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(January 26, 2015) The Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee (MAFAC) and NOAA Fisheries are pleased to announce the formation of two new Task Forces to support MAFAC Subcommittee work on the important topics of climate and aquaculture. Interest was high for both new task forces, and 12 individuals were selected for the Climate and Marine Resources Task Force and 11 for the Aquaculture Task Force. Applications were received from a strong pool of highly qualified individuals who represented a diversity of backgrounds, expertise, skill sets, gender, and regional perspectives.
The new members of the Climate and Marine Resources Task Force are:
Rowan Baker – Retired Fish & Wildlife biologist
Merrick Burdan – Executive Director, Marine Conservation Alliance
Charles Colgan – Resource Economist & Professor, University of Southern Maine
Samantha Danchuk – Assistant Director, Environmental Planning and Coastal Resilience Division, Broward County, Florida
Rick Gaffney – Recreational fisherman & entrepreneur
Patrick Halpin – Professor & Director, Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
Robert Leaf – Assistant Professor, Gulf Coast Research Lab, University of Southern Mississippi
Andy Pershing – Chief Scientific Officer, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Sylvia Spalding – Communications & Staff Lead, Marine Planning and Climate Change Policy, Western Pacific Fisheries Management Council
Lisa Suatoni – Senior Scientist, Oceans Program, National Resources Defense Council
Gale Vick – Consultant, Environmental Issues, Tanana Chiefs Conference
David Wallace – Owner, Wallace & Associates, and consultant to commercial fisheries interests
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Megan Davis – Interim Executive Director, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute/Florida Atlantic University
John Forster – President, Forster Consulting, Inc.
Joe Hendrix – President/Founder, SeaFish Mariculture
Gary Jensen – Former National Program Lead for Aquaculture, US Department of Agriculture
Jeff Lotz – Director, Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center, University of Southern Mississippi
George Nardi – General Manager, Golden Eagle Sable Fish Inc.
Brian O'Hanlon – Founder/Chief Technical Officer, Open Blue Sea Farms, Inc.
Paul Olin – Aquaculture Specialist, University of California Sea Grant Extension Program
Neil Sims – Co-Founder & CEO, Kampechi Farms, LLC
Lisa Tucker – Aquaculture Research Analyst, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
Paul Zajicek – Development Director, National Aquaculture Association
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Multiverse was created at the dawn of Bukkit multiworld support. It has since then grown into a complete world management solution including special treatment of your nether worlds with Multiverse NetherPortals
In the second delivery of Multiverse, we've broken it up into several smaller plugins that are each feature packed but not bloated! Multiverse provides the easiest to use world management solution for your Minecraft server, big or small, and with great addons like Portals and NetherPortals, what's not to love!
Multiverse is back, and works for the latest server build! Is your server, a Multiverse?
MV2 Core Features
- Create multiple worlds of different types, seeds and with Custom Generators
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- Set the mode per world (creative or survival)
- Create Multiverse Portals to let users go between other portals, worlds, or locations
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You can think of this like Bukkit's RB system, but we don't want to create confusion, so instead of calling ours a Recommended Build also, we're going with "Awesome Build" or AB. Awesome Builds are ones that we've put some more testing into, and should be very stable. Unfortunately, due to lack of developers able to work on the Multiverse suite, and the inability to achieve the normal Awesome Build quality level, we have discontinued our Awesome Builds until further notice. Our beta builds available on this site are fairly stable so don't disregard them!
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maxlehot1234 Mar 31, 2015 at 02:33 UTC - 0 likes
Sometimes, some worlds simply disable without reason so players simply spawn in the air... No more spawn and sometimes, plots worls simply doesnt work...
When I do: ./mv reload, the server bug and I need to restart it to fix this,... This appear when I edit the worlds file and do ./mv reload directly after...
Another thing, smetime, gamemode change between worls without reason...
Is it possible to fix theses bugs, because this is a very old plugin that need to be updated.
Sandertjeuh Mar 29, 2015 at 17:11 UTC - 0 likes
PLEASE update, having A LOT of bugs with changing gamemodes when switching worlds and random get teleported in an other world when a player got client crash. Checked every single plugin one by one, bug is caused by Multiverse Core im sure.
Her_craving Mar 27, 2015 at 23:15 UTC - 0 likes
So is this project abandoned or..?
Adam - Relentless CEO/Owner [IP: mc.RelentlessMC.com]
conetopia3000 Mar 25, 2015 at 23:48 UTC - 0 likes
Can someone please explain to me why every time I make a new world /mv create worldname Normal
I get random villages in sight right away with random Generation/designs like this? Normally there is always a large ocean... and dessert or normal village floating in the air... or examples like this... now right after this i found a village.... underground...
connerb0844 Mar 25, 2015 at 23:23 UTC - 0 likes
I have an Issue where If I were to put wood in my survival world inventory, then use /hub and go to my hub world, then switch back to my survival world... all my items are gone! Essentially my inventory won't save and clears between world changes... Any know a solution?
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RhetoricalRabbit Mar 24, 2015 at 22:43 UTC - 0 likes
Googled this quite extensively and am hitting a blank on a way to confirm that my idea is right :/
The issue is that I have a nested world which I wish to move to the top of the ladder.
I created a sub-world inside of the default "world" folder and now I'd like to make that the main world in the file hierarchy.
So say: world
data DIM1 DIM-1 playerdata region world1
I'd like to move the data in "world1" and have it replace "world" entirely. The new DIMID is 23, and my current train of thought is that I'll have to eliminate all references to that and delete the "world" file, uploading and renaming "world1" to take its place. I'm just seeking confirmation before doing that as I find it a little odd that apparently no one else has wanted to do this before :/
Or is it actually as simple as I've just said so no one has had to ask for aid before? Which would be something I'd find hard to believe :p
BananaPuncher714 Mar 22, 2015 at 14:17 UTC - 0 likes
Here's the error:
I think it might have something to do with another world generation plugin. I didn't change the config.Last edited Mar 22, 2015 by BananaPuncher714
WillyBee55 Mar 20, 2015 at 17:54 UTC - 0 likes
It helps people know how to help if you tell us what the error is. Perhaps put your config files and the error on Pastebin and give us the link. Otherwise I doubt you'll get any help.
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Deming, who starred at Lyman Hall High School (Wallingford, CT) in the mid-70s, was a three sport standout in high school (field hockey, basketball, and softball). In 1995, coach Deming was named to the Lyman Hall Hall of Fame for her accomplishments as an athlete and a person of such high character and integrity. After her playing days at Lyman Hall, Deming attended Southern Connecticut State University where she majored in physical education and played softball for the Owls.
Deming came to Chase right out of college and has made quite a name for herself in the area. Along with softball, coach Deming serves as Assistant Director of Athletics and Physical Education teacher, along with coaching middle school girls soccer and girls basketball.
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For three years, Ericka Brayton has been Chase's Assistant Varsity Coach. In 2012, she also took the position as the Head Middle School softball coach, leading the middle school to a 8-1 record. Ericka comes to Chase with over thirty years of softball experience. Brayton was a four-year letter winner at Holy Cross High School for basketball and softball, earning both all NVL and city honors. In addition, she was named to the All-State team as a catcher and was a member of the Holy Cross class LL championship team in 1989. Following graduation, Ericka attended UCONN and graduated with a BS in Human Development and Family Relations in 1995.
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I was out clearing off the garden today and was admiring some of the crocus and tulips when I noticed some other bulbs coming up too. These were the bulbs a few of us went in on 2 years ago. I didn't have very good luck with them. Atleast that's what I thought. Three of them are coming up this year that hadn't before. So if you weren't happy with that order take a peek where you planted them you just might have a "surprise" too.
So . . . . do you know what they are yet?
As I have been reading up and learning about the genus Fritillaria, I discovered why most of ours died. The bulbs MUST produce roots before winter sets in. Roots will NOT initiate in spring, no matter how hard you try. The only spring roots that will grow are those that were started the fall before. According to the literature for our zone, they need to be planted even before daffodils should, around the first or second week of September, if I remember right. So we got them way too late.
I have Fritillaria camschatensis seedlings from two sources coming up in pots right now. And received Fritillaria pyrenaica and F. thessala ssp. reiseri seed from the NARGS seed exchange this year. They will stay in the frig until September when I will plant them.


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Approved for Refi on auto loan over the phone in a matter of minutes but still no cc decision. My income is over 100K, last late over 2 1/2 yrs ago but still a little nervous.
Is this common to hit the same report twice? Is this a good sign? Thoughts?
They hit me on EQ for some things and TU for others.... I have like 5 pulls from them!
They've only pulled EQ for me, latest within a month. I wonder if they are using some TU pulls because they inherited a TU contract in the recent merger.
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In a scientific approach for increasing the yield of small and marginal farmers double fold, the State Agriculture Department officials have prepared a comprehensive plan for implementation in a phased manner.
As a first and foremost step, the officials have proposed to make soil test mandatory. By analysing the major and minor nutrients, such as the percentage of nitrogen and phosphorous contents among others available in the soil, the officials would suggest the best possible crop that could be grown.
This advice would be helpful to the farmers to change the crop pattern and subsequently they would be recommended to use available technology for higher productivity.
In the wake of shortage of farm labourers and rising costs, the government had ventured into some better alternatives. At a recent "scientific workers' conference" held in Coimbatore, addressed by Commissioner (Agriculture) Sandeep Saxena, the officials were instructed to take a series of steps in their respective districts. Some of the officials, who attended the meeting, told The Hindu here on Tuesday that they had started gathering basic details about small and marginal farmers in their respective regions.
For instance, in Madurai district, officials said that there are three lakh such farmers. It is targeted to create a data base of one-third of the farmers (about one lakh) and collect soil details of at least 50 per cent (about 1.50 lakh) by the end of this fiscal. Every farmer would be issued a "fertility index card" on payment of Rs. 20 which would have information such as name of the farmer, the district/block/taluk/village et al he/she belonged to. A code number would be given as an identity to the card holder for instant reference.
Prior to the issuance of the card, the farmers' would have to fill in details like irrigation source, present crop of cultivation, techniques used, yield particulars, machinery used and income details from the harvest.
It is proposed to issue GPS-linked personal digital handsets to field staff in the rank of assistant agriculture officers. During their visit, complaints of urea shortage, pest in crop or any other disease experienced by individual farmers would be communicated through the handset, which would get recorded at various levels of the administration for effective follow up, officials said. Based on the identity cards, the farmer's grievances would be addressed. Suggestions on quantum of fertilizers and change of crop would also be rendered at the spot at different stages of cultivation.
Assistant Director (Madurai East Block) S. Kanagaraj said that in their block there are 16,097 small and marginal farmers.
As per the government's plan, they are in the process of collecting data from 5,346 farmers (one-third) and soil tests from 8,000 farmers by this fiscal. "We conducted a campaign at Varichiyur in which the farmers were taught how to collect soil sample for test. By digging a pit in "V" shape for six inches, they should bring 500 grams of soil in a dry polythene bag. There was a good response," he added.
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They are owed $200k and doing the seller a favor by giving them a partial lien release so they do not get foreclosed. If you were owed $200k by the seller would you allow a partial lien release?
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President Barack Obama has now raised the allegedly backward nature of the federal procurement system as a presidential concern. Speaking to a business audience about the failures of HealthCare.gov, he stated that what the government needed to do is to "blow up how we procure for IT." FCW has just asked on its cover, "Can IT Procurement Be Saved?"
I'm not sure we yet completely know the whole story of the problems with HealthCare.gov, but to me at this point it looks like there were two big problems with the system's development. One was the constantly changing requirements, a bane in federal IT development. In this case, new regulations were regularly coming down the pike as the system was being developed, creating an ever-moving target that receded each time code writers tried to catch up. The second was the failure to assign a systems integrator to be in charge of all of the many moving parts of this very complex system. That reflects a philosophy that began to spread in reaction to problems with giving systems integrators too much power in projects such as the Coast Guard's Deepwater boat development.
Perhaps the biggest problem was a political one. Not unusually for federal IT (and, to be fair much of commercial IT systems development as well), the system was behind schedule. But this system had a deadline, the Oct. 1 launch of the new healthcare insurance marketplaces. A decision was made -- to my knowledge, we don't exactly know how or by whom -- to go ahead with the launch. How much those making the decision knew about how far from ready it was is, to me at any rate, unclear.
None of this, however, sounds very much like problems with the procurement system.
I am willing to believe that problems with the procurement system itself bear some significant responsibility for the failure of HealthCare.gov. I promise to join with anyone making a good case that the procurement system bears a notable part of the blame in working for good suggestions to fix problems.
But I have not heard many specifics.
For example, I don't think it has been claimed that delays in awarding the task orders to develop the system were of any consequence in the system's unreadiness on Oct. 1.
FCW's recent cover story is generally a balanced piece of work, and it uses the phrase "procurement system" broadly to include poorly developed requirements, technical difficulties merging legacy systems, and a lot of other general features of government IT.
The one element of the procurement system proper the story criticizes, however -- doing the contract using task orders rather than an integrated contract -- doesn't warrant the criticism, I don't think. Task orders are not inconsistent with having an integrator, or even with having only one contractor rather than several. They would be the appropriate contract form to do agile development. (I was surprised to see Trey Hodgkins, whom I respect, quoted as stating that the system should have been developed as a single contract using full and open competition -- a "back to the future" approach that harks back to the 1980s.)
As a general matter, it is probably true that many of the special social requirements the government puts on contractors (which do not exist for companies not doing business with the government) discourage commercial firms from bidding for government work, especially small firms. However, Obama has often supported expansion of such requirements.
The reputational risk that a mistake on a government contract can cause for a commercial company is also a problem, but that reputational risk is caused by media coverage, and it's hard to see a solution. (Overzealous auditors might increase the risk by turning small mistakes into apparent crimes.) These issues are likely not relevant to HealthCare.gov, however.
Furthermore, the government's past performance system is too kludgy and riddled with excessive "due process" to be the kind of sharp weapon it often is in commercial IT procurement.
But some of the comments, frankly, have an air of looking for scapegoats for the HealthCare.gov failure.
Again, I by no means see myself as somebody with a stake in defending the procurement system status quo. I have constantly promoted innovative procurement methods, such as contests and share-in-savings contracting -- which are both allowed by the current system. If readers want to make some specific suggestions about problems in the procurement system that bear a noticeable responsibility for the HealthCare.gov fiasco, please put them in the "Comment" section of this blog. I'm all ears.
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Having seen this issue for 20+ years in a variety of fed locations I assert that procurement is part of the problem. The reason is that for most feds getting a contract in place is the END of the negotiations, but for most contractors it is the BEGINNING of the negotiations. After going thru the typical procurement process (i.e., evaluating competitive bids, getting stakeholder buy-in, awaiting protests) they are exhausted and happy when the contract is signed.
However, upon signature the leverage switches to the vendor. In IT there are inevitable changes to the requirements and the vendors will "get well" by correctly pointing out these are not in the original contract. The fed is faced with going thru the process again or paying up. The fed invariably pays up. If the vendor is smart they will parlay the original contract into enough maintenance contracts until they are viewed as the incumbent (a "partner" in fed-speak). Thus anything that increases the length of time or difficulty in getting a contract in place increases the chances of a contractor lock-in. That is what is wrong with the procurement process.
I agree it is not really a "procurement" issue it is a PROCESS issue. From my 35 years of experience I have seen this too many times both in govt and the private sector. Too often the Idea side of a project is totally removed and isolated from both the procurement and technical and design sides. Someone with no idea of what is involved jumps in and sets a deadline with no idea of what is needed to reach that deadline and then someone in business development who also has no idea what is involved says "we can do that" and viola we end up here...... I have actually been involved in projects where hardware/software and installation was procured but infrastructure had not been installed or even speced.... after all who needs power and cabling....
I just completed my master's thesis on issues within the DOD procurement system. Had I foreseen what would happen with the roll-out of Healthcare.gov, I might have written about a different topic indeed.
Good blog post, good summary of the complex issues. Thanks for adding to the conversation.
Commercial IT is not even remotely up to such a complex task. And the complex part being scope,design and test integration. The gov't should have hired a large defense contractor to handle PM and integration. And if this was Agile it would have been way worse.
After working within the federal IT procurement system for 35 years first as a Federal Procurement official and now as an industry consultant I say it is not the System. It is the mind set of those working the system. The number one issue is always poor requirements. Never defined properly. There are many good tools out there today but very few take the time to do it right the first time . The VA did a very good job with My healthy Vet.com.
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- Old Armenian Ladders
- I decided to make a series of photographs devoted to Old Yerevan (early XX century). And this girl and her sister help me to create atmosphere of this photos.
Unfortunately municipality of Yerevan decided to demolish these old buildings, so it was important to keep their beauty and atmosphere at least in photographs.


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Minimalist Handlebars.js
Why MiniHandlebars?
- ~82% faster than the official library compiling from markup to html on chrome/v8
- 93.72% smaller file with just 59 lines or 1.1KB minified (639 bytes gzipped)
- a TON more flexible; blocks are just javascript functions that take any number of arguments, and like express/sinatra we make no assumptions about which ones you want.
- NO dependencies
Inspired by handlebars, mini-coffeecup, async2, and stylus libraries.
Quick Example
# this line is only required within node MiniHandlebars = require 'mini-handlebars' # initialize new engine handlebars = locals: santa_laugh: 'Ho, ho, ho!' # note that you define all your own blocks; # they are just functions that take any number of arguments # but the first two arguments are always the same and required. : out = '' for k of dataenumerable unless hasOwnProperty dataenumerablek # optional _data = MiniHandlebars_extend dataenumerablek# optional _data'this'= _data'this'|| dataenumerablek# optional typeof key is '' or _datakey= k # optional typeof value is '' or _datavalue= dataenumerablek# optional, you know what you need! out += handlebarsrender template_data out # note that blocks and variables can be written # the same; the additional pound (#) is optional. # this is how i cache the templates in js: handlebarstemplates'test'= '<!doctype html>
Hello, {{name}}!

Here are your Christmas lists ({{santa_laugh}}):

{{each children, name}}{{name}}	{{/each}}

{{each children, name}}{{each list}}

{{this}}

{{/each}}	{{/each}}

' # this will compile html output. # there is no in-between-js-function render stage, and there may never be # both-stages-in-one are already faster than the original lib # and i found the time acceptable for my purposes. consolelog handlebarsrender handlebarstemplates'test' name: 'Mike and Elise Smullin (Santa)' children: Landon: list: 'ninja turtles mask''mario kart legos''airplane' Bella: list: 'something sweet'
As usual, for the latest examples, review the easy-to-follow ./test/test.coffee.
Or try it immediately in your browser with codepen.
- add support for triple-stach/escaping utils? i just haven't needed it, yet. its all unescaped by default.
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I don't know what your point is. I'm not saying we shouldn't give Robinson another year. I'm just saying he's not good right now.
I did not make this headline up
I did not make this headline up
if Hail and Unite gets us on this list I will support it
further adventures in Jed York justifying the unjustifiable
national title buys you a lot of time
lax appears to have reached the "is decent" stage
one guy is just one guy.
former Michigan AD employee, may be guy to watch out for if/when Hackett retires in year or two
I don't know what your point is. I'm not saying we shouldn't give Robinson another year. I'm just saying he's not good right now.
I really like his potential but I would prefer we don't see him on the field again this year unless its a blowout or Tate is hurt. I get the OP's point and agree that he probably is the best home run threat we have, but he hurts us more than helps us right now, imhe.
It's like this Coach Rod is in his 2nd year of his first 5 year plan to turn the Wolverines into a Super Power ala USC. However Coach needs Denard and Tate to do the grunt work building to a NC, which will come to fruition with Gardner at QB in year 5. It is a group effort, every ounce of blood sweat tear and toil these players are facing today will come to bear wonderful rewards in the future.
One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot."


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I have written a java code which internally kicks of a process to launch an avd and gets hold of that process. I have tested the code on local windows 7 as well as ubuntu 11.04. On both of these local environment it works fine.
When I uploaded the same jar file on my aws instance, i get the following error : 12:30:38 E/adb: Failed to get the adb version: Cannot run program "/home/ubuntu/android-sdk-linux_86/platform-tools/adb": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
though /home/ubuntu/android-sdk-linux_86/platform-tools/adb exists.
I have gone through bunch of similar questions but none of them have discussed this issue.
I have updated my openJDK as some of the sites suggest but still i face the same problem.


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Input analysis suggests fed market growth will slow
Some technology companies may want to consider putting more effort into cultivating state and local government clients rather than federal ones. An Input analysis, presented at the 2006 MarketView event held in late March, suggests that growth in many federal technology areas will be more sluggish than in state and local settings.
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Companies tempted to make such a move should proceed with caution, according to market consultants. The state and local market may seem less complicated than the federal government, and perhaps more accessible, but it is not necessarily an easy jump to make.
"The cost of sales is astronomical," said Chip Mather, senior vice president of Acquisition Solutions. "It's like 50 different countries. They all have their own rules, they all have their own cultures, they all have their own politics. They've already got the companies they prefer to do business with."
The Bush administration's budget proposal for fiscal 2007 requests $63.8 billion for information technology projects, a marginal increase from the $63.5 billion enacted for 2006, said James Krouse, Input's director of market analysis. "Taking into account inflation, you could almost say this is a downturn," he said.
Although the exact numbers will change as the budget moves through Congress in the coming months and the amount spent on IT will almost certainly be more than the initial request, fiscal 2007 is unlikely to be a banner year for the federal IT market, Krouse said. Based on the new analysis, Input also reduced its federal market forecast through fiscal 2010.
At MarketView 2005, Input projected the federal IT market in fiscal 2010 would total $91.4 billion. This year, the firm lowered the 2010 projection to $88.8 billion, followed by a rise to $93.4 billion in 2011. The projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is 4.4 percent, compared with the 5.5 percent Input predicted in 2005.
State and local governments, on the other hand, propelled by a different set of drivers, could grow more quickly, Krouse said. He projected a 7.5 percent growth rate through 2011 for those organizations, including a jump from $49.8 billion this year to $59.2 billion in fiscal 2008. By 2011, the figure is $71.5 billion.
A rival research firm, Datamonitor, offers a different view, projecting a CAGR of 5 percent in the federal sector but only 2.6 percent for state and local. Datamonitor's projections cover fiscal 2005 through 2010 for federal and 2004 through 2009 for state and local.
In dollars, the IT budget in the federal sphere will grow from $60.5 billion in fiscal 2005 to $77.2 billion by fiscal 2010. The state and local IT spending figure will rise from $55 billion in 2004 to $62.4 billion by 2009, according to Datamonitor's forecast.
Despite Datamonitor's lower projected growth rate for state and local governments, the market still presents a fertile opportunity for contractors, said Kate McCurdy, Datamonitor's analyst for public-sector technology. The state and local market has great potential, she said.
"Across the board, they're looking to modernize and transform," she said. "That means replacing the systems they have, that they've developed over the years. Governments are looking to integrate them and consolidate to be more productive."
At the same time, she added, citizens are demanding better service from their governments, and governments are responding in part with technology improvements.
State governments also want to outsource work that isn't a core government function, Krouse said.
Several states, including Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, have formed investment review boards to assess large IT projects. No such boards existed as recently as two years ago, Krouse said. IT review boards often have chief information officers, chief financial officers and lawmakers from the Democratic and Republican parties as members, he said.
"You can call it too many cooks in the kitchen," Krouse said. "But on the other hand, it reduces uncertainty and questions about large IT initiatives."
Although the dollar amounts are typically smaller for state and local contracts, the market offers a broader range of opportunities that may potentially be more accessible to smaller companies struggling to win federal contracts. But companies trying to make that move will face their own hurdles, according to experts.
Some major firms in Washington, D.C., already have thriving state and local operations, said Alan Balutis, president and chief executive officer of government strategies at Input. However, a lot of state and local IT business is carried out by smaller firms based locally, with some firms serving a single city or state and others having a more regional reach.
Still, the opportunity is there for companies willing to commit the time and resources necessary, Balutis said. "This is clearly the growth area for the next several years," he added.
Consultant Al Gordon, chief executive officer of National Strategies, said contractors trying to succeed in state governments should recognize that the executive branch of government — the governor's office and state agencies — is one of several paths into state government. State legislative bodies are also influential, but contractors often ignore them.
"Many times you will see people in the executive branch interact with the legislative branch in a way that lets the legislative branch drive certain projects," Gordon said at the MarketView event.
Vish Varma, vice president of corporate development at AlphaInsight, which was recently acquired by CACI International, said companies should not underestimate the acumen of government officials at the state and local levels.
"From my conversations with many companies in the IT services sector, most of them seem to have a stereotype of state and local customers as corrupt and unsophisticated," he said. "I think they are making a mistake. The potential for a burgeoning market aside, the sector is like any other sector: One needs to pay one's dues, learn the ropes, form the relationships and have a compelling value proposition. If it was easy, every damn fool would be doing it."
Contractors attuned to the federal market can find the mélange of state governments challenging, said Larry Allen, executive vice president of the Coalition for Government Procurement. Each state has its own procurement rules and procedures. Some use General Services Administration schedules under GSA's cooperative purchasing program, while others use the schedules merely as a pricing guide, just one of dozens of factors unlikely to be the same in any two states.
"Many state buyers haven't bought into the best-value or multiple-award concepts," Allen said. "Others feel more acutely the presence of their legislative and political overseers. This doesn't mean they do the will of individual legislators, but rather that they know, or feel they know, what direction the legislature wants them to go in. Anything counter to that view isn't likely to budge them."
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The secondary sector has remained stagnant while the primary sector, which includes agriculture, showed a declining trend
The Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) of Kerala (at 2004-05 constant prices) grew by 9.13 per cent in 2010-11, driven by robust performance of the tertiary sector, according to the Economic Review for 2011, released here on Saturday.
Finance Minister K.M. Mani released the review at a press conference after presenting a copy each to Speaker G. Karthikeyan and the MLAs, ahead of the budget presentation scheduled for Monday.
The GSDP growth in 2010-11 is more than the growth of 8.95 per cent recorded in 2009-10.
The tertiary sector grew by 11.57 per cent in 2010-11, while the secondary sector grew by 6.12 per cent, and the primary sector by a mere 0.64 per cent.
Tourism and other areas in the tertiary sector performed well; the performance of industries and allied sectors were modestly satisfactory; but agriculture and allied sectors continued to be a cause of concern.
The contribution from primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors to the GSDP was 11.06 per cent, 20.13 per cent, and 68.80 per cent respectively. The contribution from tertiary sector had been steadily increasing in the recent years, while that from secondary sector had been remaining stagnant, and that from primary sector decreasing.
Unemployment continues to be one of the basic problems of the State, with 43.42 lakh job-seekers in the live register of the employment exchanges, the review said.
Global economic crisis had adversely affected the tourism industry in the State in 2009-10, but the situation improved significantly in 2010-11, with foreign tourist arrivals increasing by 18.31 per cent compared to the previous year.
Though imbalances continued to prevail in the State's finances, there were 'hopeful signs of recovery' in 2010-11, the review said. Revenue deficit, which stood at Rs.2,638 crore in 2006-07 and rose to Rs.5,023 crore in 2009-10, came down to Rs.3,674 crore in 2010-11, which came to 1.38 per cent of the GSDP.
This improvement was due to a growth of 18.70 per cent in revenue receipts in 2010-11 against an increase of only 11.3 per cent in revenue expenditure.
However, the moderate growth in revenue expenditure in 2010-11 was also on account of the deferment of a major portion of expenditure by way of pay and pension revisions due in 2009-10 to 2011-12, the review said. Therefore, these indicators would paint a different picture in 2011-12.
Fiscal deficit touched the level of Rs.7,731 crore in 2010-11. This came to 1.81 per cent of the GSDP.
Revenue defecit
The ratio of revenue deficit to fiscal deficit, which indicates the extent to which borrowed funds are used for financing revenue expenditure, has been showing a declining trend since 2004-05. The ratio, which was 74.83 per cent in 2005-06, has come down steeply to 47.52 per cent in 2010-11.
Debts increased by 10.86 per cent in 2010-11, reaching the level of Rs.78,673 crore.


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Here's an electric vehicle that can perform on the street, but it costs about one fourth the price of a Nissan Leaf or Ford Focus EV. This two-seater has a range of about 50 miles (80km). The StreetScooter is a project under the authority of over 80 auto component suppliers as well as engineering and electrical companies. All the stakeholders of this project have created a special taskforce to manage the project, which include experts from all areas of EV production and design. The main objective of this task force is to build an EV with a price that is significantly lower than conventional automobiles. Judging on the average commuter's daily trip, the engineers have designed the StreetScooter to travel short distances. What's more important is the target price, which the designers say will not exceed $7000. This tiny EV will be compatible with all highway safety laws and will provide a top speed of 74 miles per hour (118km/h). The expected date of production is slated for 2013 in Europe.
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Hi. I'm Catherine and my husband Michael and I are coming to the USA in September/October 2014 - we can't wait! We spent 8 weeks in the USA in 2012 and loved it.
We're very lucky to live in McMahons Point, Sydney right on Sydney Harbour with access to lovely harbourside parks and a short ferry ride to the city.
I work in the field of sustainability education for the NSW EPA and Michael works as a landscape architect in a small city-based firm.
I love baking, flowers and all things pretty! Michael loves cycling and his guitar!
We both appreciate nice things and will certainly take care of your home as if it was our own.


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Robert Watson (computer scientist)
|Robert Watson
Robert Watson in 2008
3 May 1977
Harrow, London
|United Kingdom
|Computer security[1]
Operating systems[2][3]
Network stacks
Programming languages
Computer architecture[4][5]
|Cambridge Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
St John's College, Cambridge
|Alma mater
|Carnegie Mellon University
Wolfson College, Cambridge
|New approaches to operating system security extensibility (2011)
|Doctoral advisor
|Ross Anderson
|Known for
|contributions to FreeBSD, TrustedBSD, OpenBSM
Robert Nicholas Maxwell Watson (born 3 May 1977) is a FreeBSD developer, and founder of the TrustedBSD Project.[6] He is currently employed as a University Lecturer in Systems, Security, and Architecture in the Security Research Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.[7][8][9][10]
Watson graduated in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and has attained a PhD from University of Cambridge. As well as Cambridge, he has worked at the National Institutes of Health, Carnegie Mellon University, Trusted Information Systems, Network Associates, McAfee, and SPARTA. He obtained a PhD in computer security[11] from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, supervised by Ross Anderson and sponsored by Google.[11]
Watson's work has been supported by DARPA, Apple Computer, the Navy, and other U.S. government agencies. His main research interests are network security and operating system security. His main open source software contributions include his work in developing the multi-threaded and multi-processor FreeBSD network stack, the TrustedBSD project, and OpenBSM. His writing has been featured in forums such as ACM's Queue Magazine,[12] the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, BSDCon, and a Slashdot interview.[13] He was also a FreeBSD Core Team member from 2000–2012.[14]
- ^ Murphy, S.; Lewis, E.; Puga, R.; Watson, R.; Yee, R. (2001). "Strong security for active networks". 2001 IEEE Open Architectures and Network Programming Proceedings. OPENARCH 2001 (Cat. No.01EX484). p. 63. doi:10.1109/OPNARC.2001.916839. ISBN 0-7803-7064-3.
- ^ Watson, R. N. M.; Anderson, J.; Laurie, B.; Kennaway, K. (2012). "A taste of Capsicum". Communications of the ACM 55 (3): 97. doi:10.1145/2093548.2093572.
- ^ Watson, R. N. M. (2013). "A decade of OS access-control extensibility". Communications of the ACM 56 (2): 52. doi:10.1145/2408776.2408792.
- ^ List of publications from Google Scholar
- ^ Clayton, R.; Murdoch, S. J.; Watson, R. N. M. (2006). "Ignoring the Great Firewall of China". Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4258. p. 20. doi:10.1007/11957454_2. ISBN 978-3-540-68790-0.
- ^ FreeBSD Week: Interview with Robert Watson. OS News, 2002-01-29
- ^ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/news/2013/05/two-new-lectureships-announced/ Announcement of Lectureship
- ^ http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81328490800 Robert Watson's ACM author page
- ^ List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server
- ^ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
- ^ a b Watson, Robert Nicholas Maxwell (2011). New approaches to operating system security extensibility (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
- ^ Kamp, P. H.; Watson, R. (2004). "Building Systems to Be Shared, Securely". Queue 2 (5): 42. doi:10.1145/1016998.1017001.
- ^ Robert Watson on FreeBSD and TrustedBSD, Slashdot, 2001-01-18
- ^ FreeBSD Core Team Alumni, 2012-07-20


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