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This testimony discusses federal efforts to stem currency smuggling across our nation's borders. Mexican drug-trafficking organizations, terrorist organizations, and other groups with malevolent intent finance their operations by moving funds into or out of the United States. For example, a common technique used for taking proceeds from drug sales in the United States to Mexico is a method known as bulk cash smuggling. The National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) has stated that proceeds from drug trafficking generated in this country are smuggled across the southwest border and it estimates that the proceeds total from $18 billion to $39 billion a year. NDIC also estimates that Canadian drug-trafficking organizations smuggle significant amounts of cash across the northern border from proceeds of drugs sold in the United States. In addition to bulk cash smuggling, 21st century methods and technologies of laundering money have emerged. In 2009, NDIC stated that new financial products and technologies present unique opportunities for money launderers as well as unprecedented challenges to the intelligence, law enforcement, and regulatory communities. NDIC and others cited the use of prepaid cards or gift cards that are loaded with currency or value--also called stored value--as presenting a compact and easily transportable method to move money into and out of the United States. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)--a major component in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)--is the lead federal agency in charge of securing our nation's borders. In March 2009, the Secretary of Homeland Security called on CBP to help stem the flow of bulk cash and weapons moving south by inspecting travelers leaving the United States for Mexico--an effort called outbound operations. In addition, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)--a bureau in the Department of the Treasury (Treasury)--seeks to deter and detect criminal activity and safeguard the financial system from the risk that terrorists and other criminals may fund their operations through financial institutions in the United States. Among other things, FinCEN is responsible for administering laws aimed at preventing criminals from abusing U.S. financial systems. This testimony is based on our October 2010 report on cross-border currency smuggling and updated information on bulk cash seizures and the status of one our recommendations. Like the report, it will cover the following three issues: (1) the actions CBP has taken to stem the flow of bulk cash leaving the country through land ports of entry and the challenges that remain, (2) the regulatory gaps that exist for cross-border reporting and other anti-money laundering requirements involving the use of stored value, and (3) the extent to which FinCEN has taken action to address these regulatory gaps.
In March 2009, CBP reestablished the Outbound Enforcement Program within its Office of Field Operations. As a result of its outbound enforcement activities, CBP seized about $67 million in illicit bulk cash leaving the country at land ports of entry--97 percent of which was seized along the southwest border-- from March 2009 through February 22, 2011. Total seizures account for a small percentage of the estimated $18 billion to $39 billion in illicit proceeds being smuggled across the southwest border annually. CBP has succeeded in establishing an Outbound Enforcement Program, but the program is in its early phases and there is a general recognition by CBP managers and officers that the agency's ability to stem the flow of bulk cash is limited because of the inherent difficulty in identifying travelers who attempt to smuggle cash. Beyond this inherent difficulty, in our October 2010 report we identified management challenges in three main areas. First, addressing limitations in staffing, infrastructure, and technology, among other things, could require substantial capital investments at all ports of entry. For example, license plate readers are available at 48 of 118 outbound lanes on the southwest border and none of the 179 outbound lanes on the northern border. Second, policies and procedures to ensure the safety of officers involved in outbound operations are not in place. In our October 2010 report, we recommended that CBP direct and ensure that managers at land ports of entry develop policies and procedures that address officer safety. At all five ports of entry we visited, we observed that officers used the side of the highway to conduct secondary inspections, while other vehicles moved past, potentially endangering officers. At one port of entry, officers conducted inspections of the underside of vehicles by lying on the ground with their legs exposed while traffic moved by in neighboring lanes at speeds up to approximately 25 miles per hour. CBP concurred with our recommendation and stated that it will, among other things, require each port director to develop procedures that address the safety challenges at the port of entry. Third, CBP has developed a strategic plan for its outbound program, but it has yet to develop a performance measure that assesses the effectiveness of the program. In our October 2010 report, we recommended that CBP develop a performance measure that informs CBP management, Congress, and other stakeholders about the extent to which the Outbound Enforcement Program is effectively stemming the flow of bulk cash and other illegal goods by working with other federal law enforcement agencies. CBP concurred with our recommendation. In February 2011, CBP issued a performance measure for its outbound program that involves the amount of currency and the number of weapons seized, however, this does not fully address our recommendation because it does not measure the degree to which the program is effectively stemming the flow of bulk cash, weapons, and other goods that result from criminal activities. CBP stated in response to our recommendation that it would, among other things, investigate the use of a random sampling process in the outbound environment that would provide statistically valid compliance results for outbound operations.
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Mandriva Linux- The beginning of the end
As every body knows, Mandriva's situation ever since the first signs of the company being in serious financial difficulties started resurfacing earlier this year. But apart from occasional rumours and overoptimistic statements by the company's CEO, there has been very little to settle the nerves of those who love the popular distribution. If anything, the rumour mill of the people connected with the company and the distribution has grown ever more pessimistic in recent weeks. Augusto Campos, the founder of BR-Linux.org, has written a lengthy post on the subject, evoking such terms as Liquidação judicial (article in Portuguese). Frédéric Cuif, co-founder of the French Linux Users Group, also expresses a feeling of disenchantment over the growing alienation between the company and the community in an article entitled Le divorce est consommé… (in French).
In a separate story, Bruno Cornec articulates his worries about the future of Mandriva (the distribution) even if the company survives: "So it seems that the orientation that will be taken is to favour the activity of software selling to the detriment of open-source activities. Anyway, without Olivier, Anne, Fred, Nicolas, our Brazilian friends of Cooker, and all the people who have recently left, I have no hope that the new Mandriva firm will be interested in maintaining a distribution any more." This follows a recent departure of a large number of Mandriva developers and contributors, including Anne Nicolas, Mandriva's Director of Engineering. As a result, a rather humorous bug report, number 60936, was filed with the distribution's bug tracking system early last week: "Description of problem: After I installed the most recent version of Mandriva Linux, staff started to leave the company. How reproducible: Install Mandriva Linux and wait for people to leave the company." In the meantime, LinuxFR.org, a popular French Linux web site, also takes a stab at Mandriva in Une distribution Mandriva Linux 2011 pour quoi ? (in French).
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Set high on a hill in West Sussex, Arundel Castle is an ancient Castle, Stately Home & Gardens with magnificent views across the South Downs and the River Arun. Built at the end of the 11th Century, it has been the family home of the Dukes of Norfolk and their ancestors for nearly 1000 years.
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The Evil Eye tradition is as common worldwide as the Lucky Rabbit's Foot or the Lucky Penny. The Evil Eye is everywhere. Children can print and color these evil eye color book images which are traditionally white, blue and black.
The most common form of the Evil eye is thought to be caused by unintentional envious gazes toward innocent victims which can bring bad luck to the recipient.
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"Linking traits to energetics and population dynamics to predict lizard ranges in changing environments"
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Does biology matter when predicting how animals will respond to climate change"
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Plantinga and Creationism
A few weeks ago, an editor at MindPiff told me I could write about any topic I wanted "as long as you don't go totally off the rails and write about 'Why creationism is the best!' or something." This week's post is about why creationism is the best. Well, not exactly. It's more of an argument for why atheism and evolution are self-defeating when combined, but faith in God can resolve the problem. The author of this argument is Alvin Plantinga, an extremely polarizing philosopher who is, in many ways, the Christian equivalent to Richard Dawkins. This post examines his arguments against evolutionary naturalism, and his alternate options.
The Argument
Naturalism is a very broad term in philosophy. Plantinga defines it to include anyone who believes that our beliefs are "determined by neurophysiology, by what goes on in the brain and nervous system." Basically, naturalists don't believe there's some non-physical spirit floating inside us which experiences the world. They believe a human is just the totality of its physical parts, and our minds are just the result of the atoms in our brains shuffling around. This view by itself isn't problematic. But, when you throw in evolution as well, a serious issue arises.
Evolution, as you probably know, involves the concept of "the survival of the fittest." Those who are best suited to their environment will live and reproduce, whereas those who are not as well suited will die off. When you combine this view with Naturalism as defined above, you believe that humans in their entirety are the products of natural selection. Every aspect about us, from the shape of our feet to the growth-rate of our hair, is the product of the fittest surviving. In addition, our brains are the result of the fittest surviving. But, this causes a serious problem. If our brains are primarily geared towards surviving, what does that say about our truth-finding capacities? In Plantinga's own words, "natural selection doesn't care about the truth or falsehood of your beliefs; it cares only about adaptive behavior. Your beliefs may all be false, ridiculously false; if your behavior is adaptive, you will survive and reproduce. "
Once you accept both naturalism and evolution, then you've essentially shot yourself in the foot. If your physical body is only geared towards survival, and all your thoughts come from your physical body, then why should you trust anything you believe as actually being truthful, including naturalism and evolution? There's no reason to believe that survivability necessarily connects with truthfulness. In fact, quite the contrary –here's just one study of many linking ethnocentrism to evolution, as it increases the capacity for survival, even though it involves false beliefs (such as belief in the superiority of one's race) and an irrational mistrust of outsiders. Everything we believe may simply be wrong, and there's no way to tell what's right and what's wrong in this scenario.
Theists don't face this same problem. Many religions believe that humans were created in God's image, meaning "[God] would presumably want us to resemble him in being able to know," and "most of what we believe might be true even if our minds have developed from those of the lower animals." Ultimately, Plantinga argues more for something along the lines of intelligent design than creationism. By believing that humans contain non-physical elements (like a spirit), and/or an omniscient God created us in his image, theists can avoid the problem that naturalism creates when coupled with evolution. If we're created in the image of an all-knowing God (or designed to evolve in such a manner), then we have at least some intrinsic capacity for knowledge. Evolutionary naturalism, on the other hand, gives no such guarantee. Simply put, intelligent design can defend itself on this question, whereas evolutionary naturalism necessarily undermines itself.
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At the end of the day, this argument is a lot less radical than it appears at first glance. You end up having to believe that A) there's some non-physical aspect to our existence, B) evolution does not describe every last detail of our physical composition, C) survivability and truth are generally linked together, or D) we do have some intrinsic disposition towards knowing the truth (possibly as the result of being designed). You don't have to become a Bible-thumping creationist or anything radical like that. You don't even have to give up the belief that evolution and naturalism are absolute explanations for all of reality, assuming you pick option C. Although Plantinga's argument does seem to have some potential problems, he does effectively show that there is some tension between naturalism and evolution, and supplementary beliefs (like option C) are necessary in order to resolve that tension.
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Error 0xe00084f4 - unknown Error - ESX Server, HP SC11Xe and Ultrium Tape Drive
Good Morning ,
System Configuration :
HP ML350p Gen 8 Server with an HP SC11Xe 1-Kanal Ultra 320 PCI-E Host Bus Adapter connected to an HP Ultrium 920 Tape Drive .
This runs under an ESXi 5.1 U1 Server . On this ESX Server is an Windows SBS2011 VM running .
On the SBS 2011 is Backup Exec 2012 SP2 installed . The Tape Drive is visible in the Server Hardware and also in Backup Exec .
The Tape Drive Test with "HP Libary and Tape Tools" runs without errors .
The Exchange Backup Job with 20 GB Data runs without errors .
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Symantec does not recommend that you use a VM as a media server because of problems like these. See the document in answer and Colin Weaver's comment.
Note: As per the vSphere 5.x Release Notes, VMware does not support Tape Drives connected directly to ESXi 5.x. (taken from: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1016407)...
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I just made a SWEET mix for my hiking coming up on the JMT.I have a nice mix of:RaisinsBlue berriesCranberriesDark chocolate covered blue berriesDark Chocolate covered raisinsCashewsAlmondsPine nutsPistachiosSunflower seeds(I think that's all)It tastes amazing and I'm stoked about having it for lunch on the trail each day.I started out by putting one pound in a ziplock bag and figuring I'd eat that for a day and be really well fed on the trail.Well, I added up my breakfast, lunch and dinner and came out to just over 2 pounds for a day's eats.I'd like to stay closer to 1.5 pounds.Would 1/2 pound of trail mix, 2 power gel packets and 1 snickers bar be enough for lunch? (I plan on snacking on lunch throughout the day.Or, should I just go heavy on food and do 1 pound of trailmix/gorp?At this point I'm thinking about cutting the trail mix down to 1/2 pound?Thanks!
I did the 1 lb gorp lunch on the PCT and quickly regretted it. It is a lot of trail mix in one sitting, plus it melted like crazy with all the chocolate (though it made a great breakfast after it solidified into bite-size clusters). It was great at first, but within the first week I grew tired of it and started taking about half of my trail mix bags from my maildrops onto the trail with me. So, 1/2 lb is what worked for me. However, you could do a lb and have that be your breakfast and snacks, then your dinner could be that last 1/2 lb to get you to 1.5 lbs/day.You also might want to make a second batch of trail mix completely different than the other to mix things up. My body (and taste buds) always craves diversity while exerting myself on the trail. I like the following for its simplicity and easy taste-I might be totally wrong, but I think I figured it out once to be about 150 calories/ounce:1 part raisins.5 part craisins1 part peanuts.5 part almonds1 part m&ms
I'd cut down to 1/2 lb and throw in some other stuff for variety... and I would definitely go to the hard candy shell chocolate in lieu of the chocolate covered stuff... Did you know that m&m's were invented for soldiers in the Spanish civil war to prevent the chocolate from melting? Other options that I like to carry so I don't O.D. on trail mix.* jerky* fruit leather (the real 100% fruit kind)* laughing cow cheese packets (the ones that don't need to be refrigerated)* meat sticks* granola - sometimes i mix this into my trail mix as well.* gardetto/party mix - not much nutrition, but light and adds variety* sometimes I throw in salami and tortillas, add some laughing cow to make a delicious lunch. Hard salami is good for a few days not being refrigerated.
I second the melting issue. Go with hard shell chocolate. Also try mixing up a batch and keeping it in a warm place for a couple weeks. (I would say your car dashboard but I note you're in Minnesota). My trail mix last summer had yummy cashew clusters in it. Unfortunately they seemed to absorb moisture from the other ingredients in storage and became very, very stale and nasty tasting. So give it a shelf-life test.In the future I'll keep fruits, nuts, and chocolate separate.Regarding the quantity- it's really your call. I hiked the JMT last summer and did more miles than my prior experience so figured I would need a lot more calories. I packed 3500 per day which turned out to be way, way too much. For a future two week trip I'll probably do 2500 per day the first week and maybe 3000 after that. I lost about 10 pounds over two weeks- if you don't have extra fat to spare you may need to carry more food in the pack. I'm guessing your mix is close to 150 calories per ounce (or 5 cal/gram)I have learned in the past, and relearned on this trip, that I don't do well at digesting dietary fat while hiking above 10,000 feet. They make me feel very tired. I presume it's because of the oxygen required to burn fat. Typically my fats mostly come from the nuts in trail mix. For future trips I'll try to consume more fat at dinner, less at breakfast and lunch.
Which of the Laughing Cows don't need to be refrigerated? The ones wrapped in wax or the soft ones in foil? How long are they good for unrefrigerated?
For the wax coated....I don't know how long they'll stay fresh, but in cooler weather I'd say AT LEAST several days, cold weather....over a week.I love 'em.As for the foil ones, no go for long.
The ones in foil are fully shelf stable. Just pack them very, very carefully - if one gets squeezed you will have a mess on hand. I just carry the whole wheel as the paper box doesn't weigh a lot.
The Laughing Cow website says they all need to be refrigerated, but I bet that's a CYA thing for them. We never refrigerate the wax covered at home and have never been sick from them. Besides it's cheese, that's how they make it right? ;-) Leave it out, let it mold and then cut the mold off.I have taken both the foil and the wax on 5 day trips and yes leave the foil in the box or you will have a mess!
Going on a tangent a bit -- but seemingly ALL the cheeses on ALL the buffet tables at ALL the hotels in the Middle East (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, etc.) are ALL Laughing Cow brand (tin foil in triangular wedge form) for some reason. They must have a choke hold on that whole section of the world...The only time I see them refrigerated is at the supermarkets here in the US.
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No, no...take a close look at the wheels of Laughing Cow cheese (the wheels where inside are foil lined wedges). It is marked refrigerate after opening. That means if you don't eat a whole wedge, you need to stash it in the frig. A wedge though is not big. It is a soft cheese, designed to melt into food or to spread on bread/crackers.Now the little round Babybels they sell, the ones dipped in wax, yes, those should be kept in the frig for long term storage. They can survive for a couple days out of it with no issues, they will get soft though and a bit oily. Once out of the wax, do eat it. The wax protects it from dirt and grubby hands.
I've had the Baby Bell on a section last year (mid-late April). They seemed to be fine for 4-5 days. They did get a little oily toward the end, but I had no problems, gastric or spoilage. I'l probably do it again this year.YMMV!
Edited by dzierzak on 03/06/2009 09:19:34 MST.
Minimus.biz has three flavors of cheese wedges that don't require refridgeration. If they get hot, however, they do get a little oily. I keep them in a cozy now and they have done ok.
The cheese thing comes up frequently. Lynn did a nice experiment where she coated some cheese and salami in wax. After 6 weeks sitting on the counter at room temperature it was still good.Cheese was invented as a preservative after all. I think the modern warnings are more of a CYA type thing. Of course I find on the trail cheese only lasts several days. Just too tasty to leave in my bag any longer than that.
I've been using the Babybel for years. It keeps just fine... and it really is too tasty to leave in the pack. I carry BB and dry salami. Perfect for lunch on the trail, especially with a chunk of sweet french baguette.
Um, contributing to the transition of gorp/trail mix quantity to questions of cheese... I've been taking individually-wrapped cheeses (string-cheese looking, but colby, etc) for years now. I ration two per day, and they're still fine after a couple weeks. Maybe a little oily, maybe the texture isn't quite as good... but still good eatin'!
I forgo the Chocolate due to it's melting. Mine is made from 2 parts Cashews, 2 parts Macadamia nuts, .5 parts pine nuts, .5 parts sunflower seeds and a little bit of dried pineapple for sweetness and flavor.The Cashews and Macadamia nuts are real high calories per oz. The pine nuts and sunflower seeds add flavor and high oil content.I limit myself to no more than 4 oz per day for two reasons:1 - After a while, it gets really tiresome to eat all that gorp, day after day.2 - all that fiber from the nuts loosens one up till your GI track gets accustomed to it.BTW...dried fruit is not all that light for the calories.
Edited by malndman on 04/06/2009 10:43:33 MDT.
String cheese and Babybel are great for dayhikes and short trips, but as others have observed they tend to exude a lot of oil when they get warm. For that reason I take a hard cheese like asiago or aged gouda on longer trips...much less oil comes out and they'll keep indefinitely without refrigeration. If you've read any stories or fairy tales from the Middle Ages you'll remember someone is always putting a cheese in their pocket before starting out on a long journey, a hard cheese no doubt or else quite a mess would result.A sweet tooth is something I've never had - the exception being chocolate - so I tend to like a savory trailmix. Making my own I vary it by adding sesame sticks, chili powder or wasabe crackers to the nuts and dried fruit. Once I tried raw nuts but that didn't work out too well as I discovered I craved the salt.
Hey, guys... My first post here has to be about CHEESE! If you buy cheap processed "supermarket" cheese it probably won't keep very well, but go to a good cheese shop and buy a good quality cheddar or manchego, and you're good for as long as you want. It will literally keep for ever, if it molds over a little, just scrape it off (or eat it if you want). I'm heading out to the Brecon Beacons (Wales) next week, and I'm planning to pick up a lb of good cheddar, cut into chunks, and a nice fresh french bread for delicious snacks on trail. The cheese will last much longer than the bread!
Yum... you are right about good cheese and the harder aged cheeses often contain less moisture which means they won't mold over near as fast as that medium cheddar from the grocery store. Nothing better than some cheese and bannock bread on day 8 of a wilderness trip.
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unfazed by (although certainly aware of) tough economic environment, Intuitive
Manufacturing Systems (www.intuitivemfg.com
), a privately held company offering enterprise resource planning (ERP)
solutions for small and mid-size manufacturers, continues to pragmatically
expand its operations worldwide and to unveil significant enhancements
to its latest product release.
recently, it released Intuitive SPC, an optional statistical process
control (SPC) software module for Intuitive ERP (formerly MRP9000),
Intuitive's flagship ERP system. Intuitive SPC is a real-time module that
combines data collection, charting, monitoring, analysis, communication
and reporting all functions accessible from a single screen. At a glance,
any authorized user can then check on the exact status of any process
at any workstation, department, or plant locally or around the globe.
SPC reportedly allows the user to activate program functions with one
mouse click, choose from one of five ways to input data, and close the
loop with an out-of-control' warning for corrective action before operators
can proceed. The module also allows the user to cut and paste graphic
and table data into virtually any other Windows application. Further,
sophisticated analytical capabilities of Intuitive SPC allow users to
display up to three sets of control limits on charts, choose estimated
or calculated sigma for control limits and process capability calculations,
and generate charts from highly refined data queries.
towards the end of 2001, Intuitive also announced the release of another
optional module, a web-based Advanced Configurator aimed at streamlining
the quotation and ordering of configure-to-order (CTO) products to deliver,
on-the-fly, accurate pricing, product configuration and specifications,
as well as bill-of-material (BOM) and process routings. The Advanced
Configurator is reportedly a true "bottom-up," rules-based configurator,
providing point-and-click product definition under a rule and constraint-based
guidance engine. It can be executed from any Web browser and allows the
user to execute product configuration concurrently or independently in
either client/server or "thin web client" environments all utilizing
one universal set of product configuration rules and objects. The Advanced
Configurator is fully integrated with the sales, inventory, costing and
quoting modules of the Intuitive ERP system.
in 2001, Intuitive announced the release of iTrack, a new e-commerce
enhancement aimed at increasing customer satisfaction while decreasing
sales administrative costs for its customers. iTrack extends the previously
available WebRemote functionality by allowing customers to log
into Intuitive ERP via the Internet and track the status of their shipments
and orders, view a current accounts receivable aging, and make other valuable
inquiries specific to their organization.
was a part of the of the Intuitive ERP Release 5.2, released mid
2001. Version 5.2 added functionality to many areas of the product, including:
e-commerce, key process indicator (KPI) tracking and reporting, international
improvements, major enhancements to the planning functionality, as well
as enhancements throughout the order processing and accounting areas.
Other noteworthy enhancements to the product included:
is Part One of a two-part note on Intuitive. Part Two will continue the
discussion of the Market Impact of Intuitive's business strategy and make
User Recommendations.
in 2001, to bolster its basic front-office and sales management offering,
Intuitive announced its partnership with Interact Commerce Corporation,
makers of SalesLogix, the leader in mid-market and small business
customer relationship management (CRM). Intuitive has entered into both
Business Partner and Technology Partner agreements with Interact, and
will be integrating the SalesLogix package with the Intuitive ERP product.
The SalesLogix suite of products includes complete management of the sales
cycle, marketing campaign management, customer support management, and
eCommerce, all available anytime, anywhere, using essentially any device.
about the same time, the company announced the expansion of its global
partner channel with the signing of 12 international partners throughout
2001. International partners have been signed in the following locations:
Turkey, Quebec, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Spain, Czech Republic,
Poland, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Singapore, Malaysia, Tijuana, and the
Mexican states of Nuevo Leon and Cohuila.
signings strengthen the existing Intuitive channel to 21 partners outside
of North America. Historically, the Intuitive international channel has
represented just over 20% of sales revenue, which should likely increase
in the future. These new partners join an existing international channel,
which includes representatives in Mexico, Brazil, Norway, France, Australia,
China, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam.
with all the above initiatives, Intuitive has pursued its Microsoft
.NET initiative launch. As a member of the Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET beta program, the company had been designing and testing its
future Microsoft .NET architecture for more than a year. Mid 2001, it
announced the completion of the prototype of Intuitive's Microsoft .NET
architectural framework and its plan to convert Intuitive ERP to the .NET
Microsoft .NET initiative represents a shift that should transform how
software applications are built and deployed. Leveraging Microsoft .NET
technology should make Intuitive ERP much easier to deploy and maintain,
faster to enhance and will allow it to leverage the Internet in through
XML Web services. Software written using the .NET Framework is inherently
more robust, faster, and easier to administer. For instance, software
installation should be accomplished by simply copying files. Intuitive
is glad to be saying goodbye to the old problems of Component Object Model
(COM)-based software that the development world has often referred to
as 'Dynamic Link Library (DLL) Hell' in the past.
time of the economic calamity may still mean the time of opportunity for
the nimblest companies. It appears that a large number of enterprises
with less than $50 million in revenues have yet to deploy an ERP package.
Some of them have cited being intimidated by the complexity of ERP as
deterrence to implementing one so far. Still, like their bigger counterparts,
smaller enterprises also have to efficiently run and expand their operations
while maintaining strict control over cash flow and inventory turns/levels.
that end, Intuitive is one of the vendors that have long attempted to
mitigate the actual and perceived barriers to ERP acceptance by smaller
enterprises. The privately held firm, based in Kirkland, WA, while not
a consistently well-known and visible vendor globally, seems to be determined
to change that situation in the future. In a time in which many ERP vendors
had to backpedal product development and expansion because of market conditions,
Intuitive continued to pragmatically expand its product depth and breadth
and geographic coverage, and to render itself as a more apparent ERP solution
for the small and mid-sized discrete manufacturers.
still an ERP adolescent (it was founded only in 1994) has been both the
company's curse and blessing. The curse for remaining a little relatively
unknown vendor (with estimated less than dozen million in revenues), with
still developing client base and the global presence; On the other hand,
being later to the market, has given the company the chance to make some
right choices and avoid the proverbial traps of many of its peers.
most prominent choice was its use of only contemporary Microsoft
technologies and platforms. Written in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications,
using Microsoft Access as the user interface (UI) for forms and
reports, and Microsoft SQL Server as the database, Intuitive ERP
has never been "corrupted" by other, now detractive legacy technologies
(e.g., DOS or some proprietary database). Once other proprietary technologies
are introduced into the R&D equation, a vendor has to deal with translation,
interface and performance issues, not to mention the pain of migrating
existing customers and/or maintaining multiple product versions. On the
other hand, using technologies that are intrinsically compatible, should
result in faster and less costly development.
company's strategic relationship with Microsoft has consequently proven
to be of a great importance given its market segment's infatuation with
the technology, whose performance, reliability and scalability has long
been improving as well. By leveraging the capabilities of the Microsoft
platform only, Intuitive now seems to be also in a better position to
be responsive to delivering new functional features that its customers
may demand. In contrast, a smaller vendor that covers multiple platforms
often spends more than a half of its R&D budget on porting issues; thus
making a cross-platform solution the prerogative of only bigger vendors.
the early adoption of the .NET platform should help Intuitive transition
from a traditional two-tier client/server architecture (where the entire
business logic resides at the client front end) to the one where the business
logic resides in a set of business logic components that can be used by
the rich user interface (UI), alternate UIs, or it can be integrated with
other systems through Microsoft BizTalk, which bolsters the systems
interconnectivity and flexibility.
to the SMEs
company has therefore put all of its efforts solely into serving small-to-medium
manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in need of enterprise application solutions
that are intuitive and, consequently, easy to use and implement. The company
has long demonstrated a deep understanding of this market dynamic and
its requirements of competitively and scalable priced, functional products,
ease of modification, short implementations, and strong service and support.
has been offering its customers just needed (neither overwhelmingly comprehensive
nor meager & insufficient) functionality they can easily digest but still
deploy to its beneficial use. The modules can be implemented in a gradual
fashion to tackle the most burning issues first. Also, the simplicity
and flexibility of the product, bundled with the experience of the company's
founders within manufacturing, often do not impose serious business process
reengineering (BPR) but still produce benefits like pervasive information
sharing and process efficiency.
of the biggest Intuitive trumps is pricing that suits small cost-conscious,
risk-intolerant manufacturers. As the company prides itself on fast implementations
(often less than 90 days) and consequently on implementation costs being
often equal or less than software license costs, it does not take a rocket
scientist to calculate that most of projects' price tag of only a couple
hundred thousands of dollars might be attractive even in the current era
of reduced IT budgets and despite the dollar's strength abroad.
Intuitive ERP functionality includes ample accounting and manufacturing
features, with production and inventory planning being the core pieces.
The product modules are also grouped to underline typical business cycles/processes
like Plan', Buy', Make', Store', Sell', etc. Material Requirements
Planning (called Dynamic MRP for several dozens times faster calculation
than traditional MRP planning engines), purchasing, production and inventory
control, engineering change control, sales order entry, complete accounting
(including accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR) and general
ledger (GL)), sales analysis, and shop floor control are typical capabilities
that offer general small manufacturers the opportunity to increase productivity
while reducing costs throughout the organization, by performing fast and
accurate closing, job costing and financial reporting.
Intuitive product is very strong in terms of tactical level production
status monitoring and work in progress (WIP) management (with, e.g., bar
coding and time & attendance tracking facilities). An intuitive visual
drag-and-drop scheduling functionality also provides customers the ability
to reschedule the shop floor in real-time and to balance workloads. The
system also allows detailed traceability and audit trails to help the
company orient itself towards meeting ISO 9000 and/or QS 9000 requirements.
users of smaller enterprises have also been impressed with the product's
intuitive rich-client Windows UI, which provides ease of system navigation
and of information retrieval and analysis, and with underlying workflow
& email messaging/on-screen notifying system capabilities. Another attractive
feature that the product offers is its native Microsoft On-Line Analytical
Processing (OLAP) and business intelligence system (BIS) capability, as
the company has additionally pre-filled a number of data cubes for out-of-the-box
data analysis. Further, key performance indicators (KPIs) can be graphically
analyzed by management for sales, purchasing, production, financial and
inventory activity by Intuitive Executive Information System (EIS) module.
Intuitive ERP system is aimed at the smaller discrete make-to-stock (MTS)/make-to-order
(MTO)/assemble-to-order (ATO) and mixed-mode manufacturers with deal sizes
averaging 30-users but moving toward the 40- to 50-seat range lately.
These customers will have found themselves entangled into a jumble of
isolated point-solutions and homegrown applications, with no easy way
to bring them together quickly in a way that will produce effective business
decisions. At the same time, these customers are well enamored with Microsoft's
desktop software components like Excel, Project, Word,
and Outlook, which have been seamlessly integrated with Intuitive
ERP. Furthermore, Import Wizards have proven to quickly upload
a pile of legacy data (e.g., customer records) into the Intuitive ERP
concludes Part One of a two-part note on Intuitive. Part Two will continue
to discuss the Market Impact of Intuitive's business strategy, the challenges
it faces, the challenges it faces and make User Recommendations.


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That's the question. I'm getting no tasks for the next 7 days on the mobile site on my Android Gingerbread (Samsung S2), while Todoist is showing tasks - including my sister's upcoming birthday on the regular site.
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Government consults on louse introduction
Horticulture, garden and greenhouse enthusiasts are being asked for their opinion on whether to implement measures to control Japanese knotweed in the UK.
The species - also known as Fallopia japonica - is a very aggressive plant that can quickly suffocate other species, the Guardian reported.
Experts have reported some knotweed specimens whose rhizomes stretch for miles, it explained.
But the government feels it may have an answer to the problem - in the shape of bugs called Aphalara itadori.
The alien species - a type of louse - could help deal with knotweed by feasting on its sap.
According to Defra, the problem plant cost around £1.56 billion in removal fees in 2003 alone.
Despite the possible solution, there is concern that introducing the bugs to UK could upset the eco system in the country.
CABI research found the likelihood of the insects eating other plants is low, but the consultation will continue until October this year.
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New York City's new mayor, Bill de Blasio, has announced that he will be abstaining from marching in New York City's famous St. Patrick's Day parade out of protest for a supposed lack of sensitivity to issues angering homosexual activists.
De Blasio announced on Tuesday that he will not be participating in the St. Patrick's Day parade due to a ban on signs and banners promoting gay issues. "I will be participating in a number of other events to honor the Irish heritage of this city," said de Blasio. "But I simply disagree with the organizers of that parade."
The parade is a longstanding tradition that pays homage to St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. The parade also serves as a longstanding celebration of the city's Irish-American population. It often draws hundreds of thousands of spectators and includes marching bands and other traditional aspects of Irish culture.
For decades, the organizers have banned homosexual activism from the parade and the organizers have maintained that they reserve a First Amendment right to select who participates in the parade. They have also long claimed that homosexuals are welcome to participate in the parade, but need to do so without carrying identifying banners or signs.
Bill Donohue, the head of the city's Catholic League, stated, "Personally, I am delighted. I lead the Catholic League contingent every year, and I do not want to march with a public official who does not want to be associated with Irish Catholics."
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De Blasio's refusal to participate in the parade out of supposed solidarity with homosexual activists signals a hierarchy of political priorities. It appears obvious that de Blasio is more than willing to offend the city's Irish population by snubbing their parade in order to further honor the gay community.
However, it should be noted that the St. Patrick's Day parade is not a parade designed to celebrate the homosexual community, but is, instead, a longstanding celebration of Irish heritage.
Similarly, it would be inappropriate for an Irish-American to march in a gay pride parade with a sign advocating for a united Ireland.
It is an outrage for the mayor of New York to so rudely snub the millions of Americans that are of Irish descent in order to score political points with the gay community. The simple fact remains that the St. Patrick's Day parade celebrates Irish heritage, not sexual orientation. It is neither the time nor the place to advance a "gay rights" agenda.
Mayor de Blasio had a chance to showcase his support for both groups by attending both the St. Patrick's Day parade and other gay-oriented events. Instead, he made his choice clearly know; he would rather disrespect Irish-Americans than stand strong against those looking to hijack the Irish celebration for their own political purposes.


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Police were unable to find a male suspect accused of masturbating in front of a mother and her daughter Saturday.
A 33-year-old Grove Avenue woman called 9-1-1 and reported a male suspect walked onto her property, pulled down his shorts and started masturbating in front of her and her adult daughter, according to a Norwalk police report.
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No, Cathy's not a singer (not that I know of, at least). She doesn't make music, but she does make some pretty incredible scratchboard art.
Ever heard of scratchboards? I've only recently been introduced to them by my art teacher. Essentially, the artist uses a sharp tool to scratch away the thin top layer of black ink to reveal the white clay underneath – which means working… inverted (rather than sketching shadows, you scratch out highlights). Sometimes, artists use paint to add colour afterward.
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Boys Prep of the Week: Xavier Richardson, Immokalee football
After a relatively quiet 2012 season with the Indians, wide receiver and defensive back Xavier Richardson played perhaps the best game of his career in one of the biggest games in the history of the Immokalee program.
The 6-foot-4 senior was a force on both sides of the ball during the 5A state title game against Tallahassee-Godby. Although Immokalee ended up falling to Godby 21-20 after the point after attempt went awry, Richardson, who has been connected to several Division I college programs including South Florida, had one of his best efforts, amassing 70 yards receiving, including a crucial two-yard touchdown strike with time running out that put the Indians in position to complete their miraculous fourth quarter comeback.
On defense, the player known simply as "Zay-Zay" helped thwart Godby's ability to stretch the field by throwing deep, using his considerable size advantage on three pass defenses while also coming up with an interception that stunted the Cougars momentum in the second quarter.
Ashanti Brown-Knight, Palmetto Ridge wrestling — Won 170-pound title and most outstanding wrestler at Chase Life Invitational.
Clay Curvin, Gulf Coast soccer — Scored four goals in two games as the Sharks remained undefeated.
Tshumbi Johnson, Immokalee football — Threw for a season high 301 yards and ran for two touchdowns in the Class 5A championship game.
Jeff Merton, Community School basketball — Led Seahawks to three wins with 55 points and 12 rebounds.
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Report: Google in talks for movie rental service
YouTube's fledgling movie rental program may soon be getting some Hollywood muscle in the crowded fight for domination of digital movie and television content distribution.
YouTube-parent Google is negotiating with major Hollywood studios to stream movies from their catalogs on a pay-per-view basis by the end of the year, according to a report in the Financial Times.
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Academic journal article ABA Banking Journal
Rough Time for Out-of-Work Bankers: Former Execs of Failed or Troubled Banks Face Hurdles to Being Hired Elsewhere
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Officially, CAMELS ratings are known only by the bank, its regulators, and one or two other confidential players. But the occasional hint gets on the grapevine.
Case in point: A de novo banker looking for a chief credit officer would get calls from headhunters pushing candidates, who, along with the bona tides of the banker, would add, "This individual is 'approvable'."
What this banker was being told, subtly, was that there wouldn't be regulatory pushback (or worse) if the bank hired the executive.
At issue was Section 32 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. Under the act, approval must be sought (30 days in advance) for the proposed addition of a director or a new senior executive officer if a bank is covered. Covered institutions include: a bank not in compliance with minimum capital requirements or "otherwise in troubled condition," or a bank that is subject to a plan executed under prompt corrective action. (De novo banks may be subject to similar review.)
The bank just mentioned informally ran a name by its federal regulator. The word came back, "Please don't formally propose this candidate." The candidate was from a bank with a poor CAMELS rating, and the agency deemed it would have reasons to disapprove.
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This is a master list of all the country albums I could find from the 90's and 00's.
Country Christmas Albums – Female Artists (00′ – now)
Carrie Underwood - Carnival Ride (2008 special edition with Holiday tunes). The holiday songs on the bonus CD include: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, The First Noel, What Child Is This, Do You Hear What I Hear, and O Holy Night.Carnival Ride (2 CD's,Christmas edition)Country Music CDs)
Carters Chord – Carters Chord Christmas EP (2010)
Dolly Parton – Home For Christmas (2002), Once Upon A Christmas (2000 with Kenny Rogers)
Emmylou Harris -Harris's 1979 album – Light Of The Stable was re-released in 2004
Faith Hill – Joy To The World (2008)
Her first Christmas CD
Jessica Simpson – Happy Christmas (2010)
Jo Dee Messina - A Joyful Noise (2002)
Julianne Hough – The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection (2008) You can only get this at Amazon. Julianne Hough Holiday Collection 2008
Kathy Mattea – Joy For Christmas Day (2005)
LeAnn Rimes – What a Wonderful World (2004)
Lee Ann Womack – The Season for Romance (2002)
Martina McBride – White Christmas (extra tracks) 2007 an earlier version she released.
Pam Tillis – Just In Time For Christmas (2007)
Patty Loveless – Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas (2002)
Reba McEntire- 20th Century Masters The Best of Reba: The Christmas Collection (2003)
SheDaisy – Brand New Year (2000)
Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley Christmas Duets (2008)
Elvis' holiday classics are reinterpreted by today's biggest female stars. The album features 'Blue Christmas' with Martina McBride, 'I'll Be Home for Christmas' with Carrie Underwood, 'Here Comes Santa Claus' with LeAnn Rimes, 'Santa Clause Is Back In Town' with Wynonna Judd 'Silent Night' with Sara Evans, 'White Christmas' with Amy Grant plus Gretchen Wilson, Karen Fairchild & Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town, Anne Murray, Olivia Newton-John and three Bonus Tracks.
Wynonna Judd - A Classic Christmas (2006)
Country Christmas Albums – Male (00′ to present)
Alan Jackson – Honky Tonk Christmas (2000), Let It Be Christmas (2002) – You can find it at Amazon.
Brad Paisley – A Brad Paisley Christmas (2006). Find it at Amazon. Links to albums at Amazon at bottom of page.
Clay Walker – Clay Walker Christmas (2010)
Clint Black - Looking For Christmas (2002), Christmas With You (2004)
Collin Raye – Family Christmas and Family Christmas Live (2008)
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley Christmas Duets (2008)
Elvis' most cherished holiday classics reinterpreted by today's biggest female stars with Elvis Presley!
Garth Brooks – Magic of Christmas: Call Me Claus [EXTRA TRACKS] [Reissued] (2001)
George StraitClassic Christmas (2008), Fresh Cut Christmas (2006 – limited collectors edition),
Christmas Collection: 20th Century Masters (2003), and Merry Christmas Wherever You Are (2002)
Joe Nichols – Traditional Christmas (2004)
John Berry Oh Holy Night Live and My Heart Is Bethlehem
John Michael Montgomery- Mr. Snowman
Johnny Cash – Christmas With Johnny Cash and Classic Christmas
Kenny Chesney – All I Want For Christmas Is A Real Good Tan (2003)
Kenny Rogers – Christmas Collection (2006), The Gift (2002), Christmas Live, Once Upon A Christmas, and Christmas From The Heart
Randy Travis – Songs Of The Season (2007), Christmas on the Pecos DVD (2008)
Steve Wariner Guitar Christmas
Toby Keith A Classic Christmas (2007/08) Volume 1 , A Classic Christmas Volume 2 (2008), Christmas To Christmas (2000 & Re-released 2004 with 2 more songs)
Tracy Lawrence – All Wrapped Up In Christmas (2008)
Vince Gill – Breath Of Heaven- A Christmas Collection (2002), Vince Gill Christmas Collection. 2 CD set. (2006)
Country Christmas Albums by Groups or Duos(2000′ to present)
Alabama – Christmas II (2000), Christmas Collection (2006)
Brooks & Dunn – It Wouldn't Be Christmas Without You (2002)
Diamond Rio – The Stars Still Shine (2007)
Lady Antebellum – Baby Its Cold Outside Single and A Merry Little ChristmasCountry Music CDs)
Lone Star – This Christmas Time (2000)
Rascal Flatts – Unwrapped (2009)
Oak Ridge Boys Christmas Christmas Cookies (2005), Ill Be Home for Christmas (2001)
The Tractors Have Yourself A Tractors Christmas
An Inconvenient Christmas, and Oak Ridge Boys Christmas Collection
90's Country Christmas Albums
Alabama – Christmas (1998), Christmas Volume 2, Christmas in Dixie (with Ronnie Milsap 1997)
Alan Jackson - Honky Tonk Christmas (1993)
Clint Black – Looking For Christmas (1995 and re-released in 2002)
Collin Raye – Christmas: The Gift (1996)
Dwight Yoakam – Come on Christmas(1997)
Garth Brooks – Beyond The Season (1992), Garth Brooks & The Magic Of Christmas (99′ – re-released '02)
George Strait – Merry Christmas Strait To You (1995), Merry Christmas Where Ever You Are (1999)
John Berry – O Holy Night (1995)
Johnny Cash – Personal Country Christmas Collection (1991), Country Christmas (1991), The Christmas Spirit (1995)
Judds - Christmas Time With The Judds (1999 – re-released in 2003)
Kathy Matteag> – Good News (1993)
Kenny Rogers – Christmas In America (1989), Christmas Wishes From Kenny Rogers (1995), Christmas From The Heart (1998)
Lorrie MorganAn Old Fashioned Christmas (2010)
and Christmas From London
Martina McBride – White Christmas (extra tracks) (1999)
Oak Ridge Boys – The Christmas Collection: Oak ridge Boys (1987), Christmas With The Oak Ridge Boys (1995) (2001)
Randy Travis – An Old Time Christmas (1989)
Reba McEntire - Merry Christmas To You (1995), Secret of Giving (1999)
Sawyer Brown – Hallelujah He Is Born by Sawyer Brown (1997)
Travis Tritt - A Travis Tritt Christmas: Loving Time of the Year (1992), Winter Wonderland/Santa Looked A lot Like Daddy(1992)
Trisha Yearwood – The Sweetest Gift (1994)
Vince Gill - Let There Be Peace On Earth (1999)
Country Compilation CDs
Many of these great old Christmas Compilations from the 90's can not be found at ITunes. Luckily you can get them real cheap from Amazon.
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My Favorite Country Christmas Albums – 90s
Best Country Christmas Albums of the 90s
New Sawyer Brown Christmas CD 2008
Female Country Christmas Albums 00′
Male Country Christmas Albums 00′
Country Christmas Album Master List
Faith Hill – A Baby Changes Everything Christmas Video
Top Country Christmas Albums 2008
Randy Travis – Christmas On The Pecos (2008) DVD – Review
Cold Beer – Christmas Song – Tracy Lawrence
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