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Small business BOOM
Battle-tested baby boomers launch their own businesses
Michael Schick was in a truck accident more than three years ago, and like many people who have rubbed elbows with the Grim Reaper and lived to tell the tale, he started thinking afterward about what he had done with his life.
More precisely, he thought about what he hadn't done. Schick had worked for several years as a trucker for Bison Transport and before that as a technician on printing presses. Yet he had never pursued his passion: woodworking.
Even though it had been in the back of his mind for years, and he had actually started collecting tools about a decade ago after his brother was killed in accident while driving a truck, like many of us, he had procrastinated.
"I wanted to get off the road badly," says the 57-year-old owner of Michael's Woodworking and Handyman Service.
Yet he couldn't find the right moment until he nearly suffered the same fate as his sibling.
Soon after his accident, he found himself writing out a business plan.
"It was like a blueprint of what I wanted to do in the future -- what would make me happy -- because I had post-traumatic stress disorder."
With the support of his wife, Patricia, they borrowed against the house to build his home-based workshop. At first he kept his day job, working odd jobs on the side. Then, this past spring, he decided to go into business for himself full time. So far, work has been plentiful, he says.
Schick is one of thousands of boomers in Canada who are making -- or at least thinking about -- the jump from working full time for an employer to becoming their own boss, according to a recent survey by TD Bank.
"Over 50 per cent indicated they have started a small business or they intend on starting a small business in the next few years as they move into pre- and post-retirement," says Dan Demers, vice-president of small business banking at TD.
The results came as a surprise even for the bank, he says.
"The traditional thinking is boomers would save up enough, retire, go to the beach and never work again, but they actually have a keen interest in continuing to contribute and to be active in the business community."
In some cases, boomers are going on their own because they have no choice. They've been downsized, and finding full-time employment in uncertain economic times hasn't been a fruitful search.
But many are choosing to become their own boss voluntarily, he says.
"There are two trends that we found," he says.
"One is consulting and actually using their organizational and business experience to help other businesses, doing consulting in engineering, business, accounting or whatever it might be."
The Schicks are representative of the other trend. They launched a home-based business based on a lifestyle choice.
Patricia Schick, 65, says their path hasn't been without potholes.
"Working for yourself is a whole different ball game," she says. "For me, I worked at University of Manitoba, so I'd get up, go to work and come home, and that was it."
Working at home -- with your spouse -- has involved a "few wrinkles to iron out."
The biggest challenge for the couple has been striking a balance that includes enjoying life after decades of working and building their business.
"Financially, we were pretty good," she says, adding they've even had to hire an employee, who is 60 years old.
While managing the finances hasn't been difficult for them, starting a business later in life can be a risky proposition, Demers says.
"The risk is that you go in too deep and use too much of your personal assets, threatening the financial stability that you've built up over your career."
Yet boomers have a great deal of experience that gives them an advantage over other age groups starting businesses, he says.
"They usually have managerial experience, so they tend to make smart choices and their risk is going to be much lower because of that wisdom."
Not to mention they also often have a number of financial assets to back up their venture.
"Their personal balance sheet is critical, especially for the self-employed, sole-proprietor startups," he says.
"Essentially, the credit worthiness and history play a big factor in the financing decisions."
Still, the size of your bank account isn't the only deciding factor when a small business loan account manager decides to approve a loan. The business plan is also crucial.
No financial institution will take would-be entrepreneurs seriously without proof they've done their homework, says Shannon Coughlin, general manager at the Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre (CMBSC).
"You need to be able to demonstrate that the business is going to be a success," she says. "The business plan allows people to make mistakes on paper, not out of their wallets."
But if you're just starting, the government-funded business centre should be your first stop.
"We have the largest collection of how-to-start-a-business books in North America," she says.
"And we also have hundreds of sample business plans."
The centre also helps fledgling entrepreneurs find money, providing them with access to Business Start Program loans of as much as $30,000 and connecting them with the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) for loans up to $50,000.
"What people should do is call us and we'll help them find the appropriate funding, because that's what we do."
For Schick, his new venture happened organically, so he didn't need to seek a business loan or even expert advice -- a fairly typical pattern for boomers who start a hobby business, Coughlin says.
They can slowly transition from being an employee to self-employment with not much of a shock to the pocketbook.
Still, like the Schicks, preparation long in advance is essential. Schick had been accumulating equipment for a decade to get ready.
But don't wait too long, his wife says.
"Get into it earlier rather than later."
Otherwise, you may find yourself mulling it over while the years slip by -- like her husband did, she says.
"It just kept nagging at him and finally, I said, 'Build the workshop and do it.' "
And he couldn't be happier.
Quick facts
Small business and building wealth: A big challenge for even successful entrepreneurs is an exit strategy. Many have sunk a lot of money into their business over many years, yet when it comes time to retire, they can face difficulties seeing a return on their equity. Still, according to the recent survey commissioned by Investors Group, many small business owners do invest substantially in RRSPs and other investments for retirement with the realization they may not be able to sell the business once they retire. Many, however, do plan to work long into retirement years, says Jack Courtney, vice-president of high-net-worth planning at Investors Group. "A third of them work into their 70s," he says, adding a survey found 14 per cent said they never plan to retire. But those entrepreneurs who have successful incorporated businesses have a real opportunity to carry a substantial amount of wealth into retirement if they can sell the business. "If you're selling a business that qualifies and find a buyer, then you can make use of a $750,000 lifetime capital gain exemption on the sale of shares of the business," Courtney says.
The Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre -- an entrepreneur's launching pad: Service centre general manager Shannon Coughlin says people who want to start a small business but are worried they lack experience can take advantage of a number of free educational programs offered at CMBSC. The centre's guest advisor program, for example, provides free access to lawyers, accountants, e-business specialists and banking professionals. Free seminars are also offered on a monthly basis on various topics, such as using social media, selling your product or service to government and developing a business plan. For more information, go to www.canadabusiness.mb.ca .
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Tohru Honda is a compassionate girl who is down on her luck. Her mother having recently died, she has been forced to camp out in the woods for shelter. However, things start to turn around once she is invited to live with class hunk Yuki Sohma and his family... but all is not as it seems! Yuki's family is burdened with a dark curse which causes them to turn into the animals of the Chinese zodiac once hugged by a member of the opposite sex... and Honda may be the only one who can help them.
Both stories focus around hard working and determined female leads, with hints of romance and teen life.
I'm really surprised more people haven't made recommendations for these two. It has many similarities! Let's first cover the obvious basic things they have in common: they are school-life romantic comedies that have darker undertones. Secondly, they are reverse harems with sexy guys!
As for the characters, both have strong female leads who literally work themselves to sickness. There is also a romance in both, but both the female leads don't really focus on having a relationship.
Overall, I really do think if you enjoy one, you'd enjoy the other. Yes, Fruits Basket has a supernatural theme to it, but the general tone is the same as Maid-Sama!
Karin is a vampire, but as fate would have it she is a freak among her own kind; for Karin doesn't drink the blood of her counterparts – she is cursed to be a blood maker, forcing her to inject her extra blood into her victims. What's worse is that if she doesn't find an outlet for the blood in time, it explodes in a massive nose bleed of impressive volume. In Karin's twisted day-going state, she finds it nearly impossible to find safe victims; so, nose bleeds are a major problem. When transfer student and new classmate Usui Kenta proves to have exactly the kind of emotions her vampire nature most enjoys, she finds herself in comedic dire straights!
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It's a little difficult to explain why Karin and Kaichou wa Maid-sama are similar, but I know for certain that if you enjoyed Karin, you will LOVE Kaichou wa Maid-sam.
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Both Karin and Kaichou wa Maid-sama also have very likable male protagonists; both, ironically, with the last name Usui!
The romance is a little more straightforward in Kaichou wa Maid-sama, but Karin had very sweet romantic moments as well. If you're enjoying Kaichou wa Maid-sama, give Karin a go as well!
Both of these include the male lead keeping the female lead's more-or-less embarrassing secret. Both are romance driven series with comedy on the side in a school setting. If you like one there is reason to watch the other.
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I choose He is My Master not because it has any romance in it, but simply because if you like seeing girls in maid outfits you will like this.
If you want to see alot of girls in maid outfits, and being attractive, this show is going to be for you :]
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So one show has the ultimate all-round student, and the other has a girl with shut-in tendencies, but both characters are competitive, driven and terribly likable despite their flaws.
Both shows have a lot of laugh out loud moments, and while Kaichou is not as crack-tastic as Yamato, neither does it fall into moralising traps like Yamato sometimes does.
Animation wise - expect characters to melt into stick-figure forms in both shows, provide comedic shojo sparkles, cross-dressing, school sports day nonsense and a decent clutch of bishies too.
Kaichou wa Maid-sama may have a dodgy title and creepy blackmail premise, but it's far from a piece of male fan service.
It's a bit hard to describe the similarities between these two shows, because on the surface the plots are very different. However, they share a similar sense of humor-- situational comedy relying heavily on stereotypes, sexual innuendo, irony, and chibi-fied animation sequences. If you enjoy the humor in one of them, you'll likely enjoy both (as I did!)Also, there is a live-action version of YNSH which I found enjoyable, so you may want to search that out too!
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As a part of the ongoing sustainability efforts of the school, Hillsborough Community College announced the launch of HCC Zimride, HCC's new private rideshare network. A nationally recognized program, Zimride is a way to coordinate the daily commute (or one-time ridesharing) for students, staff, and faculty. With fuel prices still at staggering levels, the program can offer some relief to the collective wallets of the HCC community. All online, it is accessible to anyone with an HCC email account.
Zimride is a private, voluntary network available to HCC faculty, staff and students and makes it easy to find a friend or co-worker going the same way. It's simple. Have a car? Add your ride and split the costs by sharing your drive with others. No car, but need a ride? Add your ride request and get to where you want to go. Simply click and post where you're coming from and when. HCC Zimride will help you find others making similar trips. HCC has also partnered with USF's Zimride community. Users at both HCC and USF who choose to "Include Trusted Partners" will now be able to connect with one another.
This is just the most recent step in the college's commitment to sustainability. Future plans include a complete, all-campus energy audit and then reviewing the results to take further action. The mission of the HCC Sustainability Council is to transform Hillsborough Community College into a participating sustainable member of society. Through a partnership among students, faculty, staff, administrators, and community members, HCC seeks to establish and nurture an institutional culture of sustainability and promote excellence and leadership in education, innovation, and stewardship to achieve economic, social, and environmental sustainability that will ensure the health and well-being of present and future generations of people, both locally and globally.
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An anonymous reader writes: At the upcoming NATO meeting, according to the NY Times, the 28 member states are expected to ratify "a far-reaching change in the organization's mission of collective defense: For the first time, a cyberattack on any of the 28 NATO nations could be declared an attack on all of them, much like a ground invasion or an airborne bombing." A former NATO ambassador describes NATO's technological capability as "pretty basic" and suggests any counter-cyberattacks would likely be lodged by member states (meaning the U.S. and maybe Britain). He opines, "It's a measure of how far we've come on this issue that there's now a consensus that a cyberattack could be as devastating as any other kind of attack, maybe even more so." Helpfully, the agreement avoids defining what sort of "cyberattack" would warrant an armed response. The Times describes the agreement as "deliberately unclear."
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Foreign Policy has an in-depth look at the contents of a laptop reportedly seized this year in Syria from a stronghold of the organization now known as the Islamic State, and described as belonging to a Tunisian national ("Muhammed S."). The "hidden documents" folder of the machine, says the report, contained a vast number of documents, including ones describing and justifying biological weapons: The laptop's contents turn out to be a treasure trove of documents that provide ideological justifications for jihadi organizations -- and practical training on how to carry out the Islamic State's deadly campaigns. They include videos of Osama bin Laden, manuals on how to make bombs, instructions for stealing cars, and lessons on how to use disguises in order to avoid getting arrested while traveling from one jihadi hot spot to another. ... The information on the laptop makes clear that its owner is a Tunisian national named Muhammed S. who joined ISIS in Syria and who studied chemistry and physics at two universities in Tunisia's northeast. Even more disturbing is how he planned to use that education: The ISIS laptop contains a 19-page document in Arabic on how to develop biological weapons and how to weaponize the bubonic plague from infected animals. ... "The advantage of biological weapons is that they do not cost a lot of money, while the human casualties can be huge," the document states.
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mdsolar sends this report from Symmetry Magazine: Cosmic rays can help scientists do something no one else can: safely image the interior of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. ... [M]uon tomography is similar to taking an X-ray, only it uses naturally produced muons. These particles don't damage the imaged materials and, because they already stream through everything on Earth, they can be used to image even the most sensitive objects. Better yet, a huge amount of shielding is needed to stop muons from passing through an object, making it nearly impossible to hide from muon tomography. ... By determining how muons scatter as they interact with electrons and nuclei within the item, the team's software creates a three-dimensional picture of what's inside. ... To prove the technology, the Los Alamos team shipped a demo detector system to a small, working nuclear reactor in a Toshiba facility in Kawasaki, Japan. There, they placed one detector on either side of the reactor core. "When we analyzed our data we discovered that in addition to the fuel in the reactor core, they had put a few fuel bundles off to the side that we didn't know about," says Morris. "They were really impressed that not only could we image the core, but that we also found those bundles."
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New submitter willoremus writes A wounded Army vet had his $75k prosthetic hand bricked when someone stole his iPod Touch? Yeah, not so much. I'm a tech reporter for Slate.com, and a Slashdot post earlier this week prompted me to look into this story and ultimately debunk some of the key info. Sorry for self-posting, but I thought folks here might be interested in the truth since the false story was one of the top posts earlier this week.
122 comments | 4 days ago
SpzToid (869795) writes Those plucky "Ukrainian separatist's" ambition to join Russia have now been given Russian military support, as the Russian Army with long columns of armor have invaded Ukraine and have opened up a second warring front, in a big way. The Reuters report, interestingly, quotes a member of Putin's own advisory council on human rights describing the move as an invasion: "When masses of people, under commanders' orders, on tanks, APCs and with the use of heavy weapons, (are) on the territory of another country, cross the border, I consider this an invasion."
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kdataman writes U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ben Eberle, who lost an arm and both legs in Afghanistan, had his Ipod Touch stolen on Friday. This particular Ipod Touch has an app on it that controls his $75,000 prosthetic arm. The robbery bricked his prosthesis: "That is because Eberle's prosthetic hand is programmed to only work with the stolen iPod, and vice versa. Now that the iPod is gone, he said he has to get a new hand and get it reprogrammed with his prosthesis." I see three possibilities: 1) The article is wrong, possibly to guilt the thief into returning the Ipod. 2) This is an incredibly bad design by Touch Bionics. Why would you make a $70,000 piece of equipment permanently dependent on a specific Ipod Touch? Ipods do fail or go missing. 3) This is an intentionally bad design to generate revenue. Maybe GM should do this with car keys? "Oops, lost the keys to the corvette. Better buy a new one."
194 comments | about a week ago
Bennett Haselton writes After footage of James Foley's beheading by ISIS terrorists was posted online on Tuesday, Twitter and Youtube elected to remove any footage or links to the footage posted by users. Obviously this reduces the incentive for terrorist groups to post such content, by shrinking their audience, but it also reduces the public's access to information. Would it be ethical to make the content available, if it was preceded by an advertisement for a cause that runs counter to everything ISIS stands for? Read below to see what Bennett has to say.
300 comments | about a week ago
schwit1 (797399) writes The U.S. Air Force on Thursday issued a request for information from industry for the replacement of the Russian-made engines used by ULA's Atlas 5 rocket: "Companies are being asked to respond by Sept. 19 to 35 questions. Among them: "What solution would you recommend to replace the capability currently provided by the RD-180 engine?" Air Force officials have told Congress they only have a broad idea of how to replace the RD-180. Estimates of the investment in money and time necessary to field an American-built alternative vary widely. Congress, meanwhile, is preparing bills that would fund a full-scale engine development program starting next year; the White House is advocating a more deliberate approach that begins with an examination of applicable technologies. In the request for information, the Air Force says it is open to a variety of options including an RD-180 facsimile, a new design, and alternative configurations featuring multiple engines, and even a brand new rocket. The Air Force is also trying to decide on the best acquisition approach. Options include a traditional acquisition or a shared investment as part of a public-private partnership. [emphasis mine]"
The Atlas 5 is built by Lockheed Martin. This is really their problem, not the Air Force or ULA. In addition, the Air Force has other options, both from Boeing's Delta rocket family as well as SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
107 comments | about two weeks ago
An anonymous reader writes: Terrorist organization ISIS has been in the news a lot lately for their hostile activities in Iraq and Syria. They've also been very active online, posting propaganda and photos on various social networking sites to try to recruit more members. Frequently, they'll have pictures of themselves in nondescript locations — but even carefully selected images give clues to a real location. Citizen journalists at Bellingcat analyzed a group of these photos, comparing buildings and bridges in the background to images from Google Earth. With very little to go on, they were able to pinpoint the location of a terrorist training camp.
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Lasrick writes The referendum on Scottish independence on September 18th affects more than just residents of the United Kingdom. All of the UK's nuclear deterrent is located in Scotland, and Alex Salmond and the Scottish government have pledged to safely remove and permanently ban nuclear weapons from Scottish territory within the first term of a newly independent parliament.
375 comments | about two weeks ago
schwit1 writes: Managers of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) are searching for a mission that they can propose and convince Congress to fund. "Once SLS is into the 2020s, the launch rate should see the rocket launching at least once per year, ramping up to a projected three times per year for the eventual Mars missions. However, the latter won't be until the 2030s. With no missions manifested past the EM-2 flight, the undesirable question of just how 'slow' a launch rate would be viable for SLS and her workforce has now been asked." Meanwhile, two more Russian rocket engines were delivered yesterday, the first time that's happened since a Russian official threatened to cut off the supply. Another shipment of three engines is expected later this year. In Europe, Arianespace and the European Space Agency signed a contract today for the Ariane 5 rocket to launch 12 more of Europe's Galileo GPS satellites on three launches. This situation really reminds me of the U.S. launch market in the 1990s, when Boeing and Lockheed Martin decided that, rather than compete with Russia and ESA for the launch market, they instead decided to rely entirely on U.S. government contracts, since those contracts didn't really demand that they reduce their costs significantly to compete.
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v3rgEz writes: Wondering how the St. Louis County Police ended up armed with surplus military gear, and what equipment other departments have? A FOIA request at MuckRock has turned up every item given to local law enforcement under the Pentagon's 1022 program, the mechanism by which local law enforcement can apply for surplus or used military gear.
264 comments | about two weeks ago
coondoggie writes Probably one of the last and perhaps unforgiving areas of the world not truly "wired" is above and below the ocean. Researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) want to explore the possibility of seriously changing that notion and develop what it calls "a system-of-systems architecture and critical components to support networked maritime operations, to include undersea, surface, and above surface domains."
12 comments | about three weeks ago
Daniel_Stuckey writes with a story about an interesting (or, you might think, creepy) institution at the University of Washington's Seattle campus. It's the Center for Game Science, a research lab that makes educational video games for children, and that received the bulk of its funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the wing of the U.S. Department of Defense that supports research into experimental military technology. Why is DARPA the original primary funder of the CGS? According to written and recorded statements from current and former DARPA program managers, as well as other government documents, the DARPA-funded educational video games developed at the CGS have a purpose beyond the pretense of teaching elementary school children STEM skills.
84 comments | about three weeks ago
WIRED published a long piece on Edward Snowden today (worth a read on its own), and simultaneously broke news of "MonsterMind," an NSA program to monitor all network traffic and detect attacks, responding with a counterattack automatically. From the article: Although details of the program are scant, Snowden tells WIRED in an extensive interview with James Bamford that algorithms would scour massive repositories of metadata and analyze it to differentiate normal network traffic from anomalous or malicious traffic. Armed with this knowledge, the NSA could instantly and autonomously identify, and block, a foreign threat. More than this, though, Snowden suggests MonsterMind could one day be designed to return fire — automatically, without human intervention... Snowden raised two issues with the program: the source of an attack could be spoofed to trick the U.S. into attacking an innocent third party, and the violation of the fourth amendment since the NSA would effectively need to monitor all domestic network traffic for the program to work. Also in Bamford's interview are allegations that the NSA knocked Syria offline in 2012 after an attempt to install intercept software on an edge router ended with the router being bricked.
194 comments | about three weeks ago
jfruh writes Many security experts agree that our current authentication system, in which end users are forced to remember (or, more often, write down) a dizzying array of passwords is broken. DARPA, the U.S. Defense Department research arm that developed the Internet, is trying to work past the problem by eliminating passwords altogether, replacing them with biometric and other cues, using off-the-shelf technology available today.
383 comments | about three weeks ago
Ars Technica takes a look at the next generation of TrackingPoint's automatically aimed rifles (not "automatic" in the usual sense), and visited the shooting range where they're tested out. Like the company's previous generation of gun (still in production, and increasingly being sold to government buyers), TrackingPoint's offerings integrate a Linux computer that makes acquiring and tracking a target far easier and more accurate than it would otherwise be. Unlike the older models, though, this year TrackingPoint is concentrating on AR-15s, rather than longer, heavier bolt-action rifles. A slice: The signature "Tag-Track-Xact" system has gained additional functionality on the AR models, too. With the bolt-action guns, there was only one way to put a round onto a target: first, you sighted in on the thing you wanted to hit and depressed the red tagging button just above the trigger. A red pip would appear in the scope's crosshairs, and you'd place the pip onto the target and release the button. The scope's rangefinding laser would then illuminate the target to measure its distance, and the image processor would fix on the object; if you moved, or if the target moved, the red pip would remain atop the target. Then, to fire, you squeezed the trigger and lined the crosshairs up with the target's pip. When the two coincided, the weapon fired. This method works fine for a bolt-action rifle where every round has to be manually chambered, but it's less than ideal for a carbine, which one might want to fire off-hand (i.e., standing up and aiming) or from the hip. With this in mind, the AR PGFs have a new "free fire mode," in which you can tag a target once and then shoot at it as many times as you want by pulling the trigger directly, with all the shots using the ballistic data from the first shot's tag. That means, says writer Lee Hutchinson, a rifle "with essentially 100 percent accuracy at 250 yards."
219 comments | about three weeks ago
AbrasiveCat (999190) writes "In the continuing game of cat and mouse between offensive and defensive technologies of war, the technology of radar stealth may have been matched by new multiple frequency radar systems. U.S Naval Institute News reports the Chinese and Russians may be developing such systems. The present radar systems use high frequency waves for accurately locating an incoming target. Stealth aircraft are designed to adsorb or reflect these waves away from the receiver. It turns out longer wave radars can see the stealth aircraft. The longer wave radar lacks the precision of the high frequency radar, but when the two are combined, as the Russians, Chinese (and U.S.) are doing, you can produce accurate targeting radar. The F117 may have been in a golden age for stealth technology, it will be interesting to see if the F35 arrives too late to be effective against other countries with advanced radar systems."
275 comments | about three weeks ago
An anonymous reader writes In a paper published Thursday in Science, IBM describes its creation of a brain-like chip called TrueNorth. It has "4,096 processor cores, and it mimics one million human neurons and 256 million synapses, two of the fundamental biological building blocks that make up the human brain." What's the difference between TrueNorth and traditional processing units? Apparently, TrueNorth encodes data "as patterns of pulses". Already, TrueNorth has a proven 80% accuracy in image recognition with a power consumption efficiency rate beating traditional processing units. Don't look for brain-like chips in the open market any time soon, though. TrueNorth is part of a DARPA research effort that may or may not translate into significant changes in commercial chip architecture and function.
105 comments | about three weeks ago
benrothke writes Cyberwarfare is a controversial topic. At the 2014 Infosec World Conference, Marcus Ranum gave a talk on Cyberwar: Putting Civilian Infrastructure on the Front Lines, Again. Whether it was the topic or just Marcus being Marcus, about a third of the participants left within the first 15 minutes. They should have stayed, as Ranum, agree with him or not, provided some riveting insights on the topic. In Introduction to Cyber-Warfare: A Multidisciplinary Approach, authors Paulo Shakarian, Jana Shakarian and Andrew Ruef provide an excellent overview of the topic. The book takes a holistic, or as they call it multidisciplinary, approach. It looks at the information security aspect of cyberwarfare, as well the military, sociological and other aspects. Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.
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EUREKA! I've done it! #RoboBoobs for my #burningman #SexBot costume!
The Complete Fiasco
Did you know that I'm #TankGirl? I even shot this shirt myself with an M-16, which is so easy to use I had to consciously not make too many bullseyes to keep the aesthetic integrity of the shirt.
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I'mma miss you, Summer, when you go.
O, My Tender Heart
O, my tender heart keeps beating
Though I would it were retreating
While a forced smile you're entreating
Me with pained and partial meaning.
Many were the days spent grieving;
Many nights dreamt of bereaving
You—not that I've been deceiving
You—your heart has long been leaving.
These are things I dare not utter—
My poor heart! How it does stutter!
Sputter! I meant it does sputter!
Shapeless, vuln'rable, like butter.
O, would that I were gleaning
Rays of sun and days of cleaning
My soiled soul, 'stead of repeating
It is me my heart is beating.
By Kendalle Fiasco, 2013
Comme on my Dress, Revisited (by Kendalle Fiasco)
This is what I wore to a #Gala for work last February during #NYFashionWeek. I had to take a separate photo of the heel to really catch the color and structure of the beautiful thing. I was serving some hot #alien #mermaid realness.
"Desert Search for Techno Allah" by Mr. Bungle (by Kendalle Fiasco)
Unsure whether skin cancer is caused by unfiltered Sun Wrath or the chemicals in almighty, mysterious Sun Screen, I have taken our oldest known civilizations of survivors as inspiration to protect me from the grueling sun and the pervasive heat. #HaremPants purchased from a #Tibetan stand in Camden Town, London, provide me with a #silhouette I haven't explored enough—and with #pockets! What a revolution, to be #female and clad in something as #pragmatic as it is stylish. Not to be confused as co-opting any particular culture's aesthetic, I maintain my signature flash of stomach. Topped with my blonde and #bejeweled tresses, and my #peeptoe #FloatingHeels, I hope this look impresses 'stead of hurting your feels.
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Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Casino rejection miffs Brandon mayor
Decter Hirst questions province's gaming policy
BRANDON -- A gaming centre such as the one announced for Winnipeg's MTS Centre is not in the cards for Brandon, the provincial government says.
"They continue to say that the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is in control of the existing (gaming) licences, that the concept of a gaming centre is unique to the MTS Centre because of its role in downtown revitalization," Mayor Shari Decter Hirst said Wednesday. "They said no."
Winnipeg's new facility, a 5,000-square-foot gaming centre with 140 slot machines, two poker tables and four blackjack tables, will be operated by Manitoba Lotteries but owned by True North Sports & Entertainment, owner of the Winnipeg Jets.
Brandon must now consider other options for redevelopment of the soon-to-be-demolished Brandon Inn and Brandon Real Estate Building properties along Princess Avenue.
Sally Housser, spokeswoman for Dave Chomiak, the minister responsible for gaming, said Wednesday the province has "no plans for changes to the current policy."
That didn't didn't sit well with Decter Hirst, who questioned why the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and the province are refusing to consider Brandon's potential as a gaming centre, especially in light of ongoing problems with the AMC's Spirit Sands casino development.
"Brandon continues to be a great business opportunity for gaming in the province of Manitoba, a better opportunity than anywhere else right now," the mayor said. "If they're serious about economic development, if they're frankly serious about downtown revitalization, if they're serious about employment and job-creation opportunities, they have to at some point look in a different direction than the Spirit Sands casino at Carberry.
"How patient are they on how long it's going to take to get that project off the ground?"
She said the province should revisit its 2007 First Nations gaming-market study that suggested western Manitoba could sustain only one medium-size casino.
Cliff Cullen, the Opposition Progressive Conservatives' newly appointed gaming critic, agreed.
"It might be relevant to have another look at those studies to see what the possibility could be for gaming in the future," Cullen said, adding he hoped the AMC and province would be "up front" with the public about potential delays in the Spirit Sands development.
The province and AMCàhave refused to comment on the beleaguered Spirit Sands development, scheduled to be up and running by the end of this year.
The AMC and its partners in Spirit Sands have yet to hand over site plans to Manitoba Hydro. Before power lines can be installed on the site, Hydro requires an indeterminate time to plan the lines, depending on projected power needs.
Meanwhile, Pasadena, Calif.-based general contractor C.W. Driver, previously chosen to build the casino, confirmed this week that as of late last year, it was no longer involved with the scaled-down construction.
In an email Wednesday, AMC spokeswoman Sheila North Wilson said her organization would not comment or give an update on the construction timeline.
"There is no information to share with you at this time," she wrote.
The province provided no details Wednesday on how long it would wait for the Spirit Sands development to move forward, whether time limits for the AMC to use its three provincial casino licences were discussed and whether the government's policy on aboriginal casino development had been subject to review.
Asked whether his party favoured the current NDP policy on aboriginal gaming in Manitoba, Cullen declined to comment.
"I'm not going to comment on our policy," he said. "I'd better not. It's not my place to do that."
Cullen is the MLA for Spruce Woods, a region that stands to benefit from the Spirit Sands casino should it be built on the Swan Lake reserve along Highway 5 as planned.
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My first long run today. I was so nervous this morning. The weather was forecasted to be 4 degrees, snowy, cloudy- and instead we ended up with a glorious day. Temps were in the 20s and the sun was a shinin. Started the run at Andrea's house in Highlands Ranch and ran bike trail along C-470 all the way to Golden. My hip had been hurting pretty bad all week, so I took it slow for the majority of run. Most of run was uphill and I mainly walked the down hills. I find that I hold back a bit, I think because I am not sure what I am really capable of. Could I have run faster…possibly. I figure I'll try at the Marathon in Jan. I am shooting for sub 5 hours. That would rock! Ran the 26 miles in 6:06. Slow and steady with a break for water at Conoco in Morrison. I just tried to upload the run from my Garmin…and it's in cyber heaven somewhere. Kinda bummed I lost the information from this run….:( For FUEL- I consumed 3 gels, 1 clif bar and 1/2 banana. DRANK 3 bottles of water. I took my sportsquestdirect pills every hours- but did not use Carbo Pro this time. I like the Carbo Pro best I think. I enjoyed running with Andrea. For a while Christy was with us and Andrea and her were running faster than I was ready to….It kinda sucks to be behind sometimes…who am I kidding…it sucks all the time. In time- I'll get fasterrr………………. I really love running this amount of time and this distance. Could have done without the hiway traffic. But it still was glorious and I felt absolutely blessed!
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SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft on Wednesday said it teamed with the FBI to disrupt armies of hacked computers used to commit more than a half-billion dollars in financial fraud around the world.
A strike coordinated with police and financial institutions disabled more than a thousand "botnets" used by a global cybercrime operation to steal people's banking information and identities, according to the software colossus.
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Microsoft urged people to rid Citadel from infected computers, providing free tools online at support.microsoft.com/botnets.
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Michael Dawson will hold talks with QPR in the next 24-48 hours as the west London club look to tie up a deal for the Tottenham defender and Real Madrid centre-back Ricardo Carvalho.
Despite landing a number of high-profile signings this summer, QPR began their season with a 5-0 home loss to Swansea on Saturday.
The defeat, which came in front of Hoops owner Tony Fernandes, looks to have convinced Rangers boss Mark Hughes that he needs defensive reinforcements and the Welshman today agreed a season-long loan deal with Real Madrid to sign former Chelsea defender Carvalho.
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