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Welcome to a new generation of 'development issues' | Duncan Green
16 Jan 2014
As I browsed my various feeds over the Christmas break, one theme that emerged was the rise of the "North in the South" on health, or what I callCinderella Issues: things like traffic accidents, theillegal drug trade, smoking or alcohol that do huge (and growing) damage in developing countries, but are relegated to the margins of the development debate. If my New Year reading is anything to go by, that won't last long. ODI kicked off with Future Diets, an excellent report on obesity that shows the number of obese/overweight people in developing countries (904 million) has more than tripled since 1980 and has now overtaken the number of malnourished (842 million, according to the FAO). Other key messages include that diets are changing wherever incomes are rising in the developing world, with a marked shift from cereals and tubers to meat, fats, sugar and fruit and vegetables. While globalisation has led to a homogenisation in diets, their continued variation suggests that there is still scope for policies that can influence the food choices people make, particularly in the face of the serious health implications. Meanwhile, the Economist ran a two-page report and editorial on "the new drugs war": "The resurgence of conflict over drug pricing is the result Read More
Consumption consumes you | George Gray Molina
10 Jan 2014
F. Scott Fitzgerald used to say about alcohol: "First, you take the drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." The same thing could be said about consumerism as a way of achieving social status and recognition. First, let's look at a few facts. Consumerism is the engine driving growth in Latin American economies. It represents 59 percent of the GDP in Brazil, 66 percent in Mexico, 69 percent in Chile, 77 percent in Honduras and 88 percent in the Dominican Republic — so more than two thirds of the economic growth in Brazil, Mexico and Chile over the past twelve months. Consumerism also led to a significant reduction in poverty and favored the emergence of the middle class in the region. Today, most of the population is no longer "poor" in the statistical sense of the term, but "vulnerable" as they work in precarious labour markets yet enjoy higher levels of income and purchasing power than before. Secondly, let's look at some areas of concern. Consumption is intrinsically linked to high levels of liquidity, easy access to credit, and household debt. Household debt has increased throughout the region: According to Morgan Stanley, the ratio of household debt to income is 60 percent; in Read More
Political quotas for women: Myths & facts | Elizabeth Guerrero
09 Dec 2013
Women still comprise only 21.4 percent of members of parliaments (MP) around the world. While Latin America has more than 24 percent of women MPs — one of the highest shares in the world — the region still has a long road to travel towards gender parity. The provision of quotas — an idea that began in Europe and has spread to other continents — has effectively been used to boost women's political participation, adopted as a temporary measure to encourage political parties to nominate a minimum percentage of women. This may take place as a voluntary action by political parties or through law-driven measures which push parties to nominate a certain number of women candidates. Yet several myths remain: Myth 1: "Quotas contradict the principle of equality before the law" This argument is based on the assumption that men and women actually have the same opportunities to run for elections. But that simply does not reflect reality. In many countries women can vote, but they cannot be elected. Evidence shows that women and men do not share the same opportunities to be appointed candidates because women face a number of barriers to be nominated by political parties. Therefore, the idea Read More
Why gender equality at work must be a top development priority | Jeni Klugman
02 Dec 2013
"The future is grim for us women smallholder farmers," a group from Togo told the World we Want survey on future development goals. In keeping with local custom, they said, "Only men inherit land, although women do most of the work in fields. This keeps us dependent on men and shackles us in poverty." Discriminatory laws represent one of many obstacles holding back women's economic participation. Social norms, lack of autonomy, and limited access to assets all play a part, and the costs—particularly in poor and emerging countries—are steep. Gender gaps are pervasive across continents and sectors. Female farmers tend to have lower productivity, smaller plots, and grow less profitable crops. Female employees are more likely to work in temporary and part-time jobs, and less likely to be promoted. In Mexico and Honduras, women accounted for 70 percent of all layoffs during the global economic crisis. Across advanced economies, women earn 16 percent less than men, even in the same occupations, hold fewer senior positions, and account for fewer entrepreneurs. Closing these gender gaps could yield enormous dividends for development. Having as many women in the labor force as men (PDF) could boost economic growth by 5 percent in the United Read More
Creating a brighter future: The pivotal role of access to modern energy | Vincent Wierda
27 Nov 2013
Reaching the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 2.6 billion consumers without clean cooking solutions is a major human development challenge, yet it is also an immense investment and business opportunity. How can we take this market to the next level? How can more partnerships be brokered and supported to expand the market? What role can international organizations play in catalysing action and pushing the energy access agenda forward? Our combined experiences – in particular from those who are in the front lines of offering viable energy solutions to low-income people – are needed to build a growing movement, one that is offering a greater range of quality, affordable energy products and services to those at the base of the pyramid. CleanStart, a global initiative co-founded by UNCDF and UNDP, aims to do exactly that by supporting poor households and micro-entrepreneurs to jump-start their access to clean energy through microfinance. In Nepal, where some 87.1 percent of the population still relies on traditional biomass fuels for cooking and heating, we are investing US $1.3 million over four years (2012-2015) to develop replicable business models for scaling up microfinance for cleaner and more efficient forms of energy for Read More
Tackling violence against women and girls: an urgent priority | Helen Clark
25 Nov 2013
This day reminds us that violence against women continues to be destructive and pervasive, and kills as many women between the ages of 15 and 44 as cancer. From Chile, where partner violence is estimated to drain as much as 2% of the country's GDP, to the United States, where the cost of domestic violence is estimated to exceed $12.6 billion per year, violence against women imposes highs cost on both its victims and society. Women who are able to live in a safe and secure environment can participate effectively in the economy and society. This helps overcome poverty, reduces inequalities, and is beneficial for children's nutrition, health, and school attendance. Improving women's access to the justice system and to legal aid is vital. In countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we are helping to strengthen the justice sector so that the many cases of rape and violence committed by combatants can be addressed. Impunity for perpetrators must end. In addressing sexual and gender-based violence, it is important to know more about the entrenched attitudes and values which perpetrate it. A recent joint report surveyed 10,000 men in Asia and the Pacific. It found that 80% of Read More
Scaling-up matters for South-South Cooperation | Grace Wang
06 Nov 2013
The global development cooperation landscape is changing rapidly. Emerging economies and other developing countries have become key actors in the new development architecture. They offer practical solutions, share rich knowledge and take leadership and collective actions. For example, the Brazilian bolsa familia programme, a cash transfer model, has helped improve childhood nutrition and education in Brazil, and the system has been successfully transplanted to Africa. India's National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme entitles each rural Indian household by law to 100 days of unskilled work per year on public works programmes. China's emphasis on infrastructure development in other developing countries has resulted in improvements in electricity supply, an increase in railway connections and reduced prices for telecommunications services. In our new Strategic Plan (2014-17), we are committing to support South-South and Triangular cooperation, complementing the traditional North-South model, across the board, to be a critical part of the post 2015 development agenda.This vision cannot rest on any routine, isolated or short-term approaches. Scaling-up strategy will be the key to ensure our support delivers lasting impact. In this regard, we see ourselves as: • knowledge brokers, to help identify, share and adapt scalable Southern solutions that are tested, cost-effective, sustainable; • capacity builders, to support developing countries to Read More
Social and political transformation can only be achieved with young people's participation | Heraldo Muñoz
17 Oct 2013
Latin America and the Caribbean has around 156 million people between the ages of 15 to 29, which means that 26 percent of its population is young. However, only 1.63 percent of deputies and senators in 25 parliaments in the region are 30 years old or younger, according to a recent UN Development Programme (UNDP) assessment. More worrying still is the fact that women still lag behind: among the few young parliamentarians just 32 percent are women. Having so many young people is an opportunity for any region. But in the case of Latin America, this demographic advantage coexists with unequal opportunities for its youth, which is reflected in low voter turnout among young people and a political representation crisis that feeds the recent social mobilizations. This confirms the need to boost efforts to meet young Latin Americans' demands and needs, and to recognize their capabilities and roles in promoting democratic change. In this context, more than 22 young parliamentarians from 13 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean signed a pact to expand political participation of the youth of the region during a recent meeting in Brasilia, organized by UNDP, Brazil's National Youth Secretary and the Ibero-American Youth Organization, with Read More
Protecting people with disabilities in times of disaster | Jo Scheuer
12 Oct 2013
Approximately 10 percent of the world's population lives with a disability. Often ignored, forgotten or stigmatized, people with disabilities not only struggle for daily recognition, but face life-threatening challenges in times of disaster. Those whose mobility is impaired cannot access evacuation routes; those with visual or hearing impairment don't receive early warnings; and those dependant on health and other community infrastructure suffer disproportionately from disaster. During the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, the death rate amongst people with disabilities was twice that of the general population, and when Hurricane Katrina hit the US in 2006, the immobile poor were disproportionately left behind in New Orleans. Fourteen percent of those who remained were living with a disability that made them physically unable to evacuate, while 23 percent were caring for a disabled person. October 13 is the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. The theme this year is 'disability and disasters,' a welcome move to draw awareness to the difficulties those with disabilities face in times of disaster. 157 countries have now signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities pledging, among other things, to protect persons with disabilities during conflict, humanitarian emergencies and disasters. In planning and preparing for disasters, however, Read More
The time is right to place governance and anti-corruption at center stage | Rebeca Grynspan
30 Sep 2013
Thirteen years ago, when the MDGs were formulated, governance-related goals or targets were not included, mainly for political reasons, but what we learned from that experience is that deficits in governance — such as corruption, elite capture of key resources, and low capacity of government institutions — hinder inclusive growth by squandering resources badly needed for development. I was pleasantly surprised that more than 1 million people, who voted through the MYWorld global survey, expressed their opinion that "an honest and responsive governance" should be one of the top priorities in the post-2015 development framework. It is reassuring that both the High-Level Panel Report and the Secretary-General's report to the General Assembly corroborated many of the views expressed by citizens on holding their governments transparent, accountable and responsive. According to data from the World Bank, each year US $1 trillion is paid in bribes and it is estimated that corruption can cost a country up to 17 percent of its GDP. Imagine the impact of reversing this! A recent UNDP study found that 76 percent of women surveyed think corruption has prevented them from accessing public goods and services. To counter this, we are promoting and supporting specific anti-corruption measures integrated into basic service delivery systems. Momentum is shifting Read More
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Jane Marvel Cooper, poet, Professor and Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Sarah Lawrence College, died peacefully at Pennswood Village, Newtown, P.A., on October 26th from complications due to Parkinson's Disease.
Jane Cooper joined the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College in 1950, where she remained as a teacher and poet in residence until her retirement in 1987. Together with Grace Paley, Jean Valentine, Muriel Rukeyser and others, Cooper helped develop and enhance the College's writing program that became one of the most distinguished in the country. On her retirement after 37 years on the writing/literature faculty an endowed scholarship in her name was created to support a writing student.
"We are losing the origins of our inspiration," said Ilja Wachs, literature faculty member, who knew Cooper well. Referring to Cooper and her colleagues Wachs continued: "They were giants of the morality, integrity, and creativity that shaped the College and made writing central to our conception of ourselves."
On the subject of her teaching, Wachs said: "Jane had the perfect balance of listening, sensitivity, and articulating ideas. And she bridged the divide between literature and creative writing. Her courses were devoted to the study of American poetry but she had her students write original poetry in conference."
Cooper lived most of her adult life in New York City. She also spent several summers at Yaddo and the McDowell Colony, working on her own poetry. Her first book, The Weather of Six Mornings, appeared in 1969 and was followed at intervals by four others: Maps and Windows (1974), Scaffolding: Selected Poems (1984), Green Notebook, Winter Road (1994) and The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed (2000). She was named State Poet of New York for 1995-97.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin in 1946, she attended Vassar College 1942 to 1944. In 1953-54 she took a year off from Sarah Lawrence to earn a M.A. at the University of Iowa, where she studied with Robert Lowell and John Berryman. She received much recognition in her lifetime including awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Jane Cooper was born in Atlantic City, N.J. in 1924. She spent her early childhood in Jacksonville, Florida and then moved with her family to Princeton in the mid-1930s. There she went to Miss Fine's School where, in her senior year, she won the Leslie Shear Poetry Prize for two works: "We are the Generation of War" and "I have Sung Solitary Various Worlds," early signs of future acclaim.
She is survived by her brother, John C. Cooper III, of Tucson, AZ, five nephews, two nieces and three grandnieces. A memorial service will be held at All Saints Church, Princeton on Saturday, November 3, at 1:00 p.m. Donations in lieu of flowers may be sent to the Immune Deficiency Foundation, 40 W. Chesapeake Avenue, Suite 308, Towson, MD 21204.

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Moussaoui Trial
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Last week, Zacarias Moussaoui surprised everyone in federal court when he announced plans to plead guilty to some of the charges against him. Judge Leonie Brinkema gave him a week to consider his course of action. Moussaoui was back in court on Thursday for an arraignment, at which time he withdrew all guilty pleas. Philip Sheenan of The New York Times joins Neal Conan to discuss Moussaoui's case.
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A report finds North Carolina teenagers face many obstacles to a healthy adulthood.
Medical and child advocacy groups examining data said Tuesday too many adolescents lack health insurance and fail to get a high school diploma within four years. The report from the North Carolina Metamorphosis Project also raised concerns that 38 percent of high school students say they drank alcohol in the past month and the rate of sexually transmitted diseases among teens has increased. The report said there's some encouraging news -- tobacco use is down among teens and more young people are volunteering in their communities.
Project members say the report is part of their effort to improve the health of 1.4 million state residents ages 10 to 20 in the next decade.


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I'm writing in response to (Jon Brandt, Auburn State Recreation Area) Ranger's comment from the May 29 article entitled "Mountain bikers, equestrians try to play nice on trails" ... "the equestrian community they've classically been in a defensive position because they're shrinking in comparison to the mountain bike community, which is growing."
Equestrians make up for an enormous population using the trails. According to the California State Parks Recreational Trends 2006: "By 2010, one in five Californians will be older than 60. The senior population will double by 2020 and they are making more time to pursue recreation activities." The Trend's 10 "Most Preferred" recreation(al activities) did not include mountain biking, horseback riding was!
If you go to www.ParkWatchReport.org, an informational report site for our park system, you'll see there are 29 equestrian trail user groups and eight mountain bike trail groups.
The majority of trail users are hikers, runners, dog walkers, and those on foot, including horses. Compared to a 4- to 5-mph walking pace (occasionally faster for a horse trot), the bikes can travel up to 20 mph, thereby seeming to run out of trail faster.
There are miles of bike friendly trails without threatening the foot-traffic-only trails. If horse activity appears to be "shrinking," it may be in certain areas because of the danger illegal cyclists pose by riding on trails designated for foot traffic only.
In the 2005 American Horse Council report, recreational horse owners spend $1.9 billion in California each year.
Of the nearly 700,000 horses in California in total, approximately 315,000 are used in recreational activities, including those enjoying our parks' trails.
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For work or play, the G33M by Foxconn offers affordable, reliable performance. This micro-ATX motherboard is based on Intel's G33 and ICH9 chipsets and is ready to support Intel's latest socket LGA 775 processors including the next generation 45nm architecture Quad-Core, Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Duo CPU's in addition to Pentium chips with a front side bus of 1066 MHz which can be increased to 1333 MHz through overclocking. Up to 8GB of DDR2 RAM can be installed with full dual channel support.
Use the onboard Intel GMA 3100 video chipset or install a PCI Express x16 graphics card for enhanced performance. Onboard video processing is handled by the Intel GMA 3100 chipset. Additional graphics processing horsepower can be achieved with a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 card with the slot being able to mount a double-wide card. An additional PCIe and a pair of PCI slots add extra options for expanding your system.
Get eight channels of theater-quality sound from the Realtek ALC888 audio chipset. Transfer data from other networked computers at broadband speeds with the Gigabit Ethernet LAN or connect up to four 3Gb/s SATA 2 devices for high-speed data transfer rates. Six USB 2.0 ports offer nearly unlimited possibilities for peripherals.
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Pros: Full featured, awesome CPU support, fantastic price. Worked perfectly with my Core2 E6750 and 4GB of PC6400 Ram. Installed this board as a Windows Server 2003 setup with no issues at all.
Cons: Boxed BIOS was far out of date (older than Feb. 2008). Update was necessary to fix a BSoD during Server 2003 setup. No FDD header. Lacks adequate documentation in manual form. Check the Foxconn's website to see if the processor you are installing had support added for it recently or not. You can't flash a BIOS if it can't understand the processor!
Other Thoughts: BIOS needed to be flashed right out of the box, however, their website lists all the BIOS releases and a link to downloads. Flashing it is a bit of a pain though, the motherboard does not have a FDD header. Luckily I had a USB Floppy Drive. Created an MS-DOS start-up disk from another WinXP machine and booted to it. Then copied the BIOS files to that disk once it booted up, and then ran the batch file. Flashed in < 5 minutes.
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Pros: easy to install
Cons: The Bios does not operate once installed impossible to get into setup or install operating system
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Pros: Nothing that you won't find in another board.
Cons: This board is not built very sturdy, namely the RAM slots. Mine also has very shoddy SATA slots. It will read the SATA hard drives/CD drives and say they're compatible, but they won't run directly through the board. I had to buy a separate expansion card with SATA slots just to get the stuff to run. The BIOS is rubbish as well.
Other Thoughts: Stay away if you can.
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Pros: Foxconn G33M motherboard, coolmaster centurion 532 case (case has quiet low speed front 120mm fan, I added a Antec tri cool 120mm rear fan set to low speed, thick case metal = low noise and mesh case design allows for Adequate cooling when fans are low speed), Intel Q6600 quad core CPU, Coolmaster vortex 752 CPU fan, I am using onboard video, Ultra 500W power supply with quite 120mm fan, connected to 22" Acer monitor purchased from Newegg, motherboard was easy to assemble, drivers loaded in automatically with driver install program on CD, This computer purrs like a kitten and can handle all the multi tasking I have thorwn at it.
Cons: There is a set of pins (blue) for fire wire, but the pins are backwards - I could not insert case fire wire plug into it. Instead I got a fire wire PCI card with header pins on it.
Other Thoughts: Actually, I am using a coolmaster 531 case - not sold anymore, buy the 532 is very similar. Coolmaster cases are the best!! Antec cases are second best!!
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BIOS out of date
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Pros: Loads of USB ports, simple setup for computer builders, 4 memory slots.
Cons: Onboard BIOS was out of date (back to when larger hard disks were not supported). NO ONBOARD FLOPPY means that BIOS is incredibly hard to flash (i.e. use a CD or USB flash drive. Motherboard does not support booting from USB! And although I tried my best, I could not get DOS to recognize the BIOS update files from Foxconn's website via CD boot. Also, no onboard Firewire ports, other than the single port on the back, G33M-S has these.
Other Thoughts: I was a bit uneasy purchasing this motherboard, as the price was barely less than a better branded Asus mobo. However, during a special, the price was far lower and I went ahead and got it. Unfortunately, I was very unsatisfied, as the BIOS was far out of date. I could not get Vista or XP to install on my working 160GB hard drives (2 of them!) Vista would stop halfway and tell me there was an error, XP would finish the install and then couldn't boot. An old 80GB disk worked perfect, no problems, but Foxconn's BIOS updates would not run from Windows XP (said my operating system was not supported?) If the BIOS had been up to date or at least easily flashable, this mobo would have been at least 4 stars.
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Pros: Paired this board up with an E7200 in a mATX case. No issues whatsoever. It's slightly overclocked to 3 GHz. BIOS gave me no trouble at all. Got it on $30 price reduction and decided to roll the dice. Very pleased with this board. Video is plenty good for the mainstream crowd. Gamers, of course, should look elsewhere.
Cons: No FireWire.
Other Thoughts: E7200, AMPX 2 gig ram, WD 640
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Pros: Inexpensive and not too difficult to install. Comes with a useful magnified diagram of what each port and slot is that will help you to navigate the board.
Cons: Not compatible with my memory card readers or the Mic and Headphone jacks on the front side of my old emachines frame.
Other Thoughts: 3 months ago my emachines mother board crapped out on me and I found my self faced with the annoying prospect of having to purchase a new computer. I liked my old computer and all of the peripherals and improvements I had added to it and didn't want to pay for bunch of peripherals I would just swap out for the better ones I already had. So, I purchased this board and with no experience with boards except for adding RAM, Graphics cards, DVD-Drives and Hard Drives I got it working on the first try.
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Cons: Foxconn has acknowledged that this product has a faulty AMI (American Megatrends BIOS and says they are working on a solution.
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News Corp. Board Challenged
Some Critics Contend Board Lacks Level of Independence It Needs to Address the Hacking Scandal
News Corp.'s board, under scrutiny for its supervision amid a reporting-tactics scandal at the U.K. newspaper division, is expected to sit tight for at least the next couple of weeks, comfortable that the steps the company has taken so far are appropriate for addressing the crisis, barring other significant developments, according to people familiar with the matter.
Critics, however, contend the board lacks the level of independence it needs to ensure the mess is cleaned up properly.
A week ago, News Corp. formalized a management and standards committee tasked with cooperating on investigations into voicemail interceptions and alleged improper police payments at its U.K. newspaper unit, "conducting its own enquiries" and proposing new standards. The committee ultimately reports to independent director Viet Dinh, who was an assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush.
However, the structure of the management committee, which reports through News Corp. Executive Vice President Joel Klein, raised questions about the board's ability to properly police the company. It also bolstered longstanding criticism about the lack of truly independent oversight at News Corp. overall.
Corporate-governance experts say any investigation into the company's conduct can't pass muster if it is overseen by a senior executive who reports to the chief executive and controlling shareholder, Rupert Murdoch.
"The probe cannot be conducted effectively while Mr. Murdoch is in charge," said Nell Minow, a corporate-governance specialist.
A spokeswoman for News Corp. said Mr. Klein, who is also a director, is reporting to the independent directors, not to Mr. Murdoch, on this investigation.
Ms. Minow is former editor of the Corporate Library, a governance research firm that recently merged with GovernanceMetrics International and has given News Corp. an "F" for its governance and board effectiveness every year since 2003. "I don't think there is such a thing as an independent director on that board.''
The board's independent directors are looking ahead to a previously scheduled meeting in Los Angeles before News Corp. reports quarterly earnings Aug. 10, according to the people familiar with the situation. Nine of News Corp.'s 16 directors are considered independent.
Though the independent directors have been holding regular Friday calls in recent weeks, next month's meeting will be the first time the group convenes in person since the phone-hacking scandal flared earlier this month, precipitating the closure of News Corp.'s News of the World tabloid and putting key executives on the firing line.
Board members have been discussing Elisabeth Murdoch joining the News Corp. board following News Corp.'s acquisition of the TV production company she runs, Shine Group, according to people familiar with the matter. One of those people said the plan is still for her to join the board.
One of the people familiar with the matter said despite the criticism, the board is "very comfortable" with the level of independence associated with how it is approaching the inquiry and believes wresting control from management at this time would only hobble the process.
News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal.
News Corp. tapped Lord Grabiner, a commercial lawyer, to head the management committee reporting to Mr. Klein, who in turn reports to Mr. Dinh, the chairman of the board's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Another person familiar with the matter said the board has "full authority to make all decisions that are warranted" and noted that the committee is being advised by the law firm Linklaters LLP, which has no relationship with News Corp.
Board members have been discussing a wide range of options but are settling in for a long, drawn-out process, according to other people familiar with the matter.
Another person familiar with the matter cautioned that any significant developments in the next few weeks could compel the board to take additional steps in the short term, but that no substantive decisions are expected until at least next month's meeting.
A possible wild card is James Murdoch, News Corp.'s deputy chief operating officer and a board member. The son of Rupert Murdoch is facing increasing pressure over his handling of the scandal and, in particular, his comments to a parliamentary committee last week. Two former News of the World employees have come forward with claims that James Murdoch misled Parliament about when he learned illegal reporting practices at the tabloid were more widespread. James Murdoch has said he stands by his testimony.
Corporate-governance experts have long criticized the board for being beholden to the company's leadership but it is unclear whether the company would consider changing the makeup of the board.
Some of News Corp.'s nine independent directors have close ties to the company. Sir Roderick Eddington, the board's lead independent director and head of its powerful audit committee, is a former top News Corp. executive. Kenneth Cowley and Andrew Knight also used to work for the company.
"You are not going to drive Murdochs out of News Corp.,'' said John J. Keller, a vice chairman of recruiters CTPartners. The board should recruit new members from business, education and public policy, and thus broaden its makeup "beyond the scope of being Murdoch-centric,'' he said.
In Monday trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, News Corp. shares were down 20 cents, or 1.2%, to $16.22.
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The Honeydogs tour diary 1: Adam Levy's dream
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Minneapolis rockers the Honeydogs have just embarked on a tour out to the East Coast, and played in Chicago last night. In this tour diary, frontman Adam Levy is providing a running commentary from the road. This entry is about a pre-tour dream.
One night a few weeks back, amidst prepping for the first Honeydogs tour in several years, I had a rather interesting dream. I was riding a motorcycle. I had chosen to ride the motorcycle solo, while the rest of the band was way ahead in another vehicle. Aware I would be driving alone along time, I worried about how would I catch up to the van, how I would travel across the country on a somewhat rickety cycle.
I did not have a helmet. Adding to the stressors, I was simultaneously trying to hold and read a notebook with indiscernible directions. Wind was blowing and rain started coming down in sheets, soaking the notebook. At this point, frightened, barely able to see, I accelerated into the paralyzing combination of fear and anticipation. I then let the notebook fly into the misty night behind me and simply drove on.
Who am I and why am I here? It's the question that most often crosses my mind as I hit any stage. Well, at least the second clause. I'm 47 years old and throwing myself into the vacuum of rock 'n' roll touring along with thousands of other bands, mostly half my age. Why do we do it? Why do we travel thousands of miles to play music, sometimes for just a small batch of serious fans, accidental tourists, or nearly empty rooms? The short answer is because we are more than a little insane. Are we presumptuous about wanting people to hear what we have to say, thinking it might be unique and worthy of praise? Or are we are just a little eager for human connection outside of the little social realms we create for ourselves?
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My lower back is aching. My hair's a little greyer, and some spots are appearing on my face that my ancestors experienced. These days, we're more likely to seek out a hot bath than a hip party with bevvies of girls at the end of a night, regardless of how well-attended or well-played the show was. I need a good book. Headphones, a notebook and a soy latte and I'm good. Thinking about the Chicago set list for the tonight's show and trying not to imagine what 60 feels like.
"There's no maps where we're going. There's books that've been written but they're not showing the rules we've been breaking, the paths we've been taking, the love we've forsaken--we're alone." -- "Turned Around," from What Comes After, The Honeydogs
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Interest in bees shared for Oklahoma beekeeper
NORMAN — In one case, a tree that happened to have a beehive in it fell on a pickup.
In another, a young baseball outfielder, bored between pitches, noticed bees on nearby clover and wondered where they'd come from and where they were headed.
The first of those two is how George Richtmeyer, 81, of Noble, got into the bee business. He later helped others get their start, including the curious outfielder who is now an adult, Brian Royal, 40, of Norman. These days, Royal, who's been at beekeeping for a half-dozen years, is passing his knowledge on to others through events such as an introductory seminar about beekeeping held by he and fellow Noble Beekeepers Association members.
"I'd be out there on the baseball field and see them flying around the clover and kind of wondering what are they doing, where are they going?" Royal said.
Royal used to travel the world as a welder, and continues that line of work, but now stays much closer to home.
And he's added a business.
"That interest in bees kind of carried over to adulthood," Royal said. "I bought a house, settled down. I told my wife 'I want to get a couple of beehives.' And she's like, 'OK.' I've always got some hobby going on and anyway, we started out with two (hives) and went from two to 80 and it will probably be over 100 hives this year."
About two years ago it became more than a hobby and Royal has made a side business out of it, Royal Bee Supply & Equipment.
Richtmeyer on the other hand got out of the business near the start of the year. Again, it began with a hive from the oak tree that fell on his new Toyota pickup in the mid-1980s.
"I always liked bees," Richtmeyer said. "I just couldn't believe what the little things could do. He could do so much in so little time."
In time, Richtmeyer had 700 to 800 hives and knows he could have had more.
The first year he sold 25 nucs, a half-of-a-hive of bees, Richtmeyer said. Then the next year he sold a little over a hundred nucs, then a couple hundred and then about 600 to 700 each spring.
In doing so, Richtmeyer shared his interest with others, including Royal.
"It's always been a hobby and then two-and-a-half years ago it turned into an actual business," Royal said. "We were blessed to get this business from George Richtmeyer."
Royal in turn is sharing that knowledge with others in ways such as the recent introductory seminar at his home.
"What we're doing today is giving an introductory to people that are new beekeepers," Royal said. "Looking at a queen, looking at a drone, looking at worker bees, looking at the different stages of brood, looking at honey, pollen, all the different aspects inside of the hive."
Royal was asked what the season is for bees is in Oklahoma. That gets tricky because of ever-changing weather.
"Usually early spring feeding is February and then our bees will produce honey in this area up 'til about June or something like that," Royal said. "I extract on July Fourth weekend, normally. The last two years because of the drought, it's been a little bit different."
The production is another of the variables of beekeeping, Royal explained.
"It depends on how big the hive is and the area that it's located in," he said. "You know you can move a hive four miles down the road and have a bumper crop as compared to having nothing four to six miles away."
Royal tells people that the bees usually will produce at least one medium super of honey, which is about three or four gallons, or just under 60 pounds of honey, he said. A super is any hive body, or smaller box, used for the storage of surplus honey which the beekeeper will harvest. He's heard of much more being produced.
Besides producing honey and beeswax, bees can be linked to numerous crops such as nuts, fruits, vegetables, alfalfa and clover seed production and others, through pollination. Royal thinks the increasing canola production in Oklahoma will also lead to more bees in the state.
A new federal report by the Agriculture Department and the Environmental Protection Agency blamed a combination of problems for a mysterious and dramatic disappearance of U.S. honeybees since 2006.
The intertwined factors cited include a parasitic mite, multiple viruses, bacteria, poor nutrition, genetics, habitat loss and pesticides.
The multiple causes make it harder to do something about what's called colony collapse disorder, experts say. The disorder has caused as much as one third of the nation's bees to just disappear each winter since 2006, according to an Associated Press story. Bees, especially honeybees, are needed to pollinate crops.
Royal isn't just concerned about bees for financial reasons. Instead he, like Richtmeyer after all these years, is still just amazed by the fascinating insects.
"I'm a guy that likes to learn all the time," Royal said, "and these bees keep you intrigued."
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Most of the nation – from seaside suburbs to our national parks - has experienced health-threatening "bad air" days this year due to smog pollution, according to a new analysis of government air pollution data by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Led by California, about 250 communities and parks in nearly 40 states have experienced one or more "code orange" dangerous air days this year, making it unsafe for children, older adults and people with breathing problems to go outside.
In all, more than 2,000 "code orange" air quality alerts occurred nationwide in just the first seven months of this year, with many areas having long stretches of days with bad air due to elevated smog levels.
NRDC's analysis comes amid ongoing EPA delays for approving updated air pollution standards that could save thousands of American lives and stop tens of thousands of asthma attacks each year.
"The bottom line is that we have way too many days in way too many places when the air is unsafe for our kids," says NRDC Clean Air Director John Walke. "The EPA needs to quit stalling on tougher smog standards promised years ago and protect our children, our elderly and all of us."
Under standards set in 1997, the EPA considers air to be unhealthy if levels of ozone - the primary ingredient in smog - reach 84 parts per billion. The Bush administration lowered the ozone standard to 75 parts per billion in 2008, but ignored unanimous recommendations of its science advisors that a truly protective standard needed to be set within 60-70 parts per billion. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has proposed adopting more protective standards within that range, and the agency is expected to announce its decision soon.
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Oysterfest at Back Forty; Cheesecake for Charity at Junior's
Plus: a Piedmontese dinner at Lincoln, and more in today's leftovers.
• The holiday shops returned to Bryant Park today. Look for Dough, La Churreria, Wafels and Dinges, and other vendors among the gift shops. Check out all the food options (both sweet and savory) here. [Midtown Lunch]
• Starting next week through Thanksgiving day, $5 from the sale of each Junior's pumpkin cheesecake from any Junior's location will go to the Brooklyn Community Foundation. Marty Markowitz will be on hand to launch the promotion, and try out some of the charitable pumpkin cheesecake, at the Junior's in Downtown Brooklyn on Tuesday. [Grub Street]
• The Upper West Side's Lincoln Ristorante will celebrate Piedmonte dishes and wines with a five-course dinner on Monday, November 12. The night's menu will highlight the truffle in particular, and who better to create such a meal than chef Benno, who was named the World Ambassador of White Truffles of Alba in 2011? Dine on braised veal with white Alba truffle or Long Island duck with black truffle, toasted farro, kohlrabi, mustard cress, and duck sauce with wine pairings for $285 per person including service and tax. Visit the or call 212-359-6500 to reserve. [Grub Street]
• It's Oysterfest at Back Forty! Saturday from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., get a Bloody Mary oyster shooter, an assortment of five oysters, and snacks for $25. Additional oysters are $2 apiece. More details here. [NYT]
• Lower East Side Pickle Day has been pushed back in preparation for Hurricane Sandy this Sunday. Tide yourself over with Vlasic until next Sunday, when you can enjoy pickles from multiple vendors, a home pickling contest, and other activities from noon to 5 p.m. on Orchard Street between East Houston and Delancey Streets. [Gothamist]


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She may own the stage, but thoroughbreds are too addicted to improvisation to permit even the monarch to write the scripts. So while the royal colours are carried on Ladies' Day by the Gold Cup favourite, Estimate, those punters driven by profit – rather than patriotism – should perhaps pledge allegiance to one of the foreign invaders instead.
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Not for the first time, the beat of the betting tom-tom has proved accurate.
The start of a new turf season on the Flat should be a cheerful rite of spring, but Town Moor today is as likely to prove white as green. It is almost as though winter is raging against the coming of the light. With snow forecast this morning, and more overnight, inspections have duly been scheduled for both days of the meeting.
Sunderland playmaker Stephane Sessegnon is to undergo a scan after suffering an ankle injury in training.
Derbyshire police are appealing for information after £53,000 worth of coins, medals and watches were stolen from Derby Museum and Art Gallery's city-based storage facility.
A fatal fire that killed six children from the same family was deliberately started by someone pouring a "substantial" amount of petrol through the letter box and lighting it, police said today.
A house fire in which six siblings died as they slept in their beds is believed to have been deliberately started, police said.
Rivals meet on Sunday with Rams' form and finances in better shape. By Jon Culley
Local rivals meet on Sunday with the Rams' form and finances in far better shape
Pedigrees count in this sport, and not just for the four-legged participants.
Blackburn defender Christopher Samba has cast doubt over his future at Ewood Park by claiming he would leap at the chance to leave if a "good opportunity" arose.
Nobody should need a particular pretext to come here, even on an afternoon like yesterday, when a cold wind hauled heavy cloud up from the Channel and the famous downland panorama seemed to sag miserably beyond the track. But the equivalent fixture last year had made attendance imperative for anyone hoping to go to Epsom, now barely a fortnight away, with all bases covered.
Facing a press conference later in the morning, Henry Cecil played down Frankel's work yesterday as "his final quiet piece" before the first Classic of the season on Saturday. Those who witnessed the young champion's latest detonation, however, would testify that "quiet" was just about the last word to describe the way Frankel once again scalded his lead horse, exploding several lengths clear. His trainer did admit that he has been delighted with Frankel's progress, since resurfacing at Newbury 11 days ago. "I'd be very surprised if he's not a better horse now than he was then," he said. "But we've still four days to go, haven't we?"


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A third of English-speaking Canadians subscribe to Netflix, as penetration of IPTV service climbs, reports Media Technology Monitor.
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Veolia's big bid for Haikou Water
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This week IBM is hosting the Information on Demand Conference in Las Vegas, known simply as IOD or if you think in tweets, #IBMIOD. The theme this year is big, as in, Think Big. The conference kicks off with a big start today; ending on the 25th. We are expecting lots of big things to happen with over 12 thousand people in attendance and lots of you will be talking, learning and tweeting. Big data, analytics and a big focus on how cloud computing is affecting IT and business are all hot topics being discussed at IOD this year. In this blog post, we'd like you to also think about these big topics: Middleware and Mobile. Following the recent WebSphere announcements, IBM PureSystems launch and IBM Mobile launch earlier this month, IOD is offering track roadmaps that offer a closer look at these big topics.

First, look at the Decision Management Roadmap featured on the IOD Facebook page. These sessions provide a comprehensive approach to achieve better business outcomes through process innovation, master data management and operational decision management. Think big about your business processes. Which is more important, the data or the process? Are you using case management to design more collaboration and insight through workflow? Do you have best practices for driving optimal decisions from an operational and analytical perspective? How can you connect and integrate information across the business to unlock insights? The following sessions are recommended to dive into these big questions:

1441A - Improving Business Processes by Aligning MDM and BPM with speakers Norman Anderson III, Andy J. Richie and Dave Schuette.

2250A - Process Innovation with IBM Business Process Manager and IBM Case Manager with speakers David Yockelson and Trent Shupe

3686A - Simply Good Design: SOA and Big Data for Business Insight with speakers Claus Jensen and Robert Sawyer

3074A - Better Practical Business Outcomes with IBM Software for Decision Management with speakers Erick Brethenoux, Pierre-Henri Clouin and Asit Dan

1593A - Smart ETL: Applying Business Rules to Make Complex Data Processing More Agile with speakers Jon Deng, Asit Dan and Harold Smith

There is a great customer story from the banking and financial industry being presented at IOD. Learn how BNP Paribas took control of their data to provide consolidated services, new products and targeted promotions with MDM and ODM. Download this case study and be sure to find this session on Wednesday!

2446A - The Value of Product Bundling in Retail Banking featuring Cyrille Oudard and Vladimir Milojkovic from BNP Paribas.

Middleware is a key part of your business and there are ways to learn how you can extend, transact and optimize your business with WebSphere. Software and hardware work together with integrated expertise in the new PureSystems family. Think big and achieve greater business agility through pattern optimized deployments and workloads with your data and apps. The following sessions are recommended to explore a big strategy for entering a new era of cloud computing.

4211A - Database as a Service in IBM PureApplication System with speakers Jason Gartner and Savio Rodrigues.

4134A - Web and Database Applications on IBM PureApplication System with speakers Tim Vanderham and Savio Rogrigues.

4207A - Transacting Securely and Optimizing Data across your Enterprise with speaker Claus Jensen.

Mobile is central to IT and business in this new era of computing. You must think big to not only grapple with security and access challenges but also to derive business value in the enterprise. Mobile requirements have shifted from nice to have to a hard requirement with BYOD and the "mobile first" approach to applications and solutions. Enterprise CIOs are must balance the needs of employees, demands of customers while enabling the business and IT to work seamlessly and securely. Think big about how to effectively harness mobile management and connectivity capabilities to face the new reality. You can find more about the Mobile BI and Mobile ECM roadmaps on the IOD Facebook page. Say hello to @TiffanyWinman at IOD; she posted a brief IBM Mobile at IOD preview today. Check out this session in particular:

3042A - Drive Value from Big Data and Analytics in a Mobile Enterprise featuring speakers IBM VP Kristen Lauria and WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo

We also invite you to network at IOD to gain the most value out of your conference experience. Share your ideas, challenges and experience with peers and IBMers. There are key areas to visit in the IOD Expo Hall to meet other cool people who Think Big about big data with middleware, cloud and mobile. First, drop by the Business Agility Zone at booth 409. You can meet experts covering many of the WebSphere topics from the sessions above including BPM, ODM, PureApp, WTCF and Connectivity. Next, IBM Mobile experts are featuring Mobile Foundation, Lifecycle, Security and Access solutions and service in the Mobile Zone in booth 405.

Last but not least, you have the first chance to see the new IBM Messaging Appliance and InfoSphere Streams in action in person. They are combined into an integrated solution which is being shown at the Demo Center, Big Data station 4 pedestal in the Expo Hall. (enter the demo center and go to the left). This is very cool because it is a messaging appliance designed for the "Internet of Things" with applications for mobile, financial and other solutions that demand you to think big - for scale, volume, latency. It includes support for MQTT, MQ, Message broker and the Mobile pack for Worklight. For example, Facebook is a big user of the MQTT protocol for Messenger with 350M users on 475 different mobile operators.

Break out your your mobile device to add these sessions and locations to your schedule with the IOD SmartSite site or app. It's easy to use; just search for speaker names. What are you waiting for?

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With the introduction of WebSphere Message Broker Express (WS MBX) to the IBM Message Broker portfolio, it is now possible for SMB and Mid-Market organizations to get the powerful integration capabilities larger enterprises have relied upon for their corporate-wide implementations. It provides a robust ESB for first time for smaller business users including open source, and small .NET shops. MBX is intended to be used in a project-specific manner and can support small departmental projects or pilots as well as projects in smaller organizations.

MBX makes it easier and quicker to develop Message Broker (MB) solutions. Universal connectivity includes supporting standards, de facto standards, as well as industry and custom systems. Industry specific connectivity packs solve domain specific problems and solution-oriented patterns are also included. Programming is simplified with patterns (for common use cases) and Graphical data flows.

 MB enables solutions that can easily be changed, yet offer appropriate levels of management and control. MBX is intended to work on the widest possible range of hardware, software and virtualized environments; this includes support for a full range of industry standard databases as well as providing support for new databases such as MySQL; this means a broad range of users and in-place hardware can be part of the MSX solution, if required.

Recent additions to the broad management capabilities of WMB include Record and Replay tooling, providing administrators the ability to non intrusively monitor data as it flows across corporate networks, while maintaining the ability to edit and replay the data, or retain copies for audit. It's also possible to connect across Sterling Connect: Direct file and messaging-based networks. This allows Sterling and Websphere MQ messaging networks to interconnect, with new connections and new development patterns for rapid development.

WebSphere MBX provides extensive management across a wide range of operating systems and hardware platforms, including virtual and cloud options. It provides high performance transactional processing with additional vertical and horizontal scalability. Connectivity Packs are available for industry specific content, starting with a Healthcare Pack which includes connectors, patterns, and tooling. Other Industry Connectivity Packs are planned.

.NET developers can utilize tooling in MS Visual Studio, to quickly connect to Microsoft applications in a familiar environment making the migration easier and quicker.

It's easy to migrate among the different versions of MB. As the project or the organization grows, WebSphere MBX customers can easily move up to WebSphere Message Broker Standard Edition (for greater capability) or WebSphere Message Broker Advanced Edition (for greater scalability).

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Enterprise Connectivity

In both enterprise data centers and smaller computing environments, how you connect different types of IT environments together – and making these connections robust, secure, and reliable -- while at the same time making them easy to create and reasonably priced is a steep challenge. New versions of IBM's Message Broker and MQ, as well as new tools specifically for the cloud, make this task faster and easier.

Connectivity with Message Broker

IBM WebSphere Message Broker (WMB), an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), provides universal connectivity and transformation in heterogeneous IT environments. It includes .NET support and direct connectivity to IBM Sterling Direct:Connect. For example, a file-based data network based on Direct:Connect can be connected to a data-based network using Message Broker. The new version of WMB (V8) provides diagnostic tooling that allows data from all sources to be viewed, edited, recorded and replayed.

WMB comes in three versions, an advanced option, the mid-tiered Standard option, and a new Express version, especially designed for the SMB market, with simplified operations and entry-point pricing. Pre-built connectivity patterns, for both applications and specific industries, make it easier and faster to create connections.

All of this means more options for connecting existing and new applications and data, wherever they might be. More results for less work.

Enhanced MQ

IBM WebSphere MQ (MQ) provides reliable, flexible, and secure messaging. MQ provides support for CICS, IMS, DB2, .NET and JEE. It supports flexible configurations and flexible integration and provides guaranteed delivery. This version of MQ makes it easier to enable security around messages without the need to write new code or create wrappers. MQ's new security configuration wizard eliminates the need for homegrown security. Its extended reach allows for real time updates from business applications, sensors, and mobile devices.

In the Cloud

A special version of MQ, IBM WebSphere MQ Hypervisor Edition for AIX, provides secure messaging for the Cloud, providing MQ messaging solutions for virtualized environments, enabling better utilization of hardware, reducing hardware and software operational and maintenance costs, and connecting multiple virtual machines within a private cloud.

WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud will provide rapid integrations which can reduce project costs by up to 80%, via native connectors and template integration. A wizard-based architecture puts the emphasis on configuration, not coding. Deployment can be based on a physical appliance, a virtual instance, or a cloud service.

Considered together, these announcements make creating reliable, secure, and interconnected environments easier for both large enterprises and smaller businesses, regardless of platform or need.

For more information, explore ibm.com/business-agility and start a conversation with hashtag #bizagility.

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