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The abuses of international aid go beyond the Three Cups of Tea scandal
The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong With Humanitarian Aid? By Linda Polman. Translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters. Metropolitan/Holt, 240 pp., $24.
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Shock and outrage greeted the recent claims that Greg Mortenson made up or embellished stories he told in Three Cups of Tea about building schools for girls in Afghanistan. The Crisis Caravan makes clear that such rogue idealists – or outright charlatans – find the conditions they need to thrive in a humanitarian-aid industry that operates largely without oversight even if its actions prolong genocide or civil wars.
Linda Polman doesn't mention Mortenson in this indictment of the abuses of aid but focuses on titans such as CARE, Oxfam, the Red Cross, Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders. All of those groups showed up when the Hutu perpetrators of genocide in Rwanda fled to refugee camps in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), and their aid workers stayed when Hutu leaders levied "taxes" on the distributed food rations so they could pay they soldiers to slip back over the border and kill more Tutsi. During the civil war in Sudan, the army took food intended for the victims, which helped to enable it to keep fighting instead of seeking ways to end the bloodshed. Humanitarian groups reportedly gave one-third of their food and agricultural supplies to the Taliban in one region of Afghanistan and paid warlords an "entrance fee" of up to 80 percent of the value of donations for Somalia.
Similar examples of ethically perverse practices have been well documented in books such as Michael Maren's The Road to Hell. But Polman writes with an unusual vigor, clarity and moral urgency that result in part from 15 years of living in and reporting from war zones. She makes perhaps the strongest case yet that journalists abet the abuses by accepting free trips and other favors from aid groups and by exempting them from the close scrutiny they give to other businesses.
Polman's greatest contribution is to show why the question "Should we just do nothing?" is too simplistic when television screens show starving children, tsunami victims or war refugees. All parties who support humanitarian organizations — the United Nations, the U.S. and other nations and private donors — have options besides withholding money or allowing groups to turn it over to tyrants. Those alternatives include insisting that aid organizations to work together in troubled countries, which would help them resist local corruption, instead of continually fighting for contracts that promote their own survival. The U.N. and others also need to hold aid organizations accountable for violations of international law under the Geneva Conventions, which require each group "to ensure that it is in full control of its resources, including supervision and distribution of relief items."
"As far as I'm aware, no aid worker or aid organization has ever been dragged before the courts for failures or mistakes, let alone complicity in crimes committed by rebels and regimes," Polman writes. She wrote those words before the Montana attorney general began investigating Mortenson's Central Asia Institute and may make them obsolete. But she is right to ask: When humanitarians become "involuntary collaborators" with oppressors, should they remain above the law because some of their actions relieve great suffering?
Philip Gourevitch, author of the acclaimed book about the Rwandan genocide We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Families, made a similar point in a review of The Crisis Caravan in The New Yorker.
"Aid organizations and their workers are entirely self-policing, which means that when it comes to the political consequences of their actions they are simply not policed," Gourevitch wrote. "When a mission ends in catastrophe, they write their own evaluations. And if there are investigations of the crimes that follow on their aid, the humanitarians get airbrushed out of the story." He added, in a comment abundantly supported by The Crisis Caravan: "There can be no proper accounting of such a history as long as humanitarians continue to enjoy total impunity."
The Crisis Caravan doesn't deal with ratings services such as GuideStar and Charity Navigator that guide many Americans in their decisions about charitable giving but leaves the strong impression such gatekeepers often give people a false sense of security about how aid groups use their money. An implicit message of this important book is: Relying on even the best ratings service may resemble installing smoke detectors in every room of a burning house.
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Worst line: " … Chevalier snarled" and "He growled," characterizations of the speech of an aid worker and an African president, respectively.
Recommendation? Highly recommended. The Crisis Caravan deals with the inappropriate aid given by some American religious groups and would be an excellent choice for many book clubs sponsored by churches and synagogues.
Published: September 2010 (first U.S. edition)
Furthermore: An excellent interview withPolman (www.twitter.com/linda_polman) appeared in the Observer when The Crisis Caravan was published in England under the title War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times. Read a transcript of a Sixty Minutes report on Mortenson.
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About the author: Polman is an award-winning Dutch journalist who wrote We Did Nothing, a book about the failures of U.N. peacekeeping missions. An excerpt from and praise for The Crisis Caravan appear on the site for her publisher. Jon Stewart interviews Polman about the book on The Daily Show.
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Friday, June 3, 2011
Asparagus Pesto
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Here, as promised, is the asparagus pesto I spoke of yesterday. It's made with the odd bits and trimmings left from yesterday's pickling marathon. The pesto can, of course, be made with perfect spears, but because all the ingredients used here are pureed, that would be a waste of lovely vernal green. I love the mild flavor of this sauce and serve it with pasta, fish or chicken. I am aware of how limiting its color is. The Silver Fox has dubbed this Shrek Sauce and, of course, our older grandsons have picked up on it. It's best we keep that our little secret. I'd rather Mark Bittman, who develop the recipe, not know how my family has defamed his lovely pesto. You will need a food processor or blender to make this. The recipe is a study in simplicity. Everything goes into the bowl of a blender or food processor and is pulsed until you have the texture of you are looking for. I've taken mine to a sauce-like consistency. That's all there is to it. While the pesto can be refrigerated for up to a day, its color does not improve with age. If you want a lovely vibrant sauce make it just before it is to be served. Here's the recipe.
Asparagus Pesto...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Mark Bittman
1 pound asparagus, trimmed and cut into 2-inch segments
1 clove garlic, or more to taste
1/4 cup pine nuts
1/4 cup olive oil, or more as desired
3/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Freshly ground black pepper
Juice of 1/2 lemon, or to taste
1) Bring a large pot of water to a boil and salt it. Add asparagus and cook until fully tender but not mushy, 8 to 10 minutes. Drain well, reserving some cooking liquid, and let asparagus cool slightly.
2) Transfer asparagus to a food processor and add garlic, pine nuts, 2 tablespoons of oil, Parmesan, a pinch of salt and, if needed, a couple of tablespoons of the cooking liquid. Process mixture, stopping to scrape down sides of container as necessary, and gradually add remaining oil and a bit more of reserved cooking liquid to moisten if it is needed. Add lemon juice and season with salt and pepper to taste, pulse one last time, and serve over pasta, fish or chicken. The pesto can be refrigerated for up to 1 day. Yield: 4 to 6 servings.
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65 comments :
- Elaine said...
Shrek Sauce...I love it! :)
- June 3, 2011 at 1:14 AM
- Tiffanee said...
OOOH!! Two of my faves put together. This is brilliant!!
- June 3, 2011 at 1:27 AM
- Sunanda said...
Looks healthy and yummy.. Nice clicks...
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- June 3, 2011 at 1:47 AM
This looks great! I wonder if the color would vary if the purple passion asparagus were used. And, the ice cream caught my eye as well!
- June 3, 2011 at 2:01 AM
- Duncan D. Horne - the Kuantan blogger said...
Before I started reading I thought you might drink it down from the cup! Now that would be something!
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- June 3, 2011 at 3:00 AM
- Nami | Just One Cookbook said...
Hi Mary! I come here and I often learn something new. Asparagus pesto!! I never thought of making it. You are amazing Mary... And I love both ice cream and the asparagus soup too! Lots of good stuff on your site.
- June 3, 2011 at 3:02 AM
- Martha said...
It's always nice to have a recipe that takes advantage of those bits and pieces!! I've been enjoying English asparagus and it is magnificent!!! I've not made any other pesto than tradition but perhaps it is time to try!
(When I get home, that is!)
- June 3, 2011 at 3:06 AM
- Banana Wonder said...
I would love to try this Shrek Sauce! I bet it would be good with pistachios instead of pine nuts = extra green. On the hunt for asparagus this weekend...
- June 3, 2011 at 3:07 AM
I love Shrek so Shrek sauce it is! Brilliant recipe Mary. It must be great served with pasta.
:-) Mandy
- June 3, 2011 at 3:32 AM
- The Harried Cook said...
I want a jar of Shrek Sauce! :) It looks great, Mary... I love asparagus, and I am sure this would be yummy too... Thanks for sharing :)
- June 3, 2011 at 3:34 AM
- Maris(In Good Taste) said...
I definitely have to make this! Have a lovely week-end!
- June 3, 2011 at 3:50 AM
- Katarina said...
I like this recipe! Have a great weekend!
- June 3, 2011 at 3:51 AM
What a great use of the left overs! Have a super weekend :)
- June 3, 2011 at 4:07 AM
HI Mary... you have a plethora of ideas, don't you? I've never considered using Asparagus as a Pesto... I quite like that idea.
- June 3, 2011 at 4:21 AM
- Ruth said...
Ooh! I love asparagus - so this is perfect!
- June 3, 2011 at 4:25 AM
- Alessandra said...
I love the idea of an asparagus pesto, it must be delicious!!!
Have a happy week-end
- June 3, 2011 at 4:31 AM
- Yasmin said...
Haha! This is brilliant! I love the sauce!
- June 3, 2011 at 5:05 AM
- Three-Cookies said...
Innovative. You've taken on the asparagus season in full stride.
- June 3, 2011 at 5:17 AM
- Rita said...
How creative! Love the colour and the taste must be wonderful.
- June 3, 2011 at 6:47 AM
- Whats Cookin Italian Style Cuisine said...
outstanding originality here! I would love as a spread even on a panini nice job with this one lovely photo too!
- June 3, 2011 at 7:31 AM
- Sissi said...
Finally an exciting alternative to the soup I always make with harder stems of the asparagus! I think I might need this recipe very soon.
- June 3, 2011 at 7:36 AM
- Kim said...
Love this pesto, it's a great way to use all these veggies! Looks delicious!
- June 3, 2011 at 7:49 AM
- Jenna Lee said...
It looks pretty but I would have to try it to believe its delicious! It does look very healthy!
Happy Friday! Hope you have a great weekend!
- June 3, 2011 at 8:10 AM
- Clint said...
This I can already taste on my pasta. Wonderful!
- June 3, 2011 at 8:17 AM
- Carol @ There's Always Thyme to Cook said...
Looks so good. Would love this. LOL @ Shrek sauce!
- June 3, 2011 at 8:26 AM
- Unknown said...
I think this is definitely a way I could enjoy asparagus... maybe I should give this a try? It does have a lovely color!
- June 3, 2011 at 8:53 AM
- Delectably Green said...
I've never heard of asparague pesto and I'm so glad you shared this - wonderful idea that sounds delicious
- June 3, 2011 at 8:58 AM
- daphne said...
Another way to add veges in the diet! a sneaky way too I ahve to say!! LOL Love the colour and can just imagine the richness of the pesto!
- June 3, 2011 at 9:40 AM
- Lucy@The Sweet Touch said...
Awesome, love it, shrek sauce is on the menu:)
- June 3, 2011 at 9:44 AM
- Karen said...
What a fabulous idea for leftover asparagus! "Shrek sauce" is just the cutest name for it. Perfect way to get the kids to eat their veggies. ;-) Have a great weekend!
- June 3, 2011 at 9:47 AM
- StephenC said...
Shrek, I love that. I would never have thought of doing this. A great idea.
- June 3, 2011 at 10:10 AM
- brandi said...
i love this idea! i've seen recipes for all kinds of other pestos, but never asparagus.
- June 3, 2011 at 10:24 AM
- Nicole@HeatOvenTo350 said...
It's so pretty! I love having more uses for asparagus
- June 3, 2011 at 10:26 AM
- kitchen flavours said...
Your "shrek sauce" definitely looks awesome! I think that Mark Bittman would chuckle with glee! The pesto looks lovely and sound delicious! Thank you for sharing, and have a lovely weekend, Mary!
- June 3, 2011 at 10:34 AM
- The Fajdich Times said...
I love this recipe! Can't wait to try it. The mint ice cream also caught my eye:)
- June 3, 2011 at 10:37 AM
- June said...
It's a beautiful thing Mary! I can't wait to try it though I'll have to make it in front of the Big Guy so he doesn't think it's peas. LOL
- June 3, 2011 at 10:50 AM
- That Girl said...
I used to have contacts that tuned my eyes this color. My friends said they made me look like an alien!
- June 3, 2011 at 11:04 AM
- Tes said...
I've never thought of asparagus pesto before. The color of it looks just like my city where it've just got its first rain... very fresh and alive. I am definitely going to try this on some warm toasts :)
- June 3, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- Priya Suresh said...
Never thought of making pesto with asparagus,stunning click..
- June 3, 2011 at 12:26 PM
- Joanne said...
What a super fun pesto variation! I would love this over pasta!
- June 3, 2011 at 1:31 PM
- Wendy Irene said...
I am love seeing what you make with all the asparagus you bought. I have some in my fridge, so I appreciate the inspiration. I hope you have a lovely weekend!
- June 3, 2011 at 2:04 PM
- Adam said...
The colour actually reminded me of Ninja Turtles because it's a very similar colour to these green Ninja Turtle cookies we had when I was a kid (which I randomly and excitedly spoke about to co-workers and they just looked at me funny).
And I love asparagus, but given the outrageous price of pine nuts these days, I'd substitue for walnuts probably :). Thanks for another great recipe.
- June 3, 2011 at 2:22 PM
- Claudia said...
I made this - or something similar last spring and all loved it. I actually like the light-ish green - but I love the name "Shrek Sauce" and from now on - it will forever be Shrek Sauce and not asparagus pesto.
- June 3, 2011 at 2:48 PM
- Ginny Hartzler said...
How funny, but I love the name!!! But forgetting the name, do they like it? I'm off to look at your mint ice-cream recipe!
- June 3, 2011 at 2:51 PM
- Miriam said...
I love it!! I bet it's perfect on any pasta, or pizza even. Have a beautiful weekend!! Miriam@Meatless Meals For Meat Eaters
- June 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM
- PeggyR said...
This sounds very different!
- June 3, 2011 at 5:44 PM
- FOODalogue said...
That looks great, Mary. I've made pesto with a lot of various vegetables and herbs but not asparagus. I'll have to remedy that soon.
- June 3, 2011 at 5:49 PM
- Hazel - Chicken in a Cherry Sauce said...
How interesting! I am always looking for new types of pesto. I think it's so versatile, yum!
- June 3, 2011 at 5:55 PM
- Jocie's Mom said...
Today is a green day! Brilliant pesto. It looks like a lovely, yummy, healthy milkshake :) Just had pasta! Well done
- June 3, 2011 at 5:55 PM
- Lenia said...
Very interesting idea!I love this version of pesto!
- June 3, 2011 at 6:23 PM
- Rambling Tart said...
Oh wow! The title alone makes me happy, Mary. I HAVE to try this soon. Maybe with homemade pasta. :-)
- June 3, 2011 at 6:27 PM
- Pam said...
I've never heard of asparagus pesto - it looks beautiful and sounds delicious.
- June 3, 2011 at 6:39 PM
- Barbara said...
Now here's something I can really love, Mary. Asparagus is my favorite veggie. I can think of so many ways to use this! Very unusual and I'm looking forward to making it soon.
- June 3, 2011 at 6:49 PM
- LoveIsBrightAndYourMySunShine said...
it looks so fresh and yummy
- June 3, 2011 at 6:57 PM
- Cassie | Bake Your Day said...
Sounds wonderful Mary, I have never considered using asparagus for pesto!
- June 3, 2011 at 8:24 PM
- pam said...
Oh, I want some Shrek sauce :)
- June 3, 2011 at 9:07 PM
- ~~louise~~ said...
Shrek Sauce! The grandkids are coming for a visit in July, they love asparagus. I can't wait to surprise them with this.
What do you think about freezing it?
Thanks for sharing, Mary...
- June 3, 2011 at 10:59 PM
- sheila @ Elements said...
Your Shrek sauce is so beautiful!!!! And I'm sure it tastes just as good as it looks! I'd love to try this in a pasta one day. :)
- June 4, 2011 at 12:57 AM
- Maria said...
The pesto sounds delicious, what a clever idea!
- June 4, 2011 at 4:23 AM
- Mijú said...
Bien este pesto.
Un saludito
- June 4, 2011 at 9:03 AM
- Tasha said...
What a tasty version of pesto! I'd think that with the name Shrek Sauce, it might appeal more to little ones.
- June 4, 2011 at 9:30 AM
- Unknown said...
Shrek Sauce! lol It sounds tasty :)
- June 4, 2011 at 5:35 PM
- Unknown said...
the color is insanely appealing - Love this!
- June 4, 2011 at 8:53 PM
- sally said...
It definitely looks like Shrek Sauce! I'm sure it is really delicious though.
- June 4, 2011 at 9:44 PM
- lena said...
your sharing is very much appreciated and i think the colour looks vibrant!
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Brian Williamson, formerly a portfolio manager at Oppenheimer & Co., was charged by the SEC with misleading investors about the returns on a fund of funds that he managed.
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Williamson, who was an Oppenheimer employee from 2005 to 2011, marketed Oppenheimer Global Resource Private Equity Fund I, a fund of funds, to pensions, foundations, endowments and HNW individuals and families. However, in doing so, he provided investors with misleading information about the fund's valuation and performance.
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Other misrepresentations made by Williamson created the impression that the Oppenheimer fund's increased internal rate of return was due to increased performance or third-party valuations, when instead it was Williamson's revised valuation of Cartesian that caused the fund's performance to appear to increase. For example, for the quarter ended June 30, 2009, Williamson's markup of Cartesian raised the reported internal rate of return from approximately 3.8% to 38.3%.
Oppenheimer agreed earlier in the year to pay $2.8 million to settle related charges.
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North Carolina-based Chariot Advisors and Elliott Shifman, its former owner, were charged by the SEC with misleading an investment fund's board of directors about the firm's ability to conduct algorithmic currency trading so they would approve the firm's contract to manage the fund.
In two presentations that he made to the board of the Chariot Absolute Return Currency Portfolio, a fund that was formerly within the Northern Lights Variable Trust fund complex, one in December of 2008 and another in May of 2009, Shifman told directors that his firm would implement the fund's investment strategy by using a portion of the fund's assets to engage in algorithmic currency trading.The Chariot fund's initial investment objective was to achieve absolute positive returns in all market cycles by investing approximately 80% of its assets under management in short-term fixed income securities, and using the remaining 20% of the assets under management to engage in algorithmic currency trading. But Chariot could provide no such thing, and instead, once the firm had the contract, it hired an individual trader who was allowed to use discretion on trade selection and execution.
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SJ Realty LLC today acquired 371-379 Main St. and 381-385 Main St. — two buildings that have been long-time fixtures on Main Street, with a combined gross area of more than 43,000 square feet. The new owner said the buildings were purchased for $1 million from Dean Marcus and his family, which had owned them for decades.
"We're pretty excited about it," said Daniel E. Jalbert, partner in SJ Realty. "To do this five years ago would have been premature, but I think Worcester is ready to have this influx of students living downtown."
Both buildings were constructed in the 1880s and while they have retail and/or entertainment tenants on their first floors, their upper floors have long been underutilized and substantially vacant for more than 20 years.
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He said the combined projects are being funded by Bay State Savings Bank. He said SJ Realty's desire to invest in Worcester, with local lending by Bay State Savings Bank, is another positive sign of progress in the downtown.
Peter B. Alden, president and chief executive officer of Bay State Savings Bank, said the project will help reshape downtown. "There's a lot of positive upside to this," he said.
Mr. Jalbert said he and his partner, Russell Stewart, expect graduate students from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences will be the key tenants in the units, which will be between 300 square feet and 400 square feet each and likely accommodate one student.
Mr. O'Brien said the purchase will be a productive reuse of Main Street real estate.
"We are creating and facilitating the layering of the local micro-economy of our downtown with new market-rate residential, commercial, retail, entertainment, academic living and learning, cultural and public investments — the proven recipe for long-term success and 18-hour day positive activity and vitality," Mr. O'Brien said. "This will complement the other activity and infill projects under way, from Lincoln Square and Gateway Park, to Federal Square, to CitySquare and beyond."
District 2 Councilor Philip P. Palmieri praised Mr. O'Brien's persistence and diligence in getting the project done. "This is another critical lynchpin in the downtown area," Mr. Palmieri said.
The three-story building at 371-379 Main St. is 13,944 square feet in size and has an assessed value of $708,300. The tenants include Markos Jewelers and a Super Variety store. The second and third floors are vacant.
The five-story building at 381-385 Main St. is believed to have been owned by the Marcus family since the 1930s. Its gross building space is 29,070 square feet and is assessed at $839,000.
The retail tenants on the building's first floor include State Opticians and Cantina Bar and Grill. There are various tenants on the second floor while the third, fourth and fifth floors are vacant.
Both buildings will undergo $3 million to $4 million in renovations to meet current building codes, market-rate standards and tenant expectations, Mr. Jalbert said.
Each micro-loft unit will include a ceramic bathroom, kitchen, living area and central air systems, and they will be fully furnished. Some units will also include double occupancy, Mr. Jalbert said.
Benoit Reardon Architects of Worcester is the project architect; Chuck Scott is the project engineer.
"Cutting-edge ideas are coming to Worcester because we have a landing pad," said Councilor-at-Large Frederick C. Rushton. "It's out of the core area of CitySquare and it shows that spin-offs are happening."
The micro-lofts encourage people to circulate downtown and both buildings will have common areas for studying and collaboration, Mr. Jalbert said. A vibrant downtown needs students and urban professionals eager to exit their housing units, he said.
"You can't bring a steel door down at 5 p.m. and make the downtown pleasing," he said.
The plans for the two Main Street properties come amid of flurry of activity that is taking place in the downtown.
The long-awaited opening of the extension of Front Street, through to Washington Square, occurred today, and Unum will soon be moving into its nearly completed new office building in CitySquare.
Meanwhile, work is moving head on completion of the new St. Vincent Hospital Cancer Center, also located in CitySquare, and the new home of the Worcester Regional Transit Authority's administrative offices and central transfer hub for its bus service next to Union Station.
In addition, Worcester Polytechnic Institute recently entered into a license agreement with the city that, in essence, gives it preferred developer status for the acquisition and renovation of the former Lincoln Square Boys Club. WPI is looking at the vacant, city-owned building as a potential site for its business school and for a new business incubator for start-up companies.
Also, the Worcester Business Development Corp. is readying for the renovation of the former Telegram & Gazette building at 20 Franklin St., and Commerce Bank is in the midst of a major renovation of the Slater Building at 370 Main St., which it purchased to house its expanded corporate headquarters and new tenancies.
"Each major development, each storefront renovation, each new market-rate residential project are building blocks for our collective efforts -- building by building, street by street, block by block," Mr. O'Brien said. "There will be more positive announcements in the coming months of this public-private effort underway to achieve our collective goals of breathing new life into our downtown."


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Postgres product and Oracle database compatibility solutions company EnterpriseDB (EDB) has announced a free ready-to-code development environment on Amazon Web Services optimized for using the NoSQL capabilities in PostgreSQL to build web 2.0 applications.
Postgres Extended Datatype Developer Kit (or the very catchy PGXDK) makes it easier for developers (of any skill level) to use Postgres for the kinds of applications that until recently required a specialized NoSQL-only solution.
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system with more than 15 years of active development and an architecture that has earned it an arguably strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.
Postgres has expanded its capabilities for handling document databases, for example, with advanced support for JSON and JSONB. On key workloads, Postgres has been proven to outperform the most popular NoSQL-only solution.
The NoSQL-optimized environment comes with the core components that developers need to work with Postgres already preintegrated and preconfigured. Plus, it features a sample application with code examples to help developers get started. The free instances on Amazon's AWS position developers (so says the firm) to tap the powers of relational technology to build applications in an iterative and Agile development framework.
"Application developers need solutions that help them work faster and this Amazon AMI-based environment means they get up and running more quickly and have a much more powerful foundation to work on," said Marc Linster, SVP of products at EnterpriseDB. "Postgres with NoSQL support has become a choice for enterprise applications because it can combine schema-less data with relational tables bridging structured and unstructured data." NoSQL-only solutions pose a host of challenges, complexities and even serious risks to the enterprise. "By 2017, 50% of data stored in NoSQL DBMSs will be damaging to the business due to a lack of applied information governance policies and programs," according to Gartner. Using Postgres to build applications to support unstructured data eliminates some of the challenges organisations are facing as the use of NoSQL-only solutions rise.
The key message here for developers is one of increased productivity: developers using Postgres are no longer bound by the confines of a rigid data model -- with the ability to work with both structured and unstructured data, developers can build demanding applications utilising standardised business logic that can also evolve with agile development objectives. NOTE: Postgres Extended Datatype Developer Kit integrates and configures multiple developer tools needed for building applications with JSON/JSON B and HStore in Postgres. The toolkit includes PostgreSQL 9.4 beta, a web server and implementations of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Python. In the fall, EDB will release a version with PL/V8 providing an integrated JavaScript language.


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Firms are getting increasingly creative in the methods they use to cut costs and shift retirement responsibility to employees—maybe a bit too creative.
It seems IBM has attracted the ire of Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, both Democrats of Vermont (Sanders is actually a Socialist, but caucuses with Democrats). Essex Junction, Vt., happens to have a major IBM campus.
At issue is the business giant's decision to match employee contributions to their 401(k) in a lump sum at the end of the year, rather than matching on a biweekly basis, which is now the norm. It means any employee who leaves will forgo the match for the entire last calendar year, even if they worked to, say, December.
The announcement caused an uproar, and employees enlisted the help of their unions and politicos. Sanders and Leahy wrote Ginny Rometty, chairman and CEO of IBM, a strongly worded letter in a direct appeal to reverse the new policy. A copy of the letter was then obtained by CWA Local 1701, the union representing IBM workers.
TechWire, a blog run by radio station WRAL in North Carolina, which also has an IBM presence in Charlotte, posted the letter, which the station notes is short and direct, in its entirety.
Here's the letter, dated Feb. 25:
Dear Mrs. Rometty:
"We are writing to express our strong concerns with recent changes in IBM's match and automatic contribution to employees' 401(K) Plus and Excess 401(K) Plus plans. We respectfully request that IBM review this decision and reinstate matching funds on a biweekly basis as soon as possible.
Over the last decade IBM has greatly reduced pension benefits for tens of thousands of loyal and hardworking employees, despite the fact that the same period yielded 40 consecutive quarters of growth in earnings per share from the previous year. Given IBM's reported earnings in 2012, this most recent decision to terminate biweekly contributions in favor of one annual payment at year's end seems severe.
In the last decade IBM has cut its U.S. workforce by nearly half. Due to this policy change, employees who leave for any reason other than retirement or who are laid off before December 15 will not receive any annual contribution from IBM to their 401(K) plans. As is consistent with dollar-cost averaging, employees will also lose a year of interest which could have been gained by these contributions.
If this change remains, we are concerned that IBM will benefit greatly at the expense of thousands of loyal employees in Vermont and across the country. When a company makes a promise to its employees regarding their pension, it must not renege on those commitments by cutting or deferring their retirement benefits, especially when employees who have worked at IBM the longest have already seen their benefits reduced. Given that reality, we respectfully request that you reconsider this policy.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter. We look forward to receiving your prompt response.


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The Temptation For Implementations To Cut Corners
Last week, I noted that C++ programs convert floating-point numbers from decimal strings to internal binary form in several different contexts, and suggested that it would be useful if all such conversions were as accurate as possible and, independently, were always done in exactly the same way. These desirable qualities may seem so obvious as to raise the question of why an implementation would ever want to do anything else. The reasons, as is so often the case, are complicated.
Consider these statements:
float one = 1, ten = 10, tenth = one / ten; double percent = tenth * tenth;
What is the value of
percent? Obviously it should be close to
0.01, but how close?
On an implementation that conforms to the IEEE floating-point standard, there is no question: The value of
tenth is the closest single-precision floating-point approximation to
0.1, and the value of
percent is obtained by squaring that (approximate) value, rounding the result to single precision (because the product of two
float values is a
float, not a
double), and then converting that value (presumably without changing it) to
To make this discussion concrete, let's assume that
float numbers have 24 significant bits. Then the value of
tenth will be a floating-point number with a binary value of exactly
0.000110011001100110011001100. This number has 27 bits because the three zeroes after the binary point are not significant.
Remember that every binary floating-point number can be represented exactly as a decimal number with the same number of digits after the decimal point as the binary number has after the binary point. If we disregard the trailing zeroes, this particular value has 25 bits after the binary point, which means that we can represent it exactly as a decimal value with 25 digits after the decimal point, namely
0.0999999940395355224609375. This is the best approximation to 0.1 that is possible in 24-bit binary floating-point.
If we now square this number, we get a binary value of exactly
0.00000010100011110101110000100011110101110000101001. With its 50 bits after the binary point, this value translates into a decimal value of exactly
0.00999999880790714001932428800500929355621337890625, which has 50 digits after the decimal point. If our typical IEEE-compliant implementation has 53 significant bits in double-precision floating-point numbers, then this value can be represented exactly as a
double but not as a
float. If we wish to represent it as a float, we must round it to 24 significant bits, which gives us
0.000000101000111101011100001001 in binary. The last bit changes from 0 to 1 as a consequence of rounding. Because this value has 30 bits after the binary point, we can convert it exactly to a decimal value with 30 digits after the decimal point, namely
If you've spaced out while you were trying to follow this intricate discussion, here's the point. If we assume that
float variables have 24 significant bits and
double variables have 53 significant bits, then:
- The closest
0.0999999940395355224609375, so that is the value that
tenthwill have.
- The exact value of
tenth * tenthis
0.00999999880790714001932428800500929355621337890625, which can be represented exactly as a
- If we round
tenth * tenthto
float, the result is exactly
- The result of rounding
tenth * tenthto
floatdiffers from the exact value of in the value of
tenth * tenthin the 9th significant (decimal) digit, and from the ideal value 0.01 in the 7th significant digit.
In other words, rounding
tenth to
float limits the precision of
tenth * tenth to about seven significant digits.
I now invite you to ponder the following question:
Suppose you are implementing C++ on a computer that always produces a
double result as the product of two
float values. On such hardware, storing the
double value of
tenth * tenth directly in
percent might be substantially faster than rounding that result to
float and then converting it back to
double. In this case, the decision about whether to round would affect the 9th and subsequent significant digits of a value that has only seven significant digits in the first place.
As an implementor, surely you will be tempted to generate the faster code, because doing so is at least as accurate than computing the result as a
double, rounding it to
float, and then converting it back to
double. What possible disadvantage could there be to this faster, more accurate approach?
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Fashion Week springs to life
NEW YORK — Previews of spring styles officially started Thursday at New York Fashion Week, but the crowd here always likes to get a jump on things, so the stylists, editors, retailers, models and celebrities were drawn to a slew of early events, including the Style Awards at the Lincoln Center tents that serve as a hub for the next eight days.
That's where Kate Upton was honored as the model of the year, and Zac Posen was named top designer.
Wednesday was also Elie Tahari Day, declared by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in honor of the designer's 40th anniversary of his business in New York City, and Michael Kors was celebrated by The Couture Council of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Both Tahari and Kors are among the score of designers on the calendar of catwalk shows that will ultimately shape the shopping lists of consumers in six months' time. Tahari said the industry certainly has changed in the way it does business over the years, but the end goals are the same.
"The most important thing I want to share is that I learned how to treat other people the way you like to be treated. I have learned through many mistakes, but I have learned through this industry that gives you glory and riches, that it's most worth it when you make people happy."
He hinted that the clothes he'll debut later during fashion week will cater to the customer's strong belief in personal style. "When I started, you saw a girl with a long skirt below the knee, and then all the skirts had to be that way. Then everyone had to have a short skirt. But there's less of that going on now, and people respond to certain looks and how it's good for their bodies."
After using mostly restrained hands for fall, several designers have said they'll take a more relaxed approach for spring. Tommy Hilfiger, for example, will revisit "the ease and attitude of the West Coast lifestyle and iconic California beaches."
Max and Lubov Azria were the first heavy hitters on the schedule with their BCBG line.
"We want to see a woman more cool, more relaxed, and that's sexy," said Max Azria backstage before the show.
BCBG Max Azria
The palette here was full of coastal tones, including pale blush, sand and light blue. The many cotton pieces often had a little wrinkle to them. And there were tunic-style dresses. The Azrias will celebrate 25 years of BCBG in 2014, and the pieces in this collection will be in stores for the anniversary. There are rumors of financial turmoil at the house that had some in the crowd wondering how happy an occasion that would be.
Tadashi Shoji
Edgy and raw is OK for someone else, but Shoji says he's happy to have his clothes called pretty, sweet and ladylike. He staged a parade of pastel dresses dotted with lace, embroidery and feathers, and dubbed the collection "Sweet Liberation." Shoji said backstage, "I think we need more sweetness and fun in this world. I am not afraid to be sweet, and women are confident enough now and know they can be taken seriously even if they wear pretty clothes."
Richard Chai
The geometric shapes that Chai is known to play with had softened edges, thanks largely to his choices in fabric and color. One look was white seersucker and the next a bright red silk in a shade he called "grenadine." Chai puts his men's collection and the looks from his Love label for women on the same runway. His men's clothes seemed a little more daring. Truthfully, you don't see many knee-length, blue-windowpane coats worn with tie-front shorts on men.
Creatures of the Wind
The label helmed by Midwesterners Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters showed maturity after the mentorship and attention that comes with being a finalist in the Vogue Fashion Fund and an emerging-talent nominee at the Council of Fashion Designers of America awards. The show wasn't, well, showy. It had solid styles that one could imagine in the closet of a confident tastemaker, not trendy cool girl. There was a hint of a well-dressed housewife from the 1950s in the boxy shapes and jumpers — and some looks evoked the glamorous loungewear that was a must-have back in the day.


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