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New Colleges Announced
Earlier this year, PSU announced the creation of two new colleges: the College of Arts and Sciences, led by founding dean Cynthia Vascak, and the College of Education, Health, and Human Services, led by founding dean Gail Mears '76.
The College of Arts and Sciences is home to PSU arts, humanities, mathematics, and the natural, physical, social, behavioral, and computer sciences.
Dean Cynthia Vascak is a nationally recognized art educator, scholar, and administrator. A PSU faculty member since 1991, Vascak has served as chair of the Department of Art and as coordinator of the art education program. She has led initiatives such as the creation of the Master of Art in Teaching (MAT) degree, chairs the education subcommittee of the President's Commission on Environmental Sustainability, and is a member of the Research Advisory Council. Off campus, she has engaged community partners in developing large-scale projects, most notably a four-year Federal Department of Education grant that involved 25 educators in three school districts, for which she served as director. In 2009, she was honored with PSU's Distinguished Teaching Award.
The College of Education, Health, and Human Services is home to programs in education, human services, criminal justice, health and human performance, and nursing. A major initiative for the college over the next several years will be the development of the Active Living, Learning, and Wellness (ALLWell) Center, a multi-phased, multi-year project intended to integrate academics, athletics, and recreation in one location and provide state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories.
Dean Gail Mears is a teacher, researcher, and administrator nationally renowned for her work in mental health counseling. A member of the PSU faculty since 1999, Mears is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with over 30 years' experience in the mental health field. She has worked in community mental health, family services, and private practice, and has provided counseling services to university students through the Counseling and Human Relations Center. Mears has received numerous awards both on and off campus for her service, leadership, and teaching. In 2009, Mears was the PSU Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award recipient.
The colleges join the College of Business Administration, which was formed in 2009 and is led by Dean Trent Boggess. CoBA offers a full range of programs at both the undergraduate and graduate degree levels with a focus on applied and practical business and managerial skills. Its faculty includes members with international academic reputations as well as successful former CEOs, CFOs, and managers who are dedicated to preparing students for rewarding careers in business.
Dean Trent Boggess is a professor of economics who joined the Plymouth State University faculty in 1983. He served as director, assistant chair and chair of the business department since 1992. Under his leadership, both graduate and undergraduate business programs have flourished. He has forged partnerships from Romania to Antigua and, working with faculty in the college, has developed programs in small business entrepreneurship, sales leadership, created international business and healthcare administration certificate programs for MBA students, and in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Performance, created a new degree in sports management.
Boucher Awarded Wixson Professorship
Statistics professor Thomas Boucher (right) has been selected as the recipient of the Ed and Marilyn Wixson Endowed Professorship of Mathematics.
A faculty member in the Department of Mathematics since 2005, Professor Boucher has created and taught statistics courses of all levels, and helped establish and currently directs the Statistical Consulting Center, which supports faculty and graduate research throughout Plymouth State University and beyond. The professorship, says Boucher, "will help me improve and extend the services I can offer to the University and its partners."
Established in 2009 by retired PSU math faculty members Ed and Marilyn Wixson, the Wixson Endowed Professorship of Mathematics celebrates and recognizes faculty in the Department of Mathematics who are exemplary models of teaching, scholarship, and service, or who show strong promise in these areas. As the Wixson endowed professor, Boucher will receive an annual financial award for three years and will give an inaugural public lecture on April 16, 2012.
New Nursing Program
PSU has recently launched a nursing degree program to help fill a vital need for nursing professionals in the region. According to the New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau, registered nurses are among the top occupations with the most projected openings. As of 2010, there were 613 openings annually in New Hampshire with a 31 percent increase projected over the 10-year period between 2006 and 2016. With 12,489 nurses currently employed in the state, that represents a need for an additional 4,000 nurses by 2016.
Plymouth State University's nursing program offers two options for students to obtain a baccalaureate degree in nursing: a four-year pre-licensure track for undergraduates who do not hold an RN license, and an RN completion track for students who hold an associate degree in nursing from a community college and have a current RN license.
According to Mary Bantell, director of the PSU Department of Nursing, students graduating from the program "will provide communities with competent, quality nursing care in numerous patient care settings such as acute and intensive care, long term care, maternal and child health, mental health, and community health/home health."
PSU Honored by Grafton County Economic Development Council
PSU's role in supporting business in the region was recently recognized by the Grafton County Economic Development Council (GCEDC) as Partner of the Year for its work on the Enterprise Center at Plymouth, which will serve as an incubator for area businesses.
As part of its partnership with PSU, the GCEDC will purchase the building at 149 North Main Street in Plymouth and renovate it for new entrepreneurial companies. PSU will provide staff and programs to assist the companies' development.
Trent Boggess, dean of PSU's
College of Business Administra-tion, said the University will provide hands-on expertise in creating jobs in the area. "Plymouth State students and faculty will have a major presence here. We will be offering marketing and graphic design services, as well as sales consulting. … Our goal is to make this incubator a business growth center for the region."
Amidon Named Museum Director
Catherine Amidon has been named director of the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University.
A New England native, Amidon earned her doctorate from the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and worked in research and education for the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. She was named director of Plymouth State University's Karl Drerup Art Gallery and Exhibitions Program in 1999. As director, she oversaw eight to twelve exhibitions each year, quadrupled the number of visitors to the gallery by cultivating on- and off-campus partnerships, and more recently promoted eco-art exhibitions that link environmental issues and visual communication.
Amidon has lectured extensively, published numerous articles, and curated more than 30 exhibitions, including three that toured nationally. She is the recipient of two Fulbright scholarships, one in 1994 for research in the Baltic States and Russia, and the other in 2007 for teaching and research at the National Gallery of Art in Kingston, Jamaica.
One of Amidon's most recent projects was a collaboration with curator Peter Crane of the Mount Washington Observatory's Gladys Brooks Memorial Library on an exhibition of photographs by the late White Mountains photographer Guy Shorey. Titled Guy Shorey: Among the White Hills, the exhibition reflects the photographer's love of and commitment to the White Mountains. Amidon says the exhibition serves as an appropriate preface to the 2012 opening of the Museum of the White Mountains, which will preserve and promote the unique history, culture, and environmental legacy of the region.
More PSU news and information is available at plymouth.edu.


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Sachin Pilot named Congress's Rajasthan chief
Union minister Sachin Pilot was Monday appointed chief of the Congress's Rajasthan unit, a party statement said.
"Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed Sachin Pilot as president of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) with immediate effect," the statement said.
He is likely to take charge on Jan 21, party sources in Jaipur said Monday.
The 36-year-old Pilot is corporate affairs minister and a close associate of party vice president Rahul Gandhi. He replaces Chandrabhan, who was defeated in the assembly polls.
His appointment as PCC chief comes a month after the party's humiliating defeat to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan, where it could only secure 21 out of the 200 assembly seats.
"His task is to mobilize workers ahead of the general elections scheduled to take place later this year," said a state Congress leader.
The son of late party leader and union minister Rajesh Pilot, Pilot, currently the MP from Ajmer, has been given the job just a few months before the Lok Sabha elections.
Pilot's ancestral village is Vaidpura in Noida and he belongs to the Bidhuri clan of Gurjar community. He is an MBA from Wharton Business School in the US.
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This weekend Kath and I caught a bus up to Grassington friday early evening and walked up onto Grassinton moor where we camped the night..Early saturday morning we passed through the hamlet of Conistone..And Past Kilnsey Crag with it's awesome overhang..Earlybird cimbers were already up the main wall towards the roof..After a pleasant climb up from Littondale we reached Malham tarn.A little trodden path rewarded us with a fine view of Pen Y Ghent..Down in Settle we caught the evening train to Ribblehead..Sunday morning we wandered along the side of Whernside, looking back to the Ribblehead viaduct.."The limestone paving" on the moor made interesting walking, with rare alpine flowers sheltering in the 'grikes' between the limestone 'clints'...A lonesome windswept hawthorn tree on above Twistleton Scars..We descended the Doe valley past Beezley's falls..And finished our walk at Ingleton.
Great spot to camp Rog and great place to walk.
Great pictures. They brought back many memories. Many years ago I lived on the edge of the Dales and spent much time walking there. I haven't been there for a long time.
Thanks guys, It was a really pleasant weekend. Full of variety but not too strenuous. The weather was perfect, with cool breezes and plenty of sunshine.Chris, where did you live?
Rog,A lot of that looks like farm/grazing land. What's the protocol with crossing private land? And is/are the Dales privately or publicly held, generally speaking?Rod
Hi Rod,Most of the Dales is privately owned land, with pockets of National Trust property. The whole area is covered by a National Park.In England and Wales generally, there are thousands of public footpaths, bridleways (horses allowed) and RUPP's (roads used as public footpaths. There is also a 'right to roam' though exactly what this means is lost on me, I've always walked where I wanted to. ;-)As far as wild camping is concerned, anywhere above the top field boundary is fair game, and in practice, if you are up on sheep pasture out of the valley and out of sight, you probably won't get shouted at for making an overnight stop. Having said that, I try to buttonhole shepherds for permission when I see them.In the north of England, it's all reasonably relaxed. Down south you can get quite a lot of "get orf my land" types. Wales is dodgy, farmers are belligerent towards the English (and any campers) and have dogs with equally bad tempers.Scotland is pretty much open access, but woe betide you if you are caught poaching game.A comment from an American visitor was that he couldn't understand the route map, because it went over a wall stile, and in America, doing that is likely to end in getting a gun pointed at you...
Beautiful. I have some Scottish in me, so that Northern England landscape definitely touches on something in my blood. I am an American who was confused by the 'right of way' in the Britian. You did a nice job of explaining it. I honestly don't think such a policy would work in America. We seem to despise common property to the point we trash it. That's why some people advocate disposing of all roads into our National Parks, and I feel myself sympathetic to them. Land is something to be owned and exploited here, not shared.
Looks like a great trip... I grew up walking around the Dales, and although not far away from them now I tend to focus more on Scotland and the Lakes... so this is a timely reminder of what's on the doorstep! Thanks Rog.
Rog, I lived in Skipton for a few years in the 1980s. The Three Peaks plus Malham & Gordale were the areas I knew best.
Those are really lovely shots. I assume that at certain times of the year it looks a bit less hospitable.
Thanks for the beautiful pictures!!!
> There is also a 'right to roam' though exactly what this means is lost on me,I think it means Madonna can't build her house on top of a 2,000 year old pathway.Cheers
Nice pictures! Looks like a great place to walk. How old is the hamlet you passed through?
Great photos!I did the England Coast to Coast route in 2007, which was great. Your photos remind me of that. Is the shelter one of those MLD pyramids? If so, do you like it? I used my Tarptent Squall II.Take care.
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American Idol: The Final Showdown
My favorite thing about the Idol finale isn't the performances, but playing "Where's Waldo?" with the random B-list celebrities in attendance. My question is, why do some of them get their names closed captioned while others do not? And, who was the nitwit that mistakenly identified Tori Spelling as one of "Taylor's Family & Friends"?
I have to admit that I wasn't really excited about tonight...
The performance portion of the American Idol finale always feels a lot like the first 10 minutes of the Super Bowl, over-indulgent and over-hyped. I'm reserving all my emotions for the last 10 minutes of tomorrow night's overly drawn-out results show. I will be ecstatic if Taylor, Sir Goofball, defies all odds and takes this thing. And I will be shattered if Katharine manages to become the 800th-millionth-gazillionth attractive female (er, minus Fantasia) to win this thing. Hey, remember in Season 2 when a fat, black guy and a skinny, white dork made it to the finale? That was awesome! That is what American Idol is all about -- the underdogs.
I know I should stop whining, but I'm not ready to. I really wish it was Chris and Taylor in the finale. I'm not ready to let that go yet. Yeah, yeah, yeah ... Katharine can sing, she's beautiful, and she was "born to do this." So what? As far as I'm concerned, perfect people were for Star Search. American Idol is for the flawed rejects. I think that's why so many of the previous Idols have been from the South, and not from New York or LA. Because America wants to root for the underdogs, for people that have been rejected time and time before.
I like Katharine, but it all seems so contrived. She's from LA, the voice coach mom, the sobbing dad. It just bores me. But Taylor. He's a big ball of wrong, and somehow it makes it all right. He's tubby. Gray haired. Goofy. He's got a constipated look about him, and yet I suspect that he's completely regular. If I ran into Taylor at the grocery store, he'd be buying macaroni and cheese, but would not have the gallon of milk at home that would permit him to cook and enjoy said treat. I think he's the type of guy that dons a Santa hat the day after Thanksgiving and rarely removes it through the month of December. Without a doubt, he has farted and blamed it on the family dog. He's the type of guy that uses hugs as currency.
I just like the guy, and I want him to win. Is he a better singer than Katharine? No. Is he a better entertainer? Absolutely. If the foreign press ran an article on Taylor proclaiming him the new American Idol, would the rest of the world snicker and think, "Stupid Americans. Look at this jackass"? Without a doubt, and that's what I love about him. I voted for Taylor not because of the performances tonight, but because I just like who he is, and how unlikely it was that he made it this far. It didn't seem fair to bring this underdog all the way to the big show, and just leave him tied to a tree outside.
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As a subscriber of the CareerMail, I have received several emails the past few days that are designated to encourage students to apply for an internship/job for next summer. I also agree with their suggestions.
First of all, most of us are busy with school and work during the semester. And we barely have the time to sit down, search for an internship/enrichment program/job and actually apply for it. Now we are in winter break, and it would be great if you can spare some time to do some research and then actually develop a resume and a cover letter for future use. So think about it!
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Given the surge that U.S. stocks have enjoyed, maybe mutual-fund investors should just call it a year.
The market's performance over the last three months is closer to what you'd see in a runaway bullish 12-month period. Diversified U.S. stock funds rose 17.6% in the second quarter on average, according to preliminary results from investment researcher Morningstar Inc. The group is up a no-less impressive 7.1% in the first six months of 2009.
In fact, while U.S. stocks lagged their international counterparts, every domestic stock-fund category that Morningstar tracks enjoyed double-digit quarterly gains, and all but real-estate focused funds are up for the year. See story on international stock-funds' quarterly results.
But the rally since early March, while heartening, hinged on the good fortune of lower-quality, smaller-capitalization stocks. Such higher-risk holdings typically lead the market once it hits bottom, but they may not have much more juice left.
"Low-quality has panned out very well," said Paul Nolte, director of investments at money manager Hinsdale Associates. "But going forward you're not going to get the economic expansion that's going to allow lower-quality companies to benefit. They're going to have to come up with real earnings and real growth."
That's easier said than done, with the U.S. economy still anemic. At this point in the cycle, the market should begin to favor larger, better-capitalized companies that can deliver the earnings growth investors seek.
Yet even a rotation to higher-quality leadership will still leave investors far from whole: The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index SPX, +0.88% gained a robust 15.9% in the quarter, including reinvested dividends, but the benchmark needs to advance 60% in the next six months just to break even for the decade.
Such a turbocharged performance would be extremely unlikely, to say the least. Instead, what U.S. investors could see, according to Standard & Poor's Inc., is a 10%-15% decline in stock prices followed by a rally that pushes the S&P 500 to about 955 by year-end. The index closed at 919 on June 30.
"I keep biting my nails, wondering when this correction is going to come," said Sam Stovall, S&P's chief investment strategist. "We expect to see a correction over the next three months that will bring the S&P 500 down to between 800 and 850."
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For the past three months, however, small stocks were the big story. Small-cap funds gained 21.5% on average in the quarter, led by small value's 22.2% rise. Standouts included Aegis Value Fund AVALX, +0.89% up 48.5%, and Wasatch Micro Cap Value Fund WAMVX, +0.34% up 40%.
Large- and midcap offerings followed with their own strong showings.
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Midcap funds averaged an 18.4% gain, with midcap-blend up 19.5%, midcap-value adding 18.9% and midcap-growth up 17%. Notables in these categories included a 41.9% gain for Kinetics Small Cap Opportunities Fund KSCOX, +1.14% and a 38.1% advance for Fidelity Leveraged Company Stock FLVCX, +0.99%
The biggest U.S. stock funds, meanwhile, matched the market's faster pace -- and at times outran it.
Dodge & Cox Stock Fund DODGX, +1.04% soared 23.1%, well ahead of the 16.4% average gain for its large-cap value peers. American Funds' Growth Fund of America AGTHX, +0.60% rose 16.7% and Fidelity Growth Company Fund FDGRX, +0.28% added 15.9% -- slightly better than their large-cap growth category's 15.6% return.
Additionally, the S&P 500-tracking Vanguard 500 Index Fund VFINX, +0.88% and the exchange-traded S&P 500 SPDR ETF SPY, +0.90% both finished in line with the index, gaining around 16%.
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Jack Stafurik was the top local epeeist at the Santa Fe Challenge fencing tournament.
The tournament was hosted earlier this month by Santa Fe Prep school and attracted some of the top fencers from New Mexico and neighboring states. The Los Alamos Fencing club sent five of its top fencers to the event.
Stafurik was 14th out of 28 fencers in the senior mixed epee division, beating out LAFC's coach, Tom Hill, who finished 20th.
Stafurik also finished sixth in the veteran combined epee.
Other competitors from LAFC were Nicolas Voss, Mark Gulley and William Gulley.
Hill said the tournament was a good experience for the younger fencers in the group, particularly Mark Gulley in the Class D and under mixed epee.
"Most beginning fencers have these 'ah-ha' tournaments early in their careers when they're fencing well and suddenly realize that they can go toe-to-toe with the best," Hill said. "This was Mark's 'ah-ha' tournament. He and son William have been training hard and it gratifying to see their fine finish."
Mark Gulley finished 11th in the division while William took 15th out of 20 competitors.
Voss had a solid 10th place finish in the cadet (under 17) mixed epee. There were 16 fencers in that division.
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This whole process was done to test DB Failures for our Asynchronous Messaging using PtoP.
We are having some threading issues in our Message Driven BEans.
Here is the breakdown
Currently in one of our MDB deployed in Weblogic 6.1 Sp1 is doing the following in the onMessage()...
(Since one of the process in the message takes a long time we had NotSupported as the transaction attribute for the onMessage()).
(1)Call DB to update a certain value which sets the state to running.
(2)Spawn a new thread which runs the long process and might even take several hours.
(3)Checks the DB for the status intermittently(every 15 seconds ) to see if (2) is complete.
(4)Here we bring down DB.
(5)Process (2) keeps going as it is a separate thread and it does not do any DB updates.
(6)Bring back DB
(7)Process (2) completes . According to the normal flow is should come back to the onMessage() handler and do some DB updates. But it does not. It just finishes and nothing happens.
We want it come back and continue the rest of the onMessage() handler. because the state of the process is left as "running " in the DB.
So I am wondering what has happened to the MDB at this point? Did it loose communication to the process(2) since it spawned a new thread????
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Salem, Oregon, 1956
Though Charles Cushman's photos weren't quite professional level, he always managed to evoke a mood and fix his scenes in time and place better than many other photographers. He also, thankfully, gave us all the details of the photos he took, so we know that he visited the Capitol in Salem, Oregon (one of many state capitol buildings he visited in his travels) on July 12, 1956, which should help a little in identifying some of the cars in the frame. What do you see here?


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PJ: What is your killer value proposition that other retail software "usual suspects" (e.g., Oracle, SAP, SAS, JDA, etc.) fail to provide? In other words, what are the pain points that only you can cure for your customers (and with what typical benefits)?
CA: The Q Platform (explained in Part 1) actually solves the problems that these other vendors mainly talk about solving--and delivers on the business case every time, with proven, measurable results. Quantum has developed the concept of managing by Merchandising Strategy--determining the role of the product within the customer offering, such as being an image item, loss leader, traffic driver, etc. (see Part 1 for more details).
Users are not asked to select from an overwhelming number of forecasting algorithms and replenishment algorithms, and to set a slew of tricky parameters up around each of those algorithms for every stock-keeping unit (SKU) in every store. Q takes the chosen Merchandising Strategy and understands the objectives of the product from both a financial and a merchandising perspective and ensures that every inventory decision that is made is aligned with achieving those objectives.
The way that customers buy product changes over time and Q adjusts automatically to react to those changes, ensuring that alignment is maintained throughout the products' lifecycle. This is very different from having to actively maintain the ordering, allocation, and replenishment configurations for every SKU in every store and manually ensure that the system is set up correctly (which is the value prop of our aforementioned competitors).
In the process of understanding items Q considers over 30 dimensions of product behavior including average sales, maximum sales, demand, days between sales, lost sales, days between stock-outs, current inventory, last stock-out, weeks of supply, percent in stock, etc. Beyond these typical sales and inventory metrics, Q also understands the following:
When the issues happened, e.g. an out-of-stock on Monday has different gravity than out-of-stock on Saturday
Variations in contributing factors such as lead times, lifecycle, and customer service level
Variability and uniqueness in sales such as volatility, lumpiness, lost sales, demand vs. sales
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, profitability metrics such as gross margin return on inventory investment (GMROI)
These capabilities have led to retailers being able to have a high degree of automation with Q using exception management to highlight only those areas where users should be spending time in the system. Typical results achieved and verified (by Quantum's customers that were mentioned in Part 1) are as follows:
A 2.2 percent full-price sales increase (in fast fashion)
A 5.6 percent sales increase (in general merchandise)
A 4 percent increase in gross margin
An 11 percent inventory reduction
A 40 percent reduction in overstocks
PJ: How do you enable the link between assortments, pricing optimization, and inventory optimization (IO)? Do you cover any other retail issues beside these (e.g., store workforce planning & scheduling, planograms, task execution, etc.)?
CA: All of the modules of Q are deployed on the platform and share several components and engines that ensure that they see not only the pieces of the problem that they are directly solving, but the holistic impact of those changes on other business processes. As said in Part 1, the Q: Assortment and Range Planning module dynamically updates and adjusts performance projections on the fly, based on decisions made by the user.
The underlying forecasts impact downstream ordering and subsequent replenishment and allocation processes automatically. In addition, all ranging information, constraints around pack and distribution multiples, and the merchandising strategy are also shared and initiate downstream workflows around planning orders, prioritization, and distribution.
Although Q does not execute price optimization decisions itself, there is a standard application programming interface (API) to receive price changes and promotional information to ensure that any and all demand-shaping effects that are anticipated are taken into account in the supply side of the problem. Namely, we all know that the goal of the promotion is to change consumer demand, i.e., the cause the so-called "demand lift." The demand forecast must be adjusted to reflect both the scale and timing of that change in anticipated demand
Alongside the demand lift, there is often a required shift in how that promoted product is supplied to stores. Often inventory will be placed in stores ahead of the event, and there is also the question of how stores should be stocked coming out of the event. Thus, Q is also solving problems such as how the inventory should be built upstream the supply chain to support the promotion and the level of inventory that should be in stores at the end of the promotional period. Q can also feed a sales forecast that takes into account inventory effects into the price and promotional optimization processes to improve performance projections and analysis.
Every inventory decision that is made by Q is optimized to achieve the merchandise and financial goals specified, and lives within the constraints of the assortment and ranging. Range planning, from setting the concept, purpose and direction through to selecting the products and finalizing the price, distribution, and sales forecast, is an iterative process. That process typically involves buying and merchandising folks working hand in hand, often with somewhat opposing objectives. Q automates store clustering for effective management of ranging process and automatically determines the optimal depth for the plan. Users can review and manage through a variety of attributes and dimensions unique to each area of business.
In order to align assortments with customers, Q utilizes objective-based forecasts generated by Q:Forecasting and Order Planning to project impacts of assortment changes. In order to rationalize assortments, Q looks at measures such as Profitability (GMROI) and Sales Disparity to see how well a merchandise area in a cluster is performing. Users are alerted with recommendations to increase to decrease the range to support the way that consumers are buying that product.
Q does not handle store planning, workforce scheduling, planograms, and task execution per se. However, these systems can benefit by utilizing Q's results and recommendations as an input.
PJ: How do you view your competitive landscape, i.e., why do you win or loose to certain competitors?
CA: There is no strong pattern in the competitive landscape - we often see the big enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors in accounts, but we have not lost deals to them. The strongest competitor is actually a 'do nothing' or 'try and build this in house' attitude. These decisions are often made with short-term costs in mind and perceived risk, but the risk of doing nothing, or focusing effort on one piece of the problem that cannot scale, is actually far greater.
PJ: Would you like to share your views towards going multi-tenant on-demand (subscription-based) or not?
CA: Quantum has offered a hosted solution for the last four years and every customer takes advantage of that during the implementation phase, at least. Hosting the solution allows us to better serve our customers through a deep understanding of the operational environment and the ability to manage patches and upgrades and to be proactive in addressing any customer data specific issues.
Multitenancy is a natural extension of scaling this hosting operation to further serve our customers. There will always be a few retailers, however, that need their systems to be hosted inside the firewall.
PJ: Although the trends have been positive lately for Quantum (and the retail sector in general), what issues/challenges are still keeping you asleep at night (e.g., retail ERP and/or supply chain management [SCM] guys eating your lunch)?
CA: Definitely not the ERP/SCM guys eating our lunch! One thing keeping us awake at night is how many of the longstanding myths of retail are still held as facts by many retail IT organizations. There is a lot of unlearning to be done - and much of the misinformation comes from old technology, old constraints, and old thinking.
Somewhat linked to this is the role that some IT organizations are playing within the retailer. It is time to move on from supporting infrastructure and transactional systems, to being a strategic partner to the business and fully understand their needs and priorities and align investment accordingly. These two issues (i.e., relics) are really holding some retailers back - and they will struggle to compete.
PJ: Do you have any parting comments to add?
CA: In addition to our system's adaptive nature (i.e., to constantly evaluate and react to ensure progress towards stated objectives), there has been the users' ability to use it quickly and with immediate results. This is due to our system's simple and intuitive navigation, ease-of-setup (configuration), and exception-driven (i.e., via workflows and alerts) automation of complex operations.
This leads to quick and simple implementations in fewer than 20 weeks, while the system's light footprint means smaller investments, lower total cost of ownership (TCO), and quick return on investment (ROI). Hosted options are available, as mentioned earlier. Our six current customers that were mentioned in Part 1 have reported fewer than 12 months to reaching a 100 percent ROI, measured through test and control groups.
To that end, Quantum has developed the Agile Customer Experience (ACE) implementation methodology, with an approach that focuses on speed to value for clients. This is done by implementing in short "solution sprints" rather than in traditional big-bang waterfalls or consultant-heavy methodologies. ACE features the following generic solution sprints with typical expected duration times:
ROI: Performance Visibility, Value Identification (6 weeks)
Forecasting, Seasonality, Lifecycles (4 weeks)
Strategies and Inventory Targets (4 weeks)
Order Planning and Events (4 weeks)
Allocations and Distributions (4 weeks)
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Brown & Bigelow is a publishing company based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that produces advertising specialties, or promotional products, such as clocks, pens, cocktail spoons with corkscrew and cap-lifter, and advertising calendars. The company was founded in 1896 by Herbert Huse Bigelow and Hirm Brown.
In 1925 Brown & Bigelow began a tradition by publishing calendars for the Boy Scouts of America, many of which were illustrated by Norman Rockwell. In 1969, as a tribute to Rockwell's 75th year birthday that year, officials of Brown & Bigelow and the Boy Scouts of America asked Rockwell to pose in this calendar illustration (pictured).[1]
In 1936 then-president Charlie Ward paid the large amount of $10,000 to Maxfield Parrish for exclusive rights to his work "Peaceful Valley."[2] Brown and Bigelow also published art, including works by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, Rolf Armstrong, Gil Elvgren, Earl Moran, Vaughn Alden Bass, Mabel Rollins Harris, Douglass Crockwell, and Norman Rockwell. In the late 1940s, it was one of the biggest calendar printers in the world,[3] employing some of the United States' best pin-up artists and putting calendars into an estimated 50 million homes.[4]
Ward served time in prison for tax evasion where he became close friends with Morris Rudensky, infamous safe-cracker.[5] The company was also notable for the fact that it hired hundreds of ex-convicts.
- ^ William Hillcourt (1977). Norman Rockwell's World of Scouting. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0-8109-1582-0.
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- ^ Berger, Warren (January 2001). "Schwag Bag". Wired 9 (01). Retrieved 2006-08-13.
- ^ "Great Moments in Schwag History". Wired 9 (01). January 2001. Retrieved 2006-08-13.
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Crippled by drought, scorched by wildfires and dying from beetle infestations, forests in the American west are struggling and in some states they now exude more carbon than they absorb, experts say.
In an attempt to uncover what the future holds for these ancient pine forests, scientists are studying how trees recover and regrow, and what forest managers can do to help them respond to the modern stresses of climate change.
"These systems are changing, kind of underneath us. It is slower than the nightly news cycle, that is for sure, but it is changing. And so we have to keep changing our management approach," said David Cleaves, the top climate change adviser at the US Forest Service.
America's forests, the fourth largest in the world, have served as an important net carbon sink for much of the past century, absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis than they exude through decomposition and timber harvesting.
The carbon sink amounts to 162 teragrams of carbon per year and offsets about 10 percent of total US fossil fuel emissions, according to the US Forest Service.
But US forestlands were a major source of carbon from about 1800 until 1930, when pioneers cleared vast areas of land for settlement and timber was widely used for fuel and mass construction projects.
Some of the most iconic forests in the Interior West region -- home to towering pines, the soaring snow-topped Rocky Mountains and vast national parklands like Yellowstone -- have been hit hard in recent years by unusually dry seasons, melting ice packs, and plagues of fires and insects.
Two of those states, Arizona and Idaho, have flipped to become carbon sources rather than sinks, according to data released in April by the Environmental Protection Agency, averaging annual changes over time.
Another study in 2007, published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management, suggested Colorado and Wyoming were showing similar signs.
"The intermountain west is clearly an area of the most concern because of fire, mountain pine beetle and drought," said Richard Birdsey who heads the Climate, Fire, and Carbon Cycle Sciences project at the Forest Service.
"They have been hit by three of the main factors all around the same time. So they are under a lot of stress," he said, adding that beetles have damaged ten of millions of acres and killed many trees.
"All those dead trees are still standing. They haven't released all of their carbon yet. They take two to three decades."
A 2009 study led by the US Geological Survey suggested that the death rate in Western forests has doubled, and that forests would become sparser in the future, and be able to store less carbon.
In some cases, forest managers can help a struggling forest by thinning trees, allowing more light and water for those that remain and eliminating some stresses that can help tree-killing beetles gain the upper hand.
In other cases, Mother Nature may know best how to resprout after a fire.
Researcher Erica Smithwick has been studying the resiliency of the lodgepole pines, the thin tall trees that are the most common in Yellowstone, and which reproduce via cones that only release seeds in conditions of extreme heat.
That innate ability to regrow under harsh conditions has helped some areas bounce back from the 1988 fires that scorched 793,000 acres at Yellowstone, or more than one third of the parkland. But other areas have recovered more slowly.
Historically, most area ecosystems have been able to recover their carbon in 75-100 years, she said. But if fires occur more frequently, that could shift the landscape.
"If we expect to see fire return intervals that are much shorter, then we need to think about how we want to manage for that and look ahead to what that means for the ecosystems of this landscape," she said.
According to Mike Ryan at the Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station in Colorado, it is crucial to make sure new trees can grow.
"From a carbon standpoint the best thing that a manager can do is make sure you get regeneration," said Ryan.
The US Forest Service downplayed the sink-to-source trend, saying that areas can flip back and forth over short periods but the trend is unlikely to force American forests on the whole to be net oozers of carbon in the near future.
"Our history is relatively short compared to the history of the forest so it is hard to tell," said Ryan.
"If our future holds that we are going to have more disturbances, then our forests are going to hold less carbon."
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I made 8 kg.s of seville orange marmalade and it was a bit of a rush job - and now it's too runny and won't stay on the toast, which is it's calling. How can I fix it?
I see the following options:
reboil for a thicker set - but will this destroy the pectin?
Reboil and add pectin - how do i calculate the pectin ratio?
Use for dessert sauce - we'll be eating the stuff till kingdom come :-)
Help - sourcing the oranges has been very difficult and I really want to fix it!
Runny marmalade - how to fix?
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Posted 26 December 2012 - 05:30 AM
Reboil. It doesn't destroy the pectin (at least, not in my experience) but it will thicken up the marmalade.
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Thanks, worked a treat. Must have boiled off at least a liter of water, and as a bonus, theres been some maillard-action, to give the marmalade a lovely, dark amber colour.
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I've found it helpful to test my jelly on a chilled plate before I take it off the heat. It really drives me crazy when it's runny the next day and I'm doing double the work. And I've had enough disasters to practice this habit with all of my sauces, caramels and glazes.


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"This administration is committed to spurring innovative projects and activities in the energy sector that reduce Hawaii's reliance on fossil fuels," said Gov. Neil Abercrombie. "Clean energy and technological innovation are key drivers for Hawaii's economic growth, and this interactive tool combines both to provide a new, valuable resource for parties interested in pursuing renewable energy development opportunities in Hawaii."
Based on available data in the Office of Planning Statewide GIS (Geographic Information Systems) files, also known as "layers," Renewable EnerGIS displays the location of renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, hydroelectric, OTEC, and wave. It will also identify related attributes including rainfall, slope, soil characteristics, land use zoning and critical habitats. It does not show existing renewable energy projects, which can be found at the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative website.
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We've had several poppy seed-related questions and recipes come in recently, so I thought I'd dedicate this week's column to the tiny, blue, nut-like seeds.The seeds come from poppy flowers, which, yes, are also used to produce opium. But despite urban legends, poppy seeds do not have the same effect as opium, according to spice manufacturer McCormick. Val Hubbard of Buford would like to replace a lost recipe for a poppy seed pound cake with glaze. If you have a favorite pound cake recipe, please send it in. This week's recipe submission, from Paula McGill of Snellville, is for a poppy seed bread. McGill, who got the recipe from a former coworker, said she likes to give the loaves as gifts. "It's so easy to make, and everybody always loves it," McGill said. "Sometimes, I'll eat one loaf now and freeze the other for later." And don't forget - we're still looking for recipe submissions for Antoinette Richter of Lawrenceville, who'd like to make the baked summer squash casserole often served by local caterers. - Compiled by staff writer Shelley Mann Poppy Seed Bread 3 cups flour, unsifted 3 eggs 21⁄3 cups sugar 11⁄4 cups oil 11⁄2 cups milk 11⁄2 teaspoons salt 11⁄2 tablespoons poppy seeds 11⁄2 teaspoons baking powder 11⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract 11⁄2 teaspoons butter flavoring 11⁄2 teaspoons almond flavoring Preheat oven to 325 F. Stir all ingredients in a large bowl. Divide into 2 greased and floured loaf pans. Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour, 15 minutes at 325 F. Let cool for 10 minutes, then pour the glaze (recipe below) over each loaf and let loaves cool completely in the pan. For the Glaze: 3⁄4 cup sugar 1⁄4 cup orange juice 11⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1⁄2 teaspoons almond flavoring 1⁄2 teaspoon butter flavoring Mix all ingredients together in bowl.
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I work for a man riding his horses who are generally well behaved, except for one problem. He has a mare that rears. Now, she only does it when I am on the ground, however it is still a completely unacceptable and dangerous habit. I have never encountered a rearer, and am unsure how to deal with it. (Other than standing there looking like a stunned fool.)
Situations in which she has reared:
1. Lunging: She clearly dislikes being lunged, and will turn into the middle and rear. I work her through it, but she still continues. This is a full on rear, not just spinning in and bringing her feet a few inches off the ground, she goes all the way up.
2. The other day I was leading her out from the field, she has never had a problem with this before, she is a very sweet mare other than this horrible habit. Anyway, as I was leading her out she reared all the way up several times, even striking out once. Now, there was a dog she dislikes running around chasing a bird when this happened, so I am sure that was part of the problem. (Although it is an unacceptable reaction.) BUT, I still need to know how to deal with it for when it happens again, because I'm sure it will.
I understand to fix this problem correctly and safely she will need to go to the trainer, but as I said she is not my horse. I need to know how to handle this situation safely and effectively until I can convince her owner to send her to the trainer or come work with her himself.


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