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A geothermal energy plant taps deep underground heat from the southern San Andreas Fault rift zone near the Salton Sea. According to Kim Nichol of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, geothermal initiatives can be compatible with wildlife preservation.
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In late February, when elected leaders and other stakeholders in the future of the Salton Sea met in Mecca, there was an air of determination that action must finally be set in place to prevent the state's largest lake from becoming its largest environmental nightmare.
But we've heard it so many times before - all the way back to the days of Sonny Bono when he served in Congress 20 years ago - it's hard to maintain a sense of optimism.
However, when water rights shift at the end of 2017, as ordered in a 2003 agreement known as the QSA, the largest water transfer in U.S. history, the sea will lose the agricultural runoff that has fed it for decades. This would expose more of the lake bed, which could lead to health problems caused by fine dust blowing in the wind. It could also destroy one of the most critical stopping points for more than 400 species of birds along the Pacific Flyway as most of the riparian habitat in Southern California has been lost to development.
Save Our Sea
We strongly support the Save Our Sea campaign launched by Assemblyman V. Manuel Pérez and fellow Democrat Ben Hueso, an assemblyman who was elected to the state Senate on Tuesday. They have introduced three bills:
Assembly Bill 71, Salton Sea Restoration Governance Act, would require the Natural Resources Agency to work with the local Salton Sea Authority. A technical advisory group would guide decision-making related to the sea and authorize funding from the Salton Sea Restoration Fund to prepare a restoration plan.
AB 147, Salton Sea Air Pollution Mitigation Act, would ensure the state controls air quality impacts anticipated because of the implementation of the QSA. Protecting the public health is the most important aspect of the plan. As Rep. Raul Ruiz, a medical doctor, said at the Mecca meeting, "Doing nothing is not an option."
AB 148 would create a a Salton Sea Renewable Energy & Biofuel Research and Development Program to tap the sea's vast renewable energy potential. It would support research and development of renewable and biofuel energy resources to create a funding stream to help mitigate dust pollution and offset costs associated with the restoration.
The renewable energy market could bring in more than 27,000 jobs with an income value of more than $900 million for the Salton Sea, according to Phil Rosentrator, deputy director of Riverside County's Economic Development Agency. He called it "home to the greatest potential boon in California."
Set a deadline
We also support AB 709, a bill introduced by Assemblyman Brian Nestande that would require the Salton Sea Authority to create a financially feasible restoration plan by April 1, 2014. It also would require the legislative analyst's office to review the plan and determine if it could qualify for matching funds from the Salton Sea Reclamation Act of 1998.
Former Rep. Mary Bono took up the cause after Sonny Bono died in 1998 and got Congress to approve $30 million in matching funds. But the funds were never matched.
A new leader
Another promising development in the effort to save the sea is the appointment of Roger Shintaku as executive director of the Salton Sea Authority. Shintaku is a civil engineer who helped improve conditions in Lake Elsinore in western Riverside County.
The lake is similar to the Salton Sea in that it has no outflow, and has experienced many fish die-offs and algae blooms. It has dried up twice. A dike was added to Lake Elsinore to stabilize its depth - similar to the "preferred plan" for the Salton Sea proposed in 2007. Low-energy flow pumps were added to the lake to breathe oxygen into the water and reduce algae.
Some of these ideas could be applied in the Salton Sea, although it covers 365 square miles compared to Lake Elsinore's 5 square miles.
Scientific solutions
Other ideas abound to improve the Salton Sea and protect the public health, and many are in progress. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is developing a species habitat conservation plan. The plan is to create nearly 4,000 acres of shallow saline ponds near the outlet of New River to help preserve fish-eating birds.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District is carefully monitoring air quality.
Last year, another lawmaker proposed an algae production program. Based on research from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and San Diego State University, cellular oils produced by algae can be converted into biodiesel or gasoline, or the algae itself is a protein that can be used to feed livestock, chicken or fish. The analysis estimated potential royalties as high as $3 million a year.
There also is potential for more solar panels to generate power for dust-control systems, more geothermal power and biofuel energy systems.
More ambitious ideas come from people like Ben McCall, a Valley Voice columnist who argues on the next page of this section that the ultimate solution is a pipeline from the Sea of Cortez or the Pacific Ocean to bring in saltwater that is less salty than the water now in the Salton Sea. He also advocates desalination plants and to use the byproduct - refuse brine - for electrical plants and mineral extraction.
Many of these ideas have great promise and need to be explored, but with a greater sense of urgency than we have seen in the past several decades. The clock is ticking.


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Baby Lima Beans With Pancetta
This recipe for sauteed baby lima beans and pancetta is wonderful for when you have an appetite for something light. Pancetta is an Italian bacon that comes in a roll like a hard sausage. It is cured in salt, but not smoked. You can find it at your favorite deli or specialty market. For this recipe the butcher gave me 4 ounces, sliced about as thin as bacon. I had some left over that I'll freeze to use later. If you can't find pancetta try ham or prosciutto. This dish can also be prepared without the meat.
Combine this dish with a crusty French baguette, a fresh green salad and a glass of red wine for a delightful meal with a European flair!
- 2 1/2 cups baby lima beans
- 1/2 cup pancetta, chopped
- 1 cup chicken broth, low-salt
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 4 green onions, chopped
- black pepper, ground to taste
Cut the pancetta into small pieces. This meat is somewhat leathery. I used kitchen scissors to cut it, but if you have a nice, sharp knife, that will do as well.
Brown the pancetta in a heavy skillet over a medium-high heat. This takes about 5 minutes and it turns reddish in color like ham rather than crispy like bacon.
Remove the pancetta from the skillet and set aside.
In the same skillet heat the olive oil and sautee the green onions. When the onions are tender add the lima beans and continue to sautee for another 3 minutes or so.
Add 1 cup chicken broth to the skillet and bring to a boil. Pancetta is fairly salty, so it is best to use a low-salt chicken broth. Once the broth begins to boil, reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes.
Now add the pancetta and pepper to the lima beans and green onions. You can also add more chicken broth if the beans and onions have become too dry. Continue to simmer until the lima beans are tender, about 15 minutes. Serve warm. This recipe makes enough for 4 people as a side dish or 2 as a main course.
Time to prepare: 40 minutes.
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Iron forging museum
The museum is located in the central part of the old square, in Klinar house, which is an example of better-off iron master's architecture with building elements from 18th and 19thcentury. The first floor, which used to serve as an apartment of iron master's family, preserved its typical central room, a saloon which features cassette ceiling that is completed by three baroque canvases.
The Iron forging museum was opened in 1952 as the first Technical museum in Slovenia. It shows technical and historical development of iron handling from ore to spike, economic, social and cultural conditions in Kropa and nearby iron working location since 15thcentury until decline of iron works in 19th century and spike-making handicraft in 20th century.
Documents represent historic foundations of iron works in Kropa and the models show the image of the settlement in the 19th century, working of iron foundries, forges and bellows.
The museum became richer for 42 artistically forged works by the master Joža Bertoncelj in 1974. They are displayed in a special room within the museum.
The ethnological room shows the life of smiths from Kropa, exposing their co-existence with iron foundry masters in big iron foundry houses.
The collection of spikes has 94 types of preserved spikes, from the smallest, used in shoemaking, to those that are 70 cm long and were used in dam building.
The exhibition also features specimen of special shoemaking spikes for manufacture of mountain footwear that were forged manually in Kropa until the middle of fifties of the 20th century.
The projection room on the ground floor (accessible also to disabled persons) shows two Slovenian films by Milka and Metod Badjura, The blacksmiths of Kropa from year 1954 and Carol-singers from 1963.
The first one shows the work and life of blacksmiths and the other one shows the custom of Carol singing. Both films feature numerous residents of Kropa as actors.
Vigenjc ViceThe museum also includes technical monument vigenjc Vice, the only preserved spike-forge for manual forging of spikes. This is an authentically preserved, partly wooden and partly brick built building from 18th century where spikes were still forged in the first half of the 20th century. A visit with display of manual forging is possible for previously appointed groups. It is located near the museum on a plain adjacent to dam of former ironworks in upper part of Kropa.


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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx spoke to elementary schoolchildren about being respectful to their bus drivers at Friday's main Love the Bus event at Oak Hill Elementary School in High Point, N.C.
HIGH POINT, N.C. — Industry officials and students didn't let heavy rain dampen their spirits as they gathered at an elementary school here on Friday for the American School Bus Council (ASBC)'s main Love the Bus event, with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx in attendance. Foxx and other attendees, such as U.S. Congressman Howard Coble; Carlas McCauley, director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of School Improvement Grants; Guilford County (N.C.) Schools Superintendent Mo Green; and High Point Mayor Bernita Sims, spoke to Oak Hill Elementary School students about being respectful to their bus drivers and appreciating the safety, environmental, congestion mitigation and access-to-education benefits of the yellow school bus.
Sims announced a proclamation declaring Feb. 21, 2014, "Love the Bus Day" in High Point, and Foxx walked through the halls of the school, which were decorated with school bus murals made by students in Oak Hill's art classes, and students performed songs and acted out an adaptation of a popular children's book for him. "I think our bus drivers are unsung heroes," Fox said at the event, according to the National School Transportation Association (NSTA)'s newsletter. "They are people who, day after day, get up in sometimes adverse weather to arrive on time to pick up kids for school. … Their respect and their ability to be responsible adults — the first responsible adults from public education kids interact with on a daily basis — those things are so important in the development in children. I know because I was a kid who rode a school bus, and I know how much of an impression the school bus drivers made on me." In a blog post on Monday, Foxx wrote about his experience at the Love the Bus event, and he touted the industry's safety record. He wrote that he joined the other attendees at the Love the Bus celebration to "give those buses and their drivers the thanks they deserve." "The data on school transportation are clear — the safest way to get our most precious cargo to school and home each day is on a large school bus with a well-trained driver. … The safety data is even more remarkable when you think about just how many students are riding the bus every day," Foxx said in the post.He also wrote about how school transportation professionals connect America's children with all of the opportunities that come from the chance to learn and succeed at school. On its Facebook page, ASBC said, "It was great to be with Sec. Foxx for Love the Bus on Friday. We are lucky to have a leader with such a well-developed understanding about the importance of the yellow school bus heading the U.S. Department of Transportation."Officials from the National School Transportation Association (NSTA), the National Association for Pupil Transportation, the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services and the school bus manufacturers were among the industry officials in attendance at Friday's celebration. "Love the Bus is a great event that allows the schools to recognize and thank their school bus drivers," NSTA President Tim Flood said. "Without the safe and reliable transportation that the yellow school bus provides, many of these students would be unable to get the education that they need."As previously reported, ASBC officials said that Oak Hill Elementary School was an ideal host for the Love the Bus event because the school's students are heavily reliant upon the school bus for their transportation to and from school.
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I really hate to "burst the bubble" of generous kudos labelling us as unsung heros being members of the school bus driver community. If we are so valuable why does most of North America compensate us with 'hourly wages' at or near minimum wage levels? Our employers are increasingly adding spyware devices to the buses, such a Zonar, to track and assure safety checks, on-time performance or PITA strict routing that does not permit good driver judgement. So much for basic and logical trust between the employer and employee. I would not care if all the useless do-dah costly equipment or software did not costing thousands per bus each year. If that was only spent instead as small wage increases (inflation insurance) they would keep some better drivers with little staff turn-over. Labelling us as heros with some genourous applause cannot buy pricey groceries, car gas or home heating.
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More than 30 organizations have written to CIA Director David Petraeus, above, to protest a recently adopted policy that allows the agency to charge up to $72 an hour to review requests to declassify secret records. (File photo / Agence France-Presse)
Open government advocates are protesting a recently adopted CIA policy that allows the agency to charge up to $72 an hour to review requests to declassify secret records.
The effect "will be to price the public out of submitting" requests for "mandatory declassification review," the American Library Association, Sunlight Foundation and more than 30 other organizations said in a letter Thursday to CIA Director David Petraeus.
The new approach "is absolutely contrary to President Obama's call for 'an unprecedented level of openness in government.' " they added.
One of the letter signers, the Virginia nonprofit law firm National Security Counselors, filed a lawsuit this week in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to void the policy. The CIA signaled the policy shift in the Federal Register last September without giving advance notice or seeking public comment, a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, according to the suit. The suit, which seeks class-action status, also charges the CIA with ignoring the Independent Offices Appropriations Act, which bars agencies from charging fees for services that generally benefit the public.
Until the September change, the CIA on paper applied the same "more reasonable" fee schedule to declassification reviews that it used in processing Freedom of Information Act requests, said Kel McClanahan, executive director of National Security Counselors. Even that schedule would have been objectionable, McClanahan said, except that the CIA did not charge the fees in practice. He estimated the number of declassification review requests to the CIA in fiscal 2011 at about 1,500.
With the new policy, the CIA "decided that it could kill two birds with one stone," Bradley Moss, a Washington lawyer working with McClanahan on the suit, said in an email. "They could guarantee an increase in fees collected while at the same time scaring off all but the well-financed requesters from seeking declassification review in the first place."
The review system has been a popular and successful tool with researchers, historians and others, the letter said, in part because it allows requesters to appeal agency rejections to an independent review panel.
The CIA's press office did not return a phone call seeking comment Thursday.
The organizers for the letter were OpenTheGovernment.org, a nonpartisan coalition, and the National Security Archive, a private research organization based at The George Washington University.


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The housing market remains a mess of bank foreclosures, delinquent borrowers and withered home values.
And the latest sign of the lingering troubles came Friday as the federal government rolled out a series of changes to a year-old federal mortgage relief program that thus far has failed to tidy up things.
"The housing crisis remains a serious risk for the broader economy," said Scott Anderson, an economist with Wells Fargo Securities in Minneapolis."A rapid increase in home foreclosures and defaults could lead to another sustained downturn in home values that reduces everyone's household wealth."
That's a big reason why the Treasury Department on Friday said the government's Home Affordable Modification Program will begin offering temporary assistance to unemployed homeowners while also giving financial incentives for lenders to write down the principal amount owed by some borrowers.
The program would not require principal write-downs but would make lenders consider reductions in certain cases where mortgage loans are at least 15 percent greater than the current value of a house. Such borrowers are considered "underwater," and the number of those homeowners has been growing.
Nearly 24 percent of all residential properties with mortgages in the U.S.
"They're responding to the fact the foreclosures are increasingly driven by ... situations of negative equity," said Prentiss Cox, a housing expert at the University of Minnesota Law School. "This is finally a recognition that we are in a downward cycle where foreclosures are driving down home values, and as home values are driven down, there are more foreclosures."
Exactly how the changes to the modification program announced Friday will play out remains a question mark.
Ed Nelson, spokesman for the St. Paul-based Minnesota Home Ownership Center, encouraged troubled borrowers not to delay seeking help until the latest provisions take effect in September. And bankers who don't warm to the prospect of principal write-downs were slow to draw conclusions.
"Until we see the actual fact sheets, we will not be able to really offer meaningful comments," said Joe Witt, president of the Minnesota Bankers Association.
But most seemed in agreement that the federal government's year-old program to modify mortgages hasn't met the stated goal of helping 3 million to 4 million homeowners who might otherwise lose homes due to bank foreclosures.
When the program was launched a year ago, initial estimates suggested it could help between 150,000 and 200,000 homeowners in Minnesota avoid foreclosure. But as of last month, the program — which gives lenders incentives to modify loan terms — had delivered permanent mortgage changes for just 3,769 borrowers in the state.
Federal officials realized they had to address the growing problem of negative equity in which homeowners have fewer incentives to keep making house payments, said Cox, the U housing expert.
When homeowners are underwater, they might make a strategic decision to default on payments and go into foreclosure because they don't see a way of recovering further investments in the home. For borrowers who have fallen behind on payments and are seeking loan modifications, negative equity can complicate the process of changing loan terms, Cox said, because homeowners don't want to pay interest on principal that exceeds the home's current value.
"The lender has to decrease the rate even further to get the same effect on homeowner decision-making," he said.
At the end of 2009, an estimated 75,483 residential properties — 17 percent — with a mortgage in the Twin Cities were in a negative equity position, according to First American CoreLogic. That was up from the end of the third quarter, when 68,131 residential properties with a mortgage were thought to be in negative equity. The problem is much worse in other states.
As the unemployment rate remains high, more prime borrowers are falling behind on home payments, said Anderson, the Wells Fargo economist said.
Against this troubling backdrop, monthly home sales in the Twin Cites have been encouraging of late. The metro area's median selling price was up during the first two months of the year compared with 2009, and February saw the strongest annual monthly gain in median price for the 13-county metro area since 2005.
The local housing market has been helped by a Twin Cities economy that's been a little better than the nation at creating jobs in the current environment, Anderson said. Still, Anderson expects home prices locally could fall further over the next 12 months as federal tax credits to stimulate purchases expire.
Another factor pointing to lower prices: More sellers are listing homes for sale.
Teri Schrettenbrunner, a senior vice president with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, said her company supported the latest changes to the government program.
Wells Fargo already has been writing down principal amounts owed in certain cases where it makes sense, Schrettenbrunner said. And she said the federal government's new proposal to extend temporary help on mortgage payments to newly unemployed homeowners mirrors a Wells Fargo program that's been in place for months.
But some expressed skepticism as to whether the federal program — even with the latest tweaks — can solve the problem.
"This is not a problem that can be fixed with some masterstroke legislation or program from up on high," said Alex Stenback, a mortgage banker with Residential Mortgage Group in Minnetonka. "Sometimes, as painful as it is, markets must be allowed to clear."
Christopher Snowbeck can be reached at 651-228-5479.


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- Jamie Briggs became the Member for Mayo in a 2008 by-election, taking over from Alexander Downer.
- He grew up in Mildura where he went to school, before moving to Adelaide to pursue his dream of playing cricket for Australia.
- Jamie joined the Liberal Party when he was 22 years old while also working for Business SA.
- In 2004, Jamie became and adviser for the former Prime Minister, John Howard.
- Jamie lives in Mount Barker with his wife Estee and their two children.
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- The electorate of Mayo covers 9,190 sq.km.
- It was by Alexander Downer since it was created in 1984 until Jamie Briggs succeeded him at the 2008 by-election.
- It is based in the Adelaide Hills, Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island, with the population concentrated in Bridgewater, Mt Barker, Victor Harbor and Goolwa
- It was created in 1984 and named after Helen Mayo, who was founder of the Mothers and Babies Association, as well as the first woman elected to an Australian University Council.


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Can anyone tell me if I can order just a S300 shaft with tip at driver length for a 913 D2? I got a steal on the club, and it came with a Mitsubishi 62g Stiff shaft. But, has a very whippy feel to it. I can hit it properly only about 50% of the time. After speaking & showing the pro at the club I play at, he also agrees the shaft is the issue.
So, can I just get the shaft with the tip for the new drivers? I realize the S300 will be cheap, but can I get it with the tip for 913? I just got a 913 FD 13.5 Degree, and am hitting it between 270-320 depending on wind. If I am hitting this farther than my driver, then the shaft needs a change.
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When John and I met individually in this session, it proved to be one of our most intense meetings. When I asked him what the past two weeks had been like, he became teary eyed. It wasn't because he missed Tracy, even though he did miss her terribly--he was crying out of love for Bobby. I can see why she loved this kid so much, he told me. When I asked him directly about bringing his other daughter into the family, his answer surprised me. I can do that on my own. I need to focus on the family Tracy and I built together. I owe it to her.
As the session continued, we explored John's guilt toward Tracy. I disclosed to him that Tracy had tried to work this through in therapy but had been unable to genuinely forgive him. He didn't sound surprised. I don't know if I can ever forgive myself, he said. Sensing that a breakthrough moment was at hand, I encouraged him to continue, using his earlier comment about owing it to her as fuel. If you can't forgive yourself and she couldn't forgive you, you're pretty much stuck. If you're so weighed down with this heavy burden, how can you ever possibly make it up to her, and to the family?
In this moment, after spending more time with Bobby during the past two weeks, the answer seemed obvious. John had already articulated it, but now he knew it deeply, and so did I. I have to focus on the family Tracy and I built together. I have to be a better father and grandfather. I could almost feel the burden lift off him as the elephant of his guilt left the room.
For John, the better he felt about his ability to meet Bobby's emotional needs, the less anger and guilt he experienced about his complex relationship with Tracy. He reported that he'd been largely absent from Bobby's life before Tracy's illness, but now felt that nurturing a relationship with his grandson allowed him to atone for his past mistakes in his marriage. In many ways, Bobby had become a receptacle for the love he bore Tracy. In caring for Bobby, John was able to continue loving Tracy, while finding a sense of forgiveness after her death that had eluded him while she was alive.


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In Innovation Today, The Smartest Companies Collaborate With Enemies
In the collaborative marketplace, companies will have to join forces with other businesses.
Once upon a time, a friend and I ran the coffee bar in the U.K.'s flagship Next retail store. It was the first modern espresso bar that London's West End had seen and was hugely popular, as well as hugely profitable.
George Davies, the CEO of Next, came in most mornings and we would make him breakfast. During the nine months I was there, Davies took Next from what was predominantly a clothing brand into a lifestyle brand. Alongside women's clothing and menswear (and the coffee and cakes), we had Next interiors, Next wedding wear, Next jewelry, a couple of Next restaurants, and even Next hairdressing. It was too much. As a member of staff, my whole life was Next—my hair (with highlights), my clothes, my food, the chair I sat on. Everything I touched or owned was Next. I felt possessed by the brand—as though it were seeking to control and dominate every aspect of my life.
That was 1985. Such brand excess couldn't happen nowadays, and as it turned out, it wasn't sustainable then—even at the height of 1980s branding. Brands have changed and are changing for the better. The best and most effective are no longer marketing mechanisms designed to flog products. They are not even about establishing and defending competitive positions. The best brands play a different, connected, collaborative role. And they are fascinating.
In 2012, growth is no longer a matter of market share. In a world dominated by constraint, the brands that grow do so by understanding and meeting more and more needs and producing products and services to meet those needs. Growth is about share of mind and wallet, not simply share of market. It's no surprise that the world's most powerful brands can jump categories at will. Apple, Google, Tata, Innocent, Sony, Sky, Virgin, Tesco can gate crash almost any category they choose. Credibility, not capability, is king. It's easier for a trusted brand to become a bank than it is for a bank to become trusted.
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And the brands that will have the greatest impact on all our lives are those that see themselves not as citadels that need defending but as causes that need joining. The most important, most effective, most impactful brands are those that have put petty competition behind them and embraced collaboration as an operating principle—it is their core DNA. These brands are clear about their ambitions and are not shy about seeking out others who share those ambitions. And with these partners they will pool resources to create a better future.
Vattenfall and Volvo came together to work out how electric mobility should work for all of us. Nandan Biomatrix, India's sustainable energy provider and nutraceutical company pioneered a collaborative approach with thousands of farmers and quite a few governments to generate reliable energy. Cisco's highly ambitious Cisco I-Prize innovation contest invited outsiders to develop a business plan that took Cisco into territories they hadn't explored before. The winning entry was worked up alongside the company's own executives, and Cisco handed the originator $250,000. It conceived of household devices such as toasters and dishwashers that tell the electricity grid what their energy usage was likely to be before they were turned on. This would allow the grid to manage energy requirements in the same way that Internet infrastructure manages the demands of server traffic.
Could Cisco have come up with this idea itself? Possibly, but it didn't. The energy-saving initiative has gone into development, and Cisco has created for itself an ecosystem of new ideas that is seeded with the remaining 1,000 as-yet-unsuccessful business-plan entries.
This isn't CSR or even crowdsourcing. It is a smarter way of doing business. In this world of collaborative effort, brands have to get smarter about how they behave. The most impactful see themselves as players on a wider stage, as needing to understand and interact with the other players on that stage.
Mark Thompson, director-general of the BBC, talks compellingly of how his company must act with other creative institutions to "protect, develop and defend the public space." Traditional branding is currently too crude for the subtleties we now demand. Brands on a collaborative stage need to work out when it's appropriate for them to be present, when they should be absent, and when they should be recessive. It's a hangover from the age of brand as domination—from the Next school of branding. The brands of the future will not instinctively observe boundaries; they will work with others to further their ambitions. These brand-led businesses will understand the broader ecosystems that surround their traditional competitive landscape. They respect the context of their daily operations, but they will choose to extend outward when necessary.
They will also be more pleasant—less domineering than Next—and I suspect we'll like them that much more for it. More collaborative, with shared outcomes and incentives, and a culture of approachability—bring it on.
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The (RED) system is designed for mutual benefit—brands get an elevated profile through the custom product design and the cause's own marketing, and the effort generates a steady stream of revenue for the global fund, far exceeding traditional one-off payments from corporate philanthropy budgets.
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I was with you until I looked up the McKinsey article that was the source of your highlighted statistic that networked companies are 50% more likely to show market share gains and profits than competitors. That paper was written in 2001. Could you find more current data to support your position?
Apologies. It was written in 2010. Not so bad. I should have another cup of coffee.
Interesting article. This is a strategy that was first articulated by Adam M. Brandenburger, at that time from Harvard Business School, in his seminal book "Co-opetition," co-authored by Barry Nalebuff from Yale. (1996) I definitely recommend it for a quick read. The idea of 'co-opetition is founded upon two principles: 1) a mindset that combines competition and cooperation, and 2) Game Theory strategy. I believe Adam B is currently a professor at NYU Stern business school. He's a friend, so I'll refer him to your article. I'm sure he'll enjoy it. Best, Michael Draznin


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The National Film Registry announced the addition of 25 American films to be preserved at the Library of Congress as national treasures Wednesday.
To join the National Film Registry, a movie must be at least 10 years old and have enduring cultural or historical signficance. The public nominates films and the members of the National Film Preservation Board votes on which to add to the registry. Up to 25 films may be added each year and for 2012, the board chose the maximum number.
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said, "These films are not selected as the 'best' American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring importance to American culture. They reflect who we are as a people and as a nation." "
"Breakfast At Tiffany's," "The Matrix," "Dirty Harry," "A Christmas Story," "A League of Their Own" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" headline the list of films that will be added to the registry. "The Matrix" is the most recent among them, having been released in 1999.
Speaking of the significance of "The Matrix," Billington said, "The film's visual style, drawing on the work of Hong Kong action film directors and Japanese anime films, altered science fiction filmmaking practices with its innovative digital techniques designed to enhance action sequences. Directors Andy and Lana Wachowski and visual effects supervisor John Gaeta (who received an Academy Award for his efforts) expertly exploited a digitally enhanced simulation of variable-speed cinematography to gain ultimate control over time and movement within images."
The oldest film selected to the registry is "The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight," filmed in 1897. Boxing films, and footage of title fights, were huge moneymakers at the time, according to Billington. The success of boxing films helped make the movies a viable commercial enterprise. In addition to "Corbett-Fitzsimmons," the other sports film added to the registry was "They Call It Pro Football," which Billington said was described as the "Citizen Kane" of sports films.
Many of these movies, such as "Breakfast at Tiffany's," need no introduction for how they have influenced American culture. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" starred Audrey Hepburn and is based on the novella by Truman Capote. Hepburn's iconic black dress, the character of Holly Golightly as well as the song "Moon River" are just a few cultural highlights from the film. "Dirty Harry" features the iconic character of Harry Callahan played by Clint Eastwood and one of the most memorable quotes uttered in film history.
Other films added to the registry include some of the best examples of innovative filmmaking in America, including "Slacker," directed by Richard Linklater, and "Two-Lane Blacktop," directed by Monte Hellman. Several documentaries were also added to the registry. "One Survivor Remembers" is a film focused on the recollections of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein, "Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia" examines how the country rebuilds after Pol Pot, and "The Times of Harvey Milk" documents the life of the slain San Francisco politician and the gay rights movement.
A full list of films added to the National Film Registry is below. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)Anatomy of a Murder (1959)The Augustas (1930s-1950s)Born Yesterday (1950)Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)A Christmas Story (1983)The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight (1897)Dirty Harry (1971)Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 (1980-82)The Kidnappers Foil (1930s-1950s)Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests (1922)A League of Their Own (1992)The Matrix (1999)The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939)One Survivor Remembers (1995)Parable (1964)Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990)Slacker (1991)Sons of the Desert (1933)The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)They Call It Pro Football (1967)The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)The Wishing Ring; An Idyll of Old England (1914)


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First, let me reintroduce myself to my blog. Hello, you! It's me. The one who pays for you to exist but can rarely be seen streaking around your back end lately. And on that note, it's a good thing I mean the admin to this place, amiright? I haven't been around much lately do to the results of those well-meant lies people tell you over the years, otherwise known as advise.
Look, whoever thought children get easier as they get older lied. Or they hoped this was the case and decided to see if they could fool themselves into believing so, starting an ensuing slippery slope of The Kids Get Easier as They Age lies because their own child or children were making their hair turn white faster than an Indy 500 race. And I mean all the hair. I'm on to you, insidious beast! My eyes, your eyes. I win. Next!
Stress. Unless we all live in that fictional utopia, stress niggles and wiggles and maneuvers its way in at some point. Stress has been sitting on my for several months now and unless I do something to forcibly oust it, I'm going to have to name it (Biff Von Echlistein… I dunno, what do you think?) and start asking how its day was. Oh, and at least a few hundred in rent because my brain just cannot take sitting on the very edge of that metaphorical mattress anymore. People like to tell you all kinds of well-meaning ways to deal with stress, but the only way it goes away is for it to just fracking go the hell away. I'm looking at you, Problem.
And the last well-meant lie of the day is: if you clean at least little everyday, you'll be able to keep your home neat and clean. LIE LIE LIE! Only true if you have a staff of merry maids! And only if you're paying them a really great wage so they don't have to take on three other jobs to support themselves and their families! And only if you don't have said band of merry maids AND any other member of your mess-making family also helps clean "a little everyeday". Cuz…I has no merry maids ecstatic at the prospect of picking up after me and my family. (I probably should note n case anyone thought I was serious – I don't actually want merry maids. I can clean, it just takes time, of which I am always short on.) And, sadly beyond words, no one else in my family helps clean anything around there on a consistent basis. It's like food for stress! But I do love them knuckleheads in my family, I do indeed. Now let's go clean something.
Psych. Oh but hey – know what is true? If you buy Christmas presents throughout the year instead of all at once in December, it really does make life easier. Five months till Christmas, y'all! Now that we've got that out of the way, and you no longer want to claw my sparkly Christmas-colored eyes out, let's see what reading's been getting done round here.
Warning: a few slight spoilers. OK, so there's this book called The Sharing Knife: Beguilment and it's pretty much a living fantasy classic that all who tread the halls of fantasy readerdom must one day try. And I did. I did my duty and I tried it. Indeed, I tried all of it, fully expecting to like it. And….and…it was pretty meh. Let's look at why:
Very underdeveloped world. It read like something a budding teenage writer would pen, who wasn't quite sure of what they were trying to describe, hence very little to almost no detail and development throughout the entire book. My impressions were brief: a muddy environment with some farms and a few towns, and some kind of ancient creation history vaguely hand-fed miniscule kernels of expired pizzazz. At first things seem as if they'll take off thanks to the book's ultimate menace being introduced almost immediately, but this turns out to actually be a major point of deflation in the story since it was the only action readers will see and it was over before the first third of the book was complete. We do learn briefly what that whole series "Sharing Knife" stuff is about, but not nearly enough. From there on out we dance about the land of…
Character development! Fawn (a name meant, I'm sure, to illustrate her perfect innocence) is our farmer-born heroine and I have to say one of the least liked ones in my personal fantasy reading experience. OK, so she's been beaten down emotionally by her family over the years and believes herself to be this poor dumb creature of a woman who isn't good enough to marry let alone expect decent treatment from her own brothers. Boo hiss to that, I say. But something happens when she takes a chance on a boy she loves. When that turns out to be yet another mistake she fears people will revile her for, she leaves home without telling anyone. Please pause here to check fantasy hero/heroine must-have box number one: the downtrodden, as-of-yet unrealized-awesomeness runaway.
On her way to a town she hopes to build an entirely different life in, she is (please pause here to check fantasy female must-have box number two: growth by typical female-oriented violence) accosted and nearly raped and then brutalized in a different though no less traumatic way. Interestingly enough, this event is likely more traumatic for the reader as Fawn hadn't had long enough to grow used to even being burdened with her "problem". She just never struck me as a very deep person, and her attempts to convince readers that it's logical how she feels only made me feel more like she was this clueless and, yes, somewhat dimwitted, person. And so she blithely moves on thanks to the help of…
Our hero! Dag is a Lakewalker patroller in the area to hunt the book's ultimate menace, called a malice, of whom there could be many at any given time but only one is needed to bring about total world annihilation. And in case we weren't sure they were the bad creatures of this fantasy tale, I must remind you it is called a malice. Um-kay. The subtlties, this book has absolutely zero. Anyway, back to Dag. Thankfully he arrives just in time to save the poor, ignorant farm girl from a fate worse than death and soon they are back in another situation worse than death and then, finally, all the action is done and they are on the way to town again so that we can begin the riveting tale of their courtship and how they must break down the centuries-old barriers between farmers and lakewalkers in doing so. If you feel the need to caffeinate in order to stay invested attention-wise in this book, this here is your starting off point. Grab that espresso. I recommend the straight-to-the-vein technique.
Oh my sigh-filled word. This book. Professional reviews tell us this thing is filled with compelling characters, but I'm not sure where they went when the book started. Was there a prologue missing from my copy that they were in? The book is defined by a sluggish pace that goes nowhere except to an awkwardly budding romance between Fawn and Dag, who renames her as Spark soon into their relationship, emphasizing the new name whenever she makes her first grown up thoughts or actions about the least little thing. I began to get a little creeped out by their relationship, actually and soon it felt more like the way-too-innocent lamb being groomed for his bed. Before that gets any scoffing, it was only hit home for me later when we find out exactly how much older Dag is than FawnSpark.
I love me a good romance. I've been along-time reader of the genre itself and lord knows an interesting romance can potentially add volumes to a fantasy novel. It turns out this wasn't a fantasy novel (something I wish had been more clear since I was expecting fantasy; I know, I know it's been talked about before but really thought there'd be more fantasy), though, it was a romance, and older man/younger woman and vice versa happens to be one of my favorite romance tropes. Except this time such a heavy emphasis is put on how ancient and old Dag is compared to FawnSpark when it's pointed out he's the same age as or older than her father (can't remember which it was, but come ON…really?). Again, I'd really not have had a problem with this scenario if the book had not gone to such lengths to over emphasis it. I get why it was done – to further try and drive that tension wedge bigger between the whole farmer/lakewalker divide. But look. For the first time I can remember, that age difference made me feel plain creeped out. Dag acts more like her father than her own father does with her, except Dag also gets to sleep with her. And there's plenty of mentions of how huge of a man he is and how tiny and little she is, with her emotionally immature reactions to add further emphasis. Dag is always portrayed as calm and wise, while she is childish. Adding their very distinctly discussed age difference made me a little hurl-ish.
Thankfully the book soon turns to FawnSpark's true enemy, The Boy Who Did Her Wrong. Before we go too far and anticipate someone who is unique – nope. He's really just the typical cardboard Boy Who Did Her Wrong, but it was actually gleefully fun to watch Dag put him in his place. Now that part of the book I did enjoy. Soon I could focus less on how creepy it was that a man old enough to be her father was actually more like a father to her yet the added benefit of the sexy and…rewind. Whatever. A good old fashioned ass-whooping by clever means is always a delight. Dag also manages to set her family straight on what horrible people they are, everyone gets a grand wedding and YAY it's all fun and games as they get back on the road, camp under the stars and have lots of FawnSpark/Dag sexy alone time as they finally exit with us hoping the next book pays a visit to the Realm of Plotsville.
Amidst all this incredibly boring non plot was strange moments of info dumping that never ceased to be disruptive and that much more boring. Don't get me wrong, the book has a great concept. The story behind the lakewalker sharing knives is very unique (insofar as I've read in fantasy to date, anyway), but it's a miniscule part of the story that instead chooses to focus on a poorly done romance. (In fact, Dag keeps worrying that they need to move on and get to a lakewalker camp to discuss the issue they have with his knife, yet we prance about farmer country the entire book, making sure we all know what terrible people FawnSpark's family is.) What information we do find out about anything felt like it was being spoon-fed to me right when a scene began to feel truly flowing and the pace natural, one good example being the making of their wedding bracelets. Boom, dumpity dump dump with the more factual information in the form of abrupt and discordant dialogue or inner monologue. I got to the point that I could care less what the lakewalker culture was like, of which the book puts a much more important emphasis on than that of the farmers, who were pretty much all slotted to stereotypically suspicious, ignorant, backward, gossip-mongering redneck status. Why? Who the heck knows, the book doesn't bother to explain except in that very vague creation myth stuff mentioned earlier. I was infinitely glad to be done with this book.
Verdict: huge disappointment. Moving on to the next? Most unlikely. FawnSpark is a typical doormat female character who, in order to develop her into something more and better, must do so entirely thanks to the strengths of her male counterpart. She doesn't make a single move without his encouragement or say. I think his support is great on one hand, but I'm disappointed her development, a major part of it, doesn't come from the inner strength she herself must find. Again, though, the development of these characters just wasn't there enough to facilitate this, and while these kinds of things could be saved for a later book, it would've done this installment a world of good to include it in this one.


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This sentiment sums up how I feel about my DH and it's a sneak peek of the new Treasured Words set. I've cut it out with the Rounded Rectangle Die and layered it onto the Rounded Scallop Frame Die, stamped with the coordinating stamp from Making a Statement. I gave the background of the card a wood effect by randomly stamping the new Thatched Banner Plain Jane in Crumb Cake all over the Kraft cardstock. For embellishments I chose some silver jumbo eyelets that have been collecting dust in the closet, some black twill and a Tim Holtz metal embellishment I picked up super cheap on a recent trip to Tuesday Morning.
That's all for today! Come on back tomorrow to see another sneak peek and the challenge I'm hosting with Laurie! Have a great day!
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Stamps: Making a Statement, sneak peek of Treasured Words and Thatched Banner Plain Jane (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Kraft, Black, Wild Wasabi (SU!), Digi graph paper
Ink: Crumb Cake, Wild Wasabi (SU!), Black
Accessories: Rounded Rectangle Die, Rounded Scallop Frame Die (A Cut Above by VERVE), Jumbo eyelets (SU!), black twill, black twine, metal charm (Tim Holtz), paper distresser
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- Lee-Anne said...
Love how you used the new Thatched Banner Plain Jane to make your background Julee! The new sentiments from Treasured Words are fabby! Lucky you with your great find at Tuesday Morning...looks perfect on this!
- August 14, 2012 at 8:17 AM
- scrappingnana said...
Ohhh, love everything about your card, the colors, the stamped background, the sentiment and embellishments. It is a great masculine card.
- August 14, 2012 at 8:30 AM
- laughadaisy said...
Love it. ;-) That new stamp looks fantastic - I can't wait to get my hands on it! Thanks for the peek. ;-)
- August 14, 2012 at 8:36 AM
- Maureen said...
that puffy heart is the most amazing element! LOVE the masculine look and the texture created with the Thatched Banner stamp...LOVE that stamp! I was so hoping this card was for my challenge when I saw it in the gallery :) We have some very special men in our lives!
- August 14, 2012 at 8:52 AM
- Marisa said...
Love the metal you used on this card! The big eyelets make it masculine and the heart is just gorgeous. The BG you created on the kraft is great! Wonderful card as always :) Still vibrating with excitement over all we get to see on the 24th!
- August 14, 2012 at 9:30 AM
- Riet said...
What a gorgeous card Julee.
Hugs Riet.xx
- August 14, 2012 at 11:40 AM
- Marta said...
I love the wooden effect on the paper you have made and the heart is just lovely.
Your card is beautiful!
- August 14, 2012 at 1:15 PM
- Sandra said...
What a lovely card!
- August 18, 2012 at 5:33 PM
- Ravengirl said...
What a wonderful masculine anniversary card!
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Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the men accused of bombing the Boston Marathon in April, isn't winning any fans among the victims of her sons' crimes. The Boston Herald reports that one of those victims, who was hospitalized for weeks after the bombings, says Tsarnaeva's pro-jihad comments are "vile." Here's the story from the Herald:
Tsarnaeva has said her sons, Dzhokar and the late Tamerlan, are the victims of a conspiracy against Muslims. She has also been accused of being a 9/11 truther.
Dzhokar has been charged in federal court for several crimes, including use of a weapon of mass destruction.
Gun control advocates, meanwhile, caused a stir at a rally in New Hampshire Tuesday when one activist read the name of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a list of victims of gun violence. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout while he was running from police days after the bombing. According to the New Hampshire Union Leader's coverage, protesters booed the mention of Tamerlan as a victim, saying "he's a terrorist."
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There are so many reasons we almost have to ask why wouldn't the US want to attack Iran. It has been their goal for decades. But why did the US allow their guy, the Shah, to be overthrown? I've never heard a satisfactory explanation, any ideas?
if i am not mistaken the SCO stated that any country under u.n. sanctions cannot be admitted - well that is kinda strange since the formation of this organization was to oust the east of western presence -
Russia: Attack on Tehran is Attack on MoscowRussia has given Iran its bear hug and warns Israel and the West that an attack on Tehran would be considered an attack on Moscow.
By Tzvi Ben GedalyahuFirst Publish: 1/15/2012, 12:28 PMremember iran wants has petitioned to become a member rather than an observer in the SCO!
Right Margaret. It's a total power grab. Uh huh. lex parsimoniae, or Occam's razor:
Occam's razor, also known as Ockham's razor, and sometimes expressed in Latin as lex parsimoniae (the law of parsimony, economy or succinctness), is a principle that generally recommends that, from among competing hypotheses, selecting the one that makes the fewest new assumptions usually provides the correct one, and that the simplest explanation will be the most plausible until evidence is presented to prove it false.
@ Tommy, so you think it may be an esoteric agenda, Mmm hmm. I don't know that they are truly after any esoteric treasure they have not already hoarded and monopolized. But I do know that they believe in other worldly forces that precipitate events.
@ Thomas, the Arab Spring is very real. The Arabs have been in protest for a couple years now. Look at Libya and Egypt, Tunisia -- they are overthrowing regimes left and right. They caused the Prime minister of Yemen to step down. The trail of crumbs I've followed has led me straight to the globalist's cookie jar. Looks as if the Arab Spring was hatched over a decade ago:
No details but can be provided; 911 was strictly a Masonic sacrifice planned since 1966. It was to set the wheels in motion leading to the middle east crisis, target Iran, to kick it off. The USS liberty was planned by Mossad and US to start WWIII and blame it on Egypt but this operation failed.
Everyone Go to your search and type in...How many countries DID NOT have a Rothschild controlled central bank before 911....
When you see what comes up on that list... take off Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya because they now have Rothschild controlled central banks...Countries are destroyed, debt thru Rothschild banks, makes countries indebted to Rothschilds...
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- Sugarfoot Theatrical Cartoon Series
- Walter Lantz Productions
- Distributed by: Universal Pictures
- Cartoon Characters: Sugarfoot, Starbrite, Nellie, Evil Ringmaster, Paw.
- Originally Released in 1954.
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The Jingling Bros. Circus is performing for one night only in the town that farm horse Sugarfoot lives in. Paw has Sugarfoot pulling a plow. A new billboard goes up with pretty circus horse Starbrite's picture on it. She is a star at the circus. Sugarfoot falls for her and leaves his farm to meet her. Once he arrives, he sees Starbrite's trainer beating her. Sugarfoot kicks the villainous circus trainer. Sugarfoot woos the crowd with his ability to thwart the angry trainer, who keeps shooting at him with a rifle and missing every shot while, at the same time, getting the worst end of each thing he attempts to do to wrangle the horse. Paw is discouraged until Sugarfoot shows up again... this time with a bride and four little ponies.
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I am an Egyptian living currently in Sudan with my husband and baby daughter. I am pursuing my masters degree in gender and women studies in the American University in Cairo. I've always felt strongly about womens' issues in Arab societies, specifically Egypt but I have no idea what I can do to make things better or where to go to help in any way I can.


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SOUTHBURY — Newtown High School's football team did all of its scoring in the first half and cruised to a season-opening 26-7 win over host Pomperaug on a September 13 late afternoon. Quarterback Drew Tarantino set the school's passing yards record. He threw for 229 yards, surpassing Mike Newman (1974) who had the old record with 3,405 yards. Tarantino has thrown for 3,581.


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College basketball rankings; Baylor has No. 5 class in nation
ESPN recently came out with its college basketball recruiting grades for the 2012 class and Baylor's six recruits landed them the No. 5 class in the nation.
Headlined by seven-footer Isaiah Austin, other players like Ricardo Gathers, L.J. Rose, Chad Rykhoek and recently added Taurean Waller-Prince all contributed to one of Baylor's best classes in school history.
The only Big 12 team to have a better class than Baylor was the Texas Longhorns, who were able to get the No. 4 class in the nation.
Here's what ESPN had to say about Baylor's 'A+' class.
'The Bears already had an outstanding class after the early signing period and they added another stud in 6-7 power forward Ricardo Gathers (Laplace, La./Riverside Academy). He is built like a defensive end at 6-7 and 240 pounds and is made for Big 12 battles in the paint. While Gathers should definitely compete for a starting position, 7-foot center Isaiah Austin (Arlington, Texas/Grace Prep) is still the headliner. Austin is ultra-talented and only needs to become stronger and more assertive. L.J. Rose (Houston/Westbury Christian) is a solid point guard and will definitely be an early contributor, while Chad Rykhoek (Fort Worth, Texas/Fort Worth Christian) is a stretch 4-man who needs to add strength but has talent, and Taurean Waller-Prince (San Antonio/Earl Warren) is an athletic and undersized 4-man who should find a role as an energy guy off the bench.'