don't expect others to sympathize if you're unhappy with the way things are going." -- Tumblr user
9. The frugal voter's argument:
#CTL1. Voting is FREE. Not voting may cost you!— Faren Raborn (@FarenRaborn) October 22, 2012
10. The Nixon argument:
"Haven't missed an election since the Nixon disaster. You want another Nixon?" -- Dennis Shaffner, Facebook
11. The politely minimalist argument:
#CTL1 please vote— louretire NYC (@louretire) October 23, 2012
12. The drug dealer's argument:
"Give it a try Nani you will be amazed at how good you feel after doing this very patriotic thing." -- Joni DiMaggio on Google+
13. The 'Yay, America!' argument:
"Though imperfect, we still are part of a country that affords us all freedom, opportunity and choice. This is a privilege that you honor and support when you participate in the election of our leaders. Join us, Nani, in celebrating this precious liberty!" -- Jacquelyn Ekern on Google+
14. Personal history as argument:
"Our right to vote is built on the sacrifice of countless others. For me, I gained that right through the sacrifice of my grandfathers. My paternal-grandfather fought in Germany to rid the world of an oppressive regime who opposed the very rights we take for granted here. I also vote to honor the sacrifice of my maternal-grandfather, who in 1920 left his family and all he owned in Mexico to start a new life here in America. Each of us Americans have an obligation not only to our forefathers who sacrificed much but to those who are coming after us. That they may inherit a country that imperfect as it is remains the only country where we its citizens are truly free and have the right to choose their and their country's own destinies." -- Jesse Olivarez, a friend of mine, on Facebook
15. The "use it or lose it" persuasion:
"There used to be a time when women couldn't vote. Though it's a 'right' right now, if we aren't judicious with it and take it for granted, it could be that one day we might not have that right. More than just voting in an important election, voting is a way to affirm what so many women went through almost insurmountable victories to achieve: That we will not be silenced and that our voice counts." -- Cyndi Calhoun on Google+
16. The "it only takes 10 minutes" argument:
Early voting in #Hawaii. Only takes 10 min but can impact your #keiki & #ohana for years. Try vote-- it's #pono. hawaii.gov/elections/vote... #CTL3— Jonny Garden (@PRforplants) October 24, 2012
17. (And a sub-argument for the millennials ...)
Bro your checking twitter right now! When you can be Researching on the candidate that you are going to be voting for!!! #CTL4— Edwin Martinez (@_Edwezzzzyyy) October 26, 2012
18. The liberal mathematician:
"The 2000 election was decided by less than 600 votes. We got George Bush, 2 wars and went from record surplus to record deficits. I bet you 600 people who thought their vote didn't matter regret not voting that day." -- Rotimi Oyewole, Google+
19. The guilty conscience argument:
@pierstonight @jdsutter @cnnopinion in order to look 9 y.o. Son in the eye and say, We did our part to make things better #CTL3— Jim Dorsey (@jamezdhawaii) October 24, 2012
20. The secessionist's arguments:
#ctl3I applaud efforts to secede from the union, while you work on that, think who will best serve your agenda and vote.— Terri Lee Wyatt (@TerriLeeWyatt1) October 23, 2012
#CTL3, If you don't vote, you can't CHANGE Hawaii's statehood status. Scotland nationalists got them their own Parliament...by VOTING.— Deb Snavely (@Deporodh) October 21, 2012
21. The "feel good argument" (sent to a high-school student):
"Skyler, I remember voting for the first time at about your same age. I felt pretty special when I finished. It makes you feel you have done something very important and serious. You feel more a part of this big nation of ours. Your vote truly does matter and your opinions matter also. Please use for the first time your right to vote. You will be proud and glad you did. Don't worry if you're not familiar with all the candidates, I wasn't either at your age when I voted for the first time." -- Stephanie Brake, Storify
22. The "you might be a property owner four years from now" argument:
#CTL4 Whoever you vote for will be in office for the next four years. That person will be making decisions then, when they will affect you.— Ian McKaig (@Twilitlord) October 25, 2012
23. The "OMG THE FUTURE IS COMING!!!" argument:
"Skylar IT IS YOUR FUTURE, the actions legislators take today could result in your losing your freedom or your wealth. DO YOU WANT TO BE STRADDLED WITH $25 TRILLION OF DEBT FROM THE BABY BOOMERS? If only the Boomers vote, then they will pass that debt to YOUR GENERATION. So VOTE and TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR FUTURE!!!!" -- Storify commenter
24. Because life is not a video game (well, probably):
"Kids in other countries your age died over the right to vote. A young gal in Pakistan younger than you just got shot in the face b/c she was fighting for her rights as a young woman to go to school. Democracy is not a video game - it's real and you are the US' future! A year from now you may be a college student and in need of a federal aid (grants or loans) - who wins this election may determine if that is even there for you as well as your friends!" -- Commenter mdkquito
25. Ideas matter:
"Hey guys, so I know the election may not matter to you at this point since you guys are still young. But, put it this way, one day you will understand how your vote can help change the world. Everyone's thoughts and ideas go a long way. Your future will be based on how we elect our Presidents now and unfortunately if we are close minded, then we're never going to make a change for our world." -- Commenter Carlos
26. Ballot boxes can be effective teachers:
"To the young man who doesn't think he is smart enough, why not? You can make intelligent decisions. And if you vote regularly, you are going to cast some votes that you regret. So what? No political system is perfect, and those votes make you a better informed voter the next time." -- Commenter John Baker
27. The argument Ayn Rand probably wouldn't make:
"One does not vote just to support their personal interests, but also support the interests of other(s). We live in a country where we have to help one another to create success. It's what unites us as one people." -- Lorena Ibarra on Twitter.
28. The "We Are the World" argument:
"You are young, like me, which means that we are the future ... Your vote matters." -- More from Lorena Ibarra's comment on Twitter.
29. The rhymer's argument:
"Don't throw that right away, you might regret it one day." -- Commenter 4harmony
30. The referential argument:
"'All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.' - Edmund Burke" -- Commenter mtnmedic64.
31. The Pearl Harbor argument:
"okay- in a state that saw such bloodshed in order to protect our freedom - they run from having a say in our government? People who do not vote tend to be the biggest critics of government and the country - if you choose not to vote - then keep your opinions to yourself - because the BEST opinion you can voice is at the voting booth." -- Commenter Deborah Bass
32. The anti-time-zone argument (Hawaii is 6 hours behind Washington, so elections are sometimes decided before polls close on the islands):
Hey #CTL5 even though Hawaii lags behind so much in the timezone, this race may be close enough for even Hawaii's votes to be needed.— Brad Lee (@TonedOut1985) October 21, 2012
33. The jobs argument (sent to a chef in Hilo who experienced polling place troubles during the primary this year):
#CTL2 this year everything will be more organized!! your job as a chef could depend on the elections! #govote michael! #Hawaii— Victor Mena (@Vmena10) October 26, 2012
34. The Dickensonian argument:
"You're living the charmed life in Hawaii, probably a life of no cares....but there is a community under and around you who may not be so privileged - sure you can handle a bit of time standing outside on a lovely Hawaiian afternoon to vote...bring a good cook book w/ you to improve your own skills!" -- Commenter mdkquito
35. The "like, no worries, man" argument:
@jdsutter I vote because I can. Regardless of outcome. Plus, why not? It is not a hassle. #CTL2 #changethelist #HIvote— Joannie Pan (@trulyjoannies) October 25, 2012
36. The empathy argument:
"Michael, I feel your polling pain. The first time I voted in my home state (Kansas) I felt as though I might be turned away for being a (gasp!) Democrat. The truth is, sometimes voting may not be convenient or pleasant, but it matters. Don't forget you can vote by mail! Skip the polling lines altogether." Beth Schepker, a friend of mine, on Facebook.
37. Because voting is easier than getting shot at, and almost as noble:
"Voting is one of the privileges that many have fought and died to be able to do ... it is a right of passage for every American to be able to go and vote... voting is one of the most important things you can do for your Country other then serve in the military. It is your civic duty as an American and even if you don't care about that .. you should care about it being your right to do so....Many around the world have not been allowed to vote... have not been able to vote... you have that right and you are able ...it may be a mess... but it is one of the things that are worth it to stand in line for hours if need be... your voice will be heard ... but only if you vote..." -- Commenter Marbeth Hill
38. Because indecision and apathy are annoying at a certain point:
"Come on you have to make a choice and vote for the guy who you think will best defend the interests of our great nation and the Americans here at home and abroad." -- Andree Adam on CNN iReport's Facebook page
39. Because you are an individual:
"Vote, it is your political power and it should not go to waste but be yourself, vote your conscience not what others say, be knowledgeable if you want your vote to really count." -- Commenter Winston Smith III
40. The aggressive, sci-fi lover's argument:
"If MITT gets into office; he will melt you, your family, your distant relatives, and everyone else into puddles of radioactive waste within two years. How's that for a reason." -- Commenter dohnet
41. The "it's sad when you can't vote yet" argument:
"As a legal immigrant waiting my 5 year period to become a citizen so I CAN vote, what do you need to be convinced??? It's your privilege to vote - for a President, Congress and Senate and all local initiatives - not voting is just sad." -- Commenter CanadianinLA
42. Because local officials pay attention to areas with high turnout:
"When Hilo votes, politicians take notice and make a greater effort to earn your vote. Hilo has been economically neglected for decades, and greater turnout insures greater attention from our elected officials." -- Robert O'Neill, a friend of mine, on Facebook
43. The superhero argument:
"When you vote, you share your voice, express your concerns, and inspire others to follow. Don't let the political cycle keep you silenced. Voting is your super-secret superpower. Do it." -- Commenter on Storify
44. The backhanded compliment:
"Check out Samuel Jackson's video's Wake the @#$% up for some more inspiration! By the way I love Hawaii!" -- Commenter mdkquito
45. The Frank Tanabe (the veteran who recently voted from his deathbed in Honolulu) argument:
Why should you vote?Frank Tanabe "generations have died so you have a voice"#CTL1 #CTL2 #CTL3 #CTL4 #CTL5#CTL6 cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_...— Roslyn (@rlangphs) October 24, 2012
46. The "hey, you kids get off the lawn" argument:
"Hey guys, so I know the election may not matter to you at this point since you guys are still young. But, put it this way, one day you will understand how your vote can help change the world. Everyone's thoughts and ideas go a long way. Your future will be based on how we elect our Presidents now and unfortunately if we are close minded, then we're never going to make a change for our world. So, please go out and vote and please try and help out our society, by taking the time to vote. CHOOSE THE MAN WHO HAS THE BEST PLAN!" -- Commenter Carlos
47. And, finally, persuasion by repetition:
#CTL6 VOTE VOTE VOTE!! for whom is up to you but vote!— Katie Korec (@katiekorec) October 21, 2012
If you have other ideas, please leave them in the comments, or message me on Twitter.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – The No. 17/18 Florida State women's basketball team looks to get back to its winning ways as it travels to Raleigh, N.C., to face No. 20/21 NC State on Thursday, Jan. 16, at 7 p.m. at Reynolds Coliseum. The contest will be streamed on ESPN3.com and through the WatchESPN app.
In addition to watching the game live, fans can listen to all the action on WNLS 1270-AM and through Seminoles.com, with Jonathan Schillace (play-by-play) and Melissa Bruner (color analysis) calling all the action. The ESPN3 broadcast will be handled by James Alverson and former WNBA player and NC State alumna Chasity Melvin.
"NC State is an excellent team, and they know what they're good at," FSU head coach Sue Semrau said. "They take very good care of the basketball, they know their roles, they understand who can do what, and they've got some tough matchups on the interior. We'll be doing a lot of preparation for NC State. Every team in the ACC is tough on the boards and with the size they have and their speed on the perimeter, we will have to be very wary of the damage they can do on the boards."
No. 17/18 Florida State (14-2, 2-1) and No. 20/21 NC State (15-2, 2-1) play in their 40th all-time meeting on Thursday evening. The Wolfpack hold a decisive series edge over the Seminoles, 26-13. Florida State has won in each of its last four trips to the Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, N.C. FSU defeated the Pack, 64-59, in 2008-09, 76-69 (2010-11), 67-64 (2011-12) and 82-74 last season.
The four-game road win streak at NC State is FSU's third-longest vs. ACC opponents. Currently, FSU's longest road win streak is at Clemson (10) followed by Boston College (5).
Thursday's contest will be a matchup of two top-notch post players in the ACC. NC State senior center Markeisha Gatling (67.6 percent) and FSU senior center Natasha Howard (63.3 percent) rank first and second in the conference in field goal percentage, respectively.
As a freshman at Northwestern, current FSU guard Morgan Jones knocked down a career-high 27 points in a 76-59 home win over NC State on Nov. 30, 2011. Jones also had a career-high five 3-pointers that night. She is averaging 14.6 points and 6.2 boards this year, leading the 'Noles with 18 points in their last game against North Carolina.
Jones is in the Top 10 in three ACC categories: Minutes played (4th – 33.1), 3-point field goals per game (9th – 2.2) and defensive rebounds per game (9th – 5.4).
Florida State is coming off its first ACC loss of the season, falling 65-61 vs. No. 13/12 North Carolina on Jan. 12. The loss snapped a 10-game win streak that tied for the second-longest in school history. FSU's loss also snapped a nine-game win streak at home that dated back to last season, where its last loss before the home win streak came in a 76-69 defeat at the hands of NC State on Feb. 14, 2013.
Florida State's ACC-leading scoring defense held North Carolina's high-powered offense to just 65 points last game in a 65-61 loss to the Tar Heels. The total tied UNC's season-low in points.
In the last eight meetings between FSU and NC State (since 2007-08), each game has been won by single digits. The average margin of victory in the past eight games is a miniscule 4.9 points. FSU is 6-2 vs. NC State in that span.
Under Semrau since the 1997-98 season, Florida State has won 26 games against Top 25 schools in the USA Today Poll. FSU's first Top 25 win of the year came over then-No. 25 Michigan State on Dec. 4.
Semrau has earned two Top 25 wins over NC State in her coaching career. The first came on Dec. 30, 2000, when FSU defeated No. 12/12 NC State, 74-70, at home. The second came on Feb. 5, 2006, when FSU defeated No. 24 NC State, 75-61, at home.
The Wolfpack are enjoying a tremendous season led by first-year coach Wes Moore (25th overall). Gatling has emerged as one of NC State's finest players in several years, leading the country with a 67.6 field goal percentage. NC State has proven to be a potent offensive unit halfway through the season, averaging 78.4 points per game and shooting nearly 47 percent from the field.
The Pack owns a signature win against then-No. 12 LSU on Dec. 20, defeating the Tigers 89-79. Senior forward Kody Burke helps give NC State a solid 1-2 punch by averaging 14.6 points and 5.6 boards per game. In ACC play, NC State is coming off a 62-54 grinder at Wake Forest on Jan. 12.
Like FSU, the Wolfpack fell victim to UNC in a 79-70 loss to the Tar Heels.
For more information on Florida State women's basketball, follow the Seminoles on Twitter at @FSU_WBasketball and like their official Facebook page (Facebook.com/FSUWomensBasketball).


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With this in mind we invited members from Hamilton Art Gallery, a small gallery located on Hamilton Lauraville Main Street in North East Baltimore City, in to see the Jellies earlier this fall. The artists spent time admiring our "living lava lamps" and indeed went home inspired. Since that visit the members of Hamilton Art created an entire collection of jellies artwork that includes photography, paintings, and more. Their work will be on display at the gallery beginning January 8th.
Hamilton-Lauraville Main Street, Inc. will host an opening event at Hamilton Gallery on Friday, January 8, 2010 from 6-9 p.m. Representatives from the National Aquarium will be on hand to share information about Jellies Invasion and the artists will be exhibiting their work in the galleries, and in local restaurants and storefronts. The artwork will be on display throughout the month of January. Click here for more details.
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One of the purified isomers of hexachlorobenzene which is used as a scabicide and pediculicide applied topically to the skin in various lotions, creams, and shampoos; gamma benzene hexachloride can be absorbed through the skin. Resembles DDT in its actions but is less persistent.
Incorrect name for 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane (lindane).
Synonyms: hexachlorocyclohexane.
Acronym: GBH
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Detective Alex Cross is back- and he's in love. But his happiness is threatened by a series of chilling murders in Washington, D.C., murders with a pattern so twisted they leave investigators reeling. Cross's pursuit of the killer produces a suspect, a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shafer. But proving he's the murderer becomes a potentially deadly task. As Shafer engages in a brilliant series of surprising countermoves, Alex and his fiance become hopelessly entangled with the most memorable nemesis Cross has ever faced.
Geoffrey Shafer, dashingly outfitted in a single-breasted blue blazer, white shirt, striped tie, and narrow gray trousers from H. Huntsman & Sons, walked out of his town house at seven-thirty in the morning and climbed into a black Jaguar XJ12.
He backed the Jag slowly out of the driveway, then stepped on the accelerator. The sleek sports car rocketed up to fifty before it reached the stop sign at Connecticut Avenue, in the posh Kalorama section of Washington, D.C.
When Shafer reached the busy intersection, he didn't stop. He floored the accelerator, picking up more speed. He was doing sixty-five and ached to crash the Jag into the stately fieldstone wall bordering the avenue. He aimed the Jag closer to the wall. He could see the head-on collision, visualize it, feel it all over.
At the last possible second, he tried to avoid the deadly crash. He spun the wheel hard to the left. The sports car fish-tailed all the way across the avenue, tires screeching and burning, the smell of rubber thick in the air.
The Jag skidded to a stop, headed the wrong way on the street, the windshield issuing its glossy black stare at a barrage of early oncoming traffic.
Shafer stepped on the accelerator again and headed forward against the oncoming traffic. Every car and truck began to honk loud, sustained blasts.
Shafer didn't even try to catch his breath or bearings. He sped along the avenue, gaining speed. He zoomed across Rock Creek Bridge and made a left, then another left onto Rock Creek Parkway.
A tiny scream of pain escaped from his lips. It was involuntary, coming swiftly and unexpectedly. A moment of fear, weakness.
He floored the gas pedal again, and the engine roared. He was doing seventy, then pressing to eighty. He zigged and zagged around slower-moving sedans, sport-utility vehicles, a soot-covered A&P delivery truck.
Only a few honked now. Other drivers on the parkway were terrified, scared out of their minds.
He exited the Rock Creek Parkway at fifty miles an hour, then he gunned it again.
P Street was even more crowded at that hour than the parkway had been. Washington was just waking up and setting off to work. He could still see that inviting stone wall on Connecticut. He shouldn't have stopped. He began searching for another rock-solid object, looking for something to hit very hard. He was doing eighty miles an hour as he approached Dupont Circle. He shot forward like a ground rocket. Two lines of traffic were backed up at a red light. No way out of this one, he thought. Nowhere to go left or right.
He didn't want to rear-end a dozen cars! That was no way to end this—end his life—by smashing into a commonplace Chevy Caprice, a Honda Accord, a delivery truck.
He swerved violently to the left and veered into the lanes of traffic coming east, coming right at him. He could see the panicked, disbelieving faces behind the dusty, grime-smeared windshields. The horns started to blast, a high-pitched symphony of fear.
He ran the next light and just barely squeezed between an oncoming Jeep and a concrete-mixer truck.
He sped down M Street, then onto Pennsylvania Avenue, and headed toward Washington Circle. The George Washington University Medical Center was up ahead—a perfect ending.
The Metro patrol car appeared out of nowhere, its siren-bullhorn screaming in protest, its rotating beacon glittering, signaling for him to pull over. Shafer slowed down and pulled to the curb.The cop hurried to Shafer's car, his hand on his holster. He looked frightened and unsure.
"Get out of the car, sir," the cop said in a commanding voice. "Get out of the car right now."
Shafer suddenly felt calm and relaxed. There was no tension left in his body.
"All right. All right. I'm getting out. No problem."
"You know how fast you were going?" the cop asked in an agitated voice, his face flushed a bright red. Shafer noticed that the cop's hand was still on his gun.
Shafer pursed his lips, thought about his answer. "Well, I'd say about thirty, Officer," he finally said. "Maybe a little over the speed limit."
Then he took out an I.D. card and handed it over. "But you can't do anything about it. I'm with the British Embassy. I have diplomatic immunity."
That night, as he was driving home from work, Geoffrey Shafer started to feel that he was losing control again. He was beginning to frighten himself. His whole life had begun to revolve around a fantasy game he played called the Four Horsemen.
In the game, he was the player called Death. The game was everything to him, the only part of his life with real meaning.
He sped across town from the British Embassy, all the way to the Petworth district of Northwest. He knew he shouldn't be there, a white man in a spiffy Jaguar. He couldn't help himself, though, any more than he could that morning.
He stopped the car just before he got to Petworth. Shafer took out his laptop and typed a message to the other players, the Horsemen.
He started the Jag again and rode a few more blocks to Petworth. The usual outrageously provocative hookers were already parading up and down Varnum and Webster streets. A song called "Nice and Slow" was playing from a vibrating blue BMW. Ronnie McCall's sweet voice blended into the early evening.
The girls waved to him and showed their large, flat, pert, or flabby breasts. Several wore colorful bustiers with matching hot pants and shiny silver or red platform shoes with pointy heels. He slowed to a stop beside a small black girl who looked to be around sixteen and had an unusually pretty face. Her legs were long and slender for such a petite body. She wore too much makeup for his taste. Still, she was hard to resist, so why should he?
"Nice car. Jaguar. I like it a lot," she cooed, then smiled and made a sexy little "O" with her lipsticked mouth. "You're cute, too, mistah."
He smiled back at her. "Jump in, then. Let's go for a test ride. See if it's true love or just infatuation." He glanced around the street quickly. None of the other girls were working this corner.
"A hundred for full-service, sweetie?" she asked as she wiggled her tight little butt inside the Jag. Her perfume smelled like eau de bubble gum, and she seemed to have bathed in it.
"As I said, get into the car. A hundred dollars is petty cash for me."
He knew he shouldn't be picking her up in the Jaguar, but he took her for a joy ride anyway. He couldn't help himself now. He brought the girl to a small, wooded park in a part of Washington called Shaw. He parked in a thicket of fir trees that hid the car from sight. He looked at the prostitute, and she was even smaller and younger than he had thought. "How old are you?" he asked.
"How old you want me to be?" she said, and smiled. "Sweetie, I need the money first. You know how it works."
"Yes. But do you?" he asked.
He reached into his pocket and pulled out a switchblade knife. He had it at her throat in an instant.
"Don't hurt me," she whispered. "Just be cool."
"Get out of the car. Slowly. Don't you dare scream. You be cool."
Shafer got out with her, staying close, the knife still pressed to the hollow of her throat.
"It's all just a game, darling," he explained. "My name is Death. You're a very lucky girl. I'm the best player of all." As if to prove it, he stabbed her for the first time.
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Caribbean Bakewell Tart
A healthy helping of citrus zest, lime marmalade, and a dash of white rum make up the tropical trifecta of flavors in this easy, breezy tart. A dead-simple pastry crust and hearty sprinkling of toasted almonds are a toothsome, well-suited contrast.
Excerpted from Sweet by Levi Roots (Mitchell Beazley). Copyright (c) 2013. Photographs by Chris Terry.
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- Yield:makes 1 9-inch tart
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:1 hour
- Pastry Crust:
- 85g (3 oz) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 125g (4 oz) plain flour, plus extra for flouring
- 25g (1 oz) caster sugar
- 1 free-range egg, separated
- 2 tablespoons cold water
- Filling
- 150g (5 oz) unsalted butter, softened
- 150g (5 oz) caster sugar
- 3 free-range eggs, beaten, plus 1 yolk
- 100g (3 oz) ground almonds
- Finely grated rind of 2 unwaxed limes
- 1 tablespoon white rum
- 3 tablespoons lime marmalade
- To finish:
- Handful of toasted flaked almonds or sweetened coconut shavings
- Icing sugar, for dusting
- Pouring cream, to serve
To make the pastry, put the butter, flour and sugar into a food processor and whizz until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Mix the egg yolk with the water and pour into the food processor. Whizz again until the pastry comes together into a ball. (Alternatively, put the butter and flour in a large bowl and rub together with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar, then add the egg yolk and water. Bring the dough together into a ball with your hands.) Wrap it in clingfilm and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface and use it to line a 20cm (8in) diameter, 3.5cm (1in) deep, fluted loose-bottomed flan tin. Put the tin into the freezer for 20 minutes to chill the pastry.
Meanwhile preheat the oven to 400°F. Line the pastry case with nonstick baking paper, fill with baking beans and bake blind for 15 minutes. Remove the paper and beans. Lightly whisk the egg white and paint the dough with it. Return the pastry case to the oven for 5 minutes, then remove. Reduce the heat to 350°F.
Now make the filling. Beat the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Gradually add the beaten eggs plus the extra yolk, beating after each addition. Fold in the almonds, lime rind and rum.
Spread the base of the tart case with the marmalade, then spoon in the almond mixture and spread it out using the back of a spoon. (It will look like you don't have enough filling, but don't worry.) Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until the filling is set and golden on top. Leave to cool, then scatter over the flaked almonds or coconut shavings and dust lightly with icing sugar. Serve with pouring cream.
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AT&T has officially released OS 22.214.171.1240 for the BlackBerry Torch 9800. Get out the USB cord and get updated because this release has received some great feedback from the BB community. Be sure to leave us a comment below on how it works for you!
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text: On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Joe Landman wrote: > Guy Coates wrote: > > At what node count does the nfs-root model start to break down? Does anyone > > have any rough numbers with the number of clients you can support with a generic > > linux NFS server vs a dedicated NAS filer? > > If you use warewulf or the new perceus variant, it creates a ram disk > which is populated upon boot. Thats one of the larger transients. Then > you nfs mount applications, and home directories. I haven't looked at > Scyld for a while, but I seem to remember them doing something like this. I forgot to finish my reply to this message earlier this week. Since I'm in the writing mood today, I've finished it. Just when were getting past "diskless" being being misinterpreted as "NFS root"... Scyld does use "ramdisks" in our systems, but calling "ramdisk based" misses the point of the system. Booting: RAMdisks are critical Ramdisks are a key element of the boot system. Clusters need reliable, stateless node booting. We don't want local misconfiguration, failed storage hardware or corrupted file systems to prevent booting. The boot ramdisk have to be small, simple, and reliable. Large ramdisks multiply PXE problems and have obvious server scalability issues. Complexity is bad because the actions are happening "blind", with no easy way to see what step when wrong. We try to keep these images stable, with only ID table and driver updates. Run-time: RAMdisks are just an implementation detail The run-time system uses ramdisks almost incidentally. The real point of our system is creating a single point of administration and control -- a single virtual system. To that end we have a dynamic caching, consistent execution model. The real root "hypervisor" operates out of a ramdisk to be independent of the hardware and storage that might be used by application environments. The application root and caching system default to using ramdisks, but they can be configured to use local or network storage. The "real root" ramdisk is pretty small and simple. It's never seen by the applications, and only needs to keeps it own housekeeping info. The largest ramdisk is the system is the "libcache" FS. This cache starts out empty. As part of the node accepting new applications, the execution system (BProc or BeoProc) verifies that correct version of executable and libraries are available locally. By the time the node says "yah, I'll accept that job" it has cached the exact version it needs to run. (*) So really we are not using a "ramdisk install". We are dynamically detecting hardware, and loading the right kernel and device drivers under control of the boot system. Then we are creating an minimal custom "distribution" on the compute nodes. The effect is the same as creating a minimal custom "distribution" for that specific machine -- an installation that has only the kernel, device drivers and applications to be run on that node. This approach to dynamically building an installation is feasible and efficient because another innovation: a sharp distinction between full, standard "master" nodes and lightweight compute "slave" nodes. Only master nodes run the full, several-minute initialization to start standard services and daemons. ("How many copies of crond do you need?") Compute slaves exist only run only the end applications, and have a master with it's full reference install to fall on when they need to extend their limited environment. * Whole file caching is one element of the reliability model. It means we can continue to run even if that master stops responding, or replaces a file with a newer version. We provide a way for sophisticated sites to replace the file cache with a network file system, but then the file server must be up to continue running and you can run into versioning/consistency issue. RAMdisk Inventory We actually have five (!) different types of ramdisks over the system (see the descriptions below). But it's the opposite of the Warewulf approach. Our architecture is a consistent system model, so we dynamically build and update the environment on nodes. Warewulf-like ramdisk system only catch part of what we are doing: The Warewulf approach - Uses a manually selected subset distribution on the compute node ramdisk. While still very large, it's never quite complete. No matter how useless you think some utility is, there is probably some application out there that depends on it. - The ramdisk image is very large and it has to be completely downloaded at boot time just when the server is extremely. - Supplements the ramdisk with NFS, combining the problems of both.(*) The administrator and users to learn and think about how both fail. (*1) That said, combining a ramdisk root with NFS is still far more scalable and somewhat more robust than using solely NFS. With careful administration most of the executables will be on the ramdisk, allowing the server to support more nodes and reducing the likelihood of failures. The phrase "careful administration" should be read as "great for demos, and when the system is first configured, but degrades over time". The type of people that leap to configure the ramdisk properly the first time are generally not the same type that will be there for long-term manual tuning. Either they figure out why we designed around dynamic, consistent caching and re-write, or the system will degrade over time. Ramdisk types For completeness, here are the five ramdisk types in Scyld: BeoBoot stage 1: (The "Booster Stage") Used only for non-PXE booting. Now obsolete, this allowed network booting on machines that didn't have it built in. The kernel+ramdisk was small enough to fit on floppy, CD-ROM, hard disk, Disk-on-chip, USB, etc. This ramdisk image that contains NIC detection code and tables, along with every NIC driver and a method to substitution kernels. This image must be under 1.44MB, yet include all NIC drivers. BeoBoot stage 2 ramdisk: The run-time environment set-up, usually downloaded by PXE. Pretty much the same NIC detection code as the stage 1 ramdisk, except potentially optimized for only the NICs known to be installed. The purpose of this ramdisk is to start network logging ASAP and then contact the master to download the "real" run-time environment. When we have the new environment we pivotroot and delete this whole ramdisk. We've used the contents we cared about (tables & NIC drivers), and just emptying ramdisks frequently leaks memory! It's critical that this ramdisk be small to minimize TFTP traffic. Stage 3, Run-time environment supervisor (You can call this the "hypervisor".) This is the "real" root during operation, although applications never see it. The size isn't critical because we have full TCP from stage 2 to transfer it, but it shouldn't be huge because - it will compete with other, less robust booting traffic - the master will usually be busy - large images will delay node initialization LibCache ramdisk: This is a special-purpose file system used only for caching executables and libraries. We designed the system with a separate caching FS to optionally switch to caching on a local hard disk partition. That was useful with 32MB memory machines or when doing a rapid large-boot demo, but the added complexity is rarely useful on modern systems. Environment root: This is the file system the application sees. There is different environment for each master the node supports, or potentially even one for each application started. By default this is a ramdisk configured as a minimal Unix root by the master. The local administrator can change this to be a local or network file system to have a traditional "full install" environment, although that discards some of the robustness advances in Scyld. > Scyld requires a meatier head node as I remember due to its launch model. Not really because of the launch model, or the run-time control. It's to make the system less complex and simpler to use. Ideally the master does less work than the compute nodes because they are doing the computations. In real life people use the master for editing, compiling, scheduling, etc. It's the obvious place to put home directories and serve them to compute nodes. And it's where the real-life cruft ends up, such as license servers and reporting tools. Internally each type of service has it's own server IP address and port. We could point them to replicated masters or other file servers. They just all point to the single master to keep things simple. For reliability we can have cold, warm or hot spare masters. But again, it's less complex to administer one machine with redundant power supplies and hot-swap RAID5 arrays. All this makes the master node look like the big guy. -- Donald Becker becker at scyld.com Scyld Software Scyld Beowulf cluster systems 914 Bay Ridge Road, Suite 220 www.scyld.com Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993


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Benjamin Ravaru precisava de um novo design de página da web e criou um concurso na 99designs.
Um vencedor foi selecionado entre 28 designs enviados por 10 designers freelancers.
Sacred Eden (SacredEden.com)
We at Sacred Eden want to create a brand that will have a healing newsletter, so we need a bar for the newsletter, we we will selling different healing products mostly based on plants that will attack different problems in the human body! Sacred Eden has to be plane and simple and at the same time look powerful with healing cures. We will also start with a monthly retreat that will last for a week, where we host up to 40 people to stay at our haciendas in Colombia and spend a week cleansing with organic and raw food including fruits, elements of the nature and we will detox people with a substance call ayahuasca and out precious shamans who have the certification from the indigenous communities and we will detoxify the organs with a series of plants, this is the product and the medicine of the future... We need a site looking very professional where we can have all this sessions, products, newsletter, articles, videos, retreats, blog, mission, about us!
We will compliment each retreat session with free massages, included accommodation and all organic meals, one of one sessions with the shamans and ancestral doctors, including yoga sessions every day as well! This are life changing events that can heal almost any disease including cancer, just that we can't just declare that so direct. We provide the combination of herbal products based on Chinese medicine, shamanic medicine and ayurvedic medicine
Anyone with any kind of disease, including all type of cancers, adrenal fatigue, cleansing/detox, memory support, joint support, digestive health, immune support, sleep aids, weight management, mood support, sexual health, high cholesterol, arthritis, diabetes, fluid, retention, candida, drug detox, hair loss... People who wanna get in touch with nature and get closer to god and get in touch with higher forces of the nature... People who want to retire and/or just experience something deeper out of life, people who seek more vision, people who likes to meditate and wanna go to the next level and beyond
I welcome you to come with your own vision, I need you to put love in this project, it will change the life of many people around the planet and we are looking forward, besides we will work with you on a long term basis, I mean with the winner on other projects to keep on updating and help the company grow at the same time
I had love to build the page in healing purple and pacific green. Here are some examples of spa's that are doing really well and we follow because of their image and their services
The site needs to look peaceful and provide love, great energy, integrity and hope. I will upload the logo in a few days!


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Lowcountry Autism Foundation's Fifth Annual Spring Fling is under way and event organizers are in need of additional items for the live auction.
All of the proceeds provide direct support and evaluation services to the many families affected by autism in the Lowcountry.
The Spring Fling will take place at 6 p.m. May 12 at the Port Royal Clubhouse on Hilton Head Island. The evening is semi-formal/cocktail attire and will include live entertainment, dinner, dancing and a silent auction. Tickets are $75 per person.
LAF is a local, volunteer-based, non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting individuals and families living with autism in Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, and Colleton Counties and the surrounding areas. Its primary mission is to provide autism service and advocacy support to individuals and families who face the challenges of living with autism.
"With autism rates showing a steady rise, we cannot afford delays in evaluation and intervention services. LAF was founded to provide critical autism service support and to hopefully change lives", said Dr. Tami Lawrence, LAF Chair and co-founder.
To donate items to the silent auction, call 843-342-9000
For more information about the event or for tickets, please contact event co-chairs Janet Williams, Bina Patel, or Meredith DiMuzio at 843-342-9000.


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The .ceo domain name is exclusively tailored for CEOs across the globe. The .ceo extension will create a community hub for brainstorming ideas, product concepts, creative solutions and marketing insights for CEOs the world over, strengthening global and foreign relationships in a remarkable and unique way.
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Beginning February 12, 2014, at 4:00 UTC, customers can register .ceo domain names on a first-come, first-served basis.
Bulk .ceo registration is supported during General Availability.
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Anyone can register .ceo domain names on a first-come, first-served basis.
These domain names can have up to 63 characters, with a minimum of one character, and can contain letters (a to z), numbers (0 to 9), and hyphens (except as the first or last characters of the domain name). You cannot register domain names with special characters such as & and #. IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) are supported in the following language: German.
Which registry controls .ceo domain names?
CentralNic is the registry provider and CEO LTD Pty is the sponsor for .ceo domains.
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You can register a .ceo domain name for a minimum of one year and a maximum of 10 years.
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We'll attempt to auto-renew your .ceo domain name on its expiration date. We will park .ceo domain names after the first failed billing attempt. If the domain name isn't renewed within 40 days following expiration, the domain name will be cancelled and removed from your account.
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Welcome To Blue Sky Airport Limo Service
Blue Sky Limo is a full service transportation company that offers complete corporate and personal service to satisfy all of our customer's needs. Our driver's are reliable and professional and our vehicles are well-maintened and fully licensed. We proudly service the Bradenton, Sarasota, Lakewood Ranch , Venice, Englewood, North Port and Port Charlotte Areas.


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Make Your Teen a Millionaire This Summer
Gary Sidder set up Roth IRAs for his sons when they turned 13. Each year, the Littleton, Colorado, certified financial planner and his wife, Francie Steinzeig, a school psychologist, contributed an amount equal to whatever the two boys earned cutting lawns, shoveling snow and doing odd jobs. As the sons' earnings increased, so did the parental contributions.
"Initially we started with $400, and now we do $5,500 for each," the annual maximum allowable contribution, says Sidder, whose sons are 32 and 27. "Now that their accounts are worth more than $100,000 and $65,000, respectively, they do see the value of saving and starting early."
Even if no further contributions are made, both sons could see their accounts top $1 million by retirement age, assuming conservative 7 percent average annual returns.
Financial planners know that Roth IRAs can set kids up for sound financial futures. Since children have decades ahead for money to compound, even relatively small contributions can grow large. The catches:
Why a Roth rather than a traditional IRA? Low-wage workers pay little if any income tax, so they don't get much value from tax deductions, including deductible contributions to a traditional IRA. When a big upfront tax break isn't available, it makes sense to contribute instead to a Roth. Contributions aren't deductible, but withdrawals in retirement are tax-free.
Another important note: Retirement accounts aren't included in federal financial aid formulas, so a child's Roth won't affect financial aid offers from most schools. Some private schools, however, do consider custodial Roths when calculating their offers, says college financing expert Lynn O'Shaughnessy, author of "The College Solution." Also, withdrawals from Roths during college years would be considered income to the child and count heavily against her, O'Shaughnessy says.
The ability to contribute to a Roth starts to phase out above certain modified adjusted gross income levels. For 2017, the phase-out begins at $118,000 for singles and $186,000 for married couples filing jointly.
That's not an issue most kids have to worry about. Let's say your daughter works 30 hours a week for the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour this summer and earns about $2,600 over 12 weeks.
Obviously, she won't net $2,600 from her job. She'll lose 7.65% to payroll taxes and want to spend some of the money she earns. But you can contribute $2,600 for her, or offer matching funds for whatever she contributes. If she continues those $2,600 contributions for the next 50 years, her Roth can grow to $1 million, assuming 7 percent average annual returns.
That far in the future, $1 million will be worth the equivalent of about $230,000 today, assuming 2.9 percent inflation. Once she's in the working world full time, encourage her to contribute at least 15 percent of her income toward her retirement and keep doing so throughout her career.
You can talk about that with her as you're setting up her Roth. Together you should also:
"Parents could use this to teach a valuable lesson in delaying gratification and building investments over time," says John Gugle, a certified financial planner in Charlotte, North Carolina. "This is a marathon, not a sprint."
This column was provided to The Associated Press by the personal finance website NerdWallet .


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The 2010 IUCN-Reuters-COMplus Media Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting goes to Anjali Nayar and Juliane von Mittelstaedt for their articles on saving the forests in Madagascar and Brazil.
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN Director General, presented the award at the Global Awards Ceremony, held during the high-level biodiversity meeting currently underway in Nagoya, Japan.
"The wealth of entries in this competition shows the huge diversity of beauty the natural world has to offer and the array of solutions it offers to some of the most pressing questions of our day, such as global warming," says Julia Marton-Lefèvre. "Journalists reporting on the loss of wildlife and the importance of having a healthy planet for all of us deserve a gold medal for all their efforts – we need to see this effort matched by governments here at this crucial meeting in Nagoya to reach global conservation targets, otherwise even our hope will face extinction."
Der globale Indianer, or Using the Internet to Save the Rainforest, by Juliane von Mittelstaedt for Germany's Der Spiegel is a feature article about the Surui people of the Brazilian rainforest. If current trends continue, the land of the Surui, three times the size of New York city, might disappear in 100 years time. Combining technology with tradition, the Surui people are determined to save their forest, their culture and their tribe by entering the global emissions market.
How to save a forest by Anjali Nayar for Nature Magazine looks at the impact of forest conservation and carbon trading projects on a rural area in Madagascar, where political unrest and extreme poverty have resulted in massive destruction of forests over the last 60 years.
"I'm glad that through this prize, I've helped shed some light on both the opportunities and challenges for developing countries to keep their forests standing," says joint winner Anjali Nayar.
The two award-winning articles were selected by a Global Master Jury, which considered six regional winners' articles, representing Latin America, North America and Oceania, Europe, Asia, English-speaking Africa and the Middle East, and French-speaking Africa. A total of 418 print entries from 81 different countries have competed for the 2010 award.
Established in 1998, the IUCN-Reuters-COMplus Media Awards aim to raise global awareness of environmental and sustainable development issues, by encouraging high standards in environmental reporting worldwide.
To read the winning articles, click on the following links:
Using the Internet to save the rainforest and How to save a forest
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Direct sow around last frost, or indoors before last frost and then transplant fairly quickly. Sow Mammoth Long Island Dill every 3-4 weeks for highest quality fresh dill leaves all season. For use as a dry herb, harvest before the umbel (Latin for umbrella) flowers form.
Artwork by Lynne Bittner. Lynne Bittner loves wildflowers and makes her living selling her illustrations of them with her design partner and husband Richie Bittner. Together they have created Wildflower Graphics in Greenwich, NY on the banks of the Battenkill River, a few miles east of the Hudson. Lynne is a self taught illustrator. In her early twenties she was inspired by The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden, written in 1906. It included her water colors of flora and fauna of the English countryside, along with poetry that she loved. The discovery of this book made a lasting impression on Lynne in many ways and she began to dabble with her own drawings and water colors of local woodland wildflowers, such as dutchmen's breeches, jack in the pulpits and lady's slippers to name a few. Lynne's illustrations begin at the drawing board with a line illustration done by hand. Then together with Richie, the drawing is scanned and color, texturing and formatting are created digitally, each illustration taking many hours to complete. They are studio printed on archival papers using archival inks and individually signed by the artist.
From the Artist: "I enjoy the challenge of creating illustrations for The Hudson Valley Seed Library. The assignments that I have been given are not necessarily something I would normally select as an illustrator, thus propelling me into a territory where I am creatively on edge - though a bit unnerving, the end results are always so satisfying! So far, I have created 3 art packs - Mammoth Dill, Lovage and Garlic Chives. I love supporting their efforts and am grateful to have had an opportunity to be a part of this most important enterprise."
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"I hate freedom. And America."
-Congressman Don Young (R-AK), 2/16/07
(via Atrios)
I apologize. It's unfair to post this without explaining. What Don Young actually said was:
"Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs, and should be arrested, exiled or hanged."
He attributed this "quote" to Abraham Lincoln. However, it was falsely attributed to Lincoln by a conservative pundit, Michael Waller in 2003. (He claims it was a typo and never issued a correction.) It has previously been publicly debunked. Yet Rep Young chose to use the false quote to demonize his political opponents, and whether the quote was used knowingly or through carelessness, he has thus far refused to retract the statement.
He has not at this point specified which of his congressional colleagues should be hung first.
Atrios' point was that apparently it's OK to make up quotes. At least OK if you are a Republican.
Seriously, can you imagine if a Democrat had said this? O'Reilly would be all over it like flies on shit. Some obscure bloggers for Edwards once said less than nice things about the catholic church and Bill Donohue and conservative pundits screamed outrage (and the media politely ignored Donohue's anti-semitism). Kerry screwed up a joke about Bush and was tarred as 'bashing the troops.' Yet Lou Dobbs can flog the lies about Pelosi's airplane for a week without anyone calling bullshit on him, FOX can claim Obama went to a Madrassa, and Young can call for the EXECUTION of opposition Representatives and it doesn't even get picked up by the AP. I just get frustrated by the double standard, and again I apologize for being unclear.
Your so-called "liberal media" at work.
16 February 2007
Quote of the Day
"I hate freedom. And America."
Posted by shadowfax at 1:52 PM
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I can't find the quote or context.ReplyDelete
Can you?
Misquote, of course.ReplyDelete
More left wing snark.
- Anonymous2/16/2007 4:28 PM
Interesting "Quote of the Day" which, from the links, isn't even what he said. When I went through grade school quotes were used to set off actual statements made by a person. From reading the link (and thanks for making me read Atrios) there's no such quote.ReplyDelete
the funny thing about this mis-quote (and the many like it) is that 20 months from now, it looks like chances are we're gonna have a party switch in the white house. it'll be funny to see all these republicans who are now equating criticism of the president with treason to suddenly find it really convenient to savage the president for his handling of iraq (where we will, without a doubt, still be involved).ReplyDelete
and it'll be even funnier to watch them vigorously defend their right to criticize the president because it is what americans are supposed to do, and it is their DUTY.
only in america.
- Anonymous2/21/2007 11:04 PM
What is Obama's middle name?ReplyDelete
A madrassa is a religious school for Moslems , not necessarily an Al Qaeda training camp!
His middle name is Hussein and he went to a religious school (madrassa). My name is John and I went to a religious school (Greek Orthodox) - it does not mean that I am Zorba , but I dont feel the need to deny it , like Obama does!


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Kudos to tequila makers Illegal Mezcal for this series of posters speaking out against the Anti-Gay comments that Chick-Fil-A can't stop spewing.
The posters, which are all over Manhattan, say "I'd rather kiss a chick than eat your chicken" and "I'd rather kiss a cock than eat your chicken."
Stop the hate and spread the love!


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• A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced yesterday that American troops in Afghanistan would step back from their combat role in Afghanistan as early as mid-2013, more than a year before the full withdrawal scheduled for 2014.
The announcement caught the Afghan government and Army by surprise, Reuters reports. "A decision to push this a year earlier throws out the whole transition plan. The transition has been planned against a timetable and this makes us rush all our preparations," a senior Afghan security official said. "If the Americans withdraw from combat, it will certainly have an effect on our readiness and training, and on equipping the police force," the official said, adding that the US did not inform Afghanistan ahead of the announcement.
The New York Times attributes the unexpectedly early end to US troops' combat role to the Obama administration's "eagerness" to end the second war it inherited from the Bush administration.
In his announcement, Mr. Panetta downplayed French President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to withdraw France's troops by the end of 2013, a year ahead of its NATO allies, the Times reports. His decision came after an Afghan soldier killed four French soldiers who were on a training mission – an action that has not been uncommon in the war there.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Panetta's decision was done to preempt any similar decisions from other NATO allies.
By announcing a specific timetable, US officials are hoping to head off a push by allies to pull out their forces more quickly. Public support for the war is falling in many countries, and with their economies struggling, governments are under pressure to trim their defense budgets.
With the expedited end to a combat role, US troops will turn primarily to training and advisory missions, similar to the way the withdrawal unfolded from Iraq, with the US focused on training Iraqi soldiers for more than a year before the last convoy left the country. Whether Afghan troops are ready to take on the central role is unclear – both the Army and police are "plagued by corruption, operational and personnel problems," according to the Los Angeles Times.
Afghan forces already have assumed control in Kabul, the capital, and some other areas, but those were already largely peaceful. The US and its allies retain military responsibility for the most violent parts of the country.
A senior Defense Department official traveling with Panetta said the US-led force "still needs to be there in robust fashion to back them up" until the end of 2014.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that the "steady string" of attacks on Western troops by rogue Afghan soldiers and police is both undermining military cooperation and heightening concerns about a Taliban infiltration of both the police and Army. There have been 42 such attacks since 2007, leaving 70 troops dead and many more wounded.
Pentagon officials warn of the potential "insider threat" from Taliban infiltrators, who are particularly difficult to detect. "A successful infiltrator is more likely [to be] competent and experienced," warned Pentagon testimony submitted to the committee.
As a result, Taliban insurgents impersonating Afghan security forces may inadvertently be given important jobs within their unit. This, in turn, may allow them to facilitate "insurgent efforts by providing intelligence on coalition force tactics or movement, or by targeting high-profile ANSF or Afghan government officials."
On top of those concerns, according to a NATO report leaked to the BBC, the Taliban still have substantial support among Afghans and receive assistance from Pakistani security services – an accusation Pakistan denied, the BBC reports. The report, based on on 27,000 interrogations with more than 4,000 captured Taliban, Al Qaeda, and other foreign fighters and civilians, states that Pakistan is aware of the location of several senior Taliban leaders.
The report also says that interest in joining the Taliban is on the rise among Afghans, including members of the government, and that the reduction of attacks in some parts of the country is a facade intended to hasten the withdrawal of coalition forces from the area so the Taliban can move in – often with the help of the police and Army.


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New Canaan manhandles St. Joseph boys lacrosse
After New Canaan coasted to a 14-5 boys lacrosse victory Saturday over St. Joseph, last season's Class S runner-up, one could only ponder just how good St. Anthony's of New Jersey team must be.
For the record, St. Anthony's handed New Canaan its only loss of the season, 10-5, on April 12.
Now while Rams coach Chip Buzzeo isn't sure about St. Anthony's, he has a pretty good idea about his own club in 2014:
"We are a team," he said, "that can compete for a championship."
The two-time defending FCIAC champions have outscored the seven opponents aside from St. Anthony's 103-32, and that includes wins over Wilton and Ridgewood, N.J. The Rams (7-1, 6-0 FCIAC) were especially impressive during Saturday's victory.
"We had balance on offense, were strong with our between the lines play and on face-offs, and our movement up field was great," Buzzeo said. "I'm very happy."
Senior Harry Stanton put on an offensive show, scoring four goals, a couple of which should make the Rams' season highlight reel, and assisting on three others. Fellow attackers Michael Kraus and Justin Meichner, both juniors, each added three goals and two assists as the Rams won their sixth in a row.
"Stanton is a tremendous player, and their attack is one of the top units in the state," St. Joseph coach Joe Izzo said.
Stanton, one of the top ice hockey players in the state, scored three goals in the game's first 16 minutes as the Rams built a 7-0 lead.
"Believe it or not, Stanton is a better lacrosse player than hockey," Buzzeo said. "The group has played together for a long time, so they always know where to go. Those three are special."
New Canaan had a 10-2 halftime lead before the Cadets (4-2, 2-2) regained their footing. St. Joseph then played the Rams basically even in the second half as Jeff Marcantonio had two goals.
"We had a slow start and got in a hole early and you can't do that against a good team," Izzo said. "But I'm happy with our second-half effort."
"We didn't ease up at all in the second half," Buzzeo added. "Give St. Joseph credit. They played well in the second half. They're a tough, athletic, well-coached team. But in the first half, we did show a lot."
What the Rams showed is that, just like the last two years, the road to the FCIAC championship goes through New Canaan. Besides the talented trio of attackers, the Rams were strong on defense while freshman face-off specialist Ryan O'Connell and goalie Trent Nader (five saves) also played well.
Robby Paul added two goals for the Rams while Kyle Smith and Owen Toland also scored.
Besides Marcantonio's two goals, Ryan Corcoran had one goal and two assists. Josiah Wilson had one goal and one assist and Travis Yoguez had a goal. Cadets goalie Mike Braddick stopped 13 of 27 shots.
New Canaan 14, St. Joseph 5
Records: New Canaan 7-1 (6-0 FCIAC); St. Joseph 4-2 (2-2).
Goals: NC--Harry Stanton 4, Michael Kraus 3, Justin Meichner 3, Robby Paul 2, Kyle Smith, Owen Toland; SJ--Jeff Marcantonio 2, Ryan Corcoran, Josiah Wilson, Travis Yoguez. Assists: NC--Stanton 3, Kraus 2, Meichner 2. SJ--Corcoran 2, Wilson. Goalie saves: NC--Trent Nader 5; SJ--Mike Braddick 13.


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Burn ban lifted
Nolan County Judge Tim Fambrough announced that the burn ban for the county has been lifted during a special-called Nolan County Commissioners' meeting on Monday morning, September 17.The judge cited the recent rainfall received throughout the area--some totals almost reaching one inch--as reason for lifting the ban. The burn ban will remain lifted until the next meeting date, which is set for Monday, September 24 at 9 a.m. at the Nolan County Courthouse.Also at the meeting, final action was taken toward the 2012-2013 proposed budget and tax rate. A public hearing was held on the budget, but no input was heard.The commissioners then discussed changes to the proposed budget, with Precinct 2 Commissioner Terry Locklar wanting to raise the hourly rate of temporary workers to $10. While he made the motion, a second was not heard, as the other commissioners stated that they would share their workers as needed in order to complete county projects.Thus, with no changes made, the 2012-2013 budget was approved to be adopted for the county.In addition, the vote to raise more revenue from property taxes than in the last year was approved, in order to ratify the property tax increase reflected in the budget.Closing out the meeting was the vote on the tax rate for 2012-2013, with the commissioners approving the total property tax rate of .394635 per $100 valuation. This new total is the combination of the general fund--at .340670 per $100 valuation--and the farm to market fund of .053965 per $100 valuation.


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The last in a series of five articles on Crookston's history.
The word "bonanza" in Spanish means either "A rich mine, vein or pocket of ore" or "a source of great wealth or prosperity." From the original Latin, bonanza means "calm sea" which might conjure up a large grain field tranquilly flowing with a gentle breeze. However, after watching 14 seasons of the famous TV series "Bonanza," we usually envision the Cartwright family on their sprawling Ponderosa ranch in Nevada. Sadly few know much about the Red River Valley's bonanza farms back in the late 1800s. In my last article of this series, I believe we need to be better informed about what happened in the Red River Valley concerning bonanza farms and their ultimate demise.
I'm glad the late Michael Landon ("Little Joe" Cartwright) enjoyed success with his own TV series, "Little House on the Prairie." That program showed more of our great grandparents' realities of what they lived day in and day out as homesteaders. As I peruse the Crookston Daily Times headlines dating back to the 1880s, there is plenty of material for script that could be used for a possible mini-series, titled "Bonanza House on the Prairie." Regrettably, one sightseer wrote in the 1880s that the Red River Valley was "small in population, large in hope and abundant in prairie chickens."
How does one go about writing a movie or play manuscript about "hope and the changes" that occurred from open, boundless prairie to bonanza farm, then to small-scale, diversified farmer back to present day corporate family farm? The Red River Valley's ebb and flow of trends are filled with intrigue and romance, hard work and bad luck which forced families to move out during the Depression years. But there are those who continued to till the soil through good times and bad. Some have family members reading my words, who share ancestors that came from the Old Country to settle as brave pioneers. Those stayed for good in Crookston and surrounding farm communities.
I think of my maternal grandfather who was born in the late 1890s to Norwegian parents in the rolling hills of the Sheyenne river valley in eastern North Dakota. As a young man, my grandpa adventured across the wide prairie to eastern Montana to work on a bonanza farm. Could it have been the Campbell bonanza farm of over 100,000 acres of wheat lands? Wheat was king and profits were to be made. In the early days of bonanza farms, I pondered how much area Campbell's bonanza farm actually comprised in terms of land mass. It would have been as many as five townships north of Crookston, like Parnell, Fanny, Nesbit, Keystone and Euclid all combined.
I'm thankful to the able pen of Huber D. McLellan who wrote a thorough description of Polk County in his doctoral dissertation at Northwestern University in 1928. He described Crookston in 1879 having a population of 987 people but six years later on, it had 4,063 inhabitants!!! Fifteen years later, in 1900, there were 5,359 and by 1910 another 2,000 souls were added to total 7,559 people. Soon after that census, my paternal grandparents had relocated from southern Minnesota with promise of good farmland to be bought in 1914 from an old homesteader named Ole Teigen.
However, before these small time farmers bought into this territory, there were large, absentee landlords that handled the rich soil of the Red River Valley from afar. One historian who knows a great deal about this phenomenon is Hiram M. Drache who wrote the book "The Day of the Bonanza" in 1964. As a Concordia professor of history, he continued his research with examples of bonanza farms close by him in the Fargo-Moorhead area. One bonanza farm that readily comes to mind for which there are many archived photos at NDSU is the Oliver Dalrymple farm. Also, in the southeast corner of North Dakota was the Frederick and Sophia Bagg bonanza farm which has been preserved as it existed over a century ago and open for tours even today.
One thing Professor Drache noted was the successful farmers rolled with the changing trends and learned to adopt newer technology. They not only "maximized on the government programs" but they were willing to take risks. As entrepreneurs, according to Drache "they had accepted the tenets of the capitalistic free-enterprise system." Their hope for the future was wedded to understanding that changes in American agriculture came fast and could not to be ignored. Changes in agriculture were happening throughout the U.S. almost as swiftly as an unabated prairie fire!
Wherever I teach composition classes, I ask my students to write down their grandparents' stories. I have amassed some remarkable accounts about what the old timers went through, both in the Red River Valley and abroad. I have one such example from a Northland student, David Nelson, who wrote about his grandfather, born on January 1, 1937. He had seen many changes over 50-60 years of farming. David's grandfather went from having a small farming operation of only 240 acres, to one with his sons operating 4,300 acres today.
David's grandfather said the following in an interview: "I have seen fields being worked by teams of horses to fields being worked by 500 horsepower tractors that steer themselves. I bought my first tractor brand new for $1,300, which today is the cost of one tractor tire. Today, the biggest Case IH tractor has a sticker price of $275,000. When I was young, the biggest tractor my father had on the farm was 60 horsepower. Today the biggest tractor on our farm is 425 horsepower."
The grandfather went on to explain about sugar beet harvests: "In my beet operation, we used an eight man crew. One man lifted the beets with the one row lifter, and then a crew of five workers followed behind while topping and piling the beets all by hand. The other would drive truck. This was a big improvement to when my father hauled beets to the train with a team of horses. My father's crew could harvest 16 tons of beets per day. Today, the biggest truck on our farm hauls 25 tons per load, averaging 3,200 tons per day."
David's grandfather further explained the great changes in grain harvesting: "My threshing crew consisted of 22 men. Eight men would go into a field and hand cut and bundle wheat for the threshing machine. It would also take six men to run the threshing machine, men would have to grab these bundles which would weigh up to 150 pounds and toss them into the machine. The remaining eight men rode teams of horses hauling 70 bushels of wheat. I stored most of my harvest crop in two 2,000 bushel granaries. In our family operation today, we are capable of storing 160,000 bushels on our farm. In a full day of threshing, we could thresh up to 40 acres. Today, our family owned operation combines up to 250 acres per day."
What the student's assignment highlights is what the erudite Hiram Drache already noted: "The homesteaders succeeded where the bonanza farmers failed, because they relied on the unpaid labor of family members to survive. The bonanza farms were far better managed than most of the homesteaded farms, but they had to pay their workers and could not compete in what was still a very labor-intensive industry."
With this as background, I want to describe the Keystone Farm, which was west and southwest of the town of Euclid in Nesbitt and Keystone townships. The actual Keystone Manor had a grand opening on September 1, 1881 and it hosted on June 5, 1884 a wedding held for the young couple Chalmers (think tractor) and Cheeny. Another wedding happened at the Keystone big house on April 6, 1895 between Walker and Geddes. Would this be a relative to the lumber baron T.B. Walker? I'd have to read deeper into the archives to find out. But I noted a headline dated in April 7, 1894 that "Bonanza Farms no longer profitable."
What happened to bonanza farms like Buffington and Keystone farm in Polk County or Lockhart farm in Norman country? Or in Grand Forks county of Elk Valley, Emery and McCanna bonanza farms? Drought, bank crisis? Apparently, the bonanza farms did not use crop rotation to replenish the soil's nutrients and misused the coal black soil by repeatedly sowing only the golden crop of wheat. Yes, some of these bonanza farmers may have had 80 plows that turned over the rich, black soil of a 7,500-acre farm. One of these bonanza farms may have had 200 horses and 100 men to employ according to the "Polk County Journal" in 1883. But these bonanza hired hands needed to be paid after such long, grueling hours of work.
The hypothesis is that family farms took wages in farm equity. These small farms had fewer workers to pay and less money invested in equipment. The family farms could ride out the boom-and-bust cycles better than the much larger bonanza farms. Thus, by the 1890s most bonanza farms had broken up into smaller farms. By the 1920s, any remnants of the bonanza phase were entirely gone. Ironically, where the once fancy, big house at Keystone Farm once stood is now a piling area for sugar beets.
What I discovered was that the absentee landlords for Keystone Farm near Euclid were investors from "Keystone state" of Pennsylvania. Thus, the name "Keystone" was used for the township and the bonanza farm. As I researched for this article, I read Crookston Times headlines from 1880s to early 1900s and learned about Keystone lawsuits, change of ownership to an Illinois syndicate, farmhands wanting their just pay, manager suicides, difficulty of finding teachers to teach in Keystone, a team of horses being stolen by a bigamist (!), grain thieves captured, on and on. I believe there's ample enough material for a mini-series about the high drama that took place at Keystone Farm.
One headline from The Saint Paul Globe on March 25, 1903 reported how the largest real estate deal ever closed in the state of Minnesota happened when Keystone Farm was sold to Kenneth Clark, president of Merchants' National Bank of St. Paul. He purchased it from Charles Lockhart of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The total sale was $208,520 for 9,104 acres, formerly touted as one of the largest bonanza farms in the Red River Valley. The article went on to explain: "The land was acquired by Charles Lockhart many years ago and a large percentage of the property is under cultivation, a good sized area being employed as a range for cattle, while there are some portions thickly covered with good timber. The property has always been considered valuable and a source of profit to its owner, who is advanced in years and is consolidating his landed interests."
If anyone is interested in pursuing more about Keystone Farm, a good place to start, besides reading Hiram Drache's book, would be the Crookston Daily Times article of January 29, 1938 where the "Pioneer Teacher (H. Davies) Tells of Keystone Bonanza Farm."


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From elite to mass to universal higher education: from distance to open education
In 1970, Martin Trow, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, identified a transition "underway in every advanced society – from elite to mass higher education and subsequently to universal access." This paper adapts this framework of the historical and structural development of higher education as a phased process in which absolute and relative growth of university enrollment transforms the institutions of higher education and alters its functions. The transition to universal access may support economic development, social mobility and greater income equality, in turn buttressing even the institution of democracy. Arriving at those optimal social outcomes isn't automatic, however, because of a variety of remaining issues: how universality of higher education translates to economic growth and social equality. The problem of the "next 1%," shorthand for the continued entrance of new social layers into higher education, presents novel challenges that "access" alone may not solve.
Open course ware, MOOCs; open educational resources; higher education; social mobility; access.