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FOSS.in 2008
Let me share a complete report about FOSS.in 2008 event that I attended recently at IISc Bangalore.
Day 1:
Opening keynote was by Harald Welte. He is concern about sad situation of Linux in embedded space.
He raised question: Is GSM secure? At his workout Improving Free Software based GSM protocol analysis.
We all have belief that whatever we talk over or mobile, that is encrypted voice and no one else can hear it. It is myth. In India, few operators have not implemented encryption. I verified it with a special software runs on old Nokia phone. We have many sniffing tool for wire line. EtherpeekNX, Wireshark (Ethereal) etc. We have IETF standard documents to decode TCP/IP packets. Same way, we have 3GPP documents for GSM decoding. Still there is lack of sniffers because hardware is an issue. In this workout I came across USRP (Universal Software Radio Platform). We configured it to capture a single 200 Khz wide GSM channel over 1800 MHz band. We captured some live sample of broadcast channel.
We have few more options for hardware:
USRP. It cost around $700
Firmware source code for TSM30 mobile is available on Internet.
MAD Operating System for Nokia phone.
We can have access to modem firmware with Open BTS project
OR we can tap E1 link over ABis Interface from BTS to BSC with Linux. I think, in India it ABis is not wireline E1 link, it is microwave point to point link. How to tap it?
beagle board has project to link the board with USRP.
I came across some new software projects like
1. wiki.thc.org/gsm
2. thre.at/gsm
3. http://wiki.thc.org/gsm/decode gsmdecode software takes ASCII hex as input and generate decoded ASCII text.
4. Wireshark plugin
Most of the mobile support SIMToolkit. So any operator have complete access of any subscriber's mobile's address book. How to prove it?
Evening we had session about Contributing to Bluez. Bluzez is Linux Bluetooth protocol stack.
Bluetooth = core specifications + profiles.
UUID = Universal Unique ID for any Bluetooth service
Useful tools
$ hciconfig
$ hicconfig scan
$sdptoop records –raw
$sdptool browse
bletoothd is user space daemon. We can get it from git.kernal.org We run this daemon with –n option for foreground –d for debug print.
DBus is interface.
test_device and simple_agent are other useful tools
The Bluetooth stack had RFCOOMM service for Obex and At commands while L2CAP gives service to SDP. We can have HCI sockets too.
There are concepts about Adapter and Device. Org.bluez.Adaptor Org.bluez.Device
Btd_device struct hold proprieties inside PC for other remote Bluetooth device.
Bt_rfcomm_connect() is function call to connect to device
Bluetooth audio device uses SBC codec for audio. For more dtails
I asked the speaker Alok Barsode,few questions offline. The Bluetooth supports about 3 MBPS bandwidth. So yes, we can have Bluetooth video device. How to identify the remote Bluetooth device is mobile phone? No there is not any specific UUID supported by all mobile. The device class will be "mobile" in Bluetooth profile. Each Bluetooth device has its own unique BID. If we send "\r\nRing" command to headset, it will ring. Not true for mobile phone. I have USB Bluetooth adapter. Its trial version software driver has 5 MB data transfer limit over Windows. Linux has built in driver and no such limit.
Maemo under the hood and how to get involved Nokia has open source tablets N770, N800 and N810. It cost around EURO 250
Day 2:
Telepathy: communication for people and programs Telepathy is a framework to support all communication needs like chat, VoIP call etc. It has Connection Manager handle different protocols. This URL http://www.pidgin.im/ list all the supported protocols.
Tube channels: Dbus tubes, Steam tubes
Git clone at git://dev.laptop.org/projects/hellomesh
Telepathy stack: the bottom layer is connection managers for each protocol. Then common D-Bus. Then upper layer applications like chat, voice, logging etc. We have 'link-local' option to communicate locally. Gabble is for XMPP. We have manager per account and Connection per protocol. Channel is per contact. Mission Control. Mingle is google application. Server less chat are also possible
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Day 3
Sorting in Indic locales/Indian language spell-checking enhancements Here we checked sorting of alphabet for few Indian languages. We can do sorting at glibc level ICU library level, Database level and Unicode CLDR level. LC_COLATE for each language.
We have few sessions related to KDE in the morning. KDE had Marble Widget. It is just few steps to write first 'Hello World' application. One can set theme for World Map. We need to end our source code with show function call to make this Marble widget visible. KDE has function ki8n("…….") for Internationalization support. CMake is powerful tool to generate make file. We should keep src and build directory separate. KDE had XML file to define GUI. We can define different menu, keyboard accelerator etc in that file. QtDesigner is similar to Visual Basic. One can re-use the Marble widget by drag and drop to QtDesigner. QtAssistant is like Help file. KDE has two IDEs. KDevelop and QDevelop. Kapp is a template.
Contributing to YUI Here I came across few useful JavaScript resources like...
Crockford's book 'JavaScript for Good Parts'
'Object Oriented Java Script' by Stnfanov
JSLint is a nice tool for JavaScript. JavaScript has no class inheritance. It has object inheritance. Here every function is an object. We have some simple trick for encapsulation. To hide function's private members and it is used throughout the YUI code. Here we have two ways for inheritance. 'Augment' if we change base object, no effect to derived object. 'Extend' base and derive objects are linked.
Developing Speech Enabled Applications For Indian Languages and Dhvani TTS 'eSpeak', 'Dhavni' and 'Festival' are TTS(Text to Speech) for Indian language. Santhosh Thottingal the speaker gave live demonstration of the software. He wrote few lines of code to demonstrate library calls. One can set Pitch for TTS to change the voice. He explained with few lines of code, and different pitch setting for each spoken statemen, we can develop audio drama very quickly. TTS has many challenges. They already wrote many rules for Hindi TTS.
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VBA Macros - The Fun Bits It is huge challenge to transfer existing VBA application to Open Office.org http://go-oo.org/ Website has some tools for it.
Day 4
Fedora Electronics Laboratory is EDA development Tool.
LKHG stands for Linux Kernel Hackers Gathering. Yes, we have few barriers before we start contributing to Linux Kernel. We need to understand the basics about kernel and jargons associated with it. We have many checklist before we submit our code. The development procedure is well documented. Many of my IBM colleagues are contributing to it. They talked about how and why they re-wrote the kernel code. LKHG: File Systems The speaker Christoph Hellwig explains that for a single CPU local file system we have alternatives like Ext3, XFS, Ext4, btrfs. For shared disk cluster we have GFS (by RedHat), OCFS2 (by Oracle and SuSE) and GFS2. For network file system we have NFSv4, NFSv4.1, pNFS, CIFS and Kernel AFS. Now Intel has built-in support for CRC32 check. So it expedite file access. SCSI T10 DIF/DIX is hot topic. Ext4 may come in early 2009. It has many nice features. One of them is seamless migration of data from Ext3 to Ext4.
LKHG: Profiling / Tracing / Debugging Initially we had only printk() functions for kernel debugging. Now we have Dprobes, Linux Trace Toolkit, KDB, KProbes (2.6.9 onwards), jprobe, kretprobe, modprobe etc. dfork system call takes 165 ms. Ananth – the speaker – explains relative pros and cons for Marker v/s KProbes. If we enable Markers they are faster, if we disable it has negligible impact on performance, because every time if statement will check marker is enable or not. If we enable, KProbe it is slower, if we disable it has zero impact.
LKHG: Power Management Vaidyanathan Srinivasan the speaker emphasize that nowadays power saving is one more criteria for scheduler. We have two classes for task. Real Time and non-Real Time. Group Scheduling is new concepts. We can put different tasks in different groups. Like one group for all browsers, another for Oracle application, another for particular user etc. Now, each group will get some percentage of time. The scheduler will pick up the next task is in two stage. First select group then select task within that group. I was wondering, why cannot we reuse such kernel code about scheduling for EVDO and HSDPA base station. I thinhk, their schedules are much complex than kernel.
Howto contribute to Subversion project Bhuvaneswaran A – the speaker encourage the audience to contribute to SVN and join the community. One can play different roles here like Code Reviewer, Patch Manager, Release Manager, Community Manager etc. He explained SVN architecture. CLI and GUI both interfaces used same client library calls. For HTTP we have surf and Neon. The library can use local repository also instead of HTTP protocol. For storage we have BDB and FSFS alternatives.
Machine Translation for Indic Languages using Apertium I noted down few useful URLs from Pranava Swaroop's talk like Here we have Hindi Dictionary
LKHG: Reverse Engineering and Porting Linux to a WinMobile PDA phone Harald Welte the speaker talked about pity of porting Linux to mobile device. Without active community participation, it takes longer time and when it is over the life span of that mobile model is also over, so no use. He talked about E-TEN glorfish, project gnufiish, jtagfinder project. He just run the kernel for the device under test, and pleasant surprise it runs.
He explained some tips for HaRET (Hardware Reverse Engineering Tech). FCC database has good resolution picture of PCB inside all mobile devices. Keep rebooting device with different pin connected to OCR, every time. At one pin you will get some signal, that is serial port. He identified S3C2442 application processor, SiRF GPS chipset. He explained hardware reverse engineering techniques with photographs. So many cables were associated with all possible pins inside mobile. The PCB was hidden just below shield. For some device this shield is also soldered. Then he gave various interrupt like pressing key. Each device has special mode of booting. If you press camera button, or other combination of buttons, while booting the device, then It may enter to camera mode OR USB mode OR factory test mode. HaRET console gives python script control over TCP port. "ROM cooking" IDA (Interactive Disassembly) used to convert byte code to assembly language code. The developers of WinCE device left few debug statement, that helped to identified function name. He demonstrated it. Disassembly is legal. Decompilation is also legal in this context as the purpose is to build inter operability. WinCE also has registry.
LKHG: Lightning Talks & Open House One student talked about Linux kernel with Pine (?) ser space. He was invited for next day workout. Atul emphasized on simple working model of kernel with less feature, so novice student can play with it. One IBM delegate replied with some tool to understand kernel code and propose to demonstrate it. Atul continued…we are giving so many options to student, who is very new to this kernel development. Next day these kernel related workouts were quite successful.
Hanji Hanji is a web server framework targeted to be hosted on personal devices like PDAs, Laptops, SmartPhones. Dojo toolkit is used for web UI. It is very easy and supports fast implementation for new applets. Django is Data Model + Applet + Web UI + HTML points. The speaker Philippe May gave some live example of Point, Set is group of points, Track is link series of points. Server side we have Python and Client side it is JavaScript or Dojo widgets. For more details visit phil.hanjinet.org
Day 5
Linux Sound in 2008 The speaker Lennart Poettering explained the Linux architecture for audio. Alloca is a fnction in ACCA that allocates memory from stack. So no memory leak. No need to free. JACK has GUI. OSS is kernel interface. No method to provide time. Just write raw bytes to it, and it will be played. We can redirect library calls and implement or own library. Pulse Audio, SDL. Open AL is for positional audio, widely used by game developers. Phonon, KNotify, Xine, MPlayer, ESD, NAS etc are various building blocks with own APIs to programme audio in Linux.
Anatomy of Fedora Kiosk Mode It is to provide guest access to any user in Fedora.
Innovating with Mozilla Labs: The Weave Story. Mozial Labs has many useful tools. Snowl, Ubiquity (command line interface for browser), weave, Test Pilot (for testing beta releases), Prism (for website specific browsers), Personas etc. Weave used to transfer your bookmarks, cookies, passwords, history etc. Where ever you go, they follows with you like Hutch network. You can upload any video on Youtube with tag mozoconcept, then it will reach to community. Ubiquity had very few commands initially like, translate, replace, map etc. Out of all these, so far Prism got visibility with production build.
For details
FOSS.in has two tradition. We do not invite chief guest. And we end with some non-FOSS related talk, where no software, just FOSS principle. Atul felt embarrassed to propose Kalyan a close friend to request for closing keynote. He introduced Kalyan with an old e-mail where Kalyan requested to participate in Banglore Linux User Group meeting. We all had great fun with Kalyan as closing key note address speaker.
Kalyan explained Free world as 'Caring and Sharing'. Art of Living mission statement is also similar. 'We care, we share'. As being photographer, his presentation has so many pictures. He explained very nicely with some insects photographs, what is mean by FOSS. It is all about community efforts. He talked about Security. It can never be broken, it just bypassed. Like back-door entry. Like getting credit card details with social networking. With live example of rediff.com e-commerce site, he explained how to order, without paying money. Just replace N with Y in address bar. He informed that Rediff has fixed this bug. :( But we may have such Indian e-commerce website, where one can try his luck to get free stuff. Feeling secure is more important than actual security. Again he gave some live example of IISc campus, his own home, recent Bombay bomb blast etc.
Then he compare photography with programming. In analog photography days, experts were not sharing tricks to make better photograph. Now flicker has many notes about special effects. A common man staying next to hotel took photos of bomb blast, uploaded on flicker and shared with twitter, that is used by TV channels. National Geography confirmed that most of the best pictures come from immature photographers. He shared his experience that how his wild life photographs, used by Tamil movie 'Snakes on Plane', Maxima magazine, BBC etc. He uploaded high resolution pictures, that paid off. He believes in this world, good people are more compare to bad people.
He demonstrated result of automatic camera for wild life photography. It sense temperature change and take photos. One bird keep on visiting same place because of this camera sound and it make camera memory exhausted. Elephants are very curious like human beings. So it took camera inside its trunk. Camera got destroyed but not memory card, so we saw those photos.
FOSS principle is understand the problem, before finding solution. And recognize the problem, that is beyond just in front of your nose. Share your work. You will get recognition. Believe in friends. His friends printed calendars with his wild life photographs and provide him a platform. His talk forced the audience to think something serious. Make the difference for you and others.
He shared his recent experience of Kachchha (Gujarat). He appreciated Gujarat for mobile connectivity throughout the desert of Kachchha. :) At one point, his driver was confused and lost the way. Kalyan used his GPS, Goolge map over GPRS and guided him that after 300 m, there will be well and take left from there. The driver was amazed.
Atul ended with closing remarks about sponsors. In the present economic situation, it is difficult to get sponsors. But we managed. Even Nokia who has monopoly in market, sponsor FOSS. Some people play cricket, and others chess. We do FOSS.in. For a painter painting process is joyful, but more joyful is when people see the painting. Same way for Atul and his team the real joy is how the community used this FOSS.in platform by participating in talks, workouts, BoFs etc. We all met new diversified people: student and professionals, young and old, thin and fat. We had funny video captured during events and thanks giving ceremony.
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From a war-torn country to the land of the torn ACL
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Drew Kosmowski is a doctor on the move. From the Vail Valley to Breckenridge, from Colorado Springs to Grand Junction and many places in between, Dr. Kosmowski lends his 25 years of medical experience to people in need.
Kosmowski has been to Afghanistan multiple times. In 2006, he was there fulfilling his duties as surgeon for the 10th Mountain Division of the U.S. Army and also acting as medical advisor to the commanding general. He's also been deployed to Iraq four times, including his last deployment, in 2010, when he served as advisor to the Surgeon General of Iraq, Major Samir.
This past April, Kosmowski retired from his position as physician in the U.S. Army. Now, he resides in Breckenridge with his wife and two children and works as a locum tenens physician, meaning he travels around to various hospitals, emergency rooms and clinics, stepping in to temporarily fill another physician's position, or anywhere else where help is needed. Doing so allows him a way to transition from military medicine to that of a civilian practice.
"I've been deployed in combat 43 months over the last 12 years," Kosmowski said. "It's nice to be home for a while."
Kosmowski credits his decision to become a doctor to a dedicated eighth grade science teacher.
"I was being a little lazy because I didn't have to work hard much in school," he admitted. "So he actually kept me after school, doing projects and got me thinking about science."
During his freshman year of high school, Kosmowski's father, who had recently retired after 21 years as an Army logistician and working in the Pentagon, passed away.
"That solidified that I wanted to go into the Army and medicine," he said. He spent the next years studying and working hard, with the aim of attending the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., after a neighbor, also a former member of the armed forces, handed him a cut-out advertisement of the school. It seemed the perfect fit.
"I kept that little advertisement on my mirror all through high school to motivate me to want to go to that school," Kosmowski said. "I'm glad I did, because I certainly got a lot of opportunities as an Army doctor that I wouldn't have got otherwise."
As a surgeon with the 10th Mountain Division, Kosmowski went to Afghanistan. As the division surgeon, he was in charge of the other doctors and often advised the commanding general on medical matters. He performed medicine not only on sick and injured American troops, but on Afghani civilians as well.
"Mostly we were trying to help the medical system to care for the locals. A lot of it was winning hearts and minds," he said. "So if we were going into an area where we were eliminating where the bad guys were, we would also go in there and have clinics and things and support the people, and that would give legitimacy to the Afghan government."
Kosmowski worked side-by-side with Afghani doctors, helping the local population in the various locations he was stationed in. The American soldiers would clear an area of enemy fighters and then the medics would come in with the purpose of showing the people that the Afghan government would help them where the Taliban would not. Kosmowski said he believed it was effective.
"It was working at the time," he said. "That was 2006. A lot has happened since then."
Kosmowski said he still has at least one colleague, who he worked with in both Afghanistan and Iraq, who is still working there as the chief medical advisor to an Afghan general.
Kosmowski himself is no stranger to high-level advisory positions. He had worked in Iraq before, but this last time his job was to act as advisor to the Iraqi surgeon general.
"I worked with the Iraqi military and Iraqi surgeon general to get them completely on their feet and not need us anymore," Kosmowski said. "It was really rewarding."
Kosmowski not only spoke directly with the surgeon general, but worked with Iraqi doctors, medics and hospital staff, training them to make the best use of equipment and streamline their systems to be more efficient.
"Every Monday I would take an armored convoy out into the Red Zone and go to their military hospital and teach all kinds of things to their medical staff," Kosmowski explained. "All kinds of advanced trauma life support, cardiac life support, basically how we run our emergency rooms to teach them emergency medicine that way. For every week of the year, we went out there and helped teach them."
Kosmowski speaks positively of the experience, although it wasn't always easy, particularly when he would come up against culturally related difference.
"We'd visit where they'd have medical maintenance training for their soldiers and teach them how to maintain their medical equipment and that was huge because prior to that they were a fairly disposable society," he said, explaining how they would tend to throw away a broken monitor, rather than fix it.
One thing he's particularly proud of is helping the Iraqis put together a simple, all-encompassing electronic medical records system called World Vista. Doing this not only helped patients, but worked to unify the various Iraqi provinces, particularly the three in the northern Kurdish region. Part of the problem, he said, was that the region had two different ministers of health, who generally contradicted each other and refused to work together.
"With the electronic medical records, we were able to bring them together and have them work together on this" Kosmowski said. "I've heard that they're now implementing World Vista in 36 Iraqi hospitals across the country. So they'll have a single unified instead of disjointed medical record system. They're getting off on the right foot."
Kosmowski also speaks well of the surgeon general, with whom he worked closely.
"He is like a rock star amongst military medical, in the U.S.," Kosmowski said. "He is well-known by a lot of military doctors who have worked with him. He is hugely successful and hard-working and just – he's done magical things for his country."
Although Kosmowski said he's picked up some Arabic, he was lucky in that the surgeon general speaks English. The two would discuss all manner of medical manners and ideas, after which the surgeon general would work with his staff to implement the discussed changes and improvements.
"It was fun," he said. "I would talk to General Samir and I'd express, 'hey this is, I think, a good idea and this is why and this is what you might want to do' and whatever. We'd do a lot of meetings sitting down and drinking tea with different ministers of health, and then I might introduce the topic and they'd start taking over talking in Arabic, and I'd pick up a few words here and there, because I knew the topic really well, and it became their ideas to run with and you'd see them convincing other people within their ministry of defense."
Kosmowski enjoyed the process, he said.
"It was just fascinating to see that you could plant the seed and that idea would grow and they'd spread it amongst themselves and convince themselves that it was their idea, which was fine," he said with a laugh, "but it was their win ultimately."
Kosmowski was not new to the traveling doctor method of locum tenens when he retired in April. Years before, he had used it to make some extra money while serving at Army bases in the states he's practiced in, including Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Indiana, Nebraska and Colorado.
Here in Summit County, Kosmowski works with the Breckenridge and Keystone clinics, as well as emergency rooms throughout the Vail Valley and house call work with Alpine Mobile Physicians. He often splits his time between Breckenridge and Colorado Springs, where he just recently helped start First Choice ER, a stand-alone emergency room that has no affiliation to any hospital, giving it the freedom to choose where it sends patients.
One of the big differences Kosmowski sees between his military and civilian practice is the type of patient. Before, he dealt with younger, generally healthier patients, whereas now he said he sees more cases of cardiac diseases and obesity. Working in the mountains, he also sees his fair share of orthopedic injuries incurred by skiers and snowboarders.
The hardest part, he said, is having to constantly adjust to different hospitals and locations.
"I guess maybe just adjusting to different hospitals. I've worked in about 10 hospitals in a year," he said. He then added, "The medicine is often the same, but it's the peripheral stuff that's interesting."
Kosmowski says his hardest struggles are more often with paperwork and the logistics of working at a variety of locations.
"Just going in, seeing a patient, caring for them, it's easy," he said. "Medicine is easy, it's the rest of the stuff that makes it challenging."
Despite the difficulties, Kosmowski said he likes variety, and the very last thing he wants is to have things become stagnant.
"I wanted a broad exposure to different types of medical processes and I'm seeing how people are doing it. A lot of folks have great ideas out there, some not so good," he said with a laugh.
But whether he's performing triage on a mountainside in Afghanistan or setting a broken bone in Breckenridge, Kosmowski said he's just happy to be doing the job he loves.
"I love the variety. I love it that one patient can have a torn ACL and my next patient can have an ear infection and the next one can have appendicitis. I love that you don't know what you're going to face next. It's a lot of diversity," he said.
But most importantly, "we're helping people. Bottom line, that's why people go into medicine, to try and help other folks."
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I'm just about to start some coordinate centring work... In the past I have used the Map Assistant above, although the generated placement seems to be approximate at best...
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In May 2010, as production geared up for the third installment in the "Transformers" franchise, Megan Fox's publicist released this statement.
"Megan Fox will not be starring in Transformers 3, It was her decision not to return. She wishes the franchise the best."
Well, that statement may not jive with reality. "Transformers" director Michael Bay recently told the Daily Mail that Fox was fired from the production after she gave an interview comparing Bay to Hitler. The comparison, to put it mildly, did not sit well with executive producer Steven Spielberg.
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"You know the Hitler thing?" said Bay. "Steven said, 'Fire her on the spot.'"
Fox was in the plans for the upcoming "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" until she gave an interview with a British magazine in which she described Bay thusly:
"He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he's a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he's not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he's so awkward, so hopelessly awkward."
Just recently, co-star Shia LaBeouf tried to reinforce the notion that Fox's departure was her decision, suggesting the 24 year-old actress was uncomfortable playing the sex symbol.
Fox's part was rewritten and a new character played by former Victoria's Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whitely will be featured as the film's love interest.
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The map outline of the Angle Peninsula resembles an academic wearing a mortar board looking out to the west, with West Angle Bay as the eye, Rat Island as the tip of the nose and Sheep Island the bearded chin.
West Angle Bay is a small but pleasant beach, safe for bathing with its golden sands protected by rocky outcrops on each side of the entrance. It is a short, level walk from the village, andt here is a spacious car park close to the beach with a cafe and toilets. This part of the coast, in common with Dale on the other side of the Haven, has one of the best sunshine records in the UK, the rain clouds coming in from the Atlantic rising on landfall to drop their precipitation further inland.
It is a perfect viewing point for a close-up of passing ships of all kinds, particularly the twice daily Irish ferry linking Pembroke with Rosslare and the LNG and crude oil tankers bringing their cargoes into Milford Haven's major oil port.
Naturally, as the southern gatepost to Milford Haven this coast has been well defended down the centuries.
Off the north-western end of the peninsula on Thorn Island, is a Victorian Fort, a 'Palmerston's Folly' built in 1854 and improved in 1860 as part of a defensive ring of forts constructed against the perceived threat from Louis Napoleon. It had a casemated battery of nine guns designed to give fire all round and was the southern counterpart of Dale Fort on the other side of the Haven.
Further east on the mainland at Chapel Bay is another slightly younger fort, completed in 1872 as an open battery spread along the cliffs, noted for the scale of its revetted ditch flanked by polygonal caponieres, looped for musketry. It was remodelled in the 1900s for heavy guns, with magazines below.
On the nose overlooking Rat Island are the remains of another even earlier fort, East Blockhouse, the only surviving remnant of Pembrokeshire's post-Armada defences. A 19th century addition was demolished but one battery dating from 1900 survives.
On the chin of the map face overlooking Sheep Island and Castle Bay, is the site of a single-banked Iron age Fort, into which around the time of Word War One a lookout was built.
West Angle Bay was the site of a shipwreck in January 1808, just three years after the battle of Trafalgar, when the 38-gun frigate HMS Leda ran aground on rocks there. The Cork-based Man 'o War had been on patrol in the Irish Sea, protecting the trade routes from French privateers, when a howling gale blew up, causing mountainous seas. His ship damaged, Captain Robert Honyman headed for the shelter of Milford Haven. But the on-board pilot who, the previous week, had piloted in the gun brig HMS Virago, mistook Thorn Island for Stack Rock further up the Haven, and the vessel was wrecked although the crew survived.


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This paper looks into the consultancy processes and professional practices of management consultants and of technology consultants from a knowledge management perspective. The process of consultancy in both cases was characterised by the following categories drawn from the analysis of interviews: boundaries, actors, process and information. The findings for each type of consultancy were synthesized into two different narratives. Considerable differences in the way they operate were identified in terms of: the definition of the context of the problem and risk assessment; negotiation through the client system and the use of language and vocabulary in the consultancy process, leading to the development of different professional discourses and different approaches to the facilitation of organisational learning
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Joanie Doe
Even without a glance at the calendar, or the presence of turkey leftovers, it's obvious that December 1 has arrived for the Doe family. The children's love for one another has become easy to observe. There is shouting only when one child is eager to share with another an exciting secret of the season. Each child does more than his or her part to make the household run smoothly. Steve and I are patiently planning enjoyable family times together, while we finish the last of the Christmas cards and prepare to mail our lovingly chosen gifts to our relatives. The house fills with the fragrance of sugar cookies and with the sound of Christmas carols as all six of us decorate our freshly cut tree....
Thank you for not laughingat least, not too much. But how many of you haven't, at some time in your life, had a similar fantasy for the holiday season? The reality of our lives always falls far short of what we desire.
One year, reality hit an uncomfortable low for the Does the week before Thanksgiving while we were waiting for my father to be placed in a nursing home. A driver hit the side of our parked van while Steve was in it, waiting to pick up our two oldest children at school. That ended our plans to visit Steve's brother in New Mexico. We ached to connect with family in person. News of my father-in-law's radiation treatments intensified the ache. I clung with tenacity to the sovereignty of God when anger at the motorist, who had wrecked both our car and our plans, threatened to overwhelm me. I reminded myself that God is in control, even when everything seems to testify to the contrary. By God's grace, my expectations began to shrink to be more in line with reality.
Then I made a startling discovery. Perhaps my expectations for the Christmas season (or for any other time of family togetherness) and the picture-perfect scene described above were not too great after all, but rather were not great enough. James 1:17 tells us that "every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." His gifts are always perfectly good.
When I read Elizabeth Elliot's words in her book A Path through Suffering, I learned more about what God wants for me: "Each time God gives us a hard lesson He desires also to give us Himself. If we open our hands to receive the lesson we open our hearts to receive Him."
It's not Christmas card perfection, but the perfection of the Savior, that God wants to lavish on us. Jesus Christ is the truly "indescribable gift" (2 Cor. 9:15)! The external niceties are not necessary to celebrate Christmas. In fact, when some of them are stripped away, we can see better that Jesus Christ alone is all-sufficient.
The author is the wife of Pastor Stephen D. Doe of Covenant OPC in Barre, Vt. Reprinted from New Horizons, December 2001.
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Find the right foundation for your room design
Perhaps no element of your home gets more use than the floor. Flooring is literally the foundation of each room – and yet, we often view the floor as mainly functional and neglect to give it its due consideration in the design process.
A well-planned floor treatment can provide a major boost to a room's decor. Flooring can add color, texture and interest to a room. It can act as anchor to other design elements, or it can itself be a focal point of the room. The options are truly only as limited as your imagination.
Types of Flooring
There are many different flooring materials available. Although in theory, any flooring material could be used in any room, in practice, certain types of flooring tend to be more common in some rooms than in others.
Hardwood flooring is popular for dining rooms, sitting rooms and more formal living rooms. It is expensive and requires a fair amount of maintenance; plus, it tends to scratch, dent and stain pretty easily, so it's not generally used in high-traffic areas.
If you want a hardwood look that's a bit more durable and considerably cheaper, laminate flooring is the way to go. Laminate is plastic made to look like wood flooring. It comes in plank or tile form, with all kinds of shades to choose from.
Easy to clean and available in a variety of colors and patterns, vinyl flooring is excellent for kitchens. Kitchen flooring tends to take a lot of abuse (spilled food, scraping chairs), and nothing stands up to it quite like vinyl.
Tile flooring is perfect for the bathroom. Flooring tile is usually made from porcelain or ceramic and comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. It can be a bit of a pain to install, but it's incredibly durable, so its long lifespan tends to make it worthwhile. Tile flooring is also suitable for foyers – it makes it easy to clean up after wet or dirty shoes.
Marble flooring, slate flooring or stone flooring also looks great in an entryway. The high price of these materials tends to make them best for small rooms, as do their greater maintenance requirements (would you really want to polish a whole kitchen's worth of marble floor?). Marble, slate and stone also scratch or chip and can be expensive to repair, so rooms with little furniture, such as a foyer, reduce the likelihood of such incidences.
Concrete flooring is often thought of only as garage flooring, or perhaps as basement flooring (though only in the parts not well used). However, concrete is not just the cold, damp, gray substance it is generally thought to be. Concrete flooring comes in many colors and finishes and can be an excellent foundation to just about any room. A well-placed area rug or in-floor radiant heating can keep these floors warm, and a good sealant keeps them dry.
With fitness becoming an increasing priority, many people set up home gyms. Rubber flooring tiles or mats are an excellent addition to these spaces. They provide extra cushioning for aerobic activity and absorb the impact of weights and other home gym equipment, which could damage other types of floors.
Though far less common than the above types of flooring, bamboo flooring and cork flooring are gaining popularity. Bamboo is much like hardwood and tends to be used in similar spaces (dining rooms, living rooms). It is more environmentally friendly than hardwood because it is a faster growing natural resource. Cork, too, is environmentally friendly, and it has the added benefit of providing natural thermal insulation, so it can reduce your heating bills and your energy consumption.
Carpet is still the most popular form of flooring for bedrooms and certain common rooms (playrooms, family-oriented living rooms). Carpet adds warmth and provides cushioning under your feet. It is available in a wide variety of materials, colors and patterns, and it is relatively cheap and easy to maintain (depending on the type, of course). For those who want the warmth and comfort without the commitment of wall-to-wall carpet, area rugs are an excellent compromise.
Whatever the type, flooring is a major component of any room and therefore must be considered if you want your design to be cohesive. Select the type of flooring based on the type, size and use of the room, and then select the color, texture and other features based on your design theme. The result should be a floor that literally and figuratively supports the furniture and accessories in the room.


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The Chicken Coop roosts in Huntington
Putting a Portuguese spin on chicken is The Chicken Coop, newly hatched in the former Huntington digs of Bad Dawgs. The sliver of a takeout shop, with minimal counter seating, is owned by Alison and Eduardo Nobre of the nearby Portuguese restaurant Fado.
On a recent afternoon, I ordered a complete meal for four called the Wagon Wheel which, for $36.50, consisted of two chickens, four side dishes and four biscuits.
The chicken, rather than being speared through the middle, whole, is cooked in quarters, pressed inside the wire cages of a grilltiserie cooking mechanism imported from Portugal. Clearly, some skin had pulled off in the process. While I found the bird subtly garlicky, it wasn't as deeply flavored as many Latin American chickens are. According to Alison Nobre, the bird is lightly marinated so that its natural flavor comes through. Sauces, which may be brushed on or served on the side, add verve. I got the spicy piri piri as well as the garlic lemon butter.
Best, among sides, was the roasted garlic Parmesan creamed spinach. Jalapeño and Cheddar mac and cheese was creamy and satisfying — not bad, for having come from a steam table. But broccoli florets with crushed hazelnuts had an oddly harsh flavor; much better was rice with lentils and onions.
You can get a half chicken for $5.99 and a whole one for $9.99. In addition to chicken, there are such options as Big Al's burger, two marinated patties with fried onion rings, chipotle sauce, Gouda, lettuce and tomato ($11.50), a shrimp po'boy ($10.50) and the Eddie Bang Bang sandwich with shredded chicken, blue cheese, hot sauce, fries, coleslaw and more on rustic country bread ($9.50).
One quibble: The perpetual parking shortage in Huntington village can make a quick chicken pickup into a lengthier affair.
The Chicken Coop is at 44 Gerard St., Huntington, 631-423-2667.


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Fundraiser being held in Massachusetts for slain UNH student
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) � Family and friends are holding a fundraiser this weekend in Massachusetts in memory of a University of New Hampshire student who was a homicide victim last fall.
The Lizzi Marriott Explorer Fund will help students who want to study marine biology, Marriott's field of interest.
The event is Saturday at the Indian Meadows Country Club in Westborough, Mass., where Marriott was from. It will feature music, dancing and a raffle. A golf tournament scheduled in May will also raise money for the fund.
The 19-year-old Marriott disappeared Oct. 9. Seth Mazzaglia faces a charge of second-degree murder in the case. His then-girlfriend, Kat McDonough, stands accused of helping to cover up the crime.
Marriott's body has not been found.


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Clearly, apologies are in order. Yet with all the audacity and heedlessness of a negligent mother, I beg that you disregard my inability to nurture a healthy, breathing child and instead celebrate my attempts to resuscitate it.
And celebrations were indeed the order of the night, with my coy companion at its crux; and surely, surely there is no better place to bring out the balloons than at Victoria's 'Best Fine Dining Restaurant'?
No, I didn't think so either. And indeed the night began exceedingly pleasantly with some puffs.
Or cheese puffs, for the uninitiated. And excited I was, having first admired them in here.
As I made a point of boasting to the waiter (yes I am that sort of customer), I also remembered that they'd been described as an 'appetiser served for 27 years'. For such old ladies, they were very light and sprightly!
Happily, the bread also arrived warm. I put great store by great bread, and these were lovely.
Sadly, they would be only the specimens that we would receive over a dinner spanning almost four hours. But more on that later.
And oh, it was such a good dinner. We opted for a three course from the 'Carte' menu ($98), and one Degustation ($170).
warm flounder 'sashimi' with fresh grated horseradish and togarashi, a natural oyster and sea water, a warm oyster with wasabi dressing, crispy tempura of white anchovy
Interestingly, I believe the 'sea water' in question was not simply sea water but a refreshing sorbet (that green there, look!). Do not, in your excitement, attempt to salvage any that drips over the oyster's shell into its bed of salt. A spoonful of salt, sadly, does not help anything go down. Personal stupidity aside, I enjoyed the warm oyster better (steamed I was told it was). The flounder was delectable (the celebrated one said it had pop!) but the anchovy crisp, unfortunately, was just that - a crisp. Had I not known it contained anchovy, I would never have guessed. If you do not care for anchovy, this is probably a good thing as it was texturally perfect!
From the degustation:
Like a good book, you are advised to dig in from left to right. The soup was an excellent example of a laksa, but quickly forgotten, as the prawn was fabulously fresh with a juicy, yielding bite. The ice cream was very mild despite its intimidating ingredients. For this, I was actually quite thankful, having once sampled a very unsuccessful curry ice cream at Sofitel's No 35. Let's just say, Maggi would have been proud.
I liked this, but I would not have described this dish as making any reference to paella beyond "This is clearly nothing like a paella."
The black rice was a good savoury throwback to 'pulut hitam' if you've ever had it. I think the words 'snow egg' gets everyone's blood pumping post-Masterchef; in this event, it was nothing more (or less!) than a light meringue. The medley of seafood and chicken was the superstar of this dish, and tasted much like an extended explosion of the previous prawn. I am not ashamed to say I wiped my finger on the plate and licked it. I am probably a little ashamed I used more than one.
Second course of the degustation:
I always like crab when it's been shelled for me! I think this dish worked well because of its amalgamation of textures. The crab was smooth on the lips, the lacqured trout was as crisp as suckling pig skin (indeed, that is what I thought it was at the time), the bee-ish beans were cooked well and the wasabi jelly was much less confronting than expected.
Third course of the degustation:
I am always deeply suspicious of anything that arrives with foam. It stems from the disbelief that my 'food' is literally disappearing before my eyes, which is always a problem when your photography skills are less than expeditous. However I won't begrudge the fact that it did impart the subtlest of flavours to the fish. Also, I shouldn't talk, really, having declared pompusly that '[t]he sauce has so much butter!" only to be informed by my long-suffering companion that it was in fact, yoghurt.
This was the last of the three 'Carte' dishes. There's nothing in here I didn't like, although I did find it slightly pretentious that the batter for the pepper squid was rolled inside the squid, as you can see here.
But the duck was very tender, and the redness in the picture is quite misleading; I might actually have preferred it a little less cooked!
The remaining dishes are from the degustation.
The duck was very similar to the one on the 'Carte' menu (I might even go as far to say that it was identical), and the scallops were adorably chubby. The most intriguing item on this dish for me was the marshmallow, which I did not realize one could manufacture outside a factory, let alone in a kitchen. I have since been enlightened by my knowledgeable friends Google and Taste.com.au.
My absolute favourite dish of the night as I am a carnally craving carnivore and chocoholic. And if you thought you spied something with your little eye, you're right.
Truffle. Two grams for twenty-five. Terrific. Tantalizing. Tumultous. Pardon my thrilled tittering. It was very, very good. I might even say, very very wicked. Also, this was my first foray into venison. I don't know why I always thought it would be tough on the teeth. It turned out terribly tender. And yes, I'll stop now.
dashi apple veil, dancing bonito flakes and rosella chutney salad, cavalo nero
Sadly overshadowed by the preceding dish, I still really liked the pork, though I was disappointed by the absence of crackling. The bonito flakes were an interesting addition, as I've never had it paired with pig. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure it added much in the area of flavour, but it was certainly very pretty!
I also liked the accompaniments; they were very reminiscent of the dependable piggy sides of apple and cabbage.
And finally, desserts!
And petit fours, of course:
Now for the disclaimers. I loved the food, it was faultless. And I am such a groupie foodie that I almost swooned when Jacques Reymond himself stopped by to say hello. I might even have asked for a photograph had it not been for the strange events that punctuated our dinner. And I will list these from the nagging niggling to simply startling:
1. As I said previously, we were never offered more bread, even when we were clearly picking at the crumbs.
2. There was an actual need to pick at crumbs. Our first few courses took absolute ages to arrive; I would estimate a good 30-40 minutes or more between the first three, and it was already 10pm (we arrived about 7.40) by the time we received the third appetizer. No explanation or apology was received, but I am quite certain that this was because of a function that was taking place upstairs.
3. It was very loud. Not because of the other patrons, nor the function, but because the kitchen door was left open, and there was a great amount of shouting going on throughout the night.
4. The shouting was not of the typical kitchen type (or perhaps it is, and I am simply oblivious to the foibles of the business). At several times, it was of the aggressive and dare I say abusive variety, e.g. "IT'S BEEN HALF AN HOUR M------, THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!" and "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Very Gordon Ramsay-eque, but less entertaining off the screen. Interestingly, the wait staff did not bat an eye.
So I'm torn. Definitely not the best of fine dining experiences, Victoria Awards notwithstanding. But it was clearly a very unusual experience and I suspect the kitchen was having a really bad night. And the food was outstanding even so.
As far as revisiting goes however, I'm not sure I'd risk it. Like the unfortunate M, it just wasn't good enough.


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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) Texas Tech says offensive line coach Chris Thomsen will serve as interim coach of the Red Raiders for their bowl game this month against Minnesota.
Thomsen got the nod Monday, two days after Tommy Tuberville left to take the head coaching position at Cincinnati. Also on Monday, Neal Brown, the team's offensive coordinator the past three years, resigned to take the same job at Kentucky.
The Red Raiders play Minnesota in the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Houston on Dec. 28.
Thomsen was 51-21 in seven seasons at Abilene Christian and led the Wildcats to the NCAA Division II playoffs six consecutive seasons. He arrived at Texas Tech in February.


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Special Collections: Photographs
Baltimore - Great Fire of 1904 - Demolition Crew with Dynamite Apparatus, unidentified photographer, 1904, Subject Vertical File, MdHS.
There are over one million photographs in the MdHS collection that depict Maryland history. A small fraction of which can be viewed in the Collections Online database (click and scroll down). New images are added often.
Click here to download a tutorial (.pptx) on how to search our photo collections.
Getting Started Online
Below is a list of the major components of the MdHS photographs collection. If searching general terms based on subject, name, or location, below is the best place to start your search and to understand how the photographs collNote ections are arranged. a general search can be conducted by entering terms into the Search box in the upper right corner, beginning with broad terms.
Numbered Photograph Collections (PP)
Collections of photographs (and some printed materials) provided by one donor or compiled from several donors. The link above contains subject descriptions of the 200+ photograph collections.
Group Portrait Vertical File (GPVF)
Images of groups arranged alphabetically by subject. The link above is the complete listing.
Portrait Vertical File (PVF)
Images of individuals arranged alphabetically by the sitter's last name. This list contains over 6,000 names.
Subject Vertical File (SVF)
Items are arranged by subject in a hierarchy that is alphabetical, geographical, and chronological. The index contains subjects as well as counties or major cities in Maryland, highlighted in bold. Containing over 17,000 items, this is one of MdHS's most popular photograph resource tools.
Cased Photographs Collection (CSPH)
Over 500 daguerreotypes, tintypes, opalotypes, etc. mostly of individuals or groups. Note some of the items on this list may not be available for requests in the library.
Major Collections With Specific Scopes
Peale/Baltimore City Life Museum (BCLM) Photograph Collection
Date range is late 1840s through 1980s with particular strength in the first half of the twentieth century. The collection is particularly strong in documentation of Baltimore's history including architecture, residents, neighborhoods, businesses, politics, etc. There are over 60,000 items in this collection. BCLM inventory lists are currently being edited and uploaded as each inventory list becomes available. Browse through BCLM images of all kind in Collections Online (click and scroll down).
Hughes Company PP8 and Hughes Studio Collection PP30
Both collections are by commercial photography company, the Hughes Company. PP8 ranges from ca. 1910-1946 and PP30 ranges from ca. 1940-1956. Both collections combined are a staggering visual depiction of Baltimore City and Maryland history. The collection contains roughly 40,000 photographs of street scenes, architecture, construction, portraits, buildings, shipping, industry, businesses, sport facilities, residences, churches, transportation and much more.
Paul Henderson Photograph Collection (BCLM HEN)
Over 6,000 negatives and prints from ca. 1940-1960 depicting prominent and unidentified African Americans of Baltimore and Maryland, church and other organizations and clubs, Civil Rights-related protests, entertainers, Pennsylvania Avenue, Morgan State University (then College), Negro League baseball team Elite Giants, and more. Reference photographs of the negatives are available in the library.
Eubie Blake Collection
The Eubie Blake collection includes photographs, manscript items, and sheet music from the estate of James Herbert "Eubie" Blake the renowned African American jazz and ragtime composer, lyricist, and pianist. The collection consists of three separate collections:
Eubie Blake Photograph Collection, PP301
Eubie Blake Manuscript and Ephemera Collection, MS 2800
Eubie Blake Sheet Music Collection, MS 2800.1
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Enter search terms into the following search tools:
General search tool located in the upper right corner of the website
Collections Online database search tool. The term "Photograph" is already entered for you in the search tool box. All you have to do is type in a title, creator, or colleciton name. (This is only for images that have already been digitized and uploaded to the website.)
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Please view the Library User Information before planning your trip to the library.
To provide easy access, photocopies of some of the most popular photos are found in binders to be pulled on your behalf by Special Collections staff. These images may be photocopied. The subjects of the binders are:
Baltimore, 1752-1899; 1900-1924; 1925-1945; 1946-1980 (four total)
Baltimore Theaters/Streetcars
Historical Maryland and Baltimore Prints from the Hambleton Collection
Md. African-American History
Md. Views/Maryland Children/Famous Marylanders/Md. Seasonal and Holiday Photographs
Maryland Photographers (Paul Henderson, A. Aubrey Bodine, etc.)
Pat I of the Paul Henderson Photograph Collection (ca. 1940-1960 Baltimore's African American Community) is also available in three-ring binders as reference photographs. The original negatives are restricted from public use.
Local History Subject File
This clippings file features newspaper and magazine articles about a wide variety of Maryland subjects, including geographical locations, buildings, institutions, organizations, businesses, events, and activities. The articles are organized alphabetically by subject and may be photocopied. Many of the articles include photographs. If you are just looking for information rather than reproductions, this could be very useful.
The library owns many books featuring excellent illustrations, many originals of which are in our collections. Check the picture credits; they will indicate if the picture is in the MdHS collection. (Items credited to the Baltimore City Life Museums or the Peale Museum are now the property of MdHS.) Books may be photocopied. Books are available in the main reading room. In addition to browsing the shelves, for books with illustrations, try adding "ill" as a keyword when a searching in the Online Catalog.
Passano Historic Structures Index
Over the years, library staff members have created a large card index to buildings by location. The index often includes references to illustrations in books. Learn more about the Passano Index on the MdHS Library blog.
Rights and Reproduction
For rights and reproduction information, please visit the Rights and Reproduction page of this website. Please be sure to acquire the item ID through the Special Collections Department for the image(s) you would like digitally reproduced before contacting the Department of Imaging Services. Please do not send checks to the Department of Imaging Services without confirmation of total first.
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Kiss bassist and reality star Gene Simmons wed his long-time girlfriend this weekend — and naturally, the nuptials are bound for the pair's reality series.
Among those at the Beverly Hills wedding Saturday night: Bill Maher, the rest of Kiss and the bride's former boss, Hugh Hefner. The couple's daughter served as maid of honor and sang for their first dance.
The made-up metal musician-cum-reality star has been with former Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed for 28 years that produced two adult kids, so the marriage might not change much.
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But according to Simmons, it reflects a change in him.
"It is time for me to grow up. I'm 62," he told "Entertainment Tonight" just before tying the knot. "I love Shannon with all my heart and all my soul and always will."
Despite Simmons' candor, the Chicago Sun-Times cited one skeptical wedding guest who said the affair felt "totally staged." The couple's show on A&E premieres this Tuesday.
Simmons proposed to Tweed, 54, back in July — also on their show, of course — with a 24-carat diamond ring.
A taping of the wedding is set to air on the couple's show later this month.
Selected Reading: Us Magazine, Entertainment Tonight, Chicago Sun-Times


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The financial meltdown of Sunwest Management continues to send shock waves through the investor and seniors housing communities, and raises new questions about how tenant-in-common (TIC) offerings will be marketed and sold in the future.
At its peak, Sunwest was one of the largest assisted living owners and operators with over 275 properties in 37 states and an estimated annual revenue of $500 million. The Salem, Ore.-based company employed 12,000 people.
But by January of this year, over 100 Sunwest properties had been placed in foreclosure, receivership or bankruptcy, essentially wiping out investors. A rash of lawsuits have been filed against Sunwest and its owners. State health regulators have targeted some of the properties for quality of care, too.
Another blow came March 2 when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed charges of securities fraud against Sunwest, its former CEO Jon Harder and several related entities. "We allege that they misled investors," says Marc Fagel, regional director of the SEC's San Francisco office.
The SEC complaint says Sunwest raised $300 million from more than 1,300 investors by promising a steady income stream and touting its success in running properties. The properties were sold as TIC investments.
In 2001, Canyon Creek Development was formed as the TIC sponsor. Harder was a principal of Canyon Creek Development, which located properties for Sunwest to manage. In 2005, Harder formed Canyon Creek Financial, a broker-dealer which sold TICs only sponsored by Canyon Creek Development.
TICs typically purchase apartments and commercial office buildings. The complaint charges that Sunwest told investors that they would be investing in a particular property that would generate annual returns of 10%.
The SEC alleges that at least half the properties lost money, and Sunwest concealed this from investors by commingling funds. Investors were paid from these commingled funds as well as from mortgage refinancings. "By commingling the funds, they were able to move cash wherever they needed it and bury the dirty laundry for some time," says Fagan.
Steve English, a Portland attorney who represents Harder, the former CEO of Sunwest, says funds from established and well-occupied buildings were used to pay the expenses at new buildings that had not yet reached full occupancy. "They had to heat the place, buy food, and pay the mortgage," he says.
The fund transfer from one building to another was booked as a loan, says English. "There was no effort to hide it." The loans were not revealed in the investors' prospectus, English admits.
But he says investors did receive financial statements documenting the loans. The loans were to be repaid when the buildings reached full occupancy. But when the financial crisis hit last year, English says, "They were caught short."
Restructuring underway
For now, Sunwest is being run by turnaround specialist Hamstreet & Associates, Portland, Ore., brought in by Harder when he resigned. On March 12, the SEC and Sunwest reached a court-ordered agreement that allows Hamstreet to continue to operate Sunwest, which is expected to file for bankruptcy.
Currently, 26 buildings, structured as separate limited liability corporations, are in bankruptcy. Another 11 buildings have been returned to lenders and 10 are being transferred to TIC investors, according to a spokesperson at Hamstreet. Six properties are under contract for sale and five have been sold to individual buyers.
Five Star Quality Care of Newton, Mass., bought seven bankrupt Sunwest properties last December for $44 million. In January, institutional investor Lone Star Funds of Dallas purchased 45 Sunwest buildings with 3,554 units. Loan Star declined to comment for this story. But industry sources estimate the purchase price at $364 million.
Lone Star has hired the Senior Resource Group to operate the properties. The buildings are being managed under the La Vida brand name.
The buildings have an average occupancy of 82% and some of the properties are fully occupied, according to Donna Thomas spokesperson for the Senior Resource Group, Solana Beach, Calif. None of the buildings is involved in a lawsuit. Senior Resource is currently evaluating the buildings to make sure they are in good repair and meet local licensing requirements for assisted care.
As the Sunwest case moves through the courts, questions have emerged about the future of TIC property sales. TICs can be sold as real estate investments or as securities. Real estate TICs are not held to the same high standard of disclosure as securities investments, say experts.
The Hamstreet spokesperson says the Sunwest investments were marketed as real estate TICs until July 2006. After that, the investments were sold as securities.
The SEC's Fagan says the Sunwest investments are securities, but were not registered as securities. The Oregon Division of Finance & Corporate Securities is currently investigating how the Sunwest investments were marketed.
TIC model in question
"It's given all of us in the industry a black eye," says Wes Larson, CEO and president of ClearView Real Estate Capital, Issaquah, Wash. ClearView sells securitized TIC investments.
Regulators have been cracking down on TICs. In a case similar to that of Sunwest, the TIC operator DBSI has been charged with securities fraud by the Idaho Department of Finance. The lawsuit alleges that investors were bilked out of millions of dollars through the sale of unlicensed securities. DBSI, with 240 commercial properties valued at $2.4 billion, filed for bankruptcy last November.
The Tenant-In-Common Association (TICA), a TIC trade group, recommends that all TICs be structured as securities. "Most of our members sell TICs as securities," says Katherine Finley, TICA executive director. She reports a recent decline in TIC volume but attributes the slide to the shaky real estate market and not to the securities fraud allegations.
Investment adviser Larson at ClearView Real Estate Capital thinks real estate TICs will disappear. "No broker will want to take the risk of being run up on securities fraud," he says.
TICs are a security, says Jeff Hanson, president and CIO at Grubb & Ellis Realty Investors, a large TIC sponsor based in Santa Ana, Calif. Hanson expects some negative fallout for the TIC industry stemming from the Sunwest and DBSI cases. "Investors know the blue chip names," he says, "and who they can trust."


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Today's post is written by Diane Eblin author of the newly published ebook, The Gluten Free Diner Cookbook , and the blog: "The W.H.O.L.E. Gang."
Day 24 - Diane's Mexican Pizza
There is nothing our family likes more than pizza. Living gluten and dairy free has not slowed us down. It has however made me a lot more creative and we are eating amazing pizzas now, not just cheese and pepperoni.
Now that its summer and the farmer's markets are full of amazing fresh produce, I am having even more fun with my food. Our family loves to eat many different ethnic cuisines, but I think our two favorites are Mexican and Italian. So I thought, why not combine both. On a recent trip to the farmers market I gathered some jalapeno peppers, red onion and tomatoes. That is how it all started, my Mexican Pizza. I also had tomatillos and mushrooms hanging out in the refrigerator. Why not put them all together?
I really loved how the sweetness of the tomatillos played with the spiciness of the chipotle and jalapenos. It was a party in my mouth and I can't wait to have it again.
The great thing about this pizza and any pizza is you can literally clean out the refrigerator and prep this pizza in the time it takes for the oven to warm up.
So keep this in mind as you create your pizza, use what ingredients you like and have on hand. That's the key to fun, fresh new pizza ideas. The fastest pizza I ever made was a Za'atar Pizza and the thickest most stuffed pizza was my Spinach and Artichoke Dip Pizza.
Diane's Mexican Pizza
vegetarian, gluten free, dairy free, soy free
Makes 8 slices unless you cut them really small, then you get 16.
Your favorite pizza crust or mix. (I used Chebe all purpose mix.)
1 package of sliced mushrooms (sliced and whole costs the same)
½ red onion diced
4-6 tomatillos sliced, depending on size and pizza size
2-4 jalapenos seeded and sliced
1 large tomato diced
Daiya Cheese- cheddar and mozzarella (gluten, dairy, and soy free)
2 tsp butter (Earth Balance dairy, gluten and soy free)
Garlic powder
Olive oil
Adobo (I use Penzeys which contains-garlic, onion, Tellicherry black pepper, Mexican oregano, cumin and cayenne red pepper.)
Cilantro- dried or handful of fresh chopped
Chipotle chili powder
Ancho chili powder
Large crystal sea salt
Fresh cracked black pepper
- Pre-heat your oven
- While the oven is heating up dice your onion and toss it and the mushrooms into a large skillet with the butter and a little splash of olive oil on medium to medium high.
- While that is cooking mix your pizza dough, roll it out and put it onto your pan. Prick the surface with a fork so it don't get one of those large bubbles. Give that skillet a little toss.
- Slice your tomatillos, chop your tomato and seed and slice your jalapeno. I like to use one large cutting board for it all. It goes much faster that way. Give that skillet one more toss, sprinkle with a little sea salt and pepper and turn off.
- Assemble your pizza!
- Sprinkle the dough with some olive oil and then use the back of a spoon or your fingers (best kitchen tool) to spread it around. Sprinkle the dough with garlic powder making sure to get it all the way to the edges. Don't use too much or it will be too over powering. Also sprinkle the dough with the Adobo, but not to the edges.
- Add your sliced tomatillos and chopped tomatoes around the pizza. Now sprinkle with the cheeses. I don't like a lot of cheese on my pizza and with Daiya I would not use as much as I would have it were regular dairy cheese. Remember, you can always add more the next time or even after you've tasted it just pop it back into the oven.
- Now distribute the mushroom onion mixture and sliced jalapeno peppers. Sprinkle with the ancho and cilantro. The last thing I add are the chipotle and sea salt all the way to the edges. I really like to have a good seasoning on the edges of my pizza.
- Bake according to your dough directions and enjoy!
Stay tuned for Day 25 of 30 Days Gluten Free Quick & Easy Meals. Tomorrow will feature another fabulous recipe from Brooke "Ness" author of Gluten Free... Who? Me?


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Resilience is a word that has gotten a lot of play lately. In a world that has us spending more and more time bracing for what might be coming, it's something we're starting to think we maybe should have more of.
This article in Harvard Business Review talks about resilience in terms of getting back up after being knocked down. They say that "this will be a key to survival in a world where 'surprises are the new normal.'â
The Huairou Commission, a women's disaster relief organization, defines resilience as âthe capacity of a community to organize itself to reduce the impact of disasters by protecting lives, homes, assets, basic services and infrastructure.â
Then there are cultural dimensions. Some have suggested that indigenous cultures are inherently more resilient. Have the modern conveniences of life made us soft, lazy and totally dependent on relatively fragile technology, thus more vulnerable to shocks? What can we learn from indigenous cultures about resiliency to make life safer for us and for them? Questions like these are being are being studied at places such as the Center for American Indian Resilience at the University of Arizona and at the Australian Indigenous Resiliency Project, particularly with respect to public health concerns.
Psychology Today describes it in terms of the ability to remain calm in the face of disaster.
Scientists are also studying the biological roots of resilience, trying to understand why some people can recover from trauma better than others. They have identified a neuropeptide marker Y, and a gene involved in hormonal feedback loops.
Jill Klein is a psychologist who teaches marketing at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Growing up, she was strongly influenced by the fact that her father, two aunts and her grandmother were all Holocaust survivors, having been taken from their home and shipped off to Auschwitz in 1944. Her grandfather, Herman, was sent to the gas chamber upon his arrival.
She has written a meticulous account of their experiences based hundreds of hours of interviews as well as the diaries kept by her two aunts, who were young women at the time. She also did a great deal of independent research to put their subjective accounts into an historical context. The result is the fine memoir entitled We Got the Water: Tracing My Familyâs Path Through Auschwitz.


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