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Rachel Robinson congratulates all-time saves leader on stellar career
Yankees closer Mariano Rivera retired the side in order and struck out two in the ninth inning to notch his 34th save of the year and the 642nd of his historic career as New York blanked Los Angeles, 3-0, at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday. The all-time saves leader, who will retire after this season, also received kind praise from Rachel Robinson, the widow of Hall of Famer and pioneer Jackie Robinson.
"I wanted to add a special greeting to the last player to wear the No. 42," Robinson said in a video directed to Rivera. "When Major League Baseball retired Jack's number in 1997, there were 13 players still wearing it. You have worn the number with class and dignity, and I believe you have added to the historic significance of that number."
Rivera, who met with Dodgers employees prior to Wednesday's series finale, has referred to wearing the number as a privilege in the past, and he has expressed his admiration and respect for Jackie's journey and the influence it left.
"Me being the last player to wear it, it's a challenge to keep the legacy that Mr. Jackie did, not only what he went through on the field, but off the field. The kind of person that he was, it's great," Rivera told MLB.com on Jackie Robinson Day in April.
"I'm sure that if Jack had seen you play he would have been proud to have his number worn by you, although he probably would [have] wished that it was for a team other than the Yankees," Robinson joked. "Congratulations on your amazing playing career and good luck with your future endeavors."
With Wednesday's performance, the 43-year-old Rivera lowered his ERA to 1.60. He has a 2-2 record with 34 saves in 36 opportunities in 39 1/3 innings this season.


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On Saturday, the Dallas Police Department identified a suspect in connection with one of nine sexual assaults in South Dallas.
Dallas police said there was a DNA match from one of the cases to the suspect, Van Dralan Dixon. He is a black, 38-years-old and stands 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs about 185 pounds.
An arrest warrant for aggravated sexual assault has been issued for Dixson. That warrant carries with it a $1 million bond.
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Police are asking for the public's assistance in locating Dixson and anyone who knows Dixson's whereabouts is urged to contact Dallas police.
Dixson does have an extensive criminal record, including an arrest in early August for deadly conduct by Dallas police, court records show. However, police would not say how they got a sample of Dixson's DNA.
Maj. Jeff Cotner said investigators are awaiting more laboratory tests to come back on the other assaults. So far, Dixson is only officially linked to the one assault and police would not specify which of the cases Dixson's DNA is connected with.
"Detectives will continue to investigate all leads, even though a suspect has been identiteid," Cotner said.
Officers identified a person of interest, Alan Mason, on Thursday. Mason was taken into custody on outstanding warrants but police said he is not a suspect in the sexual assaults.
Residents Still Concerned
In South Dallas on Saturday night, residents NBC 5 spoke with were still very concerned that no arrest had been made in the rape cases.
"Tthere's a lot of people afraid," one woman said.
"Very scary, makes me want to be very careful," said Delilah Andrews.
"Normally I go in the house at 12, now I changed it to 9 or 10, not trying to stay outside at night," said Latyoie King.
NBC 5 showed the residents the picture of Dixson. No one recognized him, but said they hope he is caught soon and that they'll keep an eye out for him.
Another Sexual Assault in Area
On Saturday morning another sexual assault was reported to have happened at about 5 a.m. near Pennsylvania Avenue and Holmes Street.
Okema Thomas said her cousin heard something outside about the time of the attack.
"She heard some noise about 4 o'clock this morning and a guy in her apartment went outside, you know to see what it was, and found a woman," Thomas said. "She was putting up her clothes and she has been sexually assaulted, she had been raped."
Dallas police said that sexual assault is still under investigation and has not been linked to the other rapes in the area.

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December corn finished the day unchanged at $5.00 ¾, November soybeans 8 ¼ higher at $12.74, and September wheat 4 cents higher at $6.64 ½. August soybeans made a new high for the move at $14.92 ¾ today. The tightness of old crop soybeans continues to be the main supporting factor for the entire complex including the November contract. This has been part the reason the new crop corn to soybean ratio has been so strong. Today's midday weather forecast took some rain out of the forecast for IA/NE which was also supportive for prices.
Today's Commitment of Traders report shows that the managed money is still net short corn although they have lightened up that position by almost 20,000 contracts over the course of a week. The other large (reportable) traders were liquidating some of their net long position and the non-reportable trader added to the net short position. The managed money is long soybeans and adding to the position. They are net long 124,432 contracts of soybeans using futures/options combined. They added about 25,000 contracts between Wednesday 10th – Tuesday 16th. The managed money went from a large net long position in corn to a net short position this year, yet they are still very long soybeans. It fits perfectly with the fact that soybeans have been holding more support than corn during that time frame as the corn – bean ratio clearly shows. With a sizable position held by the funds we could see some large swings in the opposite direction once they decide to liquidate. That would be something to watch out for if we start out August with good weather and a good forecast. Monday we will have crop ratings after the close. Otherwise weather will be the main thing to watch for price action. Have a great weekend!
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Hybrid technology is a primary path for the auto industry to improve fuel economy for its vehicles, but it's not something most automotive engineers learned in school. Michigan Technological University and industry partners are working to fix that by bringing the latest advanced propulsion and battery technology know-how to the engineers in the heartland of the auto industry—Detroit.
With vehicles donated by GM, Michigan Tech has teamed up with the Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD) and industry leaders including AVL to offer the graduate-level course in Detroit. Classes and modeling studies along with hands-on labs are being taught at various facilities, including the Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor and AVL in Plymouth.
This is the second semester that Michigan Tech, ESD and industrial partners have offered the three-credit graduate course. The first course targeted approximately 60 out-of-work automotive engineers in partnership with GM. The second session has just wrapped up, and a third session will start in January 2010. The second and third courses are offered through a partnership with the Michigan Academy of Green Mobility (MAGM) and target engineers employed in the auto or transportation industry who are seeking to upgrade their skills.
Approximately 100 engineers completed the fall course, and another 100 are expected to take the spring 2010 session. Tuition is paid in part through the MAGM, in partnership with the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth through the Michigan Green Jobs Program.
Lead instructor is Jeff Naber, associate professor of mechanical engineering-engineering mechanics and director of the Advanced Power Systems Research Center at Michigan Tech. Other faculty include Jeff Allen, John Beard, Jeff Burl, Steve Hackney, Wayne Weaver and Jeremy Worm, all from Michigan Tech.
Students praise the course. "It combines theory with practical, real-world automotive knowledge, enabling engineers to significantly advance their skills in these critical areas," said Timothy Philippart, a staff engineer with GM.
"The course combines many hybrid vehicle engineering concepts to provide us with a working-level comprehensive overview that helps us effectively build on our everyday jobs," observed Christina Cramer, another GM engineer.


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Hey, I've been having some trouble with getting reverse iterators to work along with the standard algorithms. Since they only accept a normal iterator I can't do any computation using a reverse iterator unless I can somehow "convert" them. I tried using .base() but it didn't work out quite well. So to try and "emulate" reverse iterators I assigned a normal iterator to the end of a vector and minus 1 (which is a bit hackish and not to my liking). Is there a way to make a reverse iterator work with the algorithms? The code below is trying to implement a "stack" LIFO structure that also allows me to pop by position.
I originally had something like:Code:std::string CompressStack::pop(int pos) { std::vector<std::string>::iterator iter = wordStack.end()-1; int cnt = 1; if (pos >= wordStack.size()) { std::cerr << "Invalid size."; std::string str("NULL"); return str; } while (cnt < pos) { iter--; cnt++; } std::string str(*iter); /* a bit hackish but still works */ std::cerr << "Deleting: " << *iter << std::endl; wordStack.erase(iter); // wordStack.erase(std::find(wordStack.rbegin(),wordStack.rend(),*iter).base()); return str; }
Obviously I used the increment operator instead of the decrement operator in the while loop. And I tried using the commented out statement which didn't seem to function as I intended. It would find the first instance from the "front" of the stack that matched the value. Having 2 values that are the same and wanting to delete the "second" similar value causes incorrect behaviour since it would delete the first instance instead of the second.Code:std::vector<std::string>::reverse_iterator iter = wordStack.rbegin();
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Many of the San Antonio Symphony musicians travel and perform outside of Texas during the summer. (The Symphony season runs from October to June.) Principal Oboe Mark Ackerman recently gave a concert in Yankton, South Dakota, and he told me it was quite special. FYI, it is currently 97 degrees in San Antonio. In Yankton it is 74 degrees.
I gave a concert in Yankton South Dakota two years ago, at my sister's request. "Would you play the oboe here so dad can hear you play one more time." I played a concert of Fathers' day. My 89 year old dad heard it, the last time he was to hear me play. We managed to fill a little Lutheran church there to capacity. (250-300?) We were asked to do it again.
Mark later gave me this update:
Yankton, South Dakota, is a town I will estimate to have 15,000 residents. It is on the bank of the Missouri River. I had no idea that we would fill Yankton, South Dakota's Trinity Lutheran Church to capacity that Sunday afternoon, but we did. We are, literally, back by popular demand! My father died a year later, so this was the last time he heard me play. To some degree, for me, these are concerts in memory of my father.
This is, quite literally, a concert of friends making music together. Perhaps the original definition of chamber music, like the Musikabends (musical evenings) of Franz Schubert. Many of the people in attendance will be friends and acquaintances of the musicians playing. A small town affair!
About the musicians performing: Pianist Jim Nyberg is a retired dentist of surprising talent and accomplishment. Marilyn, his wife, is the organist at Trinity Lutheran. The two of them play piano four hands in Yankton, loved by all who hear it.
Bassoonist Mindy Braithwaite is a friend of mine since I was a teenager. She plays in the South Dakota Symphony and the Sioux City Symphony.
Oboist Mason Tran is a mutual friend of all of us, just graduated from Luther College. He's a twenty year old wunderkind who runs miles in four and a half minutes and coaches baseball in his hometown, Canton, South Dakota.
Soprano Solveig Nyberg sings and teaches in Portland, Oregon. My sister Susan heard her sing a concert in Portland and called me, excited at what she heard.
The two concerts consist of a Friday night of Baroque music, finishing with Bach"s Cantata 199, sung by soprano Solveig Nyberg. Also heard will be a Handel Sonata in B-Flat for two oboes and continuo, the aria "Piangero' la sorte mia" from Handel's Giulio Cesare, a Sonata in Kanon of G. P. Telemann. Continuo keyboard will be played by Marilyn Nyberg.
On Sunday afternoon the program will be mostly French, except for a piece for English horn and piano, After Orion, by Kenneth Fuchs, ending with the Piano Trio of Clara Schumann, played by oboist Mark Ackerman, bassoonist Mindy Braithwaite and pianist Jim Nyberg.
The French music on the program will be a duo for oboe and English horn, Shepherds of Provence, by Eugene Bozza, played by Mark Ackerman and oboist Mason Tran, a set of songs of Frances Poulenc, and a set of songs in French by Kurt Weil, sung by Solveig with her father playing the piano.
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What to Eat at Borough Market, London
The eyes of the world are on the magnificent city of London right now. Being in London at the moment, I can tell you that much of the city is abuzz with talk of the Olympics. Also underway, albeit quietly, is an eating marathon around town, especially at the famed Borough Market.
We have already covered this great market a few times including its intriguing history. This photo slideshow, therefore, focuses on what you should look out for
if when you go to the market! Click through all the photos or jump to any below.
"Luxury English muffins" (The Flour Station)
Tomato tarts (Bread Ahead)
Artisan breads (Oliver's Bakery)
Produce, Olives, Spices
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Heirloom tomatoes
Samphire a.k.a. sea asparagus
Organic berries from Kent
Rambutans and mangosteens
Fresh galangal and lemongrass
Different types of oyster mushrooms
Fresh campari tomatoes from the Isle of Wight (The Tomato Stall)
Pink garlic of Lautrec
Assorted chutneys (Gujarati Rasoi)
Dried fruits, Nuts, Turkish delights
Assorted fig preserves
Over 100 different herb and spice blends (Spice Mountain)
Cured olives (Borough Olives)
Meats and Seafood
Duck confit sandwich (Le Marché du Quartier)
Chorizo and smoked sausage on sticks
Ostrich meat and egg shells (Gamton Wood Ostriches)
Jumbo live langoustine (Sussex Fish)
Saucissons secs
Jésus du pays Basque (The Ham & Cheese Co.)
Argentine empanadas (Porteña)
Bratwurst (The German Deli)
'Nduja (De Calabria)
Baguette Sandwiches
Cassoulet and assorted pâtés (Le Marché du Quartier)
Pork pies
Canned graisse d'oie (Le Marché du Quartier)
Bubbling stews, Spanish and non-Spanish
Organic fresh meat
Raclette with potatoes and gherkins (Kappacasein)
Brie de Meaux (Un Normande à Londres)
Comté and Tomme aged in Fort St. Antoine (Borough Cheese Company)
2-year aged Parmiagiano-Reggiano (The Ham & Cheese Co.)
Chelsea Buns (The Flour Station)
Bakewell tart (The Flour Station)
Different flavors of fudge (Burnt Sugar)
Jumbo meringue (Comptoir Gourmand)
Ma'amoul (The Arabica Food & Spice Company)
Organic goat's milk ice cream (Greedy Goat)
Custard tarts (Comptoir Gourmand)
Argentine-style alfajores (Porteña)
Lots of fruit juice blends
Sangria (Le Marché du Quartier)
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Colter leads Wildcats over Hawkeyes
Northwestern gets seventh win of season
EVANSTON, Ill. — Northwestern 28, Iowa 17: Kain Colter rushed for a career-high 166 yards and three touchdowns and threw for another as the host Wildcats kept their Big Ten title hopes alive by holding off the Hawkeyes.
Venric Mark rushed for 162 yards for Northwestern (7-2, 3-2 Big Ten), which outgained Iowa on the ground 117-25 in the first half and 349-122 for the game. Colter was 6-of-9 for 80 yards, including a 47-yard touchdown pass to Christian Jones.
Quarterback James Vandenberg was 24-of-38 for 214 yards and rushed for a pair of touchdowns for the Hawkeyes (4-4, 2-2), who lost top running back Mark Weisman to a leg strain late in the second quarter. Damon Bullock carried 22 times for 107 yards.
Colter capped an 11-play, 75-yard drive with a 5-yard touchdown run on the game's opening possession. His second score – a 2-yarder – came six plays after Mark's 72-yard run on first-and-10 from the Northwestern 1-yard line and made it 14-3.
The Wildcats took a 21-3 lead on their first possession of the third quarter when Colter found a seam and darted into the end zone, one play after Tyris Jones blocked Connor Kornbrath's punt out of bounds at the 3-yard line. Colter connected with Jones on the next possession to put Northwestern ahead 28-3.
Iowa, which enjoyed a nearly nine-minute time of possession advantage, closed to within 28-17 on Vanderberg's second 1-yard touchdown run with 6:37 remaining before turning it over on downs at the Northwestern 24 with 1:44 to go.
GAME NOTEBOOK: The Wildcats have won six of the last eight meetings. … Northwestern scored touchdowns on three of its four trips into the red zone and is 32-of-35 with 22 TDs inside the 20 this season. … Mark entered the game sixth in the Big Ten at 114.4 yards per game while Weisman, who had 21 yards on nine carries, was seventh (91.4).


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Milestone or millstone?
There is one minute left in Thursday.
One minute left in Thursday, the 31st.
One minute left in March.
Which means there is one minute left in the first Quarter of the year.
As per the "Project Schedule and Milestones" contained in Appendix F to the November 18th 2010 Term Sheet, the deal to keep talking (until conveniently just after the next provincial election) about maybe building a dam at Muskrat Falls, the document which Shawn Skinner won't post on the DunderGov website for reasons that are best asked of Shawn Skinner but have not yet been asked... this quarter, which has probably expired in the time it has taken you to read this far, was the quarter in which the Joint Review Panel Hearings were to have been completed.
So, in one minute, the Danny Williams Memorial Project will be behind schedule.
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In today's opening paragraph I feel compelled to share this bit of wisdom with all of our readers: don't ever attempt to renovate a house without ample professional help. Never. Just don't do it. For the past three weeks I, the least handy person you may never meet, have been tasked with doing things that only Bob Vila and a few select others could be reasonably prepared for. It's an all-consuming, seemingly neverending process that leaves you as the only movie blogger in the history of the civilized world who hasn't yet seen The Avengers. Trust me, it's a lonely place…
All warnings aside, in store for you in this week's Top 5 is the first poster for the Anchorman sequel, Anchorman: The Legend Continues, pleasant news regarding the Blade Runner sequel, interviews with Cameron Diaz, Anna Kendrick and more for the rom-com What to Expect When You're Expecting, the first trailer for producer Sam Raimi's The Possession, and a 4-minute "super preview" of The Amazing Spider-Man. Per usual, a brief recap and link to each falls after the jump.
1. First Poster for ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND CONTINUES
Sure, it's a picture from the shin down of four people who probably aren't actually the "real" Channel 4 news team. That said, this first poster for the Anchorman sequel, Anchorman: The Legend Continues, has my full attention not because of its spectacular design but because it's further evidence that this really is happening. I've never been one to wish my life away, but 2013 really can't get here soon enough.
2. Original BLADE RUNNER Screenwriter, Hampton Fancher, Returns to Pen Sequel
When word broke last summer that Ridley Scott would be returning to the world of Blade Runner to direct a sequel, I can't say I was all that excited. In fact, I'm still not. For me, Blade Runner is a true sci-fi classic and something that I'd rather see left in peace. Nevertheless, I guess if a sequel absolutely must be made, I suppose I would rather see Scott and Blade Runner writer Hampton Fancher take a crack at it than anyone else.
3. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING Interviews
This weekend, the ensemble romantic comedy What to Expect When You're Expecting finds itself in the unenviable position of opening only two weeks after the box office buzz saw that is The Avengers. $3.9 million on its opening Friday later and I can only offer my sincere condolences to Cameron Diaz and co. in the form of a Top 5 slot that features our video interviews with Ms. Diaz and Glee's Matthew Morrison, Chace Crawford and Anna Kendrick (check out our solo interview with Ms. Kendrick here), Elizabeth Banks and Ben Falcone, and director Kirk Jones.
4. First Trailer for Producer Sam Raimi's THE POSSESSION
Given my excitement for most all things Sam Raimi/horror genre related, it was basically a foregone conclusion that this first trailer for The Possession (produced by Raimi) was going to make the cut this week regardless of how it looked. To my delight, it actually looks pretty solid in spite of the fact that it will likely ruin my love of searching out and purchasing yard sale treasures.
5. 4-Minute "Super Preview" and New Posters for THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
Aside from the opening title card proclaiming it as the "Summer's Most Anticipated", I can pretty much get behind this 4-minute "super preview" of The Amazing Spider-Man from beginning to end. Director Marc Webb and co. seem to have nailed Spidey's trademark sense of humor and the opening sequence featuring the wall crawler empowering an endangered youth via his mask toes the line between rewarding subtext and on-the-nose melodrama with precision. Combine the extended preview with these two new posters, and it's pretty clear that Sony is officially in "all hands on deck" mode for the pic.


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Google is planning to offer accounts to kids under 13 for the very first time, according to reports.
Most Internet accounts, such as Gmail, YouTube or Facebook, are not offered to those under 13 because of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, according to the Wall Street Journal. COPPA limits, among other things, how information on those under 13 is collected and requires parental consent.
Despite COPPA, children are often found faking birth dates to register with YouTube or Facebook. Facebook has already filed for a patent for under 13s, and according to reports more than half of all 12-year-olds have a Facebook account.
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Innovative ideas to leverage Galileo data
Three promising startups have unveiled innovative applications developed under the tutelage of the ESA-supported cesah incubator. The new ideas make use of future highly accurate Galileo location data.
Three German companies are some of the first to create prototypes of location-based applications intended to leverage the highly accurate position data that will be generated by Galileo, Europe's global navigation satellite system.
The three presented their applications to leading German media at a press event held at ESA's Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany, on 11 January 2007. The companies were introduced by Roland Koch, Minister President of the Hessen region, and Gaele Winters, ESA's Director of Operations and Infrastructure.
The start-ups, eta_max space GmbH, Agentur FIVE FOR YOU 54U - a multimedia agency - and s@mango, are the first three to reach advanced stages of development with guidance and support from the cesah (Centre for Satellite Navigation Hessen) incubator.
The cesah incubator was established in part with funding by Germany's Hessen regional government and ESA under the Agency's Business Incubation Initiative to focus on new consumer and business application development using space data and technology. ESOC is located in Hessen, a region known for its extensive logistics, transportation and IT infrastructure.
Flood warning using real-time data
The "G-WaLe" (Galileo Supported Measurement of Water Level) system is being developed by eta_max space GmbH in Darmstadt and is designed to rapidly warn of rising water levels in flood-prone areas.
The system will comprise a number of self-contained mobile floating units equipped with integrated Galileo signal receivers. Once deployed at a flood-prone river, the G-WaLe floaters remain anchored, but can rise or fall with changing water levels. This change in altitude can be detected using Galileo and generate a map of water level over an area in real time.
The level information is transmitted from each floater using a cell phone or radio modem to a post-processing facility. When the water level becomes critical, the system can generate rapid alerts for civil authorities or even individual residents.
"With Galileo data, the G-WaLe system provides data having very high spatial and temporal resolution," says Holger Sdunnus, CEO of eta_max space.
The system can also support calibration of river models needed for preventive flood protection, provide operational data to flood response teams and help reduce the economic and social impact of flooding events according to the company.
In April 2006, the Elbe river rose to more than three times its normal level before receding, causing damage valued in the millions of Euro. Worldwide, some 25 000 people die annually due to floods.
The young firm, which is establishing a new office in Darmstadt to develop Galileo applications, also provides consulting, software development and technology verification services to the aerospace and transportation industries.
Location data for mobile interactive travel guides
Frankfurt-based media agency 54U is creating the "Satelles" mobile travel information system in cooperation with Germany's Fraunhofer IGD Institute and Vega GmbH. The system combines Galileo location data with information from the Internet to deliver interactive location-based guidance.
In June 2007, a pilot project will be run with the Kassel tourist agency to provide interactive guidance for visitors to Documenta12, one of the world's most significant contemporary art events. The system will later be expanded to deliver local city, travel and tourist information to mobile phones, MP3 players or hand-held computers.
The Satelles system will be accessible via any popular mobile network, such as GSM, UMTS or WiFi, and deliver location-specific information based on the portable device's real-time location. The information received can be as varied as that available on the Internet, and can comprise interactive text, images, audio or video, as well as voice read-back.
The 3-member 54U agency has clients in a wide variety of industries, including airlines, travel and consulting, and was established in 2001.
Geocoding data for multiple applications
The "4d-miner" system in development by Karlsruhe-based s@mango will enable any data to be geocoded with both location and altitude data based on Galileo. The geocoded data can then be used by businesses, research agencies, governments or information service providers to enhance the usability and applications of their exiting data sets.
The geocoding is achieved by using portable devices to record Galileo-derived location data together with, for example, a description of the type of facility or building at that location. S@mango foresees uses for 4d-miner with logistics, insurance and large infrastructure-owning enterprises, e-government and Web 2.0 application developers.
s@mango provides development, project management and consulting services to enterprise and government clients. The firm's co-founder, Lothar Fritsch, is an e-commerce expert who works for the T-Mobile Chair for Business Informatics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.
ESA's space incubators provide crucial support to startups
Through its space incubator initiative, ESA is providing entrepreneurs across Europe increasing opportunities to create their own start-up companies to offer new services or applications emerging from the creative use of space technologies and systems in non-space sectors.
With Galileo data, the G-WaLe system provides data having very high spatial and temporal resolution.
The ESOC-associated cesah incubator was established in 2006 with support from ESA, the Hessen regional government, the Technical University (TU) Darmstadt, the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, the City of Darmstadt, T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH, Vega Informations-Technologien GmbH and the INI-GraphicsNet Foundation.
ESA also established the European Space Incubator (ESI) in 2004, associated with ESA's Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, the Netherlands, under the Agency's Technology Transfer and Promotion Office. A similar incubator is supported by ESA's ESRIN establishment in partnership with the Lazio region, near Rome.
All ESA space incubators actively solicit ideas from any ESA member-state start-up, regardless of location.


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- ModelDiscovery LXE
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- ConditionNew
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Air Force serviceman returns 500th HR ball to Pujols
WASHINGTON -- Tom Sherrill brought no scouting reports or spray charts with him to Nationals Park for Tuesday night's Nationals-Angels game. All he had was his intuition, but that turned out to be enough to put the longtime Angels fan in position to grab Albert Pujols' milestone 500th home run.
Sherrill, a 29-year-old Air Force staff sergeant originally from Pomona, Calif., began the evening sitting down the left-field line. And even though Pujols' first-inning homer -- career No. 499 -- went in that direction, something told Sherrill to move toward center field before Pujols batted in the fifth.
"When I saw Albert was going to come up, we kind of finagled our way over toward left-center," he said. "Just a hunch, I guess. It worked out."
Sherrill wound up with the ball, which he gave back to Pujols without hesitation, asking nothing in return but receiving a new Angels hat and a signed ball, with more items likely to come.
"I'm happy with whatever they decide to give me, if anything," said Sherrill, who was in town to participate in some Air Force training in the area.
Even with his prescient move to left-center, Sherrill actually wasn't the one in the best position to claim No. 500.
Another fan, Chris Gordon, was at the game with his two sons, 12-year-old Jack and 17-year-old Tyler. The family, which lives in nearby Olney, Md., has partial-season tickets and comes to about seven games per season, usually leaving their seats to hang out at the Red Porch, well beyond the left-center-field wall.
About a half-hour before Pujols took his historic swing, Chris Gordon texted a friend and predicted he would catch home run No. 500, with the intention of returning the prize to Pujols. After Pujols hit No. 499, Gordon decided to head down the stairs for each ensuing Pujols at-bat, to prepare for an opportunity.
Then the moment arrived. Nationals right-hander Taylor Jordan left a 1-2 pitch up and out over the plate, and Pujols launched it deep to left-center. Immediately, Sherrill knew it was over his head, so he took off up the stairs, while Gordon ran down.
"As I got close to where the ball was coming in, I saw Chris and I thought, 'It's over, this guy's getting the ball,'" Sherrill said.
Gordon saw the ball come straight at him and tried to cradle it, but it smacked him in the stomach and bounced away. While Gordon took a tumble and was left with a welt at the point of impact and some cuts and bruises, the ball ended up right there for Sherrill. He snatched it up and raised his arms over his head in celebration.
But as it turned out, the story came with a happy ending for all involved. Gordon and his sons still got to go down to the Angels' clubhouse after the game, where they met Pujols for photos and autographs.
And Pujols got back both Nos. 500 and 499, which was caught by another out-of-town Angels fan, Roy Kirkley of Tustin, Calif.
"They were pretty honest to give it back, and I appreciate that," Pujols said.


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Is PbP good for play testing adventures?
I don't have a campaign or anything major but I have been working on a specific adventure for my home group that I was interested in play testing with others. I want this adventure to be special for my players and want to iron out rough spots before it hits the table.
It involves "futuristic technology" and characters that would be level 2 or 3. Would PbP be a good way to play test or nah? I'm still fairly new to the idea of PbP.


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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Cool and Creamy, Sweet and Dreamy
Although the general purpose of Cooking Camp is to have fun, I do try to incorporate some specific skills into each week's lesson. This week my band of happy little campers were to learn about working with chocolate. I'm not any kind of an expert, but since I have done tempering and dipping a few times without disastrous results, that's enough of a knowledge base to be able to pass along. The key to being a teacher is being at least one step farther along than the student, right?
The campers were excited to try them, but it was a bit difficult to get them to focus on the task at hand. I don't have many photos of them doing actual cooking tasks as they were constantly distracted by iPods, conversations, Words With Friends, and general goofiness. Trying to get three teenagers who are best friends to focus on a task is kind of like herding cats or juggling jello. I'm so glad I don't work in a high school!
I tried a new recipe for the patties because this one didn't require the overnight air drying of my previous recipe. The peppermint filling was a bit stickier than I was anticipating, but once dipped, it was the creamiest, most delicious I'd ever had.
The tempering process ended up being a bust as far as a learning moment. Because it was a fairly warm day, the chocolate took a long time to cool and the campers cut short their kitchen time to go to the ice skating rink. Hey, I understand. Summer's short and you have to pack in as much as you can. So while they skated, I dipped, and they got to take home a bag of the most amazing peppermint patties you can imagine. Not the most beautiful (I've previously discussed my dipping skills), but what they lacked in glamour, they more than made up for in taste.
If you love peppermint patties, you've got to try these! They are wonderful on their own, but would also be amazing if you put them in brownies or ice cream; however, there are no guarantees you'd be able to keep them from just being eaten the day they're made.
2 1/4 cups confectioners sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1 1/2 tablespoons water
1/2 teaspoon pure peppermint extract
1 T butter
1/4 cup confectioner's sugar, for kneading and rolling
10 ounces 70%-cacao bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
Beat 2 1/4 cups confectioners sugar with corn syrup, water, peppermint extract, butter, and a pinch of salt using an electric mixer (with paddle attachment if using a stand mixer) at medium speed until just combined. Knead on a work surface dusted with remaining 1/4 cup confectioners sugar until smooth. Roll out between sheets of parchment paper on a large baking sheet into a 7- to 8-inch round (about 1/4 inch thick). Freeze until firm, about 15 minutes. Remove top sheet of paper and sprinkle round with confectioners sugar. Replace top sheet, then flip round over and repeat sprinkling on other side.
Cut out as many rounds as possible with cutter, transferring to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Freeze until firm, at least 10 minutes. Meanwhile, gather scraps, reroll, and freeze, then cut out more rounds, freezing them.
To make chocolate coating:
Melt three fourths of chocolate in a metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Don't let the temp get over 120 deg. F. Remove bowl from pan and add remaining chocolate, stirring until smooth. Cool until thermometer inserted at least 1/2 inch into chocolate registers 80°F.
Return water in pan to a boil and remove from heat. Set bowl with cooled chocolate over pan and reheat, stirring, until thermometer registers 88 to 91°F. Remove bowl from pan.
Balance 1 peppermint round on a fork and submerge in melted chocolate, letting excess drip off and scraping back of fork against rim of bowl if necessary, then return patty to sheet. Coat remaining rounds, rewarming chocolate to 88 to 91°F as necessary. Be sure to work in small batches. You need to keep the chocolate in the right temperature zone and the filling as close to frozen as possible. Once the filling warms up it goes all limp and is difficult to keep on your dipping fork. Let patties stand until chocolate is set, about 1 hour.
In warm weather, store in the refrigerator.
Makes about 2 dozen
Note: In warm weather, the longest part of this process is waiting for the chocolate to cool down to 80 degrees. You can plan your work around this. Perhaps start with the melting of the chocolate, then making the peppermint filling as the chocolate cools.
8 comments:
- Mindy said...
Oooohhhh, those look amazing! Cooking Camp is a great idea.
- August 17, 2011 at 7:47 AM
- Adam said...
I'm not a fan of chocolate and mint, but your description and your images for some reason reminded me of a cookie I loved when I was a kid: "Viva Puffs." With my vacation coming up, it is now my mission to both eat and possibly make my own :). Thank you, once more, for some inspiration :).
P.S. And again, you're completely awesome for doing this with your daughter and her friends! (and only a little crazy :)).
- August 17, 2011 at 7:49 AM
- Cookie baker Lynn said...
Momma Mindy - It's been fun! If you did a crafting camp, I would come.
Adam - You should try these: http://cookiebakerlynn.blogspot.com/2007/09/mallowsmores.html. Thanks for the kind words. I think you're wrong, though. I'm pretty sure you're a lot crazy!
- August 17, 2011 at 8:17 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
I laughed out loud over herding cats or juggling jello.Peppermint patties are all time favourite I would have loved to be at camp Lynn!
- August 18, 2011 at 1:58 AM
- hobby baker Kelly said...
Ooo, my all time favorite candy treat! I'll have to try this one sometime because the last recipe I tried did not turn out as I hoped. These look perfect.
- August 18, 2011 at 9:17 AM
- Chels/Catz in the Kitchen said...
I am so drooling here!
- August 18, 2011 at 12:59 PM
- kellypea said...
What fun! I haven't cooked with kids since my nieces and nephews would come over during the holidays to make sugar cookies. I love the more authentic look of your peppermint patties. Very nice :)
- August 19, 2011 at 1:06 PM
- grace said...
homemade peppermint patties is barely something i'm willing to attempt myself, much less with a horde of kids. kudos to you, lynn!
- August 20, 2011 at 1:48 PM


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Be Sure to Catch Her 'First Last Tour'
(Los Angeles, CA - June 10, 2009) Dame Edna, billed as "the widely loved international homemaker, talk-show host, gigastar, fashion icon, guru, swami and most-sought-after friend of the rich, famous and royal" is back yakking it up at the Ahmanson in "My First Last Tour" where she played in "Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance!" in 2006.
For more than four decades Dame Edna has dazzled audiences the world over with her one-of-a-kind banter, infinite wisdom and fabulous beauty tips. She won a 2000 Special Tony Award for a Live Theatrical Event for her Broadway debut in "Dame Edna: The Royal Tour," which also won a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Special Achievement Award.
Created by Australian actor, author, painter, composer and race-car driver Barry Humphries, Dame Edna is a national icon in her native Australia.
Georja: Humphries created Edna years ago as one of a series of sketch comedy characters. Edna became ever more popular each time he brought her out, and so he continued to develop her in between his regular acting gigs in films and theater. Now she is a full-blown persona known internationally and going strong.
Gerald: Throughout this review, we can't help but talk about Edna, as she, because the persona, however exaggerated and larger than life, just seems so real and endearing as a woman. In fact, the "legend" Humphries created is that he's her unscrupulous manager, who signed her to a lifetime contract from which she can't escape. The show program follows through with this conceit, giving Humphries and Edna Everage not only separate billing but also separate bios. I found myself gawking at her thinking, 'She's got great legs for an old gal,' then realizing, 'no, that guy has such spindly legs!'
Georja: Humphries knows how to brand his character. The excitement already started to build as we approached the theater. Outside there were fans wearing classic Dame Edna glasses with their bejeweled flairs. As we entered the Ahmanson, we saw he had already put her special stamp on it - bright purple curtains and her image on a scrim. Eccentric yodeling music was filling up any dead space and getting the audience in the mood for her outlandish humor.
Gerald: I was relieved she didn't yodel during her act - or make any audience members try it!
Georja: Before we were graced with her physical presence, the audience was treated to a video presentation of an "Inside Hollywood"-type gossip show of Dame Edna, exposing her as a harsh woman with "stage rage" hiding behind her friendly demeanor, a woman who abuses her family and desperately clings to her celebrity trappings. Very funny.
Gerald: The video also sets up her fictional family. Her son Kenny is her dress designer, a frail and sensitive young man shunned in macho-heavy Australia. And "friends of Kenny" will become her code-word for the gay members of the audience, a sizeable group.
Georja: And then the Dame enters in her hot-pink, glittering, ruffled, over-the-top dress and purple hair. She is charming and fun. The most fun is her banter with the audience. She tells us she has been here in L.A. not that long ago, and that "you have aged tragically, especially you --" (as she singles some embarrassed audient) "yet I have not." She alternates between harassing the audience "for their own good," of course, and delivering some hilarious bits about her adopted African child that she got "in the same village where Madonna shops."
Gerald: She picks on the audience mercilessly, using time-tested improv techniques fueled by jokes that may be just as old, but customized to the local venue.
Georja: She makes fun of the folks in the balcony seats, "a slightly poorer type of person" and warns them to cling onto their seats with one hand when they clap, as she doesn't want a "downpour of the disadvantaged." She says they are mostly "hedge fund managers and friends of Bernie" who used to sit down front. She says she will give them a new title, the "nouveaux pauvres" but she also likes to call them "les miserables." She tells them not to worry, she will glance upstairs at them "in strict proportion to the amount you paid." All this is said with a loving, lilting voice. I never laughed so hard. I think she is the best stand-up comic I have ever seen.
Gerald: The comic grudge match of the century would be Everage and Rickles in Vegas. Bloody good!
Georja: She further works the audience by asking for names and neighborhoods they are from, and what kind of house they have. Then she goes on to make endless fun of their responses.
Gerald: Cross-examining one unfortunate, she sneers, "Do you live on the right side of Wilshire, dear?"
Georja: She gets them onstage for a simulated HBO talk-show pilot. She also sings with the help of piano player Andrew Ross, also credited as a writer. Actress Erin-Kate Whitcomb joins her for a few brief scenes and one great comic song as her daughter Valmai.
Gerald: Valmai, turns out to be hot for girls. Edna says she forswears political correctness, and if you have sensitivities in that area, be warned. No one in the audience on opening night seemed to mind. They were laughing too hard. She picked on a half-dozen audience members, including a woman who stood up abruptly to rush to the bathroom, a couple of seniors, and an eleven-year-old girl. "Don't worry, dear," Edna quips, "Mummy will explain anything you don't understand - although it might take all night."
Georja: I would highly recommend this show to anyone who wants to laugh. Edna deserves all the fame and success she has. And as a final treat, her creator Barry Humphries comes out at the end as himself, magically devoid of all Dame Edna makeup and paraphernalia, to say goodnight to his adoring audience.
Georja Umano is an actress/comedienne and animal advocate.
Gerald Everett Jones is the author of the Rollo Hemphill series of comic novels.
Photos by Greg Gorman
Dame Edna: My First Last Tour
Ahmanson Theatre
Center Theatre Group
601 W. Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 628-2272
June 9 - 21, 2009
Tues. - Sat. 8 p.m.
Sat. - 2 p.m.
Sun. - 3 p.m.


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EERIE SIGHT: Sometimes we wish California could loan out, or simply donate, some of its odd and wonderful mysteries and sights to other places that seem a little lacking in mysterious attractions, or perhaps a tad run-of-the-mill. Bigfoot? The Cabazon Dinosaurs? Hollywood? Our offbeatness is so widespread and healthy in the Golden State that it is truly an embarrassment of riches. But then you have some naturally occurring oddities that are quite breathtaking, so much so that they easily top whatever man-made wonders our state's more creative types have produced. (No, Bigfoot, we're not looking at you when we say "man-made.") Chief among these weirder destinations is the Racetrack Playa of Death Valley. The word "remote" is often used for the area, which you'd expect, as it is in one of our more remote national parks, but it is even remote for Death Valley. In short, it'll be a bit of an effort to reach it, what with the gravel road and all. But reach you should, because here's what you'll see: the famous racing rocks.
AND NOT JUST ROCKS... But big rocks. That's why the Racetrack is called a racetrack; hunks of hard earth seem to move under their own power, leaving trails in the dirt and sand as they go. No, you won't see the rocks moving during your visit, but you will see their paths. It's quite stunning and, yes, eerie, too. There are explanations, such as erosion and weather and wind and heat vs. cold. Sometimes a more supernatural source is mentioned (the Racetrack Playa is said to be a great place to UFO watch). But it is indeed beautiful, mysterious, and natural. The wildflowers will bloom soon in the national park, so if you go out to see some petals, pencil in the rocks that seem to move under their own accord.


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A new Reuters/Ipsos poll is bad news for California pot heads. Proposition 19, a well-financed ballot measure that would legalize marijuana -- not only for medicinal use, but any other use -- is opposed by voters by a margin of 53 percent to 43 percent.
Prop. 19 supporters dispute polls like Reuters/Ipsos, arguing that they do not take into account what they perceive as a reverse "Bradley effect."
The phenomenon is named after Tom Bradley, who ran for California governor after five successful terms as Los Angeles' first black mayor. Opinion polls showed Bradley well ahead in the 1982 gubernatorial race. However, he lost on Election Day.
Certain analysts suggested that voters misleadingly told pollsters they were going to vote for Bradley because they didn't want to appear racist. Prop. 19 supporters suggest that voters are similarly misleading pollsters because they are too embarrassed to acknowledge their support for marijuana legalization.
I think the Prop. 19 supporters are smoking some of that medicinal marijuana.
The ballot measure is not trailing in the polls because of a reverse Bradley effect, but because voters recognize that its passage will yield deleterious consequences throughout the Golden State.
That's the reason more than 100 municipal governments have already banned medical marijuana dispensaries.
"They pop up in neighborhoods and crime follows," Steve Walter, San Diego County deputy district attorney, told the Portland Press Herald.
"There were three murders at three separate dispensaries," Moses Johnson, a city of Anaheim attorney, also told the paper.
Prop. 19 supporters say that marijuana-related crime and violence will go away if the drug simply is legalized.
But even if that were true – and there is no empirical evidence to support that claim – marijuana legalization would still have a harmful effect on the health and well-being of the state's population.
That is borne out by a recent Rand Corp. study, reported in the Los Angeles Times, which concludes that marijuana legalization will lead to increased marijuana use, which will mean increased health risks.
There is also the recent declaration by the California Society of Addiction Medicine, also reported by the Times, that marijuana is, in fact, addictive and can lead to substantial problems in education, work and relationships.
The news story accompanying the Reuters/Poll offered the corroborating testimony of Michael Smith, a 20-year-old student at Long Beach City College. Marijuana was the gateway drug, he said, for friends who graduated to ecstasy and Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug.
"I had two friends who were faded on marijuana and Xannies and flipped their truck on the 605 South," he said, referring to the San Gabriel River Freeway. Both died.
And there will be even more carnage if Prop. 19 passes and marijuana use is legalized in California. That's why right-thinking Californians will vote the measure down.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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Founded in 1544, La Serena is Chile's second oldest city, and probably its most beautiful. Graced with a magnificently preserved colonial center, a romantic seaside location, and easy access to the pisco vineyards and astronomical observatories of the Elqui Valley, La Serena is one of the urban highlights in a country largely known for its natural beauty.
Main attractions
The Colonial Center
The leafy Plaza de Armas, ringed with a collection of Chile's best colonial structures, makes a great starting point for exploring La Serena's transporting cityscape. Fully 29 historic churches grace the city center, including the Santa Inés Church, one of the city's oldest and declared a national monument in 1977.
Also in the city center, the La Recova Market is one of the city's most important colonial structures. Dating from 1795, the market stands at the corners of Cienguegos and Cantournet streets and boasts two central courtyards and Spanish-colonial arcades. After shopping some of the area's best handicrafts, visitors can head to the second floor for a bite to eat in one of the restaurants. This is also a great place to take home products made from one of the region's primary gustatory delicacies, the small, yellow, citric papayas that grow throughout the area.
Some of La Serena's best colonial houses have been transformed into museums and exhibition spaces. The Archaeological Museum (Cordovez and Cienfuegos streets), which showcases a collection of artifacts from the pre-Colombian tribe of the Atacama and Elqui areas, is housed in a house dating back to 1820. Once the home of the former president Gabriel González Videla, the museum that bears his name is a historical museum of the city of La Serena that also holds a small fine arts collection. In 1981, the beautiful colonial building on the Plaza de Armas was declared a National Monument.
The historic San Francisco Church holds La Serena's Museum of Religious Art (Balmaceda 640) with its valuable collection of religious objects dating back to the colonial period. Outside the primary historic district, the Mineralogical Museum (Anfión Muñoz 870) displays over 2,000 examples of minerals gathered from around Chile by the explorer Ignacia Domeyko.
Monumental Lighthouse
The 92 ft (28 m) tower of this lighthouse, built between 1951 and 1953, is currently undergoing a large scale renovation on the heels of being declared a National Monument. The symbol of La Serena, the lighthouse already receives 10,000 visits annually. The first floor of the structure includes a restaurant and exhibition space, and the renovation will transform the seaside area surrounding it into one of the city's primary recreation centers.
Resorts around La Serena
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Just 9 miles (15 km) south of Coquimbo along Route 5 – the Panamerican Highway connecting Alaska to Chiloé in the south south – this fisherman's wharf is best known for its fresh seafood and fishing opportunities. The beaches here also have the best waves in the region, making this the best bet for visitors hoping to do some surfing.
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Full Speed AheadBy John Parkinson
The Consequences of Terrorism
Click on a response above for further analysis of each scenario.
The four short-term political and economic scenarios12 to 18 months outpresented here suggest a variety of potential consequences for business and IT.
For further analysis of each of these scenarios, including answers to the following questions, click on the response above.
- What are the main economic and social consequences?
- What would be the resulting business behaviors?
- What impact will this have on the IT organization?
- Who will be the winners and losers?
- What will be the smartest response?
John Parkinson is chief technologist at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Erratic Response
Erratic Responsewandering in the wilderness
Weak Economy, Low Threat Level
The US-led global anti-terrorist alliance has succeeded in rooting out al Qaeda and other major terrorist networks and toppling the Taliban regime. A continuing international security cooperation effort and a well-organized Homefront security effort have succeeded in quelling most of the fears of continuing attacks, although "problem areas" in militant Islamic regions still persist and the Middle East situation remains fragile. Investment in essentially non-productive assets (for security and business continuity capability) have boosted some sectors, but have resulted in low to no productivity growth in the US and global economies as a whole. A lot of "good intentions" projects (security, data protection, public health) started by the government fizzle as funding issues lead to congressional infighting of budget priorities.
Partly as a result of low productivity, the broader economy has yet to respond positively. Two quarters of contraction in the US evolve into a low growth (under 1% annual rate with some negative quarters thrown in) in GDP and a continuing squeeze on corporate profits as increased infrastructure costs fail to be transferable to higher B2B or consumer prices.
The rest of the world mimics the US with a lag of about one quarter. Global trade contracts slightly (around 1% on an annual basis). Import and export flows grow faster regionally than globally and shift to match new patterns of trade amongst the Alliance participants. Central Asia and Pakistan benefit the most. There are no major defaults, but some marginal economies remain in a deep recession. IMF and World Bank restructuring efforts are hampered by the weak US economy.
What are the main economic and social consequences?
Regional trade patterns shift to reward those who helped win the war on terror, but access to capital remains tight. Only big projects that reinforce the new pattern of alliances or offer short-to-medium term payback get funded, with energy exploration and related transport infrastructure a priority, driven by steadily rising energy prices and the continuing perception of a threat to Middle East oil supplies.
Travel comes back slowly - too slowly to save one US airline and several European and third world national carriers. The commercial aircraft industry contracts as demand slumps and overcapacity is slowly worked out. Major consolidations occur in all industries as the strong survivors seek to acquire distressed assets at fire-sale prices.
Consumer confidence remains relatively low, but does not decline any further. Credit quality begins to dominate the Fed's thinking as corporate and consumer defaults continue to rise. Fiscal stimulus and monetary policy don't seem to help and room for maneuver is becoming limited.
Interest rates start back up as the Fed refocuses on the inflationary consequences of the war on terror. Unemployment reaches 6.75% in the US and stabilizes there. There is a slow but measurable return to retail investing on a sector basis. The Dow stabilizes at 9700 and establishes a narrow trading range. The Nasdaq hovers around 1800.
What would be the resulting business behaviors?
While most corporations continue to feel the need to rethink business recovery plans and reexamine market positioning, the capital or cash flow for a full-scale reorganization simply isn't there.
Many focus on improving balance sheets to look more attractive to lenders and acquirers. Working capital improvements are critical as are customer loyalty programs.
There is some selective rehiring as confidence slowly builds but corporations have developed a taste for a wider range of variable costs and contractors or outsourcers replace staff in many areas. Earnings return but growth is slow. Visibility remains poor. The capital markets are shut to all but the strongest businesses.
What impacts will this have on the IT organization?
Efforts to scale up or restart frozen strategic IT initiatives remain stalled by financial considerations as companies continue to retrench investment both at home and abroad. As tactical programs to simplify and standardize infrastructure begin to have an impact, IT hiring drops significantly.
Corporations routinely question the need for even maintaining the status quo in IT spending outside of CRM. Small tactical projects and emergency maintenance predominate. There is a steady shift to a more flexible asset base and outsourcing deals continue to be a preferred approach to cost containment.
What will be the smartest IT response?
Focus on selective outsourcing and infrastructure cost-sharing programs. Retire the oldest assets (they are the most expensive to maintain even if fully depreciated on an original cost basis). Look for incremental improvements in architecture and operational capability.
Simplify and standardize everything. Improve project management and efficiency. Learn the Zero Sum game (investments only get funded from the cost savings they create). Look for ways to share development and support costs with existing partners or through novel consortia. Focus on CRM and a flexible, low cost enterprise application integration strategy.
Worry about ways to link more effectively to the business.
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Full Speed Ahead
Full Speed Ahead
Strong Economy, Low Threat Level
With the economy surging ahead, and the terrorist threat reduced at home and abroad, companies are pulling out all the stops in hopes of recovering any ground they lost over the past year. Central to this is the recognition that a robust global economy in which all nations and regions can participate is the strongest long-term antidote to the forces that create terrorists. All major governments are behind this and there is a new spirit of cooperation between the UN, major governments and corporations to make the rhetoric reality. With everyone wanting to look good, not all of these efforts are well though out or well executed so anti-globalization sentiment continues in many areas, but overall, innovative new government/private sector alliances are proving to be effective.
The US is the clear leader of this effort and is struggling to balance its economic influence with the need to accommodate the growing voices of other regional economic blocs, particularly the emerging Alliance of Islamic States (lead by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and a newly rehabilitated Iran) and China.
US GDP is expected to grow at a sustainable 2.5% to 3% annually. Global trade is growing at around 6% as more national economies recover and join the new global economic initiatives. Global GDP grows at around 4.5%.
What are the main economic and social consequences?
With over $3 trillion back in the global equities markets and looking for productive investments, there is a moderate economic boom underway, tempered by memories of the tech bubble and a little less irrational than last time. Strong Fed and ECB action is keeping interest rates low and lenders are relaxing credit risks as new areas of economic activity open up and are shown to generate worthwhile returns. The Dow is at 12,500 and the Nasdaq at 3,000. The broad economy is also up.
Global leisure travel has yet to come back strongly (and airlines are reconfiguring their planes for the new business traveler), but regional leisure travel is back and the US economy is giving itself a prolonged party thanks to resurgent consumer confidence, low interest rates and hot new products. Inflation may be on the way back.
Somewhat un-noticed, the governments of the leading economies have implemented additional security controls and information monitoring protocols on their citizens and are negotiating closer security and law enforcement links. So far there have been no challenges and no obvious abuses. Businesses are being encouraged to participate in these efforts and the linkage of the largest governmental and commercial databases is underway.
The Aerospace and Defense industries remain strong as local and regional security remains an issue. Conventional defense industries are beginning to consider how to prosper in a world of cooperation rather than conflict.
Public health systems are major beneficiaries of new investment as governments respond to concerns about future terrorist use of biological or other weapons of mass destruction.
What would be the resulting business behaviors?
Businesses look to expand rapidly along the newly emerging "trade routes" the will define global trade for the next decade. There is a re-evaluation of global commercial capacity and a redirection of investment as new areas open up for raw material development, low cost manufacturing and the development of consumer markets.
Because of the new "climate of global improvement", innovative new consortia arise to respond to these development opportunities.
Businesses in general struggle to identify, hire and retain managers with the right blend of international, NGO and commercial skills.
What impacts will this have on the IT organization?
IT is "in" in a big way, and companies that once saw IT just as a cost to be managed now understand that it is a key business tool, powering their ability to respond in a agile and effective manner to the new landscape of global opportunity.
IT organizations are moving forward on technologies of all kinds as business units are given the green light to grab market share where and while the grabbing is good, although in the new context of sustainable growth.
CIOs are increasingly required to participate in key business strategy conversations and are consequently being forced to restructure their own management teams to align with the new level of business expectation.
In the new scramble to support the business, a lot of IT organizations fail to complete the clean up and reorganization that started in the post Y2K austerity cycle - a failure for which they may pay dearly in the future, but which doesn't seem like such a big deal now. The core platform vendors are in heaven and everything infrastructure is in short supply and/or subject to premium pricing. Whole sectors of the IT supply chain come back from the dead, including some whom probably should have died out.
What will be the smartest IT response?
While the good times roll, there will be a temptation to roll with them and avoid tough restructuring decisions. Nevertheless, this up-cycle portends and even more brutal selection process than the down cycle that proceeded it, as IT finally enters the mainstream of corporate influence on a broad front.
If the IT organization can't become as agile and efficient as the business it supports, the increasingly interconnected world of technology services, shared service consortia and utility service providers will rapidly marginalize it.
Smart IT organizations will try to adapt ahead of demand so that they can maintain a strong position as providers of critical business automation capabilities, however these capabilities are developed or delivered.
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Ongoing Vulnerability
Ongoing or Increasing Vulnerability
Weak Economy, High Threat Level
U.S. efforts to quell the terrorist threat at home and abroad are unsuccessful, as terrorists remain elusive and the homeland security effort bogs down in bureaucratic infighting and confusion about what measures can be effective. Additional terrorist actions around the world maintain or increase business and individual concerns over safety.
Meanwhile, the economy continues to struggle, keeping corporations skittish on a variety of fronts. Interest rates remain low, but lending continues to contract. The US economy experiences a third consecutive quarter of negative to no growth and unemployment passes 8.5%. The rest of the developed world enters recession with two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Second and third world economies stagnate as US and European imports from the third world drop dramatically. Global trade decreases by 3% - 5%. Global GDP growth goes to zero.
Several countries default on their sovereign debt. IMF and World Bank efforts keep the global financial system intact, but the US is too weak economically to support major bailouts and severe local economic contractions occur in Eastern Europe, South America and South East Asia.
What are the main economic and social consequences?
Regional trade is preferred over global trade. US multinationals begin to pull out of the most troubled areas (Indonesia, SE Asia and some parts of Africa) and re-deploy to more attractive areas (Russia, Baltic States, Central Asia). Major capital investment projects are abandoned or delayed. Government spending (on defense, infrastructure and security) helps offset corporate investment declines, but at the cost of budget deficits that threaten to cause inflation sooner rather than later.
There is a marked shift from consumption to savings and investment, but via insurance and fixed income products or debt reduction. Retail investing in equities essentially vanishes. Few people travel, even on business. A sense of "local is best and safest" affects travel, leisure and retail behavior. Energy costs rise as OPEC cuts production. One major US airline goes out of business and the survivors continue to contract. Commercial banking, badly hurt by the national defaults in South America and South East Asia, retrenches and lending remains weak.
Costs for basics (food, fuel, transportation, housing, clothing) start to rise. Costs for everything else fall, but sales stay flat or decline. Steady declines in all major indices reinforce/drive the drop in confidence. Dow hits 6000. Nasdaq hits 1200.
What would be the resulting business behaviors?
Corporate investment by all but a few companies dries up as margins and business volume shrink. Although interest rates are low, borrowing is expensive as lenders demand significant risk premiums from all but a few companies. Business focus is on maximizing returns from available assets and on maintaining customer loyalty.
There are a few acquisitions by financially strong players and a few unsuccessful merger attempts amongst struggling businesses, but most distressed businesses enter Chapter 11 from which few emerge. Marginally capitalized or high-debt-burdened infrastructure businesses collapse. Private Capital funds begin to look for LBO and rollup opportunities.
Brand focus shifts to local markets and patriotic/austerity themes. There is a sharp drop off in luxury and near-luxury products and services, which are seen as unnecessary and self-indulgent. Stabilize and survive strategies replace growth. Zero visibility reports replace earnings forecasts.
Businesses begin to look at how to be self-sufficient as public infrastructure is seen as increasingly vulnerable to destruction or interruption.
What impacts will this have on the IT organization?
There is a major retrenchment in IT spending and a slowing down of software development efforts. Emphasis is placed on managing costs down as fast as possible. "Simplify and streamline" is the core strategy - made easier in many cases as large numbers of recently emerged technology vendors shrink or disappear altogether. EAI products and portals are especially hard hit.
Contractors and consultants are laid off first, them in house staff are cut, then contractors and consultants are back but at lower rates and in smaller numbers. "Show me the money" deals and aggressive risk sharing with vendors become the norm. Size matters (because depth of talent and bench strength are still important), but so does efficiency and flexibility.
One stop shopping (justified by the need for simplification) replaces best of breed strategies. Experimentation is severely curtailed. Outsource deals dry up except in a few specific industries where economics overcome risk.
What will be the smartest IT response?
Batten down the hatches. Simplify everything. Outsource selectively with strong business continuity guarantees. Focus on results-weighted risk and success sharing. Balance the costs of ownership and need for diversification in operational infrastructure. Find others to share infrastructure risks and pool critical resources. Make as many fixed costs as possible into variable costs. Pick the one stop shop of choice - probably determined as much by cost and ease of resource management as technical capability.
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Meeting the Challenge
Meeting the Challenge
Strong Economy, High Threat Level
U.S. and alliance efforts to root out terrorist organizations and their supporters abroad, and to reassure citizens at home that the threat has subsided have not yet succeeded. Additional incidents occur regularly, although the most dramatic are abroad and focused on the Middle East situation or major international assets, both government and commercial in Islamic regions. However, a swiftly recovering domestic economy is lifting spirits nationwide and to some extent worldwide as US appetite for imports reappears.
Investment in non-productive assets (for security and business continuity capability) have boosted many sectors, and have proven to be the engine for a surprising resurgence in productivity growth as innovation creates ways to get around otherwise productivity sapping processes.
Attention shifts from travel and threats against the public, that are largely controlled in the US and Europe, to threats against major areas of infrastructure (power generation, ports, communications centers and information flows). After an initial jump, energy prices have stabilized about 10% higher as threats to supply from OPEC are offset by higher domestic production and additional capacity in Russia and Central Asia coming online ahead of schedule
Global trade resumes growth at about 4% annually, but there have been significant shifts in trading blocks as the Alliance members gain and the problem areas lose out on investment and trade.
What are the main economic and social consequences?
Consumer confidence returns and with it broad economic activity restarts. There are no major corporate failures, although some sectors shed over-capacity and there is considerable consequential restructuring. Travel, entertainment and leisure industries realign themselves with the new world order, although all are now 20%-25% smaller than in 2000. The resurgence in confidence is reflected in a resurgence of equity investment, especially in sectors where earnings growth is quick to reappear. Unemployment stays around 6% and some skills are once again becoming difficult to find.
Capital flows improves as regional (if not global) credit risk is seen to be under control. Interest rates stay low, although they are expected to begin to rise in the near term if signs of inflation recur. The Dow climbs back to 10,000 and the Nasdaq to 2700. A mini-bubble is recreated in biotech and some technology stocks that are active in public health and security-related areas. The expectation of a prolonged and somewhat conventional anti-terrorist campaign keeps defense stocks up, but not by more than the market as a whole. Environmental concerns are steadily over-ridden in resource exploration and transport infrastructure.
In response to threats of bio-terrorism, the US government sponsors a major rebuilding of the US public health infrastructure, on a par with the investment in transportation infrastructure made in the 1950s. Other leading economies follow suit. There are several high profile court cases on issues of civil liberty and privacy, but the US Supreme Court sides with the government and an EU-like data protection bill covering cross border data flows is passed.
What would be the resulting business behaviors?
Business investment centers on creating a safe workplace, on robust business continuity capabilities and on continuing productivity enhancements. Work from home and telecommuting arrangements proliferate. There is also a major new demand to be in compliance with anti-terrorist operational measures that target money flows and other suspicious behavior patterns and to comply with or gain exemption from the new dataflow bill.
Businesses resume hiring, but a larger proportion of resources are contractors or supplied via outsourcers to maintain flexibility in volatile grow/shrink scenarios.
Businesses seek to build more comprehensive customer databases in order to run targeted customer service programs, broad-based loyalty and reward programs and to comply with security and notification rules. Such databases are increasingly linked (both overtly and covertly) to create comprehensive consumer profiles.
Profile-linked products and services become hot items with mixed consumer reaction to the first generation attempts to balance convenience with privacy and intrusion issues. Brands are rebuilt to add an prominent element of "trust" to both the product and the corporation behind it.
What impacts will this have on the IT organization?
Corporations are moving forward on a variety of technology fronts, the most public of which is the ongoing effort to increase security and reliability of infrastructure, reassess business continuity plans and reorganize accordingly. Behind the scenes, however, large, complex inter-corporate and corporate-to-government database linkage projects are also common.
These projects spawn a new generation of inter-corporate infrastructure and information architectures and the utilities that operate and maintain them. Learning to work with these new capability providers is an evolving challenge for the IT organization.
IT hiring is strong, as IT departments respond to business-unit plans to resurrect and move forward on plans to harness such technologies as CRM, PKI, KM and XML to their longer-term strategic goals. As the focus shifts to inter-corporate collaboration, IT departments aggressively outsource large-scale application maintenance and data remediation projects.
Some skill sets (both legacy and emerging) are again in short supply and the services industry restructures rapidly in response. Off shore efforts are generally being replaced by near shore and on shore providers as global risk factors are reevaluated.
Technologies requiring tighter bonds with business partners, such as supply-chain management, are moving more slowly on a global scale, as companies remain reluctant to extend themselves much further beyond their own regional blocs than they already are, but are accelerating in local and regional efforts to build strong and secure economic networks that can resist terrorist interruption.
New rules for global data exchange between the major trading blocks are emerging slowly as governments and businesses struggle to reconcile differing points of view.
What will be the smartest IT response?
Clean house. Simplify where possible and outsource where not. Learn the new rules of inter-corporate life and, even more critical, of comprehensive compliance with the new reporting standards (and you thought HIPPA was tough).
Refocus key resources on the new critical areas of data quality, security, collaboration and customer service. Identify key employees and work on ways to keep them happy as hiring pressure from outsourcers grows.
While the good times continue, avoid getting lazy. Invest in continuing productivity, speed and agility capabilities, but try to keep the cost of fixed assets as low as possible.
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Another home rout for the Robins
James Collins continued his blistering goalscoring start to 2013 with another strike in Swindon's 4-0 win over Carlisle.
Collins, score of four against Portsmouth in midweek, netted in between Andy Williams' double before substitute Raffaele De Vita completed another Robins rout.
Paolo Di Canio's side have now scored 14 goal in their last three matches, having beaten Tranmere and Pompey by five each and they could have done the same to Carlisle.
Swindon were ahead in the 16th minute when Williams took a pass from Alan McCormack before beating goalkeeper Mark Gillespie.
Irish striker Collins made it 2-0 after 36 minutes with a six-yard header after being picked out by a cross from Matt Ritchie.
Williams got his second goal in the 55th minute, Ritchie was again the creator with a cross to the far post from the right.
De Vita, a replacement for Ritchie after 68 minutes, got on the scoresheet with 10 minutes remaining after Gillespie had parried a shot from Gary Roberts.
As Carlisle crumbled, Tommy Miller hit the crossbar and Roberts was inches wide with a late shot.
Source: DSG
Source: DSG


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Editor's Note: I'm psyched to introduce you all to Titus, who will be chiming in occasionally with food finds on the South Side. Of course, you may already know him from his blog, Smokin' Chokin' and Chowing with the King, where he's single handedly eaten at almost every restaurant in Chicagoland. (Slight exaggeration, but only sort of.) I'll let him take it from here.
The South Side is kind of like the last frontier for Chicago food voyagers like me. When something good opens up there is no PR email or buzz on Twitter. Word of mouth is still the way around these parts, where small plates are something you eat after you've consumed two large ones.
Two things you won't find a shortage of on the South Side are Mexican-owned mom and pop spots and fried shrimp shacks. Over on 43rd street, just West of Ashland in the shadow of the Union Stock Yards, you'll find the two combined at Mama Nena's Shrimp House.
After randomly driving by one day, I decided to Google it up and was surprised to find very little on a place, even though it that was obviously popular with families visiting the nearby Swap-O-Rama on Sundays. So I decided I needed to go in, only to find the Hungry Hound once again staring me down.
I'm surprised that even with a visit from Steve Dolinsky this place hasn't caught on with others, as there are only three reviews on Yelp and it's never been discussed over at LTH. I'm hoping to try and change that because this a really friendly place that is serious about shrimp.
Anytime you're visiting a shrimp shack in Chicago, the first thing you need to try is the fried shrimp. Sitting fresh in the display case with a medium thick breading, I thought Mama's jumbos matched up pretty well with most of the others around town. They're true to form as far as Chicago style fried shrimp goes and come with both a hot sauce and cocktail dipping option.
There are a few other fried options which can change based on whats in the display case. I've seen catfish nuggets as well as fresh smelts. They also do a few grilled seafood options, including a shrimp skewer meal. Ten dollars will get you ten pieces of grilled marinated shrimp, avocado dipping sauce, and your choice of a side. The onions rings are battered in house.
The shrimp cocktail is one of those foods from a bygone era. I don't know where people order it nowadays in Chicago, besides old school steakhouses. I order it while on vacation somewhere on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. There it's called coctel de camarones and it's one of the best things to eat on a hot sunny day. Mama Nena's makes quite a fine example of this popular regional treat made with steamed shrimp, pico de gallo, hot sauce, lime juice, ketchup, avocado, and other ingredients which can vary. I liked the addition of chopped cucumbers in this concoction as well as the fact they give you extra hot sauce, limes, and plenty of saltines. Roll thru on a Sunday and these are on special for just $5.50, making them a popular stop. Step out back with it onto their mini-golf-green turf patio and it almost feels like you're somewhere in Acapulco.
The Shrimp Diablos brought me great joy from a memory flashback. They take a shrimp, stuff it into half of a sliced jalapeño, wrap it with bacon, and then cook it. Sold by the piece ($1.75) these reminded of a favorite dish of mine from when I first started cooking in my early teens—back when anything wrapped in bacon and all things stuffed into a jalapeño were a way of life.
Surprisingly there is no shrimp taco on the menu, but they do have taquitos. These turned out to be different than what I was expecting. They come four to an order ($3.99) and taste pretty terrific for something so simple. All they are is a piece of shrimp wrapped in an appropriate amount of corn tortilla, which are held together with a toothpick and then deep fried. Served on a bed of lettuce and tomatoes, be sure to get some of the house avocado sauce for dipping these crunchy crustaceans in.
If you're here on a weekend over summer you're sure to see what's quite a site if it's a hot day outside: Vendors line 43rd street with jug upon jug of large old school orange colored Gatorade coolers filled with Nieves. Whats that you ask? It's a Mexican style of ice cream made with fresh fruits and other natural ingredients. Cups of it are a very popular eat along the highways of Mexico, and with that my next investigation is looming.
1623 W. 43rd Street, Chicago, IL 60609 (map)