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A brief look at the A-Data Vitesta Extreme Edition 1066 2GB Kit & A-Data 8GB CF Card 266x
Memory prices are dropping all the time and with DDR3 around the corner you can certainly expect a faster drop in price. Of course, there are still memory modules out there which you could set you back a few hundred pounds but let's face it. Who needs extremely tight timings and the extra clock cycle other than hardcore overclockers who like to milk their system until it begs for mercy? Most of us wouldn't mind having a decent performing system providing the innards of which it will comprise of are of reasonable value. Talking of value, A-Data memory is quite competitively priced. Just a quick search on various internet price comparison websites will show you this.
About A-DATA:
"Founded in May, 2001 by Chairman and CEO Mr. Simon Chen, A-DATA Technology Co., Ltd. has quickly risen to become one of the world's largest memory and flash product providers. At the beginning, with DRAM modules as the major product line, A-DATA's mission was to become "The Global Leading Brand of Memory Products." Later on, recognizing the market's trend, A-DATA diversified its product portfolio to include Flash peripherals and multimedia solutions. Capitalizing on the strong growth of DRAM memory and flash related products in the market, based on DRAMeXchange 2006 and iSuppli 2006 reports, A-DATA ranks second in the world for DRAM Modules and fourth for Flash Disks respectively."
Testing & Performance
We had the opportunity to test out some A-Data memory modules in the past so it's been a while since then. Unlike many other manufactures (especially with their low priced solutions), A-Data holds more confidence in their products despite their prices being low. It is for this reason you will usually find a pair of Vitestas with a lifetime warranty. How's that?
Test System:
MSI P6N SLI Platinum
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz
Western Digital Raptor 10,000rpm
MSI Geforce 8600GT 256MB
Testing CL 4-4-4-12:
SuperPI 2M Calculation 20 Iterations – 37.58s
SiSoft Sandra Int – 9010
SiSoft Sandra Float – 9067
The above results are pretty good considering these modules retail at a very appealing price point. The reliability of these modules is also quite good, running burn-in tests for a good few hours at its stock timings and clock speed revealed no problems. Of course as this is only a brief look at these modules we won't delve into OCing them. One of the reasons for this is simply because the sample we received is of early production and came in packaging with misinformation.
Once we get our hands on some final verions of some A-Data modules we'll put them through their paces. But as these modules stand, they would certainly go well with those who don't need blisteringly fast memory especially if you're running the new Core 2 Duo processors which don't benefit greatly from the speed increases. These modules use very standard heatspreaders with nothing fancy but for the price that these modules retail for it's not much to worry about.
Next we take a quick look at the 8GB compact flash card available from A-Data with a speed rating of 266x. This particular series is referred to as Turbo. The advantage of having such a large card would probably be seen more by photographers using digital SLRs with a high megapixel count and fast continous shooting (8 fps and above for example). Shooting in the RAW format most SLRs provide would definitely be a more viable option if you plan to take over a 100 or so. This 8GB card will have no problems at all.
We have been using the 8GB card in our SLR for a while now and it seems to work absolutely fine. Read and write speeds with this card under Windows is very snappy and the same goes for using the card in our camera. Previewing images on our SLR is very quick with no delay. We use a Canon EOS 5D so the raw files are fairly large at 12 megapixels.
HD Tach is a very useful utility. It doesn't really lie (well of course it doesn't otherwise that would defy the point of this tool being made anyway). You can see a max write speed of 19.5 MB/s in burst write with an average of 18 MB/s this is an "OK" speed. It's very annoying when manufactures stick numbers like 400x or 500x speed on their cards. The only way to truly determine that is by testing. As in this case though, for 8GB the sequential and most importantly random data access times are fairly decent.
Both of these products deserve consideration if you're looking into either of the two types of products because they are decent performing and reliable. We hope to see more A-Data products in the near future where we will take a look indepth at how they perform. This has been a brief look from us guys here at tech-gear, maybe an introduction to A-Data and what sort of products they produce. Not a huge name here in the west but it soon could be.
Stay tuned for more.


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Dry skin fixes: how to make your moisturiser work overtime
Image via MECCA Maxima.
As if having to layer our tights and covering our outfit every day with an oversized coat and scarf wasn't enough, the colder months also bring with it autumn skin - a cruel condition that leaves us with dry hands, chapped lips and a dull complexion. It can be irritating and painful, and often, our moisturisers that we rely so heavily on just don't cut it! We're slathering it on morning and night, only to head outside and watch our skin dry up right before our very eyes once again.
If your face and body moisturisers aren't doing their job (and you wish for the days of your bronzed, plump summer skin) try out these top tips to help your creams and lotions work overtime. We've also included a few of our favourite cult moisturisers that you can stock up on before winter really hits.
Get the most out of products with these top tips:
- It's all in the timing... Make a habit of applying your moisturisers fresh out of the shower, when your skin is still warm. This will help your skin drink in the moisturiser much more effectively, and it will last longer too.
- While we love to lather our body in moisturising lotions when we're feeling dry, it's important to be a little more delicate with our face. Rather than rubbing it into the skin, apply it in dollops and pat into the skin across the main areas of the face. You'll find your skin will feel much more supple this way, and your makeup will glide on a lot smoother!
- Invest in a pair of moisture gloves, which are lined with oils and vitamins to combat dry, flaky hands. Take it one step further with an overnight treatment, by coating your hands in moisturiser, popping on the gloves and leaving them overnight!
- Regular exfoliation is key! Every three or four days, treat yourself to an all-over body scrub (and a lighter exfoliation on your face too). In winter, dead skin cells can pile up on our skin - that's the dryness you're feeling! - and it can act as a barrier to moisturiser reaching the deeper levels of your skin.
- If you need something a little more heavy duty, introduce a luxe face mask into your autumn routine. There are hundreds out there that are all targeted towards different skin concerns! We love to apply a face mask at night, and rub the leftover product into our skin while we sleep.
Pictured: Moisture surge from Clinique; the Porefessional from Benefit; Lip balm from Kiehls; Total moisture facial cream from Benefit; Comforting Oil from L'Occitane; Sea salt scrub from The Body Shop; Moisture gloves from The Body Shop; Lip scrub from Mecca Maxima; Glam Glow from Mecca Maxima.


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Workshop: Watercolor Painting with Stacey Sass
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- 1/4 cup sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon four-peppercorn spice mix
- 1 lemon, quartered
- 4 6-to-7 ounce skinless salmon fillets
- Dried dillweed
- Garlic powder
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease large baking sheet. Combine sesame seeds and peppercorn mix in sealable plastic bag. Crush with mallet. Squeeze juice from lemon quarters onto both sides of salmon. Season both sides of salmon with dillweed, garlic powder, peppercorn mixture and salt. Arrange salmon on prepared baking sheet. Dot with butter.
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It was previously reported that the recording industry (RIAA or Racketeering Idiots Association of Absurdity) was not going to give any of the money awarded in the recent LimeWire settlement to the artists. The story at The Huffington Post referenced a post at Torrent Freak and reading it today it reminds me of the news re-writes in 1984. Strangely the Huffinton Post now claims that the Torrent Freak article was incorrect. The original Torrent Freak article reads:
RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy previously told TorrentFreak that the 'damages' accrued from piracy-related lawsuits will not go to any of the artists, but towards funding more anti-piracy campaigns. "Any funds recouped are re-invested into our ongoing education and anti-piracy programs," he said.
Hmmm…. seems like a pretty clear to me. Based on the track record of the RIAA have any artist actually received anything from these lawsuits? Remember they announced the end of the "sue em all" campaign? Now if they announced the end of it, why do they need to "re-invest" any of the settlement money? It seems that what he previously said was taken out of context… Or is it just being re-written?
An article over a TechDirt breaks the news, Jonathan Lamy claims that above quote was used out of context and is not an accurate report of this particular settlement. In this authors opinion, I would trust any statement from this organization of litigation about as much as a hug from Judas. In a related news story, it is reported the the RIAA boss, is hit so hard by this industry dieing due to new technology is only able to earn a paltry 3 million per year.
This author wishes that they would just get with the new media order, give up on the lawsuits, spend some money on objective market research and give the fans what they want. I am sorry, we want downloads and not CDs. I still say assert your independence, support the independent artists and new media order by sticking us your ears. Lets close with "Independence Day" (the clean podcast version) by Jesta.
You can find Jesta at Mevio's Music Alley, and Jestamusic.com (currently offering 2 free downloads at his site). Jesta seems to be on almost every social an music network there is, check out his links page for more information. His music can be purchased at Amazon, and elsewhere.
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- LimeWire Pays RIAA $105 Million, Artists Get Nothing | TorrentFreak (dccrowley.posterous.com)
- LimeWire Pays RIAA $105 Million, Artists Get Nothing (torrentfreak.com)
- LimeWire Settlement of the Day (geeks.thedailywh.at)
- RIAA boss takes home $3 mil+ (boingboing.net)
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Bill Hunt, SES Advisory Board; President, Back Azimuth Consulting
Seasoned Speaker Bill Hunt is always a pleasure to listen to. Loads of slides and a huge amount of useful information for how to think about Keywords, targetting value and making sure that your budgets are being used wisely.
Starting with the example of a keyword targeting fail whilst looking for a Wine Cooler that held 50 bottles, the SERPS brought a whole manner of listings that consumers then have to trawl through again to find the best match.
This is Bill's blueprint of how to undertake your Keyword Analysis effectively.
Brainstorming Ideas
1) Brainstorm – where do you want ot be found?
2) Make a list of your products services and categories
3) What are the purchase cycle phases for your business? – find people in the right phase of the buying cycle
4) What do your current customers search for when trying to find your product – use liveperson – pass the word – ASK
5) What terms are currently driving visits to your site (Analytics)
6) What are people currently searching for on our site – these are people that assume you make or offer something – how many people come from paid search and go into site search because the landing pages were far too narrow
Generate an initial keyword list
- Keyword Strategy Worksheet exercise
- Keyword Categorisation> Description > Answer
- How would you categorise this word, brand name ?
- Why they did a query does not mateh our business objectives
- How important is this to our business – VERY
- Mine your pages for keywords (automated)
Google Keyword Suggestion
- Do not use every keyword that they suggest
- Use exact matches
- Prioritise budgets – maybe your spending on a big awareness word LCD TV – if you're trying to sell parts and serial numbers
Advanced Keyword Modelling
- Trying to understand the mind of the customer – the are looking for something specific
- Understand the voice of the consumer
- Informational queries where searchers want something specific
- Complete a specific action ie buy a flight
- Opportunity sales or conversion + customer satisfaction
Understanding Searchers
There is usually a waste of opportunity
Puchase cycle with intent
- Researching product use and information
- Looking for features and functions – serve up a video or content that explains
- Comparing brands
- Looking for discounts 57 different variations looking for the discount code
- Have they already purchased?
Missed Opportunity buy Buy Cycle
- Brand, Branded Technology, Technology
- People searching for their product name or name of that model were putting together an IT purchase sheet
- Massive missed opportunity was up on generating awareness and not for the buying cycle
- Segment your words
Design Phase
- IT managers who are design systems
- Stencils were on a logn page of all stencils vs merchandising pages
- The type of stencil helps understand the audience and size of company
- Identify what people are looking for related to your business
Product Audience Segments & Personas
- Identify words to specifically target and hone in on
- Use Buy Cycle Modifiers
- 26 different ways to say buy or purchase in the English language
Coupon Codes
The case study used found 57 ways people were searching for the google coupon code – other sites tell you about the coupon codes
- Offer a code to track how many people want discounts
- Capture them for social media
- Sort by Margins – where do o make the most money
- Words that help us isolate a specific opportunity interest audience or need
- Segment by features, fuction, types, anything that allows you to understand the searcher's mindset
- 75% of all queries had a formula of clothing type+ shapewear (eg shaping thongs) – this did not sell until they showed the thong part
- Re do the site that allows people to connect with what they are looking for
- Missed Opportunity Matrix
- Traffic and relevance
- Get the traffic from organic at x CPC
Mining for Opportunities
Bad Snippets for top ranked words
List of all the products you used to sell – searches per month for products they don't sell – all support pages – so if ranking #1 then you want to do something with those cards – 10% 50,000 visits – 400k revenue in 60 days
Upsell to new products
Alignment to Social Media
The social media teams are taking our SEO budgets!
- Add tier 1 keywords to social media monitoring
- Understand the sentiment of keywords
- Understand the context of words
- Compare search volume – conversations and conversions
- Identify other forms of advertising
Combine search and social data
People were talking about deals 45 days before people put up any offers, modes of travel, destinations – safety, insurance
- What are Authority sites?
- How authoritative are you?
- Paid and organic ROI review
- Understand the intent of the user queries
- Understand the real performance of keywords
- Understand the context of keywords
- Classify keywords in logical segments to enable classification and mnodeling
- Do anything other than just collecting data in excel


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On Hawaiian or World Voyage cruises, some of the NCL, Princess Cruises, Crystal Cruise Lines and Holland America ships stop at the "Garden Island" of Kauai for at least one day. Cunard's Queen Victoria stops here too.
While on a recent Hawaiian cruise, we got off the ship in the port of Nawiliwili and rented a car to explore the oldest and most verdant Hawaiian island, Kauai.
Our first destination was Princeville on the North side of the island. Princeville and nearby Hanalei and Napali beaches offer dramatic emerald colored scenery and aquamarine colored water. We were excited to visit this destination after watching the movie, Descendants with actor George Clooney. The location lured us to enjoy a swim, snorkel and sunbathe.
From a calm beach in Hanalei, we had a great view of the St. Regis Princeville hotel and a beach house featured in the movie.
As we drove to the end of the road admiring sea caves and white sandy beaches, we commented that the North side of Kauai feels the most Polynesian, with its jagged canyons and taro fields.
We stopped at Tunnels beach for a quick snorkel adventure. It was thrilling to see yellow tang, colorful angelfish and pretty butterfly fish within steps of walking into the warm water. The highlight was swimming with a Hawaiian green sea turtle.
Driving back towards Princeville, we stopped at Dolphin Restaurant and Fish Market in Hanalei for lunch. Locals and tourists come here for fresh sushi, poke, seafood chowder and fresh Ahi and Ono plates. Afterwards, we drove to the St. Regis Resort to admire the views.
We found a spot in a small public parking lot just before the entrance of the spectacular St. Regis resort. A public access path led us to Hideaway Beach. It can be a dangerous hike if you don't have good shoes, and is very slippery after a rain. Looking into the clear warm water, we saw sea cucumbers, bright pink brain coral and the state's fish, the humuhumunukunukuapuaa.
After our snorkeling adventures we decided to head back to the cruise ship with one stop at Kauai's northern-most point to see the historic Kilauea lighthouse. Celebrating its 100th year, the scenic lighthouse was recently refurbished. A volunteer pointed to a preserve where hundreds of sea birds reside. Whales, seals, dolphins and sea turtles can be viewed at the point too.
Near the port of Nawiliwili lies the main town of Lihue that offers restaurants and shopping for cruise passengers. A visit to the nearby Marriott Resort and Beach Club sitting on the lovely Kalapaki Beach, is a nice stop. We finished our Kauai excursion with a stop at Duke's Canoe Club and Barefoot Bar for a Mai Tai before boarding our cruise ship to sail to another beautiful island.
If you fly or cruise to Kauai, the beauty will leave you wanting to come back for more. This article was published in the Sept. 2012 issue of Not Born Yesterday.


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Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 518):
The other resource for constructing taxonomies of things is the expansion of the nominal group, and here the picture is very different from that with verbs. Nouns are expanded lexically as well as grammatically, so that, while entities (like processes) are located deictically relative to the 'here–&–now', they are also (unlike processes) extensively classified and described. … Thus the grammar has the potential for construing a complex arrangement of classes and subclasses for any entity which participates in a process; or on the other hand, of naming it as an individual, by using a "proper" noun instead of a common one. Proper nouns are already fully specific, and hence seldom expanded experientially (they are often expanded interpersonally!); but common nouns are almost indefinitely expandable, and it is this resource which organises our universe into it elaborate taxonomies of things.


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Autumn arrived in the world on Sept. 22, 2010, at 11:13 p.m. EST. And for the first time since 1991, the harvest moon was full in the early hours of Sept. 23. A full harvest moon so close to the autumnal equinox is the "traditional definition" of a harvest moon. And as National Geographic reports, the world is celebrating.
An autumnal equinox occurs when the sun sets due west and rises due east. It marks the change of the season and also when day and night fall into balance, lasting for roughly the same equal lengths. After the autumnal equinox, the days become notably shorter. The harvest moon refers to the autumnal moon at its brightest, when farmers worked to bring in their crops by its light. This year, these two events coincided in the wee hours of Sept. 23 in the northern hemisphere. This event will not occur again until 2029.
The autumnal equinox happens when the sun's disk crosses the celestial equator, an imaginary line that projects out from the Earth's equator. If a person is standing directly at the Earth's equator, he or she can see the sun pass directly overhead on this day. But don't expect an equinox to yield a perfectly mathematical day, as time is peculiar. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII established the Gregorian calendar, which we use today to account for these irregularities in time.
Judith Young is a professor of astronomy at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. As she explained to National Geographic, most people will never see the full 12 hours of sunup and sundown on the autumnal equinox. The sun sets and rises at an angle for people who don't live at the equator, and most people have hills and foliage obstructing their view of a sunrise or sunset. Further, the Earth's slightly elliptical orbit alters the length of days. According to Young, "We arrive at the September equinox a day late, because we were going a little bit slower [around the sun] in July, and we arrive at the March equinox a day earlier."
Nonetheless, the world is celebrating the harvest moon and autumnal equinox as it has for centuries. The Mayans built the pyramid of Kukulkan in Chichin Itza to honor the occasion. As the autumnal equinox occurs, a play of light creates the illusion of the serpent god Kukulkan slithering its way down the pyramid. China continues to celebrate the harvest moon with festivals. They commemorate the moon goddess, whose origins are linked to this time, as well as the family.
The September harvest moon and equinox is not the only special cosmic event this month. Jupiter is the closest it's been to the Earth since 1963, and the largest planet in our solar system was aligned with Uranus on Sept. 17.
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News: "Egypt's Mursi to Appoint Deputies Including Woman, Christian" via @BloombergNews #hwhtw #Egypt
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A hopeful step forward for Egypt…
Egypt's Mursi To Name Deputies Including Woman, Christian
By Tarek El-Tablawy – Jun 27, 2012 11:18 AM ET
Egypt's Islamist president-elect plans to name a woman and a Christian among his deputies, as he seeks to form an administration to heal the rifts that polarized the country after last year's revolt.
Mohamed Mursi, who won a presidential runoff vote on June 24, will appoint as many as five vice presidents "including a Copt, a woman and a member of the youth" activists, his spokesman, Yasser Ali, said by phone today.
Read the full article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-27/egypt-s-mursi-to-name-deputies-including-woman-christian.html
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.
Lord, we don't need another mountain,
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross,
Enough to last till the end of time.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone.
Lord, we don't need another meadow
There are cornfields and wheat fields enough to grow
There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine
Oh listen, lord, if you want to know.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some, oh, but just for everyone.
[Jackie DeShannon]
Everyone has heard that old song, I'm sure. It was a paean to a particular kind of love, but if freed of the romantic gloss, its proposition still holds true.
Yesterday I watched The Case For Christ for the second time. I've been eager to do so ever since I saw it in the theater. That second viewing proved as compelling as the first one, and considerably more illuminating.
The core of the movie is, of course, the young Lee Strobel's campaign to "debunk" the Christian faith by disproving the historical accounts of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. His campaign began with his indignant reaction against his wife Leslie's embrace of Christianity. It ended when the evidence he had amassed persuaded him of it as well. Throughout the movie his investigative fervor keeps tempo with his anger that Leslie has elected to "cheat on him with Jesus:" a thematic element of staggering significance.
I didn't go to see the movie for educational reasons. I'm about as well versed – pardon the choice of words – in the evidentiary basis for Christianity as anyone who's not a seminary graduate. Being a capable logician and scientist, I'm also aware that an irreproducible phenomenon will always admit of more than one explanation. Therefore the truth of the Biblical accounts of the Resurrection can never be definitively proved. But that's in the nature of all human knowledge: except for propositions in entirely abstract formal systems (e.g., mathematics), we can have confidence, but never certainty.
What's most striking about The Case For Christ is its gentle emphasis on love: God's love, Man's attempts to love, and the ways in which they contrast. As archeologist-turned-priest Father Marquez (played by Miguel Perez) says early on, the Sacrifice at Golgotha could have been motivated only by love: the willingness of God incarnate to suffer the worst tortures flesh can bear in a demonstration both of His love for Man and His divine credentials. In contrast, human love is often jealously possessive, sometimes insanely so. It bristles at any sort of competition, often seeking revenge for being "cheated on." Divine love, obviously, isn't like that.
Indeed, the great wonder of love between humans is that that we routinely do succeed in extending it without (much) jealousy: first the love of a child for his parents, then the love of a husband for his wife; then to the love of a parent for his child. It is in that familial process that we find the best temporal parallel to Divine love: the love of the Father for His children.
Religion can be blamed for many ills. The clerics of the world's many Christian denominations have gone beyond the teachings of Christ innumerable times, asserting authority in matters on which He never pronounced. Indeed, much of the conflict among the denominations arises from exactly that source. Like politicians, clerics are loath to admit to error and reluctant to surrender usurped authority.
Christ didn't ask much of us:
And, behold, one came and said to him, Good master, what good shall I do that I may have life everlasting? Who said to him, Why askest thou me concerning good? One is good, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He said unto him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness. Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. [Matthew 19:16-19]
And Saint Paul, notwithstanding his frequent excursions into Levitical prescriptions and proscriptions Christ never commanded, hit that nail squarely on the head:
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. For: Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou shalt not covet. And if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the fulfilling of the law. [Romans 13:8-10]
What does the world need now? Now that politics has failed, secular philosophizing has proved insufficient, and the ordinary practices of men simply trying to get by appear unequal to our trials? Why, Jesus Christ, of course: Love of Him and the faithful observance of His original preachments, undecorated. How much simpler could it get?
May God bless and keep you all.


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True Blood came out on top in the ratings on Sunday night for HBO (July 28).
The fantasy drama matched last week's 18-49 demo score of 2.4 (4.35 million viewers) at 9pm.
Elsewhere on cable, Keeping Up with the Kardashians scored 1.4 (2.82m) at 9pm, while Showtime's Dexter achieved a score of 1.2 (2.55m) at 9pm.
On the main networks, CBS won the evening overall, with Big Brother dropping two tenths to 2.3 (6.81m) at 8pm.
The season premiere of Unforgettable achieved a score of 1.3 (7.02m) at 8pm, which is down seven tenths from last year's opener.
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On NBC, Crossing Lines tied with last week's score of 0.5 (2.93m) at 10pm.


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Habib Ayeb is a founder member of the NGO Observatory of Food Sovereignty and Environment (OSAE) and Max Ajl is a sociologist, activist and an editor at Jadaliyya and Viewpoint.
Max: Habib, you have made many films and written at length about food sovereignty in Tunisia and in Egypt. Can you start by telling us how you see the conversation around food sovereignty in this part of the world?
Habib: In recent years, the issue of food sovereignty has begun to appear in academic and non-academic debates, and in research as well – although more tentatively – in all the countries of the region. That said, the issue of food and thus agriculture has always been important, both in academic research and public debate, as well as the academy, political institutions, and elsewhere.
During the 1970s and 1980s, in Tunisia and throughout what was called the Third World, we spoke mainly of food self-sufficiency. This was, in a way, and at that time, a watchword of the left – a left that was modernist, developmentalist and statist.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe that the concept of food self-sufficiency dates from the late 1940s with the wave of decolonization, which began after the Second World War, and probably also dates to the great famines which claimed millions of lives in India and other areas of the South.
Furthermore, many states, particularly those governed by the state-socialist regimes that had acquired political independence during the 1950s and 1960s, had initiated Green Revolution policies.
These had the aim of achieving food self-sufficiency to strengthen political independence, in a Cold War context wherein food was already used as a weapon and a means of pressure in the context of the confrontation between the USSR and the Western bloc.
It is in this context that the experiences of agrarian reforms and agricultural co-operatives in Tunisia (from 1962), in Egypt (from 1953) and in many other countries had proliferated. But almost all of these experiments ended in failure or were aborted by liberal counter-reforms, which were adopted everywhere beginning in the 1980s amidst the victory of liberalism, the USSR's disappearance, and the development of a global food regime, and its corollary: the global market for agricultural products and particularly cereals.
It is at this point that the concept of food security, based on the idea of comparative advantage began to gradually dominate. It would appear for the first time in the official Tunisian texts in the sixth Five Year Plan of the early 1980s, in which the formula of food self-sufficiency would give way to that of food security.
From then on, agricultural policies would favour agricultural export products with a high added value, whose revenues would then underwrite the import of basic food products.
Paradoxically, agricultural issues, food issues, and rural issues writ large would gradually disappear from academic agendas. There was a sharp reduction in funding for research on the rural world, and instead it went first, to the urban research profile, but also to examine civil society and political organizations.
It was not until 2007/2008 and the great food crisis that agricultural and food issues, and furthermore the peasant question with its sociological dimension, would reappear in public debates focused on these matters. It was during the same period that the concept of food sovereignty, proposed by Via Campesina in 1996, would appear in Arab countries and to a much lesser extent in research.
Even today, many use the food sovereignty frame to talk about food security, even while the two concepts are radically opposed, even incompatible.
"the urban left subjugated by modernity have developed a sort of disregard for the peasantry, which they consider as a brake and an obstacle to development. We know that this is not new – already Marx, in his day, had little regard for the peasant world"
In Egypt, I participated in many discussions on issues of food security and sovereignty. We were, with some other friends and colleagues, including the anthropologist Reem Saad, responsible for helping to initiate the first discussions around the specific theme of food sovereignty. We organized workshops, research seminars, and other activities, too, more oriented towards civil society and the media.
We also organized two seminars in Damascus, in Syria, in 2008 and some others in Tunisia between 2007 and 2011. Concerning Syria, it should be noted that it is one of the very few countries in the South that did not suffer from the food crisis of 2007 and 2008, because the Syrian state has always thought, amidst a particularly hostile and explosive geopolitical context, that the food issue was part of its national defense strategy.
Thus, agricultural policies before 2011 (and even after, with the difficulties that we can imagine) always aimed at a level of cereal production sufficient to cover basic needs. The lesson of the embargo imposed on Saddam Hussein's Iraq after the war of Kuwait was well-learned by Damascus.
From 2011 on, spaces and opportunities for debate would greatly expand, touching upon a multitude of topics and diverse themes – even if the rural world, and more specifically, agricultural and food topics, remain relatively marginalized, or often forgotten. Nevertheless, the issue of food sovereignty has seen some fairly significant actions and initiatives.
In Egypt, the principle of food sovereignty was enshrined in the first post-Mubarak constitution (2012). In Beirut, there was an attempt to form an Arab Network for Food Sovereignty. In Gaza, food sovereignty is a strong demand to which the Israeli embargo gives shape and consistency.
And then in North Africa, public discussions and various activities around food sovereignty began in 2012-2013. It must be noted that throughout the region, there is still a kind of confusion around concepts, slogans, and even demands and claims.
If the notion of food sovereignty begins to spread there is then a risk of trivialization and misuse of the expression, which may occur – it has happened with other concepts, including that of sustainable development which has been totally emptied of any real meaning.
One puzzle I have come across while doing my research on food sovereignty – and I mean the narrow meaning, or the specific use of the term, as it has become linked to Via Campesina – is that there are very few regional social movements that are tied to Via Campesina. There is one in Morocco, there is one in Tunisia.
And there is the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, which is the regional coordinator, and has been a part of Via Campesina, I think since 2003, since the second Intifada. This is the part of the world where Via Campesina has entered least – or has the fewest links. Why do you think this might be the case?
It is difficult to explain. Without being categorical, it seems to me that this is largely due to the paradoxical absence of direct relations between the city and the countryside which go beyond the marketing of agricultural products, an exchange which does not necessarily bring the two areas into continuous contact.
Between the countryside, especially the peasants and agricultural workers who live and/or work there, and the city, including the ordinary inhabitants, the intellectuals, the activists and the trade unionists' communication and exchanges are relatively limited.
The former does not necessarily have access to the city, whose codes they do not know, and the latter do not understand the countryside, and stigmatize its inhabitants. In the city, the word fellah (peasant) has become an insult.
When the Egyptian government carried out its agrarian counter-reform in 1992 by adopting the so-called 96/92 law which completely liberalized the land market, and which resulted in a massive rise in the price of agricultural land, overnight about a million peasant families, former tenants, found themselves without land to work and therefore without income.
In response to an attempt at resistance, the government reacted with great brutality from its police, leaving about 150 dead, not counting the dozens of wounded and imprisoned.
Astonishingly, these events in the Egyptian campaign did not provoke any rush of solidarity from urban political and intellectual elites, with the exception of a few activists and NGOs, already more or less engaged in the peasant milieu, who tried to organize some demonstrations and support activities. Today, I tend to think that these isolated and repressed peasant movements of the mid-1990s were the first fruits of the revolutionary processes that ended the Mubarak regime in early 2011.
Few people in the area know about Via Campesina. Even amongst those people who, by a kind of mimicry, use the expression food sovereignty, know nothing about Via Campesina and the history of this concept. In itself, this is a real political problem that further aggravates the invisibility of rural and peasant populations and widens the rift between the city and the countryside, thereby limiting relations to exchanges of products and services through closed circuits.
I wonder if some of the separation you talk about between the city and the countryside is also because, speaking generally here, with exceptions such as Yemen, it's been a very modernizing left. Whereas in Asia you had Maoism, and in Latin America you had liberation theology, Christian-based communities, and you had all these ideologies and forms of organizing that were much more centered on the world and the culture of the countryside.
Whereas in North Africa it's generally been, or rather there has been an embrace of a modern/traditional dichotomy.
Yes, sure. Compared to North Africa specifically, I think not only does the city not know the countryside, but additionally, the urban lefts subjugated by modernity have developed a sort of disregard for the peasantry, which they consider as a brake and an obstacle to development. We know that this is not new. Already Marx, in his day, had little regard for the peasant world which, surprisingly, he had never tried to understand.
Generally, the Maghreb left, excepting a few generally unorganized intellectuals, reject the idea of rural social classes. I have the impression that this rejection is more a reflection of the contempt towards the peasantry than the output of a serious work of reflection and conceptualization. But this is an issue that deserves a real dispassionate debate.
"It is the privilege of social scientists who choose to be physically and intellectually close to their objects of research and their interlocutors in the field. That's what has always interested me"
Let's take the example of the considerable difference between the history as it has been constructed and told – storytelling – of Mohamed Bouazizi and the real story, which is much more interesting, because it is linked to the stories of many peasants in Sidi Bouzid, and their sense of being robbed, dispossessed, marginalized and impoverished [Mohammed Bouazizi was the Tunisian street vendor whose immolation in Sidi Bouzid, a city in Tunisia's Center-West, has often been heralded as the spark that lit the Arab Spring].
We know today that Mohamed Bouazizi, whom almost nobody knew outside his immediate circles, was not an unemployed graduate as had been claimed, and that he had not been slapped by the policewoman. Yet this false story had been disseminated and used to mobilize as much as possible against the Ben Ali regime.
We understand the reasons and the political objectives of this invented history and we can even accede to such a use. For in any case, no one can deny its formidable effectiveness since it allowed Tunisians to bring down a true dictatorship, while the real story probably could not have done so.
However, I continue to think that despite its undeniable effectiveness and its historical importance, Bouazizi's constructed history has dispossessed the peasants of Sidi Bouzid and the rest of the country of their stories of struggles and resistance, stories with which the real history of Bouazizi fits perfectly.
The popular understanding of the Tunisian revolution stems from a false history, and constitutes in fact a denial of truth, and a marked contempt, albeit unconscious, for peasants, their functions, their roles and finally their resistance. It is in fact a blatant expression of the opposition of the urban middle class and in particular the Tunisian left to any idea of rural social classes.
The debate on rural social classes, opened a good thirty years ago, deserves to be revived and enriched. I have already published on the relationship between the peasants of Sidi Bouzid, Bouazizi and the revolution.
I also wonder if somehow there is a link between the fact that in Tunisia you have actually an incredibly rich tradition of Marxist intellectuals in the academy that wrote about the countryside.
So, like Hafedh Sethom, Slaheddine el-Amami, to some extent Azzam Mahjoub, Habib Attia, who all, of course, wrote under the dictatorships. Some of them helped with the planning process in the 1970s, but they could not possibly be linked to any form of left that was actually organizing otherwise they would lose their job and livelihood. So, this made it harder to have a convergence between an activist left and the academic left especially on this question of the countryside.
Yeah definitely, at least in Tunisia. I don't know about Morocco or Algeria. Have you encountered attempts to converge between the Marxist researchers of the time, such as the ones you just mentioned, and the left-wing activists of the time? I do not know any.
I must admit that it would have been extremely dangerous for anyone at the time of Bourguiba or Ben Ali, which must be a part of the explanation for the absence of convergences. One could imagine a birth of peasant or pro-peasant unions. But knowing a little about the political context of postcolonial Tunisia, characterized by a dictatorship that has closed all political spaces and the suffocating hegemony of organizations, such as UTAP (Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fishery) and the UGTT (Tunisian General Labour Union), related through a system of alliances to the existing political power structure and its single party, it is very difficult to imagine political initiatives to create independent organizations.
In fact, it would be unfair to reproach Marxist scholars under dictatorship for not engaging politically. They did a great deal of observation, documentation and analysis in an extremely difficult context.
They have left us with materials that have proven to be rich and indispensable for understanding current agricultural and food policies and the evolution of these policies during the last decades. Anyone who does not know the work of Amami, Sethom, or others cannot understand current agricultural issues and their ecological, economic, social and political dimensions.
Those who ignore these valuable materials produced and accumulated during this relatively long period cannot understand what happened between December 17, 2010 and January 14, 2011. It is extremely important to recall these facts especially since very few contemporary academics could present a record as rich and politically useful as their predecessors.
Even when they proposed it, it was often just a proposal – they might write in their work that a specific programme 'rests on the activity of the peasants' but this was a dead letter. Imagine someone going to the countryside and trying to organize the peasants! For all we know there were such attempts, but we don't know what happened to the people who tried to do these things. Even to take Brazil which is supposedly a democracy it's known that the MST (Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement) militants are assassinated all the time by the landowners.
And it's still the case in many other countries.
And this has been in the post-democratic period in Brazil. So, imagine in Tunisia …
Something like this also happened in Egypt, where the pro-peasant activist Salah Hussein – who was the husband of Shahenda Maklad, also a great pro-peasant activist who died in June 2016 -was murdered in 1966 in Kamshish, his village, which was located in the Nile Delta. He was killed because with Shahenda and the small peasants he had won a political battle against the big landowners of the Delta who were trying to avoid the agrarian reform initiated in the early 1950s by Nasser.
In Tunisia Ahmed Ben Salah would never have allowed anyone to resist his policies. He would have used every means to prevent any resistance. This is the main explanation for the absence of trade unions and farmers' organizations before 2011 and even since the end of the dictatorship. This also explains why 'committed' researchers did not get involved directly on the ground with the farmers.
If we can shift gears a little bit. How do you see your cultural work, your films contributing to the Tunisian debate or collective discourse around food sovereignty? How do you see the contributions of all the films? Because you make a lot of films Green Mirage, Fellahin, Gabes Labes, and most recently Couscous which was shown at the ROAPE workshop in Accra in 2017.
When I first began making films, I did not plan to work on food sovereignty, it came much later. I had in mind work on questions of access to resources – land rights, water rights, environmental rights.
The first film, On the Banks of the Nile: Sharing Water was made in 2003, at a time when, after 15 or 20 years of work on water, I realized that the real problem was not water but farmers and other water-users access to water resources. It was conditions of access that could, at least partially, explain complex social and political situations. Access to water is a precondition for biological life. But it is also social and therefore political.
So, as I often say, ' came out of the water to see the peasants, to understand the different mechanisms and questions they face, including those related to water access. The main objective was to contribute to the ongoing discussion, and to bear witness to the peasants' difficulties, as well as their social conditions.
"Documentary films seemed to me an excellent tool of communication and interchange with a public which is very broad compared to academia. Watching a documentary takes an incomparably shorter time than reading a book, or even a scholarly article"
Of course, all this was not by chance. I did not find myself accidentally lost along Egypt's Nile Valley. I have done nothing, so to speak, by chance, during my career. My research activities have always focused on subjects which I considered, at the moment of my engagement, as causes to be defended. It's my way of engaging. I am not in any political party or movement. I am somewhere in the radical left and that suffices for me as an affiliation.
As far as film-making was concerned, I had felt the need to get out of my role as a researcher publishing for a relatively limited number of more or less specialized publications and readers, and to address those and those who are not necessarily in academia or the university environment.
Documentary films seemed to me an excellent tool of communication and interchange with a public which was very broad compared to academia. Watching a documentary takes an incomparably shorter time than reading a book, or even a scholarly article.
I take advantage of what I believe I know to provoke debate. Water was my specialty. Rural issues too. This knowledge and experience allowed me to have special and close relations with the agricultural world, including peasants and all manner of farmers, and therefore with their living spaces and/or work.
These relationships have allowed me to observe the rural space, the activities which go on there, their living and working conditions, the changes underway, as well as ways of organizing rural and agricultural populations. It is, moreover, the privilege of social scientists who choose to be physically and intellectually close to their objects of research and their interlocutors in the field.
That's what has always interested me. In any case that's what inspired me in my film Green Mirages (Mirages Verts) that I made in 2012 with my friend, the Egyptian director Nadia Kamel. Basically, I try to do what I can do, using available and accessible means and by mobilizing the 3 or 4 things that I think I know and understand.
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The holiday gift-giving season is approaching (rapidly). Maybe you're not sure what to buy that relative or friend who "has everything." Well, we here at Florida Food & Farm have a few suggestions, starting with our nicely-packaged holiday gift guide.
Holiday gift guide for the agriculture enthusiast
- A Sugarland Tour. How many people have spent 3.5 hours getting an up-close look at a sugar-cane farm? Participants can even chop and chew some "cane." (Editor's note: It's not as sweet as you might think.) Learn about new farming techniques and visit U.S. Sugar's Clewiston mill, refinery and citrus-juice plant. $38 (includes admission to the Clewiston Chamber of Commerce, in Hendry County). Call 863-983-7979 for reservations. Most tours run from 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday-Friday, but call to verify tour days.
- A book that covers several genres. Seafood Lover's Florida: Restaurants, Markets, Recipes & Traditions, by Bruce Hunt, covers a lot of ground — all of this state's 65,755 square miles, in fact. This book is a travelogue, a biography, an exposé and more. It also serves as a reminder that Old Florida still exists. Fortunately, Hunt did all the footwork; so all readers need to do is to decide which area of the state to visit, and then to select which of the 180 restaurants they want to dine in. $19.95; buy online.
- A membership in the Florida Farm Bureau. Maybe you know someone (especially a young someone) with an interest in agriculture. The Florida Farm Bureau, which boasts 145,000 members, works to ensure that family farms, locally grown food and rural land continue to have a place in the Sunshine State. Members (who don't need to be farmers) receive a subscription to FloridAgriculture magazine, and are eligible for a variety of discounts. $45/year. For more information, visit www.floridafarmbureau.org.
- Holiday cards created by kids. Support the Redlands Christian Migrant Association (RCMA) and impress those on your holiday card list. (Dec. 15 is the deadline for ordering.) The Florida Specialty Crop Foundation supports the RCMA's Christmas Card Project. (Note: Not all cards have a Christmas theme.) The cards are designed by RCMA students. The Redlands Christian Migrant Association provides early education for children of migrant farmworkers and for rural, low-income families throughout the state. Prices vary, depending on the package chosen (for example, 10 cards and envelopes cost $15; specialized designs also are available in packs of 100). For more information or to download the flyer, visit www.floridaspecialtycropfoundation.org/philanthropy; or call or email Sonia Tighe at 813-975-8377 or [email protected]
- A day in Old Florida. Who doesn't like to escape the bustle and fast pace of city life, if only for a day? The Florida Agricultural Museum lets visitors do just that. In Palm Coast, near St. Augustine, this museum features horseback riding, a petting zoo, guided tours that teach about farm life, and much more. Take along a lunch for an unhurried picnic. Admission: adults, $9; kids 6-12, $7; 5 and under, free. Open Wednesday-Sunday. For more information, call 386-446-7630 or visit www.floridaagmuseum.org.
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Catherine has a new kit out called Garden Of Remembrance. It seemed so fitting to use it for this photo of my father in law who we lost 2 years ago.
Scrapbooking for me is such therapy. When he passed I did up an album and a video to match. I shared it with family and friends at his funeral which of course was nice, however I really found that it helped me deal with his passing and felt like such a tribute to who he was and how we would always remember him.
I hope you will find some time in your day to enjoy our wonderful hobby and share it with others.
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You guys, today, I wanted to veer a bit from my typical posts and share some updates and announcements about what's going on - and what's coming up! I'll be talking about what's going on in our busy little family, and some exciting new projects I've been working on!
updates on the tribe.
upcoming projects.
busy, busy, busy!
God has really been leading through all of the things going on, to just dig into His Word and rest in His presence! Even in the midst of so much going on in our family, and our businesses, God is speaking to my heart to be still. Maybe you find yourself in a similar place - with lots of awesome things to keep you busy - but hungering more for Him than ever. It's kind of like carb-loading for a marathon (Which I admittedly have only ever read about! The marathon part, that is. I have happily carb loaded before! ;) ) When we need more stamina and energy for the race before us, we have to remember to stay fed and hydrated on the living Word, and living Water!
Even with all that is "coming soon," it is imperative to find the beauty in the moments of here and now. So, here I am, finding that balance between working towards things God's given me to do, while fully embracing the moments of today - wiping noses and tushes, teaching 4 adventurous children their studies in 4 different ways, planning overnight hospital stays, and trying to keep our home and hearts clean!
So, what are you up to, friends? Have I shared anything here you're excited to hear more about? Do you have any prayer requests today?
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WOW. Girl, you are a FORCE! These projects are all so good and I have no idea how you still find the time to homeschool AND keep the home running. Clearly these are all moves of the Spirit. :) <3
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I demens, et saevas curre per Alpes…
(Go, madman, and race across the wild Alps…, Iuvenal)
This has been a while in the making. I'm now finally happy with the lineart. I felt I owed Hannibal an epic, A3 sized crossing-of-the-Alps painting. To be watercoloured.
Whenever I think of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps, I think of the description in the novel by Gisbert Haefs. Pathos? Yes. Muchly. But on the other hand, what achievement in history deserves pathos as much as this one?
"The army turned into a twitching, bleeding body that threatened to fall apart and was held together by one iron band alone. Hannibal. He was everywhere, surveyed everything – from the back of Syros, from horseback, from a rock; where he put one of twenty collapsed men back on his feet, the other nineteen would rise; where he appeared with a handful of nuts, ten half-famished men would march on; where he sat down, a hundred men lying prone would sit up; where he cracked a joke, thirty lifeless men would cast off their despair and go on living; where he slept – but he didn't sleep. He seemed to need no sleep. Whenever a pass had been taken, the mountain-dwellers fleeing, the army sinking into snow and ice to rest, he called together the commanders, took care of provisions, gave orders to secure the heights, commands for the next day… He was heart and brain and helm and girdle of the twitching and sore body and a god to the warriors; at one point, Hasdrubal the Grey said, "Lucky China. Against him, Alexander's men wouldn't have mutinied at the Indus; they'd have kept going."
Gisbert Haefs, Hannibal. Der Roman Karthagos. (My translation; doesn't quite capture the poignancy of the original.)
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Ich sage hier mal nichts zum Bild, sondern warte die Farbige Version ab…. die bestimmt noch atemberaubender wird als die Lineart.
Aber zu dem Text, den du darunter hast…
es scheint unglaublich, wozu ein einzelner Mann so viele erschöpfte, frierende, hungrige Menschen bringen kann.
Aber ohne ihn wären sie wohl auch nicht auf die Idee gekommen, über die Alpen zu gehen…
Nur eine Sache, ich kann mich natürlich auch irren, da Sprachen nicht ganz meine Stärke sind… aber:
"Er was everywhere[…]" He? oder gibt es im englischen das Wort "Er"?
(und wenn ich mit solchen Anmerkungen nerve, dann werde ich in Zukunft schweigen)


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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez said Friday amid a federal investigation that he has always behaved appropriately in office.
The New Jersey Democrat spoke Friday night in his home state.
A person familiar with a federal investigation into Menendez's relationship with a Florida doctor and political donor says the Department of Justice is expected to bring criminal charges against him in the coming weeks.
The person discussed the expected filing of charges on the condition of anonymity on Friday because the investigation is pending.
Menendez has been dogged by questions about his ties to the ophthalmologist, a friend whose medical office was raided by authorities two years ago. Menendez's office earlier issued a statement saying all of his actions have been appropriate and lawful.
Attorney General Eric Holder has declined to say whether he has authorized criminal charges against the senator.
Menendez, who served for more than a decade in the House of Representatives before his appointment to the Senate in 2006, is the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has been critical of the Obama administration's negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program and outspoken in opposition to normalizing relations with Cuba.
He has been dogged for more than two years by questions about his ties to Dr. Salomon Melgen, a Florida ophthalmologist as well as a friend and political donor whose medical office was raided by Florida authorities two years ago.
In particular, Menendez has faced questions about trips he took to the Dominican Republic aboard Melgen's private plane. He has acknowledged taking several actions that could have appeared to benefit Melgen, including contacting the Medicare agency to urge changes to a payment policy that had cost Melgen millions.
His failure to reimburse Melgen for flights between New Jersey and the Dominican Republic on the eye doctor's Canadair Challenger 600s luxury jet was the first serious signal of Menendez' legal troubles in early 2013.Menendez and Melgen had flown at least twice in 2010 between New Jersey to the Dominican Republic, but the trips had gone without reimbursement for more than two years.
The flights were just one vestige of the close relations between Menendez, who took over the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2013 when previous chair John Kerry left to become Secretary of State, and Melgen, a multimillionaire who was willing to lavish campaign donations on his friend and allied causes.
The two men often appeared together at Democratic Party and Latino political functions from Washington to Miami. Melgen contributed nearly $200,000 to Democratic Party candidates since 1998, including $14,200 directly to Menendez. And in 2012, during Menendez' re-election campaign, Melgen gave $700,000 to the Majority PAC, a super political action committee for Democratic Senate candidates; the PAC spent more than $580,000 to aid Menendez' campaign.
Menendez has reimbursed Melgen for three plane trips. Last year, the senator disclosed that his campaign accounts had paid a law firm $250,000 for legal costs related to Justice Department and Senate Ethics Committee investigations of his ties to the Floridian.
For his part, Melgen earned renewed scrutiny when government data last year showed he had gotten more money in Medicare reimbursements in 2012 than any other doctor in the country.
Menendez's spokeswoman, Tricia Enright, earlier issued a statement saying "any actions taken by Senator Menendez or his office have been to appropriately address public policy issues and not for any other reason."
She said Menendez and Melgen have long been friends and attended one another's family events and exchanged personal gifts.
"We know many false allegations have been made about this matter, allegations that were ultimately publicly discredited. We also know that the official investigation of this matter is ongoing, and therefore cannot address allegations being made anonymously," Enright added.
A glimpse into the investigation emerged last week, when it was revealed that a federal appeals court had ordered a hearing to determine whether two of Menendez' aides should be compelled to testify before a grand jury about the senator's efforts on behalf of Melgen.
The New Jersey Law Journal reported that the appeals court identified two issues in question: A billing dispute Melgen had with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and a deal he had to sell port screening equipment to the government of the Dominican Republic.
The aides have declined to testify about some actions they took, citing a constitutional provision saying a lawmaker can't be questioned about legislative acts anywhere except in Congress. A U.S. district judge ruled previously they should testify because their actions weren't legislative in nature, the journal reported. It said the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed, and the question remains unresolved.


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I have written a review on someone's Facebook page but for some reason my image doesn't appear next to my comments. I have my own Facebook page, with a profile image, photos etc. All my images are in the right sizes. Also, I believe images and photos are set up correctly but the thumbnail photo is not displaying every time I share content or make comments on other peoples Facebook pages. Any suggestions?


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One of the highlights of my work is getting to travel to source the fabrics I use in my work. And, that often takes me to Guatemala and Mexico.
I'll pack up my son and grandma to join me on the buying adventure – it really is an adventure because where we go is so beautiful. Our latest trip was to Guatemala, a very magical place. Every day, every city is full of colorful and crowded markets with the most talented artisans. That's what draws me to these places.
My main goal on these trips is to purchase is vintage huipiles, the traditional blouse that Mayan woman wear, and their cortes or skirt. These pieces are so unique because almost every Mayan woman weaves (it is part of their domestic role, in addition to cooking, cleaning, raising children and helping in the fields).
The huipil they weave identifies the Mayan Inian as belonging to a particular village, as each has its own identifying patterns and colors. And, while some designs are abstract (for example, zigzags represent lightening, the horizontal "S" is described a a 2 headed snake), other designs are more organic and are inspired by the flora and fauna of Guatemala.
Spending time in the villages of Guatemala is one of my favorite things to do but, traveling to Antigua is wonderful for different reasons. Antigua is an inspiring place for indigenous news and fashion. And, it is important for me to explore all of the art and craft stores to see what's trending. (A lot of foreigners live in Antigua so, the local cultural is very rich and always changing.)One of the places that is always on my schedule is my favorite shoe store –Uxibal. The owner, Brittany, makes the most amazing boots using leather and huipiles.
If you enter travel to Antigua, be sure to explore the old buildings. You'll find Mayan women selling treasures from all over the country.
The next stop on our trip is always Chichicastenango. The magic city. Its market is one of the busiest in Central America and is held twice a week. But our day starts early in the morning to go see Dona Daniela , a local shaman/healer. I bring my young son on these trips because it is important for him to experience the world but, on this trip, I am paying this special visit to the shaman to do a ceremony for him. He has a severe speech delay and, as a mom, I am desperate to find him help; I want my little to thrive.
The shaman takes us to an altar located in the south, according to my son's nahual or his Mayan sign. The ceremony lasts 3 hours. My son falls asleep while the shaman brushes him with a healing mixture of eggs and herbs and smudges him with the smoke of tobacco. In this moment, everything feels so normal.
We needed to b cleaned. To be reconnected. And my son is a lot calmer the days after the ceremony.
We finished our trip at the Lake Atiltlan – the Kingdom of Clouds. We visited the small villages around the lake and just took in its majesty. It was also great to enjoy the company of the ladies of Santa Catarina Palopo who weave fabrics on the lake shores.
Guatemala is a place that opens your heart and soul to so much beauty. But the struggle of indigenous people (especially indigenous women) is real. They lack education, proper healthcare, often suffer discrimination and sexual abuse. But they are resilient and deserve all of our respect. The people of the mountains are wonderful. The people of the mountains move me.


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Engineers and test operators commonly use data acquisition hardware and software to verify functionality and ensure the quality of finished goods. This may include a wide range of manual or automated electrical, mechanical, or environmental tests. The following case studies illustrate the reliability, accuracy, and flexibility provided by NI data acquisition (DAQ) hardware and LabVIEW software for manufacturing and quality test.
Using DAQ devices with LabVIEW software to develop a flexible system so the user can configure tests at run time, collect data, control the system, generate reports, and reduce equipment cost by implementing the same setup for testing many different components.
"We used LabVIEW as our development platform because of the hardware/software integration with LabVIEW and NI data acquisition devices." – R. Klein Wolterink, Klein Wolterink Automation
Integrating IEPE industrial accelerometers and DAQ devices distributed among different positions along the nacelle of a wind turbine with an industrial PC to manage the tests and its results.
"We now have a completely customized system with 20 channels for reading and analyzing dynamic data to meet our quality standards…that offers the agility, quality, and flexibility we require for our operations." – José Errea Múgica, Aresse Engineering S.L.
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The old 80-20 rule: It usually refers to an unequal division of wealth or workload. In IT, it refers to something else--a problem most tech managers don't want to talk about.
Most IT departments spend as much as 80% of their budgets on routine maintenance and day-to-day operations, while only 20% is spent on new technology or business-process enhancements, according to surveys by Gartner and other research firms. That makes it hard to argue that technology is adding value to the business--and that IT departments deserve bigger budgets--when most of the money goes to just keeping the computer lights blinking.
Still, some companies have taken on the challenge of reducing the amount of the IT budget devoted to maintenance and operations, in order to free up funds for new development and business-process improvements. Often, what they've done is employ a hodgepodge of practices and tactics, using a variety of technologies and techniques, to attack specific points of pain. Only a few can claim to have dealt with the problem on a systemwide basis. And none says its accomplishments were easy. But most business-technology managers can learn to get a better handle on expenditures and thereby better service their companies' business goals.
Making the right kind of changes can produce big returns for IT departments. "There are millions of ideas for cutting costs, but they're different for each company," says Martin Reynolds, a research fellow at Gartner. "One of the mistakes I see is just taking what you're already doing and automating it. The biggest opportunity for cost savings is figuring out where to change the process."
It can start with just knowing what technology you have. A lot of companies haven't done an inventory of their technology assets or assessed the costs of maintaining those assets, says Suzzette Jaskowiak, director of support services at Forsythe Technology, a consulting firm that helps companies cut IT infrastructure costs. One company Jaskowiak worked with had hundreds of servers, "and they couldn't tell me what each one did or what it was used for." The fully redundant system could handle up to 100,000 transactions per hour. "The IT folks were so proud that they were fully redundant," she says.
However, the company's service agreement with customers said its systems could be down for 16 hours every month. Not only didn't the company need the redundancy, it didn't need all of the horsepower: "It was only doing 5,000 to 6,000 transactions each hour," Jaskowiak says. That's why she urges IT departments, after they've done an asset inventory, to review their vendor-maintenance contracts and talk to their business units to see if they'll accept a lower, and cheaper, level of service.
For some companies, the only way to make major cuts in maintenance and operations is to make major changes to their infrastructures. Security Benefit Group, an investment- and retirement-services provider with more than $10 billion in assets under management, got its maintenance costs down to around 43% of its IT budget. The solution was to move off two legacy mainframes and standardize on Dell hardware and Windows software. It also consolidated its applications around an insurance-industry software application from NaviSys Inc. and built a data warehouse to contain all of its customer and product information.
"We also made a decision not to invest in areas that didn't give us a competitive advantage," says Brent Littleton, director of IT applications. "We changed our entire mind-set." Security Benefit spends most of its IT dollars on major systems enhancements, new projects, and new products for the company to sell, mainly through independent financial planners. "Those initiatives all add value to the company," Littleton says. The company also closely tracks the costs associated with each new project through a project-management office to make sure they add value. "The IT department has proven itself over time that the projects we undertake give us a competitive edge," Littleton says.
Using a project-management office to monitor technology development and costs is common among businesses with "world-class" IT organizations, says Beth Hayes, IT practice leader at the Hackett Group, a consulting firm that benchmarks how companies manage business technology. Hackett categorizes IT departments as world class if they rank in the top 25% in efficiency and effectiveness in categories such as infrastructure and operations, applications management, planning and strategy, and management and administration of labor and vendors.
World-class IT departments also have fewer applications, databases, and full-time employees, partly because they've standardized and consolidated their IT infrastructure. And they make better use of selective outsourcing and strategic partners to lower labor costs and gain access to capabilities they'd rather not invest in themselves, Hayes says.
A virtual help desk let Sygen cut costs, CIO Michael Bailey says.
Bailey cut maintenance and operations costs to around 65% of his budget by moving from Unix systems to Linux running on two-processor Dell servers. "We're developing a centralized control point that can parcel out tasks to any available Dell server," he says. The company uses Cisco Systems gear for its worldwide network, Oracle applications for financial and order management, and the open Java programming language for application development.
Sygen, with 1,100 employees and around $225 million in annual revenue, has a 28-person IT staff in four centers around the world. The company's worldwide operations made user support a challenge. "We've been able to cut those costs by creating a virtual help desk that rolls over to whoever is awake at the time," Bailey says. He replaced a disaster-recovery system that stored the company's backed-up data and applications on tapes at a remote site with spare servers at a local hosting company. "We can have four Linux servers sitting idle at a hosting site and turn to them quickly when we need them, especially since we don't need to replicate those huge Unix boxes," he says. "We will have slower performance for a while but can easily add new servers."
Some people argue that cutting costs in IT operations can have negative consequences, especially if taken too far or done for the wrong reasons. Tim Dechant is director of technology at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which has more than $5 billion in assets and awards several hundred million dollars worth of grants each year. The foundation has a small IT staff of 14 full-time employees and uses part-time staffers who are the equivalent of 20 to 25 full-time IT employees. Dechant keeps close track of what each IT worker does. "We break down every single hour of every single day for every resource, and we can show where every bit of costs goes," he says.
Dechant uses a variety of tools for application-portfolio analysis, asset inventory, and project planning. He has retired applications, reduced service levels, and is looking at server virtualization to gain more efficiencies. Still, operating expenses consume in the mid-70% of the IT budget, and "it's getting harder to find ways to cut costs."
What's crucial, Dechant says, is to make sure senior management understands the costs and benefits of each application and service so they can decide the level of service and spending the organization can support. "We should all be careful not to think that all of the money spent on maintenance and operations is overhead and waste," he says. "If IT is adding value, that money is the cost of doing business."
Bruce Rogow, a principal with Vivaldi Odyssey and Advisory and a former research director at Gartner, agrees. Many IT pros take the wrong view of maintenance and operations spending, says Rogow, who interviews 100 CIOs a year. "IT is an operating asset. The applications and infrastructure are assets," he says. "Diverting money from maintenance to development is like telling an airline to stop maintaining its airplanes to buy new ones." Most companies don't do a good job of developing IT budgets that reflect the actual costs of providing services, Rogow says, and few IT departments include future maintenance and operations costs when they pitch new projects. "If you spend a dollar on a new system this year, you're obligating next year's budget with about 28 cents to 35 cents of new production, the costs to run it, and 15 cents to 22 cents to maintain it," he says. "Most companies hope to save enough next year to cover those additional costs. But many don't allocate money for that."
Software applications designed to automate IT operations include packages from major systems-management vendors such as Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, and other more narrow offerings from companies such as BladeLogic, Opsware, and Optinuity (see story, "Lights Out: Software Automates Data-Center Tasks").
Adopting an enterprise architecture has helped Carlson cut IT spending by 30%, says Stephen Brown, senior VP and CIO.
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The key, he says, is to standardize technology architecture and the processes the IT department uses. "We depend on two foundational elements: An enterprise architecture allows us to understand what technology we have in place and to rationalize the products and services we're provisioning. And we use ITIL to manage our core IT processes and standardize the way we handle IT problems," Brown says. ITIL--the information technology infrastructure library--is a set of standards for IT-service management.
Adopting and enforcing an enterprise architecture alone will help Carlson cut IT spending by 30% when fully deployed, Brown says. "Enterprise architecture and ITIL let us go after top-line growth, while at the same time ensuring that the IT organization is best in class." Carlson uses Remedy systems-management software from BMC Software Inc. to automate many of its IT processes. Remedy has several of ITIL's workflows built in at a procedure level, including change management, configuration management, incident response, and problem management. "We're working with BMC to make sure that all of the ITIL processes are represented in their product," Brown says.
Carlson also keeps a strict accounting of its business processes. "The other thing we do is benchmark ourselves," Brown says. "Every business unit in the company, and the company overall, is compared service by service. I know where I stand, always, and know where the gaps are and what areas need to be addressed."
Standardizing technology and the processes used to manage it seems basic, as does knowing how your costs compare with those of other companies and the value technology brings to your company. But many companies apparently haven't gotten the message. "I sit on several advisory boards, and I'm just appalled at how many of my counterparts don't know their costs or the value they provide," says Brown, who became CIO of Carlson in 2000. "One of my first moves was to make sure the business units understood how IT affected their P&L."
Hackett Group's Hayes agrees that adopting an enterprise technology architecture is a basic step that every IT department needs to take and that an IT process framework like ITIL can help enforce discipline. Most companies have cut IT spending by 10% a year from 2002 to 2004, but the top companies "have reduced spending even more because they've embraced best practices, simplification, and applied process discipline," she says.
Developing a better understanding of technology--what you have, how it's being used, and what can be standardized, simplified, and improved--is crucial if business-technology managers are ever to get control of spending for routine maintenance and operations. It's up to business-technology managers to drive the IT cost-cutting agenda, or else frustration with IT's 80-20 rule causes problems."When a company is looking to cut costs, they go after areas they don't understand," Brown says, "and many don't understand technology."


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this one was owned untill recently by someone from the leatherhead area, he used to pop round to my place of work in it, got a bit shabby so he restored it without the writing, then i think it was sold abroad last year.
i say, anyone for a spot of tiffin...
I like this one
Didnt it have colour coded orange bumpers, sooner or later ? Owner by Charlie something or other ?
The doors open, but the ride it aint free.
"fuck, thats orange" ! - kc55
It was badged as a Bel Air (arent they all!) but was in fact a 210 Townsman
I bought it from Ken Brooks who had intended to use it to tow Roarin' Rat to race meets
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i say, anyone for a spot of tiffin...
Here's one that you rarely see pictures posted of; Leon Coles' wicked '55 circuit racer.Imported in the late '80s and still owned by Leon but sadly never sees the light of day. Caused some upset with the flat cap brigade at the Goodwood revival meeting after running in the Top Hat series for a couple of years & now quietly slumbering in a barn.
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text: God has written an amazing story at St. Philip's. It's a story of faith and commitment. It's a story of people who have sacrificed to impact the world for Christ. The story began with a cross on January 1, 2002. That day we dedicated a cross on ten acres of ground here in Frisco. It was a statement of faith that God would build His church upon this ground.