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Found an error in Ps 15 (16) second line "... conserva me, Deus, quoniam speravi in te..." Clearly " Deus " is a mistake because " Deus " has no vocative singular and the vocative is clearly called for here. " Domine " should have been used.
I was wondering if there is a catelogued list of such errors for this edition?


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I've found some scripts in the scripts section but when I use it to report SPAM SpamCop gives an error :
Parsing text part
error: couldn't parse head
Message body parser requires full, accurate copy of message
and provides a link to more information.
The script seems to be a few years old so I guess it's no longer updated or maintained ?
I also found a DNSBL script on these forums but that's also from 2004 and the needed files are no longer available.
I use RBL myself for my forums and they work pretty good so if there is a script that can use these blacklists to filter emails that would be great (even better would be an option to submit spammers to that blacklist so others benefit from it, I guess that's also something SpamCop.net does since the BNSBL script also checked there for spam).

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An Inside Look at the New Fronting Gameby GDN Shared Post June 11, 2012
There is much corruption when it comes to procurement. Probably the industry with the most corruption is construction. Keep in mind that corruption is the first cousin of discrimination which is why the establishment cringes at the thought of Black strangers coming into their territory. They want to keep the graft private.
I learned much about this corruption when I was in Indianapolis. One day one of my members invited me to attend "Bid Night," which would occur two to three times a year. It was sponsored by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) and held at a downtown hotel. Every major highway contractor would attend. Basically, it was a party held on the eve of bid openings. My friend was a known contractor and always attended. I went undercover as I would have never been formally invited to this good ol' boy event. He would introduce me as his new vice president.
After about two hours, most of the contractors were starting to get drunk. My member and I were two of the three Blacks in the whole place. It was very, very uncomfortable – red necks getting drunk. Some would be referred to as a "b_____." It was explained to me that such a moniker described a front women-owned business. White males actually owned fictitious women-owned businesses in order to get in the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program and would subcontract some of their work to themselves. This would give them credit towards the DBE program at the expense of Black, Hispanic and real women-owned firms.
I left the affair early. It went on until about 2 a.m. Starting at 8 o'clock the next morning, the bids would be awarded. This was virtually a criminal activity. Each bid would have five or six companies "competing" for the lowest bid. There would be one logical bid and the others wouldn't even be in the ball park. The bid room would fill with laughter as this went on for hours. It was obvious that these construction companies got together and decided who would win what. In the end, everyone had their share of contracts. It was bid rigging, pure and simple, and it was sanctioned by the state of Indiana. I was appalled. My member laughed at me and said "That's how it's done."
A few days later, he invited me to come and see how "fronting" occurs. One form of fronting is to rent your company's name to contracting activity. A White firm will actually do the work and get the money but the minority business report would falsely state that it was a Black firm. My friend owned a trucking company. The Indianapolis Airport Authority had his firm listed for dirt removal on a big project. He took me to the work site. I saw three different White owned trucking companies doing the work. He informed me, "Harry, you are seeing a truck come out every 20 seconds. Each truck means a $3 fee for me. That's $9 per minute; $540 per hour and $5,400 per day. Just for the use of my name! That's why I front."
Those three trucking companies simply padded their fee by $3 per haul to cover their fronting fee. That was taxpayer money. My guy had no shame about this. One time we were at a reception to honor the mayor of Indianapolis. The mayor came up to my friend and asked, "What are you doing at the airport?" He retorted, "I am fronting." The mayor didn't understand the answer. I just shook my head.
There was the case of "Dead Man Contracting." I noticed a particular firm listed as doing a sizeable contract on a downtown project. I knew the owner and he had died a year earlier, forcing the business to close. I found a contact number and called it. It was the widow's home phone and I asked her if she had taken over the business. She explained to me, "No, I just fill out invoices per their instructions and they give me 2 percent of the invoice cost. I feel ashamed misrepresenting my husband's memory but the money is easy and I can use it." She promised to cease this illegal activity and I assured her that she wouldn't be reported if she stopped immediately.
It got so bad that I soon started to periodically write "Fudge Reports." I would call out a fronting activity – names of the fronts and their respective projects. The reports would be widely distributed. I explained how a real deal would have amounted in so many actual dollars being made. I would show how many jobs in the Black community would be created and how many families would have enjoyed the income. The fronting began to slow down.
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Trelleborg is making its customers heroes with the company's latest initiative, telling stories of successful project implementation from the point of view of the users. The new Heroes program collects experiences from professional farmers to highlight their issues and how Trelleborg has played a role in solving them.
The series launches with the story of Guillaume Agneessens, co-owner of Agri Minon, an agricultural contracting company in Belgium. Agri Minon offers a full service, specializing in sowing, harvesting, spraying, monitoring culture, fragmented records and the PAC statement.
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Laurence Vance
January 28, 2013
Not me, but Timothy Kudo did. He deployed to Iraq in 2009 and to Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011. I am not accusing him of killing people. He says he did in this opinion piece in the Washington Post: "I Killed People in Afghanistan. Was I Right or Wrong?" He says he thinks about the people he killed every day. "To properly wage war, you have to recalibrate your moral compass. Once you return from the battlefield, it is difficult or impossible to repair it," says Kudo. But he is confused about the morality of his actions: "I will never know whether my actions in Afghanistan were right or wrong. On good days, I believe they were necessary. But instead, I want to believe that killing, even in war, is wrong."
Let me help you Mr. Kudo: your actions were wrong. And not only wrong, soldiers who kill in unjust wars are murderers. Soldiers who realize this and refuse to continue are the real heroes.
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Proboscis monkeys are unlike any other primates. The males' noses are almost four inches long - because females find it sexy, naturally. Plus, they're the only primates to throw up their half-digested food and eat their meals all over again.
Grazing animals like cows and sheep practice something known as rumination, which means they eat their food once, partially digest it in their stomachs until it's nice and soft, then barf back up the larger bits of food and eat them again. The extra chewing helps break down the more stubborn cud and allows them to gain access to even more nutrients. It's a perfectly valid - if disgusting - dietary strategy, but until now it was thought that no primates practiced rumination.
But now we've observed the practice in proboscis monkeys, an unusual species found on the island of Borneo. They get their names because of the males' over-sized noses, which play a role in attracting females that I honestly prefer not to contemplate. (In all seriousness, it's thought a larger nose allows the monkey to make louder, deeper sounds that make it sound bigger than it really is, which can be useful in asserting dominance during mating.)
Researchers observed 200 of these monkeys, and 23 of them regurgitated their food for further eating. The monkeys had a pretty nifty technique - they would suck in their stomachs and stick out their tongues before barfing, which kept all the cuds in their mouth. They're the first primates we've observed that actually ruminate as a dietary strategy and not just as a pathological behavior - gorillas and humans have both been known to do this, but it's not considered "normal" behavior for them.
Biology Letters via LiveScience.


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Wednesday, 4th July 2018
The visit by students pursuing PIIC's Diploma in Logistics Management was to expose them to best practices adopted by MIMA as a policy research institute that serves as a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for maritime-related matters.
Briefing session
Cdr. Ang from the Centre for Maritime Economics and Industries briefed the students on the key functions of MIMA and the roles of its five research centres in regard to providing policy recommendations and options to government agencies and the maritime-related sector in the areas of the marine environment, ocean law and policy, maritime industries, security, and Straits of Malacca issues.
Participant enquiring on current maritime issues
The students took the occasion to enquire on the current status and challenges of maritime research, besides expressing keen interest on the industrial training programmes offered by MIMA. Overall, the visit provided a platform to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and actual practices in the maritime domain.
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Personally, I am quite content with the state of OS X these days, with a few minor annoyances. Overall the OS feels stable, fast, and has great application support (many of my 'stranger' work apps have Mac ports these days, which was not the case a few years ago).
My main annoyances:
- When I first got the machine I had to run a terminal command in order to unlock the ability to run apps from 'Everywhere' - this should never require a terminal command, as the ability to do this was already buried in system preferences
- Office for Mac is terrible compared to Office for Windows (this one isn't Apple's fault). In Windows, the Office apps open faster, have more features, have a better UI, and are more responsive.
- Still need a few 3rd party apps to make the OS do some pretty basic things. (BetterSnapTool to get Windows like windows-snapping. USBoverdrive to get mice to perform as wanted with normal scroll wheel acceleration and no mouse acceleration.)
- Better backwards compatibility. I just want each major OS update to not break software that is only a few years old.
- Finder is still inferior to Windows Explorer in terms of features
- High DPI. using a retina screen in OS X has been a great experience for years now. It is not the case in Windows. Microsoft still has to improve in making sure the majority of 3rd party software works well with high DPI displays. (Microsoft's apps themselves are great, but High DPI scaling doesn't work great with many 3rd party apps in Windows).
- File structure. I don't like how Windows tends to show you shortcuts instead of the actual file much of the time, specifically for application files. Although OS X is getting more similar to Windows in this regard
- Security. OS X enables FileVault (disk encryption) by default and has dropped support for out of date technologies like PPTP VPN.


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�Mister President, this is your moment. We�re ready to be led,� said the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner.
Here�s Gail Collins in The New York Times after the Democrats won the election. �By the end, it sounded as if the only cliff-avoidance John Boehner was really interested in was one that raised new revenue through fewer loopholes and lower rates for all.�
She continued: �We have already seen that plan. It was proposed by a man who, on Tuesday, lost the state in which he was born, the state in which he was governor, and the three states in which he owns houses. ... The only candidate for president who lost his home state by a larger margin than Mitt Romney was John Fremont in 1856. And Fremont was coming out of a campaign in which the opposition accused him of being a cannibal.�
I guess the GOP, although it lost everything and should be much chastened, doesn�t really believe it has lost yet. Maybe they�ll put Mitt Romney back up in 2016. Maybe they�ll recruit a lot of older white guys from all over the world to fill up their dwindling ranks.
When Eddie Murphy stops in at L.A.�s Coffee Bean on Beverly Drive, he is often accompanied by his gorgeous girlfriend, model Paige Butcher. But Eddie doesn�t just sip coffee and gaze meaningfully into Paige�s eyes. He often engages and encourages the other customers into discussions on politics and world affairs. He leans toward the right, but is knowledgeable, polite and humorous. He�s a deep thinker!
On the professional side, Eddie is excited about a fourth �Beverly Hills Cop� movie. This has been in �deep planning� at Paramount. (As opposed to shallow planning?) The first �BHC� movies were released in 1984, �87 and �94.
Daniel Craig is known to be a sometimes intimidating interview subject. However, Erik Hedegaard caught the star of �Skyfall� in a more jocular, relaxed mood for Rolling Stone. When Hedegaard asks if Daniel ever Googles himself, he says: �I don�t, I mean, I really try not to. I really truly try. But then I can�t help myself and I disappear up my own a-- and that starts a whole cycle where I gotta look. I mean, I could probably put a lock on the computer, but, yeah, anyway, it�s a sickness. But that�s it. Except for maybe I�ll look up some porn, occasionally. Hey, I�m only human.�
Indeed! Not so human, however, that he�d reveal his favorite porn site. Gotta retain some mystery.


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A Portland State professor is set to lead a far-reaching public health campaign in Africa, serving clean water and energy to at least a quarter of Rwanda's rural population.
Many Rwandese drink dirty water and breath soot from indoor cook fires—both leading causes of disease in a nation where the life expectancy is under 50 years old. Worldwide, contaminated water kills 1.5 million children every year, and another 1.6 million people die from upper respiratory disease.
By next spring, the project will distribute water filters and efficient cook stoves to 750,000 households, nearly all of the Western Province of Rwanda, reducing the demand for wood fuel. The project is owned and funded by water quality testing company DelAgua, and contracted to Manna Energy Limited.
Leading the on-the-ground effort is Assistant Professor of Engineering Evan Thomas, who co-founded Manna and has worked in Rwanda since 2004. "We anticipate this project will bring significant health improvements to these communities and demonstrate the potential to deploy and monitor international health programs like this on a very large scale," Thomas said.
About 500 of the filters and cook stoves will be equipped with a smart sensor developed in Thomas' SWEETLab at Portland State in partnership with Portland-based Stevens Water Monitoring Systems.
"The sensors help us answer two questions: Do the stoves and filters work, and do people use them?" he said. Many international development projects rely on costly in-person spot checks, making it difficult to collect enough reliable data to prove a project's success.
Five AA batteries power each sensor for up to a year while it measures usage and effectiveness of a stove or water filter. Cell phone networks send data to a web-based platform, where the results directly inform any adjustments to the technology or educational efforts on the ground. Portland State engineering students helped develop the sensors and will analyze incoming data.
Thomas has received about $550,000 to develop and commercialize the remote sensors—known as SweetSense—in partnership with Oregon BEST, the Lemelson Foundation, Stevens Water, and Mercy Corps, all based in Portland. Portland State co-owns the sensor technology with Stevens Water, where SWEETSense will carve out its own production area once the devices go to scale.
The sensors have already been tested in Indonesia and Rwanda to monitor a variety of international development projects, from hand washing stations to water treatment systems. This summer, the sensors will monitor a Gates Foundation sanitation program in India and a Mercy Corps cookstove program in Haiti.
Using United Nations-backed carbon credits to finance clean drinking water—a concept pioneered by Thomas and Manna Energy—makes the large scale of the Rwanda campaign possible. By next spring, a team of 2,000 Rwandese community health workers will distribute filters and cookstoves to serve 2.2 million people. Manna Energy is under contract with UK-based water quality company DelAgua to design and deploy the program under Thomas' leadership, at an estimated cost of $50 million. Through the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism, the project will earn carbon credits to repay initial costs and finance the long-term maintenance and expansion of the project. The program is also in partnership with the Rwandan Ministry of Health and the Rwanda Environmental Management Authority.
Thomas will lead a trial distribution in Fall 2012 to several thousand homes and begin monitoring usage data. Through Manna Energy, he helped design and implement a similar effort in 2011 that delivered water filters to 877,000 households in Kenya, a program owned and managed by Vestergaard Frandsen.
Photos: Assistant Professor Evan Thomas sits with beneficiaries of clean water in Kenya.


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Origin of the CFRs
Community of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
(CFRs) is a relatively new religious community that was founded in 1987 out of the Bronx, New York. The community is composed of men who have a desire to live the
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in the Capuchin Franciscan tradition. The friars serve the material and spiritual needs of the very poor and work for the reform and renewal of the Church through the evangelical preaching of personal reform. The CFRs characterize themselves as Catholic, Franciscan, Capuchin, contemplative, active, apostolic, fraternal, pro-life, and witnesses to the Gospel. They are deeply committed to the New Evangelization as envisioned by our beloved Pope John Paul the Great.
Our Early Work in New Mexico
The history of the CFRs in the
Archdiocese of Santa Fe
began in the 1990s when friars started traveling to New Mexico to conduct youth retreats in preparation for the new millennium. These retreats, which focused on the Eucharist and Reconciliation, united hundreds of young people in Gallup, Roswell, Taos, Los Lunas, and Albuquerque. Unsuspectingly, the youth retreats also drew the friars into their own encounter with the beauty and rich Catholic history of New Mexico.
In 2001, Fr. Robert Stanion, one of the eight founding CFRs, learned that he needed to be in a drier climate to improve his health. Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan invited Fr. Robert to Albuquerque that summer so that he could help out in some of the local parishes while attending to his health needs.
New Mexico proved to be a fitting and healthy environment for Fr. Robert. After returning to New York at the end of the summer, he soon realized that he needed to return to New Mexico's dry climate to maintain his health. Once Fr. Robert received permission from the CFRs, Archbishop Sheehan gave him a special assignment to assist with sacramental ministry at San Jose Parish in Albuquerque and to provide support to its pastor at the time, Fr. Dennis Garcia.
Once his health stabilized, Fr. Robert began praying about the possibility that the Lord might be calling the community to open a friary within the
Archdiocese of Santa Fe
. The other friars in the community were attracted to the idea of establishing a friary in the archdiocese; however, the young community had to wait for friars to finish their formation period and seminary training before a new friary could be officially founded.
In the meantime, Fr. Dennis Garcia asked Fr. Robert and some friars and sisters from New York to develop a summer youth retreat program of Scriptural catechesis, skits, music, art, and recreation. Since the summer of 2002, Friars and Sisters of the Renewal have traveled from New York to New Mexico to offer these programs, which have proven to be a very blessed experience for the hundreds of participating youth, their families, and the friars.
In March 2003, a second CFR, Fr. Terry Messer, joined Fr. Robert in Albuquerque and remained there for the next two and a half years. The priests realized that, due to limited space at San Jose Church, additional housing would be needed before they could receive more friars and expand their community. A new residence was recommended, and in November 2004, the friars moved to the grounds of St. Francis Xavier Church into some old buildings, which they placed under the patronage of San Juan Diego. Sr. Bernice Garcia, OP, Parish Life Coordinator of the priest-less parish, welcomed the help of the CFRs. Frs. Robert and Terry quickly made a lasting impression on the people of the South Valley by preaching, evangelizing, and caring for the poor.
Building Our Life in New Mexico
Although the CFRs were not yet ready to formally establish a friary in the
Archdiocese of Santa Fe
, the friars' lives and work continued developing in their new setting. Due to a growing need for further help in the community, Fr. Conrad Osterhout arrived in August 2006 with two student friars, Br. Daniel Williamson and Br. Bonaventure Rummell. The following year, Br. Simon Dankoski and Br. Gerard Kanapes replaced the students.
The friars opened a soup kitchen in November 2007, which they named after the Capuchin friar, Father Solanus Casey. That same month, the friars also began making regular visits to the prisoners incarcerated in the Bernalillo County jail.
In the spring of 2008, the friars were granted approval to officially establish a new friary. Upon receiving this permission, the CFR community servant (superior) in New York, Fr. Bernard Murphy, proposed that the friars investigate the cost of renovating the buildings in which they lived in addition to building a new soup kitchen to care for the needs of the homeless poor. Fr. Leo Fisher and Br. Philip Allen were also sent that spring to assist in founding the new friary. Their arrival brought the total number of friars in Albuquerque at the time to six.
Building Our Friary and Soup Kitchen
The friars soon determined that it was not financially feasible to renovate the old buildings located on the grounds of St. Francis Xavier Church, whose old structure was ravaged by previous fire damage, asbestos, and black mold.
The friars sought out possible homes to rent for the duration of the construction project. As Providence extended itself once again, the Trujeque family of Albuquerque offered the friars free use of a property to inhabit temporarily. The friars moved to a home at 3840 Coors Blvd SW in the fall of 2008. Further moral, prayerful, and financial support for the new San Juan Diego Friary and the new soup kitchen came from Fr. Dennis Garcia and Fr. Rick Zerwas of the Santa Fe Archdiocese, Sr. Bernice Garcia of St. Francis Xavier, a generous lay group called the Friends of the Friars, and many other generous benefactors and friends.
In early 2009, the friars learned that it was not possible to build on the South Broadway property as originally planned. Over the next year (2009-2010), they searched for and finally acquired a building at 404 San Mateo Blvd. NE. Throughout 2010, the friars worked on renovating the former office building into a friary.
The friary blessing and move-in date took place in October 2011, and the soup kitchen was renamed and reopened in August 2012. The friars' community servant, Fr. Mariusz Koch, flew to Albuquerque from New York in order to bless and attend the opening of the new soup kitchen, now called Fr. Robert's Kitchen.
Expanding Our Work
CFR constitutions
state that the friars will be involved with
and hands-on work with the poor. Support for the friary in New Mexico springs from benefactors who appreciate this work and the friars' Franciscan model of living. Spiritual talks, retreats, parish masses, prolife advocacy, street evangelization, confessions, hospitality, and serving the homeless and poor are all elements of the CFR way of life.
Fr. Robert Stanion, CFR
On March 23, 2009, Fr. Robert, one of our founders and beloved friend and brother in Christ, was called home by God. We love and miss him, but we rejoice in knowing that we will one day see him again in the presence of our Lord. Until that day, we will continue to rely on him for his prayerful intercession on behalf of our community, our work, and those whom we strive to serve.
Father Robert, pray for us!
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I never have really tried seriously to track anything I ate ever before. I usually eat 'somewhat healthy' but never really count calories or keep close track of what I'm eating.
Recently, I've changed my mind becuase I am not happy with how I feel. I know the person who is solely in charge of this is myself and I have to make a choice to actually try to lose weight to become more healthy. I know exactly where I carry all my weight, in my mid-section. I always have and when I gain weight, it goes directly to there. I'm just not happy with how I've let my mind think that eating some fruit will make up for bad choices. I know I can make better decisions and I know I'm the one in charge of this aspect of my life.
Also, a summer trip to the river is right around the corner, and instead of being upset at myself and how I look there, in a bathing suit, I'd rather take charge, when I have ample time to make a difference in myself before then. A lot of my issues that I have are when I eat poorly, and give up easily. I don't know why I don't believe that I can eat healthy, but I always blow it and then just let the rest of the day slide away. Also, it always seemed like I would either try to starve myself, which obviously never worked and I would become angry and mean and it would only last for a couple hours and then I would just overeat once I could eat again. I wouldn't ever look at anything besides calories, and I really needed to make a change. Though I have the taste buds of an eight year old, it was time to eat like an adult.
So I've started logging what I eat every day on an little app on my phone called My Net Diary. It was free and I wanted to see what I really was eating. It actually is pretty fun and I really can see how I was eating WAY too much a day without even knowing it. I use to use the fact that I worked out as an excuse to eat whatever I want, which isn't a good way to think.
In addition to looking at my calories and tracking what I eat every day, which is informative and it gives me stats on how I'm doing with sodium, saturated fat, and calories of food, it's motivating to see myself keep on track with what I'm eating and coming up with foods that are good and fall in the categories that I need.
I have been making good snacks, eating more smaller meals throughout the day and feeling much better already. I just felt like a salt lick eating crap all the time, and the only person to blame is myself. I had my first 'green monster' smoothie yesterday after my 4 mile run and it was good.
I wouldn't say it was delicious, but it was drinkable. I think I thought I would be able to just ignore the weight gain, and be whatever about it, but it has come time to make a change. It's easy to think that if you work out all the time, or run, you don't have to worry about what you eat, but I have come to the realization that diet is also such a huge part of your life and now I'm willing to make a change to feel healthier and be happier with my appearance.
So with that out there, I'm also still working out a lot and working toward the Arkansas Marathon. I have the 13.1 Los Angeles on Sunday which will be the starting point where the miles really start to add on for the full, and I'll be heading to Arkansas before I know it!


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Hearings and Business Meetings
Jul 21 2005
Full Committee Hearing - "Climate Change Science and Economics"
SH-216 General Hearing Room 10:00 AMTo receive testimony regarding the current state of climate change scientific research and the economics of strategies to manage climate change. Issues to be discussed include: the relationship between energy consumption and climate change, new developments in climate change research and the potential effects on the U.S. economy of climate change and strategies to control greenhouse gas emissions.
Note: Due to time constraints, Panel 2 has been postponed and rescheduled for September 20th at 10:00 a.m.
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Greek roast lamb
If spring is in the air you don't want to be slaving over a hot oven, so make the most of seasonal lamb the easy way with this lazy roast
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal685
- fat36g
- saturates14g
- carbs32g
- sugars4g
- fibre3g
- protein59g
- salt0.54g
- 1 large leg of lamb, about 3kg/6lb 8oz
- 6 garlic cloves
- 1 bunch oregano
Closely related to marjoram, of which it is the wild equivalent, oregano has a coarser, more…
- zest and juice 1 lemon
Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…
- 6 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 1½ kg new potatoes
New potatoesn-ew po-tate-oes
New potatoes have thin, wispy skins and a crisp, waxy texture. They are young potatoes and…
- 400g can chopped tomato
- large handful pitted baby kalamata olives
Widely grown all over the Mediterranean, where they've been cultivated since biblical times…
Heat oven to 240C/fan 220C/gas 9. Pound the garlic, half the oregano, lemon zest and a pinch of salt in a pestle and mortar, then add the lemon juice and a drizzle of olive oil. Stab the lamb all over with a sharp knife, then push as much of the herb paste as you can into the holes.
Tip the potatoes into a large roasting tin, then toss in the remaining olive oil and any remaining herb paste. Nestle the lamb amongst the potatoes, roast for 20 mins, then reduce the temperature to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Roast for 1 hr 15 mins for medium-rare, adding another 15 mins if you prefer your lamb medium. Baste the lamb once or twice with the juices and toss the potatoes. When the lamb is done to your liking, remove from the tin and let it rest. Throw the rest of the oregano in with the potatoes, scoop from the tin and keep warm.
Place the roasting tin over a medium flame, add the canned tomatoes and olives to the pan juices, then simmer for a few mins. Serve the lamb with the potatoes and sauce and a simple salad.
Recipe Tip
Simple cos saladMix 100ml olive oil with 2 tbsp white wine vinegar. Finely shred 2 cos lettuces, finely slice 6 spring onions and crumble over 100g feta cheese. Toss everything together just before serving.


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Jays beat Angels, Weaver 3-0
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Everything went right for the Tampa Bay Rays after a mind-numbing loss the night before. Chris Archer escaped a bases-loaded jam with Albert Pujols at the plate, Grant Balfour was able to redeem himself, and Yunel Escobar continued his success against Jered Weaver.
Escobar homered off the Los Angeles Angels' ace and James Loney and Evan Longoria had RBI singles to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a 3-0 victory on Friday night.
Archer (3-2) allowed two hits over 5 2-3 innings and won for the first time in his last five starts, striking out five and walking five. The right-hander came in with a 6.97 ERA since his 16-1 victory over the Yankees on April 19 at St. Petersburg.
"Everything was on," Archer said. "I had the stuff to go much deeper into the game, and I wanted to do that, but walking away with a victory for the team and shutting out a good lineup, I'm not going to sit here and complain about it. I felt good with my delivery. I scuffled my last four games, but there's only been positiveness sent my way."
Archer retired his first two batters in the fifth before walking John McDonald, Erick Aybar and Mike Trout — whose walkoff three-run homer against Brad Boxberger in the ninth inning Thursday gave the Angels a 6-5 win. But Pujols grounded to third for a force on Aybar, making the two-time NL MVP 0 for 6 this season in bases-loaded situations and 3 for 22 since signing a 10-year, $240 million contract with the club in December 2011.
"I was just trying to get him out, whatever it took," Archer said. "We have super advanced scouting reports, and my stuff was good, so I tried to use a combination of both. I threw him a slider down in the strike zone and he rolled over on it."
Jake McGee, who has stranded all 13 baserunners he's inherited, started the seventh inning fresh after Juan Carlos Oviedo got the last out in the sixth. McGee gave up a single by Erick Aybar and a walk to Trout, his third of the game. But Pujols, who stranded six runners on the night, flied out to right field.
"I'm struggling right now," Pujols said. "I'm putting good swings on the ball, but there's nothing going my way. But I've been here before, so it's nothing I'm going to panic about."
Joel Peralta pitched a scoreless eighth and Balfour pitched a perfect ninth for his eighth save, one night after giving up two walks and an RBI single and failing to record an out in the ninth after inheriting a three-run lead.
Weaver (4-3) allowed two runs and three hits over seven innings with five strikeouts and three walks. The Angels' ace was 4-0 with a 1.71 ERA in his previous five starts, including a 9-3 decision last Sunday in which he asked to be taken out of a game for the first time in his nine-year career because of a problem with his command — after throwing 102 pitches in 6 1-3 innings and getting staked to a 7-1 lead.
Archer matched zeros with the three-time All-Star through the first four innings, and each team had one hit — the Angels a two-out single by Pujols in the first, and the Rays a one-out single by Escobar in the third. Efren Navarro's two-out single in the sixth was the only other hit Archer allowed.
Escobar, who came in with four hits in eight career at-bats against Weaver, opened the scoring in the fifth when he drove an 0-2 pitch to left-center for his third homer of the season.
NOTES: After the game, Desmond Jennings was placed on the bereavement list. OF Kevin Kiermaier, who has played only one game in the big leagues, was recalled from Triple-A Durham. ... Weaver intentionally walked Escobar in the seventh, the right-hander's first intentional pass since Sept. 4, 2009, at Kansas City (Mark Teahen). ... Tampa Bays' last 12 shutout wins all have come on the road, including five this season. C Ryan Hanigan has caught 15 shutouts by the staff in 98 starts since catching Homer Bailey's no-hitter with Cincinnati against Pittsburgh on Sept. 28, 2012. ... Angels rookie INF Luis Jimenez beat David Price in the Halos' 40th annual cow-milking contest.... Tampa Bay 2B Cole Figueroa, who was promoted from Durham on Thursday when 2B Ben Zobrist went on the DL, made his major league debut as a pinch-hitter in the eighth. He popped out to shortstop against Mike Morin. ... Angels OF Kole Calhoun (sprained right ankle) began a rehab assignment Friday night with Triple-A Salt Lake, and 3B David Freese is scheduled to join him Saturday. Freese hasn't played since May 2 because of a non-displaced fracture in the middle finger on his right hand, after getting hit by a pitch from Texas' Colby Lewis.


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On Monday, June 30, I received an email from Congressman Baird's office advising he was holding a Town Hall meeting in South Bend, on July 1 (the next day). He holds Town Hall meetings annually in towns and cities across his district. I wanted to attend, for a couple of reasons.
Some background: Last summer, Congressman Brian Baird held a Town Hall Meeting in Raymond, and this was at the time that Congressman Brian Baird who had voted against the invasion into Iraq, decided that he wanted to come out approving President Bush's 'Surge' of U.S. troops in Iraq. Congressman Baird had made a trip to Iraq last year, to assess the situation of war in Iraq and had conversation with General Petreaus, coming home to believe in the value of proceeding with a Surge in U.S. troops deployed to Iraq. The deaths of U.S. troops was at an increasing frequency, and violence was rampant in Iraq, IED's and suicide bombings – killing civilians, Iraqi police and soldiers, and U.S. troops. Last year, Congressman Baird made national news in his support for President Bush's call for a 'Surge' (of troops) in Iraq.
My husband and I, being a military family with 2 returning Iraq veterans (both from Washington state), attended that Town Hall meeting in Raymond, WA last summer primarily to challenge the Congressman on his support of the 'Surge' and it was a contentious exchange with the Congressman. Please refer to the article 'Baird faces his constituents in Raymond' in Daily World last September.
The article features photo of my husband, Arthur Ruger, and the pointed question he put to Congressman Baird man to man -"was the war worth our son's blood.", to which the Congressman responded yes, he believed it was. That was a slap in the face to us, as we do not believe, have never believed this war was worth any son or daughter's blood. It was important to me then, last night, a year later at the Town Hall Meeting in South Bend, for me to connect to the Congressman based on our exchange from last year. That same year, in December 2007 our son-in-law deployed to Iraq in his second 15 month stop-loss, extended deployment, where he is now.
I wanted very much to attend Congressman Baird's Town Hall meeting last night, even though I seem to have run out of things to say about the wrongness of the Iraq war. We attended, and after Congressman Baird gave his presentations, he opened it to audience questions. I listened through all of the questions, intending to ask my two questions at the end of the proceedings.
Issues discussed during course of the meeting:
Gas Prices; Astonishingly – well to us anyway – when the question of gas prices came up, as we knew it would, and someone asked about off shore oil drilling and leased land not being used for oil drilling, Brian Baird started to discuss it and then asked the audience for a show of hands as to who was in favor of off-shore oil drilling. And almost all the hands went up. Then Brian Baird asked who was not in favor, with my husband, mine and probably 3-4 other hands going up.
I was stunned. And in somewhat confused language pointed out peak oil and global warming and then gave up, saying never mind. I could not believe what I had just witnesssed. An expectation that enough information is out there now about the growing oil crisis, that I had thought more would be appreciative of our need to change our lifestyle to become less oil dependent and the urgency in finding alternative energy lifestyles.
Acidic Ocean; Congressman Baird acknowledged Al Gore's documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth', and then explained to the audience about acidic ocean, disappearing coral reefs, and how as a coastal community we should be concerned about our oceans. Then he answered other questions, and while I was listening attentively, I had already recognized that once again, our views on oil dependency (my husband and mine) were indeed the minority opinions amongst the community we live in. We've encountered this before along the course of our speaking out against the Iraq war as military family with loved ones deployed in Iraq.
Funding Iraq War vs Domestic Needs; Later when a young reporter from the Aberdeen Daily World newspaper tossed out a comment about trading off the $$ being spent in Iraq against using for homeland needs, Congressman Baird explained that we were not using current funds, rather creating a deficit that would be paid in our children and grandchildren's time. As Congressman Baird explained it that were we to withdraw the troops now (which he then went on to explain was a time consuming process and needed to be done responsibly so as not to leave troops exposed and at-risk), there would still be no funds available to be used for domestic concerns. Rather that it would reduce somewhat the future deficit which would be paid for by our children and grandchildren.
Copper Roof Replacement at Pacific County Courthouse; would cost considerably more than was originally estimated with rising costs of copper. Inquiry if the Congressman could get the county some $$ help to replace the copper roof. It being a historic building, must comply with regulations pertinent to historic buildings. (Read more about it at this Daily World article, 'Costs of New Roof Skyrockets')
The discussions flowed covering various issues:
Historic Post Office in Raymond lacking accessibility for disabled; seems because the Raymond Post Office is considered a historic building, and it lacks accessibility for disabled, changes cannot be made to the building to be more facilitative without regard to the regulations governing historic buildings. At this time, disabled citizens (wheelchair bound, or unable to manage the stairs) are unable to make access to the Post Office. (Read more about this at Daily World article, 'Baird Hears of Acces Woes')
Illegal Immigration: Someone asked the Congressman about illegal immigrants, and he responded by breaking it out into three categories; a) illegal immigrants who are hardened criminals should be sent back to countries of origins, but how to do that – ask the country 'hey will you take back so and so who is a hardened criminal?'; b) illegal immigrants who are hired by employers knowingly as illegal and paid under the table should not be permitted to remain; and c) illegal immigrants who are hired by employers who have verified social security number and background and taxes are being paid out of wages – those illegal immigrants have likely been here number of years, working all of those years and some provision should be provided that permits them to remain on worker permit. Congressman cited responsive employers like Coast Seafood who work to comply with current laws and have large number of immigrants employed.
Columbia-Pacific National Heritage Area Study: Included was a concern expressed by owner of Rose Ranch regarding our area (Willapa region) becoming a National Heritage region. She identified probably 10 coalitions that have concerns should we become designated a National Heritage site. I have tried to blog some about this at Washblog, but am too underinformed to articulate the concerns well.
As the meeting wrapped up, I was at last able to ask my two questions;
1) Senator Cantwell obtaining $2 million towards Doppler Radar for SW Washington due to the December 07 storm (read more here) , and what was his position on that? He said fully in support. Then I pointed out that while the $2 million was great it was going to take a lot more $$ to build the Doppler, and where would that money come from, would he work towards that end. He said something about $2 million being a big drop, and likely the rest of the money might have to come from the State.
2) Last year, in your Town Hall, we talked with you about our son in Iraq because you had just gone national in your approval of the Surge, and I guess I wanted to have you inquire how he is doing. Before I could finish the sentence though, it seemed that Congressman Baird did remember and did ask how our son was doing. Which left me with a weak follow up, that really that was all I wanted was for him to inquire after our son's well being. Then the Congressman went on to explain why he took the position that he did last year on the Surge and how it seemed to be working, violence was down. I actually did find myself saying that conditions did seem to be more favorable to our son's (actually it is son-in-law) deployment this time, or at least I'm relieved that if he has to be there, it isn't the year before, and that I hope he gets through this deployment and safely home.
After the meeting concluded, Congressman Baird, did come over to where I was sitting, and had some private words with me. He wanted me to know that he cares, that what I was doing as a mother was natural and he was glad that I was doing what I was doing; that what my son was doing was patriotic and what I was doing was patriotic; that when he is in DC the groups that hold vigils in DC showing the 4,000 killed, he looks at each and every face and feels it deeply.
Congressman Brian Baird talking with Lietta Ruger, Town Hall Meeting, South Bend, July 1, 2008
(photo courtesy of Steven Friederich of the Daily World)
For the most part the words he chose to use with me were agreeable, but I didn't like the words about patriotic – and I wasn't altogether sure he understood that I am among those military families opposed to the war in Iraq and have been speaking out against the war in Iraq. Personally, I wouldn't say the 'Surge' (of troops) in Iraq is working, that would really be beyond my ability to discern. But it does seem the violence is down, and whatever strategies are being used, our son-in-law who is deployed in Iraq now in his second 'stop-loss', extended 15 month deployment seems to be less at risk than had he been deployed in Iraq a year earlier.
As Congressman Baird was shaking my hand and done with his part of the conversation, and before I could correct any misperceptions, others were coming around, and reaching out to me, whereby I offered my smiles of appreciation. Right about then someone else said to us, wait, wait, I didn't get the picture, and then snap went the camera. I remember saying is this a photo op and we shouldn't be smiling then. It was a confusing moment, and then there were 2 reporters wanting me to spell my name, wanting my son (son-in-law, I corrected) name which I never give, and the moment to correct any misperceptions that the Congressman might have about my position had passed.
More details of this Town Hall Meeting reported in the Aberdeen Daily World articles here and here.


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Brazil's Bee Creek Brewery recently announced they are closing their doors. They will be greatly missed, as we were fans of their beer, holding fond memories of the Clay County Coffee Stout, among others.
We hope as this door closes, this won't be the last we hear from them.
Unsung Heroes of Indiana Craft Beer - Porters and Stouts
KOTBR #109 - The Mass Ave Craft Beer Pride Parade


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Head Start's Impact Evanescent — HHS Study
HHS has finally released the second installment of its series of studies on the persistence of Head Start effects. Its finding (see page xiv): virtually all academic effects disappear by the end of 1st grade. There is only one positive statistically significant finding out of eleven academic outcomes measured, the size of that effect is minuscule by recognized standards (it's half way between zero and what most social scientists consider "small"), and the confidence in the finding is low by recognized standards. (Many authors would categorize it as "insignificant" rather than "significant" — it's only significant at a 90% confidence interval, not the more common 95% confidence interval).
We have spent more than $100 billion on the program to date (ballpark estimate from Table 375 here) and HHS's own research shows that its results diminish to essentially nothing by the end of the first grade.
There are other government education programs whose effects actually grow substantially over time, and that are comparatively economical. Consider the federal DC voucher program. Just a year or two after switching from public to private schools, the effect of the private schooling was not big enough to rise to the level of statistical significance. But by their third year in private schools, the evidence was clear that voucher‐receiving students were reading more than two grade levels above a randomized control group that stayed in public schools. This program, as I've previously documented, costs 1/4 as much per pupil as DC spends on public education: about $6,600 vs. $28,000.
But Congress, and particularly Democrats, have defunded the DC voucher program while raising spending on Head Start. President Obama is at the forefront of this travesty. If you weren't already jaded and disgusted by education politics and its domination by employee unions opposed to educational choice, start now.


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Mohamed Ismail Mohamed Nifras
Lead MozClub, Host Global Sprint 2015, Project Lead Chemix Moz. Sc
I'm an enthusiastic contributor in open source community. I''m so cool on developing open source projects and so cool to make fantastic events. I am an active contributor of Mozilla Science and Project Lead of an active project in Mozilla Science wing. I am an host of Mozilla Global Sprint 2015 in Jaffna - SriLanka.
Skillsajax, android, c sharp, c++, css3, html5, java, javascript, json, mongodb, mvc, mysql, php, xml
LanguagesEnglish, Tamil
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Kaitlin Thaney
Nifras is a strong community lead for Mozilla Science Lab's work (and open science in general) in Sri Lanka. We met Nifras when he proposed his project Chemix, an open source project, for one of our global sprints. https://www.mozillascience.org/projects/chmix ; He also leads the Sri Lanka Mozilla Science Study Group, where they focus on helping researchers learn java.
Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran
Nifras is very active person who contribute to open source and Open web. He helped me to organize events at department of Computer science, specially helped to host UoJMozillians club. He also did a demo on FirefoxOS development. Further he developed an app for mozilla science (https://www.mozillascience.org/projects/chmix) and leads the project. Nifras hosted a Mozilla Science Sprint at our department successfully. He received an invitation to take part at MozillaFest - UK in November 2015.


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Monday, June 13, 2011
First Communion
Last month my daughter celebrated her First Holy Communion. She was doubly blessed because she celebrated twice! Of course only one was truly her "first" First Communion, but she wore her white garments for both.
Our parish priest celebrated the First Communion Mass and he is the same one who baptized her, so that made it extra special. She did a good job with the big chalice, too!
The following weekend, her school had their First Communion celebration and she was invited to celebrate again with her classmates in that parish. Although it was still a Catholic Mass, it was a very different sort of celebration (it was a dedicated First Communion Mass rather than having the celebration integrated into the regular Mass the way our parish does it) so it was interesting to see the differences.
My sweet girl looked beautiful on her special day. She wore a silk dupioni dress from Strasburg Children and I had her veil custom made by the woman who made my wedding veil. It is a child-size version of my wedding veil. Perfect for my bow-loving little girl who really really wanted to wear Mama's veil (that was too big and that was the wrong shade of white).
I bought her this beautiful rosary from Etsy...and, my favorite, a beautiful little clay bowl to keep it in.
This bowl is gorgeous and was packaged SO beautifully! It is personalized for my daughter so I can't show the details, but click over to Etsy to look at the shop for Clarey Clayworks. They make beautiful bowls for all sorts of occasions and will personalize them. It is just lovely and perfectly holds her new rosary.
4 comments:
- Debbie said...
Congratulations to her and you! She looked beautiful. I cannot wait until my girls are old enough having had both of my boy reach that wonderful milestone.
You are very blessed!
- June 13, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- Natalie said...
The dress is darling. Congrats to her!
- June 13, 2011 at 7:39 PM
My 9 year old daughter made her first communion last may and her dress had lace frills on it and was quite poofy.her great aunt gave her her white tights and she had sewn lace across the back to make them look cuter.she wore the tights over the traditional white cloth communion diaper with the white rubber pants over it.it looked really cute seing the connunion diaper and rubberpants under the ruffled tights.
- January 8, 2013 at 7:37 AM
we just baptized our 8 year old twins,son and daughter before their first holy communions on may 5th.the son wore a suit and tie for both ceremonies and the daughter we did in separate outfits-her baptism outfit was the traditional,white poofy,top of the knees baptism dress with a matching bonnet,lace socks and white 'mary jane' shoes.under her dress we did the standard white cloth baptismal diaper and rubber pants with her under shirt.for the first communion ceremony,we changed her into the communion dress and veil and took her baptismal diaper off of her and put white tights on her over the rubber pants and then put her mary janes back on her.she did get a mild rash from the rubber pants,but it wasnt bad.she looked adorable in both her outfits.
- May 22, 2013 at 6:07 AM


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I was born and raised in Appling County, about seven miles south of town. A year ago I subscribed to The Baxley News-Banner. I have always been proud to call Baxley my second home, and have family and dear friends that live there still. Recently I read the obituary of a young man who had served three tours in Iraq. It said he was a highly decorated Marine. Since that week I have read the full page article plus many letters to the editor about the law enforcement officers of Appling County, as well as the Georgia State Patrol Swat Team, that shot and killed the young. I understand he was holding an unloaded weapon. My husband and I were both appalled at the circumstances surrounding this young man's murder. According to the articles we read, he was suffering from PTSD from serving the three tours in Iraq. I have no doubt the information is correct.
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Film Review - Don't Let Me Drown
April 07, 2010
Working without much of a budget or the comfort of a studio, the New York City drama "Don't Let Me Drown" manages to pull off one of the most harrowing depictions of a post-9/11 world I've seen to date. Using disquieting images of ashes, the anguish of lost loved ones, and the confusion of a wounded city, the film evokes the fragile days that followed the terrorist attacks with heartbreaking, often chilling execution. There's a love story wedged in here too, but that only gets in the way.
Lalo (E.J. Bonilla) is a teenager coming to terms with the events of September 11th, 2001, watching as his father suffers through a job cleaning up ground zero, returning home nightly with escalating medical complications. Through his best friend, Lalo meets Stefanie (Gleendilys Inoa), a feisty young woman who lost her sister in the World Trade Center. Unable to come to grips with the reality of the death, Stefanie finds comfort in Lalo, while her abusive father rejects her efforts to develop a relationship with the eager boy.
A simplistic web of forbidden love, "Don't Let Me Drown" is communicated with a fitting streetwise attitude. Director Cruz Angeles keeps his camera tight on his actors, allowing the austere NYC climate (which includes enough profanity to make "Harlem Nights" blush) to create a mood of apprehension and friendship where the micro-budget cannot reach. A character drama, the picture is best served by the ensemble, who find adequate spaces of reflection to feel out not only a world gone mad (right in their backyard), but the trouble of an interracial relationship that deeply concerns both sets of parents.
The melodrama runs thick in the picture, which eventually wiggles out of Angeles's control. The filmmaker is best articulating the ambiance of the city, allowing the characters to absorb the gravity of the terrorist event; a fresh wound that demands the comfort of others, making for a sincere theme of unity that Angeles should've locked down as the core of his story. He has something here with ideas of ground zero cleanup involving illegal immigrants, the casual attitude to frightening remnants of death, and the heart-wrenching ache of sudden loss. The rest of the film, with its watered down teen yearning and slang-happy language, just pales by comparison.
Screenplay 101 itches consume the picture in the last act, when torrent of trouble rain down upon the couple, including a ridiculous scene that pits Stefanie against the advances of a lecherous family friend. "Don't Let Me Drown" didn't need to complicate matters to achieve an emotional purge. Generating enough gravitas to spare just by inhaling on hallowed ground, the eventual desperation slaughters any lasting effect.


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Group IncentivesBy Ann Palmer
How Kraft 'Primed the Pump' for Alignment
The Motivator
Steve Finnerty grew up in Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, but he spent two weeks of every summer on his grandparents' farm in Princeton, Mo. "There was no running water," he recalls, "so I'd have to go out to the well and get the pump going by pouring some water into it to prime it."
Today, Finnerty, the CIO of Kraft Foods Inc.'s North American division, is still priming the pump, but this time it's all about using his leadership skills to inspire new ideas from his IT staff and business executives about how technology can beef up Kraft's bottom line.
Biz View: "In my experiences prior to Kraft, business folks would be in one corner, IT folks in another. There were business groups who couldn't spell IT and IT groups who were so enamored with technology that they forgot about the business."
Kraft doesn't do too badly pumping out profits: The Northfield, Ill.-based company is the second-largest packaged foods company in the world, with 2001 earnings of $1.9 billion on $34 billion in sales. Kraft controls hundreds of brands around the worldfrom Kool-Aid to Jell-O to Oscar Mayer hot dogsand packages more than 500 different cheese products alone, including Philadelphia Cream Cheese. Kraft marketing executives say Kraft products can be found in 99.6 percent of U.S. households.
But given Kraft's size and complexity, making sure information technology is continually used to carry out the company's business strategies is becoming more critical to its ability to maintain its margins. Finnerty credits IT-business teamwork, for example, for Kraft's ability to move aggressively on the new-products front. Kraft spends more than $350 million annually on research and development, and last year, new products generated $1.1 billion in new revenues. "With work flow and collaboration technologies," Finnerty says, Kraft was able to bring Boca Rising Crust Pizzaa new frozen pizza with meat-flavored soy protein toppingsto store shelves in just 12 months, well under the industry average of 18 to 24 months.
IT View: "If you're constantly trying to focus on where the other person is coming from, instead of concentrating on your point of view, you're going to effectively communicate. If you're truly communicating, you're going to be in alignement."
How does Finnerty manage to keep such IT-business teamwork on the front burner? Part of it is exposing his staff continuously to new technology ideas from outside Kraftand outside the confines of the IT department.
At regular retreats, for example, Finnerty invites senior business executives, such as Daryl Brewster, chief of Kraft's Nabisco Biscuit Division, to schmooze with senior IT staff. At the meetings, top business executives talk about what they want to achieve and what's holding them back. The IT managers then spend the next two days coming up with solutions. In Brewster's case, the session led to ideas for how IT could help his unit get market data faster so that it could make smarter strategy decisions. Now Brewster's direct-store sales force uses handheld computers to improve how efficiently they order products, execute merchandising and communicate with each other. His research and development teams are sharing ideas globally, day and night.
The meetings also give IT managers the chance to brief each other on their visits to other companies in other industries, another source of new ideas. Says Madeline Weiss, president of Bethesda, Md.-based Weiss Associates Inc., who helps Finnerty run the retreats: "Steve's whole approach is how to increase profits, not just cost-savings."
Photos by Marc Asnin (Brewster) and Jan R. Bohm (Finnerty)
Eyes Wide Open
Eyes Wide Open
Finnerty himself is an inveterate networker. As president of the 2,500-member Society for Information Management and as a member of the Research Board, whose membership is composed of CIOs at the top 100 companies worldwide, Finnerty practices what he preaches. About a third of his time outside Kraft is spent "looking at what's going on in other industries and what can transform ours," he says. A visit to Cisco Systems Inc.'s headquarters two years ago, for example, generated ideas for e-procurement and a customer self-service extranet. The latter lets grocery chains and other big retail outlets get instant information from Kraft on order status, promotion updates, consumer research and other information; in the past, they had to track down a salesperson or wait for a Kraft presentation. "The discussion between our salesperson and the customer can be more than transactional," Finnerty says. "It can be more consultative: 'How can I help you improve your business?'"
E-procurement is another example. "We're in a tight-margin business, and you have to make sure your supply chain is incredibly cost effective," Finnerty says. An IT e-procurement initiative dreamed up by Finnerty's people in partnership with the business side is still being rolled out. But it is already taking costs out of the supply chain.
But the retreats, road trips and internal brainstorming sessions aren't the only alignment techniques in Finnerty's bag of tricks. In 1999, he helped develop a two-day technology boot camp for Kraft's top 30 executives at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Ill., in suburban Chicago. The goal was to raise the level of awareness about information technology and how it could change the way Kraft does business. "Kraft was the first company to do this," says Anthony Paoni, a Kellogg professor of technology and e-commerce, who helped lead the session. Paoni had pitched his idea for such seminars to "at least 25 other big companies, but they just weren't ready for it," says Paoni, who is also vice chairman of DiamondCluster International, Inc., a Chicago-based management consultancy.
The impact of the first boot camp was significant, Paoni says, chiefly because Finnerty knew how to talk about technology to a room full of business peopleno easy task, still, for many CIOs. "Steve revolutionized how senior management at Kraft looks at IT," Paoni says. Using business language, not IT language, Paoni says, Finnerty made IT less intimidating, and "caused a critical mind-set change. Instead of thinking about strategy, the management team began thinking about strategy and the role and value of information and business systems."
Paula Sneed, president of Kraft North America's e-commerce and marketing services, says the boot camp helped convince Kraft senior business leaders that "technology isn't the understudy, it's part of center stage and keeps us aligned." Finnerty, for his part, sees to it that such thinking remains front and center. Today, for example, when Kraft's management team is considering new products or developing new strategies to go after a new market segment, "the team's first question is 'What information do we need and what business system will we get it from?'" Paoni says. "This is a big change."
Sure enough, the Kraft executives who left that first boot camp came up with eight to 10 new projects linking business IT systems to strategyinitiatives they planned to implement right away, not in a couple of years. Example: a new e-commerce division, a key part of the company's efforts to win "share of stomach" for its new products. Today, Kraft Foods' Web site, where consumers get all manner of advice on recipes and meals, attracts 12 million visitors a month.
Increased Awareness
Increased Awareness
Another result of Finnerty's two-day technology boot camp? Regular field trips for the 30-member senior management team to technology vendors such as Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp. The trips allow the executives to get a firsthand look at how leading-edge technologies like employee portals and e-procurement can change the company. Finnerty and his people then decide how those ideas might be useful at Kraft, assign priority to those with promise and assign someone to pursue them. Says Sneed: "It was clear to us that IT could transform not only what we did, but how we worked internally with suppliers, customers and consumers." Self-service extranets for Kraft's business customers also came about as a result of these meetings. "There's a lot of competition out there, so you have to make sure customer service levels are high," Finnerty says.
But Finnerty doesn't stop there. All new IT initiatives are subject to two alignment reviews. One ensures that capital expenditures are tied not to projects, but to programs. "Instead of looking at a forecasting system, which would be a project, we look at inventory management reduction, a broader business program," Finnerty says. "[Thinking about alignment] focuses us not just on the technology but on the business process change."
Finnerty also uses portfolio management to keep tabs on projects greater than $250,000. The process values and ranks proposed expenditures according to the potential risks and benefits to Kraft companywide. Then the company's operating committee chooses those that promise the greatest value. "In the past, different departments would make decisions on how to spend their resources," Finnerty says. "Now, the company gets a higher rate of return on investment and a bigger bang for the buck, because we're selecting projects that position us best strategically."
Group Incentives
Group Incentives
Leadership training is also crucial. "We're trying to build smart business people within our IT staff so that they can become a key part of the business," Finnerty says. Creating that isn't dependent on compensation, bonuses or other employee incentives specifically designed to foster alignment, he says. Instead, IT people are compensated on how well the business does, which depends in part on how well IT employees, as a whole, support Kraft's business objectives. Performance reviews for IT staff are based on specific business goals, such as delivering on time and on budget the new inventory management system. "That's a big aspect for the individual getting rewards," Finnerty says. "Because the performance of division heads is based on how well their divisions do, they're looking at technology enablers with whom to partner."
Best of all, the payoff to Finnerty's own alignment leadership is this: Senior executives now have a whole new view of IT. "In the past, you finished your business plan and then you'd ask, 'How is IT going to do this?'" says Kraft's Brewster. "Now, we look at IT as part of our core strategy for productivity, new products and global business. It enabled us to significantly accelerate the U.S. introduction of our Chips Ahoy! and Oreo Cookie Barz, which were initially developed for the Canadian market." Delissio Rising Crust Pizza, a U.S. product, was introduced in Canada in October 1999 and became the number-one frozen pizza there by January 2000.
Indeed, integrating the business processes and information systems of the companies Kraft buys each year is among Finnerty's toughest challenges. When Kraft parent Phillip Morris Companies Inc. bought Nabisco Holdings Corp. in December 2000 for $15.2 billion, Finnerty was part of the leadership team asked to help the company integrate Nabisco into the operations of Kraft. That's behind him now, but Finnerty's zeal to foster alignment and make technology pay off for the company, project by project, hasn't wavered.
Yet Finnerty refuses to put metrics on his own activism. "With very rare exceptions, you don't point to a particular technology and say that saved X or generated X," he says. "It's always the business process, a combination of technology and people, business and IT, that brings such results. And there's always more to do. Take these things like portfolio management. We're always asking how we can do it better next year. I don't think you can ever get to a high enough level of alignment."
Ann Therese Palmer is a Chicago-based freelance reporter whose work regularly appears in BusinessWeek and the Chicago Tribune business section. She has an MBA from Notre Dame and a law degree from Loyola University. Please send comments on this story to firstname.lastname@example.com.
How Kraft Bridges the
How Kraft Bridges the Gap
- Creates an environment where people contribute to business-unit success.
- Conducts regular retreats for IT staff to brainstorm business challenges.
- Visits other companies in other industries to learn best practices.
- Mandates IT to boost profits, not just to cut costs.
- Uses alignment reviews and portfolio management to set priorities.