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State Department Program Allows Army of Ambassadors to Experience Arkansas
by Larry Luxner
Posted 12/10/2012 12:00 am
Updated 2 years ago
As more than 40 former heads of state prepare to descend upon Little Rock for next week's annual conference of the Club de Madrid, local officials can rest assured that Arkansas already generates good vibes among many of the world's top diplomats — thanks to the U.S. State Department's "Experience America" program.
For three days in October, former President Bill Clinton, Gov. Mike Beebe and other leaders hosted the largest delegation of foreign ambassadors Arkansas has ever seen. The diplomats' delight was evident as they enjoyed a sumptuous welcome dinner in the backyard of the governor's mansion in Little Rock that featured the best of down-home Southern cuisine: black-eyed pea salad, roasted potatoes, barbecue chicken, dry-rub smoked beef brisket, honey and dill salmon, turnip greens and apple crisp.
"This is really a treat for all our ambassadors to get together here. We're certainly pleased you chose Arkansas for your Experience America tour," Beebe told the diplomats and their spouses, who represented 43 countries from Azerbaijan to Uruguay.
The cookout was one of many highlights of the Oct. 21-23 visit, which was arranged by Capricia Penavic Marshall, chief of the State Department's Office of Protocol.
"The State Department does an excellent job at organizing these trips," said Envoy Deborah Mae-Lovell of the Caribbean nation of Antigua & Barbuda. "This gives me a chance to meet with a cross section of the population, from government officials to business executives, educators and young people. It enhances the work I do as an ambassador."
It's true that foreign diplomats accredited to the United States rarely socialize outside Washington. But here in Arkansas was a whole bus full of them, representing political entities as tiny as the remote Pacific atoll of Tuvalu (population 9,800) and as powerful as the 27-member European Union (population 503 million).
Claudia Fritsche, ambassador of 62-square-mile Liechtenstein — the second-tiniest country represented on the trip — said Arkansas was one of only six states she had not yet visited; now she can finally scratch it off her list. "I'm deeply impressed by the natural beauty and the truly entrepreneurial spirit of the people of Arkansas," she said. "And there's also something one expects, but I'm still humbled by it: Southern hospitality."
Her colleague from Luxembourg, Ambassador Jean-Louis Wolzfeld, agreed. "America is far more than its capital city, and it's important to see how people live and think outside the Beltway."
With only 2.9 million inhabitants and no world-class cities or soaring monuments, Arkansas may seem an unlikely place for the State Department to schlep one-fourth of the entire Washington-based diplomatic corps. As Beebe noted, recalling his 12-day trade mission to China last April: "The Chinese know only two things about Arkansas: Bill Clinton and Wal-Mart."
It's no accident the ambassadors came face to face with both, receiving personal greetings from the 42nd president over dinner at the $165 million steel-and-glass Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock. Later on, in Fayetteville, they also met with Rosalind Brewer, president and CEO of retail chain Sam's Club, a unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
During a break from her responsibilities as chief U.S. protocol officer and chaperone on the three-and-a-half-hour bus ride from Little Rock to Fayetteville, Marshall — former special assistant to Hillary Clinton when she was first lady — explained how it all works.
"Embassies pay their own way, and they pay for their stay. What we do is work with airlines and our host committee," she told us. "When President Clinton heard about what we were doing, he told me, 'You must bring the ambassadors to Arkansas, and I want to be here when they come.' The folks at the Clinton Presidential Center worked very hard at aligning the stars to make it happen."
It also helped that in a recent State Department survey asking Washington-based ambassadors where they wanted to go next, three states — Alaska, Arkansas and New Mexico — came out on top.
"Our focus on the Experience America trips is not only to showcase the beauty of our great nation, and the diversity of culture and tradition, but also to create business relationships with people from all backgrounds," Marshall said. "For example, when we went to Los Angeles, the ambassadors attended a wonderful luncheon hosted by Warner Bros. They were quite frank about how a country can prepare a package to invite a studio to go on location and film in their country. Later, the ambassador of Gabon signed a deal with them; it all came about from that luncheon."
With dollar signs in mind, local business leaders feted the ambassadors as if they were celebrities at not one but two lavish events. The first was a lengthy Governor's Business Roundtable Breakfast at the Little Rock Club on the 30th floor of the Regions Bank Building, then the following day at the University of Arkansas' sprawling campus in Fayetteville.
"Even through the worst recession in my lifetime, our business leaders have persevered, maintained and have been able to expand," Beebe said over breakfast, noting that Arkansas has gained 27,000 jobs since the economy hit bottom in 2009.
"We care deeply about your economic viability for very selfish reasons," he told the diplomats. "When we do poorly, the rest of the states do poorly, and when the states do poorly, the globe does poorly. So it's important for us to get together and talk about economic strategy. It's our job to tout who we are and what we have available. And what we have available is an ever-increasing advanced workforce."
Beebe, who's led trade missions to China, France, Germany, Great Britain and Cuba, said Arkansas has been relatively successful in attracting investment from Western Europe and Asia, "though we'd like to have a few more companies from the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East."
Arkansas would also like to sell more to the world.
To that end, Paul Rivera, general manager of the Caterpillar factory in North Little Rock, said his Peoria, Ill., company — the world's largest name in mining and construction equipment — spent $148 million to build its world-class facility in Arkansas three years ago. The factory now employs about 600 people.
"We produce things every country needs," Rivera said, noting that 45 percent of his factory's output is shipped outside the United States. And in response to a question from Botswana's ambassador, Tebelelo Mazile Seretse, he added: "Africa is a huge growth market for Caterpillar, served primarily from our European and Brazilian markets, but we'd like to produce machines — especially for mining and road construction — closer to the point of use."
Eric Fox, plant manager for global cosmetics giant L'Oreal, told diplomats his 900,000-SF factory in North Little Rock produces 300 million units of Lancôme and Maybelline mascara, eye shadow, face powder, nail enamel and lipstick every year.
"This is the largest cosmetics plant in the world for L'Oreal," said Fox, who manages 800 employees. "We're now opening factories in Russia, Brazil, Egypt and Indonesia. Western Europe and the U.S. are fairly mature markets, so there's little room for growth, but the global middle class will grow from 1 billion today to 2.7 billion by 2050, and these people are going to need quality beauty products."
In Fayetteville, the ambassadors were welcomed to the University of Arkansas by Razorbacks cheerleaders, backed up by the school's marching band. They also learned how to "call the hogs" and posed for photos under a statue of Sen. J. William Fulbright.
Here too, business was on the agenda, with presentations by two of the state's most important companies: Wal-Mart, the planet's largest retailer, and Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale, one of the world's largest processors and marketers of chicken, beef and pork.
"Our rate of growth exceeds all other metropolitan areas in the Midwest," said Mike Malone, president and CEO of the Northwest Arkansas Council. "We're adding 31 residents to this corner of Arkansas every day. More than a quarter of a million people have moved here in the last 20 years. They come and stay, and they love it."
The state's most famous corporate name is, of course, Wal-Mart, which began in 1962 with just one store in the town of Rogers, about 20 miles north of Fayetteville.
Last year, Sam's Club alone posted sales of $49 billion — more than the annual GDP of 19 countries represented by the ambassadors listening to CEO Brewer's speech — and its stores cover a combined 81 million SF, which is three times the size of Monaco. Its parent company, Wal-Mart, with well over 2 million employees and fiscal 2012 revenue of almost $444 billion, would rank as the world's 26th-largest economy — smack between Argentina and Austria — if it were a country of its own.
"Many of you here today represent countries that Wal-Mart sources from, and it's a long list that includes Thailand (tables, jewelry and TVs); Egypt (rugs and shirts); Germany (wines) and Cambodia (gloves and dresses)," said Brewer. "One of our goals is to be a good global citizen, and 70 percent of impoverished people are women. Wal-Mart has the size and scale to help, by empowering women across our supply chain. So over the next five years, we will source $20 billion from women-owned suppliers in the U.S. and double our sourcing from women-owned suppliers internationally."
Like Brewer, Donnie Smith, CEO of Tyson Foods, looked out at the roomful of ambassadors and saw potential new sales to a multitude of countries.
Smith rattled off statistics: Tyson, with 115,000 employees and $33 billion in annual revenue, is the nation's second-largest tortilla maker and the largest manufacturer of pizza toppings, though beef represents 40 percent of company sales, chicken 35 percent and pork 15 percent.
"Over time, chicken will continue to grow in per-capita consumption. Today, we're in countries where we see an emerging middle class and a good supply of feed grains," he said. "Latin America is a huge growth opportunity for us, but we're also in India, where per-capita chicken consumption is only 5 pounds a year. We have three operations in China — the only place where we have company-owned farms."
All that farm talk resonated with Moroccan Ambassador Mohamed Rachad Bouhlal, who three months earlier visited Wyoming as part of Experience America.
"Arkansas is an agricultural state, and agriculture is very important for Morocco. We are a big exporter of processed foods and livestock," said Bouhlal, recalling with fondness President Clinton's 1999 visit to Morocco to attend the funeral of King Hassan II, as well as King Mohammed VI's reciprocal visit to the United States a year later. "There's a lot we can learn from each other, and I'm sure possibilities for partnerships exist."
(Larry Luxner, a freelance writer based in Maryland, is news editor of The Washington Diplomat and editor of CubaNews.)


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The need for research-based approaches in arbitration can be seen in the push back in the US by consumer groups who witness the procedures and arbitrators of large sponsoring organizations either recommended or required in workplace and consumer contracts. Often times, these sponsoring organizations are found to rule overwhelmingly in favor of corporations (sometimes over 90% of the time) with whom they have a special or exclusive contract for services. One answer to this complaint is to develop processes that have greater transparency and are grounded in research that allows the consumer and the sponsoring organization a reality check on the perceived fairness and efficacy of the process. The inAccord Conflict Analysis® Arbitration model allows for clients to report back their experiences and any breaches of impartiality or neutrality that they may experience. These results are aggregated and become part of a national and international research measurement. Our hope is that other sponsoring organizations follow suit as the need for empirical validation of arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution becomes more decisive.]]>
Illusions can be highly addictive, because the anger engendered works as an energizing force in our lives, perhaps masking an underlying depression, sorrow, or despair. Whatever the rationale, illusions mesmerize us as we stare transfixed on a reflection, never seeing that the enemy in the glass could be our own unhealed self calling out to us. I think about the words of the title character in the book Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, which I re-read every couple of years. All through his amazing life journey to rid his mind of the world of illusions, he would return to a single thought, "I can think, I can wait, and I can fast." It is a statement that sustained him from reactivity and anger at others. He knew well that the world was illusory and reflective of his own inner turmoil. Although his statement did not protect him from sorrow or despair, nor from pain inflicted by others, it did appear to keep him on his path of surrender. So, as I watch my troubled Robin, an hour later, still attacking his own reflection in my windows, I send him compassion and love, extending that same sentiment to myself and all those I have perceived as enemies.]]>
Second author, Harter, wrote in her groundbreaking book, The Construction of the Self, that authenticity implies that one acts in accord with the true self, expressing in ways that are consistent with inner thoughts and feelings. Other authors concur by underscoring that emotions enhance one's perception and understanding of events, other people, and the world in general (Cassell, 2002; Frijda, Manstead, & Bem, 2000; Oakley, 1992). Why is this discussion of compassion and authenticity important for using the Touchstone Skills interpersonally? As we have described learning to take the perspectives of another promotes the development of compassion. Compassion, in turn leads to greater transparency, which allows for greater authenticity.
(2002) makes the important point that we must perceive a shared sense of community with others in order to feel true compassion. Without this, we tend to alienate or dissociate ourselves from those less fortunate. Therefore, cultivating compassion for others and the shifting of perspectives, resulting in transparency is a necessary condition to authentically communicating with another. As Michie and Gooty note, "feeling compassion is a commitment to a belief that others should be treated fairly" and when people who have this commitment act on it without emotional conflict, their actions will be more consistent and authentic.]]>
Understanding the perspective of the self and others is a powerful human cognition, often elusive and essentially a result of one's personal opinion and belief system. Differing motivations, expectations, knowledge, or even visual perspective can lead people to interpret the same event very differently, and a failure to recognize these differences can lead to mis-communication and conflict (e.g., Pronin, Puccio, & Ross, 2002).
Many argue the correctness of their perspective based on a thorough review of the facts. Yet facts are often selected as a result of personal bias and what supports one's own perspective. Oftentimes, in the legal profession you will hear a response "it depends" to a specific question you may ask. It is this notion of perspective informing this response. It depends on the perspective of the judge, or it depends on the nature of the opposing party. Or it depends on the vantage point coming from a specific leader of that particular government, organization or family and the history and experience that informed them. After some time, it becomes hard to tell what came first, the facts or the perspective. This is reminiscent of the historical cognition versus emotion debate: which comes first the cognition or the emotion? The answer, it depends.
Allen (2008) notes that perspective has a direct relationship to the level of control one has over one's life. Someone with disorganized thinking or a disorganized and chaotic life can easily lose the ability to see beyond the moment. In the intense stress of conflict, this chaos may escalate creating even greater drama and panic. Perspective is the key, but it is a very slippery commodity. It can be lost in an instant. (2008, p. 45)." Perhaps, Anais Nin best described perspective by noting, "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."]]>
It is critical for people to identify their own emotions as accurately as possible before attempting to engage in any dialogue, especially those that focus on problem solving or other difficulties. Toward this goal, the first author, Ries, on the basis or her own clinical, mediation, and arbitration practice, identified twelve emotions that she has demonstrated are important in the reception and use of the Touchstone Skills. In our earlier book In Justice, inAccord (Ries & Harter, 2012) we grouped these emotions into two categories, Empowering (Positive) Emotions and Disempowering (Negative)Emotions, anticipating that an acceptance and mastery of the Touchstone Practice skills would enhance the empowering emotions and attenuate or weaken the strength of the disempowering emotions. And this is precisely what we found.
Although this conceptualization is decidedly Western, it is compatible with Eastern Buddhist perspectives on different classifications of emotions. For example, the Dalai Lama (2011) distinguishes between those emotions that are beneficial and those that are harmful, to the point of being interpersonally destructive. This, he points out, is particularly problematic where their intensity is disproportionate to the situation in which they arise. Destructive emotions can erode our capacity for genuine contentment and undermine our mental equilibrium, both of which are necessary for authentic communication.]]>
Quieting the noisy ego within the context of authenticity can also be addressed by cultivating "mindfulness." Mindfulness involves a thoughtful awareness of who and where one is, "in the moment." Langer (2009) describes mindfulness as a flexible state of mind that sensitizes us to our context in the present and opens us up to novel ways of thinking. It is to be aware and attentive in the here and now; this is the essence of being "mindful." According to Thich Nhat Hanh, mindfulness can be attained through moving away from dualistic thinking, such as suffering and happiness; peace and war and moving towards (a) a Reverence for Life; (b) True Happiness; (c) True Love; (d) Loving Speech and Deep Listening; and (e) Nourishment and Healing. (Shambala Sun pp.44-48)
Mindfulness encourages us to drop the elaborate fabrication that represents an embellished "story line" of our life. Too often we create an epic story akin to James Cameron's rendition of the Titanic drama where we become the tragic hero or heroine, managing to begin and end a star crossed love affair in the time it took the ship to sink. It may make for great theater but not for the everyday mundane moments of most of our lives. Instead, these dramatic stories serve as modern mythology to guide us in what Joseph Campbell refers to as "The Hero's Journey." In this sense, the heroic deeds of these larger than life figures serve as teaching stories to entertainingly illustrate how to live an authentic life and learn, as Campbell notes, "to follow your bliss."]]>
The Touchstone Pathway is presented throughout three sections of this book. In Part I, we will present the elements of the pathway to more authentic communication where you will discover the reasoning and meaning behind the use of these skills. Our goal is to provide you with the rationale behind your intention to move along the pathway because as Kabat-Zinn notes, "Your intentions set the stage for what is possible. They remind you from moment to moment of why you are practicing in the first place" (p. 32). And so we will present the problems of differing perspectives and perception and how these can profoundly affect both your internal dialogue (intra-psychic dialogue) and the interpersonal conversations you have with others. Additionally, the importance of an inward stance of being genuine, of having empathy, and holding unconditional positive regard for others are presented in terms of developing a pattern of Authentic Communication through the practice of the Touchstone Skills.]]>
We present the Touchstone Skills in the context of a pathway to authentic communication because it is this type of orientation that most often leads us to deep and loving relationships that have the potential to change the world one relationship at a time. These deep connections with another are what Martin Buber (1970) refers to as I and Thou relationships, those that are real, authentic, or genuine. Authentic communication becomes a vehicle to establish these rare connections and, at the same time, it makes our less intimate relationships richer. Throughout this book, we will offer suggestions and strategies in your quest for deeper relationships by presenting self-assessment surveys that will help you gauge where you are in terms of authenticity, transparency and empowerment, and perspective taking and empathy.]]>
Disputants come to mediation intensely focused on wrongs, real or perceived, that create the basis of the conflict. Is it the responsibility of the professional mediator to identify the agenda items, which include the perceived list of wrongs by each party. The mediator is also charged with listening to potential solutions suggested by the disputants and helping them shift focus from the inherent aggression of a conflict to the softer focus of a compromise and solution. How then, will the mediator best assist disputants to slow down and push a metaphorical "cognitive pause" with their current grievances? These are the questions President of Mediators Without Borders, Shauna Ries and Professor Susan Harter grappled with as they sought to create a conflict analysis model that measured client understanding and, ultimately, mediator efficacy.
inAccord, as the name implies, is designed to move discord to agreement. Our three phase design encourages disputants to find connections on commonalities as opposed to a divide and conquer mentality. Our guiding principles include a psychological foundation of transparency and empowerment, while exploring the role of emotions in the particular conflict. In the first phase, the mediator administers survey instruments to identify the disputants' conflict style, their emotional level regarding the dispute, and their expectations of the inAccord mediation process. The mediator is then able to discern, based on the emotional levels of each disputant, whether to use a more relational or directive approach as they facilitate the case. The heart of the intervention is in stage two, where we have identified 4 measurable facilitative stages wherein the mediator seeks to empower the disputants through instruction of the Touchstone Skills, which include Questioning, Reflecting and Reframing techniques. Each stage includes an understanding and satisfaction survey that informs the mediator if the disputants are ready to progress to the next stage. Finally, in phase three of the inAccord model, disputants self-report their emotional level and fill out a post survey that measures whether their expectations were met. Our research has demonstrated that most disputants report more empowering emotions than were reported at the outset of the mediation.]]>
Question: Tell us about yourself,, what is your background and what are your credentials?
Answer: Briefly, I have had an extensive and productive research career, first at Yale University and then at the University of Denver, where I am a John Evans Professor in the Psychology Department. I have been the director of a graduate and post doctoral research training program, obtained many federally funded grants to support my research, and have published in the areas of emotion understanding, self-esteem, and motivation, across the life-span. Central to my credentials has been the development of a life-span battery of self-report surveys to assess perceptions in these different areas.
Question: Having taken this position, what are the collaborative goals and just what can you bring to Mediators without Borders, specifically?
Answer: At the invitation of Shauna Ries, President and CEO of Mediators without Borders, I was asked to spearhead an extensive research initiative to assess and evaluate the efficacy of Ries' inAccord model of mediation. She was well aware that in this day and age it is not sufficient to merely proclaim or assert the benefits of an intervention. One must document it through appropriate methodologies and up-to-date statistical techniques, while making the research findings accessible and clear to professionals as well as lay persons interested in the efficacy of this particular model.
Thus, we have introduced self-report surveys into the various phases of the intervention process, to assess disputants' perceptions of the key concepts that they must master, in order to bring them actively into the process. Upfront, there are two key components of the inAccord model, transparency and empowerment. Transparency addresses the fact that the content is as clear and understandable as possible. Empowerment invites people, in this case disputants, to play an active role, have a say, in resolving their conflict.
Question: Aren't you concerned that the introduction of surveys would interfere with the mediation intervention itself, that it would distract or derail people from their concentration on the process?
Answer: This is an excellent question and one that Shauna and I raised at the outset, over 18 months ago. Thus, in her own mediation efforts with clients as well as the training where mock disputants were instructed to play that role, Shauna carefully monitored the reactions to the surveys of disputants. Much to our delight, not only did the surveys NOT intrude upon the mediation process but, in contrast, they facilitated it!! The surveys helped people clarify their emotions and to pinpoint the goals of the program (in the service of transparency); they alerted people to the skills they would be learning (fostering empowerment), and finally, after the intervention, gave the mediators (and us, as evaluators) feedback about whether disputants felt that the various aspects of the intervention were effective.
Question: That sounds well and good in the abstract, I can see your point. But what has the research actually demonstrated in this research, that mediators and disputants find helpful, what are some concrete examples of your findings?
Answer: I'm glad you asked because this is the bottom line. Plus, it allows us to share some of the exciting findings to emerge from the research we have conducted. For this newsletter, let me comment on one very novel feature of our research that is not often acknowledged in mediation efforts: The role of emotions. Some well respected theorists (see Ries & Harter, 2012) have acknowledged the role of emotions but have not examined it directly, within a research paradigm. There has, until now, been more attention to logic and cognitive solutions, rather than a thoughtful consideration of emotions.
Ries, in her own work with mediation clients, has developed a conceptualization of two types of emotions, those that are empowering (happiness, optimism, hope) versus disempowering or debilitating emotions (such as anger, despair, depression, guilt). Her insights into the importance of identifying these emotions at the beginning of mediation has lead us to devise surveys to assess disputants' own feelings of the emotions they bring to the table.
Question: That is all very interesting, so what have your actual findings revealed in terms of your research?
Answer: Well, the findings are quite compelling. Disputants willingly report their emotions around a dispute before the mediation intervention and then at the end of the process. The findings clearly reveal (and are both described and plotted in graphs in our book) that there is a dramatic increase in the empowering emotions as a result of mediation, as well as a dramatic decrease in the disempowering emotions. Mediators point this out to disputants which further empowers them to want to move forward to resolve their conflict. This is but one indicator of the effectiveness of this particular mediation model. In future newsletters we will share additional findings.
Question: This is obviously encouraging research and we look forward to more findings. However, I thought that mediation was more of a subfield of law; but what you are looking at sounds very much aligned with psychology, sociology, social work and the mental health professions. You, as a psychologist, are at the helm of this research. Help me understand.
Answer: You put your finger on a very important issue. Too often we polarize fields and disciplines, seeing them as supporting contradictory goals. Yet there are shared objectives, when it comes to conflicts and disputes. And there are different pathways toward resolving disputes, some of which are more time and cost-efficient than others. These are important considerations given today's economy. But there are many cases in which mediators, arbitrators, and lawyers work together toward a solution. Historically, mediation grew out of different traditions, and the mental health professions, for example, marriage and family therapy, were and still are very influential. Conflicts and disputes between people, as Ries points out, are inevitable and have a very profound psychological component. Psychology, as the study of human behavior, is intimately involved in unraveling the underlying bases of conflict and its resolution. Moreover, psychologists who have extensive research training are in a unique position to empirically examine these processes. That is our goal.
We will be expanding upon this thinking in future newsletters and books. We plan to adapt our research strategies as we expand into new ventures. This is a work in progress, and we respect your interest in our previous successes and how we plan to proceed. Feel free to write with additional questions that we can address in subsequent newsletters.
To justice, fairness, respect, and dignity in the resolution of conflicts.
Dr. Susan Harter
John Evans Professor, University of Denver


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A bill that would move local elections from spring to fall — which on its own isn't a bad idea — also would make local elections partisan. That part is a big mistake.
Look around at the corrosive politics on the state and national level, and we find an extremely divisive environment that stems primarily from our political system's extreme preoccupation with political party affiliation and allegiance. We don't need that on the local level. The business of electing officials and governing works just well without introducing partisan influences.
Moving these elections from the spring to the fall makes some sense. They arguably would gain more attention if positioned in the fall alongside state and congressional elections, when turnout is higher.
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Kobach testified that having some elections partisan and some not would be confusing to voters. That's preposterous and belittling to citizens' intellect. But if consistency really is Kobach's goal, then let's do this instead: Let's make the elections for county, state and Congress be nonpartisan like the local ones.
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Sunday morning, I arrived at the BIG a few minutes too early to pick up the Sunday Times, which was still being compiled in the back of the store. My friend Jennifer surprised me by suggesting we walk down to Juice N Java. I hadn't realized they were open.
Kelly was there with stories about how her mom is doing in Carlsbad, California, and an explanation of those wavy Hawaiian giclee posters on display on the Juice & Java walls. As we sipped our drinks, mine a house mocha java blend, Jennifer's an iced tea, Kelly told us giclee means the pictures are printed with an ink jet printer from a computer image. These were made in limited quantity, like a lithograph is. They are quite beautiful, their colors bold, their curvey waves making the scenes just a bit surreal. I especially liked the one with three red birds roosting by the sea.
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The LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery System is an aftermarket vehicle tracking system that allows vehicles to be tracked by police, with the aim of recovering them in case of theft. The manufacturer claims a 90% recovery rate.[2] The name "LoJack" was coined to be the "antithesis of hijack", wherein "hijack" refers to the theft of a vehicle through force.[3]
LoJack's core business comprises the tracking and recovery of cars, trucks, construction equipment, commercial vehicles and motorcycles. However, LoJack is expanding into new markets through licensing agreements and investments in areas such as cargo security and people at risk of wandering (probationers, parolees, and Alzheimer's patients). LoJack Corporation claims that over 300,000 vehicles have been recovered worldwide since the product was introduced more than two decades ago.[2]
The core of the LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery System is a small, silent radio transceiver that is clandestinely installed in a vehicle. The vehicle is not marked as possessing a LoJack transceiver, and the location of the transceiver within the vehicle varies from one car to the next. Once installed, the unit and the vehicle's VIN are registered in a database which interfaces with the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system used by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. In the event of a theft, a customer reports the incident to the police, who make a routine entry into the state police crime computer, including the stolen vehicle's VIN. This theft report is automatically processed by LoJack computers, triggering a remote command to the specific LoJack unit in the stolen vehicle.
The command tells the LoJack unit to start sending out signals to tracking units on board some police cars. Every police car so equipped, that is within a 3–5 mile radius of the signal source, will be alerted. The tracking units will display an alphanumeric serial number and an indication of the approximate direction and distance to the stolen vehicle. Based on the serial number, the police can obtain a physical description of the vehicle, including make (brand), model, color, VIN, and license plate number. Police aircraft can also be equipped with tracking units; airborne units can receive the (line-of-sight) signals from further away than ground-based units.
The company's systems are operable in 27 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and in 30+ countries.
Upgraded (more expensive) systems can alert the owner of a vehicle in the event the car is moved or started.
LoJack transmits on a radio (RF) carrier frequency of 173.075 MHz. Vehicles with the system installed send a 200 millisecond (ms) chirp every ten seconds on this frequency. When being tracked after reported stolen, the devices send out a 200 ms signal once per second.[4][5] The radio frequency transmitted by LoJack is near the VHF spectrum band formerly used in North America by analog television channel 7,[6] although there was minimal interference due to the low power of radiation, brief chirp duration, and long interval between chirps.[7] The Lojack signal is received in equipped police vehicles utilizing a phased array antenna system, hence the four distinctive antennas on the roof. This provides the direction finding capabilities of the LoJack system.
A small, silent transmitter hidden in a vehicle allows the police to track and recover it. The unit is hidden within the vehicle.
An optional component of the LoJack System, Early Warning alerts the owner by phone, e-mail or text message if the protected vehicle has been moved without authorization. A personal key fob sends a signal to the system to disable the warning as long as the owner is carrying it. LoJack offers the Early Warning product for cars, trucks and motorcycles.
Police can track and recover a stolen motorcycle.
Tracking units can be covertly placed in construction equipment.
Protection for tractor trailers, semis, rigs, haulers, and vans.
Cargo tracking devices and service.
Rescuing people at risk of wandering including people with Alzheimer's or Autism.
LoJack for Laptops is a software product from Absolute Software of Vancouver, British Columbia that enables law enforcement to recover stolen laptops by tracing them via the Internet.[8][9][10] The product was initially sold under the name "Computrace". In 2005, Absolute Software licensed the LoJack brand name and produces the software under both the Computrace and "LoJack for Laptops" product names.[11] Unlike the LoJack for vehicles and equipment products, which use a small radio beacon installed in the tracked device, the Computrace/LoJack for Laptops product is laptop tracking software that periodically phones home to Absolute Software's server to both announce its location and to check to see if the machine has been reported stolen.[12][13] LoJack comes preinstalled in the BIOSes of, at least, Lenovo, HP, Dell, Fujitsu, Panasonic, Toshiba, and Asus machines.[14] It is disabled by default and can be enabled by purchasing a license for Computrace; upon being enabled, the BIOS will copy a downloader named
rpcnetp.exe from the BIOS flash ROM to
%WINDIR%\System32 (which usually resolves to
C:\WINDOWS\System32). On some Toshiba laptops rpcnetp.exe is preinstalled by Toshiba on the unit's hard drive prior to shipment from the factory. Rpcnetp.exe will in turn download the actual agent
rpcnet.exe and install it as a windows service.
Recently[when?], Dell, Lenovo, Panasonic and Fujitsu appear to have discontinued this method and require manual installation.[citation needed] Once enabled, Computrace cannot be disabled or deinstalled without assistance from Absolute Software, not even by reformatting or substituting the hard disk, because the BIOS keeps reinstalling or repairing it prior to loading the operating system. Owners of those Toshiba laptops which come with Computrace's two activating files are subject to monitoring by Absolute Software from the instant they connect their new Toshiba with the Internet for the first time.
From then on,
rpcnet.exe will phone home to Absolute Software servers once a day, querying for a possible theft report, and, in any case, transmitting the results of a comprehensive system scan, IP address, user- and machine names and location data, which it obtains either by tapping the GPS data stream on machines equipped with GPS hardware, or by triangulating available WLAN access points in the vicinity, by providing WLAN IDs and signal strengths so Absolute Software servers can geolocate the device using the Mexens Technology data base.[citation needed]
If Absolute receives a theft report, the service can be remotely commanded to phone home every 15 minutes, install additional 3rd vendor software, such as a key logger or a forensic package, make screenshots, etc.
Computrace also supports Intel's AT-p anti theft protection scheme: If it is unable to phone home within a configurable time interval it will require a special BIOS password upon the next reboot. It can be configured to shut down the machine's power supply immediately in this case, to force a reboot.
As the Computrace client exhibits trojan-like behaviour, it was detected as TR/Hijack.Explor.1245 or W32/Agent.SW!tr by antivirus software; however, these warnings have been discontinued.[citation needed]
At the Black Hat Briefings conference in 2009, researchers Anibal Sacco[15] and Alfredo Ortega showed that the implementation of the Computrace/LoJack agent embedded in the BIOS has vulnerabilities and that this "available control of the anti-theft agent allows a highly dangerous form of BIOS-enhanced rootkit that can bypass all chipset or installation restrictions and reutilize many existing features offered in this kind of software."[16][17] Absolute Software rejected the claims made in the research, stating that "the presence of the Computrace module in no way weakens the security of the BIOS". Another independent analyst confirmed the flaws, noted that a malware hijacking attack would be a "highly exotic one", and suggested that the larger concern was that savvy thieves could disable the phone home feature.[18]
Later, Core Security Technologies proved the researcher's finding by making publicly available several proofs of concept, videos, and utilities on its webpage.[19]
Apple, unlike the PC computer manufacturers, does not allow the software to be installed in the BIOS.[20] LoJack can be installed on Apple computers, but is on the hard drive. If the hard drive is replaced or reformatted, the LoJack is lost.
LoJack Business Services allows Fleet Managers to easily locate and track their vehicles 24/7.
The manufacturing company is also called LoJack.
On July 10, 2001, the company restated net income for last year's first quarter to reflect the adoption of the SEC's Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101 (""SAB 101""), ""Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements"", which amounted to a one-time charge of $2,978,000, or ($.18) per diluted share, and resulted in the deferral of revenue previously recognized on international license fees.[21]


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Twenty years ago today, the Voyager 2 spacecraft was speeding toward Neptune for the first and only encounter with the giant planet. Neptune is almost three billion miles away -- so far that sunlight takes more than four hours to reach it. That's also how long it took Voyager's radio signals to reach Earth.
Before Voyager 2, astronomers knew of only two moons orbiting Neptune. One, named Triton, was large. It was first sighted back in 1846, shortly after Neptune itself was discovered. The other moon, Nereid, was smaller, and was discovered in 1949.
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Proteus is Neptune's second-largest moon, with a diameter of about 260 miles. Voyager pictures show that it's heavily cratered -- the victim of numerous impacts by smaller bodies. The most impressive crater is more than half the size of Proteus itself.
Although Proteus is larger than Nereid, it's much closer to Neptune, whose glare makes Proteus difficult to see from Earth. It's only a third as far from Neptune as our moon is from Earth. At that distance, it zips around the giant planet once every 27 hours.
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Review: 'Faux Real' and 'Sea Change' explore intersections between reality and fabrication; 'ex-pose: beatriz da costa' looks at life with cancer.
Where: Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach
When: Though Sept. 29 ('Sea Change' runs through May 18, 2014)
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As if there isn't enough going on in the arts in Laguna Beach this summer, the Laguna Art Museum is showcasing three new exhibitions over the next several months. "Faux Real" and "ex-pose: beatriz da costa" run through Sept. 29, and "Sea Change: Tanya Aguiñiga's Bluebelt Forest" runs through May 18, 2014.
"Faux Real," organized by the museum's curator of contemporary art Grace Kook-Anderson, is very similar in theme and scope to "Lifelike," a large group exhibit presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego from March 1 through May 27.
Like "Lifelike," "Faux Real" evokes questions of the real versus the fabricated. The exhibition also conjures up the pleasures of the trompe l'oeil, or the creation of an eye-deceiving illusion.
This blurring of the lines between reality and fabrication or fiction seems to be a trend in art exhibits lately. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts just closed "More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness," organized by Elizabeth Armstrong, curator of contemporary art at the institute, with support from Irene Hofmann, director and chief curator at SITE Santa Fe. "More Real" borrowed the "truthiness" phrase from Stephen Colbert and examined the interplay between the simulated and the real. Incidentally, Armstrong and Hofmann are both former curators at the Orange County Museum of Art.
"Faux Real" at Laguna seems more playful and humorous than "Lifelike" or "More Real." The 19-artist exhibition focuses a great deal on food, furniture and domestic knick-knacks.
"Faux Real" opens with photo prints of expensive vases mounted on laser-cut wood by Stephanie Syjuco. The vases look real at first, but they clearly aren't when you walk around them.
Nearby, Richard Shaw has created several still-lifes – one with a skull, glass and die on top of two books, one with walnut shells on a plate on top of three books. The skull, walnut shells and books look genuine, but they are actually glazed porcelain. Even the used matches and Camel cigarette pack inside a cigar box in "Past Habits" (2010) look real, but they are ceramic, or glazed porcelain.
Elyse Pignolet's "Paleta Cart" (2010) is also ceramic, yet looks metallic. With its colorful cartoon characters and samples of ice cream painted on the exterior, "Cart" makes a Spanish-language cultural reference that should be familiar to most Southern Californians. Who doesn't like the concept of ice cream being sold out of a portable freezer on wheels?
Daniel Douke's "Count Chocula" is a funny, realistic painting from 2010. It looks like a box of kid's cereal, but it's just acrylic paint on canvas.
One standout collection is David Gilhooly's series of ceramic frogs that find their way into favorite foods – tacos, a burrito, a cream pie, ice cream and chocolates. A trio of cupcakes feature chocolate frosting, and one can make out the shapes of frogs underneath the chocolate. These frog concoctions are humorous and kind of freaky at the same time.
"Endgame" is a 2011 sculpture by Walter Robinson made of thermoplastic, epoxy, styrofoam and polyester resin. It depicts two deer rears connected to each other at the waist, with a red and white striped life saver circling the body in the center. It's an obvious reference to Robert Rauschenberg's "Monogram" (1955-59), only it's even more ridiculous and actually quite unrealistic.
Sandow Birk and Pignolet – a married couple – have crafted two security cameras with Arabic lettering and designs on them. "CCTV #2" and "CCTV #3," both from 2011, speak to the modern age of surveillance post-Sept. 11, 2011, yet they have a Middle Eastern twist to them.
Los Angeles-based Japanese artist Kaz Oshiro is included in this show, and rightly so. His stuff appeared in "Lifelike" and has been showing up in a number of these "real vs. unreal" shows, particularly because his painted objects look so much like the genuine article.
In "Faux Real," he has contributed a bumper, "Bumper #4" (2004), and the tailgate of a truck, "Tailgate (OVO)" (2006). Both look like metal, but they're actually made of acrylic and Bondo on canvas, which, to the naked eye, is pretty amazing. Oshiro has been doing these sorts of pieces for a while now, and he is definitely an artist to watch.
"You Deserve It!" (2010-12) is an installation by Jean Lowe that doesn't really work. I understand that it is supposed to depict a big sale after the main attractions have already disappeared. Indeed, the shelves are primarily empty, except for a few useless coffee mugs. A nearby painting provides a glimpse of what the shelves might have looked like when they were stocked. But the painting isn't that great, and the viewer is left with the feeling that this vision of consumerism and greed isn't completely articulated.
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