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Simplified Net-booting (Booting Puppy Linux via your LAN)
Subject description: a cool and simple way to deploy Puppy Linux in your computer lab or Internet cafe
Net-booting has been here in Puppy Linux since version 2.16, so you might as well try it in a few steps:
1. Get TFTP for Windows from
. Unzip to an appropriate location in a Windows PC in your LAN. (It will have a directory /pxe.)
2. Download initrd-humongous-2.16.1-93952k.gz from ibiblio or its mirrors (see http://puppylinux.net/download/downpage.htm ). Rename to initrd.gz and put in the /pxe directory (see #1).* [EDIT - as of June 11, 2008, this file is no longer in the Puppy repositories. See Barry's instructions in creating a humongous initrd below.]
3. Start TFTPD32.exe. Tell Windows to allow it through the firewall (if firewall is activated). Change some IP numbers like IP pool starting address and Default router (see image below) then save and restart.
4. Connect to the LAN a client PC, set it to boot from PXE/network, and restart it.
4.a Puppy will look for the zdrv_216.sfs file*, so plug in a USB drive (with zrdv) while net-booting, or first make sure that zdrv is in the hard disk. You can use a save file and extra sfs, just like locally-booted Puppy.
* The available initrd-humongous-2.16.1-93952k.gz has no zdrv_216.sfs in it. To roll your own initrd, see the reproduction of Barry's news page below (quoted).
Notes: Thanks to Philippe Jounin for TFTPD and Mark Hinge for the how to, Steven Shiau for net-booting help, and Barry Kauler for everything.
- Windows is used as server for simple deployment. Even Win98SE should work (98SE has Internet Connection Sharing, so it can function as the router, too).
- The client PC should have more than 128 MB RAM (256 MB RAM is recommended).
- The Windows PC (server) should have a fast ethernet card (this is generally valid in WinXP PCs).
- Net-booting of Puppy Linux works given certain changes in Puppy's init (in initrd.gz). Versions before and after 2.16 are not known to be ready for net-booting.
Barry's news page about creating humongous initrd.gz:
Thursday, May 24, 2007, 07:45 PM
Tweaking the humongous-initrd
Raffy posted this forum message to invite participation:
If you want to build your own humongous initrd, it is very easy. Just download 'puppy-unleashed-core-2.16.1.tar.gz' and expand it inside a ext2/ext3/reiserfs hd partition:
# tar -zxf puppy-unleashed-core-2.16.1.tar.gz
You will then have a directory 'puppy-unleashed', inside you will find 'boot' directory, and inside that 'initrd-tree' directory.
Mount the 2.16.1 live-CD, or use Isomaster to open up the 'puppy-2.16.1-seamonkey-fulldrivers.iso' and copy 'pup_216.sfs' and 'zdrv_216.sfs' into puppy-unleashed/boot/initrd-tree.
Open a terminal window in puppy-unleashed/boot and execute:
# ./makeext2initrd
That's it, you will have created a humongous initrd.gz!
Note, initrd-tree/init is a script but it is not used and gets removed by the makeext2initrd script -- that one is for an initramfs. The bootup script that is used is sbin/init and that's where all the tweaking will occur.
Thursday, May 24, 2007, 08:20 PM
If you download the PET packages into 'packages' directory and follow instructions in the README, you can build a humongous initrd, that is a 'zdrv_216.sfs' with a cutdown set of drivers, or a 'pup_216.sfs' with a cutdown set of drivers built-in (no zdrv file). This could be used to reduce the size of the humongous initrd.
Thursday, May 24, 2007, 08:53 PM
Thanks, Barry, this is a fun way to get started with "unleashed" - building one's unique Puppy.
is set in
. Get the number by multiplying the size in MB of initrd by 1,048 = ramdisk_size in KB, which should be adequate for PXE-booting. Experiment with less size by reducing it then rerun PXE-booting.
TFTPD in Windows: update IP numbers, save then restart.
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Posted: Mon 05 Jan 2009, 03:03
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Does the instructions Barry wrote for making a humongous intrd file for Puppy 2.16 also work for Puppy 4.1.2?
Hay anyone tried succesfully to make and boot a humongous intrd file for Puppy 4.1.2 following the instructions?
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I tried it yesterday and was not successful to build the humongous initrd.gz. There is another thread mentioning that there might be a problem with the Unleashed 4.1.2.
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Post subject: ready initrd.gz for net-booting
To immediately test net-booting for your PC (no dual-cores please), try this:
That is based on Breeezy (Puppy 2.13), the ALSA (audio) of which has been updated to work with the eee 701/900.
EDIT - There is no humongous initrd for 3.01, but see farther down for netbooting initrd.gz for 4.1.2.
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raffy, that doesn't work
tested in a virtual machine with 256 mb ram and the provided files and config into a tftpd server
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Sorry, that has been tested for net-booting in a real machine, not in a virtual machine*. For testing your own working pup_21x.sfs and zdrv_21x.sfs, I have uploaded the netbooting-forge files (these are the unleashed files of Puppy 2.16):
EDIT: * Did you specify the ramdisk_size? If errors persist, you can use the frugal method to boot this in virtual machine. If you get problems with DOS file names, shorten the names vmlinuz and initrd.gz to 8.3 format (these default names are OK).
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I aslo tried to build a humongus initrd with Puppy 4.1.2 Unleashed and ran into multiple erros and ultimately failed.
Really wish Barry and the team could fix it up. It would be a shame that we do not make Puppy capable of a complete booting experience that includes CD, USB, Hard Drive, Floppy, and Network.
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I built a humongus initrd.gz with Unleashed 4.1.1 and it works. I'm posting this from a client which booted into Puppy with PXE-Network Boot. So the problem is really related to Unleashed 4.1.2.
I had to disable the DHCP-Server of my router in order to do the network boot. Later I had to set back the Gateway and DNS address to the router IP address, as it automatically gets set to the IP address of the TFTP-Server.
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Posted: Fri 09 Jan 2009, 14:24
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It's also possible to built a Unleashed 4.1.2 humongus initrd.gz and do a network boot.
After downloading the core and packages I did the following 2 things.
1) Copy 'depmod' from puppy-unleashed-4.1.1/boot to puppy-unleashed/boot.
2) Copy puppy-unleashed-4.1.1/boot/initrd-tree0/dev to puppy-unleashed/boot/initrd-tree0/dev.
After that I just used the ./createpuppy and no problems or errors observed.
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Thank you MagicZaurus! I finally got it to build. Success at last!
Thanks all.
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That's nice.
Perhaps you want to share the humongous builds - you can upload here:
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I was able to successfully build (and boot) a humongous initrd for puppy 4.1.1, and am uploading it right now onto your ftp share into the "humongous411" folder.
I haven't been able to build one for 4.1.2 though. i gave it a try following MagicZaurus's instructions but didnt work. MagicZaurus, maybe you can share your 4.1.2 initrd by uploading it to raffy's ftp share?
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Hi Raffy!
Which files do you need? vmlinuz & initrd.gz?
I only built with 'barebone' packages as I just wanted to test and it's smaller. Initrd.gz is about 59MB. I'm also running the DHCP and TFTP on a Puppy Linux machine.
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never mind. I got 4.1.2 to buid successfully second time around. MagizZarus' instructions works!
I am uploading the file to your ftp share now, raffy, into "humongous412" folder.
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Post subject: initrd-h.gz
Thanks, guys.
MagicZ, it's the initrd.gz that matters - that's the "humongous" one, right? Salamat (thanks) for your help.
Thanks also to enigma - I guess your build is more than "barebones" as it is 90MB+.
Wolf Pup has posted a barebones netbooting ISO here:
For the record, the FTP site is compliments of
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This builds on the idea that, in addition to the bag-lady concern, a majority of women still have significant concerns about retirement planning and their level of preparedness for retirement. When asked what key issues will have the greatest effect on their retirement outlook, "lack of adequate retirement savings" was the highest ranked issue by 43% of women surveyed, besting other economic concerns such as "the future of Social Security," "rising health care costs," "unemployment" and "tax changes." Similarly, retirement is the worry that keeps most women up at night. Second only to loss of spouse/significant other, "running out of money in retirement" is a worry that keeps 57% of women up at night and is the No. 1 worry for single and divorced women.
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I've mentioned before I'm totally tied to emacs; and while I use Eclipse and a few other IDEs from time to time, given the choice, I always just go back to emacs.
The last few weeks I've been playing with the Raspberry Pi. A friend of mine was watching my latest demo and laughed at me because I wasn't using a "modern" IDE. I've mentioned before I'm totally tied to emacs, and while I use Eclipse and a few other IDEs from time to time, given the choice, I always just go back to emacs.
However, that's not such a bad thing. Not that I have anything against an IDE. Adafruit's webIDE looks nice. I occasionally work through Eclipse and NetBeans when I need tools that are built into it. Cloud9 looks great but I can never get it to run correctly on the BeagleBone or on the Pi. But I can also do a surprising amount of workflow automation with emacs, the shell, and a few handy scripts.
Like most of what I've been talking about with the Pi, these scripts aren't really specific to any piece of hardware. That's one of the most fun things about the Pi: It runs pretty ordinary Linux so all the tools I've been building up over the years work.
The listing below shows a builder script that I've used for awhile (download the builder file here). It does require you to install inotify-tools on the Pi (apt-get install inotify-tools will do the trick). It also assumes you have the basic development tools like make and touch.
#!/bin/bash if [ "$1" == "-h" -o "$1" == "--help" ] then echo 1>&2 "Builder by Al Williams, Dr. Dobb's http://www.drdobbs.com/embedded" echo 1>&2 Usage: Builder [directory [make_tag [log_file]]] echo 1>&2 Directory defaults to . log defaults to ./builder.log echo 1>&2 Note to use a different Makefile use -ffile_name as tag echo 1>&2 with no space between -f and the file name exit 1 fi # parse arguments if [ "$1" == "-k" ] then if [ "$2" != "" ] then cd "$2" fi echo Killing builder in $PWD touch .builder-kill exit 0 fi BDIR="$1" if [ "$BDIR" == "" ] then BDIR="." fi cd "$BDIR" # delete kill file rm -f .builder-kill CMD="make" if [ "$2" != "" ] then CMD="make $2" fi LOG="$3" if [ "$LOG" == "" ] then LOG="$BDIR/builder.log" fi # create log pipe if nothing there # could use touch if you want the log to be persistent # touch "$LOG" # or named pipe if you don't mknod "$LOG" p while true do # Check make to see if a build is needed if $CMD -q 2>>"$LOG" then # nothing to do true else # run make $CMD >>"$LOG" 2>&1 fi # wait for a change (note always build the first run) # use this line for lots of chatter in the log # inotifywait -e close_write,move,create,delete "$BDIR" >>"$LOG" 2>/dev/null # or this line to quiet it inotifywait -e close_write,move,create,delete "$BDIR" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null if [ -f ".builder-kill" ] then # comment this out if you want the log to persist # rm -f "$LOG" exit 0 fi done
The script is pretty simple. When it runs, it does a little housekeeping. Then it runs make with the -q option. This causes make to look and see if anything needs to be done to build the specified target (or the default target, usually). It doesn't take any action, but it does return a 0 if the project is up to date and 1 if it isn't.
The script can test for this and then actually runs make if the project is out of date. In theory, you could just run this over and over, but that doesn't seem very efficient. Instead, inotifywait watches the build directory for changes. This is a shell command that efficiently returns information about changes in the filesystem. You can register for what events you are interested in, but you have to be careful. If you haven't used inotifywait before, you might assume that close_write is all you need to detect an edit in the project. However, most editors don't ever directly close a changed file. Instead, they edit a backup copy, save it, and then move it to the original file. This ensures they can always preserve the original file if there is an error or the user abandons the file.
The trick is to watch for several events, including move. Ordinarily, you'd examine the output of the command to see if a file you were interested in actually changed. But with make, it is easier to use -q and let it do all the work.
The output of the commands can be sent to a file or a named pipe. A tail -f will show the log as it generates messages.
There are several ways I can use this with emacs. The simplest way is to run emacs on the Pi. Open a shell window and run the builder script there in the background. Then a tail -f on the log output in the same window gives status on the build process. Other emacs windows can edit the files and when you make a change you instantly see the build results (which, of course, may be an error if you aren't done with changes yet).
Usually, though, I use sshfs to mount the Pi as part of my filesystem. Then I run emacs locally and my builder window will use ssh to run both builder and the tail command. This allows me to use my "native" emacs with all of its customizations (and speed). If you prefer, you could use emacs remote files (provided by tramp) to get the same effect.
When you are done with the builder script, you can just kill it. If you prefer, you can run it again for the same directory with the -k option. This will write a special file that signals any scripts in that directory to exit.
One nice thing about this script is it really isn't tied to emacs at all. If you have a way to edit files on the Pi and a way to look at the output from a remote file or pipe, you are in business. The script is easy enough to modify for special purposes, and gives immediate feedback on things like syntax errors as you are saving your source files.
Of course, last time I talked about building Pi programs on the remote host. That's an easy modification too, and I'll talk about that next time.


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Summer holidays when I was a young boy were taken at British seaside resorts. We regularly went to Blackpool and Cleethorpes for a week. I also recall going to Great Yarmouth and Scarborough.
We stayed in a traditional seaside guesthouse for bed, breakfast, dinner and evening meal.
So a typical day – depending on weather – would include time on the beach, donkey rides, going to amusement arcades, rides at the Pleasure Beach or fun fair, and wandering around the town. In the evening parents might go to see a show at the theatre. I have memories of my dad taking me / us to a local cafe for a mug of Horlicks before bedtime.
One of the traditions at the end of the week was for a group photograph to be taken of all the people staying at the guesthouse. Here are two taken sometime during the 1950's
On this one I am sat with my mum – second from the right (marked with a x). My dad is on the back row – again marked with a x.
On this next one I am stood in the middle in front of my mum. My grandma is next to us but I don't who the young lad is in front of her. My granddad is third from left on the back row and my dad fifth from the left.
I don't know for sure where either photograph was taken – I'm sure my mum might remember if I ask her. I think we went to Great Yarmouth with my grandparents so I guess the photograph just above could be from that holiday.
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Recruitment momentum in the registered investment advisor (RIA) and regional space should jump higher in 2013 after a slow 2012, as advisors in search of independence are now sufficiently prepared to make a move, recruiter Diamond Consultants reported Wednesday.
Diamond predicts this year is likely to be a more robust recruiting year than last based on inbound calls and conversations with advisors, as well as deals closed in January and those now in progress.
While Diamond's 2013 forecast is strong, 2012 was an average to down year for advisor transitions as fewer (but larger) advisors moved. The average trailing 12-months of deals executed by top recruiters was in the $2 million to $3 million range, up substantially from 2011, the Chester, N.J.-based recruiting firm reported.
"We observed that larger advisors—those with higher annual production and total assets under management—were exploring options and on the move to take advantage of the record-high transition packages being offered by wirehouses and because frustration levels amongst the longest tenured advisors at these firms have increased substantially," said Mindy Diamond (left), president and CEO, in a statement.
Diamond Consultants has reviewed financial advisors on the move based on its proprietary annual data aggregation every year since the firm's founding in 1998.
Last year, the firm found that movement to the bank channel remained "significantly" down. Overall, Diamond's data confirmed that 2012 was lackluster for advisor recruitment due to:
- Still "unforgiven" wirehouse retention packages for quality advisors
- A perceived "sameness" among the wirehouse firms
- Significantly stronger interest in independence, which requires a longer due diligence process, fueled by top advisors looking for greater control and freedom
- Regulatory uncertainty
"We placed nearly the same number of advisors with wirehouses as we did with independent broker-dealers in 2012, accounting for the majority of our deals," Mindy Diamond said. "The most interesting data point for us, however, was that larger advisors and teams turned to us for counsel than the year before."
Regional firm deals ranged between 25% and 60% less than wirehouse deals. Independent firms offered anywhere from no transition money to 100% cash up front, and packages about a third smaller than wirehouse deals, at what Diamond Consultants calls "quasi-independent" firms such as HighTower Advisors.
"Advisors tend to do due diligence in several channels before making a move, and don't choose independence for a short-term payday, rather taking the long view," Diamond said.
As for the significantly downward movement to the bank channel, "the bloom is off that rose," Diamond asserted. "For years, advisors found the greatest appeal in this space to be the cross-selling opportunities between bank and brokerage, but the majority of advisors today feel that the opportunity to cross sell is more of a myth than a reality."
Uncertainty surrounding the regulatory environment and what FINRA has in store for advisors in 2013 with regard to broker disclosure of transition packages to clients was another reason for the slower pace of movement in 2012 as the majority of advisors took a wait-and-see stance.
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Who, really, to blame for fall of the Canucks?
Vancouver Canucks winger Alex Burrows (14) celebrates his goal with Dan Hamhuis (2) against the San Jose Sharks during the second period of Game 3 of the Canucks-Sharks NHL Western Conference quarter-final series in San Jose, Calif., on Sunday, May 5, 2013.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Mike Gillis wasn't around to be interviewed Monday, probably because he sensed the media's eagerness for a post-mortem on his Vancouver Canucks, and it's bad form to perform an autopsy on a corpse that's still twitching.
But who's kidding whom?
This series, and this season, and this Canuck era are all over.
For a lot of reasons — not the least of which is the coming realignment that will no longer allow them an exalted playoff seeding by virtue of sitting atop the weakest division in hockey — it is time to start getting used to how the other half lives.
Yes, Vancouver. Again.
There is only one way for an organization to remain strong while its core ages gracefully, a la the Detroit Red Wings, and that is with a constant replenishment of NHL-level talent that can grow into bigger roles as the stars begin to fade.
That will not happen with the Canucks, not soon enough, because the cupboard is, if not entirely bare, decidedly bereft of young impact players capable of curing the team's No. 1 deficiency: a lack of offensive firepower.
To use the elegant analogy of Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk: lots of piano movers, not many who actually play the instrument.
Henrik and Daniel Sedin are still there front and centre, superior human beings that they are, to answer nightly for the club's impotence.
But without a lot more help than Gillis has given them in the way of a supporting cast, they are not going to be able to dominate games even remotely the way they once did.
And the San Jose Sharks — with ample assistance from a rulebook that has been allowed to slide back nearly to pre-2005 levels of permissible interference — have provided a pretty good road map, in building their 3-0 series lead, for future opponents to short-circuit the twins' cycling, telepathic Sedinery.
Ryan Kesler has been hurt too often to hold out hope of ever seeing him return to his 41-goal, Selke-winning form of 2010-11. Moreover, he and Alex Burrows and Max Lapierre made such a bed of nails for themselves over the years with antagonistic behaviour and embellishment, it hardly matters if they've tried to reform — and Burrows, at least, has.
Kevin Bieksa's artful skewering Monday of Sharks' "so-called Canadians" Joe Thornton and especially Logan Couture for diving and overacting doesn't change the fact that referees apparently have no intention of ever looking at the three Canucks with an unjaundiced eye. When they're on the ice, the calls will always tend to go the other way.
"We're the embellishers," Vigneault said Monday, stone-faced. The question mark was implied.
Meanwhile, Canuck management is carrying a plethora of albatrosses into the off-season — roughly $13.8 million worth of wasted contracts with Roberto Luongo twiddling his thumbs, Keith Ballard evidently consigned to the discard heap and the ever-injured, grossly overrated David Booth taking up space — and unless Gillis can go, cap in hand, to owner Francesco Aquilini and ask him to buy out a couple of them, and eat some of Luongo's salary in order to move him, they will be hamstrung when they try to re-stock the shelves.
And wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall when that conversation takes place?
So far, we haven't come to anything that's Alain Vigneault's fault, unless you think a sterner hand, earlier, by the head coach would have broken Burrows and Lapierre and Kesler of their thespian tendencies.
Sunday night's third-period meltdown by Cory Schneider — in a game that, arguably, might have been Luongo's to lose, based on his play in the first two — obscured a whole lot of other ills, most glaringly the lack of scoring, but also the utter invisibility of any number of forwards who've been exposed next to the dynamic, deep and muscular cast of the Sharks.
But really, it's a little late now to be terribly outraged about the demise of the Canucks, because the die was cast last summer.
That's when (we only found out much later) they were already all but certain that Manny Malhotra wasn't going to make it back yet made no provision for the day when they'd have no one who could win a faceoff, let alone anchor a decent third line.
It's when they didn't trade Luongo, gambling that the market was going to improve if they held onto him. No one could have predicted how abjectly that gamble would fail, or how the consequences of that failure would dog the team all season long.
And then, at the trade deadline, Gillis's cure for the lack of scoring depth was to trade for Derek Roy, another smurf centre for an organization that is fairly teeming with them. The Sharks have brushed Roy aside like a mosquito, as surely as they, or any other sizable playoff opponent, would have dismissed Jordan Schroeder or Andrew Ebbett.
The expression on Vigneault's face after Game 3, the redness in his eyes, said: "I'm all out of ideas."
The atmosphere in the Canucks' room was shell-shocked, funereal.
"There's not much to draw from right now," said Luongo, who didn't allow a goal in his 15:53 of relief work and looked as though he might bite a hole in his tongue when someone asked if he felt he should have started the game.
"There are not many positives in the first three games," he said. "There are a couple of guys who are playing their hearts out. Other than that …"
And still we search in vain for the compelling reason to fire Vigneault that's such a popular theme as this team's era of excellence winds down, and Gillis's loyal cornermen try to misdirect the responsibility.
Anyone who thinks that arranging the forward lines differently, or changing the defence pairs, or putting this player or that out on the ice at the end of a game would have made the difference is dreaming in Technicolor.
Not that coaching doesn't have an impact; it surely does. Not that there isn't some truth to the idea that after seven seasons, a fresh voice, some fresh ideas, can sometimes be a tonic to a group that's lost its way.
But let's not insult anyone's intelligence: Scotty Bowman couldn't have won a Cup with this outfit.
Not this year.
A reader reminds us of an old hockey adage: "The general manager is responsible for goals FOR, the coach is responsible for goals AGAINST."
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Aside from its use in cooking and baking, honey has a certain reputation among those in favor of natural cures and products, being recommended for everything from allergy cures (local honey is said to desensitize people to the pollens in their area that cause hay fever) to wound care. Demand is high in the U.S., with consumption around 400 million pounds per year. Production is well below that; the 2012 crop is estimated at about 150 million pounds. As a result, the U.S. imports a lot of honey.
In February, charges were brought in a case of honey dumping—Chinese honey imported and sold illegally in the U.S.—and more than 3,000 drums of the stuff were seized. Taxation issues aside, some of the honey was found to be contaminated with antibiotics. Chinese honey is commonly adulterated and often contains illegal and even dangerous drugs; it has been banned from sale in Europe. So how did it get here? Via ultra-filtration, which removes the pollen and thus makes it nearly impossible to identify the honey's country of origin once it's in a jar on a grocer's shelf. Honey purists will tell you that if it doesn't contain pollen, it isn't even honey.
China isn't the only Asian country offering adulterated honey; India's been caught with its hand in the pot, too. Nor is honey the only troublesome Asian product. For the last several years, Asian imports have been fraught with problems. Japan has its own difficulties, with seafood, rice, and vegetables contaminated with radiation post-Fukushima. But by far the largest source is China, where the business environment has been described by nonprofit Food and Water Watch as a "Wild West" that Chinese regulators admit is beyond their control.
Among more prominent incidents over the last decade or so have been defective tire valve stems, recalled in the millions after a fatality from a blowout. Another Chinese tire manufacturer omitted a required safety feature designed to avoid tread separation; those, too, were recalled.
Pet owners were distraught and outraged when dog food was found to be stretched with melamine, causing kidney failure and killing thousands of pets all over the country. Drywall from China used to repair homes devastated by Hurricane Katrina caused its own storm; defective, it emitted gases that not only corroded copper wiring and air conditioning but also caused health problems and made houses unlivable.
Other problem products have included contaminated shipments of the blood thinner heparin, causing 81 fatalities just in the U.S.; toys contaminated with lead or cadmium; toothpaste containing diethylene glycol—more commonly found in antifreeze—and reusable grocery bags containing lead.
Even fruits, vegetables, and seafood are not safe, with cases of the first two exhibiting contamination from pesticides, herbicides and fungicides—many of which have been prohibited from use elsewhere—and the last from agricultural residues, chemicals, illegal antibiotics, and veterinary drugs.
Not all the contaminated products from China are for the export market; milk contaminated with melamine killed six children in China and sickened 300,000 more, and Yum Brands' Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets in China took a huge hit when the locally supplied chicken they were serving contained antibiotics. Other familiar corporations affected by melamine contamination include Mars, Unilever, Cadbury and Heinz.
Even death sentences in the case of the contaminated milk have not been enough to stem food adulteration. Efforts to control quality in other products have also been unevenly effective. The problem of adulterated foods is so big that China has begun importing products to avoid the rough-and-tumble world that is food regulation at home—although that hasn't been proof against adulteration, either. In early March, China made a different kind of headline for destroying almost two tons of cake from Ikea, 2.7 tons of chocolate from Nestlé, and cheese from Kraft, for violation of food safety standards.
All this means a hazardous road for investors looking for opportunities. However, such headline-grabbing failures, coupled with the horsemeat scandal in Europe, have also led to greater efforts being made internationally to compel stricter adherence to health and safety standards. Proposed new FDA rules released in January and February, for example, designed to implement the U.S.'s Food Safety Modernization Act—already law since January of 2011—offer ways to cut foodborne illnesses by penalizing companies that import food but fail to ensure its safety. Additional rule releases are to come later this year. The EU is also discussing new standards.
Businesses proactive about adopting higher standards could offer opportunities; so could companies outside China that already have sound reputations and want to establish a presence in China trade.
Other solutions are afoot as well. Japan has turned to technology as an answer to radiation contamination, offering a new twist on an old method by growing hydroponic crops in buildings sealed off from the radiation. The alternative, waiting for perhaps 10 years to be able to use soil that had once grown rice for the imperial family, was unacceptable—and many are pinning their hopes on the new technology.
Perhaps another piece of news is heartening: liability insurance is a growing market in the Asia Pacific region, according to reinsurer Swiss Re. History has shown insurers to be responsible over the years for improvements in everything from building codes to safety procedures. Hence, the presence of a viable liability insurance market could provide both another avenue for investment in a region that has been growing, albeit from a very low penetration point, and also eventual improvement in production standards.
Swiss Re's Roy Hraiki, Casualty Product Manager, Asia Pacific, said that "penetration of liability insurance is low at closer to 2%–3% of non-life premiums but growing at a solid rate. However, "this low penetration of liability insurance belies the trend of strong growth in liability exposures in Asia based on vibrant economic fundamentals, population growth [especially the burgeoning middle class] and a broadening of liability regimes. Examples are the adoption of stronger consumer protection legislation and the enactment of product liability laws."
As companies globalize, they are exposed to more liability in other countries, Hraiki said, adding what he termed "U.S.A. long-arm jurisdiction" can bring jurisdiction over foreign defendants by U.S. courts and result in increased exposure to liability claims. Laws at home requiring compulsory coverage can also drive increased need, and thus demand, for coverage. Hraiki said that is already happening.
Despite its dangers, fortunes were made, and lost, in the Old West. In Asia, caution is called for, just as it was then.


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C++ Reading List, May 28, 2013 The new C++11 standard has led to a flood of new books and updates to classics. These are the core books you need.
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This is a gentle introduction to using C++11 in real-time projects. The author presents several basic projects and shows how he used C++11 to code them. He starts with a product that targets an Atmel AVR microcontroller, which he programs using the GCC toolchain, explaining along the way: the design, implementation in hardware and code, and finally how to flash and execute the program. It turns on LEDs under various circumstances. He then moves on to more-ambitious projects, such as writing low-level hardware drivers in C++. In the final chapters, he examines extending the standard C++ library and the STL for embedded purposes.
The book is approachable and the code fairly clean. It shows that C++11 is a reasonable choice for embedded work. Overall, this is a good tutorial for C++ developers who want to get their feet wet in embedded programming, but due to the choice of sample projects, it probably won't appeal to programmers already active in that line of work.


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Because health and finance are arguably the two most important areas in a person's life, finding a trusted financial planner is as vital as finding a trusted medical practitioner.
"Technical expertise is a given in our field, but everyone needs to find a financial advisor who really gets them as a person, so that they can take those very important decisions in their lives in the best possible way," says Peggy Mengel, human behavior solutions advisor at DNA Behavior International.
Today, it's a given that advisors are subject to far closer scrutiny by clients, both potential as well as existing. Thanks to the Internet and to social media in particular, most people will have done their research on an advisor before even walking into his or her office, Mengel says.
"That means that although many people are still intimidated by the financial world, they have access to all kinds of information before they decide on a particular financial advisor and they've already decided whether someone meets their initial parameters," she says. "After that, what they want is to create a lasting relationship with their advisor and make sure the advisor gets them as a client and understands the way they think and the way they behave."
But how about advisors' feelings vis-à-vis potential clients?
Most advisors have recognized the importance of understanding human personality and behavior to forming a lasting relationship with clients, and they are aware that clients today may reject them if they feel the relationship is not working. However, many advisors will hesitate to reject a client even if he or she exhibits behavioral tendencies that may be difficult, if not impossible, to work with.
"Most advisors have the idea that they can take on anyone, but they need to go beyond their practices now and be able to say about certain people that 'Hey, maybe this isn't the person I want," Hengel says. "Advisors need to be able to look for personalities that match theirs and are easy to manage to create the best relationships with. Either that, or they should be able to modify their behavior to suit the client's behavior if they want the match to work—knowing, however, that sitting on the opposite end of someone is very hard and it can be draining to constantly tailor their personality to fit that client's."
Today, advisors can use online tools created by companies like DNA that in a few simple questions give them insights into the behavior and personality of a potential client. However, the really savvy advisor will also use the intelligence gathered to his or her own benefit, Hengel says, to determine whether or not the client is the right fit.
DNA's tools generate enough information to give an advisor insight into a client's behavior and personality to enable an advisor to decide whether he or she thinks they can work with that particular client.
"The results of the survey clients take give the advisor the choice to say 'I can't work with them because we are both different,'" Mengel says.
From then on, it's a question of making some intelligent decisions with regards to having a productive and long-lasting relationship—a decision that can also be "an advisor deciding that a particular client is too much to behaviorally manage so it's best I don't work with them," she says.
Turning down a potential client, though, doesn't necessarily mean losing out on a potential business opportunity. An advisor might have a colleague whose personality is better suited toward a particular client's behavior, Mengel says, so all it would take to retain that client is a simple referral.
If, however, advisors decide to proceed forward with a client whose behavior and personality are diametrically opposite to theirs, they must also be prepared to go the extra mile and make some changes to their own modus operandi, Mengel says.
"Let's say I'm an advisor who doesn't want to pass up a client, although the client is someone who wants very detailed information and I'm more of a big picture type," Mengel says. "I need to prepare for that client differently and adjust myself and my day accordingly. Maybe that means scheduling that client at my highest energy point, when it's easiest to modify my own behavior, or making sure I have someone else in my office who's more detail-oriented than I am. Maybe I can schedule before and after meetings with clients who are more like me in order to boost my energy levels to deal with the client who's different from me."
There's no doubt that turning down potential clients is very difficult. However, working with clients who are different from the advisor is also very difficult. Advisors need to be aware of this if they want to forge meaningful and lasting relationships with their clients.
"Otherwise, relationships can continue but only until something major happens—because once the stress points come and a client doesn't get what they want from their advisor, the relationship that may have looked good on paper is sure to melt away," Mengel says.


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Nonprofit fundraising overall continued its slow recovery in 2012, according to Blackbaud's Charitable Giving Report, released Monday.
Online fundraising, which makes up less than 10% of the overall figure, returned to significant growth rates last year, the report said.
The report drew from The Blackbaud Index, which tracks $8 billion in U.S.-based charitable giving on a monthly basis to provide analysis of overall and online giving trends in the nonprofit sector.
"Looking ahead, overall giving is not likely to increase significantly until there is sustained growth in new donors, nonprofits rebuild their multiyear donor base and overall donor retention improves," Steve MacLaughlin, director of Blackbaud's Idea Lab and the report's co-author, said in a statement.
The report's key findings include the following:
- Overall giving grew approximately 2% in 2012
- Online giving grew by about 11% last year compared with 2011
- Online fundraising accounted for 7% of all giving in 2012, an increase from 2011
- Small nonprofits had the greatest increase in overall fundraising in 2012, while medium-sized organizations led online
- Giving throughout 2012 treaded water, then got a year-end boost from Hurricane Sandy relief efforts
Nonprofit fundraising performance last year differed considerably based on the size and sector of the organization, according to Blackbaud.
Small nonprofits, with annual total fundraising less than $1 million, grew their fundraising 7.3% compared with 2011. Organizations with annual total fundraising between $1 million and $10 million had an increase of 2.7%. Fundraising by chairities with annual total fundraising more than $10 million was up by 0.3%.
Giving to faith-based organizations and education institutions grew by 6.1% and 1.9%, respectively, compared with 2011. These two sectors combined for 45% of charitable giving in the U.S.
Arts and culture, as well as environment and animal welfare organizations, were the only other sectors that experienced fundraising growth in 2012.
International affairs, health care and human services organizations struggled throughout 2012, suffering negative growth rates compared with 2011. Public and society organizations had a slight decrease in overall fundraising in 2012.
As for online fundraising, medium-sized nonprofits led the way with a year-over-year increase of 14.3%, followed by small nonprofits (up 11.8%) and large organizations (up 7.2%).
For the second consecutive year, education organizations enjoyed the largest online fundraising growth in 2012 with an increase of 17.9%.
Nonprofits in the public and society benefit sector grew 17.1%, and human services grew 15.7%. Several of these organizations also saw online giving increase in relation to Sandy relief efforts.


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Below-average precipitation is most likely through May
If you're gambling on the weather, snow looks like the underdog.
Much of the western U.S., including the Lake Tahoe Region, is most likely to have below normal precipitation for the next three months, according to updated outlook maps released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Thursday.
Lake Tahoe is included in a darkly shaded region centered around the San Francisco Bay Area forecasters have determined has a 50 percent chance of having below normal precipitation from March through May. The same region has a 33.33 percent chance of experiencing average precipitation and a 16.67 percent chance of having above average precipitation during the time frame, according to an online explanation of the forecasts. The maps use the past 30 years' worth of observations when determining average precipitation.
Slight chances of snow are possible Friday night into Saturday and Monday in the Lake Tahoe Basin, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. The storms aren't expected to bring much in the way of precipitation, meteorologist Tony Fuentes said Thursday.
The jet stream could drop down into the Pacific Northwest and Northern California toward the end of the month and into the first week of March, bringing stronger storms than those experienced this week, according to Fuentes. Whether the model-predicted pattern materializes, "remains to be seen," Fuentes said.
If Lake Tahoe doesn't receive additional snowfall in February, the area would experience the lowest amount of precipitation for any combined January and February in more than 100 years, the meteorologist added, referencing data for Tahoe City.
Heavy early-season snowfall has helped keep the basin near average for year-to-date precipitation, according to electronic SNOTEL monitoring data. Lake Tahoe has received 97 percent of its average year-to-date precipitation, according to the data, but without additional storms, the area could be looking at a dry summer.
A drought is expected to develop throughout much of Northern California through May, with drought conditions expected to persist or intensify throughout nearly all of Nevada, according to NOAA's outlook.
The section of the U.S. affected by severe or extreme drought is slightly smaller than the 61 percent at the start of 2013, according to the Associated Press.
A separate map released by NOAA Thursday is inconclusive about expected temperatures in the Lake Tahoe region through May.
Much of the U.S., except the Pacific Northwest, is likely to see above average temperatures during that period, according to the outlook.