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Engineering Awards
ccrd is proud to have received the following engineering and architectural design awards for our contributions in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and plumbing systems design.
ASHE Vista Awards – 2014, 2013 & 2012
- 2014 – Vista Award for New Construction for the Alkek expansion at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. Our architecture partner on this project was HKS, Inc.
- 2013 – John C. Lincoln Mountain Hospital's Specialty Surgical Care in Phoenix, AZ was awarded the Vista Award for Renovation. Our architecture partner on this project was Orcutt Winslow.
- 2012 – Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Critical Care Hospital in Richmond, VA was awarded the Vista Award for New Construction. Our architecture partner on this project was HKS, Inc.
Rice University's Brockman Hall for Physics Wins TSA 2011 Design Award
Rice's Brockman Hall for Physics (Houston), which opened this spring, was one of 12 projects recognized in Texas Society of Architects annual design awards program. ccrd is proud to have participated on the design team with KieranTimberlake, providing lead mechanical, electrical and plumbing design for the new physics building.
Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine's 40 Under 40 Award
This annual award is given to 40 building industry professionals age 40 and younger who represent a vast array of engineering backgrounds, these winners are changing the skylines and landscapes of cities across the globe. Their dedication to innovation, efficient design, and the environment resonate and unite each impressive portfolio. These young professionals zipped through the ranks and are leading the engineering industry with impressive determination and dedication to their craft. Since 2008, 15 ccrd engineers have received this honor.
- Jason Jullie, PE (Dallas) – 2014
- Nathan Boepple, PE (Dallas), Tyler Fritz, PE (Denver) and Khris House (Houston) – 2013
- April Woods, PE (Dallas) – 2012
- Greg Gehrt, PE (Houston), Mark Montgomery, PE (Denver) and Nolan Rome, PE (Phoenix) – 2011
- Shaun Grimm, PE (Phoenix), Sarah Kuchera, PE (Dallas) and Jessica Navarro, PE (Dallas) – 2010
- Danna Jensen, PE (Dallas), Abby Lipperman, PE (Dallas) and Kevin Miller, PE (Dallas) – 2009
- Doug Lacy, PE (Dallas) – 2008
Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
- Topping Out Award, Dallas Business Journal – 2004
- Honorable Mention Award, Texas Society of Architects/Texas Hospital Association – 1991
- Bronze Award, The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation – 1991
- Building of the Year Award, Associated General Contractors/Dallas Chapter – 1990
- Citation of Excellence, AIA Architecture for Health Facilities Review – 1990
Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, Texas
- AIA Columbus Sustainability Award, Unbuilt – 2006
- Texas Construction's Top 25 Project – 2006
Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital, Heart Center, Fort Worth, Texas
- Texas Construction Award of Merit, Healthcare – 2006
George Washington University Hospital, Washington DC
- Healthcare Design Award, The Center for Health Design – 2005
- Excellence in Construction Award, Associated Builders and Contractors – 2003
J. Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
- Texas Construction Award of Excellence, Higher Education – 2006
- Healthcare Design Award, The Center for Health Design – 2005
- Large Scale Project of the Year Award, Urban Land Institute's Atlanta Chapter – 2003
JP Morgan/Chase International, Farmers Branch, Texas
- TOBY Award/Office Building of the Year, Building Owners and Managers Assoc. of America – 2005
- Project of the Year Award, Dallas Business Journal – 2002
Lexicon Genetics, The Woodlands, Texas
- APEX Award, Houston Chapter Associated General Contractors of America – 2002
NASA Space Life Science Laboratory, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
- AIA Florida – Design Award – 2003
Obici Hospital, Suffolk, Virginia
- Merit Award of Excellence, James River Virginia AIA – 2003
- Award of Merit, AIA Architecture for Health Facilities Review – 2003
- Vista Award, Honorable Mention, AIA Architecture for Health – 2003
- Illumination Design Award, National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association – 2003
- Honor Award, Illuminating Engineering Society of America – 2002
- Golden Trowel Award of Excellence, United Masonry Contractors Association – 2002
Presbyterian Hospital of Plano, Sue a De Mille Tower, II, Dallas, Texas
- Texas Construction Award of Excellence, Healthcare – 2006
Presbyterian Hospital of Plano, Assisted Reproductive Technology Services, Dallas, Texas
- Texas Construction Award of Merit, Healthcare – 2006
Riverwalk Suites, San Antonio, Texas
- Texas Construction Award of Merit, Private/Hospitality – 2006
South Jersey Regional Medical Center, Vineland, New Jersey
- Healthcare Design Award, The Center for Health Design – 2005
Southern Methodist University Embrey Engineering Building, Dallas, Texas
- Excellence Award in Higher Education, Texas Construction Review – 2006
Southern Methodist University, Dedman Center, Dallas, Texas
- Texas Construction Award of Merit, Renovation – 2006
- MCAA International Excellence in Masonry Awards, Honor Award – 2006
St. Rose Dominican Hospital – Siena Campus, Henderson, Nevada
- Symposium Distinction Award, National Symposium on Healthcare Design – 2003
- ASLA Texas Chapter, Merit Award – 2003
Texas A&M University Bonfire Memorial, College Station, Texas
- TSA Design Honor Award – 2006
- Award of Excellence, Associated Builders and Contractors South Texas Chapter – 2006
- AIA San Antonio Chapter Design Honor Award – 2005
- Texas Masonry Contractors Association Golden Trowel Award – 2003
- MCAA International Excellence in Masonry – 2003
- San Antonio Masonry Contractors Association Golden Trowel Award – 2003
- International Design Competition – 2002
University of Texas at Arlington, Chemistry & Physics Building, Arlington, Texas
- Texas Construction Best of Award, Higher Education – 2006
University of Texas Health Science Center, Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building, Houston, Texas
- Texas Construction Best of Award, Higher Education – 2006
- Honor Award, AIA Texas – 2006
- Texas Society of Architects Design Awards – 2006
- Design Award, Texas Society of Architects – 2006
- Best of Higher Education Award, Texas Construction Magazine – 2006
- Merit Award, AIA Kansas City – 2006
- Merit Award, Unbuilt, AIA Houston Design Award – 2005
- Unbuilt Award, AIA Kansas Design Award for Excellence in Architecture – 2004
UTMB Galveston Center for Bio Defense and Emerging and Infectious Diseases, Galveston, Texas
- APEX Award, Houston Chapter Associated General Contractors of America – 2004
Washington Regional Medical Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas
- Healthcare Design Award, The Center for Health Design – 2005
Washington Hospital ER One, Washington D.C.
- Award of Excellence, Modern Healthcare Awards – 2005
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How to Apply
All applicants to the joint master's program in community organizing and popular education must first meet the Graduate School requirements as outlined by the University or Wisconsin-Milwauke, in addtion to submitting the following documents:
- Completion of the online application to the UWM Master's of Science Cultural Foundations in Education program
- Two letters of recommendation from individuals who can testify to the applicant's academic potential. The letters should be submitted simultaneously to the UWM School of Education and the Autonomous University for Social Movements at the addresses below (e-mailed .pdf files preferred).
- A written statement of educational and life goals, with a description of any previous experiences in community organizing or related work. The statement should be submitted simultaneously to the UWM School of Education and the Autonomous University for Social Movements at the addresses below.
- A short application containing basic student contact information submitted to AUSM.
*NOTE: All admitted students must be accepted by both UWM and AUSM.
Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies at UWM
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
e-mail: epcs [at] uwm [dot] edu
Autonomous University of Social Movements
3460 W. Lawrence Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
e-mail: ausm [at] mexicosolidarity [dot] org

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Ok, this one is just for fun.
I do look on most of these industry awards as being pretty spurious, but when I see people making mileage out of winning a "World Travel Award" as a top hotel, then go to the website and see that nominations are based on the voting the previous year, it makes me suspicious of such a closed "club".
Anyway, let's test the power of the internet and referrals from this blog to other web forums, emails etc.
If you think that The Reef Resort is Grand Cayman's Leading Hotel (of course!), please visit the World Travel Awards 2005 website here , then scroll down the page to the following category :
Grand Cayman's Leading Hotel
Westin Casuarina Resort & Spa
Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort
The Grand Cayman Courtyard Hotel by Marriott
Where it says "other", check that button and type in The Reef Resort.
If everyone who reads this blog enters, and you all cover the other internet forums and tell a few friends to vote, we could shock the vote counters.. or at least get on the ballot next year.
Thanks in advance for your support (boy, this sounds like politics!)


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Research Home
The Department of Pediatrics Research Office fosters awareness of ongoing basic science and clinical research taking place within and outside the Health Science Center.
Pediatrics research activities include:
Annual showcase of research engaged in within the Department of Pediatrics. Pediatrics Research Day 2014 took place on May 9. Visit the web page to see the program and the competition winners.
Research Seminars
Monthly lectures by invited speakers from the Department, the Health Science Center, and other academic institutions around the nation. Seminars are generally held the second Friday of the month, September through April, in the Medical Building, Room 409-410L, on the main campus. Consult the schedule for details.
Our clinical research unit provides a child friendly environment conducive to pediatric research. We provide investigators with a wide variety of services in order to help ensure they are able to conduct important research that will improve the lives of children.
Research Progress Conference (PDF)
Each month, a presenter will give a presentation of a research project in development, covering specific aims, background and significance, and research plan. Senior faculty members will provide feedback and advice and lead discussion. This seminar aims to improve the quality of grant applications and/or related publications, and to increase the number of funded projects.
Grant Writing Workshops
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Turkey Shopping
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Is everyone excited about celebrating this human holiday as much as I am?
Oliver and Jeff, procure pumpkin pies!
Glower, go grab one of those big turkeys!
You mean these bizarre shiny bundles?
I can't even see what's inside!
Where are the feathers? Where is the head?
And why is it so cold and hard?
Because it's frozen, silly!
But of course! To seal in the flavors!
This is going to be the greatest Thanksgiving of all time!


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Hunter's Chicken Stew
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Hunter's Chicken is found across Northern Italy, with many variations. This version uses meaty bone-in chicken things and is full of onions, mushrooms and tomatoes. It's also delicious served over egg noodles.
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Nutritional Information
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Calories | 431 |
Total Fat | 17g |
Saturated Fat | 4g |
Cholesterol | 101mg |
Sodium | 706mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 31g |
Dietary Fiber | -- |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 33g |
Calcium | 0 |
Serves: 8
Total Time: 2 hr 30 min
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- 2.5 tablespoon(s) extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 3 medium onions, finely chopped
- 2 clove(s) garlic, minced
- 1/2 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 12 bone-in chicken thighs (about 4 pounds), skin removed, trimmed
- 1 teaspoon(s) salt, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) freshly ground pepper, plus more to taste
- 1 cup(s) dry white wine or vermouth
- 1.5 pound(s) button mushrooms, halved or quartered, depending on size
- 4 plum tomatoes, chopped
- 1 cup(s) reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 teaspoon(s) chopped fresh rosemary, or 3/4 teaspoon dried
- 1.333 cup(s) cornmeal
- 6 cup(s) cold water
- 1 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1 tablespoon(s) thinly sliced fresh basil
- Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-low heat. Add onions and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until the onions are very soft and translucent, 2 to 4 minutes more. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the onions to a bowl; set aside. Remove the pot from the heat.
- Place flour in a shallow dish. Sprinkle chicken with 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper. Dredge the chicken in the flour. Gently shake off any excess.
- Cook the chicken in 2 batches in the Dutch oven, using 1 tablespoon oil for each batch. Cook over medium-high heat, turning once, until browned on both sides, 2 to 4 minutes per side. Transfer the chicken to a plate.
- Pour wine (or vermouth) into the pot and cook, stirring and scraping up any browned bits with a wooden spoon, for 1 minute. Stir in mushrooms, tomatoes, broth, bay leaves and rosemary. Return the reserved onions to the pan. Add the chicken and any accumulated juices, making sure each piece is partially submerged. Bring to a simmer, then reduce heat to medium-low. Partially cover the pan and cook, gently stirring once or twice, until the chicken is very tender, about 1 hour.
- Meanwhile, combine cornmeal, water and salt in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens, about 5 minutes. Partially cover the pan, reduce the heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until thick and very creamy, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove from the heat and let stand, covered, while you finish the stew.
- Remove the chicken to a plate and tent with foil to keep warm. Bring the liquid in the pan to a boil over medium-high heat and cook until thickened, 10 to 15 minutes. Skim or blot any visible fat from the surface. Season with the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper to taste. Return the chicken to the pan.
- Gently stir in basil. Serve the stew over the polenta.
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10 Sermons: The History of Redemption
The Emergence of Sin and Misery
by John Piper
The essence of the Fall and of our depraved hearts is the desire not to depend on God.
The Covenant of Abraham
by John Piper
God's 4,000 year old relation to Abraham is of immense importance for your life as a believer today.
Exodus for All the Earth
by John Piper
God shows great power on behalf of his people so that others might see and fear.
God Meant It for Good
The Lives of Joseph and John the Baptist
(Sunday Evening Message)
by John Piper
As I was reading about Joseph's unjust imprisonment the other day, I was struck all of a sudden with the similarity and contrast between Joseph and John the Baptist.
Why the Law Was Given
by John Piper
The law is a description of the obedience of faith; it is not a job description for how to earn the wages of God's blessings.
Can God Spread a Table in the Wilderness?
by John Piper
Do not grumble; it is God's grace that sends you into the wilderness. He is inoculating you against the infections of wealth.
The Conquest of Canaan
by John Piper
If the old Joshua was victorious over the enemies of God, then how much more the new Joshua.
The Evil Origin of a Good King
by John Piper
The way we seek to have something may be wrong, when the having, itself, may not be wrong.
I Will Raise Up for David a Righteous Branch
by John Piper
The promise will be fulfilled in spite of all judgment.
Christmas as the End of History
Celebration of Christmas
by John Piper
Christmas marks the arrival of the end of history, which will soon be consummated by Christ's second appearing.


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There's this salad at Buca Di Beppo and they use a dressing similar to this on their Apple Gorgonzola Salad. It's not right according to my boyfriend who works there, but i love it anyway. It's always better after a few days in the fridge. (ps, this isn't my recipe, i found in on the internet look for meemoskitchen on google) Submitted by MMPIXIE Carbs: 0.5g | Fat: 5.4g | Fiber: 0.1g | Protein: 0g | Calories: 49.8
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Schmahl Science Rocks! As the Dept. Head of Science in a small private school in Oakland Ca, I could not take on the task of coordinating the science fair at my school last year. I called Schmahl and they did everything from the intitial meeting with my students, to one-on-one time with each, assisting them get their initial ideas and procedures. They even provided much of the equipment my students needed to run their experiments. The staff was friendly, energetic, and knowledgable. I can't say enough about our wonderful experience with Schmahl. We all had a great time, and they reenforced much of what the students had already learned in science. It was great for the students to hear from someone else what we teach them daily in class about how science works.
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After what seemed like YEARS of speculation and rumour, the Winnipeg Jets new logos have arrived! The logos were revealed on the Winnipeg Jets website today.
Despite the fact that they're beating the Canadian angle to death with all of the maple leaves, the logos are very nice. We're looking forward to seeing them on a jersey.
The only thing that's confusing is the maple leaf in the wordmark. It makes it look like "Winnipeg Jet's" rather than the correct "Winnipeg Jets." Otherwise, consider us fans. Sure, it's not the original logo, but this isn't the original team. Also, it's not 1996 anymore. Besides, it has the same general colours as the original.
The logos and theme have a classic look to them without running that theme into the ground. The "JETS" font in the wordmark is certainly not a retro font. Even though it doesn't really match the rest of the design, we like it. It lets you know that this isn't entirely a throwback concept and conveys the kind of speed you would expect from a team named the Jets.
We certainly like the logos. Now we're anxious to see the jerseys.
The Jets also released a video that we can see playing as the team takes to the ice:
The logo was actually leaked before it was officially debuted, which could explain why the designs were suddenly unveiled without much prior hype.
Releasing it late on a Friday afternoon in July with very little advance notice was certainly strange, but we've come t o expect that sort of thing from the Jets. Traditional public relations practice states that you should release bad news on Friday afternoons so that it passes by unnoticed. It seems like advanced leaks trump that practice however.
According to the Jets website, the logo was inspired by the logo of the Royal Canadian Air Force and that inspiration is evident. It certainly has a military look to it as well as the retro feel that is so popular in the NHL these days.
Fans can purchase merchandise featuring the new logo RIGHT NOW at Jets Gear in Winnipeg. Not that we're trying to see anything, but the logo looks good on a t-shirt.
The Jets also released their slogan for this season: "Fueled By Passion" as well as their brand identity.
The team's jerseys were not revealed, but that didn't stop us from firing up Photoshop and seeing what the logo would look like on two of the jerseys from the previous incarnation of the Winnipeg Jets:
While we're pretty sure that the actual jerseys won't look anything like the crude concepts we threw together, it does give us an idea of how the logo will look on a jersey.
It looks good.
What it also shows us that the Jets will now be joining the long list of teams that have a blue jersey with some sort of circle logo on the front. It's the NHL trend that keeps on giving!
The Jets logo is actually the most different of those designs as it doesn't have the team's name written in the circle. The Sabres, Oilers and Islanders also all wear blue with a circle logo. That's nine of the 30 NHL teams.
We're going to bet that the jersey has ties on the neck.


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Procter & Gamble guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Consumer products giant provided false sales numbers to WIPO panel.
A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Procter & Gamble guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking over the domain swash.com.
Marchex has owned the domain name since 2004. P&G launched a new brand called Swash several years later.
In its complaint, P&G originally stated that it had generated more than $40 million in Swash sales over the past four years. It also claimed some trademark rights going back to 1993.
The respondent's attorney, John Berryhill, was suspicious of the sales number. After being pressed, P&G admitted that it actually made sales of only $60,000.
Also, the 1993 trademark was actually assigned to P&G after Marchex owned the domain and it was not valid in the United States.
The three person panel found that it was impossible Marchex could have known of P&G's Swash brand when it acquired the domain name because the brand didn't even exist. It wouldn't exist for several more years.
In finding P&G guilty of reverse domain name hijacking, the panel noted that both the company and its attorneys, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, have been involved in numerous UDRP proceedings. The panel found it "impossible to believe" that P&G wasn't aware of the Swash.com domain name prior to introducing its original product line.
But the really damaging part was the initial claim to $40 million in sales:
The entire Panel finds it more extraordinary still that in its Complaint the Complainant represented the SWASH brand to be a worldwide brand of longstanding with multi-million dollar sales, stating that over the last 4 years alone the brand had gained sales of over USD 40,000,000. When this was challenged by the Respondent, the Complainant was forced to admit that the brand had only been on the market for 4 years, that sales had been restricted to the USA and that sales over those four years had totaled under USD 60,000. Had the Respondent failed to respond, there is a very real risk that the Panel, relying upon the 1993 International registration and the substantial sales volumes claimed for the brand, would have found in favor of the Complainant. This Complaint fell very far short of what the Panel was entitled to expect from a Complainant of this stature.
If you're wondering why P&G is suddenly interested in this domain name after many years of marketing a failed brand, perhaps a recent trademark filing is a clue.
In September 2011, P&G filed a trademark application on an intent-to-use basis with an opposition period that expired shortly before the complaint was filed. The specification of goods reads "An appliance for domestic use in the nature of a garment steamer for the purpose of removing wrinkles and odors from clothing and linen".
Is P&G getting ready to launch a new product under the Swash name, so now it wants to get control of the corresponding domain?
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The false statement that was contained in this UDRP, under UK laws at least, amounts to "attempting to pervert the course of Justice" and in addition if the statement was made by a lawyer then he would be in trouble.
So who cares, company is all that money defending this joke of a suit, they get RDNH designation on the paperwork, money talk, RDNH walks… There is no real justice here…
if i was a better man i'd look up all p&g products… list them here and have people sign a statement declaring they'd never buy them again. but who am i kidding? that would involve work and just like to stay home and drink.
I agree with Ron. There needs to be some punitive financial penalty to disuade this type of behaviour. Otherwise, P&G just spent a little pocket change on a lottery ticket while many domain owners may not have the financial ability to properly defend themselves.
Perhaps someone will look to see if this amounts to Criminal conduct in USA and then pursue that. This would perhaps then make others less likely to try again.
Well, it sure looks like Proctor and Gamble, in collusion with their legal team, colluded to steal this domain name. Ever detail was worked out it seems to execute the innocent domain holder.
Shame on you P&G . I hope you burn in corporate hell (which God is surely creating separately for people like you) for seemingly trying to steal like a dirty street thug.
A truly disgraceful, un-American company, IMO. Where are your ethics?
Back in '95 P&G snatched up a ton of generic product names. They were way ahead of the curve in seeing the value of domain names.
I use to work for P&G many years ago. There was a time (long ago) when this type of behavior would have been squashed internally as not matching the corporate principles for ethical behavior.
Since about 2000, P&G has struggled to meet growth and profit objectives and it appears some of the principles which made the cmpany great are now being tossed aside…
Doesn't surprise me that they took a chance and lost.
What do you expect from a company called Procter & "Gamble"?
I too worked for P&G many years ago. At the time it was the most honest and ethical company in the industry. The guiding principle was, "is this the Procter way to do things", and if the answer was "no", it was a given that you did not do it. No questions or discussion. This makes me sad. Not sure what this says about the company or the outside lawyers they are hiring or both.
An interesting parallel that never seems to get much discussion is the TM hoarding CPG companies do with brands–even without a product that shares that same brand name. P&G, M&M/Mars, GM, Johnson & Johnson, etc… have hundreds if not thousands of TMed brand names that they are holding until they have an opportunity to use them or to keep them out of competitors hands. Seems like the very same things Domainers do but according to the IP community it is above board and acceptable.
I worked for Procter and Gamble until little more than a year ago. I am sorry to say that reading about these events did not surprise me at all. In fact, despite their code of ethics and claims to uphold principles, this is not the first time that P&G has willfully violated its own claimed ethical standards…
Let me also quickly add that, in my opinion, much of the 'ethical outage' at P&G is rooted in the Company's Legal team.. P&G's legal organization plays hardball, but they care little for principles. Their primary goal is simply to win, meaning to maximize profits for the Company.. BUt only a fool confuses winning (whether in Court of via policies in the workplace) with true ethical behavior. Serious ethical behavior requires making choices based on principles, not just making calculations about whether or not one is likely to 'get away with it'. That distinction casually and regularly ignored within P&G's Legal organization. .


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This is the perfect thing to make a huge bowl of during the weekend and eat for lunch through the week when you're busy to prep meals every night. It's so great alone, the quinoa makes it a filling enough main dish, but I also love it when barbecuing meat, chicken and steak go great with this.
You can switch up the veggies and throw in some grilled corn or serve it on top of a salad if you need something more substantial.
mexican quinoa salad
2 cups quinoa, uncooked
4 cups water or broth, seasoned to taste
2 cans black beans, rinsed
1/2-1 tsp chili powder
1/4 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp all purpose spice blend (I like Trader Joe's African smoke spice)
1 lime
1/2-1 jalepeno (take the seeds out if you're not a fan of spicy food!)
1 bell pepper
2-3 tomatoes
2 garlic cloves
1/2 cup cilantro
1 avocado
Cook the quinoa according to package directions. I normally use water, but will sometimes use a mix of half broth half water and will season with a few dashes each of chili powder, crushed red pepper and cumin. Let the quinoa cool off a bit and juice 1 lime, chop the bell pepper, tomato, and cilantro. Finely chop the garlic and jalepeno. Put cooled off quinoa in a large bowl. Add lime juice, toss. Add chili powder, cumin and black pepper. Add beans and all vegetables except for the avocado. Top with avocado slices and serve alone or with a grilled meat. Makes 5-8 portions


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We all did a runner to York to have a wander, a chat and a drink..... I didnt do the drinking part due to dropping to bits from the night befores drinking session!!! All in all a great day out and fun :D
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Dodie Miles Kappes' presence at any Butler event brightens the day and boosts the Bulldogs. Dodie attended Butler in the late 1940s, where she met and later married Philip "Skip" Kappes '45. Three children and seven grandchildren later, Dodie and Skip celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1998.
Dodie's leadership has extended from collegiate organizations to community and educational groups. She has served as president for the Gamma Alumnae of Kappa Alpha Theta, the Indianapolis Alumnae of Kappa Alpha Theta, the Benefe Guild (a philanthropic service organization), the Indiana Lawyers Auxiliary, the Children's Museum Guild and the Indianapolis Zoological Guild.
A particular advocate of children and education initiatives, Dodie enjoyed docent work at The Children's Museum as well as serving on their board of trustees. She conducted school children tours through the museum and also initiated the Haunted House fundraising project, which has become one of the most successful campaigns of any nonprofit organization in the city of Indianapolis. In 1999, Dodie celebrated her 35th consecutive year of raising funds for the museum.
Dodie has a similarly successful history with the Indianapolis Zoological Guild. When the original zoo was being built, their board of directors asked Dodie to establish a women's guild. As its founder and first president in 1964, Dodie built the foundation for a guild that is still going strong today. She also chaired a committee to raise money for the first elephant house at the zoo. Her committee sold $0.25 stock certificates to school children, raising $10,000 to fund the "Elephant Rama." She has served on the board of directors for both the Indianapolis Zoological Society and Guild.
Additionally, Dodie has served on the fundraising committees of the American Cancer Society, Mother March of Dimes, the American Red Cross and the United Way. She helped staff and manage the Duffel Bag Project of the Boy Scouts of America Crossroad Council.
Dodie has received the Spooner Award and the Brass Ring Award from The Children's Museum, the former an award to the guild member who has devoted the most hours of service to the museum. The latter is an award presented to the guild member, chosen by the museum staff, for outstanding involvement in the life of the museum. Kappa Alpha Theta awarded Dodie the Twin Star Award for her outstanding service to the Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter and the Indianapolis community.
Dodie's enthusiasm for the Butler Bulldogs is famous. She is an avid supporter of men's and women's basketball and chaired Homecoming when it was entirely sponsored and planned by alumni. She has also served on the Alumni Association Board of Directors. Dodie's hard work, dedication and well-loved warmth and charm radiate through the Butler and Indianapolis communities.
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Scott Gessler's office shares evidence of voter fraud in Colorado
Secretary of State Scott Gessler has gotten a lot of attention for his effort to weed out illegal voters and frequent clashes with voter rights advocacy groups that complain he is devoting too much time to a wild goose chase. Scott Gessler
Here, we take you behind the scenes at Gessler's office, where his staff have pages of documents that they say justify his efforts.
Through the county clerks, fourteen illegal voters have been removed from Colorado voting rolls, and Gessler's office recently ran checks on thousands more potential non-citizen voters; results on the latter are expected this week. The overall effort, Gessler says, is aimed at preventing voter fraud by removing individuals from the ballots who are not legally registered. And they have proof, his staff says, that voter fraud really exists in the state.
Gessler, a Republican, says he is dedicated to making it easy for people to vote and tough for them to cheat. In the latter effort, he says his office has worked to identify loopholes in the system and weed out non-citizen voters who, for a variety of reasons, may have taken advantage of the loopholes and could be illegally voting in November. Sam Levin Scott Gessler promoting his registration ad campaign.
His critics, however, argue that while they don't oppose efforts to eliminate voter fraud, Gessler's priorities are all wrong. They believe his office is dedicating a lot of energy to removing a few voters, even when he is facing what they see as more serious problems with basic voter registration. Indeed, the harshest doubters fear that some of these efforts could actually suppress or intimidate new citizens from voting in the election, where the stakes are especially high in a key swing state like Colorado.
Gessler maintains that such claims are liberal, partisan attacks on his office, which has dedicated a lot of resources to a campaign encouraging voters across the state to register.
In an interview with us last week, he said, "These guys are as willfully ignorant as it gets. I have spent on this ad here $850,000. No one in the history of Colorado has ever done anything even close to that. They say I'm making it harder for people to register to vote. What I'm doing is encouraging people to register to vote.... What our office has done has been very successful."
To get a better look at why, at least according to Gessler's office, the effort to eliminate fraud is a worthy cause, his spokesman, Rich Coolidge, gave us a tour of the Statewide Voter Registration System, called SCORE, and showed us documents intended to prove the existence of illegal voters.
SCORE has voter information and records for individuals across the state -- including voter history. And in some cases, Coolidge says, that voter history exists for individuals who have on other forms said they are non-citizens. This, he says, is evidence of voter fraud.
It's difficult to go through all the records and tally up a total number of illegally registered voters who have actually voted, Coolidge says. But in the SCORE system, he shows us that through the archives, he can look up all cancelled voters who checked "non-citizen" as their reason for canceling. The total comes to 489 individuals, mostly from 2008 onward, who were registered but have since canceled their registration because they aren't citizens.
Additionally, there are nearly 20,000 records of voters who have withdrawn. Voters in that group, Coolidge says, could have withdrawn for any reason. They might have moved to a different state, or perhaps an individual withdrew a parent who can no longer vote. Or they could be a non-citizen.
"When people say how many non-citizens were on the rolls...there's a minimum of 489...but we have this pot of 20,000 [that could include non-citizen withdrawals]," he explains.
Continue for documents from Gessler's office and response from the ACLU.
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This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and the Attitudes to Inheritances Survey to estimate the magnitude of and the factors that are correlated with private inter-household transfers from parents to their adult children in the UK. Our evidence suggests that inter vivos transfers in the UK are fairly common although regular financial transfers may be less so. AIS suggests an aggregate value of all gifts received so far in people's lifetimes of around £83 billion in 2004. This is about one tenth of the aggregate value of inheritances reported to the same survey, or about 2.3 per cent of total wealth at the time. One section of BHPS implies an annual flow of parental transfers of only around £1.1 billion, or 4 per cent of the flow of inheritances, but other parts of the same survey imply a much greater prevalence of transfers. It appears that none of the available datasets captures the whole picture. Consistently, however, the surveys suggest that financial transfers are negatively associated with age and the income of the recipient indicating that parental transfers are reach children when help is most needed, and most for those with greater needs. However, it is the parents with greater resources who are able to do this, meaning that the process tends to reinforce intergenerational links.
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TF08: Amok Time Catches Monster Fever
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Amok Time unleashed their inner demon at Toy Fair, unveiling a gaggle of ghoulish creations.
Topping the list was their collection of 12" Monster HD action figures. Company mascot Uncle Sam Hame (above - $55.99) will lead the charge, gory fingered eyeball included. Sam will be joined by other Monster HD creatures, including those from the rememberable films Blood of Dracula ($55.99), Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster ($89.99), She-Creature ($69.99) and Horror of Party Beach ($69.99).
One of my favorite figures on display was a stylish Creature of the Black Lagoon. This "Super Size Creepy Collector's Figure" stands a towering 23" tall and is cast in a durable high quality vinyl. $119.99 and shambling to shore this October. A massive 23" Frankenstein Monster will also see release later this year featuring real metal neck bolts.
A monster collection wouldn't be complete without the "Master of Menace" himself, Vincent Price. "The Vincent Price Collection" will launch with a 12" tall deluxe collector's statue of him in The Pit and the Pendulum ($149.99).
In addition to Vincent Price, other notable horror actors to receive collectibles will be Rondo Hatton and Boris Karloff as 12" figures. Rondo hits this June limited to 500 pieces and priced at $44.99, with Boris due out in December priced at $55.99.
Check out Amok Time's extensive creature collection on display at Toy Fair at the link below. 2008 is going to be a good year for monster fans!
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Donovan Brown's blog
I created a team project and did not select the option to create a share point site and now I want to add one.
Create a dummy site and remove the link to sharepoint and wire it up to the original team project. Or two create a new site in SharePoint and wire it up.
There is a great write up here on how to do both options.
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My name is Donovan Brown and I am a Technology Specialist for DevTools with Microsoft with a background in application development. I also run one of the Nation's fastest growing online registration sites for motorsports events DLBRacing.com. When I am not writing software I race cars for fun. DLBRacing.com has given me the opportunity to combine my two passions writing software and racing cars.


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I've been surfing the net to see if there were more colocasias to get my hands on. I've seen Hilo Beauty show up both as colocasia and alocasia.
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My experience leads me to the conclusion the the "Hilo Beauty" is a Colocasia, not an Alocasia. Morphologically, in every respect that I have examined, this plant matches Colocasia far more than it does Alocasia. The only other possibility I can imagine is that it is a Caladium, or is a possible hybrid between Caladium and Colocasia. If I could see what the inflorescence is like, I could be much more definitive. LariAnn |
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Upgrading to MOSS 2007
Posted by Arjun Thomas
For those of who you are looking at either buying a new MOSS ( Microsoft Office Share Point ) 2007 product and starting from scratch or upgrading from the existing SharePoint 2003 version you might want to take a quick look at what it offers as a product.
While i haven't actually gotten around to doing a comprehensive write-up on this new application from Microsoft i figured that prospective users out there might be interested in knowing how different this new version is from the older one.
I've spent the last 2 years working with this application ( amongst others ) and a couple of years before that on its previous version. While its perfectly suited as a document management tool it is far from being an ideal KM solution, though there are ways of getting around this problem.
Sharepoint V3 has made up for it by providing a very tightly integrated platform to facilitate sharing of knowledge. Having worked on it i can say this is the first time i have felt Microsoft has started moving in the direction of a proper KM product. This excel sheet ( put together by Microsoft ) is a feature comparison between the various types of Sharepoint. Go through it when you have the time, will give you some insight on what you can expect from this new tool.
The areas covered in this document are as follows :
- Collaboration
- Enterprise Portal
- Enterprise Search
- Enterprise Content Management
- Forms-Driven Business Processes
- Business Intelligence
- Management
- Platform Capabilities
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My Dad and I got our first 100 point game in tonight it was a blast.
X-Wing AAR: First Game
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Posted 19 October 2012 - 12:11 AM
Loved the report! I need to remember to take pictures when I play so I can chronicle the action.
Dark Curse is one of my favorite TIE pilots, too. Last game he got one-hit-KOd by a clean shot from Wedge in round 3, but usually he's a survivor.
"That starship won't fly, Bastila."
Posted 19 October 2012 - 09:02 AM
Nice. I like the report, and the scenario was pretty cool. I'd like to try it sometime. Good job pulling out the win, too.
Posted 19 October 2012 - 01:14 PM
sweet report.
I would have liked to see the shield tokens by the models. thats what I do, to make it easier for me to see who has what…but really cool battle. i like the image heavy report with light comments. like Nat Geo! lol


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Be an artist in your own garden from the ground up
Plant Life columnist Valerie Easton says that with wind and words, paint and pans, we extend the art of the garden in the Northwest.
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Valerie Easton writes in her blog about gardens and the people who make them.
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WIND, RAIN, slugs, growth and decay keep your garden in a state of perpetual flux. Maybe that's why it's easier to be creative outdoors. It's freeing to know that a project will weather, fade or fall apart soon enough.
To love gardening you must learn to accept nature's ceaseless mutability. You need to exercise imagination and optimism as surely as your muscles. Awareness, patience and resilience are as important to your success as sharp clippers and a sturdy shovel.
When the garden has sunk this deeply into your bones, you're more than halfway to being an artist. Simply allow that creative impulse, usually focused on plants and dirt, to spill over into fashioning objects and setting a scene.
No wonder gardeners are inspired to glue a little moss onto a rotting wooden chair, handpaint vegetable-garden labels or try their hand at pebble mosaics.
"Folk art has always made me smile, so funky, beat-up old enamel pots and pans fill the bill," says Sharen Heath, whose enamelware garden in her Whidbey Island backyard was born of necessity. When she and her husband, Simon Frazer, moved from a house with a huge kitchen down the street to a smaller home, she had no place for her prized enamelware.
"When we down-squeezed, I didn't want to pack it away," she says of the collection assembled second hand over 35 years. Heath hatched the idea of moving rustic bookshelves beneath the eaves of a shed to hold the weatherproof dishes. The result is an outdoor dining room defined by colorful pots and pans. This is practical artistry because Heath pulls down a basin to collect weeds as she gardens or serves strawberry shortcake at summer picnics in the bowls hanging handily nearby.
If your creativity tends more toward the verbal than the visual, consider posting a poem or two in your front garden. Doug Trotter has crafted more than 80 poetry posts and installed them in gardens around Northeast Portland over the past few years (http://www.poetrypostspdx.com/). You know those clear, lidded boxes realtors use to display flyers in front of houses for sale? Trotter's poetry posts are a gussied up version, set on cedar posts, some with copper roofs to protect precious words. Seems like such a fine way to share your garden with friends and passers-by. I hope Seattle steps up to compete for the most poetry posts around town, despite Portland's impressive lead.
It's impossible to mention art and Portland without Nancy Goldman's exuberant gardening coming to mind. "When people visit my garden they always ask if I'm an artist, but I've never thought of myself that way," says Goldman. This is a woman whose uniquely personal garden is known as "Nancyland." "Nancified" has become a verb in Portland gardening circles. "It pretty much means more is more," she admits.
Goldman loves to use repurposed and unexpected objects in the garden, from high heels to old flour sifters. She collects shoes at estate sales and thrift shops, drills holes in the soles for drainage, plants them up and enjoys them as they slowly rot away. While some of the shoes last for years, Goldman advises staying away from sling-back pumps, which are dismal at containing soil.
When a friend discarded a pedestal sink, Goldman planted it with ferns and ajuga and set it out in the garden. "It's such an elegant sink, and already had drainage," says Goldman, who draws the line at featuring toilets.
It'll be worth a trip south to see Goldman's next project. She plans to create curved gabion walls of rock-filled wire. She'll "Nancify" them by tucking plastic animals in between the rocks, so you'll get a glimpse of tusk here and tail there poking between the stones.
"There are just so many possibilities," says Goldman, putting her finger on why we can't resist the urge to be artists in our own gardens.
Valerie Easton is a Seattle freelance writer and author of "petal & twig." Check out her blog at www.valeaston.com.


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Say you buy an annual or small perennial you want to bareroot for planting in 5-1-1 or Gritty. You pull it out of the pot and it has the typical soggy mass of bound roots intermingled with crappy MG soil. Do you just leave as is and pot into the mix (and bareroot it later once the root mass has grown/strengthened) - or- try to bareroot it from the get-go? I ask because I destroyed two such plant root systems trying to be as delicate as possible with the hose nozzle in spraying away the soil off the roots. The little roots just kind of dissolved or blasted away, leaving essentially no base to keep the plants upright. I made sure to soak the root balls for a while first. Feeling bad about the waste of money and plantlife, I'm inclined to plant the small delicate store-boughts with their root masses intact except for a little teasing/scoring. I'm good with barerooting larger/stronger root masses --- just need planting tips with the tiny delicate ones. Thanks. |
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you have to be really careful with fine root systems. A hose nozzle is probably too aggressive. I soak mine and then swish them around in the bucket to get the medium off. Then i also like to put them on my propagation bench where they get some shade and mister action so they can recover. |
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I also do what Nil13 does, the swishing around in a bucket of water. I also tickle the roots while the root ball is under water - you could feel the soil "dissolve" away (sink really, but it feels like dissolving). Really easy to get the soil off, and because the plant is kind of floating, there is very little gravity-related damage. But I have a question. Why do you even repot annuals? For just one season, they can stay in the peat pudding, no? |
I was just using an annual as a size example of any small plant with a delicate root system. |
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Does majoring in mathematics with economics (with emphasis on mathematics) have good career prospects? Does anyone know something about this course?
The answer to your question also depends on what you want to do afterwards. If you wish to pursue a PhD in economics or finance, this would be great preparation for a research career. If you do not want to pursue a research career, this course of study would put you in a very good position to enter the corporate sector in many different areas. For example, you could go into banking as a quantitatively minded research analyst, or you could go into consulting. Another possibility would be to go into a company in the "real economy" and use your skills to implement corporate strategy, for example. The good thing about a degree in quantitative combination like the one you suggest wis that you can market yourself in many different ways, as the discplines are quite broad in scope and the quantiative skills tend to be always in demand. Good luck! |
Think it this way: if you happen to change your subject later, do you think you will get all courses from one university to another? I studied computer science and mathematics -- and the only courses I could transfer to other degree was mostly math-courses (besides some theoretical CS, logic etc). Math is somehow timeless so it is easy to find correspondencies between courses. I did not much care about losing computer-science courses and other trivial courses because they were too easy. I could google everything, it is harder google math so good reason to study. Do you wanna beat other googlers? Source of the image here. It is all about thinking: in the beginning, everything looks like the same but eventually you will see that it will pay out -- I love this picture! Thumbs up! P.s. Besides computer science, I also did BS-equivalent in Economics but I found it too easy so I had no interest to waste time on classical Economics in the university. If I really want to do Economics later, I will start immediately in master or something like that. Anyway before going any further, I decided to understand things deeper -- happy learning and smile :) |


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It's the middle of the Nine Days that culminate in the fast of Tisha B'Av. Discounting Shabbat meals and the fast itself, that's six days of no meat or chicken. A week of meatless days on the Jewish calendar means lots of fish, like red mullet in chermoulah and grains. More vegetables than usual. More eggs in creative ways, and er, well, more fish.
Yesterday I was shopping in a hurry. The family was going to need dinner in about an hour, but I was in the middle of a project that needed all my attention. I didn't want to spend lots of time chopping, stirring, and hovering obsessively over the stove as I usually do.
What, oh what would dinner be?
A package of salmon fillets caught my eye as I trundled past with my shopping cart – I snatched it up, thinking, salmon cooks quickly and everyone likes it.
Back home, a damp, chilly package of salmon fillets thawing out on the kitchen counter. Me, suddenly empty of ideas, looking around the kitchen. My cookware said: put it in a clay pot and let the oven do the work.
My pots and pans often provide the answer to What's For Dinner. There's more on my theory of Pot/Food-Vision Syndrome on this post. Which happens to be a recipe for spicy brown beans, also appropriate for the Nine Days.
But back to dinner, and the salmon. I couldn't cook the salmon just bare. There had to be potatoes and onions and herbs and tomatoes, at least. And plenty of lemon. So this is what I did.
Let me say now: it's important to slice the potatoes as thinly as you can get them. Any other way, and the fish will be done and drying out before the potatoes are cooked through. And another thing: if you don't have a clay casserole, cook your fish in any ovenproof vessel. But cooking in clay gives food an extra dimension of flavor, and food cooked in clay pots keep improving as the vessels age and soak up cooking aromas.This dish involves a certain amount of work with a knife and chopping block, but then you slide it into the oven and forget about it until the timer goes off. It's tasty and easy, and the family gobbled it up.
Salmon and Potato Casserole
Serves 3-4
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion, thinly sliced
2 large potatoes, very thinly sliced
2 medium tomatoes, thickly sliced
Juice of 1 lemon or 6 pieces of lemons preserved in salt
3 salmon fillets
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup chopped fresh basil leaves – may substitute dill or cilantro
3 tablespoons cream – may use coconut cream if available
Salt and black pepper to taste
Melt the butter in the casserole, over low heat. I put a flame dispersing mat under the casserole to prevent cracking.
Raise the heat slightly. Add the onions. Let them cook 5 minutes while you slice the tomatoes and potatoes.
Add the potatoes to the casserole, making a layer. It's alright if some overlap. Place the sliced tomatoes on top.
Pour half the lemon juice around the vegetables. Place the salmon slices on top and pour the remaining lemon juice over the fillets. If using preserved lemons, place three pieces under, and three pieces on top of the fillets.
Scatter minced garlic over all, pushing some down to join the vegetables. Scatter chopped basil over all. Season with salt.
Dribble olive oil and cream over everything. Grind some black pepper over it.
Cover the casserole loosely – I used a strip of tin foil that left a thin uncovered margin at the edges. Bake at 375 until the potatoes are cooked through – about 1/2 hour.
Serve right away.
And here's how the assembled casserole looked just before I put it in the oven. True, it's prettier than the night-time photo above…there was still daylight for a good photo before I cooked. Just for you to get an idea of how it should look.
Toss a leafy salad and place it on the table next to the casserole. Serve fruit for dessert, and enjoy!
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I love salmon, and that looks very tasty! I enjoyed reading about the connection to the "meatless" days.
Do you think this would be good reheated? It looks like a good option for one of the many Rosh Hashana meals…
Bracha, yes, it would reheat OK – just keep it slightly underdone and well wrapped in foil so that the fish doesn't dry out.


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Everywhere we go, everything we do, we send signals. Simple acts create streams of data, whether it is crossing the road, making a speech, running 100 meters, phoning your mother, or shooting a gun. Up till now, the data generated by such activities has been difficult to capture, collect, and sort into patterns from which stories can be spun. But this is changing by the day. The streaming, structuring, and storing of this information in reusable formats—what we think of as "big data"—is increasingly the raw material of journalism.
Like every other part of the process of disseminating news, this activity is being redefined by mechanization. One of the most important questions for journalism's sustainability will be how individuals and organizations respond to this availability of data.
In the cool 13th Street office space of Betaworks, in the heart of New York's Silicon Alley, John Borthwick, the company's chief executive, demonstrates one of the apps shown to him by a developer. It can trace the activity of people who you might know in your immediate vicinity—who is around the corner, who is meeting whom, where they are going next. All of this represented on an iPhone screen by pulling together signals from the "social graph" of activity we can choose to make public when we log into services like FourSquare, or Facebook, or Twitter.
The total transparency offered is awesome, in the true sense of the word: It sends a shiver of wonder and apprehension. Borthwick, who runs an enterprise that he characterizes as part investment company, part studio, is one of a number of people either creating or incubating businesses that begin to mine and exploit this world of information: Many newsrooms, including Gawker, Forbes, and The New York Times, already use the real-time data analytics of Chartbeat; most journalists with a Twitter account will at some point have shortened their links through bit.ly; and the data company SocialFlow explains how stories become "viral" with more speed, clarity, and depth than any circulation or marketing department can provide. All of these startups received investment from Betaworks, and they represent what Borthwick believes is the future of information dissemination and, by default, journalism—understanding information "out of the container," as he puts it.
At a recent technology-and-journalism breakfast hosted by Columbia Journalism School, Borthwick elaborated: "This data layer is a shadow," he said. "It's part of how we live. It is always there but seldom observed." Observing, reporting, and making sense of that data is, he thinks, a place where journalism can forge a role for itself.
Borthwick is not alone in the belief that a world that is increasingly quantified will create opportunities. Up to now, the journalism organizations that have been actively engaged in understanding the possibilities of large data-sets have been largely confined to those who make money from specialist financial information. Reuters, Bloomberg, and Dow Jones all burnish their brands with high-quality reporting and analysis, but in each case, the core of their enterprise remains real-time automated information businesses pointed at the financial-services market.
Five years ago, data journalism was a very niche activity, conducted in just a handful of newsrooms. Even now, to be a journalist who handles data can mean a variety of things, from being a statistics number cruncher or creative interaction designer to being a reporter who uses data skills—extracting the story and/or explaining the bias in it—as part of his or her beat. The roles are still emerging, but very rarely are there teams of information scientists and mathematicians (such as those employed by bit.ly, Chartbeat, and SocialFlow) sitting inside news organizations, working out how to use these new resources for best effect.
Just as computer scientists figured out search algorithms that sorted information, taking away a part of journalism's role, others are now writing algorithms that assemble data into stories. The most high-profile exponent of this practice is Narrative Science, a collaboration between computer scientists and the Medill Journalism School at Northwestern University. Kristian Hammond, the data scientist leading the company, envisions a world in which everything from your cholesterol level to the state of your garbage bin creates continual streams of information that can be reassembled in story form. Narrative Science uses algorithms to produce basic, bread-and-butter stories that don't require much flair in the writing—high-school-sports reports, local-government-meeting recaps, company financial results. Since these sorts of stories can be produced using unprecedented levels of automation, they offer a realistic chance of cutting newsroom costs. And although Hammond has a vested interest in predicting that vast amounts of data will be turned into personal, local, national, and international stories, his vision is also a logical extension of current trends.


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Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)Human sacrifice? Poor Mexican family suspected in the murders of two young boys, woman
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April 2nd, 2012 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) A horrific murder scene has authorities suspecting a destitute Mexican
family of committing human sacrifices to Santa Muerte, or "Saint Death."
Authorities say the throats and the wrists of the victims - two
10-year-old boys and a woman in her fifties were cut with knives and
axes, their blood spread on a Santa Muerte altar. Their bodies were
discovered buried near the shacks where the alleged cult members lived. Santa Muerte, or Saint Death, is a figure revered by outlaws but whose popularity is growing across Mexico and among Hispanics in the United States. The suspected cultists lived in shacks outside a small town near the U.S. border. The killings have rocked the copper mining village of Nacozari, near the edge of the Sierra Madre. The incident may be the first ritual sacrifices linked to the popular saint that has long been condemned by the Roman Catholic Church. "We never knew they were part of a Santa Muerte cult," Jorge Sanchez Castillo, a 54-year-old hotel owner says. He owns a corn field next to the house of the woman believed to lead the group. "This has been tragic for all of us." The town of Nacozari has escaped the grisly violence of drug cartels fighting for lucrative corridors along the U.S.-Mexico border. "It was a peaceful town. We'd never seen such violence," Police Chief Jose Miguel Espinoza says. A 10-year-old boy went missing in July 2010. His mother and her boyfriend told police that acquaintances had seen him begging in the streets of nearby Agua Prieta across the border from Douglas, Arizona, and that they would go find him, said Espinoza. "We had no reason to suspect it was a homicide," he said. A second 10-year-old boy went missing in early March, prompting Sonora State's missing persons unit to send agents to Nacozari. That boy's mother and her boyfriend reported it to state authorities, who discovered weeks later that the two boys knew people in common. Martin Rios and Jesus Martinez, the missing boys would often visit Meraz's home in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of the town of 11,500. Police suspected the house was being used for prostitution after seeing different men from out of town visiting, but never gathered enough evidence to arrest anyone. Agents on Wednesday unearthed the body of Jesus Martinez buried in the dirt floor in the bedroom of one of the Meraz daughters. They then began arresting family members, who led them to what agents believe are the remains of the other boy, as well as the grave of 55-year-old Cleotilde Romero, a close friend of Meraz who disappeared in 2009. Forty-four-year-old Meraz, who police suspect was the cult leader, and seven people related to her, were detained pending further investigation, including her boyfriend Eduardo Sanchez, father, son, three daughters and a daughter-in-law. No formal charges have been filed pending further investigation. "They thought that by offering the blood, they would be protected for some time," Larrinaga said. "According to them, Santa Muerte was going to tell them where the money was. They all identify themselves as fanatic followers of Santa Muerte." Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) |


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And since we are speaking of money and concerns over the possibly shrinking advances, LOL, this leads right into my very next webinar that's taking place on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 from 6 to 8 pm Mountain time. It's called SHOW ME THE MONEY: The Anatomy of $ In A Book Deal.
I'm literally doing a 2-hour workshop that walks writers through a publishing contract and the anatomy of money in it. I'm using actual contract clauses to illustrate how and what earns a writer money in a publishing agreement.
I'm pretty sure this will be the best tutorial you'll have without actually having a book deal and your own agent walking you through your brand spankin' new contract.
"A little learning is a dangerous thing" as Alexander Pope says but I'm of the philosophy that you can't learn less. I like to be as thoroughly educated as I possibly can before being confronted with something.
Stuff you'll learn:
1) What can a writer earn in terms of advances for different genres?
2) What are the standard royalties? Royalty escalators?
3) What is "high discount" and how can it impact what you earn?
4) Bonus clauses. What are they? What types can be built into a contract?
5) What subsidiary rights can be sold and what are typical monies involved.
6) Clauses that don't immediately seem to be about money but can impact what you earn anyway.
Sound like something you might want to know? Then I'll see you there.


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Thu, Jan 28, 10 at 10:58
Just bought two table lamps from restoration hardware. They are beautiful but are "french wired" which means the wire comes out of the socket! Looks terrible. Is there any way to hide the cord along the body of the lamp? Otherwise I think they will be going back to the store.
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- Posted by publickman (My Page) on Thu, Jan 28, 10 at 11:31
Often with French wired lamps, the cord is glued or attached to the side of the base, so that it follows the contour of the lamp base. This is somewhat acceptable for some bases, especially if they are carved in such a way that there is a groove that the wire can fit into, but for many bases this does not work. Alternatively, you might be able to have the lamp rewired, providing the base is either hollow or has a wireway. What is the base made of, and how does it look? |
Thank you so much for your reply! The base is made of solid crystal. |
Here is a link that might be useful: restoration hardware
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Physicist Niels Bohr once wrote that "prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Very true, but that hasn't stopped the scientists from Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans from sifting through reams of data to put together their fisheries outlook for 2010. Their results will make any fisherman's heart sing.
2009 was a fantastic fishing year, so we are really happy to announce that the fishing in 2010 is predicted to be just as good, or better. What does that mean for anglers at our resorts? Read on.
Everywhere we fish—the Queen Charlottes, west, east and southwest Vancouver Island—excellent salmon fishing is predicted. We're coming off three years of cooler ocean temperatures, during which time salmon stocks were able to thrive. The dividends—more fish—are just starting to pay off. For both Chinook and Coho, the two premier species at our resorts, anglers can expect some of the best action in recent memory in 2010.
The good news isn't limited to salmon. Halibut populations throughout BC are holding stable at high levels. And ten years of conservation efforts are paying off in spades as Lingcod stocks on the south coast continue to thrive.
As serious anglers, this is all great news. Great fishing means time on the water is that much more enjoyable. But it runs deeper than that. BC's fisheries are iconic and sportfishing is a defining part of our culture. The resurgence of salmon, halibut and Lingcod in coastal BC is inspiring and exciting, and everyone will experience the benefits.
Beyond fishing, 2010 is shaping up to be a banner year. Painter's Lodge and April Point will host a slew of great events, from the Women's Derby to photography getaways and everything in between. The Canadian Princess is gearing up for an action-packed summer against a stunning backdrop of rainforests and pristine wilderness. Our northern resorts crew are up to their elbows in refits, making sure everything is gleaming on opening day. And down at the Cape, guests are already enjoying fantastic weather and the breathtaking beauty of the South Bahamas.
After the uncertainty and the tumult of 2009 we're all looking forward to getting outside and sharing some exciting adventures and big fish stories in 2010. We hope you'll join us.
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Almost time to reveal the finalists from Round 2 and then head down through the summer to the final Round and your last chance to shine in the DMC FINALS. I've just spent a week-end DJing in Oslo in Norway and it reminded me of a guy who once made me cry with his DJ performance. No matter what your problems are in life, wherever you come from, whatever your financial restrictions are, you need only to go see their two time champion DJ BIG K. What made this kid different than every other DMC National Champion? Big K is blind! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UkwfjQKTdE
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Tony Prince, founded DMC with his wife Christine in February 1983. He had introduced DJ mixing into his Radio Luxembourg dance music programme in 1981 exposing the developing art to 50 million listeners. His career began as a singer and became a full time DJ when the UK Musicians Union expelled him for playing records when the band had a break. He became part of the small team of musical mutineers, the UK 60's pirates who broadcast from Radio Caroline. He then joined Radio Luxembourg and stayed with Europe's largest commercial radio station for 16 years.
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